Patent ID: 11887026
Assignee: AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 11:
12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
scheduling, by the processor, a departure time for the first airplane that is modeled on gate node business rules to model a taxi procedure for the first airplane;
initializing, by the processor, a status of the first airplane that is modeled on the gate node business rules to further model the taxi procedure for the first airplane;
allowing, by the processor, the first airplane to occupy a node of the plurality of nodes on the ground links, in response to the first airplane approaching the node, a next ground link having available capacity and the node not being occupied by the second airplane;
checking, by the processor, potential future directional head-to-head airplane conflicts with the second airplane to avoid gridlock;
triggering, by the processor and in response to the second airplane waiting on a previous node, movement of the second airplane forward to wait on the next ground link as more space is made available on the next ground link;
releasing, by the processor, the node of an airplane currently occupying the node;
creating, by the processor and in response to the second airplane waiting for the node, a trigger to enter the node for the second airplane;
implementing, by the processor, the gate node business rules for checking runway blockage by arrivals or crossings;
triggering, by the processor and after a take-off event, another take-off event in response to the first airplane waiting on a runway entrance node and no blockage is applied; and
scheduling, by the processor, multiple times for the first airplane to pass the runway entrance node to model the runway crossing for the first airplane in the graph network model.