发明名称 MESH NETWORK BASED AUTOMATED UPLOAD OF CONTENT TO AIRCRAFT
摘要 The Automated Content Upload System networks a plurality of aircraft together when they are parked at the gates of an airport. Communications among the aircraft are guided by a Content Manager, resident at or near the airport, which maintains data representative of InFlight Entertainment Content presently stored on each aircraft and the list of scheduled InFlight Entertainment Content available on each aircraft. The Content Manager guides the exchange of InFlight Entertainment Content among the aircraft, as well as from the Content Manager to the aircraft, to automatically distribute InFlight Entertainment Content to the aircraft efficiently and timely. This process includes the ability to multicast data from the Content Manager to multiple aircraft in a single transmission, obtaining content delivery efficiency, populating multiple aircraft via a single transmission from the Content Manager. Furthermore, the Content Manager can supplement this process via transmissions to the aircraft in flight over the Air-To-Ground link.
申请公布号 US2015079897(A1) 申请公布日期 2015.03.19
申请号 US201414553641 申请日期 2014.11.25
申请人 GOGO LLC 发明人 Lauer Bryan Adrian
分类号 H04H20/62;H04H20/71;H04H20/40 主分类号 H04H20/62
代理机构 代理人
主权项 1. An automated content upload system for delivering content to a plurality of aircraft which are present at an airport that is served by the automated content upload system, the system comprising: a set of aircraft content network managers, each aircraft content network manager being resident on a respective aircraft of the plurality of aircraft, and the each aircraft content network manager comprising: an aircraft content memory for storing aircraft content data for distribution to passengers onboard the respective aircraft;an aircraft network memory for storing respective identities of aircraft that respond to a wireless query transmitted by the each aircraft content network manager to define an aircraft sub-network comprising the respective aircraft and the aircraft that respond to the transmitted wireless query;user wireless personal communication device content retrieval for obtaining aircraft content data stored at a set of user wireless personal communication devices, the set of user wireless personal communication devices detected by the each aircraft content network manager using a user wireless personal communication query; andan aircraft node registration for transmitting aircraft data to a content manager via a terrestrial wireless portal, the aircraft data being indicative of (i) aircraft content data stored in the aircraft content memory, (ii) the aircraft content data stored at the set of user wireless personal communication devices, and (iii) data indicative of the aircraft included in the aircraft sub-network, wherein: the terrestrial wireless portal is for establishing bidirectional data communications with the plurality of aircraft, andthe content manager is for storing aircraft content data for the plurality of aircraft and comprises a content processor for transmitting, responsive to receipt of the aircraft data from the aircraft node registration, control signals to a first aircraft to activate the first aircraft to wirelessly distribute, to a second aircraft, identified aircraft content data of at least one of the aircraft content memory of the first aircraft or the set of user wireless personal communication devices detected by the aircraft content network manager of the first aircraft.
地址 Itasca IL US