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US 12,363,525 · App. 18/020,078 · Granted Jul 15, 2025

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)

Inventors: Masaki Izumi (Sakai, JP); Yudai Kawasaki (Sakai, JP); Masafumi Aramoto (Sakai, JP)
Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
H04W8/26B64U10/00B64U2101/20H04W80/10
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Patent No.
US 12,363,525
App. No.
18/020,078
Granted
Jul 15, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A procedure in updating information of a connection in associating an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with a UAV controller to establish the connection is not clarified. For the connection for performing communication of the UAV, a user plane resource is to be activated. The UAV updates stored identification information and IP address of the UAV controller, based on reception, from a network, of a PDU session modification command message including identification information and IP address of the UAV controller. The UAV, in a case of establishing a PDU session that provides a QoS flow for performing Command and Control (C2) communication, transmits and/or receives information for establishing an Always-on PDU session to and/or from a network.

Claims (13)

1. A UAV comprising:

transmission and reception circuitry; and

a controller,

in a case that the transmission and reception circuitry receives, from a network, a PDU session modification command message including first identification information, the controller forwards the first identification information to an upper layer, and

the first identification information is identification information of the UAV.

2. The UAV of claim 1 , wherein

the transmission and reception circuitry receives the PDU session modification command message including second identification information and/or third identification information;

the second identification information is identification information of a new UAV controller, and

the third identification information is an IP address of a new UAV controller.

3. A communication control method performed by a UAV, the communication control method comprising:

receiving, from a network, a PDU session modification command; and

in a case that the PDU session modification command message includes first identification information, forwarding the first identification information to an upper layer, wherein

the first identification information is identification information of the UAV.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 6, 2023
From: IZUMI, MASAKI; KAWASAKI, YUDAI; ARAMOTO, MASAFUMI
To: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 062607/0394 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2020-134326 · Aug 7, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
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