US Patent Issued to Panasonic Avionics on April 7 for "Dynamic airplane video-on-demand bandwidth management" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,337, issued on April 7, was assigned to Panasonic Avionics Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Dynamic airplane video-on-demand bandwidth management" was invented by Min-Hsuan Tang (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Shankar Shastry (Irvine, Calif.) and Carol Hsieh (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus and system for managing an in-flight entertainment network include a method in which a first manifest file and a second manifest file are received. A first data connectivity with a first group of display devices and a second data connectivity with a second group of display devices is established. A bandwidth map and a profile map...