US 11,895,508 B1
Demand-based allocation of ephemeral radio-based network resources
Tipu Saleem Qureshi, Seattle, WA (US); Diwakar Gupta, Seattle, WA (US); and Upendra Bhalchandra Shevade, Washington, DC (US)
Assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed by Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed on Mar. 18, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/206,028.
Int. Cl. B64U 10/13 (2023.01); B64U 101/20 (2023.01); H04W 16/26 (2009.01); H04B 7/185 (2006.01); B64C 39/02 (2023.01); H04W 28/16 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 16/26 (2013.01) [B64C 39/024 (2013.01); H04B 7/18506 (2013.01); H04W 28/16 (2013.01); B64U 10/13 (2023.01); B64U 2101/20 (2023.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising: an unmanned aerial vehicle capable of providing computing capacity and network connectivity; and at least one computing device of a cloud provider network, the at least one computing device implementing a service managing the unmanned aerial vehicle, the at least one computing device being configured to at least: schedule the unmanned aerial vehicle to provide the computing capacity to a customer at a destination location; determine a travel path for the unmanned aerial vehicle from a starting location to the destination location; offer the computing capacity to a plurality of customers along the travel path; adjust at least one of: the travel path or a travel time along the travel path based at least in part on a bid received from a particular customer of the plurality of customers; and provision the computing capacity for the particular customer for ephemeral use as the unmanned aerial vehicle progresses along the travel path.