Shared Content Storage

摘要

Entertainment systems for aircraft and other vehicles are described having a plurality of media players. The media players collectively store a full content set, with each media player storing only a fraction of the full content set. Each of the media players can be configured to index the full content set, such that media players can obtain missing content

主权项

1. A vehicular entertainment system, comprising:
a first plurality of media players disposed within a vehicle that collectively store a first full content set spread across the first plurality of media players, each of media players from the first plurality of media players storing only a fraction of the first full content set; and a second plurality of media players disposed within the vehicle that collectively store a second full content set spread across the plurality of second media players, each of the media players from the second plurality of media players storing only a fraction of the second full content set; and wherein each of the media players in the first plurality of media players and the second plurality of media players is configured to:
index the first full content set collectively stored by the first plurality of media players according to a first scheduled period, to allow each of the media players to obtain content from the first full content set during the first scheduled period; andindex the second full content set collectively stored by the second plurality of media players according to a second scheduled period, to allow each of the media players to obtain content from the second full content set during the second scheduled period, wherein the first scheduled period and second scheduled period are mutually exclusive.