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US 12,112,643 B2Granted
System and method to improve notice to airmen (NOTAM) readability
AssigneeArinc Incorporated
InventorLuke Waaler
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Abstract
A system and method for generating an enhanced set of NOTAMs. The system and method include converting one or more abbreviated terms of a NOTAM text of the NOTAM into one or more respective expanded terms. The system and method include applying a set of capitalization rules to the NOTAM text. The system and method include emphasizing a portion of each word of the NOTAM text based on one or more emphasizing rules, where words are terms with only letters. The system and method include directing at least a portion of the enhanced set of NOTAMs to be at least one of displayed via a display or physically printed by a printer.
Claims12
A system for use with Notice to Airmen (NOTAM), the system comprising:
- a display;
- and
- one or more controllers including one or more processors configured to execute a set of program instructions stored in a memory, the set of program instructions configured to cause the one or more processors to:
- acquire a set of NOTAMs, each NOTAM comprising NOTAM text and a geographic location;
- acquire a flight plan including geographic flight data;
- assign a relevancy value to each NOTAM of the set of NOTAMs based on at least a distance between the geographic location of the NOTAM with at least a portion of the geographic flight data;
- enhance at least a portion of the set of NOTAMs to generate an enhanced set of NOTAMs, wherein, for each NOTAM of the at least the portion of the set of NOTAMs, the enhancing comprises at least one of:
- converting one or more abbreviated terms of the NOTAM text into one or more respective expanded terms;
- applying a set of capitalization rules to the NOTAM text;
- or
- emphasizing a portion of each word of the NOTAM text based on one or more emphasizing rules, wherein words are terms with only letters, wherein the one or more emphasizing rules comprises bolding the portion of each word of the NOTAM text, wherein the bolding the portion of each word comprises bolding only a first two letters of words comprising at least two letters, wherein the bolding is only applied to the words and not to terms including one or more numbers;
- and
- direct at least a portion of the enhanced set of NOTAMs to be at least one of displayed via the display or physically printed by a printer.
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A method comprising:
- acquiring a set of NOTAMs, each NOTAM comprising NOTAM text and a geographic location;
- acquiring a flight plan including geographic flight data;
- assigning a relevancy value to each NOTAM of the set of NOTAMs based on at least a distance between the geographic location of the NOTAM with at least a portion of the geographic flight data;
- enhancing at least a portion of the set of NOTAMs to generate an enhanced set of NOTAMs, wherein, for each NOTAM of the at least the portion of the set of NOTAMs, the enhancing comprises at least one of:
- converting one or more abbreviated terms of the NOTAM text into one or more respective expanded terms;
- applying a set of capitalization rules to the NOTAM text;
- or
- emphasizing a portion of each word of the NOTAM text based on one or more emphasizing rules, wherein words are terms with only letters, wherein the one or more emphasizing rules comprises bolding the portion of each word of the NOTAM text, wherein the bolding the portion of each word comprises bolding only a first two letters of words comprising at least two letters, wherein the bolding is only applied to the words and not to terms including one or more numbers;
- and
- directing at least a portion of the enhanced set of NOTAMs to be at least one of displayed via a display or physically printed by a printer.
7 more elements
A method comprising:
- enhancing at least a portion of a set of NOTAMs to generate an enhanced set of NOTAMs, wherein, for each NOTAM of the at least the portion of the set of NOTAMs, the enhancing comprises at least one of:
- converting one or more abbreviated terms of a NOTAM text of the NOTAM into one or more respective expanded terms;
- applying a set of capitalization rules to the NOTAM text;
- or
- emphasizing a portion of each word of the NOTAM text based on one or more emphasizing rules, wherein words are terms with only letters, wherein the one or more emphasizing rules comprises bolding the portion of each word of the NOTAM text, wherein the bolding the portion of each word comprises bolding only a first two letters of words comprising at least two letters, wherein the bolding is only applied to the words and not to terms including one or more numbers;
- and
- directing at least a portion of the enhanced set of NOTAMs to be at least one of displayed via a display or physically printed by a printer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.