Patents by Inventor Thierry Boussac

Thierry Boussac 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: 20230188440
    Abstract: A method includes receiving network data describing operation of a network including a plurality of anomalies; clustering the network data to obtain clusters of groups of correlated anomalies; responsive to labeling the clusters of groups of correlated anomalies, utilizing the labels for the network data to train a model for automatic classification; and providing the model for automatic classification of additional network data. The clusters can be described through interpretable clustering (tree learning on cluster labels) (usage for description) or the cluster of interest can be deployed (again, tree learning on cluster labels) (usage for automatic classification).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Thierry BOUSSAC, Fabrice PELLOIN
  • Patent number: 11522766
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method and a system for determining root-cause diagnosis of events occurring during the operation of a communication network comprising monitoring time signals representative of the operation of the network to detect the occurrence of an event relative to the network traffic, and for each detected event, during the duration of said event obtaining distributions of data on several dimensions of the network linked to said event, automatically determining an event root-cause diagnosis of the detected event, called single event diagnosis, comprising at least one element of said distributions, an element being a value taken by a network dimension having a contribution in said distributions of data, the single event diagnosis determination using rules of business logic configuration organized hierarchically, which are applied according to said hierarchy to select at least one element of said distributions, the selection of more than one element comprising machine learning clustering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: EXFO Solutions SAS
    Inventors: Thierry Boussac, Fabrice Pelloin
  • Patent number: 11451671
    Abstract: Systems and methods include obtaining monitored traffic from an S1 interface; detecting a Secondary Radio Access Technology (RAT) Data Usage Report (DUR) in the monitored traffic; determining whether the Secondary RAT DUR relates to a 5G Non-Standard Architecture (NSA), and, if so, determining an address of a gNodeB in the Secondary RAT DUR; and storing the address of the gNodeB in a database. The systems and methods can include, for a call, updating a Call Detail Record (CDR) to reflect one of 5G NSA and 4G based on whether an address in the CDR is in the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: EXFO Solutions SAS
    Inventors: Christophe Gay, Thierry Boussac, Christopher Daumer
  • Patent number: 11416582
    Abstract: A method and device for estimating a number of distinct subscribers of a telecommunication network impacted by network issues include, for a plurality of N successive counting periods preceding a current time, steps of determining, for each counting period, an estimate of a number of different subscribers impacted by at least one network issue by implementing a probabilistic counter structure, and storing at least one elementary counter in association to said counting period, aggregating the elementary counters in a multi-level final counter structure, wherein each level of the final counter structure has an associated probabilistic counter structure, the aggregation comprising, for each elementary counter: computing, for at least one level of the multi-level final counter structure, an intersection between said elementary counter and the probabilistic counter structure associated to said level of the multi-level final counter structure, and updating the multi-level final counter structure based on the inters
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: EXFO Solutions SAS
    Inventors: Thierry Boussac, Richard Cruceanu
  • Publication number: 20210344803
    Abstract: Systems and methods include obtaining monitored traffic from an S1 interface; detecting a Secondary Radio Access Technology (RAT) Data Usage Report (DUR) in the monitored traffic; determining whether the Secondary RAT DUR relates to a 5G Non-Standard Architecture (NSA), and, if so, determining an address of a gNodeB in the Secondary RAT DUR; and storing the address of the gNodeB in a database. The systems and methods can include, for a call, updating a Call Detail Record (CDR) to reflect one of 5G NSA and 4G based on whether an address in the CDR is in the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Christophe GAY, Thierry BOUSSAC, Christopher DAUMER
  • Patent number: 11132109
    Abstract: Visualization systems and methods include, responsive to obtaining data related to one or more events occurring during operation of a system, displaying information about a time-based component of the one or more events on a timeline; displaying fixed information about a timeless component of the one or more events on the timeline; and responsive to user input to modify a timescale of the timeline, adjusting display of the timeline by adjusting the information of the one or more events and maintaining the fixed information of the one or more events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: EXFO Solutions SAS
    Inventors: Fabrice Pelloin, Thierry Boussac, Lucas Ortet
  • Publication number: 20210250222
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method and a system for determining root-cause diagnosis of events occurring during the operation of a communication network comprising monitoring time signals representative of the operation of the network to detect the occurrence of an event relative to the network traffic, and for each detected event, during the duration of said event obtaining distributions of data on several dimensions of the network linked to said event, automatically determining an event root-cause diagnosis of the detected event, called single event diagnosis, comprising at least one element of said distributions, an element being a value taken by a network dimension having a contribution in said distributions of data, the single event diagnosis determination using rules of business logic configuration organized hierarchically, which are applied according to said hierarchy to select at least one element of said distributions, the selection of more than one element comprising machine learning clustering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Thierry BOUSSAC, Fabrice PELLOIN
  • Publication number: 20210224353
    Abstract: A method and device for estimating a number of distinct subscribers of a telecommunication network impacted by network issues include, for a plurality of N successive counting periods preceding a current time, steps of determining, for each counting period, an estimate of a number of different subscribers impacted by at least one network issue by implementing a probabilistic counter structure, and storing at least one elementary counter in association to said counting period, aggregating the elementary counters in a multi-level final counter structure, wherein each level of the final counter structure has an associated probabilistic counter structure, the aggregation comprising, for each elementary counter: computing, for at least one level of the multi-level final counter structure, an intersection between said elementary counter and the probabilistic counter structure associated to said level of the multi-level final counter structure, and updating the multi-level final counter structure based on the inters
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Thierry Boussac, Richard Cruceanu
  • Patent number: 11025782
    Abstract: A method, implemented in a distributed system including a plurality of processing devices, generates an end-to-end Call Detail Record (CDR) on voice and multimedia telecommunication sessions over a plurality of telecommunication network elements and interfaces. The method includes the steps of receiving CDRs generated in real-time and streamed by multiple network elements, each CDR referring to a specific interface or protocol, processing the received CDRs as they are received to identify the specific interface or protocol to which the received CDR refers and to identify a single telecommunication session based on a key associated with the received CDR, and creating an end-to-end CDR incrementally based on all of the received CDRs identified for the single telecommunication session, wherein at least two of the received CDRs have a different interface or protocol from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: EXFO Solutions SAS
    Inventors: Thierry Boussac, Nicolas Cornet, Antoine Vallee
  • Publication number: 20200356229
    Abstract: Visualization systems and methods include, responsive to obtaining data related to one or more events occurring during operation of a system, displaying information about a time-based component of the one or more events on a timeline; displaying fixed information about a timeless component of the one or more events on the timeline; and responsive to user input to modify a timescale of the timeline, adjusting display of the timeline by adjusting the information of the one or more events and maintaining the fixed information of the one or more events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Fabrice PELLOIN, Thierry BOUSSAC, Lucas ORTET
  • Publication number: 20200186651
    Abstract: A method, implemented in a distributed system including a plurality of processing devices, generates an end-to-end Call Detail Record (CDR) on voice and multimedia telecommunication sessions over a plurality of telecommunication network elements and interfaces. The method includes the steps of receiving CDRs generated in real-time and streamed by multiple network elements, each CDR referring to a specific interface or protocol, processing the received CDRs as they are received to identify the specific interface or protocol to which the received CDR refers and to identify a single telecommunication session based on a key associated with the received CDR, and creating an end-to-end CDR incrementally based on all of the received CDRs identified for the single telecommunication session, wherein at least two of the received CDRs have a different interface or protocol from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Thierry Boussac, Nicolas Cornet, Antoine Vallee