Storage and updating of electronic documents in aircraft
OwnerDavid Alan Peters, Michael Joseph Molezzi +1inventors
InventorsDavid Alan Peters, Michael Joseph Molezzi, Curt John Andersson
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Abstract
A system for maintaining documents relating to aircraft. A first set of documents is carried onboard an aircraft, in computer-readable form. The set includes (1) the aircraft maintenance manual, (2) the aircraft maintenance log, (3) the aircraft configuration log, (4) task cards, (5) pilot logbooks, or any combination of these. Copies of some, or all, of the documents in the first set are maintained, in computer-readable format, at a ground-based location. As operation of the aircraft occurs, changes will occur in either, or both, sets of documents. The changes are then copied into the other set, to maintain consistency.
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A system, comprising:
- a) an aircraft;
- b) a maintenance manual for the aircraft, stored in non-human-readable form aboard the aircraft;
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- c) means for displaying the maintenance manual to a human.
A system, comprising:
- a) an aircraft;
- b) a first maintenance manual for the aircraft, stored in computer-readable form aboard the aircraft;
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- c) means for displaying the maintenance manual to a human.
A system, comprising:
- a) an aircraft;
- b) computer-readable memory, carried by the aircraft, which stores content containing at least one document in the following group;
- i) maintenance manual for the aircraft;
- ii) maintenance log of the aircraft;
- iii) configuration log of the aircraft;
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- c) means for enabling a crew member of the aircraft to read the content.
A method, comprising:
- a) onboard an aircraft, maintaining a maintenance manual for the aircraft in computer-readable form;
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- b) at intervals, modifying the manual.
A method, comprising the following steps:
- a) maintaining, onboard an aircraft, a first set of documents in computer-readable form, said first set of documents comprising one or more of the following:
- i) a maintenance manual for the aircraft;
- ii) a maintenance log of the aircraft;
- iii) a configuration log of the aircraft;
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- iv) pilot logbooks;
- b) causing alterations to occur in the first set;
- c) maintaining, at an earth-based site, a second set of documents in computer-readable form, said second set of documents comprising one or more of the following:
- i) a maintenance manual for the aircraft;
- ii) a maintenance log of the aircraft;
- iii) a configuration log of the aircraft;
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- iv) pilot logbooks;
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- d) replicating the alterations into the second set of documents.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.