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Aircraft maintenance data retrieval for portable devices

  • US 8,856,134 B2
  • Filed: 05/09/2008
  • Issued: 10/07/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for retrieving aircraft service information to facilitate custom aircraft repairs, the system comprising:

  • a database component configured to store aircraft service documents;

    a communication component configured to communicate with a user via a portable communication device over a wireless network; and

    a processing component configured to respond to a spoken request by way of automatic voice recognition and to a textual request for aircraft maintenance data from the user via the portable communication device over the wireless network and process the spoken request and the textual request by accessing the aircraft service documents from the database component related to at least one component of an aircraft,wherein the communication component is configured to transfer selected one or more of the accessed aircraft service documents to the portable communication device,wherein the one or more transferred aircraft service documents are indexed using noun phrase collocation to create custom indices, andwherein the portable communication device is configured to;

    process the spoken request or the textual request from the user to generate one or more search terms, the spoken request or the textual request being related to a custom repair task for the aircraft,locate one or more sections from the one or more transferred aircraft service documents using the one or more generated search terms and the created custom indices, andcreate a custom repair document for the custom repair task using the one or more located sections of the one or more transferred aircraft service documents.

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