Patents by Inventor Fabien Guilley
Fabien Guilley has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9950808Abstract: A method and a device for configuring an alerts management system for an aircraft comprises: generating a list of a plurality of alerts and of resolution procedures for an aircraft; for each alert, defining: distinctive characteristics of the alert; logic for detecting the alert; at least one procedure for resolving the alert; and, for each alert, defining recording in a dedicated alerts file the set of information defined for said alert, the alerts file having a structure and a format of data that are predefined for the alerts and the procedures; determining existing links between the dedicated alerts files; and in response to the determining step, updating the content of the dedicated alerts files according to the links identified.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2013Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: THALESInventors: Fabien Guilley, Chris Deseure, Gilles Francois
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Patent number: 9170858Abstract: The subject of the present invention is a method for processing alerts by an avionic system FWS that makes it possible to optimize the processing of these alerts without unnecessarily consuming “processor time”. The method according to the invention is characterized in that it consists in having processed, on each processing cycle of the processor of the FWS, only the operations relating to alerts for which the result has been modified since the preceding processing cycle.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2012Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: ThalesInventors: Laurent Flotte, Fabien Guilley, Nicolas Valot
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Publication number: 20140359564Abstract: The invention relates to onboard failure warning management systems on aircraft, or flight warning systems (FWS). Traditionally, the logic of these systems refers to procedures to be executed by the crew in response to warnings. Modifications, however minor, to the procedures involve a new development that can be installed on the airplane computer only as part of a costly maintenance procedure, given notably the need to carry out exhaustive tests on the application. The invention introduces the concept of tasks defined by a set of variables, notably the warning and the procedure in which the task is executed, its category, its priority level and its status. Thus, the computer programs can be organized in modules that call the tasks to be executed, the parameters of said tasks being defined in a configuration table that can be updated as the procedures change during simple operation maintenance procedures.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2014Publication date: December 4, 2014Inventors: Gilles Francois, Fabien Guilley, Nicolas Marty, Julia Percier
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Patent number: 8676404Abstract: In a centralized navigation information management system installed on board an aircraft which is in a current position at a current time, the aircraft having a warning management system and a route management system with means for creating a route plan, the route plan having a future route plan corresponding with the part of the route plan beginning at the current position and at the current time, the system includes: means for creating a task comprising at least one task parameter relating to an item of navigation information, including a task variable corresponding to a condition of execution of the said task, the means for creating a task having means for determining a predicted time meeting the execution condition; and means for detecting a possible inconsistency between the created task and the route plan or the future route plan and for transmitting, when an inconsistency is detected, a message relating to the inconsistency to a first display means of a centralized warning management system to displayType: GrantFiled: December 28, 2010Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: ThalesInventors: Nicolas Marty, François Coulmeau, Fabien Guilley
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Patent number: 8659447Abstract: The invention relates to onboard failure warning management systems on aircraft, or flight warning systems (FWS). Traditionally, the logic of these systems refers to procedures to be executed by the crew in response to warnings. Modifications, however minor, to the procedures involve a new development that can be installed on the airplane computer only as part of a costly maintenance procedure, given notably the need to carry out exhaustive tests on the application. The invention introduces the concept of tasks defined by a set of variables, notably the warning and the procedure in which the task is executed, its category, its priority level and its status. Thus, the computer programs can be organized in modules that call the tasks to be executed, the parameters of said tasks being defined in a configuration table that can be updated as the procedures change during simple operation maintenance procedures.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2009Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: ThalesInventors: Gilles Francois, Fabien Guilley, Nicolas Marty, Julia Percier
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Patent number: 8612069Abstract: A method is provided for dynamically consolidating items of an aeronautical procedure in order to present to the operator the best action to perform according to the context of all the systems, in order to reduce his cognitive workload faced with an action to be carried out. The method consists, for each item of a procedure, in determining the text of the requested action, in choosing the text of the corresponding response that the crew must perform according to the general state and the configuration of the aircraft, in incorporating in the corresponding item the texts of the requested action and of the corresponding response, in displaying this duly enriched item, in detecting whether the requested action has indeed been accomplished and in displaying the result of this detection.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2010Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: ThalesInventors: Fabien Guilley, Gabrielle De Brito, Gilles Francois
