Patent ID: 6807538
Filing Date: 2004-10-19
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A system for controlling a passenger entertainment system, including a cabin file server with one or more components for controlling one or more aspects of the passenger entertainment system, comprising:a database in the cabin file server containing data that includes information relating to services provided by the passenger entertainment system and the resources that provide the services; the cabin file server comprising a plurality of cabin application programming interface calls corresponding to the plurality of services provided by the passenger entertainment system and for processing an operator request to generate a database query using a selected cabin application programming interface call corresponding to said operator request; a database server in the cabin file server coupled to the database for querying the database using the selected cabin application programming interface call to generate an appropriate response to the operator request; and a predefined set of resources, selected ones of which are dispatched to service the operator request in accordance with the response to the query.