Patent Publication Number: US-2021184759-A1

Title: Device for locating any plane in real time using the internet

Description:
Allow me to borrow an analogy—let&#39;s go back in time of the Wright Brothers on Dec. 17, 1903. They flew their plane for about 12 seconds and its top speed was just 26 knots or about 30 MPH, and so there was no practical application of that flight—right!!! WRONG. Looking back it surely showed the possibility that a plane could fly. The Concorde used to fly almost 1350 MPH. That&#39;s a BIG leap from 3 MPH to 1350 MPH. 
     The black box technology of today is akin to that 12 second flight   while comparing it to this invention/innovation or Mr. Graham Bells phone to today&#39;s smart phone you got the idea. There&#39;s been an exponential rise in technology. 
     MH370 was a black swan incident, totally unpredictable; has left everyone baffled. It actually exposed disturbing gaps in communications and security systems of the airplanes. You see once the transponder and ACRS were switched off, the plane was flying like a ghost without any contact with the ground. The satellite communication antenna mounted on the top of MH370 (typically a red light) was sending a periodic beep every hour to a satellite which allows air traffic controller, airline operators and engine manufacturers to know it&#39;s still flying and then it stopped after hours of flying aimlessly when it ran out of fuel. The problem is that it does not give a specific location. In the present scenario there exists an urgent need for systems and methods to improve upon and altogether replace several existing technologies/practices like use of Might Data recorder, cockpit voice recorder and Black box etc. win a more robust and dynamic system. 
     When a plane goes missing, authorities go searching by hunch and available hints (think MH 370). 
     No need to do that anymore, this invention is the perfect solution that uses the state of the art technology presently available in almost all airlines namely the internet. More and more airlines are adding Internet as a standard feature like the bottled water being served for free on a flight—soon to become ubiquitous. The aircraft manufacturers just have to install a few of these devices on each plane for knowing among other things where exactly a plane was at a given point in time during a flight—in REAL TIME. 
     MCU is short for microcontroller unit—MCU&#39;s are tiny programmable computer processors: measuring mm across, low powered, ultra-cheap, some as small as the head of a pin that can be built and embedded in infinite number of devices, some for mere pennies, these miniature computing devices need only mill watts of electricity effectively meaning that it can run for years on a miniscule battery or even a small solar cell. So now it&#39;s possible to make a Webserver that will fir on a fingertip for around a dollar. These MCU&#39;s will get data from all kind of sensors (minute devices capable of monitoring anything that can possibly be measured and recorded, including temperature, altitude, speed, power, location, radiation, atmospheric pressure, rotation, sound, magnetic force even video will be found all around us in practically everything). Microcontrollers are dedicated to one task and typically run one specific program. The program is stored in ROM (read-only memory) and generally does not change. A microcontroller has a dedicated input device and often (but not always) has a small LED or LCD display for output. A microcontroller also takes input from the device it is controlling and controls the device by sending signals to different components in the device. For example, the microcontroller inside a TV takes input from the remote control and displays output on the TV screen. The controller controls the channel selector, the speaker system and certain adjustments on the picture tube electronics such as tint and brightness power it on/off etc. You got the drift. 
     I suspect that this invention in times to come will become even more miniaturized, even become the size of a MCU and could be used in the tires of airplane or the landing lights, or on the airplanes windscreen or who knows even in a Bicycle tire or its handle—you get the drift. Thinking of Moore&#39;s law . . . but I am thinking that there will be an explosion with 5 G coming to life and IOT booming . . . . 
     The landscape of connected objects will change BIG TIME and this invention will be used in cars, boars, refrigerators, sofas, pillows the list is practically endless. But in reference to this invention, it&#39;ll just gather a few selected parameters, send them via airplanes&#39; internet to the designated servers at a certain intervals. The whole idea is to put couple of our devices in hard to reach places of an airplane and some areas impossible to reach while the plane is flying. So the information is flowing freely and I&#39;m assuming that some of the internet modems on the plane are placed in hard to reach areas too; meaning they cannot be turned off midflight. 
    
