Delta Air Lines was granted a patent for Bluetooth in-flight entertainment connectivity.

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    "patent_abstract": "An in-flight entertainment device Bluetooth module can include a WiFi transceiver; a WiFi antenna connected to the WiFi transceiver; a Bluetooth transceiver; and a directional Bluetooth antenna connected to the Bluetooth transceiver. The in-flight entertainment device Bluetooth module can detect a connection between the Bluetooth transceiver and an audio device via the directional Bluetooth antenna, trigger a WiFi signal scan by the WiFi transceiver and via the WiFi antenna; and identify, for a detected most-used WiFi channel, Bluetooth channels that share spectrum with the detected most-used WiFi channel. If the Bluetooth channels that share spectrum with the detected most-used WiFi channel are not included in an exclusion list, the Bluetooth channels that share spectrum with the detected most-used WiFi channel can be added to the exclusion list.",
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