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Determining outages of a satellite navigation system and signal interference

US12078731B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

The Boeing Company · US

Inventors

Sabine Rath · Zwingenberg, DE
Andreas Sindlinger · Weinheim, DE
Ralf Rene Cabos · Großkrotzenburg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 29, 2022
Grant date	Sep 3, 2024
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 8, 2042

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG08G5/55
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A method of supporting flight operations of aircraft includes accessing a data stream of geographic positions of aircraft on respective flights. The geographic positions are determined using a satellite navigation system and obtained from automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS-B) position reports, or estimated independent of the ADS-B position reports. The geographic positions are tracked to determine a number of the respective flights for which the geographic positions change from being obtained from the ADS-B position reports, to being estimated independent of the ADS-B position reports. The method includes determining an outage in which the satellite navigation system is unavailable to the aircraft, based on the number of the respective flights for which the geographic positions change from the ADS-B position reports to estimated independent of the ADS-B position reports, and based on a threshold. And an outage notification is generated that is output to alert users of the outage.

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