Patent ID: 9406236
Filing Date: 2016-08-02
CPC Classification: G08G

Claim Text:
1. A communications management system for managing requests made by users for flight information originated by aircraft, comprising a computer system which is not disposed on any one of the aircraft and which is programmed to execute the following operations: (a) store flight information representing data and the status of various aircraft in a non-transitory tangible computer-readable medium; (b) receive user requests from one or more users seeking flight information regarding an aircraft; (c) determine whether a user request from a first user seeks flight information that is stored in the non-transitory tangible computer-readable medium or flight information that is not stored in the non-transitory tangible computer-readable medium; (d) if a determination is made in operation (c) that the user request from the first user seeks flight information that is not stored in the non-transitory tangible computer-readable medium, then create a messaging profile for messaging to obtain flight information from at least said aircraft; (e) determine whether said messaging profile conflicts with currently scheduled messaging requesting flight information regarding said aircraft or not; and (f) if a determination is made in operation (e) that said messaging profile is in conflict with currently scheduled messaging requesting flight information regarding said aircraft, then execute a conflict resolution process.