Patent ID: 11928530
Assignee: VIASAT INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 16:
17. A non-transitory computer-readable medium onboard an aircraft, comprising:
code for causing a computer onboard an aircraft to store a hierarchy of elements comprising:
a plurality of field-level elements including a first field-level element and a second field-level element;
a first intermediate-level element based on the first field-level element; and
a first message-level element based on the first intermediate-level element and the second field-level element;

code for causing the computer to receive a first request for aircraft information from a ground server external to the aircraft, the first request including a first resource associated with the first message-level element; and
code for causing the computer to transmit to the ground server via an application programming interface (API) at the computer, in response to receiving the first request, a first response including one or more of the first field-level element, the second field-level element, and the first message-level element.