Unmanned vehicle civil communications systems and methods

• US 8,970,400 B2
• Filed: 01/30/2012
• Issued: 03/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Verna IP Holdings, LLC (Ortiz & Lopez PLLC)
• Original Assignee: Verna IP Holdings, LLC (Ortiz & Lopez PLLC)
• Inventors: Verna, Anthony, Ortiz, Luis M., Lopez, Kermit D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Tweel, Jr., John A
• Application Number:
  US13/361,409
• Publication Number:
  US 20120299751A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,128 Days
• Field of Search: 713/166, 709/225, 379 37- 51, 455/404.2, 455/521
• US Class Current: 340/945
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/02 Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/012 using recorded signals, e.g. speech G08B25/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/10 using wireless transmission systems G08B25/009 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/00 Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/18504 Aircraft used as relay or high altitude atmospheric platform
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/38 Arrangements for distribution where lower stations, e.g. receivers, interact with the broadcast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/105 Multiple levels of security
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/04 with alarm systems, e.g. fire, police or burglar alarm systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/042 Public Land Mobile systems, e.g. cellular systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

A mass notification push application and a civic-communication application combined into one with the primary purpose of allowing up-to-the-minute UAV aerial imagery as selected by drone ground-based commanders to be automatically transmitted to subscribed end-users via the current OS mobile operating systems for smartphones, iPads, laptops, and web-enabled devices in a manner comprised of separate technologies such as voice (voice to text, voice recognition), video stills (embedded with personalized iconographic identifiers), and with a secondary purpose of allowing the notified recipients to engage others by allowing the retransmitting of received messages along with (or without) registered user annotations so as to create a civil communications hub for wider, real-time dissemination of ongoing situational awareness data.

Claims

1. A method for providing public users with data collected by an unmanned vehicle, comprising:

receiving data including video in a server, said data collected by remote unmanned vehicle;

providing said data to an operator for classification as restricted data and public data within said server;

providing a multilingual instant notification message with at least one of the public data or about the availability of the public data to mobile handheld devices registered with the server to receive or obtain access to the public data from the server; and

providing notified recipients operating said mobile handheld devices an ability to engage other recipients by retransmitting received multilingual messages along with notations typed by the notified recipients so as to be able to communicate with the other recipients in an ongoing, multilingual manner and thereby creating a real-time Civic Communications Hub operated by notified recipients for ongoing situational awareness and providing advice to family and friends based on ongoing dangers of a situation being faced.

2. The method for providing public users with data collected by an unmanned vehicle of claim 1, wherein said unmanned vehicle is at least one of:

an unmanned aerial vehicle, an unmanned land vehicle, and an unmanned maritime vehicle.

3. A method for providing public users with data collected by an unmanned vehicle, comprising:

registering with a server mobile handheld devices authorized to receive data including video collected by said remote unmanned vehicle in the server;

receiving data collected in real-time by at least one remote unmanned vehicle and storing the data in the server, wherein the data collected by said remote unmanned vehicle and stored in the server is classified by an operator as restricted data and public data;

providing a multilingual instant notification message with at least one of the pubic data or about the availability of the public data to said mobile handheld devices registered at said server to receive or obtain access to the public data from the server; and

providing notified recipients operating said mobile handheld devices an ability to engage other recipients by retransmitting received multilingual messages along with notations typed by the notified recipients so as to be able to communicate with the other recipients in an ongoing, multilingual manner and thereby creating a real-time Civic Communications Hub operated by notified recipients for ongoing situational awareness and providing advice to family and friends based on ongoing dangers of a situation being faced.

4. The method for providing public users with data collected by an unmanned vehicle of claim 3, wherein said unmanned vehicle is at least one of:

an unmanned aerial vehicle, an unmanned land vehicle, and an unmanned maritime vehicle.

5. A system providing public users with data collected by at least one remote unmanned vehicle, comprising:

a server programmed to register mobile handheld devices authorized to receive data including video collected by said at least one remote unmanned vehicle, receive data collected by an said at least one remote unmanned vehicle, enable operator access for classification of data as public or restricted within said server, to receive operator instructions to identify said data as public data and restricted data, provide said mobile handheld devices with at least one of said public data or a multilingual instant notification message upon the availability of the public data in said server and enabling retrieval of said public data from said server automatically or upon request by user of said mobile devices, and enabling notified recipients operating said mobile handheld devices an ability to engage other recipients by retransmitting received multilingual messages along with notations typed by the notified recipients so as to be able to communicate with the other recipients in an ongoing, multilingual manner and thereby creating a real-time Civic Communications Hub operated by notified recipients for ongoing situational awareness and providing advice to family and friends based on ongoing dangers of a situation being faced.

6. The system providing public users with data collected by an unmanned vehicle of claim 5, further comprising said server programmed to function as a civil communications hub wherein said users registered by said server forward messages received from said server to additional recipients with or without annotations.