PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980434
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["701", "518000"]

Abstract:
An example method for modifying a flight path of an aircraft includes receiving real time positioning estimates for an aircraft, receiving an actual navigation performance (ANP) of the aircraft informative of uncertainty in the position estimate, receiving a required navigation performance (RNP) instrument flight procedure for the aircraft, receiving spacing input from an air traffic controller that indicates spacing requirements between the aircraft and one or more other aircraft, receiving information relating to communities underneath the flight path, calculating, by a system onboard the aircraft, a modification to the flight path to be flown by the aircraft that causes the aircraft to remain within the containment boundaries of the RNP instrument flight procedure while reducing noise impact to the communities underneath the flight path and meeting the spacing requirements of the air traffic controller, and displaying a visual representation of a modified flight path for the aircraft.

Claim (Index 19):
A method for modifying a flight path of an aircraft, comprising:\n receiving real time positioning information for an aircraft; receiving an actual navigation performance (ANP) of the aircraft, wherein the ANP indicates uncertainty in the real time positioning of the aircraft based on information collected from a navigation system onboard the aircraft; receiving a required navigation performance (RNP) instrument flight procedure for the aircraft, wherein the RNP instrument flight procedure indicates a fixed-route accuracy and containment boundaries required during flight for the aircraft to fly a path between two points along a flight path, and wherein the containment boundaries are defined by a flight path centerline with limits determined by associated margins; receiving information relating to communities underneath the flight path; calculating, by a system onboard the aircraft that comprises one or more processors and data storage storing instructions executable by the one or more processors to perform the calculating, a modification to the flight path to be flown by the aircraft that causes the aircraft to remain within the containment boundaries of the RNP instrument flight procedure while reducing noise impact to the communities underneath the flight path using the real time positioning information and the ANP of the aircraft; and causing the aircraft to fly a modified flight path based on the modification as calculated to the flight path.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10526
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15238693', '15245302', '15245309', '13218978', '11608064']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4532465628846959
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6568583637402841
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4736077429702547
- Mean Citation Score: 438.915588
- Max Citation Score: 633.0115400000002
- Similarity Product: 625.9038065161923

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

Dataset: test