    
     
       A single sentence explanation of the figures 
       
         FIG. 1 
       
       Shows typical areas on an internet ready plane where the repeaters are installed and our device would use a few of these to send our data. 
       
         FIG. 2 
       
       How the device will work 
       
         FIG. 3 
       
       Suggested places where the device can be installed 
       
         FIG. 4 
       
       Show how the coordinates etc. with tell where the plane is at a certain point in time. 
       
         FIG. 5 
       
       Shows the tower sending the internet signal to the plane 
       
         FIG. 6 
       
       Shows how/the planes will act as signal carriers &amp; or how the airplane internet corridor works 
       
         FIG. 7 
       
       Shows how far the airplane signal typically goes and how it works with shaking hands from one end to another. 
       
         FIG. 8 
       
       Figure shows how each device will have a separate unique identification pertain to that planes unique registration 
       
         FIG. 9 
       
       How the device will work in terms of picking up data from the airplane and what are the major components of the device. 
       
         FIG. 10 
       
       Shows the working of the device in a nutshell 
     
    
    
       
     
       
         
           
               
            
               
                   
               
               
                 Reference cited {by Pat. No. &amp; Title} 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 Pat. No. 
                 Title 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 10,405,143 
                 Systems and methods for autonomous equipment operation where 
               
               
                   
                 GPS not available 
               
               
                 10,367,773 
                 Social network based on GPS and other network connections 
               
               
                 8,473,620 
                 Interception of a cloud-based communication connection 
               
               
                 10,338,089 
                 System and method for determining speed of a vehicle based on GPS 
               
               
                   
                 speed 
               
               
                 9,813,969 
                 In-flight cellular communications system coverage of mobile communications 
               
               
                   
                 located in aircraft 
               
               
                 10,412,100 
                 System and methods for providing secure data connections in an 
               
               
                   
                 aviation environment 
               
               
                 10,321,517 
                 System and method for connecting aircraft to networks on ground 
               
               
                 10,291,313 
                 Method and apparatus for data communication utilizing the North 
               
               
                   
                 American terrestrial system 
               
               
                 10,102,753 
                 Systems and methods for processing flight information 
               
               
                 9,973,263 
                 Integrated communication and application system for aircraft 
               
               
                 9,934,620 
                 System and method for crowd sourcing aircraft data communications 
               
               
                 10,453,277 
                 Vehicle monitoring system that dynamically varies data acquisition 
               
               
                 US20190263339 
                 Sensing systems and methods 
               
               
                 (Pat. 
               
               
                 application 
               
               
                 Pub.) 
               
               
                 10,405,143 
                 Systems and methods for autonomous equipment operation where 
               
               
                   
                 GPS not available 
               
               
                 10,367,773 
                 Social network based on GPS and other network connections 
               
               
                 8,473,620 
                 Interception of a cloud-based communication connection 
               
               
                 10,338,089 
                 System and method for determining speed of a vehicle based on GPS 
               
               
                   
                 speed 
               
               
                 9,813,969 
                 In-flight cellular communications system coverage of mobile communications 
               
               
                   
                 located in aircraft 
               
               
                 10,412,100 
                 System and methods for providing secure data connections in an 
               
               
                   
                 aviation environment 
               
               
                 10,321,517 
                 System and method for connecting aircraft to networks on ground 
               
               
                 10,291,313 
                 Method and apparatus for data communication utilizing the North 
               
               
                   
                 American terrestrial system 
               
               
                 10,102,753 
                 Systems and methods for processing flight information 
               
               
                 9,973,263 
                 Integrated communication and application system for aircraft 
               
               
                 9,934,620 
                 System and method for crowd sourcing aircraft data communications 
               
               
                 10,453,277 
                 Vehicle monitoring system that dynamically varies data acquisition 
               
               
                 US20190263339 
                 Sensing systems and methods 
               
               
                 (Pat. 
               
               
                 application 
               
               
                 Pub.)