Management of entertainment content distributed across smart wireless access points of in-flight entertainment system

A method by an entertainment system having a wireless access point that communicates with seat display devices, the method comprising:

• receiving, at the wireless access point, entertainment content comprising a plurality of content items;
• storing the entertainment content in a mass memory of the wireless access point;
• selecting a subset of content items from among the content items of the entertainment content stored in the mass memory, based on a defined rule;
• and
• downloading the subset of content items from the mass memory to the seat display devices through at least one radio transceiver of the wireless access point for local storage within mass memory of the seat display devices;
• wherein the entertainment system comprises a plurality of the wireless access points, including first and second wireless access points, communicatively connected to each other through a network, and the method further comprises:
• obtaining, by the first wireless access point, a first list of the content items stored in the mass memory of the first wireless access point;
• obtaining, by the first wireless access point, a second list of content items stored in the mass memory of a second one of the wireless access points;
• selecting the subset of content items from among the first and second lists based on the defined rule;
• and
• based on a first portion of the subset of content items not being present in the first list but present in the second list, obtaining by the first wireless access point the first portion of the subset of content items from the mass memory of the second wireless access point through the network for download to the plurality of the seat display devices through the at least one radio transceiver of the first wireless access point for local storage within the mass memory of the seat display devices.