System and method for collecting airport ground positional data and transmitting notifications for ground-based aircraft and other airport vehicles
First Claim
1. A method for providing airport event notifications to remote users based upon ground position information for an airport vehicle generated by and relayed from at least one automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS-B) ground station comprising the steps of:
- receiving, over the Internet from a remote user, a request for at least one notification regarding the activity of an identified airport vehicle;
receiving from at least one ADS-B reporting station, a first data feed of near real-time ADS-B information comprising periodic time-stamped positional information reports regarding a plurality of airport vehicles on the ground;
identifying, using at least one processor within a set of one or more processors, a first dataset which is subset of said first data feed consisting of the ADS-B information associated with the identified airport vehicle;
determining, using at least one processor within the set of one or more processors, the occurrence of at least one surface-based airport vehicle event by the identified airport vehicle by programmatically applying a set of predetermined event rules to the first dataset; and
sending over the Internet to said remote user, an electronic notification including information identifying the identified airport vehicle and the at least one surface-based airport vehicle event.
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Abstract
A computer-implemented system and method processes position information for aircraft located on the ground and provides a notification to a remote user in response to a triggering event. Typically, aircraft position data is received over a digital network. The service accepts requests for notification associated with an identified aircraft and subsequently provides notifications of events based upon the aircraft position data. Upon receiving a user query, a server subsequently retrieves a result set from the aircraft ground position data and determines if an event associated with the identified aircraft has occurred and if so, triggers the notification. In one form, the requested notification may be presented to the user in the form of an HTML message or update, e-mail, telephone call, text message or the some other electronic transmission or message.
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18 Claims
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1. A method for providing airport event notifications to remote users based upon ground position information for an airport vehicle generated by and relayed from at least one automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS-B) ground station comprising the steps of:
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receiving, over the Internet from a remote user, a request for at least one notification regarding the activity of an identified airport vehicle; receiving from at least one ADS-B reporting station, a first data feed of near real-time ADS-B information comprising periodic time-stamped positional information reports regarding a plurality of airport vehicles on the ground; identifying, using at least one processor within a set of one or more processors, a first dataset which is subset of said first data feed consisting of the ADS-B information associated with the identified airport vehicle; determining, using at least one processor within the set of one or more processors, the occurrence of at least one surface-based airport vehicle event by the identified airport vehicle by programmatically applying a set of predetermined event rules to the first dataset; and sending over the Internet to said remote user, an electronic notification including information identifying the identified airport vehicle and the at least one surface-based airport vehicle event. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method for providing event notifications to remote users based upon ground position information for an aircraft generated by and relayed from at least one automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS-B) ground station and a second data source comprising the steps of:
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receiving, over the Internet from a remote user, a request for at least one notification regarding the activity of an identified aircraft; receiving, over the Internet from at least one ADS-B reporting station, a first data feed of near real-time ADS-B information comprising periodic time-stamped positional information reports regarding a plurality of aircraft on the ground; receiving, over the Internet from a second data source, a second data feed of near real-time positional information comprising periodic time-stamped positional information reports regarding the plurality of aircraft on the ground; identifying, using at least one processor within a set of one or more processors, a first dataset which is a first data feed consisting of the ADS-B information associated with the identified aircraft; identifying, using at least one processor within a set of one or more processors, a second dataset which is a subset of the second data feed consisting of the positional information associated with the identified aircraft; combining, using at least one processor within a set of one or more processors, the first dataset and the second dataset of generate a combined dataset;
wherein said combining includes removing at least one positional information report deemed to be inaccurate;determining, using at least one processor within the set of one or more processors, the occurrence of at least one surface-based aircraft event by the identified aircraft by programmatically applying a set of predetermined event rules to the combined dataset; and sending over the Internet to said remote user, an electronic notification including information identifying the identified aircraft and the at least one surface-based aircraft event.
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18. A system including a central server for providing event notifications to remote users based upon ground position information for an aircraft generated by and relayed from at least one automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS-B) ground station comprising:
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a plurality of remotely distributed ADS-B reporting stations, each ADS-B reporting station located at a different airport and operable to transmit a data feed of near real-time ADS-B information comprising periodic time-stamped positional information reports regarding a plurality of aircraft on the ground to the central server; a database connected to the central server for storing ground position information for the plurality of aircraft; and at least one processor within a set of one or more processors for receiving over the Internet from a computer operated by a remote user, a request for at least one notification regarding the activity of an identified aircraft, identifying a first dataset which is subset of said first data feed consisting of the ADS-B information associated with the identified aircraft, determining the occurrence of at least one surface-based aircraft event by the identified aircraft by programmatically applying a set of predetermined event rules to the first dataset; and
sending over the Internet to said remote user, an electronic notification including information identifying the identified aircraft and the at least one surface-based aircraft event.
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