Sustaining a fleet of configuration-controlled assets

US10248914B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Boeing Company · US

Inventors

• Chris Stoughton · Chesterfield, US
• Jenny B. Thompson · Long Beach, US
• Peter M. Gould · Eureka, US
• Alan J. Bacon · Oakville, US
• Dean C. Hooks · Kirkwood, US
• Robert White · Wentzville, US
• Barry R. Fox · Greenwich, US
• Janet E. Oakes · Bridgeton, US
• Robert M. Beggs · West Chester, US
• Kim Bonin · Chesterfield, US
• Terence M. Burke · Collinsville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 14, 2006
• Grant date: Apr 2, 2019
• Expiry date: Jan 2, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B2219/36542
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer program products sustain a fleet of configuration-controlled assets. The method involves integrating a plurality of previously separate systems with reusable business transactions associated with managing a fleet of vehicles. The method also involves receiving operational data associated with a vehicle of the fleet, integrating the operational data per customer requirements, packaging and distributing the operational data to the plurality of systems, and installing and distributing the operational data to one or more applications of the plurality of systems utilizing reusable business transactions. The system utilizes a plurality of applications and a plurality of logical subsystems, which are connected to each other through gateways. The logical subsystems use a common format defined by a set of messages. However, the applications can use a plurality of different formats. The gateways, which are the connecting blocks, convert the data flow between the logical subsystems and the applications.