US 12,387,611 B2
System and method for platform agonistic flight management data access
Subhransu Sahoo, Bangalore (IN); Kalimulla Khan, Bangalore (IN); Raghu Shamasundar, Bangalore (IN); Kirupakar J, Madurai (IN); and Robert Son, Phoenix, AZ (US)
Assigned to HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL, INC., Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed by HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC., Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed on Oct. 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/937,550.
Claims priority of application No. 202211040607 (IN), filed on Jul. 15, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0021090 A1, Jan. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. G08G 5/34 (2025.01); G06F 9/445 (2018.01); G06F 16/11 (2019.01); G08G 5/20 (2025.01)
CPC G08G 5/34 (2025.01) [G06F 9/44505 (2013.01); G06F 16/116 (2019.01); G08G 5/20 (2025.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for providing platform agnostic flight management data access for a flight management system (FMS) of an aircraft, comprising:
loading a configuration file into a configuration database, where the configuration file is for a data format of an external data source from the aircraft;
downloading the configuration file to an FMS data formatter upon receiving a data access request for external data from the external data source, where the data access request is from a user of the FMS of the aircraft;
parsing the configuration file to update a rule set with a data processor component of the FMS data formatter;
receiving an external data file from an application programing interface (API) of the external data source with the FMS data formatter;
parsing the external data file with a rule engine of the FMS data formatter, where the rule engine uses the updated rule set;
generating a flight plan file with the FMS data formatter using the parsed external data file; and
sending the flight data plan file to the FMS on the aircraft with an FMS data engine.