System for customizing electronic content for delivery to a passenger in an airborne wireless cellular network
The Customized Electronic Services Delivery System provides customized electronic services to passengers who are located onboard an aircraft by storing data indicative of a plurality of electronic services that are available to passengers who are located onboard an aircraft, as well as data indicative of preferences of passengers for the plurality of electronic services. Once a correspondence is made between the electronic services and an identified passenger, the Customized Electronic Services Delivery System advises the passenger of the availability of the customized services and establishes wireless communications between the passenger's electronic device and the selected electronic service. The electronic services include in-flight entertainment services as well as destination-based services which link the passenger's existing travel plans with offers for additional services that are available to the passenger at their nominal destination and their planned travel schedule.
1. A system for providing customized electronic content to passengers who are equipped with wireless electronic devices, and who are located onboard an aircraft, comprising:
a login server, responsive to a passenger activating their wireless electronic device onboard an aircraft, for confirming identification of said passenger located onboard said aircraft and authorization of said passenger to access electronic content provided by said system for providing customized electronic content;
a menu database for storing data indicative of a plurality of electronic content that are available from said system for providing customized electronic content as well as individual passenger preferences for electronic content, comprising:
a passenger database for storing data which indicates the identity of a plurality of passengers who are located onboard said aircraft;
a passenger preference database for storing data indicative of preferences of passengers for said plurality of electronic content, and
a flight database for storing data indicative of flight specific data, including at least one of: time of day, day of week, date, length of flight, relative point in time of the flight (beginning, middle, end), destination city, origin city, airline, and GPS coordinates;
a content request push server for using said passenger identification and said menu database to create an individual passenger customized list of said electronic content which lists available content that is of interest to said passenger based on said individual passenger preferences;
a content push process for transmitting said individual passenger customized list of said electronic content in a content push communication to said identified passenger to offer access via their wireless electronic device to said at least one of said passenger preferred electronic content from their individual passenger customer list;
a passenger content pull server, responsive to said passenger selecting a one of said electronic content from their individual passenger customized list, for establishing communications between said passenger electronic device and said electronic content identified by said individual passenger; and
a passenger preference update, responsive to said passenger selecting a one of said plurality of electronic content from their individual passenger customized list, for updating data stored in said passenger preference database to store data indicative of preferences of said individual passenger for said plurality of electronic content.
2. The system for providing customized electronic content of claim 1 further comprising:
communication services for managing provision of said wireless communications as a function of at least one of media, bandwidth, and class of service.
3. A method of providing customized electronic content to passengers who are equipped with wireless electronic devices, and who are located onboard an aircraft, comprising:
confirming identification, in response to a passenger activating their wireless electronic device onboard an aircraft, of said passenger and authorization of said passenger to access said electronic content provided by a system for providing customized electronic content which is operational onboard said aircraft;
storing menu data, in a menu database, indicative of a plurality of electronic content that are available from said system for providing customized electronic content as well as individual passenger preferences for electronic content comprising:
storing passenger data which indicates the identity of a plurality of passengers who are located onboard said aircraft.
storing passenger preference data indicative of preferences of passengers for said plurality of electronic content, and
storing flight data indicative of flight specific data, including at least one of: time of day, day of week, date, length of flight, relative point in time of the flight (beginning, middle, end), destination city, origin city, airline, GPS coordinates;
creating a content push request consisting of an individual passenger customized list of said electronic content which lists available content that is of interest to said passenger based on said individual passenger preferences, using said passenger identification and said menu database;
transmitting said individual passenger customized list of said electronic content in a content push communication to said identified passenger to offer access via their wireless electronic device to said at least one of said passenger preferred electronic content from their individual passenger customized list; and
establishing, in response to said passenger selecting a one of said electronic content from their individual passenger customized list, passenger content pull communications between said passenger electronic device and said electronic content identified by said individual passenger; and
updating, in response to said passenger selecting a one of said plurality of electronic content from their individual passenger customized list passenger preference data in said passenger preference database to store data indicative of preferences of said individual passenger for said plurality of electronic content.
4. the method of providing customized electronic content of claim 3 further comprising:
managing provision of said wireless communications as a function of at least one of media, bandwidth, and class of service.