Method and apparatus for deploying equipment of a communication system

US10139820B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. · US

Inventors

• Ken Liu · Taichung, TW
• Farhad Barzegar · Readington, US
• Irwin Gerszberg · Kendall Park, US
• Pamela A. M. Bogdan · Neptune, US
• Donald J. Barnickel · Flemington, US
• Brandon Pimm · Manalapan, US
• Thomas M. Willis, III · Tinton Falls, US
• David M. Britz · Rumson, US
• Paul Shala Henry · Holmdel, US
• Robert Bennett · Southold, US
• Dorothy Zarsky · Summit, US
• James Gordon Beattie, Jr. · Bergenfield, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 7, 2016
• Grant date: Nov 27, 2018
• Expiry date: Feb 1, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B64U2201/20
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining, by an unmanned aircraft including a processor, a control signal that causes the unmanned aircraft to fly in proximity to a transmission medium, where the unmanned aircraft includes a carrying system that releasably carries a communication device, and where a positioning of the communication device in proximity to the transmission medium enables the communication device to be physically connected on the transmission medium and enables the communication device to provide communications. Other embodiments are disclosed.