US 12,358,624 B2
Secure access and presentation of passenger-specific information
Jonas Hasselgren, Umea (SE); Andreas Hedin, Malmö (SE); and Robert Magnusson, Malmö (SE)
Assigned to Panasonic Avionics Corporation, Irvine, CA (US)
Filed by Panasonic Avionics Corporation, Irvine, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/929,560.
Prior Publication US 2024/0076040 A1, Mar. 7, 2024
Int. Cl. B64D 11/00 (2006.01); H04N 21/214 (2011.01)
CPC B64D 11/00155 (2014.12) [B64D 11/00151 (2014.12); H04N 21/2146 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for providing authenticated access to passenger-specific data on an in-vehicle entertainment system, comprising:
obtaining, via an authentication interface, a first unique identifier associated with a first passenger device that is located within a commercial passenger airplane and wirelessly paired with a seatback device of a plurality of seatback devices corresponding to a plurality of seat locations within the commercial passenger airplane;
referencing, by an account management module, manifest information that respectively maps a plurality of passengers to the plurality of seat locations within the commercial passenger airplane, to determine whether a user operating the first passenger device is a passenger that was assigned to a particular seat location of the seatback device based on the manifest information mapping the first unique identifier to the particular seat location;
based on a determination that the user operating the first passenger device is the passenger that was assigned to the particular seat location of the seatback device, automatically causing, by a personalization platform, at least a portion of an account data for the user to be displayed at the seatback device; and
further based on the determination that the user operating the first passenger device is the passenger that was assigned to the particular seat location of the seatback device, cause concurrent playback of (i) an audio portion of a multimedia content at the first passenger device and (ii) a video portion of the multimedia content at the seatback device via a wireless pairing between the first passenger device and the seatback device.