Patent ID: 11970286
Assignee: GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LIMITED
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC B  G  H | IPC B  H

Claim 17:
18. A flight recorder system of an aircraft, comprising:
a resource controller module (RCM) configured to be communicatively coupled, via a data communication network defining a switch fabric, to a set of flight recorder system modules (FRM); and
each FRM comprising a respective control module, a respective local memory including at least one of a random-access memory (RAM), a memory-mapped I/O port, and a register, and a respective set of input and output (I/O) ports communicatively coupled to the switch fabric adapted to record data related to aircraft operational, each FRM of the set of FRM comprising one of a cockpit voice recorder module (CVR), a flight data recorder module (FDR), or a crash-survivable recording module (CSR);
wherein the RCM is configured to detect a respective FRM coupled to the switch fabric, and based on the detection, configure an operation of the FRM, and wherein the respective local memory of the FRM is readable by the RCM, and shareable with the other FRMs via the switch fabric; and
wherein the local memory of a first FRM is accessible by a second FRM without a cooperation of the respective control module of the first FRM, and wherein the RCM is programmed to configure the switch fabric to enable the control module of the second FRM to access the local memory of the first FRM.