Patent ID: 11947365
Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 9:
10. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing one or more instructions executable by a computer system to perform operations comprising:
registering one or more aerial vehicles and one or more land-based vehicles with a last mile delivery system, wherein the one or more aerial vehicles and the one or more land-based vehicles are associated with aerial vehicle information and land-based vehicle information, respectively;
establishing a first network connection between the last mile delivery system and an aerial vehicle from the one or more aerial vehicles and a second network connection between the last mile delivery system and a land-based vehicle from the one or more land-based vehicles;
determining to generate a land-based vehicle transportation request for a first aerial vehicle that is performing a delivery;
selecting, in response to generating the land-based vehicle transportation request, a first land-based vehicle that accepts the land-based vehicle transportation request to fulfill a request for transportation received from the first aerial vehicle, wherein selecting the first land-based vehicle comprises:
identifying a subset of available vehicles from the one or more land-based vehicles, wherein each vehicle in the subset of available vehicles is available to fulfill the request for transportation received from the first aerial vehicle;
determining, based on the land-based vehicle information for the subset of available vehicles and aerial vehicle information for the first aerial vehicle, a score for each vehicle in the subset of available vehicles, wherein the score for a respective vehicle indicates a likelihood of the respective vehicle to fulfill the land-based vehicle transportation request; and
selecting, based on the scores for the subset of available vehicles, the first land-based vehicle from the subset of available vehicles;

matching, based on the land-based vehicle transportation request and the land-based vehicle information, the first aerial vehicle with the first land-based vehicle; and
generating and sending transportation instructions to the first aerial vehicle and the first land-based vehicle, wherein the transportation instructions comprise: (i) a starting location where the first aerial vehicle docks to the first land-based vehicle, and (ii) a destination to which the first land-based vehicle transports the first aerial vehicle,
wherein the land-based vehicle transportation request causes the first land-based vehicle to transport the first aerial vehicle according to the request for transportation, and
wherein determining to generate the land-based vehicle transportation request for the first aerial vehicle that is performing a delivery comprises:
receiving, over the first network connection, the request for transportation, the request being transmitted from the first aerial vehicle to the last mile delivery system.