Patent ID: 8078163

Claim:
A system for providing customized electronic content to passengers who are equipped with wireless electronic devices, and who are located onboard an aircraft, comprising: a login server, responsive to a passenger activating their wireless electronic device onboard an aircraft, for confirming identification of said passenger located onboard said aircraft and authorization of said passenger to access electronic content provided by said system for providing customized electronic content; a menu database for storing data indicative of a plurality of electronic content that are available from said system for providing customized electronic content as well as individual passenger preferences for electronic content, comprising: a passenger database for storing data which indicates the identity of a plurality of passengers who are located onboard said aircraft; a passenger preference database for storing data indicative of preferences of passengers for said plurality of electronic content, and a flight database for storing data indicative of flight specific data, including at least one of: time of day, day of week, date, length of flight, relative point in time of the flight (beginning, middle, end), destination city, origin city, airline, and GPS coordinates; a content request push server for using said passenger identification and said menu database to create an individual passenger customized list of said electronic content which lists available content that is of interest to said passenger based on said individual passenger preferences; a content push process for transmitting said individual passenger customized list of said electronic content in a content push communication to said identified passenger to offer access via their wireless electronic device to said at least one of said passenger preferred electronic content from their individual passenger customer list; a passenger content pull server, responsive to said passenger selecting a one of said electronic content from their individual passenger customized list, for establishing communications between said passenger electronic device and said electronic content identified by said individual passenger; and a passenger preference update, responsive to said passenger selecting a one of said plurality of electronic content from their individual passenger customized list, for updating data stored in said passenger preference database to store data indicative of preferences of said individual passenger for said plurality of electronic content.