ELECTRONIC TECHNICAL LOGBOOK

• US 20100268413A1
• Filed: 05/27/2010
• Published: 10/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH (Airbus SE)
• Original Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH (Airbus SE)
• Inventors: BAMESBERGER, Abderrazak
• Granted Patent: US 8,521,342 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/33
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/14 Error detection or correction of the data by redundancy in operation G06F11/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/34 Recording or statistical evaluation of computer activity, e.g. of down time, of input/output operation ; Recording or statistical evaluation of user activity, e.g. usability assessment

Abstract

A system, a method, and a computer program are provided for recording technical issues of an aircraft. A server unit is adapted to store and output data related to technical issues of an aircraft. A client unit sends an access request to a server, which receives and processes this request, permits access to the data and restricts the adding or modifying processing of the data to one client unit at a time. For use during flight tests on board of the aircraft, a snapshot of the data may be transferred to a mobile computer, while the data on the server unit is restricted to read-only. After the flight test, the modified data is transferred back to the server unit and the read-only restriction is removed.

Claims

1. A system for recording technical issues of an aircraft, the system comprising:

a server unit adapted to store and data related to the technical issues of the aircraft; and

a client unit adapted to send an access request to the server unit to access and process the data,

wherein the server unit is further adapted to;

receive and process the access request from the client unit;

permit access to the data; and

restrict processing of the data for the aircraft to a single client unit at a time.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the server unit is adapted to transfer a snapshot of the data related to the aircraft to the client unit for modification during a flight test.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the server unit is adapted to receive a modified snapshot of the data related to the aircraft from a client unit after usage during the flight test.

4. The system according to claim 2, wherein the server unit is adapted to restrict the access to the data to read-only after the snapshot of the data has been transferred to the client unit and before the snapshot has been transferred back to the server unit after the flight test.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the client unit is a mobile computer.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the client unit is a workstation that is dedicated to a workplace in a flight test line for the aircraft.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein the server unit is adapted to restrict the access to the data according a user permission.

8. A method for recording technical issues of an aircraft, said method comprising the steps of:

sending an access request from a client unit to a server unit to access and process data related to a technical issue of the aircraft;

receiving and processing the access request from the client unit by the server unit;

permitting access to the data; and

restricting processing of the data for the aircraft to a single client unit at a time by the server unit.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein a dataset for storing information about technical issues of the aircraft in the server unit at the beginning of a flight testing program is created;

and

wherein the dataset is closed after finishing the flight testing program.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the data is a snapshot of the data related to the technical issues, the server unit sets a dataset to a read-only state after sending to the client unit, the client unit modifies the data during a flight test, the client unit sends the data back to the server unit, and the server unit removes the read-only state from the dataset.

11. A computer readable medium embodying a computer program product, said computer program product comprising:

a program for recording technical issues of an aircraft, the program for recording the technical issues of the aircraft configured to;

send an access request from a client unit to a server unit to access and process data related to a technical issue of the aircraft;

receive and process the access request from the client unit by the server unit;

permit access to the data;

restrict processing of the data for the aircraft to a single client unit at a time by the server unit.

12. The computer readable medium embodying the computer program product according to claim 11, wherein the program is further configured to transfer a snapshot of the data related to the aircraft to the client unit for modification during a flight test.

13. The computer readable medium embodying the computer program product according to claim 12, wherein the program is further configured to receive a modified snapshot of the data related to the aircraft from a client unit after usage during the flight test.

14. The computer readable medium embodying the computer program product according to claim 12, wherein the program is further configured to restrict the access to the data to read-only after the snapshot of the data has been transferred to the client unit and before the snapshot has been transferred back to the server unit after the flight test.

15. The computer readable medium embodying the computer program product according to claim 12, wherein the program is further configured to restrict access to the data according a user permission.