Secure aircraft communications addressing and reporting system (ACARS)
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1. A secure Aircraft Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) apparatus, comprising:
- means for compressing 6-bit data; and
means for converting the compressed 6-bit data for transmission over an ACARS network.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus that permit military aircraft operators to use the civilian Aircraft Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) technology while ensuring data security.
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1. A secure Aircraft Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) apparatus, comprising:
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means for compressing 6-bit data; and
means for converting the compressed 6-bit data for transmission over an ACARS network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method for using an electronic circuit to securely conveying data between an aircraft and the ground based on Aircraft Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) technology, the method comprising:
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a) processing the data as a stream of 6-bit data;
b) with the electronic circuit, compressing the stream of 6-bit data; and
c) with the electronic circuit, converting each 6-bit data into a 8-bit ACARS character. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A computer program residing on a computer usable storage medium for transmitting data on the Aircraft Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS), the computer program comprising:
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computer-readable program code means for receiving one or more signals representative of user bit-oriented data as a stream of 6-bit characters;
computer-readable program code means for compressing the stream of 6-bit characters; and
computer-readable program code means for converting each 6-bit character of the stream of 6-bit characters into a 8-bit ACARS character. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A computer program product, comprising:
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a computer-usable medium having computer-readable code embodied therein for configuring a computer processor, the computer program product comprising;
computer-readable code configured to cause a computer processor to receive a bit stream of 8-bit character-oriented ACARS user data;
computer-readable code configured to cause a computer processor to encode each 8-bit character in the bit stream of 8-bit character-oriented user data into data having a 6-bit representation, resulting in a bit stream having 6-bit orientation;
computer-readable code configured to cause a computer processor to compress the resulting bit stream of 6-bit data; and
computer-readable code configured to cause a computer processor to converting each 6-bit representation in the resulting bit stream into a 8-bit ACARS character, thereby generating a bit stream of 8-bit ACARS characters. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27)
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