Customizable situational awareness dashboard and alerts, and associated systems and methods

Abstract

A customizable situational awareness system is described that allows a user to customize the type of information that the user receives through a user interface, e.g., a dashboard, displayed by the system. In particular embodiments, the system can allow the user to configure alerts that are sent to the user's mobile or other device based on situational awareness events. In further embodiments, the customizable situational awareness system receives user configuration data related to flight events, maintenance events, and alerts. When the system receives situational awareness data, the system can retrieve the user's configuration data and display the situational awareness data based on the user's configuration data. Thus, aspects of the customizable situational awareness system allow the user to access information that is more relevant to the user and to filter out less relevant information.

I claim: 
     
         1 . A computer-readable storage medium encoded with instructions for controlling a computer system to receive customizations to a displayable view of aircraft situational awareness data, by a method comprising:
 receiving a request from a user to view customization options for customizing the displayable view of the aircraft situational awareness data;   displaying a customization user interface having options for configuring the display of at least flight events, maintenance events, and alert messages;   receiving one or more preference selections from the user based on the displayed options;   storing the preference selections received from the user in a nonvolatile storage device; and   displaying a situational awareness user interface based on the stored preference selections of the user.   
     
     
         2 . The computer-readable medium of  claim 1  wherein displaying a situational awareness user interface comprises displaying the user interface through a web portal containing aircraft information related to the situational awareness data. 
     
     
         3 . The computer-readable medium of  claim 1  wherein receiving one or more preference selections comprises receiving a time range of events to display in the situational awareness user interface. 
     
     
         4 . The computer-readable medium of  claim 1  wherein receiving one or more preference selections comprises receiving a selection of event types to display in the situational awareness user interface. 
     
     
         5 . The computer-readable medium of  claim 1  wherein receiving one or more preference selections comprises receiving a selection of tail numbers to display in the situational awareness user interface.