Patent ID: 7280498

Claim:
A low-latency aircraft satellite Internet system comprising: a client PC on board an aircraft for originating a client Internet request; a server on board the aircraft for generating from the client Internet request more than one identical Internet request each having a unique ID; a satellite transceiver on board the aircraft for transmitting the more than one identical Internet request in rapid succession; a satellite for receiving one or more surviving identical Internet requests from the satellite transceiver on board the aircraft and sending the one or more surviving identical Internet requests in rapid succession; a network operations center (NOC) for receiving the one or more surviving identical Internet request from the satellite, for forwarding each of the one or more surviving identical requests over the Internet to an appropriate Web site, retrieving requested Web page data for each of the one or more surviving identical Internet requests, and transmitting the requested Web page data for each of the one or more surviving Internet requests to the satellite; wherein the satellite relays surviving requested Web page data for each of the one or more surviving identical Internet requests to the satellite transceiver for forwarding to the server; and wherein the server receives the surviving requested Web page data for each of the one or more surviving identical Internet requests and fuses the surviving received Web page data for the surviving one or more requested Web pages into a single low-latency Web page in accordance with the unique IDs for viewing by the client PC.