The Boeing Company

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Theboeing Company

Microsoft Corporation

Arun Ayyagari

Timothy Mark Moore

Abhishek Abhishek

Jiandong Ruan

Kevin Yong Ung

David Arthur Whelan

Gregory M Gutt

Anil Kumar

Anton W Krantz

Brian J Smith

Krishna Ganugapati

Craig Farris Battles

Winfeng Li

Hui Shen

Pradeep Bahl

Warren Vincent Barkley

John L Meier

Sudhakar S Shetty

John E Bush

David G Lawrence

Avi R Geiger

Jason Philip Bommer

William Phillip Coop

Michael A Dorsett

Marc Rollo Matsen

Michael Lee O'Connor

Sachin C Sheth

David E Corman

David B Blackwell

Carl Joseph Hanks

Daniel Ron Simon

Timothy McNally Mitchell

Guijun Wang

Richard Neil Blair

Christopher Kenneth Zuver

Steven L Arnold

Kent L English

Orlie Thomas Brewer, Jr

Fernando Afonso Zamith

Ronald J Howard

William Michael Zintel

Ashwin Palekar

Andrew Michael Robb

Salim S AbiEzzi

Radhakrishna G Sampigethaya

Robert L Avery

Richard Neal Bostwick

Steven A Dorris

David Hassan Amirehteshami

Michael S Foster

Timothy William Anstey

Nha Thanh Nguyen

David T Kirkland

David William Minteer

Kapaleeswaran Viswanathan

Rebecca Shore

Florin Teodorescu

Thanh Duc Hoang

Thi Q Nguyen

Swanee Yourkowski

Aziz Yousif

Scott Edward Marston

Shubham Tripathi

Lester L Houston, Iii

Richard J Nesting

Gary E Georgeson

Brian Jay Tillotson

Roger W Engelbart

Philip Lawrence Freeman

Everett A Westerman

Yoram Bernet

Mohammad Shabbir Alam

Andrew Thomas Baron

Bernard D Aboba

Jonathan Blake Vance

William Preston Geren

Brian Christopher Grubel

Vivek Bhanu

James William Fonda

Timothy Mark Aldrich

Greg A Kimberly

Donald K Dabelstein

John W Archer

Francis Duong

Eric John Martens

James T Farricker

John Allen Craig, Jr

Alimuddin Mohammad

William R Richards

Adrienne Pauline Miller

Karl Loren Johnson

Keith J Glover

Pathamadai V Sankar

Mahesh C Reddy

Siamak Poursabahian

Edwin A Hernandez-Mondragon

Ethan Carl Owyang

Matthew Lee Benson

Shawn W Lorimer

Steven J Bates

A system for off-board communication includes data storage configured to store one or more data objects. A data object includes data of an application. The data object indicates a data object priority and one or more acceptable communication links associated with the application. The system also includes one or more processors configured to retrieve communication link status from a memory. The communication link status indicates available communication links with available bandwidth. The processors are also configured to retrieve the data object from the data storage based on the data object priority and acceptable communication links of the data object including the available communication links. The processors are further configured to generate, based on the available bandwidth of the available communication links, sub-data objects of the data object. The processors are also configured to initiate concurrent transmission of the sub-data objects via the available communication links.

Data communication via communication links

Techniques for projecting images onto fabricated surfaces. One or more electronic files containing an engineering diagram that describes a three-dimensional shape of the fabricated surface are retrieved. Warp transformation information for transforming images to be projected onto the fabricated surface is calculated, based on the engineering diagram, positional information defining a three-dimensional position of a projection device, relative to the fabricated surface, and positional information of an intended viewer relative to the fabricated surface. The warp transformation information is applied to one or more images to generate one or more transformed images. Embodiments project, using the projection device, the one or more transformed images onto the fabricated surface.

Projecting images and videos onto engineered curved surfaces

In general, certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques or mechanisms for automatically filtering network messages in an aviation network for an aircraft based on a current system context. According to various embodiments, a method is provided comprising receiving a network message transmitted from a source avionic device to a destination avionic device via one or more network packets within the aviation network. A current system context, indicating an aggregate status of avionic devices within the aviation network, is determined based on monitoring the avionic devices. The network message is analyzed by identifying a plurality of attributes corresponding to header and data fields of the one or more network packets corresponding to the network message. The acceptability of the network message within the current system context is determined based on one or more filter rules that specify what attributes are allowed within a particular system context.

System and method for context aware network filtering within an aviation network

Systems and methods are provided for controlling the motion of a tracked robot assembly. An exemplary method comprises disposing a mobile robot assembly proximate to a fuselage of an aircraft that is being assembled, aligning a left ranging sensor of the assembly with a left target, and aligning a right ranging sensor of the assembly with a right target. The method also includes directing the assembly to traverse to a location within the aircraft fuselage at which a robot on the assembly will perform work upon the fuselage, determining a left distance between the left ranging sensor and the left target while the assembly is moving, determining a right distance between the right ranging sensor and the right target while the assembly is moving, detecting a difference between the determined distances, and adjusting a direction of motion of the assembly based on the difference.

