Patent ID: 7962259

Claim:
An integrated cabin services system (CSS) for a mobile platform, said system comprising: a controller; a plurality of cabin services subsystems communicatively connected to the controller, the cabin services subsystems being located remote from the controller, each of the subsystems having a plurality of attributes for affecting a plurality of functions of the cabin services subsystems; a comprehensive database utilized by the CSS to employ combinational logic to control operation of the subsystems and to thus control the execution of at least one function of each of the subsystems; and the comprehensive database including a plurality of database portions, one database portion related to the controller and stored in the controller, and each one of the other database portions being related to a specific one of the subsystems, with each said one of the other database portions being stored with its related said subsystem; and each of said other database portions further being configured to receive a specific, associated output from the one database portion related to the controller to enable each said cabin services subsystem to carry out a specific function assigned thereto; a zone switch interposed between the controller and at least a subplurality of the subsystems; and the zone switch having one of said other database portions stored therein, including one or more fields corresponding to an output from said database portion related to the controller, the zone switch further adapted to receive a pre-selected output from the controller that defines an action of the zone switch; a first switched network bus and a second switched network bus incorporated within the zone switch for enabling either of two selectable, independent network communications paths to be formed through the zone switch; and wherein the controller is further adapted to receive a plurality of mobile platform inputs regarding operation of the mobile platform and to utilize the comprehensive database to employ the combinational logic to combine the mobile platform inputs and to generate an output for the zone switch and one or more of the subsystems based on the combined mobile platform inputs.