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

Claim 15:
16. A method comprising:
receiving, at a traffic relay (TR) device including one or more processors, status messages from a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the status messages providing identification and location information of the UAVs;
identifying a subset of the UAVs as potential threat UAVs based on the location information indicating that the potential threat UAVs are within a designated airspace;
generating a warning message for communication to a manned traffic manager (MTM) device that is communicatively connected to a plurality of manned aerial vehicles (MAVs), the warning message including respective locations of the potential threat UAVs;
receiving, at the MTM device, the warning message and location information of the MAVs, the location information of the MAVs including at least one of current locations of the MAVs or scheduled flight paths of the MAVs;
comparing the locations of the potential threat UAVs to the location information of the MAVs to identify a subset of the MAVs as intended recipient MAVs of the warning message based on a proximity between the locations of the potential threat UAVs and the location information of the MAVs; and
directing communication of the warning message to the intended recipient MAVs.