Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Blockchain airspace management system
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Application No.: US16992064Application Date: 2020-08-12
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Publication No.: US10909857B2Publication Date: 2021-02-02
- Inventor: Jeffrey Bosworth
- Applicant: Textron Innovations Inc.
- Applicant Address: US RI Providence
- Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.
- Current Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US RI Providence
- Agency: Lawrence Youst PLLC
- Main IPC: G08G5/00
- IPC: G08G5/00 ; H04L9/06 ; H04L29/08 ; G06Q50/30

Abstract:
Systems, methods and non-transitory computer readable storage media for airspace management within an airspace region at a node of a peer to peer network having a plurality of nodes and maintaining a blockchain containing a current deconflicted flight schedule for the airspace region. One method includes receiving requests for airspace reservations, each including flight plan data, from other nodes over the peer to peer network, compiling the flight plan data to identify conflicts between the requests and the current deconflicted flight schedule, validating the flight plan data of the requests that do not conflict with the current deconflicted flight schedule to generate validated airspace reservations, creating a block containing the validated airspace reservations and interlinking the block with the blockchain such that the blockchain contains a new deconflicted flight schedule for the airspace region for broadcast to the other nodes over the peer to peer network.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200372810A1 Blockchain Airspace Management System Public/Granted day:2020-11-26
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