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US 2010/0138582 A1Published application
Entertainment system with looped daisy-chained network of docking stations
AssigneeSystems and Software Enterprises, LLC
InventorsRandall Bird, Kevin Cote, Rodney Farley, Joseph Renton
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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.
Claims17
A vehicular entertainment system, comprising:
- a media server having a first server port and a second server port;
- a plurality of docking stations each having at least a first station port and a second station port, and each docking station adapted to mate with at least one of a plurality of embeddable media players;
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- wherein the media server and the plurality of docking stations comprise a first looped daisy-chained network where the media server and the plurality docking stations are daisy chained via the media server's first server port and second server port and the plurality of docking stations' first station ports and second station ports.
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