Role-specialization in spaceborne and airborne computing platforms
First Claim
1. An airborne computing platform, comprising:
- a plurality of aircraft having specialized roles defined at least by presently provisioned software elements and hardware elements that vary among the plurality of aircraft; and
individual ones of the plurality of aircraft configured to;
maintain attribute scoring metrics that rate one or more aircraft in competency among at least a portion of the specialized roles;
identify tasks to be serviced using one or more of the specialized roles;
based at least in part on the attribute scoring metrics, determine one or more target aircraft that satisfy the one or more of the specialized roles to handle the tasks; and
transfer at least task instructions for delivery to the one or more target aircraft for performing the tasks using at least one among the presently provisioned software elements and hardware elements associated with the one or more of the specialized roles.
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Abstract
Systems, methods, and software described herein provide enhancements for spaceborne and airborne computing platforms. In one example, an airborne computing platform includes a plurality of airborne devices, with one or more of the airborne devices comprising specialized roles defined by at least one among software elements and hardware elements targeted to the specialized roles. Individual ones of the airborne devices are configured to identify tasks to be serviced using one or more of the specialized roles, determine one or more target devices to handle the tasks based at least in part on attributes of the target devices, and transfer at least task instructions for delivery to the target devices for performing the tasks.
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20 Claims
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1. An airborne computing platform, comprising:
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a plurality of aircraft having specialized roles defined at least by presently provisioned software elements and hardware elements that vary among the plurality of aircraft; and individual ones of the plurality of aircraft configured to; maintain attribute scoring metrics that rate one or more aircraft in competency among at least a portion of the specialized roles; identify tasks to be serviced using one or more of the specialized roles; based at least in part on the attribute scoring metrics, determine one or more target aircraft that satisfy the one or more of the specialized roles to handle the tasks; and transfer at least task instructions for delivery to the one or more target aircraft for performing the tasks using at least one among the presently provisioned software elements and hardware elements associated with the one or more of the specialized roles. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method of operating an airborne platform, the method comprising:
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defining specialized roles among a plurality of aircraft, wherein the specialized roles are defined based at least on presently provisioned software elements and hardware elements that vary among the plurality of aircraft; maintaining attribute scoring metrics that rate one or more aircraft in competency among at least a portion of the specialized roles; identifying tasks to be serviced using one or more of the specialized roles; based at least in part on the attribute scoring metrics, determining one or more target aircraft that satisfy the one or more of the specialized roles to handle the tasks; and transferring at least task instructions for delivery to the one or more target aircraft for performing the tasks using at least one among the presently provisioned software elements and hardware elements associated with the one or more of the specialized roles. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. An aircraft, comprising:
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a communication system configured to receive task descriptions and associated data from at least one peer aircraft; a task execution system configured to identify specialized roles indicated in the task descriptions and determine if the aircraft supports one or more of the specialized roles for processing the associated data based at least on a present provisioning of software elements and hardware elements in the aircraft; based at least on the aircraft supporting the one or more of the specialized roles, the task execution system configured to execute one or more tasks for processing the associated data in accordance with associated task descriptions; and based at least on the aircraft not supporting the one or more of the specialized roles, the task execution system configured to instruct the communication system to transfer the associated task descriptions and the associated data for delivery to a further peer aircraft supporting the one or more of the specialized roles, wherein the further peer aircraft is selected from among a plurality of aircraft having specialized roles defined at least by presently provisioned software elements and hardware elements that vary among the plurality of aircraft. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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