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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:
Jul. 15, 2014

Filed:

Jul. 08, 2013
Applicant:

Systems and Software Enterprises, Llc, Brea, 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); G06F 13/40 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04H 20/62 (2008.01); B60R 11/02 (2006.01); B60R 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/60 (2013.01); B60R 2011/0294 (2013.01); B60R 2011/0078 (2013.01); G06F 13/4081 (2013.01); B60R 2011/0096 (2013.01); B60R 2011/0003 (2013.01); H04H 20/62 (2013.01);
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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