Patent ID: 9221551
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: B64D,G07C,G08G,H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. An aircraft data transmission method, the method comprising: encrypting data collected on a first aircraft in flight, wherein the encrypted data comprises flight data, sound data and optionally visual data; storing the encrypted data in at least one black box on board the first aircraft; and transmitting, by a transmitter, the encrypted data from the at least one black box of the first aircraft which is in flight to at least a second aircraft that is also in flight, wherein the first aircraft is related to the second aircraft, the encrypted data in the at least one black box on board the first aircraft is confidential and unintelligible to the second aircraft, and the second aircraft is unable to decrypt the transmitted encrypted data in the at least one black box on board the first aircraft.