Patent ID: 8935306
Filing Date: 2015-01-13
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for running a computer application for interfacing with a crew of an aircraft, the method comprising: reading a removable medium, which includes the computer application to be run, by a removable-medium reader to which an on-board running system in the aircraft is operatively connected; and running, in a first aircraft domain, the computer application using a running system in the form of a Class III Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) operatively connected to the removable-medium reader, said running the computer application being performable in any and all flight phases of a flight of the aircraft, wherein the running of the computer application requires permanent recording of data necessary for running the computer application only on the removable medium, wherein the computer application is an uncertified computer application that has not been certified by a manufacturer of the aircraft, wherein said running the computer application in the first aircraft domain is isolated from a second aircraft domain associated with the manufacturer of the aircraft, the second aircraft domain being more secure than the first aircraft domain, wherein the second aircraft domain includes one or more applications certified by the manufacturer of the aircraft, and wherein avionic parameters and data generated in the second aircraft domain are usable by the uncertified computer application according to read-only access.