Patent: Organizing Places Of Interest Inflight

Patent Application#: 16368842

Abstract

A time-sensitive, data reduction system is described which facilitates a personalized passenger experience onboard an aircraft. According to an aspect of the system, a method is disclosed of presenting, to a passenger on an aircraft, points of interest (POIs). The method comprises: receiving at least a portion of an airline-specific dataset, wherein the airline-specific dataset comprises a plurality of location records, wherein each location record comprises a point of interest (POI) and a unique rank, wherein the POI is defined by unique geographic identifier; determining a current position of the aircraft; and based on the current position and based on the unique rank of each of the plurality of location records, controlling, at a passenger display in the aircraft, a presentation of a map and a plurality of POI indicators associated with a highly-ranked subset of the plurality of location records. According to another aspect of the system, a plurality of servers are used provide relevant location-related content to an aircraft passenger.