FRAMEWORK FOR SUPPORTING REPAIR PROCESSES OF AIRCRAFT

• US 20120143908A1
• Filed: 02/09/2012
• Published: 06/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Infosys Limited
• Original Assignee: Infosys Technologies Limited (Infosys Limited)
• Inventors: Geddam, Veera Venkata Ravi Kumar, Maddali, Sambasiva Rao, Vaderahobli, Devaraja Holla, Soma, Narendhar Rao, Balakrishnan, Rajesh, Subbarao, Venugopal, Dewangan, Sandeep Kumar
• Granted Patent: US 8,670,893 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/769
• CPC Class Codes: B64F 5/40 Maintaining or repairing aircraft
• CPC Class Codes: B64F 5/60 Testing or inspecting aircraft components or systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/211 Schema design and management
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/022 Knowledge engineering; Knowledge acquisition
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/20 Administration of product repair or maintenance

Abstract

A framework for supporting one or more repair processes of one or more aircraft. The repair processes are based on repair information or repair solution corresponding to the damages to one or more structural components of the aircraft. The framework includes a knowledge engine, and a deployment engine. The knowledge engine automatically generates one or more knowledge interpretation systems based on the user inputs. The knowledge interpretation systems provide the repair information corresponding to the various structural components of the aircraft based on the user inputs. The deployment engine fulfils the deployment requirements corresponding to the one or more knowledge interpretation systems.

Claims

1. A framework for supporting one or more repair processes of one or more aircraft, the framework comprising:

a. a query system generator configured for automatically generating one or more query systems based on user inputs, the one or more query systems identifying one or more repair solutions from a plurality of repair solutions corresponding to the one or more aircraft, the one or more repair processes being performed based on the one or more repair solutions; and

b. deployment engine configured for catering to deployment requirements corresponding to the one or more query systems, wherein the deployment requirements are provided by one or more users.

2. The framework of claim 1, wherein the one or more query systems enable a user to generate one or more queries for identifying the one or more repair solutions.

3. The framework of claim 2, wherein the one or more queries are generated based on one or more features of one or more structural components of the one or more aircraft.

4. A method for supporting one or more repair processes of one or more aircraft, the method comprising:

a. automatically generating one or more query systems based on user inputs, the one or more query systems identifying one or more repair solutions from a plurality of repair solutions corresponding to the one or more aircraft, the one or more repair processes being performed based on the one or more repair solutions; and

b. catering to deployment requirements corresponding to the one or more query systems, wherein the deployment requirements are provided by one or more users.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the one or more query systems enable a user to generate one or more queries for identifying the one or more repair solutions.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the one or more queries are generated based on one or more features of one or more structural components of the one or more aircraft.

7. A computer program product for use with a computer, the computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein for supporting one or more repair processes of one or more aircraft, the computer readable program code performing:

a. generating one or more query systems based on user inputs, the one or more query systems identifying one or more repair solutions from a plurality of repair solutions corresponding to the one or more aircraft, the one or more repair processes being performed based on the one or more repair solutions; and

b. catering to deployment requirements corresponding to the one or more query systems, wherein the deployment requirements are provided by one or more users.