Patent ID: 8433817
Filing Date: 2013-04-30
Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A system for routing ACARS messages towards a plurality of transmission media, configured to be loaded onboard an aircraft, comprising: a database including a plurality of routing profiles, each profile including a list indicating a rank of preference for transmission media in the plurality of transmission media, and each routing profile further including buffer management parameters configured to manage transmission buffers that are each associated with a different one of the transmission media and are each configured to store messages to be sent over the corresponding transmission media; a selection section that receives a request, from an avionic application, to send an ACARS message from the aircraft to the ground, the request including a routing profile identifier and a content of the ACARS message; and the selection section is configured to extract the routing profile identifier from the ACARS message sending request sent by the avionic application, select a routing profile stored in the database that corresponds to the routing profile identifier extracted from the request, and select a transmission medium according to a rank of preference in the selected routing profile, the selected transmission medium being used for transmitting said ACARS message according to the buffer management parameters in the selected routing profile.