Patent ID: 9734722
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: G01C,G08C,G08G,H04W

Claim:
1. An application engine comprising: a request generation engine configured to receive flight position data associated with an airplane through a global computing network, the flight position data comprising at least a list of recorded locations of the airplane and a timestamp associated with each recorded location in the list; a position engine configured to compute a current position of the airplane and a polling interval based on the list of the recorded locations of the airplane, a graphics rendering engine configured to generate a flight status view of the airplane based on the current position of the airplane, wherein the flight status view is rendered on a computing device; and a polling engine configured to periodically update the flight status view of the airplane using an updated current position of the airplane, wherein the polling interval determines a rate at which the flight status view is updated.