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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:
May. 09, 2017

Filed:

May. 20, 2014
Applicant:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);

Inventors:

Igor Kantor, Raleigh, NC (US);

Ashok N. Srivastava, Mountain View, CA (US);

Douglas M. Pasko, Bridgewater, NJ (US);

Hani Batla, Teaneck, NJ (US);

Gurpreet Ubhi, Nutley, NJ (US);

Assignee:

VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/08 (2012.01); B64C 39/02 (2006.01); B64D 1/02 (2006.01); G08G 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/08355 (2013.01); B64C 39/024 (2013.01); B64D 1/02 (2013.01); G08G 5/0034 (2013.01); B64C 2201/128 (2013.01); B64C 2201/146 (2013.01);
Abstract

A device receives a request for a flight path for a UAV to travel from a first location to a second location, and determines capability information for the UAV based on component information of the UAV. The device calculates the flight path based on the capability information, and generates flight path instructions that include delivery confirmation instructions. The device provides the flight path instructions to the UAV to permit the UAV to travel from the first location to the second location to deliver a payload, and obtains, based on the delivery confirmation instructions, user credentials associated with a user at the second location. The device determines whether the user is an authorized recipient of the payload, based on the user credentials, and causes the UAV to selectively deliver the payload to the user based on whether the user is the authorized recipient of the payload.


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