Centralized Flight History Search System
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Solution Overview
Problem
In flight operation systems, accessing and managing flight and crew historical events across multiple systems is cumbersome due to limited search, sort, and filter capabilities, especially when applications migrate out of the Flight Operations System (FOS) onto individual platforms, leading to a laborious and time-consuming process.
Innovation Solution
An event logging and searching system that includes a message handling system to transform and standardize event messages, a database for storing historical data, and a graphical user interface for querying and presenting flight and crew history information, allowing for centralized access and efficient retrieval of historical data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If applications migrate out of FOS to individual platforms, then system flexibility and independence are improved, but the complexity of accessing and managing historical data across multiple systems increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized history search system that acts as an intermediary between users and multiple distributed applications. This single system provides unified access to historical data from all FOS applications regardless of which platform they reside on, eliminating the need for users to navigate multiple systems directly.
Solution Approach 2:
The history search system is designed to be universal, supporting search operations across all FOS applications simultaneously. It provides a single interface that can query historical data from any application, whether it's in FOS or migrated to individual platforms, making the system multi-functional and application-agnostic.
2Reliability
If historical data is stored in multiple systems, then data availability and redundancy are improved, but the time required to assemble information from fragments increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the history search functionality into a single centralized system that can access data from multiple underlying applications. Instead of requiring users to manually assemble information from separate systems, the unified search interface consolidates data retrieval operations, presenting complete historical records in a single query result.
3Reliability
If history events are sequenced by application only, then application-specific data integrity is maintained, but the ability to sort through events across all applications is difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the search results into application-specific categories while maintaining a unified temporal sequence. The system can display events from different applications in chronological order across a single timeline, allowing users to sort through all history events by time while preserving the integrity of each application's data structure.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method according to which history events, such as airline flight or crew history events, are logged and searched. In one embodiment, sequenced information is obtained from one or more applications. In one embodiment, a user can input a single query and obtain sequenced information from new and legacy applications using the single query. In some embodiments, audit trail-like tracking of changes made to airline information is provided. In one embodiment, the system includes: a message handling system adapted to transform an event message; a message processor adapted to receive the event message and parse the event message; a database to which history data of the event message is persisted; and a query processor adapted to read airline flight or crew history event data in response to a query request, the airline flight or crew history event data comprising the history data.