US 11,775,923 B2
Aerial vehicle delivery of hems
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 Dec. 9, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/116,666.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/945,709, filed on Dec. 9, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0174294 A1, Jun. 10, 2021
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/0834 (2023.01); B64C 39/02 (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 101/60 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 10/0834 (2013.01) [B64C 39/024 (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 2101/60 (2023.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of delivering items to a user, the method comprising:
selecting, by a delivery management system, a set of preparation sites for the user using preparation site location data and a delivery site associated with the user, wherein the set of preparation sites comprises a virtual preparation site that is associated with a second preparation site, the delivery site being outside of a delivery range of the second preparation site;
determining, by the delivery management system, a set of menu items for the delivery site, the set of menu items comprising a first item associated with the second preparation site;
serving, by the delivery management system and to a user computing device, menu data indicating that the first item is associated with the virtual preparation site;
receiving, by the delivery management system and from the user computing device, a first order indicating the first item;
sending, by the delivery management system, a second order for the first item to the second preparation site, the second order indicating delivery to the virtual preparation site; and
sending, by the delivery management system, an instruction for an aerial vehicle to autonomously deliver the first item to the virtual preparation site.