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AssigneeAirfree
InventorsThomas HERON, Yohan SCIUBUKGIAN, Etienne DE VERDELHAN
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The invention relates to a device allowing passengers provided with computer terminals and located on board an aircraft to use an electronic commerce website comprising in particular servers hosted by a computer infrastructure located on the ground and capable of being interrogated from the aircraft by way of a limited-bandwidth communication link between the aircraft and the ground infrastructure, wherein the electronic commerce website consists of a semi-embedded electronic commerce server (denoted “SeeS” for short) consisting of two parts, namely, on the one hand, a component located on the ground and, on the other hand, a component embedded in the aircraft and configured to optimize communication with said ground component depending on the various phases of a flight.
A device for passengers of an aircraft, comprising a set of computer terminals used by the passengers and an electronic commerce website itself comprising in particular servers hosted by a computer infrastructure located on the ground and capable of being interrogated from the aircraft by way of a limited-bandwidth direct communication link between the aircraft and the ground infrastructure without going through a communication network with other aircraft, wherein the electronic commerce website consists of a semi-embedded electronic commerce server (denoted “SeeS” for short) consisting of two parts, namely, on the one hand, a component located on the ground and, on the other hand, a component embedded in the aircraft and configured to optimize communication with said ground component depending on the various phases of a flight.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.