Patents by Inventor Christoph Stevens
Christoph Stevens 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).
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Patent number: 8473623Abstract: A method is described for managing a communication between a server device and a customer device. The method comprises interchanging between the server device and the customer device one or more parameter messages that are comprising a parameter description for a parameter name. The parameter description does consist of an hierarchical tree-like structure of characters with each level separated by a predefined character (dot). The method further comprises a step of instantiating by an instantiating device of the customer device, an iterator associated to an index, for a next level of a parameter-sub-tree being part of the global parameter description, and a step of recalling an object array for the parameter-sub-tree with the next level having different values for its index starting with a predefined start-value and ending with a predefined end-value.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2009Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Pascal Marie Edouard Julien Justen, Christoph Stevens, Werner Mario Liekens, Jan Coppens, Willem Jozef Amaat Acke
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Patent number: 8127176Abstract: A method for improving the security of actions performed by Remote Procedure Calls RPC invoked during a TR-069 Remote Management Protocol session between an Auto-Configuration Server ACS and a Customer Premises Equipment CPE of a DSL telecommunication system. The TR-069 session comprises several RPC's executing actions on parameters of an object model and the method comprises the steps of starting a TR-069 session wherein RPC's are invoked; opening a transactional TR-069 session or transaction whereby parameters of the object model handled by RPC's are protected through a SavePoint mechanism; closing the transaction by the ACS; and either: committing the transaction via a StoreSavePoint RPC invoked by the ACS, or rolling-back actions of RPC's via a RestoreSavePoint RPC also invoked by the ACS.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2009Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Pascal Marie Edouard Julien Justen, Christoph Stevens, Werner Mario Liekens, Jan Coppens, Willem Jozef Amaat Acke
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Patent number: 8111631Abstract: A system for automatically configuring a device which is compatible with the Technical Report TR-069 of the DSL Forum, said system comprising a first automatic configuration server compatible with the Technical Report TR-069 of the DSL Forum, which is adapted and arranged for communicating with said device and for automatically configuring at least part of the configurable parameters of said device, said device by means of the CPE WAN Management Protocol defined in Technical Report TR-069 of the DSL Forum, wherein said system further comprises a proxy server arranged between said device and said automatic configuration server.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2009Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Willem Acke, Christoph Stevens, Pascal Justen, Werner Liekens, Jan Coppens, Christele Bouchat
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Publication number: 20110274109Abstract: The present application describes a Qos module for use in a home network that comprises a plurality of devices and a home gateway. The home gateway is enabled to receive a multicast stream and to forward the multicast stream to at least one of the devices under control of a multicast proxy module. The Qos module further comprises the multicast proxy module for also sending, upon reception of a multicast join message from one of the devices for joining the multicast stream, a Quality of Service request. The Quality of Service request comprising an address of the home gateway and an address of said device. The Qos module further comprises a unicast Quality of Service control module for reception of the Quality of Service request and for sending a unicast Quality of Service event message in order to request thereby provision of Quality of Service for the multicast stream when being forwarded from the home gateway to the device. (FIG. 1).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2009Publication date: November 10, 2011Applicant: ALCATEL LUCENTInventors: Christoph Stevens, Pascal Marle EdouardJulien Justen, Luc Vermoesen, Jourik De Loof, Tom Van Leeuwen, Willem Jozef Amaat Acke, Werner Mario Liekens
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Publication number: 20110016183Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for remote configuration of at least one apparatus using a configuration server to configure the apparatus in situ via a network to which the apparatus and the configuration server are connected. The above method comprises exchanging information requests or and/or inform messages between the configuration server and the apparatus. The invention defines to sending from the configuration server the requested information indicated by the information requests and/or inform messages over the network to the apparatus where sending the information to the apparatus is prioritized.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2009Publication date: January 20, 2011Inventors: Jan Coppens, Christoph Stevens, Pascal Justen, Sven Van Den Bosch, Willem Acke
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Publication number: 20100030902Abstract: A method is described for managing a communication between a server device and a customer device. The method comprises interchanging between the server device and the customer device one or more parameter messages that are comprising a parameter description for a parameter name. The parameter description does consist of an hierarchical tree-like structure of characters with each level separated by a predefined character (dot). The method further comprises a step of instantiating by an instantiating device of the customer device, an iterator associated to an index, for a next level of a parameter-sub-tree being part of the global parameter description, and a step of recalling an object array for the parameter-sub-tree with the next level having different values for its index starting with a predefined start-value and ending with a predefined end-value.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2009Publication date: February 4, 2010Inventors: Pascal Marie Edouard Julien Justen, Christoph Stevens, Werner Mario Liekens, Jan Coppens, Willem Jozef Amaat Acke
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Publication number: 20100023806Abstract: A method for improving the security of actions performed by Remote Procedure Calls RPC invoked during a TR-069 Remote Management Protocol session between an Auto-Configuration Server ACS and a Customer Premises Equipment CPE of a DSL telecommunication system. The TR-069 session comprises several RPC's executing actions on parameters of an object model and the method comprises the steps of starting a TR-069 session wherein RPC's are invoked; opening a transactional TR-069 session or transaction whereby parameters of the object model handled by RPC's are protected through a SavePoint mechanism; closing the transaction by the ACS; and either: committing the transaction via a StoreSavePoint RPC invoked by the ACS, or rolling-back actions of RPC's via a RestoreSavePoint RPC also invoked by the ACS.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2009Publication date: January 28, 2010Inventors: Pascal Marie Edouard Julien Justen, Christoph Stevens, Werner Mario Liekens, Jan Coppens, Willem Jozef Amaat Acke
