Patents by Inventor Beatrice Parfait

Beatrice Parfait has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Activating an interactive multimedia terminal
    Patent number: 7272385
    Abstract: To activate an interactive multimedia station (BN) providing facilities of a mobile office to a user of a mobile radio terminal (TM), the mobile terminal (TM) signals its presence in the vicinity of the station (BN), either by local radio link to the station itself, or by short messages to a management server (SB) when the terminal is a radiotelephone. An identifier of the terminal is transmitted from the station (BN) to the management server, or to a location recorder of the radiotelephony network (RR) to activate the station after validating the identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Michel Mirouze, Eric Depret, Béatrice Parfait, Yves Thorigne
  • Payment to charities with prepaid card
    Patent number: 7050554
    Abstract: The balance or a portion of the balance associated with a prepaid card with or without a microcircuit is paid into a balance portion collection server, as a donations to charities, after setting up a call between a terminal and the server and after confirmation of the payment by the user at the terminal to increment a counter with the balance or balance portion. In another embodiment, balance portions are paid cyclically into the server or into a connection unit as and when a telephone call runs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: France Telecom, SA
    Inventors: Béatrice Parfait, Eric Depret, Michel Mirouze
  • Activating an interactive multimedia terminal
    Publication number: 20040023664
    Abstract: To activate an interactive multimedia station (BN) providing facilities of a mobile office to a user of a mobile radio terminal (TM), the mobile terminal (TM) signals its presence in the vicinity of the station (BN), either by local radio link to the station itself, or by short messages to a management server (SB) when the terminal is a radiotelephone. An identifier of the terminal is transmitted from the station (BN) to the management server, or to a location recorder of the radiotelephony network (RR) to activate the station after validating the identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Michel Mirouze, Eric Depret, Beatrice Parfait, Yves Thorigne
  • Payment to charities with prepaid card
    Publication number: 20030007615
    Abstract: The balance or a portion of the balance associated with a prepaid card with or without a microcircuit is paid into a balance portion collection server, as a donations to charities, after setting up a call between a terminal and the server and after confirmation of the payment by the user at the terminal to increment a counter with the balance or balance portion. In another embodiment, balance portions are paid cyclically into the server or into a connection unit as and when a telephone call runs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2002
    Publication date: January 9, 2003
    Inventors: Beatrice Parfait, Eric Depret, Michel Mirouze