Patent ID: 6631384
Filing Date: 2003-10-07
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
An information system for analysing data comprised of events pertaining to an object class wherein the object class is aircraft and an individual object is an individual aircraft having one or more identifiers unique to that individual aircraft, the system comprising:(a) a data access component configured for accessing a database comprising multiple, integrated sets of data records derived from different sources whereby each data record pertains to an event for an individual object and comprises data fields, the data fields comprising multiple identifiers identifying said individual object; (b) a user interface component for receiving user-selected criteria for field values of the data fields; (c) a pre-processor component configured for identifying multiple sub-databases from the data records of the database whereby each sub-database comprises data records identified by a different identifier, or a different set of identifiers, than those of the other sub-databases; (d) a selection component configured for selecting from one or more of the sub-databases the data records which correspond to the user-selected criteria; and, (e) an analysis component configured for: analysing the selected data records including identifying the selected data records according to a chronological sequence of events for individual objects covered by those selected data records, whereby each individual object covered by the selected data records is associated with a longitudinal set of data records; and deriving output data for the events from the longitudinal sets of data records.