Datalink Message Formatting via Database Styles
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Solution Overview
Problem
Datalink messages in current systems lack advanced formatting capabilities such as color and text formatting, limiting their display on various devices, particularly in airline operational communication messages.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that provide dynamic database-driven formatting for datalink messages, allowing configurable and customizable formatting styles based on parameter values or included in the uplink message, enabling enhanced display on onboard display devices with options like bold, italic, color, and graphics.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional white or green text on black background is used for datalink messages, then compatibility with existing display systems is maintained, but formatting capabilities and visual effectiveness are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies different formatting styles (color, bold, italic, underline, etc.) to specific portions of datalink messages based on their content and significance. The system selectively enhances certain text elements while leaving others in standard format, allowing important information to stand out without requiring the entire display system to support advanced formatting.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent pre-defines multiple formatting styles in a database before message display. These styles are prepared in advance and can be directly applied to datalink messages based on content analysis, eliminating the need for complex real-time formatting decisions and reducing the computational burden on display systems.
2Loss of information
If color and text formatting capabilities are added to datalink messages, then visual effectiveness and information hierarchy are improved, but message complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses color coding to represent different levels of information importance and message types in datalink communications. By assigning specific colors to different categories of information, the system effectively communicates hierarchical structure and urgency without requiring complex formatting processing.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent modifies text parameters (font weight, style, color, underline) based on the significance and type of information in datalink messages. These parameter changes are applied systematically according to pre-defined rules, allowing the system to convey information hierarchy through simple, processable attribute modifications rather than complex structural changes.
3Productivity
If limited text formatting is applied to uplinked report messages, then processing overhead is reduced, but display effectiveness and operator awareness are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies formatting enhancements selectively to only the most critical portions of uplinked report messages rather than formatting the entire message. This partial application of formatting maintains processing efficiency while still highlighting the most significant information that requires operator attention.
Data Source
AI summary
A method and system for formatting datalink messages is disclosed. The method comprises providing a format style of parameters and/or portions of free text for a datalink message; sending the datalink message to a destination; decoding the datalink message at the destination for both content and format style information; sending the content and format style information to a display processor; and generating parameter or free text highlighting information on a display screen corresponding to the content and format style information.