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Publication number: 20130282206Abstract: A method and a device for configuring an alerts management system for an aircraft comprises: generating a list of a plurality of alerts and of resolution procedures for an aircraft; for each alert, defining: distinctive characteristics of the alert; logic for detecting the alert; at least one procedure for resolving the alert; and, for each alert, defining recording in a dedicated alerts file the set of information defined for said alert, the alerts file having a structure and a format of data that are predefined for the alerts and the procedures; determining existing links between the dedicated alerts files; and in response to the determining step, updating the content of the dedicated alerts files according to the links identified.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2013Publication date: October 24, 2013Applicant: THALESInventors: Fabien GUILLEY, Chris DEREUSE, Gilles FRANCOIS
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Patent number: 8527133Abstract: The present invention lies in the field of embedded flight management systems on board aircraft. The invention relates notably to a system for managing alerts and procedures, and more precisely to a device for managing piloting tasks carried out by a crew of an aircraft.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2009Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: ThalesInventors: Fabien Guilley, Gabrielle De Brito, Gilles Francois
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Patent number: 8498755Abstract: A device for the coherent management of data deriving from different surveillance systems of an aircraft includes: a flight management system, the function of which is to assist the crew in following a flight plan of the aircraft and an associated trajectory; a surveillance system, the function of which is to detect any obstacles in proximity to the aircraft; a warning management system, the function of which is to detect abnormal situations and to display for the crew, where appropriate, warnings, such as potentially critical alarms or non-critical alerts, and the associated procedures to be followed when such exist; in which said flight management system, said surveillance system and said warning management system are interconnected and cooperate so that at least the warning management system has access to the flight plan of the aircraft, and is configured to display for the crew a summary of the situation when the surveillance system detects an obstacle that the aircraft should avoid according to the flighType: GrantFiled: December 20, 2010Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: ThalesInventors: Gabrielle De Brito, Laurent Flotte, Gilles Francois, Fabien Guilley, Nicolas Marty
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Patent number: 8443368Abstract: The present invention pertains to the field of onboard flight management systems embedded in aircraft. The invention relates to a reconfiguration device (1) for reconfiguring a task processing context. The reconfiguration device (1) according to the invention notably comprises: a module for managing the tasks to be carried out (2), performing a sorting of the tasks according to a priority criterion; a module for managing a current task (3), managing the state of progress of the current task; a module for managing a context (4), saving contexts relating to the current task, to a highest priority task and restoring one of the contexts saved on order of an operator. The present invention notably finds its application in the management of tasks for piloting an aircraft, for example the management of tasks originating from a system for managing alerts and procedures.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2009Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: ThalesInventors: Fabien Guilley, Gabrielle De Brito, Gilles Francois
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Publication number: 20120316705Abstract: The subject of the present invention is a method for processing alerts by an avionic system FWS that makes it possible to optimize the processing of these alerts without unnecessarily consuming “processor time”. The method according to the invention is characterized in that it consists in having processed, on each processing cycle of the processor of the FWS, only the operations relating to alerts for which the result has been modified since the preceding processing cycle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2012Publication date: December 13, 2012Applicant: THALESInventors: Laurent FLOTTE, Fabien GUILLEY, Nicolas VALOT
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Publication number: 20120029736Abstract: A method is provided for dynamically consolidating items of an aeronautical procedure in order to present to the operator the best action to perform according to the context of all the systems, in order to reduce his cognitive workload faced with an action to be carried out. The method consists, for each item of a procedure, in determining the text of the requested action, in choosing the text of the corresponding response that the crew must perform according to the general state and the configuration of the aircraft, in incorporating in the corresponding item the texts of the requested action and of the corresponding response, in displaying this duly enriched item, in detecting whether the requested action has indeed been accomplished and in displaying the result of this detection.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2010Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: THALESInventors: Fabien Guilley, Gabrielle De Brito, Gilles Francois
