Patent ID: 8914188

Claim:
A cabin management computer system that is connected to the number of electronic module assemblies via a wireless communication link for remotely testing a number of electronic module assemblies that control the deployment of one or more personal restraint devices in an aircraft, comprising: a programmed processor configured to execute program instructions that cause the programmed processor to: transmit a code that indicates that testing of the electronics module assemblies in the aircraft is to begin; transmit one or more codes that identify a particular electronics module assembly on the aircraft that controls the deployment of one or more personal restraint systems and cause the identified electronics module assembly to perform a diagnostic self-test; receive diagnostic self-test information from the identified electronics module assembly associated with the one or more codes indicating if the one or more personal restraint systems controlled by the identified electronics module assembly can deploy; and transmit a code that causes the particular electronics module assembly to return to a sleep mode after the cabin management computer system has received that diagnostic self-test information from the particular electronics module assembly.