US 12,175,511 B2
Aerial message job devices, systems, and methods
Jody Mark Graffunder, Eau Claire, WI (US)
Assigned to SMOKEON, LLC, Eau Claire, WI (US)
Filed by SmokeOn, LLC, Eau Claire, WI (US)
Filed on Nov. 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/985,200.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/284,119, filed on Nov. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0169557 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/00 (2023.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 30/0611 (2013.01) 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving customer input from at least one aerial message job customer, wherein the received customer input includes a requested aerial message job location at which an aerial message is to be created;
receiving pilot input from at least one aerial message pilot, wherein the received pilot input includes a requested distance within which the at least one aerial message pilot is willing to consider an aerial message job;
in response to the received customer input, receiving a price bid from at least one aerial message pilot for executing the aerial message job at the requested aerial message job location;
in response to receiving the price bid from the at least one aerial message pilot, transmitting, to at least one aerial message job customer, (i) the received price bid from the at least one aerial message pilot, and (ii) at least one of: prior aerial message job customer review data for the at least one aerial pilot from whom the price bid was received, a number of aerial message jobs flown by the at least one aerial pilot from whom the price bid was received, and types of aerial message texts or graphics previously executed by the at least one aerial pilot from whom the price bid was received;
receiving selection input, from the at least one aerial message job customer, of the price bid from the at least one aerial message pilot;
in response to receiving selection input, from the at least one aerial message job customer, of the price bid from the at least one aerial message pilot:
creating the aerial message job using the received customer input and the received pilot input, wherein creating the aerial message job includes assigning at least one aerial message pilot to the aerial message job to create the aerial message at the requested aerial message job location; and
sending, to the at least one aerial message pilot assigned to the aerial message job, aerial message job instructions, wherein the aerial message job instructions include one or more commands for creating the aerial message text or graphic specified by the at least one aerial message job customer at the requested aerial message job location, wherein the aerial message job instructions further include each of (i) one or more navigation commands corresponding to a specific flight path for the at least one aerial message pilot to navigate in creating the aerial message text or graphic specified by the at least one aerial message job customer at the requested aerial message job location, and (ii) one or more vapor/smoke emission actuation commands corresponding to one or more particular positions along the specific flight path at which the at least one aerial message pilot is to emit vapor/smoke to create the aerial message text or graphic specified by the at least one aerial message job customer at the requested aerial message job location.