Onboard Electronic Distribution System
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Abstract
A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for transferring information with an aircraft. A connection is established between an onboard electronic distribution system executing in an aircraft data processing system in the aircraft and an on ground component. Responsive to a request for a command from the on ground component, the command for execution is identified. The identified command is sent to the onboard electronic distribution system from an on ground component. A transaction identifier is assigned to the command. A transaction associated with the command is maintained on the onboard electronic distribution system and the on ground component using the transaction identifier. An uplink is initiated by the on ground component. An aircraft software part is sent to the onboard electronic distribution system from the on ground component to perform the uplink. A status of a transfer of the aircraft software part on ground component is stored.
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45 Claims
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22. A computer implemented method for transferring information with an aircraft, the computer implemented method comprising:
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establishing a connection between an onboard electronic distribution system executing in an aircraft data processing system in the aircraft and an on ground component; subsequent to establishing the connection, identifying a delete command for execution by the onboard electronic distribution system to form an identified command; sending the identified command to the onboard electronic distribution system from the on ground component; receiving the identified command at the onboard electronic distribution system; checking a signature for the identified command by the onboard electronic distribution system; responsive to the signature for the identified command being valid, sending a request by the onboard electronic distribution system to a file transfer system, the request comprising a request to send the identified command to a line replaceable unit. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A computer implemented method for receiving and storing an aircraft software part, the method comprising:
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receiving a crate at the onboard electronic distribution system, the crate containing an aircraft software part; validating a signature for the crate and a signature for the aircraft software part; in response to not detecting a problem during the validating, sending a transfer request to a file transfer system; and transferring the aircraft software part to a line replaceable unit by the file transfer system. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
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38. A computer implemented method for transferring information with an aircraft, the computer implemented method comprising:
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establishing a connection between an onboard electronic distribution system executing in an aircraft data processing system in the aircraft and an on ground component; sending downlink data to a file transfer system by a line replaceable unit; sending a request by the file transfer system to the onboard electronic distribution system to send the downlink data to the on ground component; responsive to the request by the file transfer system, creating a crate for the downlink data, creating the crate comprising signing the downlink data with the airplane'"'"'s private key; and sending the crate to the on ground component. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45)
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