Patent ID: 11922820
Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. A communication system comprising:
a traffic relay (TR) device including one or more processors and communicatively connected to one or more communication devices, the TR device configured to receive, via the one or more communication devices, status messages from multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and a notification message from a remote source, the status messages providing identification and location information of the UAVs, the notification message providing a flight path of a manned aerial vehicle (MAV) on a scheduled flight and a time of the scheduled flight,
wherein the TR device determines a designated airspace that is restricted to UAV traffic based on the flight path and identifies a subset of the UAVs as potential threat UAVs based on the location information indicating that the potential threat UAVs are at least one of within or proximate to the designated airspace, the TR device configured to generate a command message for communication to the potential threat UAVs, the command message identifying boundaries of the designated airspace, identifying a time period during which the designated airspace is restricted to UAV traffic, and ordering the potential threat UAVs to avoid or exit the designated airspace during the time period.