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公开(公告)号：US11386384B2
公开(公告)日：2022-07-12
申请号：US15852804
申请日：2017-12-22
Applicant: X Development LLC
Inventor： Jesse Blake , André Prager , Eric Teller
IPC: G06Q10/08
Abstract: Methods and systems for recipient-assisted recharging during delivery by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) are disclosed herein. During a UAV transport task, a UAV determines that the UAV has arrived at a delivery location specified by a first flight leg of the transport task. The UAV responsively initiates a notification process indicating that a recipient-assisted recharging process should be initiated at or near the delivery location. When the UAV determines that the recipient-assisted recharging process has recharged a battery of the UAV to a target level, and also determines that a non-returnable portion of the payload has been removed from the UAV while a returnable portion of the payload is coupled to or held by the UAV, the UAV initiates a second flight segment of the transport task.
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公开(公告)号：US20190197463A1
公开(公告)日：2019-06-27
申请号：US15852804
申请日：2017-12-22
Applicant: X Development LLC
Inventor： Jesse Blake , André Prager , Eric Teller
IPC: G06Q10/08
CPC classification number: G06Q10/083
Abstract: Methods and systems for recipient-assisted recharging during delivery by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) are disclosed herein. During a UAV transport task, a UAV determines that the UAV has arrived at a delivery location specified by a first flight leg of the transport task. The UAV responsively initiates a notification process indicating that a recipient-assisted recharging process should be initiated at or near the delivery location. When the UAV determines that the recipient-assisted recharging process has recharged a battery of the UAV to a target level, and also determines that a non-returnable portion of the payload has been removed from the UAV while a returnable portion of the payload is coupled to or held by the UAV, the UAV initiates a second flight segment of the transport task.
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公开(公告)号：US20190185149A1
公开(公告)日：2019-06-20
申请号：US15849365
申请日：2017-12-20
Applicant: X Development LLC
Inventor： Giulia Pantalone , Adam Woodworth , Eric Teller , Ealgoo Kim , Jacob Huffman , Martin Kubie
IPC: B64C27/00 , B64C39/02 , B64C27/14 , B64D31/00 , G10K11/178
CPC classification number: B64C27/001 , B64C27/14 , B64C39/024 , B64C2201/027 , B64C2201/042 , B64C2201/104 , B64C2201/108 , B64C2201/141 , B64C2201/146 , B64D31/00 , B64D31/06 , G05D19/02 , G10K11/1785 , G10K2210/121 , G10K2210/1281 , G10K2210/3044 , H02P7/00
Abstract: A technique of controlling tonal noises produced by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes generating thrust with a plurality of rotor units mounted to the UAV to propel the UAV into flight. Each of the rotor units includes a bladed rotor. A rotation rate or a phase delay of at least one of the rotor units is adjusted relative to another of the rotor units. The adjustment causes a spread in the tonal noises generated by the rotor units.
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公开(公告)号：US09830835B1
公开(公告)日：2017-11-28
申请号：US14297510
申请日：2014-06-05
Applicant: X Development LLC
Inventor： Eric Teller , Richard Wayne DeVaul , Michael Cassidy
CPC classification number: H04L47/2491 , G06F3/0484 , G09B29/006 , H04L41/0896 , H04L41/12 , H04L41/22 , H04L43/045 , H04L43/08 , H04L43/0894 , H04L47/24 , H04L47/805 , H04L47/821 , H04L47/829 , H04L63/10 , H04W16/24 , H04W84/005 , H04W84/06
Abstract: Example embodiments may relate to web interfaces for a balloon-network. For example, a computing device may display a graphical interface that provides information related to a balloon network configured to provide service in a geographic area, where the graphical interface includes a map. The computing device may receive real-time bandwidth data related to balloons in the balloon network, where the balloons are each configured to change position via altitudinal movement and via horizontal movement with respect to the ground. Based at least in part on the received real-time bandwidth data, the computing device may display, on the map, a visual representation of bandwidth information corresponding to one or more regions in the geographic area, where the visual representation of bandwidth information updates from time to time based at least in part on a change in position of one or more balloons in the balloon network.
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公开(公告)号：US09671781B1
公开(公告)日：2017-06-06
申请号：US14542203
申请日：2014-11-14
Applicant: X Development LLC
Inventor： Eric Peeters , Eric Teller , William Graham Patrick
CPC classification number: G05D1/0011 , B64C2201/145 , B64C2201/146 , G05D1/0027 , G06F19/00 , G06F19/3456 , G07C5/006 , G07C5/008 , G08G5/0013 , G08G5/0026 , G08G5/0056 , G08G5/0069
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a deployment system for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). In one aspect, an illustrative deployment system includes a communication system configured for receiving diagnostic data corresponding to an object included in a UAV, wherein the UAV has an expiration condition; and a logic module configured for (i) determining that the expiration condition has been satisfied based, at least in part, on the received diagnostic data, and (ii) responsive to determining that the expiration condition has been satisfied, initiating an action that includes sending to the UAV both (a) navigation data relating to a remedial facility, and (b) instructions to navigate to the remedial facility based, at least in part, on the navigation data.
