Patent ID: 6985942

Claim:
An Internet protocol (IP) networking architecture for a mobile platform, the architecture comprising: a command and control sub-network (CCN) interconnecting a plurality of control interfaces wherein each control interface has a corresponding logical CCN address; a passenger services sub-network (PSN) interconnecting a plurality of passenger interfaces wherein each said passenger interface has a corresponding logical PSN address; and an air-to-ground sub-network (AGN) providing Internet access to the passenger interfaces via at least one isolation system having corresponding logical CCN addresses and corresponding logical PSN addresses such that devices communicating on the AGN and the PSN are blocked from accessing the CCN addresses by the one isolation system; wherein a seat electronics box is defined as one of the passenger interfaces, the logical PSN address of the seat electronics box acting as a proxy address for devices coupled to the seat electronics box, the seat electronics box having a seat processor for translating PSN addresses into AGN addresses.