Patent ID: 7587474
Filing Date: 2009-09-08
Classification: G06F,G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A ground-based wide-area network system embodied in hardware comprising: a plurality of user-defined profiles embodied in computer readable media; at least one link to an in-transit network portal; a module, embodied in computer readable media, interfacing with the in-transit network portal, for displaying a plurality of pages of information including: wherein the user-defined profiles are shared between the ground-based wide-area network and the in-transit network portal to provide a consistent interface to a traveler including the travel planning information; a user configurable button palette having a plurality of buttons that allows the traveler to configure links to the travel planning information, the button palette being shared between the ground-based wide-area network and the in-transit network portal to provide a common interface to the traveler; and wherein the button palette is moveable between the content pages by the user.