The Boeing Company

Ted Eigle

William R Richards

Arun Ayyagari

Timothy Allen Murphy

Timothy Edward Jackson

Charles Otis Adler

Ceilidh Hoffmann

Steven Mark Walstrom

Siobvan M Nyikos

Ceilidh Hoffman

Ricardo Messias Fricks

Fadl Ibrahim Khalil

Jessie Turner

Eric J Andrews

Thomas Jose Thalakottur

Daniel Bruce Holton

John Harvey Roberson

Bernell R McCormick

Tracy L Woodward

Bernell R Mccormick

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, apparatus, and aircraft tracker system for reporting state information for an aircraft. A state of the aircraft is identified using sensor data received from an aircraft sensor system in the aircraft. The state information is transmitted at a reporting rate set using the state of the aircraft identified from the sensor data, at least one of a crew command or a ground command when at least one of the crew command is received from a crew interface or the ground command is received from a ground source, and a policy defining priorities for reporting that are based on at least one of the crew command, the ground command, or the state of the aircraft identified from the sensor data.

Controller for an aircraft tracker

A system and methods for secure communication are disclosed. A network packet comprising encrypted network address comprising an unencrypted network address encrypted by a first GPS time and a first pseudo random number is received. The encrypted network address is decrypted using the first GPS time and the first pseudo random number to provide the unencrypted network address. The network packet is transmitted based on the unencrypted network address.

System and method for secure communication

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