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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:
Oct. 08, 2024

Filed:

Apr. 05, 2022
Applicant:

Softbank Corp., Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Jutatsu Sai, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:

SoftBank Corp., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/185 (2006.01); B64C 39/02 (2023.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01); H04W 16/28 (2009.01); H04W 72/542 (2023.01); H04W 84/06 (2009.01); B64U 10/13 (2023.01); B64U 101/20 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/18506 (2013.01); B64C 39/024 (2013.01); G05D 1/104 (2013.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.02); H04W 16/28 (2013.01); H04W 72/542 (2023.01); H04W 84/06 (2013.01); B64U 10/13 (2023.01); B64U 2101/20 (2023.01); B64U 2201/10 (2023.01);
Abstract

A system having flying objects, each of which includes: a beacon signal transmission unit for wirelessly transmitting a beacon signal including rank information representing the flying object is at, a first rank when wirelessly connected with a gateway, a second rank when wirelessly connected with a flying object at the first rank, and a third rank when wirelessly connected with a flying object at the second rank; a flying object identification unit for identifying, when wirelessly connected with any flying object among the flying objects, flying objects from which strength of a radio wave received is stronger than threshold; and a flying object determination unit for determining a flying object with which wireless connection is to be performed, from the identified flying objects and based on the strength of radio wave received from each of the flying objects and a rank of the each of the flying objects, is provided.


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