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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 01, 2017
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Michael Franco Taveira, San Diego, CA (US);

Govindarajan Krishnamurthi, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/12 (2006.01); G08G 5/00 (2006.01); G08B 13/196 (2006.01); G08G 5/04 (2006.01); G08B 25/01 (2006.01); G08G 1/16 (2006.01); B64C 39/02 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G08B 25/10 (2006.01); B64D 47/02 (2006.01); B64D 47/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/12 (2013.01); B64C 39/024 (2013.01); G06K 9/0063 (2013.01); G06K 9/00335 (2013.01); G06K 9/00362 (2013.01); G06K 9/00771 (2013.01); G08B 13/19613 (2013.01); G08B 25/014 (2013.01); G08B 25/016 (2013.01); G08B 25/10 (2013.01); G08G 1/164 (2013.01); G08G 5/0013 (2013.01); G08G 5/0021 (2013.01); G08G 5/0056 (2013.01); G08G 5/0069 (2013.01); G08G 5/0078 (2013.01); G08G 5/045 (2013.01); B64C 2201/12 (2013.01); B64C 2201/127 (2013.01); B64C 2201/145 (2013.01); B64D 47/02 (2013.01); B64D 47/08 (2013.01); G06K 2209/21 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various methods for monitoring a target user by a drone include tracking the target user by the drone, detecting an object in the presence of the target user based on one or more detection criteria, determining whether the object is a potential threat to the target user based on one or more threat criteria, determining whether to notify the third party of the potential threat to the target user based on one or more notification criteria in response to determining that the object is a potential threat, notifying the third party of the potential threat to the target user in response to determining that the third party should be notified, receiving a response from the third party including a command, and performing an action based on the command.


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