Inflight entertainment system providing security for mobile peripheral devices onboard aircraft

Abstract

A vehicle entertainment system includes a content server and a peripheral manager. The content server establishes communication connections through at least one communication network with mobile peripherals providing vehicle entertainment services to passengers, and routes entertainment content to the mobile peripherals. The peripheral manager responds to an indication of a loss of an established communication connection with one of mobile peripherals for at least a threshold time and during a vehicle arrival state, which are defined by a loss reporting rule and indicate the one of mobile peripherals is being transported offboard the vehicle, by sending information identifying the one of the mobile peripherals and/or a passenger associated with the one of the mobile peripherals to a crew terminal to notify a crew member and/or adding the information to a report that is communicated to an offboard peripheral manager located remote from the vehicle.