Patent ID: 9367971
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: G07C,G08G

Claim Text:
1. A method for maintenance in an aircraft, the aircraft including an avionic system, the avionic system including a set of functional entities, wherein the avionic system is connected to an infrastructure on the ground according to at least one communication medium, the method comprising: receiving, at the aircraft, a command to initiate at the aircraft testing of at least one functional entity of the set of functional entities via the at least one communication medium, the command being from the infrastructure on the ground; testing, by a system of the aircraft, the at least one functional entity responsive to said receiving the command, said testing resulting in a diagnosis of a malfunction of the tested at least one functional entity of the set of functional entities; consulting and obtaining, at the aircraft, via the at least one communication medium, maintenance data stored in the infrastructure on the ground relating to the malfunction of the tested at least one functional entity of the set of functional entities, the maintenance data including data regarding a procedure to repair the tested at least one functional entity; and repairing, at the aircraft, the tested at least one functional entity based on the obtained maintenance data which includes the data regarding the procedure to repair the tested at least one functional entity.