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Role-specialization in spaceborne and airborne computing platforms

  • US 10,491,710 B2
  • Filed: 01/11/2019
  • Issued: 11/26/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2017
  • Status: Active Grant
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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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