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

Claim 10:
11. 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;
receiving, by the one or more processors via a short-range communication protocol, a request from a second client device to open a communication session with the first client device, the request including identification information for the second client device;
determining, by the one or more processors, whether the second client device has permission to access a mesh network for communicating airline data peer-to-peer based on the identification information for the second client device;
in response to determining that the second client device has permission to access the mesh network, providing, by the one or more processors, airline data to the second client device via the mesh network to synchronize the second client device with the airline data stored at the first client device.