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16.发明授权公开(公告)号：US09532174B2
公开(公告)日：2016-12-27
申请号：US13692957
申请日：2012-12-03
Applicant: X Development LLC
Inventor： Eric Teller
CPC classification number: H04B7/18504 , H04L63/107 , H04W4/021 , H04W4/025 , H04W4/029 , H04W12/08 , H04W16/00 , H04W16/26 , H04W24/02 , H04W84/005 , H04W84/18 , H04W88/08
Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods operable in a balloon network. The method can include determining that a balloon is at a location associated with a legally-defined geographic area. An area profile of the legally-defined geographic area may identify geographically-restricted data that must not be removed from the legally-defined geographic area. The method can also include determining that the balloon contains at least some of the geographically-restricted data. The method can also include determining that the balloon is likely to move out of the legally-defined geographic area. The method can also include removing the geographically-restricted data from the memory of the balloon.
Abstract translation: 本公开提供了可在气球网络中操作的方法。 该方法可以包括确定气球在与法定界定的地理区域相关联的位置处。 合法定义的地理区域的区域轮廓可以识别不能从法定定义的地理区域移除的地理上受限制的数据。 该方法还可以包括确定气球包含至少一些地理上受限制的数据。 该方法还可以包括确定气球可能移出法定界定的地理区域。 该方法还可以包括从气球的存储器中移除地理上受限制的数据。
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公开(公告)号：US10679190B1
公开(公告)日：2020-06-09
申请号：US15041883
申请日：2016-02-11
Applicant: X Development LLC
Inventor： Eric Teller
IPC: G06F11/32 , G06Q10/10 , G06Q50/00 , G06F16/16 , G06F16/335 , G06F16/332 , H04W12/06
Abstract: Exemplary methods and systems may help to provide content to a user and/or take to take actions on user's behalf, based on a context-specific user-network that includes surrogates for a user in a certain context. An exemplary method may involve: (a) determining a context associated with a first user-profile; (b) determining a context-specific user-network for the first user-profile in the determined context, wherein the context-specific user-network comprises one or more user-profiles that are surrogates for the first user-profile in the determined context; (c) using historical context-to-action data for one or more of the surrogate user-profiles as a basis for determining a context-based action that is appropriate in the determined context; and (d) causing a computing device associated with the first user-profile to initiate the context-based action.
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公开(公告)号：US10162044B2
公开(公告)日：2018-12-25
申请号：US15019772
申请日：2016-02-09
Applicant: X Development LLC
Inventor： Richard Wayne DeVaul , Waleed Kadous , Eric Teller , Cliff Biffle , Edward Allen Keyes
IPC: G01S5/04 , G01S1/02 , G01S1/04 , G01S1/20 , G01S5/02 , G01S19/03 , G01S19/24 , G01S5/00 , G01S5/12 , G01S5/14 , G01S5/16
Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of a balloon-based positioning system and method. In one example embodiment, a system includes at least three balloons, with each balloon including a position-determining module (PDM) and a position-broadcasting module (PBM). Each PDM is configured for determining a position of the respective balloon and each PBM is configured for broadcasting a balloon signal containing balloon-positioning data of the respective balloon. The balloon-positioning data includes the determined position of the respective balloon and a corresponding time of broadcast.
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公开(公告)号：US20180334236A1
公开(公告)日：2018-11-22
申请号：US15986078
申请日：2018-05-22
Applicant: X Development LLC
Inventor： Eric Teller , Richard Wayne Devaul , Joshua Weaver , Clifford L. Biffle , Bradley Rhodes , Anton Valdemar Staaf
Abstract: A balloon includes a cut-down device, a payload, and an envelope. A control system could be configured to determine a position of the balloon with respect to a predetermined zone. The cut-down device could be operable to cause at least the payload to land in response to determining that the position of the balloon is within the predetermined zone. The predetermined zone includes an exclusion zone and a shadow zone. The shadow zone could include locations from which the balloon would be likely to drift into the exclusion zone based on, e.g., historic weather patterns or expected environmental conditions. Boundaries of the shadow zone could be determined based on, for example, a probability of the balloon entering the exclusion zone.
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公开(公告)号：US10123255B2
公开(公告)日：2018-11-06
申请号：US15356746
申请日：2016-11-21
Applicant: X Development LLC
Inventor： Eric Teller
IPC: H04B10/118 , H04W48/04 , H04L29/08 , H04W4/021 , H04W8/18 , H04W12/08 , H04W40/24 , H04B7/185 , H04W40/20 , H04L29/06 , H04W84/06 , H04W84/18 , H04W84/00
Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method operable in a balloon network. The method can include determining that a balloon is at a location associated with a first legally-defined geographic area, wherein an area profile identifies a list of geographically-prohibited data that is restricted from being cached in the first legally-defined geographic area. The method can also include receiving first data. The method can also include using the list of geographically-prohibited data to determine whether or not the first data is geographically-prohibited data. If the first data is geographically-prohibited data, then the method can further include refraining from storing the first data in data storage at the first balloon.
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