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Publication number: 20090252062Abstract: A method for automatically configuring a device by means of an automatic configuration means adapted for automatically configuring the device by means of a remote management protocol (RMP), comprising setting up an RMP session between the device and the automatic configuration means is disclosed, wherein when during the RMP session at least one parameter value of the object model of the device is changed, the device communicates the changed parameter value(s) to the automatic configuration means after the initiation and before the termination of the RMP session.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2009Publication date: October 8, 2009Inventors: Pascal Justen, Christoph Stevens, Sven Van Den Bosch, Jan Coppens, Willem Acke
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Publication number: 20090219820Abstract: A system for automatically configuring a device which is compatible with the Technical Report TR-069 of the DSL Forum, said system comprising a first automatic configuration server compatible with the Technical Report TR-069 of the DSL Forum, which is adapted and arranged for communicating with said device and for automatically configuring at least part of the configurable parameters of said device, said device by means of the CPE WAN Management Protocol defined in Technical Report TR-069 of the DSL Forum, wherein said system further comprises a proxy server arranged between said device and said automatic configuration server.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2009Publication date: September 3, 2009Inventors: Willem Acke, Christoph Stevens, Pascal Justen, Werner Liekens, Jan Coppens, Christele Bouchat
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Publication number: 20090193163Abstract: A system for connecting Universal Plug and Play UPnP devices in a UPnP network includes a generic UPnP control point for UPnP devices and, externalized to such UPnP control point, control logic of the devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2008Publication date: July 30, 2009Inventors: Pascal Justen, Christoph Stevens, Werner Liekens, Jan Coppens, Christele Bouchat, Willem Acke
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Publication number: 20090049048Abstract: The present invention relates to a view selector module (305) for use in management of a TR-069 Object Model (101). The TR-069 Object Model (101) comprises a plurality of parameters (102 . . . 108). The module (305) comprises means for selecting and/or altering one or more of the plurality of parameters (102 . . . 108) based on credentials.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2008Publication date: February 19, 2009Applicant: Alcatel LucentInventors: Pascal Marie Edouard Julien JUSTEN, Christoph Stevens, Werner Mario Liekens, Jan Coppens, Christele Bouchat, Willem Jozef Amaat Acke
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Publication number: 20090019104Abstract: A remote management system is able to remotely manage service objects (311) in a bundle (301). The remote management system thereto contains a management platform (302) in a customer device where the bundle (301) is installed, a remote management server (304) somewhere in the network, and a management agent (303) able to expose the service object representation (312) of the service objects (311) via a remote management protocol (307) to the remote management server (304). The remote management system in addition is foreseen with a proxy bundle (305) with a generic interface to populate and export a generic service object representation (351) of the service objects (311) towards the management agent (303).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2008Publication date: January 15, 2009Applicant: Alcatel LucentInventors: Pascal Justen, Christoph Stevens, Werner Mario Liekens, Jan Coppens, Christele Bouchat, Willem Jozef Amaat Acke
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Publication number: 20080282268Abstract: An application module (114) is remotely installed on a customer device (101) and remotely configured from a remote management server (102). The application module (114) thereto comprises a parameter model (120) with model parameters (121) that can be communicated automatically between the remote management client (113) residing in the customer device (101) and the remote management server (102) via a remote management protocol (103). The parameter model (120) further comprises at least one description parameter (122) that formally describes a new model parameter (121) forming part of the parameter model (120). The description parameter (122) triggers automatic creation of the new model parameter (121) at the remote management server (102).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2008Publication date: November 13, 2008Applicant: Alcatel LucentInventors: Werner Mario Liekens, Christoph Stevens, Pascal Marie Edouard Julien Justen, Jan Coppens, Christele Bouchat, Willem Jozef Amaat Acke
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Publication number: 20080133718Abstract: Methods for managing communications between server devices (30) and customer devices (11,12,13) comprise steps of reading/writing parameters at one of the devices (11,12,13,30) for configuring/monitoring the other one of the devices (11,12,13,30) and, to allow arbitrary parameters to be introduced, comprise steps of, for the parameters, creating attributes comprising extended markup language schemes for defining the parameters. Said one of the devices (30) is linked to a northbound interface (33) and a southbound interface (31,32), the creating step being performed via the southbound interface (31,32). Said one of the devices (30) is linked via the northbound interface (33) to for example a service provider (40) and via the southbound interface (31,32) to for example the customer device (11,12,13). The extended markup language schemes may define types, descriptions of the types, descriptions and/or metadata of the for example non-standardized parameters with names and values.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2007Publication date: June 5, 2008Applicant: Alcatel LucentInventors: Christele Bouchat, Christoph Stevens, Pascal Marie Edouard Julien Justen, Werner Mario Liekens, Jan Coppens, Willem Jozef Amaat Acke
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Publication number: 20080133752Abstract: A method for managing a communication between a server device and a customer device is provided. The method comprises the step of: at one of the devices comprising a parameter description for a parameter name in a parameter message. A parameter description is consisting of an hierarchical tree-like structure of characters with each level separated by a predefined character such as a dot; and transmitting the parameter message to the other one of the devices. The method further comprises a step of including firstly by the one of the devices in the parameter description between two of such predefined characters (dot) a predefined wildcard character that substitutes other characters of one or more levels and thereby defines according to predefined rules with the parameter description one or more parameters; and a step of reading and/or writing by the other one of the devices the parameter description for configuring and/or monitoring of the one or more parameters of the other one of the devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2007Publication date: June 5, 2008Applicant: Alcatel LucentInventors: Werner Mario LIEKENS, Christoph STEVENS, Pascal Marie Edouard Julien Justen, Willem Jozef Amaat Acke, Jan Coppens, Christele Bouchat