Dynamic airplane video-on-demand bandwidth management
AssigneePanasonic Avionics Corporation
InventorsMin-Hsuan Tang, Shankar Shastry, Carol Hsieh
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Abstract
Methods, apparatus and system for managing an in-flight entertainment network include a method in which a first manifest file and a second manifest file are received. A first data connectivity with a first group of display devices and a second data connectivity with a second group of display devices is established. A bandwidth map and a profile map are used based on the manifest files and used for providing entertainment to the first group of display devices and the second group of display devices.
Claims20
A method of managing an in-flight digital communication network, comprising:
- receiving a first manifest file indicative of a bandwidth map of a wired in-flight digital communication network in an airplane and a capability map of display devices coupled to the wired in-flight digital communication network;
- receiving a second manifest file indicative of a profile map of passengers in the airplane;
- establishing a first data connectivity between a first group of display devices and a media data server in the airplane according to the bandwidth map and the profile map, wherein the first group of display devices are provided media at a first display resolution;
- establishing a second data connectivity between a second group of display devices and the media data server in the airplane according to the bandwidth map and the profile map, wherein the second group of display devices are provided media data at a second display resolution different than the first display resolution;
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- wherein the first display resolution and the second display resolution are a function of the bandwidth map, the profile map, a current number of devices in the first group of display devices and a current number of devices in the second group of display devices.
An apparatus comprising at least one processor configured to read instructions stored in a memory and implement a method for managing an in-flight digital communication network, the method comprising:
- receiving a first manifest file indicative of a bandwidth map of a wired in-flight digital communication network in an airplane and a capability map of display devices coupled to the wired in-flight digital communication network;
- receiving a second manifest file indicative of a profile map of passengers in the airplane;
- establishing a first data connectivity between a first group of display devices and a media data server in the airplane according to the bandwidth map and the profile map, wherein the first group of display devices are provided media at a first display resolution;
- establishing a second data connectivity between a second group of display devices and the media data server in the airplane according to the bandwidth map and the profile map, wherein the second group of display devices are provided media data at a second display resolution different than the first display resolution;
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- wherein the first display resolution and the second display resolution are a function of the bandwidth map, the profile map, a current number of devices in the first group of display devices and a current number of devices in the second group of display devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.