Patent ID: 8527133

Claim:
A device for managing alerts and piloting tasks carried out by a crew of an aircraft, the device comprising: an alert displaying module; an alert monitoring panel configured for interactive management of displayed alerts by the crew; a module for managing alerts configured to perform steps comprising: generating alerts on receipt of information originating from a first system of the aircraft or on receipt of data if the received data is interpreted as an alert; sorting the generated alerts according to a level of seriousness of each generated alert and generating a corresponding list of alerts; managing the list of alerts by performing steps comprising: displaying the list of alerts on the alert displaying module; and deleting a first alert from the list of alerts when receiving a delete alert order originating from the alert monitoring panel or when a task corresponding to the first alert is deleted; and transmitting the list of alerts to a module for managing tasks; a task displaying module; a task monitoring panel configured for interactive management by the crew of displayed tasks by selecting or deleting a displayed task or inserting a task; the module for managing tasks configured to perform steps comprising: creating a task: on receipt of a second alert, the second alert being generated by the module for managing alerts and indicating a processing procedure to be carried out by the crew, the task being associated with the processing procedure, or associated with an operational procedure, or associated with a procedure selected by the crew via the task monitoring panel from among a set of operational procedures that is presented by a procedure displaying module, the set of operational procedures being stored in a first database, or on receipt of actions to be carried out originating from an avionics systems; transmitting a list of tasks to be displayed to the task displaying module; deleting a first task when receiving an order to delete the first task by the crew via the task monitoring panel or when a corresponding alert is deleted; and selecting a task to be transmitted to a module for managing procedures according to the task monitoring panel; a procedure displaying module; and a procedure monitoring panel configured for interactive management of displayed procedures by the crew by selecting a displayed action of a procedure; wherein the module for managing procedures is configured to perform steps comprising: searching in a database for a procedure to be displayed according to a selected task, the procedure to be displayed comprising a list of at least one action to be carried out; and transmitting the procedure to be displayed to the procedure displaying module.