Context-dependent inferred social network

    公开(公告)号:US10679190B1

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-09

    申请号:US15041883

    申请日:2016-02-11

    Inventor: Eric Teller

    Abstract: Exemplary methods and systems may help to provide content to a user and/or take to take actions on user's behalf, based on a context-specific user-network that includes surrogates for a user in a certain context. An exemplary method may involve: (a) determining a context associated with a first user-profile; (b) determining a context-specific user-network for the first user-profile in the determined context, wherein the context-specific user-network comprises one or more user-profiles that are surrogates for the first user-profile in the determined context; (c) using historical context-to-action data for one or more of the surrogate user-profiles as a basis for determining a context-based action that is appropriate in the determined context; and (d) causing a computing device associated with the first user-profile to initiate the context-based action.

    Valuation of and marketplace for inter-network links between a high-altitude network and terrestrial network

    公开(公告)号:US10045223B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-07

    申请号:US15679145

    申请日:2017-08-16

    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a marketplace for inter-network links between a high-altitude network and a terrestrial data network. An example method may involve a computer-based purchasing agent: (i) determining a demand for inter-network bandwidth between a high-altitude network and a terrestrial data network, (ii) determining one or more offers to provide an inter-network link, wherein the inter-network link provides inter-network bandwidth between the high-altitude network and the terrestrial data network, and wherein each offer is associated with a corresponding client device, (iii) based at least in part on a comparison of: (a) the demand for inter-network bandwidth and (b) the one or more offers to provide an inter-network link, selecting one or more of the offers to provide an inter-network link, and (iv) initiating a process to establish an inter-network link at each client device that corresponds to one of the one or more selected offers.

    Method for Preventing Storage of Prohibited Data on an Ad Hoc Moving Data Network
    16.
    发明申请
    Method for Preventing Storage of Prohibited Data on an Ad Hoc Moving Data Network 审中-公开
    防止在特定移动数据网络上禁止存储数据的方法

    公开(公告)号:US20170070944A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-03-09

    申请号:US15356746

    申请日:2016-11-21

    Inventor: Eric Teller

    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method operable in a balloon network. The method can include determining that a balloon is at a location associated with a first legally-defined geographic area, wherein an area profile identifies a list of geographically-prohibited data that is restricted from being cached in the first legally-defined geographic area. The method can also include receiving first data. The method can also include using the list of geographically-prohibited data to determine whether or not the first data is geographically-prohibited data. If the first data is geographically-prohibited data, then the method can further include refraining from storing the first data in data storage at the first balloon.

    Abstract translation: 本公开提供了一种可在气球网络中操作的方法。 该方法可以包括确定气球处于与第一法定界定的地理区域相关联的位置,其中区域轮廓识别被限制在高速缓存在第一合法定义的地理区域中的地理禁止数据的列表。 该方法还可以包括接收第一数据。 该方法还可以包括使用地理上禁止的数据列表来确定第一数据是否是地理上禁止的数据。 如果第一数据是地理上禁止的数据,则该方法还可以包括避免将第一数据存储在第一气球的数据存储中。

    Method for Ensuring Data Localization on an Ad Hoc Moving Data Network
    17.
    发明申请
    Method for Ensuring Data Localization on an Ad Hoc Moving Data Network 审中-公开
    确保数据定位在特定移动数据网络上的方法

    公开(公告)号:US20170063444A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-03-02

    申请号:US15350209

    申请日:2016-11-14

    Inventor: Eric Teller

    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods operable in a balloon network. The method can include determining that a balloon is at a location associated with a legally-defined geographic area. An area profile of the legally-defined geographic area may identify geographically-restricted data that must not be removed from the legally-defined geographic area. The method can also include determining that the balloon contains at least some of the geographically-restricted data. The method can also include determining that the balloon is likely to move out of the legally-defined geographic area. The method can also include removing the geographically-restricted data from the memory of the balloon.

    Abstract translation: 本公开提供了可在气球网络中操作的方法。 该方法可以包括确定气球在与法定界定的地理区域相关联的位置处。 合法定义的地理区域的区域轮廓可以识别不能从法定定义的地理区域移除的地理上受限制的数据。 该方法还可以包括确定气球包含至少一些地理上受限制的数据。 该方法还可以包括确定气球可能移出法定界定的地理区域。 该方法还可以包括从气球的存储器中移除地理上受限制的数据。

    Method for preventing storage of prohibited data on an Ad Hoc moving data network
    18.
    发明授权
    Method for preventing storage of prohibited data on an Ad Hoc moving data network 有权
    用于防止在特定移动数据网络上存储禁止数据的方法

    公开(公告)号:US09520940B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-12-13

    申请号:US13714947

    申请日:2012-12-14

    Inventor: Eric Teller

    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method operable in a balloon network. The method can include determining that a balloon is at a location associated with a first legally-defined geographic area, wherein an area profile identifies a list of geographically-prohibited data that is restricted from being cached in the first legally-defined geographic area. The method can also include receiving first data. The method can also include using the list of geographically-prohibited data to determine whether or not the first data is geographically-prohibited data. If the first data is geographically-prohibited data, then the method can further include refraining from storing the first data in data storage at the first balloon.

    Abstract translation: 本公开提供了一种可在气球网络中操作的方法。 该方法可以包括确定气球处于与第一法定界定的地理区域相关联的位置,其中区域轮廓识别被限制在高速缓存在第一合法定义的地理区域中的地理禁止数据的列表。 该方法还可以包括接收第一数据。 该方法还可以包括使用地理上禁止的数据列表来确定第一数据是否是地理上禁止的数据。 如果第一数据是地理上禁止的数据,则该方法还可以包括避免将第一数据存储在第一气球的数据存储中。

    Delivery-location recharging during aerial transport tasks

    公开(公告)号:US11386384B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-07-12

    申请号:US15852804

    申请日:2017-12-22

    Abstract: Methods and systems for recipient-assisted recharging during delivery by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) are disclosed herein. During a UAV transport task, a UAV determines that the UAV has arrived at a delivery location specified by a first flight leg of the transport task. The UAV responsively initiates a notification process indicating that a recipient-assisted recharging process should be initiated at or near the delivery location. When the UAV determines that the recipient-assisted recharging process has recharged a battery of the UAV to a target level, and also determines that a non-returnable portion of the payload has been removed from the UAV while a returnable portion of the payload is coupled to or held by the UAV, the UAV initiates a second flight segment of the transport task.

    Delivery-Location Recharging during Aerial Transport Tasks

    公开(公告)号:US20190197463A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-27

    申请号:US15852804

    申请日:2017-12-22

    CPC classification number: G06Q10/083

    Abstract: Methods and systems for recipient-assisted recharging during delivery by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) are disclosed herein. During a UAV transport task, a UAV determines that the UAV has arrived at a delivery location specified by a first flight leg of the transport task. The UAV responsively initiates a notification process indicating that a recipient-assisted recharging process should be initiated at or near the delivery location. When the UAV determines that the recipient-assisted recharging process has recharged a battery of the UAV to a target level, and also determines that a non-returnable portion of the payload has been removed from the UAV while a returnable portion of the payload is coupled to or held by the UAV, the UAV initiates a second flight segment of the transport task.

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