SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR DATA RECOVERY

• US 20100250881A1
• Filed: 03/31/2009
• Published: 09/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: General Electric Company
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: Steffler, Joseph Bernard
• Application Number:
  US12/415,147
• Publication Number:
  US 20100250881A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 711/162
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/085 using electronic data carriers

Abstract

Systems and a method for recovering data from a protected memory are provided. The protected memory system includes a memory for storing data related to the operation of a vehicle and an interface configured to transform said data stored in said memory from a proprietary format to an industry standard serial data format.

Claims

1. A crash protected memory (CPM) system comprising:

a memory for storing data related to the operation of a vehicle; and

an interface configured to transform said data stored in said memory from a proprietary format to an industry standard serial data format.

2. A crash protected memory system in accordance with claim 1 wherein said memory is configured to store at least one of wideband audio data, narrow band audio data, mixed narrow band audio data, flight data and digital communication message data.

3. A crash protected memory system in accordance with claim 1 wherein said interface is further configured to transform the stored data into at least one of a Power over Ethernet (PoE) format, a Universal Serial Bus (USB) format, an IEEE-1394 FireWire format, and a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) format.

4. A crash protected memory system in accordance with claim 1 wherein said interface is further configured to transmit the stored data to a reader using an industry standard serial data format.

5. A crash protected memory system in accordance with claim 1 wherein said interface is further configured to transmit the stored data to a reader wirelessly.

6. A crash protected memory system in accordance with claim 1 wherein said interface comprises a plurality of terminations each corresponding to a pinout of a serial data format bus.

7. A method for transmitting data from a protected memory system, said method comprising:

coupling a data reader to the protected memory system;

receiving data from a memory of the protected memory system;

transforming the received data into a format determined by the data reader; and

transmitting the transformed data to the data reader.

8. A method in accordance with claim 7 wherein coupling a data reader to the protected memory system comprises coupling the data reader to the protected memory system using an industry standard serial data connector.

9. A method in accordance with claim 7 wherein coupling a data reader to the protected memory system comprises coupling the data reader to a connection associated with a predetermined format.

10. A method in accordance with claim 7 wherein receiving data from a memory of the protected memory system comprises receiving at least one of wideband audio, narrow band audio, mixed narrow band audio, flight data and digital communication messages.

11. A method in accordance with claim 7 wherein receiving data from a memory of the protected memory system comprises receiving data including a timestamp.

12. A method in accordance with claim 7 wherein transforming the received data comprises transforming the received data into at least one of a Power over Ethernet (PoE) format, a Universal Serial Bus (USB) format, an IEEE-1394 FireWire format, and a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) format.

13. A method in accordance with claim 7 wherein transforming the received data comprises transforming the received data into a serial data format.

14. A method in accordance with claim 7 wherein transforming the received data comprises transforming at least a portion of the received data from a compressed state to an uncompressed state.

15. A method in accordance with claim 14 wherein transmitting the transformed data to the data reader transmitting the transformed data in an uncompressed state.

16. A method in accordance with claim 7 wherein transmitting the transformed data to the data reader transmitting the transformed data in a compressed state.

17. A flight data recorder comprising:

a data acquisition unit configured to receive a plurality of data signals and to generate a series of data packets for storage; and

a crash protected memory system comprising;

a memory for storing data related to the operation of a vehicle; and

an interface configured to transform said data stored in said memory from a proprietary format to an industry standard serial data format.

18. A crash protected memory system in accordance with claim 17 wherein said memory is configured to store at least one of wideband audio data, narrow band audio data, mixed narrow band audio data, flight data and digital communication message data.

19. A crash protected memory system in accordance with claim 17 wherein said interface is further configured to transform the stored data into at least one of a Power over Ethernet (PoE) format, a Universal Serial Bus (USB) format, an IEEE-1394 FireWire format, and a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) format.

20. A crash protected memory system in accordance with claim 17 wherein said interface is further configured to transmit the stored data to a reader using an industry standard serial data format.