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In-flight computing device for aircraft cabin crew

  • US 10,320,908 B2
  • Filed: 03/25/2013
  • Issued: 06/11/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for use by cabin crew on board an aircraft, comprising:

  • at a location remote from the aircraft, a server including a database, the server selectively communicating with a plurality of systems external to the server and external to the aircraft to retrieve information related to a flight to be made by the aircraft, the server running an application for communicating with the external systems to send and receive data to and from the server, wherein the external systems include a source of a passenger name list for the flight and the server stores the passenger name list in the database and the server is configured to transmit the passenger name list to a portable computing device for storage in the portable storage device database; and

    the portable computing device on board the aircraft, the portable computing device having a portable storage device database for receipt and storage of flight related information received from the server during the flight, wherein at least a portion of the flight related information originates from the plurality of external systems, the flight related information including seating information and other passenger related information, the portable device running an application for real-time communication directly with the server in JSON format during the flight via a WiFi connection for a two-way exchange between the server and the portable device of at least one of seating and passenger related information during the flight, the application enabling inputting, during flights, of data relating to faults identified by cabin crew, the portable device storing the input fault data at the portable storage device database and sending the fault data to the server during the flight.

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