Patent ID: 8751512

Claim:
A method for managing information in an aircraft, the aircraft including at least one output device configured to output information for a crew, and a plurality of equipment items configured to transmit information items capable of being outputted on the at least one output device, the method comprising: acquiring a plurality of information items from the plurality of equipment items; determining a context, the context corresponding to an instantiation of a predetermined hierarchical context model that has a tree structure; filtering the plurality of information items based on at least one rule; selecting at least one information item from the plurality of information items, the at least one rule being associated with the determined context and being applicable to all elements that depend on a node of the model to which the rule is applied, a level of the elements in the hierarchical model being lower than that of the node; outputting on a display of the at least one output device the at least one selected information item based on the determined context; and simultaneously with said outputting on the display, determining all of a plurality of available transitions between different views associated with said outputting on the display, based on the determined context, to provide guidance between the different views.