Patent ID: 11949558
Assignee: GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LIMITED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B  G | IPC B  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program configured to cause a computer to execute a method of automatic configuration of a communications interface of an aircraft data network, the method of automatic configuration comprising:
connecting an Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) to the aircraft data network, the aircraft data network being one of a set of data networks defined by a communications data library defining a corresponding set of communications data library configurations;
attempting to open communication ports of the aircraft data network based on one of the set of communications data library configurations, defining a selected communications interface;
in response to attempting to open communication ports, receiving data from the aircraft data network;
determining, by a controller module, if the selected communications interface can interpret the received data; and
upon successful interpretation of the received data, operate the communications interface of the EFB in accordance with the selected communications interface.