Patents by Inventor Lonnie Bowlin

Lonnie Bowlin 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).

  • Method and system for tactical airline system management
    Publication number: 20060095156
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for managing, within the constraints of an aviation system having defined resources, the operational assets of an airline for the transport of the passengers, luggage and cargo of the airline in such a manner as to allow the business and operational goals of the airline to be met to the highest degree possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2005
    Publication date: May 4, 2006
    Inventors: R. Baiada, Lonnie Bowlin
  • Method and system for tactical gate management by aviation entities
    Publication number: 20050071076
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for an aviation system to manage, consistent with specified system business goals, the temporal assignment of airport gates for use by a plurality of aircraft which are to-be-serviced by specified ground resources, including ground personnel, equipment and supplies, so as to deliver and receive specified passengers, their baggage and cargo during a specified time period, based upon specified data pertaining to the aircraft, passengers and ground resources, includes the steps of: (a) collecting and storing the specified data, (b) processing the data to predict the trajectories of the aircraft, wherein these trajectories including the expected gate arrival time, required ground servicing period and projected departure time of each of the aircraft, (c) processing the data to predict the loads imposed on the ground resources and gates associated with the movement of the passengers, equipment and supplies in relation to the arrival and departure of the aircraft, (d) processing the dat
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2004
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Inventors: R. Baiada, Lonnie Bowlin
  • Method and system for allocating aircraft arrival/departure slot times
    Patent number: 6789011
    Abstract: A computer program product, that allows an aviation system to temporally allocate aircraft slot times during a specified period for the flow of a plurality of aircraft toward a specified fix point, has, according to the present invention: (1) a means for collecting and storing specified data and criteria, (2) a means for processing, at a specified instant for which it is desired to allocate the slot times, the specified data applicable at that instant to each of the aircraft and associated resources so as to predict an arrival fix time for each of the aircraft at the specified fix point, (3) a means for accepting and storing a request by the operator of each of the aircraft for one of the slot times, (4) a means for accepting and storing a request by an operator of the present invention to create slack time in the specified period, (5) a means, utilizing the slot and slack time requests and the predicted arrival fix times for any of the plurality of aircraft for which a slot time request was not made, for pre
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Inventors: R. Michael Baiada, Lonnie Bowlin