Patent ID: 9694903
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: B64C,H04B,H04L

Claim:
1. An aircraft-based mobile device connectivity system comprising: a housing structurally separate from and removeably enclosed within the aircraft and coupled via a network receptacle of an aircraft cockpit; an avionic systems interface integrated into the housing, the avionic systems interface configured to operate within an ARINC 811 ACD-IS domain and to be communicatively coupled to an avionics system external to the housing; a wireless interface integrated into the housing, the wireless interface configured to provide wireless communication with one or more mobile devices; at least one avionics module integrated into the housing; a data security module located within the housing and configured to operate within an ARINC 811 AISD domain that is segregated from the ACD-IS domain in which the avionic systems interface operates, wherein the avionic systems interface and the data security module execute on separate physical processors of the aircraft-based mobile device connectivity system to thereby physically isolate the ARINC 811 AISD domain from the ARINC 811 ACD-IS domain, the data security module configured to authenticate the one or more mobile devices, to securely process commands received from the one or more mobile devices to request avionics data from the avionics system via the avionic systems interface and the at least one avionics module, to transform the received avionics data into a format that is readable by the one or more mobile devices, and to securely transmit the transformed avionics data to the one or more mobile devices via the wireless interface; and a Wireless Airport Communication System (WACS) interface integrated into the housing, the WACS interface configured to be communicatively coupled to a WACS communication module external to the housing, wherein the WACS interface operates outside of the ARINC 811 ASID domain, and wherein the data security module is further configured to request data via the WACS interface in response to the commands received from the one or more mobile devices, to transform the data received via the WACS interface to the format that is readable by the one or more mobile devices, and to forward the transformed data to the one or more mobile devices via the wireless interface.