Data transfer system

• US 20040217228A1
• Filed: 03/14/2003
• Published: 11/04/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Flight Dimensions International, Inc. (Honeywell International Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Dimensions International Incorporated (Honeywell International Inc.)
• Inventors: Scozzafava, Jeffrey A.
• Application Number:
  US10/387,589
• Publication Number:
  US 20040217228A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 244/6
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 5/0095 Aspects of air-traffic control not provided for in the other subgroups of this main group

Abstract

An improved data transfer system is disclosed which provides efficient information retrieval for tracking subsets of aircraft which are within larger sets applicable in general to aircraft in route and selectively retrieving information in an automated manner which is user defined for information displayed and functionality and specific for a user defined subset of aircraft.

Claims

1. A method of selecting data from general aircraft operations data comprising creating subsets of user identified aircraft for automatic user identified information and functionality.

2. A method in accordance with claim 1 further comprising automatic status change notification of aircraft in each said subset, which is graphically represented by a color stripe adjacent to information relating to aircraft in said subset.

3. A method in accordance with claim 1 further comprising automatic status change notification of aircraft in each said subset which graphically represents the percentage completed of a flight of said aircraft based on time.

4. A method in accordance with claim 1 further comprising automatic status change notification of aircraft in each said subset which graphically represents the route percentage completed of a flight of said aircraft based on distance.

5. A method in accordance with claim 1 further comprising automatic status change notification of aircraft in each said subset graphically representing the route percentage completed of each aircraft based on time and distance.