Patent ID: 8051031

Claim:
A data structure residing on a tangible computer recordable medium for verifying whether a software aircraft part can be loaded, the data structure comprising: a set of aircraft identification objects, wherein an aircraft identification object within the set of aircraft identification objects contains a level of specificity about a set of aircraft on which the software aircraft part can be loaded and wherein the set of aircraft identification objects are read by an aircraft data processing system of an avionics system within an aircraft from the tangible computer recordable medium to verify whether the software aircraft part can be loaded in the aircraft, and a metadata file, wherein the set of aircraft identification objects are stored on the metadata file, and wherein the set of aircraft identification objects includes information regarding at least one of aircraft major model, aircraft minor model, aircraft engine type, and aircraft tail number, wherein the metadata file is compared to information about the aircraft stored within the aircraft data processing system of the avionics system within the aircraft, and wherein the software aircraft part is loaded in the avionics system within the aircraft responsive to the comparison indicating that the software aircraft part can be loaded.