Aerospace Commerce Exchange for Real-Time Aircraft Data Sharing
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Solution Overview
Problem
The aerospace industry is fragmented due to antiquated and proprietary technologies, limiting information sharing and real-time connectivity, which disconnects ecommerce from aviation data.
Innovation Solution
An aerospace commerce exchange (ACE) platform that facilitates connectivity through air-to-ground, satellite, and air-to-air links, enabling data exchange and integration with ecommerce channels, using blockchain for security and smart contracts to manage data access and transactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If antiquated and proprietary technologies are used in the aerospace industry, then existing systems can maintain their operational stability, but information sharing is limited and real-time connectivity is restricted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an aerospace commerce exchange platform as an intermediary system that connects antiquated aerospace systems with modern ecommerce platforms. This mediator enables information sharing between silos without requiring direct integration of legacy systems, thus maintaining operational stability while improving information accessibility through standardized data exchange protocols.
Solution Approach 2:
The commerce exchange platform provides universal access to multiple data sources including aircraft systems, ground-based systems, and ecommerce channels through a single integrated interface. This multi-functional platform allows diverse systems to share information without requiring custom point-to-point connections, thereby enhancing information sharing capability while preserving the operational independence of legacy systems.
2Device complexity
If real-time connectivity to aircraft is limited, then existing communication infrastructure can be maintained, but comprehensive operational management is inhibited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the communication infrastructure into multiple independent data sources (aircraft systems, ground-based systems, ecommerce platforms) that all feed into a centralized commerce exchange platform. This segmentation allows the system to maintain existing communication capabilities while enabling comprehensive operational management through aggregated data access, avoiding the need to replace entire communication infrastructure.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates virtual copies of data from various sources through the commerce exchange platform, allowing operational management functions to access replicated information without establishing direct real-time connections to all aircraft systems. This copying approach enables comprehensive operational management while maintaining infrastructure simplicity by decoupling management functions from primary data sources.
3Reliability
If data is not readily accessible to ecommerce partners, then aerospace data can remain secure and controlled, but ecommerce integration is disconnected
Solution Approach 1:
The commerce exchange platform serves as a secure intermediary between aerospace data sources and ecommerce partners. It maintains data security and control by acting as an authorized gateway, while enabling ecommerce integration through standardized data exchange protocols. The platform mediates access rights and data transmission, ensuring that ecommerce partners receive necessary information without compromising the security and control of the original data sources.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the accessibility parameters of aerospace data by transforming data formats and transmission protocols to be compatible with ecommerce platforms. The commerce exchange platform adapts data parameters (such as data formats, transmission protocols, and access protocols) to enable seamless integration while maintaining the security and control characteristics of the original aerospace data systems.
4Ease of manufacture
If fragmented information systems are used in the aerospace industry, then specific entities can maintain their proprietary control, but opportunities for sharing information and participating in e commerce are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The commerce exchange platform provides a universal interface that accommodates multiple proprietary systems while enabling standardized information sharing. It maintains the proprietary control of individual entities by allowing each to maintain its own data formats and protocols, while simultaneously providing a common gateway that enables information sharing and ecommerce participation across all systems through standardized abstraction layers.
Data Source
AI summary
An aerospace commerce exchange system may include a network, a plurality of clients operably coupled to the network, and an aerospace commerce exchange platform operably coupled to the network to provide exchange services to the clients. At least one of the clients may be operably coupled to the aerospace commerce exchange platform via an air-to-ground wireless communication link or satellite link (or other links with which an aircraft may be associated) to provide or receive data associated with at least one of the exchange services.