Patent ID: 9654807
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A communications system for an aircraft carrying personal electronic devices (PEDs) for wireless data communications, the communications system comprising: a satellite video receiver comprising a plurality of satellite video receiver cards, each satellite video receiver card providing a plurality of full resolution live video channels; a switch coupled to said satellite video receiver and configured to receive the plurality of full resolution live video channels from said satellite video receiver; a video signal transcoder coupled to said switch and configured to convert at least one of the full resolution live video channels to a reduced resolution live video channel; an adaptive streaming video processor coupled to said switch and configured to perform the following on at least one of the full resolution live video channels and the reduced resolution live video channels at least one access point coupled to said switch for providing a wireless local area network (WLAN) within the aircraft to distribute at least one of the full resolution live video channels, the reduced resolution live video channels, and the shorter chunks of video data and associated index files to PEDs within the aircraft as requested by the PEDs.