Patent ID: 8886459

Claim:
A system for providing integrated display inputs for tracking of small unmanned aircraft flight operations, comprising: a control station for controlling flight operation of a small unmanned aircraft; an information extraction module associated with the control station for the small unmanned aircraft that is programmed to extract information regarding a planned route of flight for the small unmanned aircraft and an actual geographic position for the small unmanned aircraft substantially in real time from the control station, and forward the extracted information to other system components; and an aircraft information server that is located remotely from a plurality of control stations, and is in wireless communication with one or more of the plurality of control stations, the aircraft information server being programmed to receive the information regarding the planned route of flight and the actual geographic position for the small unmanned aircraft forwarded from the information extraction module associated with information extraction modules associated with one or more of the plurality of control stations, translate the received extracted information regarding the planned route of flight and the actual geographic position for the small unmanned aircraft to a format that provides a graphical representation of the planned route of flight and the actual position of the small unmanned aircraft for integrated display on one or more remote display devices of one or more end users, and transmit the translated information to the one or more remote display devices for graphical depiction of the planned route of flight and the actual geographic position as an integrated display on the one or more remote display devices.