Methods, systems and apparatuses to configure a flight management system (FMS)

An avionic system configured for flight management service, comprising:

• an aircraft configuration (config) file associated with an electronic flight bag (EFB) application configured to interface with a flight management system (FMS), wherein:
• the config file is configured to be uploaded to a random access memory (RAM) of a avionic system during an initialization load mode,
• the config file is lost during a power shut down of the avionic system, and
• the config file is loaded into the RAM memory each time the avionic system enters the initialization load mode during a power up of the avionic system;
• the FMS is configured to operate in a normal mode and access the config file to implement at least one validation procedure of a set of validation procedures responsive to a request for a session received from the EFB application wherein the set of validation procedures comprise:
• upon a determination that the request is a user request, validating that the user request for the session is authorized based on user identification data retrieved from the config file,
• upon a determination that the request is a client request, validating that the client request for the session is authorized based on client identification data retrieved from the config file, and
• upon a determination that the request is encrypted decrypting the request using a private key retrieved from the config file;
• and
• the FMS is configured to encrypt a response to the request using a public key retrieved from the config file.

An apparatus for flight management service, the apparatus comprising:

• at least one processor deployed in an avionic system and coupled to a random access memory (RAM), wherein an aircraft configuration (config) file associated with an electronic flight bag (EFB) application that is configured to interface with a flight management system (FMS) is uploaded to the RAM during an initialization load mode, wherein the config file is lost during a power shut down of the avionic system and is loaded into the RAM memory each time the avionic system enters the initialization load mode during a powering up of the avionic system, the at least one processor programmed to when operating in a normal mode to enable the FMS to access the config file to implement at least one validation procedure from a set of validation procedures responsive to a request for a session received from the EFB application, wherein the set of validation procedures comprise:
• upon a determination that the request is a user request, validate that the user request for the session is authorized based on user identification data retrieved from the config file;
• upon a determination that the request is a client request, validate that the client request for the session is authorized based on client identification data retrieved from the config file;
• upon a determination that the request is encrypted decrypt the request a using a private key retrieved from the config file;
• and
• encrypt a response to the request using a public key retrieved from the config file.