Patents by Inventor Luc Vacquie

Luc Vacquie 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).

  • Patent number: 7181249
    Abstract: The mobile telecommunication apparatus (1) comprises a microphone (4), a loudspeaker (3), a transmitter/receiver (7), a control circuit (8) with a memory (9) and a control interface (5, 6) with a display (2). The mobile telecommunication apparatus (1) comprises in memory a collection of so-called personae (10) containing control and viewing parameters associated with each persona, a personae editor (11) designed for read/write access to the parameters of the said collection of personae, and an operating system (12) designed to be executed right from startup by the control circuit (8) in such a way as to drive the personae editor (11) so as to view a so-called main persona on the display (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: France Télecom
    Inventor: Luc Vacquie
  • Publication number: 20050261030
    Abstract: A mobile telecommunication device of the type having of an information transmitter/receiver, an information display screen (4), a user control interface and a processor including execution software, which is used to process and execute the numerous functions integrated in the device. The device includes elements for monitoring and analysing information received by the receiver and elements for generating at least one pictogram (40) comprising attributes which can at least be modified under the control of the monitoring and analysis elements, in order to notify a user of the receipt of information. The pictogram (40) can be displayed on the display screen (4) in order to form a man/machine interface. The device also includes activation zones (42, 50) used to activate the device's integrated functions, which can be accessed by the user via the control interface of the device in order to enable activation of the corresponding functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2003
    Publication date: November 24, 2005
    Applicant: France Telecom
    Inventor: Luc Vacquie
  • Publication number: 20050250484
    Abstract: This information retransmission device (2) includes elements (21) for exchanging information with a remote server (4) via a telecommunications network (6). It is characterized in that it further includes automatic elements (23) for detecting the presence of a nearby output device (8) and for retransmitting information received from the remote server (4) from the device (2) to the output device (8) that has been detected nearby.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Publication date: November 10, 2005
    Applicant: FRANCE TELECOM
    Inventors: Stephane Rouchy, Serge Le Potier, Luc Vacquie
  • Publication number: 20040179657
    Abstract: The invention concerns a system for visual notification of the status of a user's messaging unit characterised in that it comprises means (1) monitoring the messaging unit connected to various means (5, 6, 7) for receiving messages addressed to the user; means (8) for analysing said messages and their characteristics; means (11) for generating a pictogram with modifiable attributes under the control of the analysing means, based on the result of the analysis of the messages or of their characteristics; and means for controlling (14) means displaying (15, 16, 17, 18, 19) said generated pictogram to the user to notify him of the status of the messaging unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2004
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Inventor: Luc Vacquie
  • Publication number: 20030220124
    Abstract: Anthropomorphic mobile telecommunication apparatus The mobile telecommunication apparatus (1) comprises a microphone (4), a loudspeaker (3), a transmitter/receiver (7), a control circuit (8) with a memory (9) and a control interface (5, 6) with a display (2). The mobile telecommunication apparatus (1) comprises in memory a collection of so-called personae (10) containing control and viewing parameters associated with each persona, a personae editor (11) designed for read/write access to the parameters of the said collection of personae, and an operating system (12) designed to be executed right from startup by the control circuit (8) in such a way as to drive the personae editor (11) so as to view a so-called main persona on the display (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2003
    Publication date: November 27, 2003
    Applicant: France Telecom
    Inventor: Luc Vacquie
  • Publication number: 20030071847
    Abstract: For notifying messages received in a messaging system to a terminal, for example a mobile radio telephone, a notification server sends the terminal a notification including addresses of graphical elements supplied by message analyzer means and in corresponding relationship to events of all of the messages received. In the terminal, an image construction system connected to a graphical element database constructs and shows a behavior of the vector image made up of graphical elements selected in the database as a function of the graphical element addresses included in the notification transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2002
    Publication date: April 17, 2003
    Applicant: FRANCE TELECOM
    Inventor: Luc Vacquie