Flight data aggregation system including portable electronic devices

US11955015B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Boeing Company · US

Inventors

• André Brodbeck Dugas · Greenwood Village, US
• Joerg Schmidt · Munich, DE
• Millie Irene Sterling · Neu-Isenburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 14, 2021
• Grant date: Apr 9, 2024
• Expiry date: Mar 7, 2042

Classification

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

Abstract

A flight data aggregation system for a plurality of aircraft includes one or more portable electronic devices in electronic communication with one or more central computers. The one or more portable electronic devices each monitor flight data from a corresponding aircraft. The one or more portable electronic devices analyze the flight data in real-time to determine an insight event indicating an incident of significance is presently occurring upon the corresponding aircraft. Each central computer includes one or more processors and a memory coupled to the one or more processors. The central computers are caused to receive the flight data collected during the insight event from an individual portable electronic device. The central computers determine overall flight data patterns based on the flight data collected during the insight event received from the individual portable electronic device and historical data stored in the one or more databases.