Patents by Inventor Pierre Close

Pierre Close 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).

  • Publication number: 20230393847
    Abstract: A method includes generating a bill of materials for a piece of source code, where the piece of source code comprises a plurality of lines of code, providing the bill of materials to a knowledge base with a request for known call signatures, receiving, from the knowledge base, a list comprising a plurality of known call signatures and a plurality of reuse estimates, wherein each reuse estimate of the plurality of reuse estimates indicates an estimate of a number of lines of reused code associated with one call signature of the plurality of known call signatures, generating an initial calculation of a number of lines of reused code that are present in the piece of source code, using the list comprising the plurality of known call signatures, and generating a report indicating an amount of the source code that comprises reused code, based on at least the initial calculation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Christophe Closset, Catherine Lefevre, Sebastien Determe, Anaël Closson, Pierre Close, Richard Williams
  • Patent number: 11784881
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a request for a configuration audit of a network device, identifying a class of the network device, retrieving a configuration template for the network device, wherein the retrieving is based on the class of the network device, wherein the configuration template is represented as a hierarchical tree structure, retrieving a current configuration of the network device, translating the current configuration of the network device to a tree data structure, comparing the tree data structure with the configuration template represented as a hierarchical tree structure, identifying discrepancies between the tree data structure and the configuration template represented as a hierarchical tree structure, reporting the discrepancies, receiving instructions to resolve the discrepancies, and modifying one of the current configuration for the network device and the configuration template for the network device, wherein the modifying is responsive to the i
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Global Network Services Belgium Luxembourg SPRL
    Inventors: Robert Roycroft, Mrugesh Patel, Thomas Barron, Pierre Close, Eddy Hautot, Anaël Closson, Krishnapraveen Suri, Angela Eborn
  • Patent number: 4339912
    Abstract: The gripping device consists of a holder in the form of an elastically deformable annular member mounted above the hole of a support plate at a single point of its lateral surface. The holder is provided with clamping means consisting of a flexible compressed-air tube also carried by the support plate at a point which is diametrically opposite to the point of attachment of the annular member. A guiding member in the form of an inverted funnel is attached to the support plate beneath the hole of the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1982
    Assignee: Societe Alsacienne de Constructions Mecaniques de Mulhouse
    Inventor: Pierre Close