Patent ID: 11963012
Assignee: THALES
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B  G | IPC B  H

Claim 0:
1. A system for identifying a user terminal forming part of an entertainment system for a mobile passenger transport apparatus comprising a plurality of user terminals and a communication network connecting said user terminals, each user terminal comprising a screen, and being adapted to be set on a docking station positioned at a predetermined location, characterized in that it comprises at least one docking station and an associated user terminal and wherein:
the docking station comprises an identification component encoding an identifier comprising information on the spatial location of the docking station, and
the user terminal comprises an identifier reading device, adapted to obtain said identifier, upon command, from the identification component of the docking station to which said user terminal is attached, the user terminal comprising a memory and being adapted to store said identifier in said memory, the user terminal being further adapted to use said identifier when communicating over the network in said communication network.