US 11,144,048 B2Granted

Remote provisioning of a drone resource

AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.

InventorVenson Shaw

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Abstract

Remote provision of a drone resource is disclosed. A user equipment (UE) can generate a request for drone resources that can be employed to find an appropriate drone from a set of drones. The drone can be automatically provisioned to allow access to the drone resource in accord with the request. The set of drones can comprise different tiers of drones. A response can be generated indicating the state of provisioning a drone in accord with the request. The user equipment can make the request available to a drone allocation component via a communication framework that can comprise a wireless interface. Provisioning of the drone can similarly be accomplished via the communication framework. As such, the set of drones can be distributed and can be provisioned from a UE located remotely from the drone allocation component and/or the drones comprising the set of drones.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system, comprising:

a processor;
and
a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
receiving, via a user equipment, a request for use of drones by a first user of a first group of users, wherein the drones are comprised in at least one of a first group of drones and a second group of drones, wherein the first group of drones is a different group of drones than the second group of drones, wherein the first group of users is permitted to use the first group of drones and the second group of drones, and wherein a second group of users is not permitted to use the first group of drones;
scoring requests, comprising the request, with respect to a first drone and a second drone of the drones, wherein the scoring is based on a first attribute of the first drone and a second attribute of the second drone;
provisioning the first drone and the second drone, in response to the request, based on the scoring of the requests;
and
enabling access, by the user equipment, to the first drone and the second drone in accord with the provisioning and the request.

5 more elements

A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

generating a request for allocation of drone resources by a user equipment, wherein drones associated with the drone resources are comprised in a first tier of drones and a second tier of drones that is different from the first tier of drones, wherein the first tier of drones is accessible by first users and is not accessible by second users, and wherein the second tier of drones is accessible by the second users;
and
in response to selecting a group of the drones associated with the drone resources based on a determined ranking score of the group of the drones, receiving, by the user equipment, a provisioning of the group of the drones based on the request for allocation of the drone resources, wherein the determined ranking score is determined based on a parameter determined from the request and a characteristic of the group of the drones.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/177,270Filed 31 Oct 2018 · continuation
Priority: 5 Jun 2015
Published: US 2019/0064796 A128 Feb 2019
Granted: 12 Oct 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G05D 1/0027
Associated with a remote control arrangement: involving a plurality of vehicles, e.g. fleet or convoy travelling
G06Q 30/0645
Buying, selling or leasing transactions: rental transactions; Leasing transactions
G08G 1/0175
Identifying vehicles: by photographing vehicles, e.g. when violating traffic rules
G08G 5/55
Navigation or guidance aids: for a single aircraft

Family

Application14/732,626Parent of this continuation · filed 5 Jun 2015
US 2019/0064796 A1Pre-grant publication · published 28 Feb 2019
US 10,162,351 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2016/0357183 A1Published application
US 11,144,048 B2This patent

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