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Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2013

Filed:

Nov. 02, 2009
Applicants:

Randall Bird, Newport Beach, CA (US);

Kevin Cote, Yorba Linda, CA (US);

Rodney Farley, Yorba Linda, CA (US);

Joseph Renton, Yorba Linda, CA (US);

Inventors:

Randall Bird, Newport Beach, CA (US);

Kevin Cote, Yorba Linda, CA (US);

Rodney Farley, Yorba Linda, CA (US);

Joseph Renton, Yorba Linda, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An entertainment system comprising a media server networked with a plurality of docking stations is presented. The media server and docking stations can be networked together into a looped daisy-chained network to provide for content distribution to docked media players. The looped daisy-chained network retains connectivity or continuity when media players are undocked or when a connection is broken. In preferred embodiments, the entertainment system can be deployed within an aircraft as an in-flight entertainment system.


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