Patent ID: 8768244
Filing Date: 2014-07-01
Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for globally managing delivery and storage of data content on a plurality of mobile platforms using a satellite based network infrastructure, wherein the data content comprises at least one of web pages, news articles, video files, software, or other forms of content in electronic form, the method comprising: receiving, by a terrestrial-based content management subsystem, data indicative of one or more user-selected options for managing a plurality of types of information content to be stored on a selected one of the plurality of mobile platforms, the user-selected options including at least one request for one or more of the types of information content, and wherein the user-selected options include designations as to different types of information content that are available to the selected mobile platform based on different satellite coverage regions; determining, by the terrestrial-based content management subsystem, a current geographic location of the selected mobile platform, determining restrictions as to delivery of types of content based on the geographic location, and determining available transponder bandwidth of the satellite based network infrastructure for transmitting information content to the selected mobile platform while in the current geographic location; based on the current geographic location, the plurality of types of information, and the one or more user-selected options: selectively transmitting information content to the selected mobile platform using the available transponder bandwidth in the current geographic location, said selectively transmitting comprising coordinating and aggregating the transmitted information based on the available transponder bandwidth, the plurality of types of information, and the restrictions as to delivery of types of content based on the geographic location, wherein information content available to mobile platforms operating in a first geographic coverage region can be restricted from mobile platforms operating in a second geographic coverage region, wherein the first and second geographic coverage regions are different; and remotely monitoring, by the terrestrial-based content management subsystem using the user-selected options, storage of the information content on the selected mobile platform based on information content to be transmitted to the selected mobile platform; and determining an updated geographic location of the selected mobile platform and, based on the updated geographic location, performing said determining available transponder bandwidth, selectively transmitting information content, and remotely managing to account for the updated geographic location.