Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Providing network connectivity and access to content and communications via moving objects
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Application No.: US14486235Application Date: 2014-09-15
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Publication No.: US09325407B2Publication Date: 2016-04-26
- Inventor: Eric Horvitz , Ashish Kapoor , Jie Liu , Ranveer Chandra
- Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Redmond
- Agent Alin Corie; Sandy Swain; Micky Minhas
- Main IPC: H04W4/00
- IPC: H04W4/00 ; H04B7/185 ; H04W72/04 ; H04L29/08

Abstract:
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.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160080069A1 Providing Network Connectivity and Access to Content and Communications via Moving Objects Public/Granted day:2016-03-17
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