Aviation Cookie for Dynamic In-Flight Content Delivery

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current in-flight communication systems face challenges such as high costs, bandwidth limitations, and high latency, limiting passengers' access to continuous and affordable wireless connectivity.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of an information manager system that generates an 'aviation cookie' based on dynamic aircraft information, allowing content servers to provide location-specific and personalized content to passengers during flights.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional in-flight communication systems are used, then passengers can maintain connectivity, but the cost is high and bandwidth is limited

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveconnectivityVSAvoidbandwidth

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an information manager as an intermediary component that sits between the communication device and the network. This information manager collects dynamic aircraft information (location, altitude, speed, heading) and uses it to optimize content delivery, thereby improving bandwidth efficiency without compromising connectivity reliability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameter of content delivery by incorporating dynamic aircraft information into the communication process. By adjusting content selection and delivery based on aircraft parameters (location, altitude, speed), the system optimizes bandwidth utilization while maintaining reliable connectivity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If conventional in-flight communication systems are used, then passengers can maintain connectivity, but latency is high

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveconnectivityVSAvoidlatency

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The information manager performs preliminary actions by collecting and processing dynamic aircraft information in advance of content delivery. This pre-processing allows the system to prepare optimized content delivery paths and reduce processing latency during actual content transmission

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Ease of operation

If location-specific content delivery is implemented, then passenger experience is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepassenger experienceVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The information manager serves multiple functions: collecting aircraft information, processing location data, selecting appropriate content, and managing delivery. This multi-functionality consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate systems, improving passenger experience while limiting the increase in overall system complexity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS20250150508A1Smart aviation dynamic cookie

Publication Date: 2025.05.08 SMARTSKY NETWORKS LLC

AI summary

An information manager may include processing circuitry configured to receive dynamic aircraft information associated with operation of an in-flight aircraft, receive a message from a communication device on the in-flight aircraft for transmission to a ground based content server via a wireless communication network capable of communicating with in-flight assets, and generate an aviation cookie for communication to the content server along with the message. The aviation cookie may be generated based on the dynamic aircraft information and may enable the content server to generate content based at least in part on the dynamic aircraft information.