Method for prioritizing and transmitting data generated from an airplane during flight

• US 10,222,452 B2
• Filed: 12/09/2016
• Issued: 03/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bisti, Jeffrey E., Cadmus, Jr., Raymond J., De Gilio, Frank J., Foti, Jr., Joseph, Marquez, Jovanna
• Primary Examiner(s): Tissot, Adam D
• Assistant Examiner(s): Berns, Michael A
• Application Number:
  US15/373,702
• Publication Number:
  US 20180165969A1
• Time in Patent Office: 816 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/953 mounted on aircraft
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/003 Transmission of data between radar, sonar or lidar systems and remote stations
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/00 Traffic control systems for aircraft , e.g. air-traffic control [ATC]
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0013 with a ground station
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0021 located in the aircraft
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0056 in an emergency situation, e.g. hijacking
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0091 for monitoring atmospheric conditions radar or analogous systems specially adapted for meteorological use G01S13/95; meteorology G01W
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/185 Space-based or airborne stations; Stations for satellite systemsH04B7/204 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 90/10 Information and communication technologies [ICT] supporting adaptation to climate change, e.g. for weather forecasting or climate simulation

Abstract

A method, system, and computer product for transmitting data generated from an airplane includes collecting a plurality of flight data generated from the airplane, analyzing the plurality of flight data, generating a feedback signal based on an analyzed result on the plurality of flight data, selecting a first group of flight data from the plurality of flight data based on the feedback signal, changing a respective data resolution of each of the first group of flight data based on the feedback signal, providing each of the first group of flight data with the changed data resolution to a transmitting device, and transmitting, using the transmitting device, the first group of flight data with the changed data resolution.

Claims

1. A system for transmitting data generated from an airplane, comprising:

a memory for storing instructions;

one or more hardware processors coupled with the memory, the hardware processor receiving said instructions from said memory to configure the one or more hardware processors to perform a method comprising;

collecting, under control of a first hardware processor, a plurality of flight data generated from a respective plurality of devices of the airplane;

analyzing, using a second hardware processor, the plurality of flight data;

generating at the second hardware processor a feedback signal based on an analyzed result on the plurality of flight data, said feedback signal for controlling the first hardware processor to select a first group of flight data from the plurality of flight data;

changing, using the first hardware processor, a respective data resolution of each of the first group of flight data based on the feedback signal, said data resolution associated with a transmission rate for the first group of flight data; and

a transceiver configured to receive each of the first group of flight data with the changed data resolution and

to transmit the first group of flight data at said associated transmission rate over a communications channel for receipt at a data storage device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein a size of the first group flight data with the changed resolution is a size of the plurality of flight data generated from the airplane.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein to analyze the plurality of flight data, the one or more hardware processors are further configured to perform:

comparing each of the plurality of flight data with a corresponding one of a plurality of criteria; and

determining one or more flight data of the plurality of flight data as abnormal flight data, responsive to the one or more flight data meeting respective predetermined criteria of the plurality of criteria.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein a first one of the plurality of criteria is different from a second one of the plurality of criteria.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the plurality of criteria comprises:

at least one of

whether a value of a third one of the plurality of flight data is greater or lower than a first predetermined threshold;

whether a difference between a current value of a fourth one of the plurality of flight data and a previous value of the fourth one is greater than a second predetermined threshold.

6. The system of claim 3, wherein the one or more processing devices are further configured to perform generating the feedback signal when a number of the abnormal flight data is equal to or greater than one.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processing devices are further configured to perform:

collecting a plurality of weather data; and

analyzing the plurality of weather data and generating the feedback signal further based on an analyzed result on the plurality of weather data.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the weather data comprises:

at least one of a weather alert, a wind speed, and an amount of rainfall associated with a current location of the airplane.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the feedback signal comprises:

at least one of

a list of flight data to be transmitted (TDL), the hardware processor selecting the first group of flight data using the TDL; and

information including a respective sampling rate to be applied for transmitting respective data of the selected first group of flight data.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the one or more hardware processors are further configured to perform:

prior to generating the feedback signal,

providing a second group of flight data selected from the plurality of flight data with a predetermined data resolution to the transceiver, the predetermined data resolution associated with a transmission rate for the second group of flight data, and

wherein the transceiver is configured to further transmit the second group of flight data at the transmission rate for the second group of flight data,

wherein the transmission rate associated with the second group of flight data is lower than the transmission rate associated with the first group of flight data.

11. A computer-implemented method for transmitting data generated from an airplane, comprising:

collecting under control of a first hardware processor, a plurality of flight data generated from a respective plurality of devices of the airplane;

analyzing, using a second hardware processor, the plurality of flight data;

generating at the second hardware processor a feedback signal based on an analyzed result on the plurality of flight data, said feedback signal for controlling the first hardware processor to select a first group of flight data from the plurality of flight data;

changing, using the first hardware processor, a respective data resolution of each of the first group of flight data based on the feedback signal, said data resolution associated with a transmission rate for the first group of flight data;

providing each of the first group of flight data with the changed data resolution to a transceiver;

transmitting, using the transceiver, the first group of flight data at said associated transmission rate over a communications channel for receipt at a data storage device.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein analyzing the plurality of flight data comprises:

comparing each of the plurality of flight data with a corresponding one of a plurality of criteria; and

determining one or more flight data of the plurality of flight data as abnormal flight data, responsive to the one or more flight data meeting respective predetermined criteria of the plurality of criteria.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein a first one of the plurality of criteria is different from a second one of the plurality of criteria.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the plurality of criteria comprises:

at least one of

whether a value of a third one of the plurality of flight data is greater or lower than a first predetermined threshold;

whether a difference between a current value of a fourth one of the plurality of flight data and a previous value of the fourth one is greater than a second predetermined threshold.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the feedback signal comprises:

at least one of

a list of flight data to be transmitted (TDL), the first group of flight data being selected using the TDL; and

a respective sampling rate to be applied for transmitting respective data of the selected first group of flight data.

16. A computer program product stored in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer readable program instructions, the computer readable program instructions read and executed by at least one processor for performing a computer-implemented method for transmitting data generated from an airplane, wherein the method comprises:

collecting, under control of a first hardware processor, a plurality of flight data generated from a respective plurality of devices of the airplane;

analyzing, using a second hardware processor, the plurality of flight data;

generating at the second hardware processor a feedback signal based on an analyzed result on the plurality of flight data, said feedback signal for controlling the first hardware processor to select a first group of flight data from the plurality of flight data;

changing, using the first hardware processor, a respective data resolution of each of the first group of flight data based on the feedback signal, said data resolution associated with a transmission rate for the first group of flight data;

providing each of the first group of flight data, with the changed data resolution to a transceiver;

transmitting, using the transceiver, the first group of flight data at said associated transmission rate over a communications channel for receipt at a data storage device.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein analyzing the plurality of flight data comprises:

comparing each of the plurality of flight data with a corresponding one of a plurality of criteria; and

determining one or more flight data of the plurality of flight data as abnormal flight data, responsive to the one or more flight data meeting respective predetermined criteria of the plurality of criteria.

18. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein a first one of the plurality of criteria is different from a second one of the plurality of criteria.

19. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein the plurality of criteria comprises:

at least one of

whether a value of a third one of the plurality of flight data is greater or lower than a first predetermined threshold;

whether a difference between a current value of a fourth one of the plurality of flight data and a previous value of the fourth one is greater than a second predetermined threshold.

20. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the feedback signal comprises:

at least one of

a list of flight data to be transmitted (TDL), the first group of flight data being selected using the TDL; and

a respective sampling rate to be applied for transmitting respective data of the selected first group of flight data.