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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2009
Clifford A. Beebe, Snohomish, WA (US);
Mir H. Hashimi, Everett, WA (US);
Stephen E. Jahns, Federal Way, WA (US);
Lee Victoria Bovey, Lynnwood, WA (US);
Richard George Pigion, Issaquah, WA (US);
Justin Eugene Hale, Woodinville, WA (US);
Bryan Kesterson, Kent, WA (US);
Clifford A. Beebe, Snohomish, WA (US);
Mir H. Hashimi, Everett, WA (US);
Stephen E. Jahns, Federal Way, WA (US);
Lee Victoria Bovey, Lynnwood, WA (US);
Richard George Pigion, Issaquah, WA (US);
Justin Eugene Hale, Woodinville, WA (US);
Bryan Kesterson, Kent, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
An apparatus comprises a portable computer, and program code stored on the portable computer. The program code is capable of being executed to establish a communications link with an aircraft network data processing system in an aircraft, obtain information about the aircraft over the communications link, display the information on a display device for the portable computer, receive user input to control a data processing system on the aircraft network data processing system in the aircraft, and send a number of commands to the data processing system in response to receiving the user input.