Encrypted Flight Plan Communications via Peer-to-Peer Network

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Solution Overview

Problem

Flight plan communications between aircraft and air traffic control lack protection, posing risks to safe and efficient air travel.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for encrypted flight plan communications using a cryptographic system, where a first computing device connected to a peer-to-peer network receives and decrypts an encrypted verified flight plan from a second computing device, such as air traffic control, ensuring secure transmission and storage.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If flight plan communications are transmitted without encryption, then communication simplicity and speed are maintained, but security and protection of flight data are compromised

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesecurity of flight plan communicationsVSAvoidcomplexity of communication system

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces cryptographic intermediaries (encryption/decryption functions) between the flight plan communication parties. These intermediaries protect the communication content without requiring fundamental changes to the communication protocol itself, thus improving security while maintaining relative system simplicity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If encryption is implemented for flight plan communications, then security and data protection are improved, but communication processing time and system complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprotection of flight dataVSAvoidtime for encryption and decryption operations

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies encryption to the flight plan data before transmission and decryption at the receiving end before processing. By performing these cryptographic operations in advance of the actual communication need, the system minimizes real-time processing delays while ensuring security.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Object-affected harmful factors

If verified flight plans are encrypted and transmitted through peer-to-peer networks, then unauthorized access is prevented, but device complexity and computational requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveunauthorized access to flight dataVSAvoidcomplexity of cryptographic system

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the cryptographic functionality into separate encryption/decryption modules that operate independently from the core flight plan processing system. This modular approach protects the main system from complexity while still providing security through dedicated cryptographic components.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS11722462B1Systems and methods for encrypted flight plan communications

Publication Date: 2023.08.08 BETA AIR LLC

AI summary

In an aspect of the present disclosure is a system for encrypted flight plan communications, the system including a first computing device communicatively connected to a peer-to-peer network including a second computing device, the first computing device configured to receive a verified flight plan from the second computing device, wherein the verified flight plan is encrypted, wherein the verified flight plan comprises battery datum, and decrypt the verified flight plan.