Patent ID: 8164486

Claim:
A device implementing computer-assisted design of a message composed of a plurality of words to be displayed in an aircraft, comprising: a means for constituting a network of nodes associated with choices, at least part of said nodes corresponding to a choice of a type of the message, at least part of said nodes corresponding to a choice of message display context, at least part of said nodes corresponding to a determination of whether the message is provided in response to an action of a user, and at least part of said nodes corresponding to a determination that the message display originates from a transducer; a means for associating message design rules with at least part of said nodes; a means for pathfinding in said network of nodes, by a designer, based on a response to a choice associated with each node encountered in the network of nodes; and for each node encountered during said pathfinding, a means for making each rule associated with the encountered node available to the designer.