GROUND SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE DATA DISTRIBUTION

• US 20150319073A1
• Filed: 07/13/2015
• Published: 11/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gogo Business Aviation LLC (GOGO Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Gogo LLC (GOGO Incorporated)
• Inventors: Wahler, Ronald A.
• Granted Patent: US 9,893,976 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/34 Route searching; Route guidance
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/02 Topology update or discovery
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/30 Services specially adapted for particular environments, situations or purposes
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]

Abstract

Techniques for delivering data or information to a vehicle include a method of distributing information to a vehicle. Information corresponding to the vehicle is first received while the vehicle is en route between an origination point and a destination from a computing device that is not being transported by the vehicle. A first computing device or a second computing device determines a destination port at which the vehicle is to arrive, the destination port included in a plurality of ports at which vehicles arrive and from which vehicles depart. The first computing devices causes data to be routed to a third computing device communicatively connected to the first computing device, the third computing device corresponding to the destination port, and at least one of the data or the third party computing device determined based on the information received at the first computing device.

Claims

1. A method of distributing information to a vehicle, comprising:

receiving, at a first computing device, information corresponding to the vehicle while the vehicle is en route between an origination point and a destination point from a computing device that is not being transported by the vehicle;

determining, by the first computing device or by a second computing device communicatively connected to the first computing device, a destination port at which the vehicle is to arrive, the destination port included in a plurality of ports at which vehicles arrive and from which vehicles depart; and

causing, by the first computing device, data to be routed to a third computing device communicatively connected to the first computing device, the third computing device corresponding to the destination port, and at least one of the data or the third computing device determined based on the information received at the first computing device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the destination port of the vehicle comprises predicting the destination port of the vehicle after the vehicle has departed the origination point.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein causing the data to be routed to the third computing device corresponding to the destination port comprises causing the data to be routed to each of a plurality of computing devices respectively corresponding to each of more than one port of the plurality of ports, the plurality of computing devices including the third computing device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the information corresponding to the vehicle comprises receiving the information corresponding to an aircraft.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein:

receiving the information corresponding to the vehicle comprises receiving information corresponding to at least one of;

equipment fixedly connected to the vehicle;

cargo aboard the vehicle;

a travel route of the vehicle;

a request generated by a least one of a passenger aboard the vehicle, a crew member aboard the vehicle, or a remote user of the information distribution system;

or

information generated by a least one of the passenger, the crew member, or the remote user; and

causing the data to be routed comprises causing data, including at least one of;

vehicle location monitoring, vehicle system monitoring, vehicle navigation, vehicle operation, vehicle safety, media content, entertainment content, data generated by an end-user of the information distribution system, data generated by an administrator of the information distribution system, a request generated by the end-user, or a request generated by the administrator, to be routed.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein causing the data to be routed to the third computing device comprises causing the data to be routed to the third computing device using a private network.

7. A system of computing devices for distributing information to a vehicle, adapted to:

receive, at a first computing device, information corresponding to the vehicle while the vehicle is en route between an origination point and a destination point from a computing device that is not being transported by the vehicle;

determine, by the first computing device or by a second computing device communicatively connected to the first computing device, a destination port at which the vehicle is to arrive, the destination port included in a plurality of ports at which vehicles arrive and from which vehicles depart; and

cause, by the first computing device, data to be routed to a third computing device communicatively connected to the first computing device, the third computing device corresponding to the destination port, and at least one of the data or the third computing device determined based on the information received at the first computing device.

8. The system of computing devices of claim 7, wherein determine the destination port of the vehicle comprises predict the destination port of the vehicle after the vehicle has departed the origination point.

9. The system of computing devices of claim 7, wherein cause the data to be routed to the third computing device corresponding to the destination port comprises cause the data to be routed to each of a plurality of computing devices respectively corresponding to each of more than one port of the plurality of ports, the plurality of computing devices including the third computing device.

10. The system of computing devices of claim 7, wherein receive the information corresponding to the vehicle comprises receive the information corresponding to an aircraft.

11. The system of computing devices of claim 7, wherein:

receive the information corresponding to the vehicle comprises receive information corresponding to at least one of;

equipment fixedly connected to the vehicle;

cargo aboard the vehicle;

a travel route of the vehicle;

a request generated by a least one of a passenger aboard the vehicle, a crew member aboard the vehicle, or a remote user of the information distribution system;

or

information generated by a least one of the passenger, the crew member, or the remote user; and

cause the data to be routed comprises cause data, including at least one of;

vehicle location monitoring, vehicle system monitoring, vehicle navigation, vehicle operation, vehicle safety, media content, entertainment content, data generated by an end-user of the information distribution system, data generated by an administrator of the information distribution system, a request generated by the end-user, or a request generated by the administrator, to be routed.

12. The system of computing devices of claim 7, wherein cause the data to be routed to the third computing device comprises cause the data to be routed to the third computing device using a private network.