Controller for an aircraft tracker

US10030995B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Boeing Company · US

Inventors

• Charles Otis Adler · Mukilteo, US
• Ted Eigle · Upland, US
• William R. Richards · Cary, US
• Timothy A. Murphy · Lynnwood, US
• John Harvey Roberson · Willow View Lane, US
• Thomas Jose Thalakottur · Folsom, US
• Ricardo M. Fricks · Lake Stevens, US
• Fadl I. Khalil · Edmonds, US
• Steven M. Walstrom · Lynnwood, US
• Daniel Bruce Holton · Edmonds, US
• Jessie Turner · Mukilteo, US
• Timothy E. Jackson · Arlington, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 18, 2015
• Grant date: Jul 24, 2018
• Expiry date: Sep 18, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08G5/58
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method, apparatus, and aircraft tracker system for reporting state information for an aircraft. A state of the aircraft is identified using sensor data received from an aircraft sensor system in the aircraft. The state information is transmitted at a reporting rate set using the state of the aircraft identified from the sensor data, at least one of a crew command or a ground command when at least one of the crew command is received from a crew interface or the ground command is received from a ground source, and a policy defining priorities for reporting that are based on at least one of the crew command, the ground command, or the state of the aircraft identified from the sensor data.