DEPLOYMENT CRITERIA FOR UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES TO IMPROVE CELLULAR PHONE COMMUNICATIONS
First Claim
1. A system for extending cellular phone coverage of a land-based cellular phone network comprising:
- a memory storage device;
a computing device implementing a hardware processor coupled to said memory storage device and configured to;
receive information to determine a predicted or actual increase in aggregate cellular phone usage demand in an area at a determined time;
identify, based on an said predicted or actual increased aggregate cellular phone usage demand for said area, whether there exists a mismatch of existing coverage compared with said determined increased aggregate usage demand for that area;
determine, based on an identified mismatch, a plan for deploying one or more mobile cellular unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) having telecommunications equipment configured to extend cellular phone network coverage of an existing land-based cellular phone network to the mismatched area; and
send, by the computing device, a signal to a facility configured to deploy said one or more mobile cellular UAVs to said mismatched area according to said plan,wherein, responsive to said signal, said one or more mobile cellular UAVs are deployed to said mismatched area to connect with said existing land-based cellular phone network and extend cellular phone usage coverage at said area.
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Abstract
System, method and computer program product for extending mobile device cellular carrier network coverage using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with telecommunications devices to act as temporary mobile device cellular network towers. The system and method extends cellular phone coverage of a land-based cellular phone network by: receiving information for determining a predicted or actual increase in aggregate cellular phone usage demand in an area at a determined time; identifying, based on an the predicted or actual increased aggregate cellular phone usage demand for the area, whether there exists a mismatch of existing usage coverage compared with the determined increased aggregate demand for that area; determining, based on an identified mismatch, a plan for sending signals to and deploying one or more mobile cellular unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) having telecommunications equipment configured to extend cellular phone network coverage of an existing land-based cellular phone network at the mismatched area.
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Citations
28 Claims
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1. A system for extending cellular phone coverage of a land-based cellular phone network comprising:
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a memory storage device; a computing device implementing a hardware processor coupled to said memory storage device and configured to; receive information to determine a predicted or actual increase in aggregate cellular phone usage demand in an area at a determined time; identify, based on an said predicted or actual increased aggregate cellular phone usage demand for said area, whether there exists a mismatch of existing coverage compared with said determined increased aggregate usage demand for that area; determine, based on an identified mismatch, a plan for deploying one or more mobile cellular unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) having telecommunications equipment configured to extend cellular phone network coverage of an existing land-based cellular phone network to the mismatched area; and send, by the computing device, a signal to a facility configured to deploy said one or more mobile cellular UAVs to said mismatched area according to said plan, wherein, responsive to said signal, said one or more mobile cellular UAVs are deployed to said mismatched area to connect with said existing land-based cellular phone network and extend cellular phone usage coverage at said area. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13)
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11. The system as claimed in 6, wherein said data indicating a convergence or migration of many mobile phone users is based on received social media information or conventional media information implying said convergence or migration, said social media network information data including:
- data from geo-tagged tweets or social media network messages from said user mobile devices, said clustering of group movement prediction being based on said geo-tagged tweets or said social media network messages.
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14. A method for extending cellular phone coverage of a land-based cellular phone network comprising:
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receiving, at a hardware processor of a computing device, information for determining a predicted or actual increase in aggregate cellular phone usage demand in an area at a determined time; identifying at said hardware processing device, based on an said predicted or actual increased aggregate cellular phone usage demand for said area, whether there exists a mismatch of existing usage coverage compared with said determined increased aggregate demand for that area; determining, based on an identified mismatch, a plan for deploying one or more mobile cellular unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) having telecommunications equipment configured to extend cellular phone network coverage of an existing land-based cellular phone network to the mismatched area; and sending, by the computing device, a signal to a facility configured to deploy said one or more mobile cellular UAVs to said mismatched area according to said plan, wherein, responsive to said signal, said one or more mobile cellular UAVs are deployed to said mismatched area to connect with said existing land-based cellular phone network and extend cellular phone usage coverage at said area. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25)
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23. The method as claimed in 18, wherein said information includes data indicating a convergence or migration of many mobile phone users to said identified area at a current or future time, said data indicating a convergence or migration of many mobile phone users is based on received social media information or conventional media information implying said convergence or migration, said social media network information data including:
- data from geo-tagged tweets or social media network messages from said user mobile devices, said predictive clustering of group movement being based on said geo-tagged tweets or said social media network messages.
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26. A computer program product for extending cellular phone coverage of a land-based cellular phone network, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, the program instructions readable by a processing circuit to cause the processing circuit to perform a method comprising:
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receiving information for determining a predicted or actual increase in aggregate cellular phone usage demand in an area at a determined time; identifying based on an said predicted or actual increased aggregate cellular phone usage demand for said area, whether there exists a mismatch of existing usage coverage compared with said determined increased aggregate demand for that area; determining, based on an identified mismatch, a plan for deploying one or more mobile cellular unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) having telecommunications equipment configured to extend cellular phone network coverage of an existing land-based cellular phone network to the mismatched area; and sending, by the computing device, a signal to a facility configured to deploy said one or more mobile cellular UAVs to said mismatched area according to said plan, wherein, responsive to said signal, said one or more mobile cellular UAVs are deployed to said mismatched area to connect with said existing land-based cellular phone network and extend cellular phone usage coverage at said area. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28)
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