The Boeing Company

William P Horne

Erin Elizabeth Warr

Norman F Kirby

Suzanne M Schoonover

According to various embodiments, a method for monitoring and troubleshooting a vehicle using a communications server is presented. The communications server includes a plurality of request handlers, including a dynamic monitor request handler, each coupled to a message handler and to a client request dispatcher, a vehicle communications interface coupled to a message handler, which is coupled to at least one vehicle communications interface and to the plurality of request handlers, and a client interface coupled to the client request dispatcher and to the vehicle. The method includes coupling the vehicle communications interface to the vehicle, coupling the client interface to a client computer, storing in RAM formatting information for each of the vehicle parameters, receiving a request, sending a message representing the request to an appropriate request handler, communicating with the vehicle, receiving a response, and providing the response to the at least one client computer.

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Snohomish, WA, United States of America

William P Horne