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US 10,853,755 B2Granted
Interactive transport services provided by unmanned aerial vehicles
AssigneeWing Aviation LLC
InventorsJonathan Lesser, Michael Bauerly, James Ryan Burgess, May Cheng, Rue Song
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Abstract
Embodiments relate to a client-facing application for interacting with a transport service that transports items via unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). An example graphic interface may allow a user to order items to specific delivery areas associated with their larger delivery location, and may dynamically provide status updates and other functionality during the process of fulfilling a UAV transport request.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a client computing device, a transport request for transport of one or more items by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to a target delivery location, wherein a geographic area is defined by a property line of the target delivery location;
- responsive to receiving the transport request, the client computing device:
- (i) determining that two or more UAV-accessible sub-areas are associated with the target delivery location, wherein each UAV-accessible sub-area:
- (a) is within the geographic area and at least the threshold distance from the property line and (b) includes an unobstructed path from an aerial position above the UAV-accessible sub-area to a ground surface in the UAV-accessible sub-area;
- and
- (ii) displaying, on a graphic display, a graphic map interface indicating the two or more UAV-accessible sub-areas for the target delivery location, wherein each UAV-accessible sub-area is selectable via the graphic map interface;
- receiving, via the graphic map interface of the client computing device, a selection of a first of the two or more UAV-accessible sub-areas;
- and
- responsive to receiving the selection, the client computing device causing the UAV to transport the one or more items to the first UAV-accessible sub-area.
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A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions executable by a computing device to cause the computing device to perform functions comprising:
- receiving a transport request for transport of one or more items by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to a target delivery location, wherein a geographic area is defined by a property line of the target delivery location;
- responsive to receiving the transport request:
- (i) determining that two or more UAV-accessible sub-areas for are associated with the target delivery location, wherein each UAV-accessible sub-area:
- (a) is within the geographic area and at least the threshold distance from the property line and (b) includes an unobstructed path from an aerial position above the UAV-accessible sub-area to a ground surface in the UAV-accessible sub-area;
- and
- (ii) displaying, on a graphic display, a graphic map interface indicating the two or more UAV-accessible sub-areas for the target delivery location, wherein each UAV-accessible sub-area is selectable via the graphic map interface;
- receiving, via the graphic map interface, a selection of a first of the two or more UAV-accessible sub-areas;
- and
- responsive to receiving the selection, causing the UAV to transport the one or more items to the selected UAV-accessible sub-area.
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A system comprising:
- a graphic display;
- a non-transitory computer-readable medium;
- and
- program instructions stored on the non-transitory computer-readable medium and executable by at least one processor to:
- receive a transport request for transport of one or more items by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to a target delivery location, wherein a geographic area is defined by a property line of the target delivery location;
- responsive to receiving the transport request:
- (i) determining that two or more UAV-accessible sub-areas for are associated with the target delivery location, wherein each UAV-accessible sub-area:
- (a) is within the geographic area and at least the threshold distance from the property line and (b) includes an unobstructed path from an aerial position above the UAV-accessible sub-area to a ground surface in the UAV-accessible sub-area;
- and
- (ii) displaying, on a graphic display, a graphic map interface indicating the two or more UAV-accessible sub-areas for the target delivery location, wherein each UAV-accessible sub-area is selectable via the graphic map interface;
- receive, via the graphic map interface, a selection of a first of the two or more UAV-accessible sub-areas;
- and
- responsive to receiving the selection, cause the UAV to transport the one or more items to the selected UAV-accessible sub-area.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.