Managing in-flight transfer of parcels using blockchain authentication
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsBrian S. Beaman, Eric V. Kline, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
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Abstract
An example operation may include one or more of receiving a request to authorize an in-flight transfer of a parcel between a source unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a target UAV, authenticating, via a blockchain, an identity of the source UAV and an identity of the target UAV based on one or more predefined keys included in the request, and in response to the blockchain authentication being successful, initiating delivery of the parcel from the source UAV to the target UAV while one or more of the source UAV and the target UAV are in-flight.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- receiving a request to authorize an in-flight transfer of a parcel between a source unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a target UAV;
- authenticating, via a blockchain, an identity of the source UAV and an identity of the target UAV based on one or more predefined keys included in the request;
- and
- in response to the blockchain authentication being successful, initiating delivery of the parcel from the source UAV to the target UAV while one or more of the source UAV and the target UAV are in-flight.
A computing device comprising:
- a network interface configured to receive a request to authorize an in-flight transfer of a parcel between a source unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a target UAV;
- and
- a processor configured to authenticate, via a blockchain, an identity of the source UAV and an identity of the target UAV based on one or more predefined keys included in the request,
- wherein, in response to the blockchain authentication being successful, the processor is further configured to control the network interface to transmit a message to one or more of the source UAV and the target UAV to initiate delivery of the parcel from the source UAV to the target UAV while one or more of the source UAV and the target UAV are in-flight.
A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored therein program instructions that when executed cause a computer to perform a method comprising:
- receiving a request to authorize an in-flight transfer of a parcel between a source unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a target UAV;
- authenticating, via a blockchain, an identity of the source UAV and an identity of the target UAV based on one or more predefined keys included in the request;
- and
- in response to the blockchain authentication being successful, initiating delivery of the parcel from the source UAV to the target UAV while one or more of the source UAV and the target UAV are in-flight.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.