Providing Network Connectivity and Access to Content and Communications via Moving Objects
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsEric Horvitz, Ashish Kapoor, Jie Liu, Ranveer Chandra
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AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsEric Horvitz, Ashish Kapoor, Jie Liu, Ranveer Chandra
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Various techniques for providing network connectivity are described herein. In one example, a moving object includes an uplink device of the moving object to connect the moving object to a publicly available computer network. The moving object also includes a downlink device of the moving object to be communicatively coupled to a remote device at a specific segment along a route of the moving object. The remote device is to provide data received via the downlink device to a user. The moving object also further includes a cache store communicatively coupled to the uplink device and the downlink device. Implementations include the use of commercial airplanes for providing connectivity via intermittent access and refreshing of a cache store that makes content available to end users.
A moving object that provides network connectivity, comprising:
A method for providing network connectivity via moving objects, comprising:
One or more computer-readable storage media for providing network connectivity via moving objects, comprising a plurality of instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.