SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA TRANSMISSION BETWEEN AT LEAST ONE DISPLAY SCREEN AND A CLIENT SYSTEM

• US 20090045981A1
• Filed: 08/14/2008
• Published: 02/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS (Airbus SE)
• Original Assignee: Airbus France
• Inventors: Cabaret, Remi, Lambinet, Laetitia, Jean, David
• Granted Patent: US 7,973,677 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/945
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

A system and a method for data transmission between at least one display screen and a remote client system. A first request to send a message via a first communication protocol is caused to be displayed on the display screen, and the message is transmitted to the remote client system via a second communication protocol. A control unit monitors the remote client system. The system induces the generation, and display on the display screen, of a request for confirmation of the first request, by the intermediary of a communication interface, which interface is designed to receive and generate messages in the first communication protocol, as well as to receive and generate messages suitable for being received by the control unit.

Claims

1. A system of data transmission between at least one display screen and a remote client system, which client system is connected to said screen by a link, and is controlled by a control unit, wherewith said screen is designed to present at least one interactive means of indication which indicates a request to send one or more messages in a first communication protocol;

wherein the system comprises a communication interface intended to receive and generate messages in said first communication protocol, as well as to receive and generate messages suitable for being received by said control unit.

2. A system according to claim 1;

wherein the said link between the display screen and the remote client system is a point to point link, and said communication interface is disposed in the display screen.

3. A system according to claim 1;

wherein said communication interface is designed to receive and send raw data messages from/to said remote client system and/or said control unit.

4. A system according to claim 1;

wherein said communication interface is connected via a point to multipoint link to said remote client system and said control unit, and said communication interface has a destination address and is designed to receive the above-described messages in said first communication protocol.

10. An aircraft, comprising:

at least one remote client system;

a control station which comprises at least one display screen; and

a control unit which controls said remote client system;

wherein said aircraft is comprised of a data transmission system for transmitting data between said at least one display screen and said remote client system, according to claim 1.

5. A method of data transmission between a display screen and a remote client system, wherein a first request to send a message in a first communication protocol is caused to appear on said display screen, wherewith said message is transmitted to said remote client system in a second communication protocol, and said remote client system is controlled by a control unit;

wherein the generation and display on said display screen of a request for confirmation of the first request are induced by the intermediary of a communication interface which is designed to receive and generate messages in said first communication protocol, and to receive and generate messages suitable for receipt by said control unit.

6. A method according to claim 5;

wherein the method further comprises;

said remote client system sends a raw data message to a communication interface disposed in said display screen, which interface is designed to receive and generate messages in said first communication protocol;

after said communication interface receives said raw data message, [the system] induces a second request for sending a message in said first communication protocol, to confirm or deny confirmation of said first request, which request is displayed on said display screen;

after said communication interface receives a message in said first communication protocol, [the system] induces sending of a raw data message simultaneously to said remote client system and said control unit, to inform said client system and said control unit of the confirmation or denial of confirmation of the first request.

7. A method according to claim 6;

wherein, after said client system receives the message comprising said first request, said control unit sends a raw data message to said display screen or to another display screen, for the purpose of displaying information connected to said first request, in order to allow monitoring and control of said first request.

8. A method according to claim 5;

wherein the first communication protocol is the ARINC 661 protocol.

9. A method according to claim 8;

wherein the second communication protocol is the TFTP (trivial file transfer protocol) protocol.