International Business Machines Corporation

Kent Charles Barton Steer

Rahil Garnavi

Ermyas Abebe

Dileban Karunamoorthy

Xingzhi Sun

Jan Richter

Yaniv Shmuel Bernstein

Anton Beloglazov

Juerg Von Kaenel

A method to provide an insight to a decision maker to assist them in deciding how to perform a task includes: determining a time constraint in which the task needs to be performed; adjusting an accuracy of a computer program designed to calculate the insight to ensure that the insight is generated within the time constraint; scheduling execution of the computer program; and providing an insight output by the executed computer program to the decision maker.

Providing support to human decision making

Apparatus, method, computer program product, and system described for an autonomous vehicle (a drone) which uses one or more hosts to transport that drone on its journey. Potential hosts along the envisioned journey can be rated as to their suitability. That rating along with an indication of the value of traveling under its own power or remaining stationary for a particular time can be evaluated at any point along the journey to produce an effective route, time, cost, or whatever other factor is desirable. The drone can chose between these states and communicate with potential hosts and even stationary positions or it can remain in the mode it was just in. The drone can switch between one host and another, be charged by a host or at a stationary location, and can evaluate the different modes differently depending on the needs of the user and the drone itself.

Drone range extension via host vehicles

Growing community of inventors

Brunswick, Australia

Kent Charles Barton Steer