Patent ID: 11936725
Assignee: UNITED AIRLINES, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for providing offline communications on an aircraft, the method comprising:
determining, by one or more processors in a first client device executing an airline application on an aircraft while the aircraft is in flight, that the first client device is unable to access an online airline database;
providing, by the one or more processors via a short-range communication protocol, a request to a second client device to open a communication session with the second client device, the request including identification information for the first client device;
in response to the second client device determining that the first client device has permission to communicate airline data peer-to-peer with the second client device in a mesh network, receiving, at the one or more processors, airline data via the mesh network to synchronize the first client device with the airline data stored at the second client device; and
storing, by the one or more processors, a local copy of the airline data at the first client device.