Methods and systems for transportation vessel network communication service anomaly detection

• Main Authors: Vidyarthi, Shreyas, Pagliaro, Guiseppie R, Tian, Daniel, Lala, Karan S, Perapalanunt, Jonathan B
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 29.01.2019
• Subjects: AIRCRAFT; ARRANGEMENTS OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSIONTRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; COSMONAUTICS; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; FLYING SUITS; PARACHUTES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; SIGNALLING; TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION; TRANSPORTING

Methods and systems for detecting an anomaly with a communication service provided to a transportation vessel along a travel route are disclosed. In some aspects, performance metrics are obtained for a monitored vessel while the travel is in progress. Historical travel routes are identified having characteristics similar to those of the monitored vessel's travel route. Corresponding performance metrics of the historical travel routes may be aggregated via mean or median operations, and the results compared to equivalent metrics of the monitored vessel. If accumulated negative variances between the monitored vessel's performance and the historical travel route's performance exceed a threshold, an anomaly may be determined to exist. In this case, the systems and methods may generate an alert in various forms, including email, text, or selective network commands to various networking components, including, for example, instructing networking equipment on board the monitored vessel to perform a power cycle operation.