Rockwell Collins, Inc.

Karl L Shepherd

Jason A Myren

Greg L Shelton

Nicholas A Paxton

Yves Lacerte

David G Stobb

A station for monitoring and managing multiple unmanned aircraft includes a data radio for receiving status data from one or more unmanned aircraft currently under the control of that station (and for sending command and control messages thereto). Each controlled aircraft is assigned processing resources including a high assurance router for identifying flight-critical status data (FCSD) and forwarding said FCSD to the aircraft manager dedicated to that aircraft. The aircraft manager generates status updates for its assigned aircraft based on the FCSD. Each station has a display manager for synchronizing status updates from the aircraft managers of all controlled aircraft and managing a priority queue of the controlled aircraft such that selected aircraft, e.g., early-connecting or warning-condition, are given highest priority. A display unit updates the synchronized status of each controlled aircraft; flight displays of a high priority aircraft may be shown, with summary windows for secondary aircraft.

Multiple-client unmanned aircraft management station

A present novel and non-trivial system and method for controlling the display of classified information with unclassified information are disclosed. Layer property(ies) of the super layer are turned on. Layer property(ies) of at least one unclassified layer is turned on, making it a changed unclassified layer. Unclassified layer data of each changed unclassified layer is sent to a user application, and responsive first first-tier widget data is received. Pixel data set is generated based upon the unclassified layer data, the first first-tier widget data, and a known display configuration format. Additionally, layer property(ies) of at least one classified layer is turned on, making it a changed classified layer. Classified layer data of each changed classified layer is sent to a user application, and responsive second first-tier widget data is received. The second widget data is included in the basis for generating the pixel data set.

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Cedar Rapids, IA, United States of America

Karl L Shepherd