Patent ID: 11943040
Assignee: NETSIA, INC.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC H  G  B | IPC B  G  H

Claim 10:
11. A method comprising:
determining, at a drone radio access network (DRAN) controller attached to a land-based base station, one or more control actions associated with a first flying drone base station (DBS) also attached to the land-based base station, the first flying DBS comprising a first local DBS controller and a first onboard core network, the first flying DBS and a second flying DBS forming a wireless mesh, the second flying DBS comprising a second local DBS controller and a second onboard core network, the first and second flying DB Ss communicating with each other through the first and second onboard core networks, the first core network and the second core network enabling a drone-to-drone (D2D) control channel and a D2D data channel between the first flying DBS and the second flying DBS;
maintaining a wireless control channel providing a connection between the DRAN controller and the first local DBS controller via the land-based base station;
communicating the one or more control actions to the first local DBS controller over the wireless control channel;
wherein the first local DBS controller is configured to act as a client of the DRAN controller and the first local DBS controller tasked to execute the one or more control actions received from the DRAN controller and, based on the one or more control actions, changing a configuration of the first flying DBS.