Patent ID: 8868787

Claim:
A method for providing flight information to a ground server, the method being performed by a computing device comprising a processor and memory, the method comprising: receiving, at a graphics server in an aircraft, the flight information from an aircraft system; converting, in the graphics server, the flight information into a graphic object representative of the flight information and a plurality of properties associated with the flight information and the graphic object; storing the graphic object and the plurality of properties associated with the graphic object and the flight information; processing, in the graphics server, the graphic object and the plurality of properties associated with the graphic object and the flight information to generate, respectively, a compressed graphic object and compressed plurality of properties; querying a ground server when an error is detected in the aircraft to determine whether the graphic object is available on the ground server; transmitting the compressed graphic object and the compressed plurality of properties to the ground server if the graphic object is not found on the ground server; transmitting only the compressed plurality of properties to the ground server if the graphic object is found on the ground server; and retransmitting only the plurality of properties associated with the graphic object and the flight information that have been modified from a previous transmission.