Patent ID: 11949492
Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for aerial vehicle component networking, the method comprising:
for a network-accessible avionics component onboard an aerial vehicle, instantiating a data stream object that specifies a network socket for communication between the network-accessible avionics component and a plurality of other network-accessible aerial vehicle components;
defining a set of outgoing data for transmission over the network socket to one or more onboard unicast aerial vehicle component subscribers of the plurality of other network-accessible aerial vehicle components and two or more onboard or offboard multicast aerial vehicle component subscribers of the plurality of other network-accessible aerial vehicle components;
publishing the outgoing data to the one or more onboard unicast aerial vehicle component subscribers over the network socket via unicast communication; and
publishing the outgoing data to the two or more onboard or offboard multicast aerial vehicle component subscribers over the network socket via multicast communication.