Patents by Inventor Gilles Jacques Yves FRANCOIS

Gilles Jacques Yves FRANCOIS 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).

  • Patent number: 8700232
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a device for centralized management of tasks to be carried out by a crew in the course of an aircraft flight. The method uses onboard navigation aid systems, such as a flight management system, a system for managing in-flight alerts for the implementation of the following steps: creation of a task by the flight management system; scheduling of the tasks by a system for managing alerts; and task execution by the system for managing alerts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Christophe Caillaud, François Coulmeau, Gilles Jacques Yves Francois
  • Publication number: 20120004794
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: THALES
    Inventors: Fabien GUILLEY, Nicolas VALOT, Gilles Jacques Yves FRANCOIS