Voice recognition landing fee billing system
First Claim
1. A system for automatically logging aircraft landings and departures, comprising:
- means for monitoring aircraft location to determine if an aircraft has landed at an airport;
means for decoding aircraft identification data from radio signals generated by the aircraft; and
means for matching aircraft identification data with the aircraft landing to generate a billing event.
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Abstract
An apparatus and method are described for generating landing fee and other airport service bills automatically. The system automatically detects aircraft N-number from air traffic control voice data using a voice recognition system and determines aircraft landing and departure events from one or more remote sensor units which determine aircraft vicinity or actual aircraft track. From the landing and departure data and the voice-recognized registration number, the system automatically bills aircraft owners for landing fees based upon this voice recognition as well as upon aircraft position detection.
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70 Claims
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1. A system for automatically logging aircraft landings and departures, comprising:
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means for monitoring aircraft location to determine if an aircraft has landed at an airport;
means for decoding aircraft identification data from radio signals generated by the aircraft; and
means for matching aircraft identification data with the aircraft landing to generate a billing event. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. A method for automatically logging aircraft landings and departures, comprising the steps of:
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monitoring aircraft location to determine if an aircraft has landed at an airport, decoding aircraft identification data from radio signals generated by the aircraft, and matching aircraft identification data with the aircraft landing to generate a billing event. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70)
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47. The method of claim 346 wherein the aircraft identification data comprises an aircraft registration number, and said step of decoding aircraft identification data comprises the step of decoding the aircraft registration number from the Mode-S signal using a predetermined algorithm.
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