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Registration of a personal electronic device (PED) with an aircraft IFE system using a PED generated registration identifier and associated methods

  • US 9,516,352 B2
  • Filed: 03/24/2014
  • Issued: 12/06/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A communications system for an aircraft comprising:

  • at least one personal electronic device (PED) carried by an aircraft passenger and comprisinga PED near-field communications (NFC) device,a PED wireless transceiver, anda PED controller fortransmitting a registration identifier (ID) from said PED NFC device, andcommunicating via said PED wireless transceiver;

    an aircraft in-flight entertainment (IFE) system comprisingat least one IFE video entertainment source,a plurality of IFE passenger seat displays,a respective IFE NFC device associated with each of said plurality of IFE passenger seat displays,at least one IFE wireless transceiver, andat least one IFE controller forselectively displaying video from said at least one IFE entertainment source on said plurality of IFE passenger seat displays, andcommunicating with said PED wireless transceiver via said at least one IFE wireless transceiver based upon one of said respective IFE NFC devices receiving the registration ID from the PED NFC device when in proximity thereto;

    said at least one PED being registered with said aircraft IFE system and assigned to the IFE passenger seat display associated with the IFE NFC device receiving the registration identification.

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