Vehicle Communication System Message Relaying
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current vehicle communication systems lack an efficient mechanism to relay communications between a first ground facility and a vehicle to a second ground facility, resulting in the second ground facility not being aware of these communications.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle communication system that automatically copies and transmits portions of data communications between a vehicle and a first ground facility to a second ground facility, ensuring the second ground facility is informed of these communications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual message formatting and transmission is used to relay communications between ground facilities, then message relaying functionality is achieved, but communication efficiency decreases and time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically creates a copy of the first message received from the first ground facility and transmits this copy to the second ground facility. This eliminates the need for manual message formatting and retransmission, directly resolving the technical contradiction by improving communication efficiency while reducing time loss through automated copying rather than manual reproduction of messages
Solution Approach 2:
The communication system performs self-service by automatically copying and relaying messages between ground facilities without requiring manual intervention from flight crew or operators. The system identifies, copies, and transmits messages autonomously, thereby improving productivity and eliminating time-consuming manual operations
2Loss of information
If the second ground facility is not automatically informed of communications with the first ground facility, then system complexity is reduced, but information awareness and communication coordination deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The communication system acts as an intermediary by automatically copying messages from the first ground facility and forwarding them to the second ground facility. This intermediary function ensures that the second ground facility remains informed of relevant communications without requiring direct coordination or complex multi-point communication protocols, thus improving information awareness while maintaining relatively simple system architecture
Data Source
AI summary
A vehicle communication system including at least one receiver/transmitter, and communication unit and a router is provided. The at least one receiver/transmitter receives and transmits data communication messages to at least a remote first ground facility and a remote second ground facility. The communication unit is configured to automatically copy at least portions of select types of data communication messages that are at least one of received from and transmitted to the first ground facility. The router is configured to route the copy of the at least portions of the select types of data communication messages between the communication unit and one receiver/transmitter of the at one receiver/transmitter. The copy of the data communication messages transmitted to the second ground facility is provided so the second ground facility is aware of the data communication messages communicated between a vehicle that includes the vehicle communication system and the first ground facility.