Movement control for tracked robot assemblies that manufacture aircraft

A method, apparatus, and system for facilitating communications between a client computer system and a vehicle computer system in a vehicle. An operational digital twin establishes communications with the client computer system using a client interface and the vehicle computer system using a vehicle interface. The operational digital twin includes a model of the vehicle computer system. Remote information received from the vehicle computer system is stored. The stored information is sent responsive to a request received from the client computer system. The remote information responsive to request but absent from the stored information is retrieved from the vehicle computer system. The retrieved information is sent to the client computer system, wherein the operational digital twin operates to provide network connectivity between the vehicle computer system in the vehicle and the client computer system with an increased a quality of service to the client computer system.

Aircraft communications system with an operational digital twin

In general, certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and systems for automatic generation of filter rules based on functional network flows for e-Enabled aviation systems. According to various embodiments, a method is provided comprising capturing network packets corresponding to a functional network flow transmitted within a networked aviation system, and parsing the network packets in order to extract one or more network messages corresponding to the functional network flow. The network message is examined in order to identify and classify a plurality of attributes corresponding to the header and data fields of the network packets. A table corresponding to the network messages is automatically generated, which includes one or more filter rules. In some embodiments, the table may be used to determine which communications are authorized during a particular context of the networked aviation system. The method further comprises validating the one or more filter rules.

System and method for automatic generation of filter rules

Embodiments of a sensor network system provide surveillance capabilities in multiple contexts/environments (e.g., military, commercial, scientific, civic, urban, wilderness, etc.). Network nodes may include devices such as sensors, network routers, network controllers, etc. Network sensors may be configured so that power management objectives are maximized. Network sensors (both individually and as a group) may be capable of intelligent and cooperative information gathering, so that the output of the sensor network does not contain high levels of irrelevant information. The network nodes may communicate among one another via one or more communication links, and in some cases, multiple routes between any two network nodes may be available. The sensor network may include aspects of both high data rate and low data rate network features. One or more network controllers may provide various network management capabilities, including management of network routing, information collection, information exportation, network configuration, etc.

Surveillance network system

A method for generating sensor data is presented. A number of wireless power signals is sent to a group of sensor units. A number of wireless data collection signals is sent to the group of sensor units after the number of wireless power signals have been sent to the group of sensor units. Sensor data in a number of wireless response signals is received from the group of sensor units.

Wireless fuel sensor system

System and method for context aware network filtering

An apparatus and method of verifying the trustworthiness of position information from an onboard tracking system on an aircraft. An onboard tracking system message comprising onboard tracking system position information indicating a first position of the aircraft is generated by the onboard tracking system and transmitted to an off board aircraft tracking system via a communications satellite in a satellite communications system. The satellite communications system adds a header comprising transmitter position information identifying a second position for transmission of the onboard tracking system message received by the communications satellite to the onboard tracking system message to form a message. The message is received from the satellite communications system by the off board aircraft tracking system and the first position from the onboard tracking system message is compared to the second position from the header to determine whether the onboard tracking system position information is trustworthy.

Verification of trustworthiness of position information transmitted from an aircraft via a communications satellite

A method is described for communication in a tactical network. A gateway is communicatively COUPLABLE to one or more tactical nodes and to one or more other gateways. The gateway is programmed to transmit information to and/or receive information from other gateways. Information exchanged includes gateway attributes, link attributes, service availability, and/or data availability. The gateway optionally provides quality of service, distributed persistence, load balancing, and/or transformation services. Services are provided in a modular, service-oriented architecture (SOA) to accommodate the addition of services and/or applications.

Method for communication in a tactical network

An apparatus comprises a structure including a cavity that, when excited with electromagnetic energy, produces an electric field having randomized distribution of field amplitude and polarity. The apparatus further comprises a sensor within the cavity. The sensor has a plurality of antennas for wirelessly harvesting operating power along different paths within the cavity.

Wireless power harvesting along multiple paths in a reverberent cavity

Work cell and factory level automation require that an Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) achieve demanding positional accuracy and repeatability relative to a cradle fixture or workstand within a work cell. The AGV makes distance measurements of objects within the work cell using laser scanner sensors. The distance measurements are filtered of objects that are not target features on the cradle fixture or workstand. Systematic or bias errors of the laser scanner sensor are removed from the filtered distance measurements, and a mathematical filter or estimator is applied to the filtered distance measurements using random errors of the laser scanner sensor to generate estimated distance measurements. A map of the target features is then constructed using the estimated distance measurements, wherein the map is used for path planning and navigation control of the AGV relative to the cradle fixture or workstand within the work cell.

Application of factory automation for an airline assembly and build process

Provided are methods and systems for terrestrial data transmission between aircrafts and external networks connected to gates at airports. This type of data transmission is performed through an electrical power cable that includes multiple conductors interconnecting electrical components of an aircraft and a gate. Each conductor may be used to establish a separate broadband over power line (BPL) communication channel using its own frequency range that does not overlap with frequency ranges of other channels. As such, no radio frequency (RF) shielding is needed in the cable and any standard multi-conductor cable may be used. A channel management unit is used to control allocation of data domains among different communication channels depending on characteristics of the data domains, characteristics of the channels, and other factors. For example, one channel may be designated for secure data transfer of specific data domains, such as aircraft control data.

Aircraft data transmission using phase separation

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