Aircraft status report matching

• US 10,053,228 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2016
• Issued: 08/21/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GE Digital Holdings LLC (GE Aerospace)
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: Kahn, Robert Samuel, Becker, III, Laird Eldon, Fullington, Michael Dean, Gidugu, Roopa
• Primary Examiner(s): Lu, Shirley
• Application Number:
  US15/386,440
• Publication Number:
  US 20180170574A1
• Time in Patent Office: 608 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 45/00 Aircraft indicators or protectors not otherwise provided for camouflage F41H3/00
• CPC Class Codes: B64F 5/40 Maintaining or repairing aircraft
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0637 Strategic management or analysis, e.g. setting a goal or target of an organisation; Planning actions based on goals; Analysis or evaluation of effectiveness of goals
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0841 Registering performance data recording measured values G01D; information storage G11B

Abstract

The example embodiments are directed to a device and method for matching together aircraft status reports. In one example, the method includes detecting, via a user interface, a selection of an aircraft from among a plurality of aircraft that have provided aircraft status reports, determining a group of aircraft status reports, from among the received status reports, which were generated by the respective aircraft during a flight of the respective aircraft, based on metadata of the received aircraft status reports, and displaying, via the user interface, the group of aircraft status reports determined to be provided by the respective aircraft during the flight. By linking together status reports from an entire flight, analysis may be performed on data from across an entire flight instead of an individual status report thereby improving flight data analysis and subsequent actions taken based on that analysis.

Claims

1. A computing device comprising:

a network interface configured to receive aircraft status reports provided by a plurality of aircraft, respectively;

a processor configured to detect, via a user interface, a selection of an aircraft from among the plurality of aircraft, and determine a group of aircraft status reports, from among the received status reports, that were generated by the respective aircraft during a flight of the respective aircraft, based on metadata of the received aircraft status reports;

an output configured to display, via the user interface, the group of aircraft, status reports determined to be provided by the respective aircraft during the flight;

wherein the metadata of each aircraft status report comprises a time stamp, a departure location, and an arrival location, and the processor is configured to determine the group of aircraft status reports generated by the respective aircraft during the respective flight based on locations and time stamps of the received aircraft status reports.

2. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the group of aircraft status reports comprise a plurality of status reports generated and provided by the respective aircraft between engine start of the aircraft and an engine shutdown of the aircraft with respect to the flight.

3. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the output is further configured to group together the group of aircraft status reports generated by the respective aircraft during the respective flight on the user interface beginning with a first received aircraft status report of the flight to a last received aircraft status report of the flight.

4. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to compare data from the group of aircraft status reports generated by the respective aircraft during the respective flight to determine at least one notification for the aircraft, and the output is configured to output the notification via the user interface.

5. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the group of aircraft status reports comprise at least two aircraft status reports generated between engine start and engine shutdown of the aircraft with at least one aircraft status reporting being generated after takeoff.

6. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to predict a location of the respective aircraft from takeoff to landing with respect to the flight based on previous flights, and compare the predicted location and time to a location and a time stamp included in each of the received aircraft status reports to determine the group of aircraft status reports generated by the respective aircraft during the respective flight.

7. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to identify an aircraft status report that is missing from the determined group of aircraft status reports generated by the respective aircraft, and the output is further configured to output an indication of the missing aircraft status report via the user interface.

8. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the user interface provides a search bar or a query input to allow a user to look for status reports related to a particular flight or a particular aircraft.

9. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the aircraft status reports are arranged in the order they were generated.

10. The computing device of claim 1, wherein each of the received aircraft status reports comprises data about the aircraft including aircraft weight or aircraft speed and data about the environment or space including the aircraft.

11. A method for linking aircraft status reports, the method comprising:

receiving aircraft status reports provided by a plurality of aircraft, respectively;

detecting, via a user interface, a selection of an aircraft from among the plurality of aircraft that provided the aircraft status reports;

determining a group of aircraft status reports, from among the received status reports, that were generated by the respective aircraft during a flight of the respective aircraft, based on metadata of the received aircraft status reports;

displaying, via the user interface, the group of aircraft status reports determined to be provided by the respective aircraft during the flight; and

wherein the metadata of each aircraft status report comprises a time stamp, a departure location, and an arrival location, and the determining comprises determining the group of aircraft status reports generated by the respective aircraft during the respective flight based on locations and time stamps of the received aircraft status reports.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the group of aircraft status reports comprise a plurality of status reports generated and provided by the respective aircraft between engine start of the aircraft and an engine shutdown of the aircraft with respect to the flight.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the displaying comprises grouping together the group of aircraft status reports generated by the respective aircraft during the respective flight on the user interface beginning with a first received aircraft status report of the flight to a last received aircraft status report of the flight.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising comparing data from the group of aircraft status reports generated by the respective aircraft during the respective flight to determine at least one notification for the aircraft, and outputting the notification via the user interface.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the group of aircraft status reports comprise at least two aircraft status reports generated between engine start and engine shutdown of the aircraft with at least one aircraft status reporting being generated after takeoff.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the determining further comprises predicting a location of the respective aircraft from takeoff to landing with respect to the flight based on previous flights, and comparing the predicted location and time to a location and a time stamp included in each of the received aircraft status reports to determine the group of aircraft status reports generated by the respective aircraft during the respective flight.

17. The method of claim 11, further comprising identifying an aircraft status report that is missing from the determined group of aircraft status reports generated by the respective aircraft, and outputting an indication of the missing aircraft status report via the user interface.

18. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored therein instructions that when executed cause a computer to perform a method for linking aircraft status reports, the method comprising:

receiving aircraft status reports provided by a plurality of aircraft, respectively;

detecting, via a user interface, a selection of an aircraft from among the plurality of aircraft that provided the aircraft status reports;

determining a group of aircraft status reports, from among the received status reports, that were generated by the respective aircraft during a flight of the respective aircraft, based on metadata of the received aircraft status reports;

displaying, via the user interface, the group of aircraft status reports determined to be provided by the respective aircraft during the flight; and

wherein the metadata of each aircraft status report comprises a time stamp, a departure location, and an arrival location, and the determining comprises determining the group of aircraft status reports generated by the respective aircraft during the respective flight based on locations and time stamps of the received aircraft status reports.

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 18, wherein the group of aircraft status reports comprise a plurality of status reports generated and provided by the respective aircraft between engine start of the aircraft and engine shutdown of the aircraft with respect to the flight.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 18, wherein the displaying comprises grouping together the group of aircraft status reports generated by the respective aircraft during the respective flight on the user interface beginning with a first received aircraft status report of the flight to a last received aircraft status report of the flight.