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Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2020

Filed:

Dec. 27, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Brian S. Beaman, Apex, NC (US);

Eric V. Kline, Rochester, MN (US);

Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Kolkata, IN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/32 (2006.01); B64D 1/00 (2006.01); G06Q 10/08 (2012.01); G07C 5/00 (2006.01); B64C 39/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/3247 (2013.01); B64D 1/00 (2013.01); G06Q 10/083 (2013.01); G07C 5/008 (2013.01); B64C 39/024 (2013.01); B64C 2201/128 (2013.01);
Abstract

An example operation may include one or more of receiving a request to authorize an in-flight transfer of a parcel between a source unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a target UAV, authenticating, via a blockchain, an identity of the source UAV and an identity of the target UAV based on one or more predefined keys included in the request, and in response to the blockchain authentication being successful, initiating delivery of the parcel from the source UAV to the target UAV while one or more of the source UAV and the target UAV are in-flight.


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