Patent ID: 8635654

Claim:
A wireless communication system for a vehicle including a plurality of seats, comprising: an overhead video display mounted to a ceiling of the vehicle; an electronic unit that is spaced apart from the seats and is configured to receive video content and audio content in a digital program stream, and comprises: a decoder that decodes the digital program stream into a video stream and a plurality of audio streams, wherein each of the plurality of audio streams contains a different language track associated with the video stream from the digital program stream, and the decoder provides the video stream to the overhead video display for display; a packetizer component that packetizes the plurality of audio streams; and at least one wireless transceiver that: receives a selection of a first one of the audio streams from a plurality of addresses of wireless transceivers of a first group of the plurality of seats, and transmits the packetized first audio stream as a first multicast stream addressed to the plurality of addresses of the wireless transceivers of the first group of the plurality of seats through a wireless packet communication interface, and receives a selection of a second one of the audio streams from a plurality of addresses of wireless transceivers of a second group of the plurality of seats, and transmits the packetized second audio stream as a second multicast stream addressed to the plurality of addresses of the wireless transceivers of the second group of the plurality of seats through the wireless packet communication interface.