Patent ID: 11926436
Assignee: GE AVIATION SYSTEMS TALERIS LIMITED
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 11:
12. A system for fusing and analyzing multiple sources of aircraft data, comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more memory devices, the one or more memory devices storing computer- readable instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to perform operations, the operations comprising:
accessing one or more portions of data from each of a plurality of aircraft-related data sources for one or more aircraft, the one or more portions of data accessed by the one or more processors being specifically defined for a given aircraft system of the one or more aircraft, at least one of the one or more portions of data being continuously recorded flight data obtained from a recorder and at least one of the one or more portions of data being other data obtained from a data source, the other data being at least one of technical disruption data, maintenance data, and post flight report data;
detecting one or more alerts indicative of a presence of a data anomaly within the one or more portions of data from each of the plurality of aircraft-related data sources, at least one of the one or more alerts being detected within the continuously recorded flight data and at least one of the one or more alerts being detected within the other data;
identifying a type of alert and originating data source associated with each detected alert;
determining one or more aircraft faults based at least in part on a correlation of the identified types and data sources for the detected alerts, wherein the determining comprises identifying, by the one or more processors, one or more specific patterns of associations across the continuously recorded flight data and the other data;
determining, by the one or more processors, whether the one or more aircraft faults should be confirmed based at least in part on the one or more specific patterns of associations; and;
providing, upon confirming the one or more aircraft faults, an output indicative of the determined one or more aircraft faults.