US 10,589,873 B1Granted

Stratified aircraft access

AssigneeThe Boeing Company

InventorsJack Lawson, Timothy M. Mitchell, Richard P. Nguyen

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Abstract

Techniques for enforcing stratified aircraft security are presented. The techniques are performed using an aircraft-based authentication and authorization unit and a wireless transceiver, where the authentication and authorization unit includes an electronically stored machine learning classifier. The techniques include: receiving and verifying authentication data for an employee from a mobile access device; receiving employee data from the mobile access device, the employee data including at least information representing an access event of the employee with the aircraft; providing an input to the machine learning classifier, the input including at least aircraft data and the employee data; obtaining an output from the machine learning classifier, the output indicating a level of access authorized; and providing an alert in response to a level of access by the at least one employee for the access event exceeding the level of access authorized.

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Dependent claims

A system for stratified aircraft security, the system comprising:

an aircraft-based authentication and authorization unit, the authentication and authorization unit comprising an electronic processor, an electronic memory, and a wireless transceiver;
and
a plurality of employee mobile access devices, each mobile access device comprising an electronic processor, an electronic memory, and a wireless transceiver;
wherein the authentication and authorization unit comprises an electronically stored machine learning classifier trained using a training corpus comprising historic aircraft data and historic employee data;
wherein the authentication and authorization unit is configured to:
receive and verify authentication data for an employee from at least one mobile access device;
receive employee data from the at least mobile access device, the employee data comprising at least information representing an access event of the employee with the aircraft;
provide an input to the machine learning classifier, the input comprising at least aircraft data and the employee data;
obtain an output from the machine learning classifier, the output indicating a level of access authorized for the at least one employee;
and
provide an alert in response to a level of access by the at least one employee for the access event exceeding the level of access authorized for the at least one employee.

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A method of enforcing stratified aircraft security, the method performed using an aircraft-based authentication and authorization unit, the authentication and authorization unit comprising an electronic processor, an electronic memory, and a wireless transceiver, wherein the authentication and authorization unit comprises an electronically stored machine learning classifier trained using a training corpus comprising historic aircraft data and historic employee data, the method comprising:

receiving and verifying, by the authentication and access unit, authentication data for an employee from a mobile access device comprising an electronic processor, an electronic memory, and a wireless transceiver;
receiving, by the authentication and access unit, employee data from the mobile access device, the employee data comprising at least information representing an access event of the employee with the aircraft;
providing, by the authentication and access unit, an input to the machine learning classifier, the input comprising at least aircraft data and the employee data;
obtaining, by the authentication and access unit, an output from the machine learning classifier, the output indicating a level of access authorized for the at least one employee;
and
providing, by the authentication and access unit, an alert in response to a level of access by the at least one employee for the access event exceeding the level of access authorized for the at least one employee.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.