US 11,670,176 B2
Apparatus, system and method for managing airspace for unmanned aerial vehicles
Ken Harold Stewart, Menlo Park, CA (US); and Vineet Mehta, Boston, MA (US)
Assigned to General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US)
Filed by General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US)
Filed on Jul. 28, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/940,914.
Application 16/940,914 is a continuation of application No. 15/895,517, filed on Feb. 13, 2018, granted, now 10,755,584.
Prior Publication US 2020/0357288 A1, Nov. 12, 2020
Int. Cl. G08G 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); B64C 39/02 (2023.01)
CPC G08G 5/0013 (2013.01) [G08G 5/003 (2013.01); G08G 5/0026 (2013.01); G08G 5/0034 (2013.01); G08G 5/0043 (2013.01); G08G 5/0069 (2013.01); H04W 4/02 (2013.01); B64C 39/024 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
records of certified acceptable requestors of use of airspace;
a plurality of airspace management rules; and
a broadcast interface for enabling notifications over at least one telecommunications network,
wherein the system is configured to:
receive an airspace use request for granting a restriction area and an identification of a requestor for the airspace use request from an application of a mobile device of a requestor over the at least one telecommunications network;
determine whether the airspace use request is certified based on a comparison of the identification of the requestor to the records; and
authorize a broadcast of a notification of the granted restriction area to a plurality of applications of mobile devices different from the mobile device of the requestor in accordance with the plurality of airspace management rules in response to determination that the airspace use request is certified based on a comparison of the identification of the requestor to the records.