IP Library Granted Patent US 8,949,908
Granted Patent B2
US 8,949,908 · App. 13/375,929 · Granted Feb 3, 2015

Content upload system and content distribution server

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Patent No.
US 8,949,908
App. No.
13/375,929
Granted
Feb 3, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

A content upload system includes: a content distributing server that is installed in an airplane and distributes audio-video contents into the airplane; and a plurality of content accumulating servers that are installed in a plurality of airports, in which the airplane is parked, and transmit the audio-video contents to the content distributing server through a network. The content distributing server selectively writes audio-video contents that have not been stored in the content distributing server of audio-video contents transmitted from the content accumulating server while the airplane is parked on the airport.

Claims (26)

1. A content upload system comprising:

a content distributing server installed in an airplane; and

a plurality of content accumulating servers installed in a plurality of airports, the content accumulating servers storing a plurality of audio-video contents,

wherein

each of the content accumulating servers installed in each of the airports transmits each of the audio-video contents to the content distributing server through a network continuously and cyclically;

each of the audio-video contents is the same; and

the content distributing server includes:

a recording unit that stores each of the audio-video contents transmitted from each of the content accumulating servers installed in each of the airports;

a content collating unit that determines whether each of the audio-video contents transmitted to the content distribution server has been stored in the recording unit; and

a recording control unit that, while the airplane is parked at each of the airports, records to the recording unit a portion of each of the audio-video contents determined not to have been stored by the content collating unit.

2. The content upload system according to claim 1 wherein

each of the content accumulating servers continuously transmits each of the audio-video contents to the content distributing server without negotiation between the content distributing server and each of the content accumulating servers.

3. The content upload system according to claim 1 , wherein

each of the audio-video contents stored in each of the content accumulating servers includes a first group formed of contents requiring immediate transmission and a second group formed of contents requiring no immediate transmission, and the contents of the first group are transmitted more frequently than those of the second group.

4. The content upload system according to claim 2 , wherein

each of the audio-video contents stored in each of the content accumulating servers includes a first group formed of contents requiring immediate transmission and a second group formed of contents requiring no immediate transmission, and the contents of the first group are transmitted more frequently than those of the second group.

5. A content distributing server installed in an airplane that receives a plurality of audio-video contents from a plurality of content accumulating servers installed in a plurality of airports, each of the content accumulating servers being installed in each of the airports and transmitting each of the audio-video contents to the content distributing server through a network continuously and cyclically, each of the audio-video contents being the same, and the content distributing server comprising:

a recording unit that stores each of the audio-video contents transmitted from each of the content accumulating servers installed in each of the airports;

a content collating unit that determines whether each of the audio-video contents transmitted to the content distributing server has been stored in the recording unit; and

a recording control unit that, while the airplane is parked at each of the airports, records to the recording unit a portion of each of the audio-video contents determined not to have been stored by the content collating unit.

6. The content distributing server according to claim 5 wherein

each of the content accumulating servers transmits each of the audio-video contents to the content distributing server without negotiation between the content distributing server and each of the content accumulating servers.

7. The content distributing server according to claim 5 , wherein

each of the audio-video contents stored in each of the content accumulating servers includes a first group formed of audio video contents requiring immediate transmission and a second group formed of contents requiring no immediate transmission, and the contents of the first group are transmitted more frequently than those of the second group.

8. The content distributing server according to claim 6 , wherein

each of the audio-video contents stored in each of the content accumulating servers includes a first group formed of contents requiring immediate transmission and a second group formed of contents requiring no immediate transmission, and the contents of the first group are transmitted more frequently than those of the second group.

Assignments (2)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE ERRONEOUSLY FILED APPLICATION NUMBERS 13/384239, 13/498734, 14/116681 AND 14/301144 PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 034194 FRAME 0143. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Dec 24, 2020
From: PANASONIC CORPORATION
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
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ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 10, 2014
From: PANASONIC CORPORATION
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
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