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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018

Filed:

Mar. 27, 2015
Applicant:

Thales, Inc., Melbourne, FL (US);

Inventors:

Scott D. Easterling, Malabar, FL (US);

R. Michael Keen, Malabar, FL (US);

Jason Funderburk, Melbourne, FL (US);

Assignee:

THALES, INC., Melbourne, FL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2006.01); H04N 21/214 (2011.01); H04N 21/61 (2011.01); H04N 21/466 (2011.01); H04N 21/643 (2011.01); H04N 21/436 (2011.01); H04N 21/4363 (2011.01); H04N 21/462 (2011.01); H04N 21/647 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/2146 (2013.01); H04N 21/43615 (2013.01); H04N 21/43637 (2013.01); H04N 21/4621 (2013.01); H04N 21/4668 (2013.01); H04N 21/6193 (2013.01); H04N 21/643 (2013.01); H04N 21/64707 (2013.01);
Abstract

An aircraft communications system includes a satellite video receiver, a ground video receiver, wireless local area network (WLAN) circuitry to provide a WLAN within the aircraft, a processor and memory coupled to the processor. The processor is configured to supply video content from the satellite video receiver to the PEDs via the WLAN circuitry, store video content from the ground video receiver in the memory based upon a popularity rating of the video content, and supply stored video content to personal electronic devices (PEDs) within the aircraft via the WLAN.


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