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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2019
Panasonic Avionics Corporation, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Thong Pham, Irvine, CA (US);
Panasonic Avionics Corporation, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and networks for a transportation vehicle are provided. One method includes detecting a fault by a network device of a distribution network of an aircraft, the distribution network used for distributing data to a plurality of seat devices of the aircraft, where the network device detects the fault when it is unable to receive data at a first port via a first path of a network connection; disabling the first port by the network device; inverting a data line of a first switch of the network device; initializing a second port of the network device for receiving data from a second path using the inverted data line of the first switch, the second port used as a loopback port; and transmitting the received data to the plurality of seat devices via a third port using an inverted data line of a second switch of the network device.