PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15935943
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["701", "121000"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems are provided for generating an alert for an aircraft potentially exceeding speed limits in airspace with speed limitations. The method comprises retrieving a flight plan for the aircraft and identifying airspace with speed limitations along the flight plan. A speed profile is generated based on the in-flight aircraft's current position, speed and trajectory. Any predicted speed violations are identified by comparing the speed profile with the airspace with speed limitations along the flight plan. A predictive time window is calculated that allows for the in-flight aircraft to decelerate sufficiently to comply with the speed limits of the airspace with speed limitations. The predictive time window includes a zone for the aircraft to reduce its airspeed and a reaction buffer zone to allow the aircrew sufficient time to comply with instructions to decelerate the aircraft. Finally, an alert is generated for the crew of the in-flight aircraft upon entering the predictive time window.

Claim (Index 11):
A system for generating an alert for an in-flight aircraft potentially exceeding speed limits in airspace with speed limitations, comprising:\n an electronic data storage medium that stores the flight plan for an in-flight aircraft; an electronic navigational database that stores data regarding airspace with speed limitations; a microprocessor located on board the in-flight aircraft, the microprocessor configured to,\n retrieve the flight plan for the in-flight aircraft from the electronic data storage medium, \n identify airspace with speed limitations along the flight plan by comparing the flight plan with data retrieved from the electronic navigational database, \n generate a predictive speed profile based on the in-flight aircraft's performance parameters, \n identify any predicted speed violations of the in-flight aircraft by comparing the predictive speed profile with the identified airspace with speed limitations along the flight plan, \n calculate a predictive time window that allows for the in-flight aircraft to decelerate sufficiently to comply with the speed limits of the airspace with speed limitations, where the predictive time window includes, a sufficient time period for the in-flight aircraft to reduce its airspeed based on a predetermined deceleration rate, and a reaction buffer time period to allow the aircrew of the in-flight aircraft sufficient time to comply with instructions to decelerate the in-flight aircraft, and \n generate an alert upon the in-flight aircraft entering the predictive time window; and \n a graphical display device that receives the alert from the microprocessor and displays the alert to the crew of the in-flight aircraft.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26027
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15839345', '15675256', '13964759', '13901606', '12895400']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4443849338107686
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4781455684150293
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4477609972711947
- Mean Citation Score: 219.693982
- Max Citation Score: 226.22827
- Similarity Product: 179.80427004648567

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test