Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Deployment criteria for unmanned aerial vehicles to improve cellular phone communications
- Patent Title (中): 无人驾驶飞行器的部署标准,以改善手机通讯
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Application No.: US14337598Application Date: 2014-07-22
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Publication No.: US09363008B2Publication Date: 2016-06-07
- Inventor: Gregory J. Boss , Rick A. Hamilton, II , Maharaj Mukherjee , Monimala Mukherjee
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.
- Agent Jeff Tang, Esq.
- Main IPC: H04W4/00
- IPC: H04W4/00 ; H04W40/00 ; H04B7/185 ; H04W84/06 ; H04W16/00 ; H04M15/00 ; H04W16/26 ; H04W24/08 ; H04W64/00 ; H04W84/00

Abstract:
System, method and computer program product for extending mobile device cellular carrier network coverage using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with telecommunications devices to act as temporary mobile device cellular network towers. The system and method extends cellular phone coverage of a land-based cellular phone network by: receiving information for determining a predicted or actual increase in aggregate cellular phone usage demand in an area at a determined time; identifying, based on an the predicted or actual increased aggregate cellular phone usage demand for the area, whether there exists a mismatch of existing usage coverage compared with the determined increased aggregate demand for that area; determining, based on an identified mismatch, a plan for sending signals to and deploying one or more mobile cellular unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) having telecommunications equipment configured to extend cellular phone network coverage of an existing land-based cellular phone network at the mismatched area.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160028471A1 DEPLOYMENT CRITERIA FOR UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES TO IMPROVE CELLULAR PHONE COMMUNICATIONS Public/Granted day:2016-01-28
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