Mobile aerial drone early warning privacy breach detect, intercept, and defend systems and methods
AssigneeT-Mobile USA, Inc.
InventorsEric Yocam, Damon Laursen
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Abstract
Systems and methods for aerial unmanned vehicle (for example, drone) early warning privacy breach detection, interception, and defense are disclosed. The system detects drones within a threshold distance of an individual or configurable location, notifies the individual of the drones' existence, tracks the drones, and executes countermeasures. The system can communicate with telecommunication networks or other sources (for example, FAA) to identify and filter out drones that are authorized to be in the airspace around the individual.
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A system for detecting, intercepting, and defending against breaches carried out by unmanned aerial vehicles, the system comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, which when executed by one or more processors of the system cause the system to:
- receive an indication of presence of an unmanned aerial vehicle within a vicinity of a mobile device;
- output an alert notifying a user of the presence of the unmanned aerial vehicle within the vicinity of the mobile device;
- and
- receive instructions from the user, wherein the instructions enable execution of at least one countermeasure against the unmanned aerial vehicle.
A method for detecting, intercepting, and defending against breaches carried out by unmanned aerial vehicles, the method comprising:
- receiving an indication of presence of an unmanned aerial vehicle within a vicinity of a location;
- outputting one or more signals indicative of the presence of the unmanned aerial vehicle within the vicinity of the location;
- receiving instructions that enable execution of at least one countermeasure against the detected unmanned aerial vehicle;
- output a set of countermeasures that can be performed against the detected unmanned aerial vehicle,
- wherein the countermeasures in the set of countermeasures are displayed in a ranked order.
At least one computer-readable memory carrying instructions to be executed by at least one processor, wherein the instructions are for performing a method of defending against privacy breaches carried out by unmanned aerial vehicles, the method comprising:
- receiving an indication of presence of at least one unmanned aerial vehicle within a vicinity of a mobile device;
- outputting an alert notifying a user of the presence of the at least one unmanned aerial vehicle within the vicinity of the mobile device;
- and
- receiving, via the mobile device, instructions that enable execution of at least one countermeasure against the at least one unmanned aerial vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.