Methods are provided for flight management services in a cloud environment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10797945-B2
Application number	US-201815884835-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 31, 2018
Priority date	Nov 10, 2017
Publication date	Oct 6, 2020
Grant date	Oct 6, 2020

Abstract

Methods for providing a flight management service in a cloud computing environment, the method includes: receiving, an object request by a server from a mobile device wherein the server is located in the cloud computing environment including: at least a flight management system (FMS) connected to a stateless object; processing, by the connected FMS hosted by the server, the object request generating a resource object for a particular flight plan wherein the resource object includes a data set; storing, by the connected FMS, the data set at the stateless object in the cloud environment; and sending, by the server, an object response from the connected FMS to the mobile device, for accessing the data set of the stateless object for the particular flight plan.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for providing a flight management service at a server in a cloud computing environment, the method comprising:
generating a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) object request from a client application, the JSON object request comprising a data set of flight plan attributes to initialize a cloud management computer at the server for an initial given state;
receiving, at the cloud management computer at the server the JSON object request wherein the JSON object request enables a create cloud management computer JSON object request by the cloud management computer to create a flight plan by executing get data set requests to a cloud data storage wherein the cloud data storage responds with internal cloud management computer data and the internal cloud management computer data stored is synced with cloud management computer data at the cloud data storage for retention;
sending an initial JSON object response to the client application, the initial JSON object request comprising flight plan attribute data and subsequently updating a dataset at the cloud data storage and sending an updated JSON object response to the client application;
processing, by the flight management service hosted by the server, the JSON object request generating a JSON object response comprising a resource identifier and JSON object for a particular flight plan wherein the resource identifier and JSON object comprises: a data set of necessary data for the particular flight plan generated by a JSON API specifying how client object requests are fetched;
storing, by the flight management service, the data set comprising the necessary data for the particular flight plan and the resource identifier as a stateless object in the cloud environment; and
sending, by the server, the JSON object response comprising the resource identifier from the flight management service to a mobile device, for accessing the necessary data set of the stateless object for the particular flight plan.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the JSON object response comprises: at least a dataset id.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
provisioning, by the server, a flight management computer of the flight management service with the attributes of the JSON object request.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the mobile device further comprising:
receiving, by the server, the JSON object request from & the client application residing on the mobile device.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
configuring the flight management service with an embedded flight management service residing locally at the mobile device.

6. A computer program product for a cloud-computing environment comprising a plurality of cloud-computing resources, the product comprising: a computer-readable storage medium in which program instructions are stored, the program instructions are configured to cause a cloud management computer of a flight management service at a server to perform the operations of:
generating a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) object request from a client application, the JSON object request comprising a data set of flight plan attributes to initialize the cloud management computer at the server for an initial given state;
receiving, at the cloud management computer at the server the JSON object request by a server from a mobile device wherein the JSON object request enables a create cloud management computer JSON object request by the cloud management computer to create a flight plan by executing get data set requests to a cloud data storage wherein the cloud data storage responds with internal cloud management computer data and the internal cloud management computer data stored is synced with cloud management computer data at the cloud data storage for retention;
sending an initial JSON object response to the client application, the initial JSON object request comprising flight plan attribute data and subsequently updating a dataset at the cloud data storage and sending an updated JSON object response to the client application;
processing, by the flight management service hosted by the server, the JSON object request generating a JSON object response comprising a resource identifier and JSON object of necessary data for a particular flight plan generated by a JSON API specifying how client object requests are fetched for a particular flight plan wherein the resource identifier and JSON object comprises: a data set;
storing, by the flight management service, the data set comprising the necessary data for the particular flight plan and the resource identifier as a stateless object in the cloud environment; and
sending, by the server, the JSON object response comprising the resource identifier from the flight management service to the mobile device, for accessing the necessary data set of the stateless object for the particular flight plan.

7. The method to perform the operations of claim 6 , wherein the JSON object response comprises: at least a dataset id.

8. The method of claim 6 to perform the operations, further comprising:
provisioning, by the server, a flight management computer of the flight management service with the attributes of the JSON object request.

9. The method of claim 6 to perform the operations, further comprising:
configuring the flight management service with an embedded flight management service residing locally.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a computer program product executable by a processor of a computer system in a cloud computing environment for processing an object request, the non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising:
code for generating a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) object request from a client application, the JSON object request comprising a data set of flight plan attributes to initialize a cloud management computer at a server for an initial given state;
code for receiving, at the cloud management computer at the server the JSON object request wherein the JSON object request enables a create cloud management computer JSON object request by the cloud management computer to create a flight plan by executing get data set requests to a cloud data storage wherein the cloud data storage responds with internal cloud management computer data and the internal cloud management computer data stored is synced with cloud management computer data at the cloud data storage for retention;
code for sending an initial JSON object response to a client application comprising flight plan attribute data and subsequently updating the dataset at the cloud data storage and sending an updated JSON object response to the client application;
code for processing, by a flight management service hosted by the server, the JSON object request generating a JSON object response comprising a resource identifier and JSON object for a particular flight plan wherein the resource identifier and JSON object comprises: a data set of necessary data for the particular flight plan generated by a JSON API specifying how client object requests are fetched;
code for storing, by the flight management service, the data set comprising the necessary data for the particular flight plan and the resource identifier as a stateless object in the cloud environment; and
code for sending, by the server, the JSON object response comprising the resource identifier from the flight management service to a mobile device, for accessing the necessary data set of the stateless object for the particular flight plan.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10 wherein the JSON object response comprises: at least a dataset id.

12. The non-transitory computer-readab

Assignees

• Honeywell Int Inc

Inventors

• Toews Phillip
• Mohan Rajeev
• Udupa Ravish
• Snyder Richard
• Brownlee Robert
• Walter Brian
• Lewis Daniel E

Classifications

• G08G5/32

  for flight plan preparation · CPC title

• G08G5/30

  Flight plan management · CPC title

• G08G5/22

  located on the ground · CPC title

• H04L41/0806 Primary

  for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play · CPC title

• H04L67/12 Primary

  specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks · CPC title