Patent ID: 7587474

Claim:
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: a universal navigation page and a plurality of content pages accessible from a home page, said content pages including both administrative information and travel related information; a search routine available from at least one of the content pages that selectively searches, identifies and presents travel planning information to the in-transit portal; 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.