Configurable cockpit information presentation device
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1. An avionics system, comprising:
- a source of electronic data signals conveying aircraft situational awareness information;
a device structured for storing one or more avionics configuration selections; and
a plurality of avionics being coupled for receiving one or more of the electronic data signals, each of the avionics being coupled for retrieving the one or more configuration selections and having one or more configuration options that are susceptible to control by the one or more avionics configuration selections.
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Abstract
A cockpit configuration management apparatus, method and computer program product for enabling pilot configurations of display and non-display avionics devices to be saved to a storage device, retrieved from that storage device, and optionally saved and retrieved to and from a transportable media. The cockpit configuration management, method and computer program product enable a pilot to save selected cockpit configuration preferences, so that, for example, another pilot may reconfigure the cockpit, without loss of the configuration preference information.
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1. An avionics system, comprising:
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a source of electronic data signals conveying aircraft situational awareness information;
a device structured for storing one or more avionics configuration selections; and
a plurality of avionics being coupled for receiving one or more of the electronic data signals, each of the avionics being coupled for retrieving the one or more configuration selections and having one or more configuration options that are susceptible to control by the one or more avionics configuration selections. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An avionics system, comprising:
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a data bus structured to carry electronic information;
an instrument suite coupled to the data bus and structured to provide electronic aircraft situational awareness information;
a plurality of conventional avionics subsystems coupled to the data bus and being interfaced with one or more instrument of the instrument suite for receiving electronic aircraft situational awareness information, each of the avionics subsystems having a display functionally structured for displaying the aircraft situational awareness information in accordance with one or more configuration selections; and
a preference storage device coupled to the data bus and structured to provide electronic information comprising a preference set of the one or more configuration selections, the preference set of configuration selections being a subset of valid configuration selections. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. An avionics system, comprising:
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means for initially establishing one or more configuration preferences for configuring an avionics device that is susceptible to configuration control by the one or more avionics configuration selections;
means for storing the one or more configuration preferences;
means for recalling the one or more stored configuration preferences;
means for loading the one or more configuration preferences into the avionics device; and
means for configuring the avionics device as a function of the one or more configuration preferences. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A method for configuring an avionics device, the method comprising:
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initially establishing one or more configuration preferences for configuring an avionics device that is susceptible to configuration control by the one or more avionics configuration selections;
storing the one or more configuration preferences;
recalling the one or more stored configuration preferences;
loading the one or more configuration preferences into the avionics device, and configuring the avionics device as a function of the one or more configuration preferences. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A computer program product residing on a computer usable storage medium, the computer program product comprising:
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computer-readable program code means for receiving electronic signals representative of one or more configuration selections for configuring an avionics device that is susceptible to configuration control by the electronic signals;
computer-readable program code means for storing the one or more configuration selections;
computer-readable program code means for recalling the one or more stored configuration selections;
computer-readable program code means for loading the one or more configuration selections into the avionics device; and
computer-readable program code means for configuring the avionics device as a function of the one or more configuration selections. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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40. A computer program product for configuring an avionics device, the 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 retrieve from storage on a computer-readable medium a set of instrument configuration control information for controlling one or more of an operational configuration option and a display configuration option of an avionics instrument;
computer-readable code configured to cause a computer processor to configure a plurality of operational and display configuration options of an avionics instrument as a function of the retrieved set of instrument configuration control information. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48)
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