Patent ID: 8068829
Filing Date: 2011-11-29
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A system for providing customized destination-based services to passengers, equipped with wireless electronic devices, who are located onboard an aircraft, comprising: a passenger database for storing data which indicates the identity of each of a plurality of passengers who are located onboard an aircraft and data indicative of a final destination for individual passengers; a passenger preference database for storing data indicative of preferences of passengers for said plurality of destination-based services; a destination-based service management system for autonomously initiating offers to passengers for reservations for at least one destination-based service, comprising: a link, responsive to said passenger selecting a one of said destination-based services, for establishing wireless communications between said passenger wireless electronic device and said destination-based service management system to enable said passenger to purchase said selected destination-based service; and a passenger preference update manager responsive to said passenger selecting at least one of said destination-based services, for updating data stored in said passenger preference database to store data indicative of preferences of said individual passenger for said at least one of said destination-based services.