US 12,314,891 B2
Aerial vehicle delivery of items
Adam Shaw Warmoth, Los Altos, CA (US); and Cody Boyd, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/452,207.
Application 18/452,207 is a continuation of application No. 17/116,666, filed on Dec. 9, 2020, granted, now 11,775,923.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/945,709, filed on Dec. 9, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0086828 A1, Mar. 14, 2024
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/0834 (2023.01); B64D 1/08 (2006.01); G06Q 10/0631 (2023.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2023.01); G06Q 50/12 (2012.01); B64U 10/13 (2023.01); B64U 101/64 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 10/0834 (2013.01) [B64D 1/08 (2013.01); G06Q 10/06315 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0633 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0639 (2013.01); G06Q 50/12 (2013.01); B64U 10/13 (2023.01); B64U 2101/64 (2023.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
accessing a plurality of items associated with an individual preparation site;
receiving a selection of a virtual preparation site from a user computing device;
identifying, by a server, a set of items of the plurality of items that is available for delivery, at least partially via aerial delivery, to the virtual preparation site selected by the user computing device and associated with the user from the individual preparation site, the set of items being available for delivery from the virtual preparation site to a delivery site associated with the user outside of a delivery range of the individual preparation site;
generating, by the server for provision to the user computing device, menu data comprising the set of items,
the menu data indicating that a first item in the set of items is associated with the aerial delivery;
receiving, from a user computing device, a request for delivery of the first item; and
sending, by the server, an instruction for an aerial vehicle to autonomously deliver the first item to the delivery site via the virtual preparation site.