Patent ID: 9256994
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: B64C,G01S,G05D,G07C,G08G,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: maintaining, by a cloud system, comprising one or more processing devices comprising hardware, in wireless communication with a first plurality of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), geofence envelopes respectively allocated, using the cloud system, for each UAV in the first plurality of UAVs, receiving, by the cloud system, a request from a first UAV in flight for approval of an updated geofence envelope; determining, by the cloud system, that: at least partly in response to the determination that: generating, by the cloud system, a response indicating approval of the request for the updated geofence envelope; and providing, by the cloud system, the generated response to the first UAV indicating approval of the request for the updated geofence envelope.