Patent ID: 9596509
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A hospitality media system providing a user-tailored entertainment experience across different hospitality establishments, the hospitality media system comprising: a user profile server coupled to a wide area network; a first local system controller controlling access between the wide area network and a first local area network located at a first hospitality establishment; and a second local system controller controlling access between the wide area network and a second local area network located at a second hospitality establishment; wherein the first local system controller is operable to track a first usage statistic according to network utilization by a guest device having a particular device identifier while the guest device is accessing the wide area network from the first local area network; the first local system controller is further operable to update a user profile corresponding to the particular device identifier on the user profile server with the first usage statistic; the second local system controller is operable to receive details of the user profile in response to a user corresponding to the user profile checking in to the second hospitality establishment; the second local system controller is further operable to detect the guest device having the particular device identifier requesting access to the wide area network from the second local area network and automatically grant the guest device access to the wide area network according to the details of the user profile retrieved from the user profile server; the second local system controller is further operable to track a second usage statistic according to network utilization by the guest device having the particular device identifier while the guest device is accessing the wide area network from the second local area network; and the user profile server is operable to receive payment from the user and then distribute prorated payments to each of the first hospitality establishment and the second hospitality establishment in proportion to actual network usage by the guest device at each of the first hospitality establishment and the second hospitality establishment according to the first usage statistic and the second usage statistic.