| CPC G07F 19/209 (2013.01) [G07F 19/207 (2013.01); H04W 84/06 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
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1. A method for autonomously controlling and monitoring automatic teller machines (“ATMs”) during an ATM distress event, the autonomously controlling and monitoring being executed by a network of low-orbit satellites, the method comprising:
identifying, at a first ATM, the ATM distress event;
creating, using an ATM distress program stored on the first ATM, a distress message payload (“DMP”) associated with the first ATM, the DMP comprising:
a geolocation of the first ATM;
an ownership of the first ATM; and
the ATM distress event;
transmitting, using the first ATM, the DMP to a first low-orbit satellite in the network of low-orbit satellites;
transmitting, using the first low-orbit satellite, the DMP to all low-orbit satellites in the network of low-orbit satellites;
scanning, using an ATM monitoring program stored on all low-orbit satellites in the network of low-orbit satellites, all ATMs affected by the ATM distress event, including the first ATM (“the ATMs”);
transmitting, using low-orbit satellites in the network of low-orbit satellites located threshold distances from the ATMs, a data recovery and purge program to the ATMs;
creating, using the data recovery and purge program in the ATMs, data recovery and purge payloads (“DRAPPs”), the DRAPPs associated with the ATMs, the DRAPPs comprising:
geolocations of the ATMs;
ownerships of the ATMs; and
data stored on the ATMs;
storing, on all low-orbit satellites in the network of low-orbit satellites, the DRAPPs;
purging, using the data recovery and purge program stored on the ATMs, the data stored on the ATMs;
running a recovery/purge orchestration engine, using the first low-orbit satellite, the recovery/purge orchestration engine using machine learning (“ML”) to identify a pathway for transporting the DRAPPs to a centralized server, the pathway comprising all low-orbit satellites in the network of low-orbit satellites operating as carriers for the DRAPPs to the centralized server;
storing, on all low-orbit satellites in the network of low-orbit satellites, a copy of the DRAPPs in a satellite blockchain distributed ledger, wherein each low-orbit satellite in the network of low-orbit satellites is a block in the satellite blockchain distributed ledger;
receiving on the centralized server, via the recovery/purge orchestration engine, the DRAPPs; and
transferring, after the ATM distress event, the DRAPPs between low-orbit satellites in the network of low-orbit satellites located threshold distances from the ATMs and the ATMs, via the centralized server.
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