Patent ID: 9550578
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: B64D,G06F,G08G,G10L

Claim:
1. A method for utilizing audio commands associated with a vehicle, the method comprising: determining a current operational state of the vehicle; determining predicted operational states of the vehicle at one or more waypoints of a travel plan for the vehicle; identifying a current movement phase for the vehicle; determining first allowed operations at a present position of the vehicle based on the current operational state and the current movement phase; determining second allowed operations at the one or more waypoints along the travel plan of the vehicle based on the predicted operational states at the one or more waypoints; outputting, by a travel management system, operation availability indications of the first and second allowed operations to a display system, the operation availability indications of the first allowed operations controlling the content of menu selection associated with a vehicle symbol and the operation availability indications of the second allowed operations controlling the content of menu selection associated with the one or more waypoints along the travel plan; filtering a cockpit vocabulary to obtain a filtered vocabulary that retains the first allowed operations and the second allowed operations using the operation availability indications to filter out operations that are not valid at the present position of the vehicle based on the current operational state and the current movement phase or the one or more waypoints along the travel plan of the vehicle based on the predicted operational states at the one or more waypoints; receiving an audio input; validating the audio input as a predetermined audio input of a plurality of predetermined audio inputs using the filtered vocabulary, wherein one or more predetermined audio inputs of the plurality of predetermined audio inputs comprises a plurality of words; and programming the travel management system with the validated audio input.