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Publication number: 20120029737Abstract: In a centralized navigation information management system installed on board an aircraft which is in a current position at a current time, the aircraft having a warning management system and a route management system with means for creating a route plan, the route plan having a future route plan corresponding with the part of the route plan beginning at the current position and at the current time, the system includes: means for creating a task comprising at least one task parameter relating to an item of navigation information, including a task variable corresponding to a condition of execution of the said task, the means for creating a task having means for determining a predicted time meeting the execution condition; and means for detecting a possible inconsistency between the created task and the route plan or the future route plan and for transmitting, when an inconsistency is detected, a message relating to the inconsistency to a first display means of a centralized warning management system to displayType: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2010Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: THALESInventors: Nicolas Marty, François Coulmeau, Fabien Guilley
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Publication number: 20120004794Abstract: A device and method for managing tasks for the piloting of an aircraft includes a means for detecting alerts of the flight systems and an alerts management means for presenting the alerts and the tasks of the resolution procedures to the crew. The device includes means for recording additional procedures and tasks and modifications of attributes of tasks with respect to the tasks recorded in the first recording means, a means for triggering the additional tasks able to order the alerts management means to present the additional tasks, the triggering means operating according to a mode of asynchronous acquisition of trigger data originating from the flight systems and a means for selecting the recorded additional procedures and additional tasks so as to transmit the modified procedures and the modified attributes of the tasks to the alerts management means.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2010Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: THALESInventors: Fabien GUILLEY, Nicolas VALOT, Gilles Jacques Yves FRANCOIS
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Publication number: 20110153212Abstract: A device for the coherent management of data deriving from different surveillance systems of an aircraft includes: a flight management system, the function of which is to assist the crew in following a flight plan of the aircraft and an associated trajectory; a surveillance system, the function of which is to detect any obstacles in proximity to the aircraft; a warning management system, the function of which is to detect abnormal situations and to display for the crew, where appropriate, warnings, such as potentially critical alarms or non-critical alerts, and the associated procedures to be followed when such exist; in which said flight management system, said surveillance system and said warning management system are interconnected and cooperate so that at least the warning management system has access to the flight plan of the aircraft, and is configured to display for the crew a summary of the situation when the surveillance system detects an obstacle that the aircraft should avoid according to the flighType: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2010Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: THALESInventors: Gabrielle DE BRITO, Laurent FLOTTE, Gilles FRANCOIS, Fabien GUILLEY, Nicolas MARTY
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Publication number: 20100162255Abstract: The present invention pertains to the field of onboard flight management systems embedded in aircraft. The invention relates to a reconfiguration device (1) for reconfiguring a task processing context. The reconfiguration device (1) according to the invention notably comprises: a module for managing the tasks to be carried out (2), performing a sorting of the tasks according to a priority criterion; a module for managing a current task (3), managing the state of progress of the current task; a module for managing a context (4), saving contexts relating to the current task, to a highest priority task and restoring one of the contexts saved on order of an operator. The present invention notably finds its application in the management of tasks for piloting an aircraft, for example the management of tasks originating from a system for managing alerts and procedures.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2009Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: THALESInventors: Fabien Guilley, Gabrielle De Brito, Gilles Francois
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Publication number: 20100161157Abstract: The present invention lies in the field of embedded flight management systems on board aircraft. The invention relates notably to a system for managing alerts and procedures, and more precisely to a device for managing piloting tasks carried out by a crew of an aircraft.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2009Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: THALESInventors: Fabien Guilley, Gabrielle De Brito, Gilles Francois
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Publication number: 20100066565Abstract: The invention relates to onboard failure warning management systems on aircraft, or flight warning systems (FWS). Traditionally, the logic of these systems refers to procedures to be executed by the crew in response to warnings. Modifications, however minor, to the procedures involve a new development that can be installed on the airplane computer only as part of a costly maintenance procedure, given notably the need to carry out exhaustive tests on the application. The invention introduces the concept of tasks defined by a set of variables, notably the warning and the procedure in which the task is executed, its category, its priority level and its status. Thus, the computer programs can be organized in modules that call the tasks to be executed, the parameters of said tasks being defined in a configuration table that can be updated as the procedures change during simple operation maintenance procedures.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2009Publication date: March 18, 2010Applicant: ThalesInventors: Gilles Francois, Fabien Guilley, Nicolas Marty, Julia Percier