Patent ID: 7151985

Claim:
An aircraft-based computer system in an aircraft, comprising: a physical data bus; plural individual computers connected to said data bus; a central controller connected to said data bus and adapted to communicate with said individual computers via said data bus; and a central computer unit having a radio antenna; wherein each one of said individual computers comprises a radio interface module connected to a radio antenna adapted to communicate with said radio antenna of said central computer unit via a radio link therebetween, a main active memory that is connected with said radio interface module via a data path connection and that is adapted to have a program loaded therein for execution, hardware storing and adapted to execute a base program that controls and/or monitors at least one of said radio interface module and said data path connection; and wherein said central computer unit contains a new program that is to be loaded into at least one of said individual computers, said central computer unit is adapted to transmit said new program via said radio link to said radio interface module of said one of said individual computers, and said one of said individual computers is adapted to load said new program received by said radio interface module via said data path connection into said main active memory.