Aircraft network monitoring and attestation
AssigneeGE Aviation Systems LLC
InventorsStefan Alexander Schwindt, Mustafa Hussain
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Abstract
A system and method for compiling and monitoring a list of operational aircraft components to determine if a threshold is met. Utilizing the list and the threshold can provide for monitoring the network of aircraft components to monitor both health and security of the aircraft network and components thereof. The system can then indicate or alert when a threshold is met or exceeded. Such an alert can be on a display to a pilot, for example, or to a remote monitoring station.
Claims20
A method of monitoring health and security of networked avionics on an aircraft, the method comprising:
- generating a list including executables and libraries representative of the networked avionics;
- monitoring the list;
- alerting when one or more of the networked avionics provided on the list meets a predetermined threshold.
The method of claim 13 wherein monitoring further includes monitoring the trend to identify unexpected behavior without meeting the predetermined threshold.
A network system for an aircraft comprising:
- a set of aircraft components;
- a network communicatively and electronically interconnecting the set of aircraft components;
- a configuration management unit electronically communicable with the network and configured to detect or measure the set of aircraft components across the network, wherein the configuration management unit is configured to generate a list representing a configuration of the network and the set of aircraft components;
- wherein the list includes executables or libraries associated with the set of aircraft components and the network;
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- wherein the configuration management unit is configured to monitor the list to determine if the configuration management unit no longer approves the configuration.
A method of monitoring network security in an aircraft, the method comprising:
- generating a list representative of an aircraft network and one or more aircraft components on the aircraft network;
- periodically monitoring the list;
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- indicating, on a display, which functionalities of the aircraft could be impacted or are impacted when the one or more aircraft components monitored on the list reaches a predetermined threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.