Patent ID: 11858649
Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G  H | IPC B  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method to control a plurality of external power (“EP”) sources, the method comprising:
determining a plurality of EP states, each EP state of the plurality of EP states being associated with one EP source from the plurality of EP sources;
determining a highest EP state of the plurality of EP states; and
controlling an EP indicator of an EP switch based on the highest EP state,
wherein the plurality of EP sources are each capable of being in an off state, an available state, a ground handling state, and a general operations state, and
wherein the general operations state is a higher state than the ground handling state, which is a higher state than the available state, which is a higher state than the off state.