Health management unit and method for monitoring health information and transmitting information from the aircraft
AssigneeGE Aviation Systems LLC
InventorsEric Daniel BUEHLER, Joseph Bernard STEFFLER
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Abstract
A health management unit for an aircraft and method of monitoring health information of an aircraft and transmitting information from the aircraft including determining capabilities of one or more radios onboard the aircraft, selecting one of the multiple radios to transmit the transmission based, and transmitting the transmission utilizing the selected radio.
Claims14
A method of monitoring health information of an aircraft and transmitting information from the aircraft, comprising:
- determining, by a management unit, a priority level of a transmission;
- determining, by the management unit, capabilities of one or more radios onboard the aircraft;
- selecting, by the management unit, one of the multiple radios to transmit the transmission based on at least the determined priority level of the transmission;
- and
- transmitting the transmission utilizing the selected radio.
A health management unit for an aircraft having multiple systems for operating the aircraft and multiple radios for transmitting a message off the aircraft, the health management unit comprising:
- a health management module receiving health-related information from one or more of the multiple systems, and creating a health-related message from at least some of the health-related information along with a corresponding level of priority;
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- a communication module controlling the assignment and transmission of the health-related message to one of the multiple radios based on the characteristics and priority of the health-related message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.