PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15940777
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["701", "016000"]

Abstract:
A method is described that is implemented by computer for optimizing the vertical descent profile of an aircraft, the vertical profile being broken down into an altitude profile and a speed profile. One or more altitudes of passage can be determined by minimizing the overall deviation between the speed profile and one or more speed constraints previously received. The optimized descent profile can comprise one or more of these altitudes of passage. Different developments are described, in particular embodiments in which an optimized altitude of passage minimizes the engine thrust, the descent profile is of OPEN IDLE, FPA or VS type, the optimized descent profile is determined backward, a speed constraint is of AT or AT OR ABOVE type, and the use of the airbrakes. Display modalities are described, as are system and software aspects.

Claim (Index 1):
A method implemented by computer for determining a vertical descent profile of an aircraft, comprising the steps of:\n receiving one or more speed constraints and/or one or more altitude constraints; determining an altitude profile comprising a succession of altitude-related segments and a speed profile comprising a succession of speed-related segments; determining one or more deviations between the altitude and/or speed profile on the one hand and said one or more altitude and/or speed constraints on the other hand; determining one or more optimized altitudes of passage along said altitude profile, an optimized altitude of passage minimizing the deviation between the resulting speed profile and said one or more received speed constraints; determining an optimized descent profile comprising said one or more optimized altitudes of passage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97333
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14747940', '15176003', '14522469', '15492693', '14725432']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4605937451042126
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4959444362049053
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4641288142142819
- Mean Citation Score: 257.905858
- Max Citation Score: 282.09634
- Similarity Product: 228.1979184861564

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

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