Patent ID: 8798817
Filing Date: 2014-08-05
Classification: B64D,B64F,G08G,H04B,H04L

Abstract:
1. A system, comprising: a gateway; an aircraft comprising a transceiver; a plurality of sub-systems, and an on-board computer being configured to generate a crew alerting system (CAS) message file comprising unprocessed data, wherein the CAS message file automatically indicates that measured parametric data from a sub-system of the aircraft is outside one or more threshold limits and that an abnormal condition has been detected; a satellite that is communicatively coupled to the aircraft and the gateway via satellite communication links; a ground support network comprising a ground-based computer configured to process the unprocessed data in the CAS message file to generate processed data; and a computer, coupled to the ground-based computer, that is configured to: wherein the on-board computer is further configured to: wherein the transceiver is further configured to transmit the data file to the satellite for delivery to the other computer.