Patent ID: 8645148

Claim:
A method for distributing airplane operation related services information provided by ground-based systems among such systems, said method comprising: receiving, at a central computer system, information relating to airplane operation from a plurality of airplane service functions, via a plurality of computer systems associated with the airplane service functions, the airplane service functions including two or more of airlines, airplanes, airports, regulatory authorities, maintenance repair organizations, suppliers, and aircraft manufacturers; providing at least one common service to the airplane service functions, the common service including at least one of a data service and a container service; providing a common interface to the airplane service functions, the common interface configured to display the received airplane operation information; determining, using a program running in the central computer system, which of the received airplane operation information is applicable to each of the airplane service functions; and distributing, from the central computer system through the common interface, the applicable airplane operation information to each of the airplane service functions to which the information is applicable, the information received via the plurality of computer systems associated with the airplane service functions for display on the common interface.