Patent ID: 11917504
Assignee: RELMATECH LIMITED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G  B | IPC B  G  H

Claim 24:
25. A remote identification method for the remote identification of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the UAV including a wireless transmitter configured to broadcast a static identifier; in which the UAV also includes a local broadcast device including the wireless transmitter, the local broadcast device being configured to broadcast data;
in which the method comprises the step of the local broadcast device dynamically altering or re-purposing frames of the static identifier so that it is no longer the static identifier but instead includes data that varies depending on the status of the UAV; and includes these frames in the broadcast data;
in which the broadcast data includes a flag or header to indicate that the broadcast data is no longer exclusively a conventional, static identifier;
in which the wireless transmitter is a 802.11 or WiFi transmitter and the static identifier is a Service Set Identifier (SSID), a Basic Service Set Identifier (BSSID) and a Vendor Specific Information such that the local broadcast device alters or re-purposes the SSID, the BSSID and the Vendor Specific Information.