Configurable Onboard Information Processing

• US 20160071335A1
• Filed: 09/10/2014
• Published: 03/10/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The Boeing Co.
• Original Assignee: The Boeing Co.
• Inventors: Cortez, Javier, Schmitz, Jeffrey Alan, Nicks, Eric Lee, Wilmering, Timothy Joseph, Maggiore, Jeanne C.
• Granted Patent: US 9,633,489 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/08 Registering or indicating performance data other than driving, working, idle, or waiting time, with or without registering driving, working, idle or waiting time

Abstract

A system and method of processing information onboard a vehicle. Execution attributes on the vehicle are read by a computer program running on a data processing system on the vehicle. The execution attributes define a number of information processing actions. The number of information processing actions are performed on the vehicle by the computer program running on the data processing system on the vehicle using the execution attributes.

Claims

1. A method of processing information onboard a vehicle, comprising:

reading execution attributes on the vehicle by a computer program running on a data processing system on the vehicle, wherein the execution attributes define a number of information processing actions; and

performing the number of information processing actions on the vehicle by the computer program running on the data processing system on the vehicle using the execution attributes.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the execution attributes comprise a number of execution stacks; and

processing the execution attributes by the computer program running on the data processing system on the vehicle in a sequence defined by an order of the execution attributes in the execution stacks.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the order of the execution attributes in the execution stacks defines the sequence for processing the execution attributes by the computer program running on the data processing system on the vehicle in reverse Polish notation.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the execution attributes comprise information identifiers identifying information to be processed to perform the number of information processing actions and operation identifiers identifying operations to be performed on the information to be processed to perform the number of information processing actions.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the information identifiers identify information sources for the information to be processed to perform the number of information processing actions.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the number of information processing actions are selected from a trigger action, a persist action, and a report action.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

loading new execution attributes on the vehicle, wherein the new execution attributes define a number of new information processing actions;

reading the new execution attributes on the vehicle by the computer program running on the data processing system on the vehicle; and

performing the number of new information processing actions on the vehicle by the computer program running on the data processing system on the vehicle using the new execution attributes, thereby changing the number of information processing actions performed by the computer program running on the data processing system on the vehicle without changing the computer program on the vehicle.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the vehicle is an aircraft and the number of information processing actions comprises processing operational information for the aircraft while the aircraft is in flight.

9. An apparatus, comprising:

computer readable storage media on a vehicle;

execution attributes stored on the computer readable storage media on the vehicle, wherein the execution attributes define a number of information processing actions; and

a computer program comprising program code stored on the computer readable storage media on the vehicle, wherein the computer program runs on a data processing system on the vehicle to read the execution attributes from the computer readable storage media and to perform the number of information processing actions on the vehicle using the execution attributes.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein:

the execution attributes comprise a number of execution stacks; and

the computer program runs on the data processing system on the vehicle to process the execution attributes in a sequence defined by an order of the execution attributes in the number of execution stacks.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the order of the execution attributes in the number of execution stacks defines the sequence for processing the execution attributes by the computer program running on the data processing system on the vehicle in reverse Polish notation.

12. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the execution attributes comprise information identifiers identifying information to be processed to perform the number of information processing actions and operation identifiers identifying operations to be performed on the information to be processed to perform the number of information processing actions.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the information identifiers identify information sources for the information to be processed to perform the number of information processing actions.

14. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the number of information processing actions are selected from a trigger action, a persist action, and a report action.

15. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the vehicle is an aircraft and the number of information processing actions comprises processing operational information for the aircraft while the aircraft is in flight.

16. A method of processing information onboard a platform, comprising:

loading execution attributes onto the platform, wherein the execution attributes define a number of information processing actions to be performed by a computer program running on a data processing system on the platform using the execution attributes, wherein the number of information processing actions includes a report action for generating a report defined by the execution attributes;

receiving, from the platform, the report generated by the computer program running on the data processing system on the platform using the execution attributes;

analyzing the report to identify a desirable change to information processing onboard the platform;

generating new execution attributes to implement the desirable change to information processing onboard the platform, wherein the new execution attributes define a number of new information processing actions to be performed by the computer program running on the data processing system on the platform using the new execution attributes without changing the computer program on the platform; and

loading the new execution attributes onto the platform.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the execution attributes comprise a number of execution stacks defining a sequence for processing the execution attributes by the computer program running on the data processing system on the platform in reverse Polish notation.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the execution attributes comprise information identifiers identifying information to be processed to perform the number of information processing actions and operation identifiers identifying operations to be performed on the information to be processed to perform the number of information processing actions.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein the number of information processing actions further comprise an information processing action selected from a trigger action and a persist action.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein the platform is an aircraft and the number of information processing actions comprises processing operational information for the aircraft while the aircraft is in flight.