Patents Assigned to Alcatel Lucent
  • Publication number: 20160086039
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for automatic detection and tracking of one or multiple objects of interest in a video sequence comprising several successive frames (1) captured with a moving camera, comprising:—segmenting (32) each frame into regions depending on colour and producing a segmented image (1?);—deducing (34) from each segmented image (1?) a region adjacency graph (11) comprising nodes and edges, wherein each node defines a region and each edge links two nodes of adjacent regions; wherein the region adjacency graphs (11) form a set of region adjacency graphs;—extracting (36) from the set of region adjacency graphs frequent spatio-temporal patterns (13);—determining (38) degrees of dissimilarity between the trajectories of the extracted frequent spatio-temporal patterns (13) between successive frames (1); and—clustering (39) the frequent spatio-temporal patterns (13) to produce at least one cluster (25, 26, 27) corresponding to one object of interest among said one or multiple objects of interes
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: ALCATEL LUCENT
    Inventors: Fabien Diot, Emmanuel Marilly, Elisa Fromont, Baptiste Jeudy, Olivier Martinot
  • Publication number: 20160087815
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the method includes determining, at a receiver, a total average received power over N resource elements and the L antennas, where N and L are integers greater than or equal to 1. The method further includes determining, at the receiver, a first bias in a first estimate of average received power for a received desired signal based on the determined total average received power; and generating, at the receiver, a first refined estimate of the average received power for the received desired signal based on the first estimate and the determined first bias.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: ALCATEL LUCENT USA, INC.
    Inventors: Krishna BALACHANDRAN, Joseph H. KANG, Kemal M. KARAKAYALI, Kiran M. REGE
  • Publication number: 20160085589
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide a method and apparatus of creating an application isolated virtual space without the need to run multiple OSs. Application isolated virtual spaces are created by an Operating System (OS) utilizing a resource manager. The resource manager isolates applications from each other by re-writing the network stack and the I/O subsystem of the conventional OS kernel to have multiple isolated network stack/virtual I/O views of the physical resources managed by the OS. Isolated network stacks and virtual I/O views identify the resources allocated to an application's isolated virtual space and are mapped to applications via an isolating identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: John H. Shamilian, Thomas l. Wood
  • Publication number: 20160088079
    Abstract: A capability for supporting streaming playout of media content is presented. The capability for supporting streaming playout of media content may use multiple interleaved media players running in parallel to support interleaved playout of adjacent chunks of a media content item in a round robin manner so as to provide streaming playout of the media content item. The capability for supporting streaming playout of media content enables streaming playout of media content on various types of devices, including resource-constrained devices (e.g., devices constrained in terms of available runtime memory, processing resources, or the like).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: ALCATEL LUCENT
    Inventor: Akhil Mathur
  • Patent number: 9294171
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an LSAS base station has a tree architecture including a central controller at the tree root, one or more intermediate levels of hubs forming tree branches, and an antenna module for each service antenna at a tree leaf. To calibrate an overall ratio characterizing differences between downlink and uplink channels between the central controller and each antenna module, neighbor-calibration procedures are calibrate neighbor ratios between parent nodes and their child nodes. Appropriate neighbor ratios are multiplied to generate overall ratios. To reduce time required to perform the neighbor-calibration procedures, odd and even phases are performed. In the odd phase, neighbor ratios are generated between parents in all odd levels and their children in even levels, and analogously for the even phase for even-level parents and odd-level children. Within each phase, independent parent-child pairs can be calibrated simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventor: Li E. Li
  • Patent number: 9294517
    Abstract: Method for setting up a communication session (SM) between two communication agents (A, B), triggered by the reception of an event (S) by a third-party communication element (C). Following the reception of this event, the third-party element sends the first of the two agents (A) a signalling message (M1) adapted to cause said agent to send an invitation message (M2) addressed to the second of the two agents (B) and intended to pass via the third-party element (C).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Thomas Froment, Arnaud Ligot
  • Patent number: 9294343
    Abstract: A system, method and apparatus adapting one or more routers or nodes in a network to operate in a first mode to exchange hello messages with neighboring nodes to indicate thereby active or live status, and to operate in a second mode to avoid the use of hello messages by opportunistically relying upon service or management protocols to convey active or live status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Pradeep G Jain, Kanwar D Singh, Santoshkumar Ramamurthy
  • Patent number: 9294559
    Abstract: Communication element (E2) comprising at least one interface with a communication network (NTEL) containing other communication elements (E1), and a peer-to-peer network (Np2p) for processing requests (Req) from the other communication elements, consisting of nodes (N1, N2, N3, N4, N5) distributed among a set of processing devices and arranged in a circle. It is associated with a management device comprising admission means to insert a new node within the peer-to-peer network. The communication element is intended so that contextual information used for processing said requests can be stored in the nodes and is characterized in that the admission means are intended to determine a pair of adjacent nodes deployed on a same processing device and to insert the new node between the two nodes of the pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Dimitri Tombroff, Pierre De Rop
  • Patent number: 9294827
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for use in management of a plurality of parameters of customer premises equipment automatically and dynamically selects and/or alters one or more of a plurality of parameters based on credentials. A particular service provider can be authorized to view and/or alter one or more parameters based on credentials associated with the particular service provider. Specific service providers can be restricted to viewing other service provider's parameters while being allowed to change parameters associated with the specific service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Pascal Marie Edouard Julien Justen, Christoph Stevens, Werner Mario Liekens, Jan Coppens, Christele Bouchat, Willem Jozef Amaat Acke
  • Patent number: 9294713
    Abstract: The invention related to a method for transmitting video contents from a server to a terminal of a user within service periods (S) of a radio transport channel, each video content being encoded by using scalable codec technology for integrating a scalable codec base layer (b1, b2, b3, b4) and at least one enhancement layer (e1, e2, e3, e4), each service period (S) comprising: —at least one multiplexed time-sliced radio burst (A, A?) comprising at least a part of the base layers (b1, b2, b3, b4); —several multiplexed time-sliced radio bursts (B, C, D, E) comprising the enhancement layers (e1, e2, e3, e4) and the eventual remaining base layers (b1, b2, b3, b4); said method enabling to permute, between two consecutive service periods (S), the transmission order of the enhancement layers bursts (B, C, D, E).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Marie Line Alberi-Morel, Sylvaine Kerboeuf
  • Patent number: 9294716
    Abstract: First image data representing a first view, captured by a camera system, of a second location, is displayed at the first location. The first view is associated with a first orientation relative to the second location. A first angular displacement associated with a motion of a chair disposed at the first location is determined. Information representing the first angular displacement is transmitted to the camera system. Second image data representing a second view of the second location associated with a second orientation is displayed at the first location, the second orientation having a relationship to the first orientation based on the first angular displacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Edward L. Sutter, Hock M. Ng
  • Patent number: 9294907
    Abstract: According to an implementation of the present subject matter, systems and methods for providing mobile connectivity to users while roaming, on a dynamic basis are described. The method includes receiving a location update message associated with a user latched to a secondary service provider, the user having a subscriber identity module (SIM) with a primary International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) number provided by a default service provider of the user, wherein the location update message is based on the primary IMSI number of the user. The method also includes generating a dummy location update message based on the received location update message and a secondary IMSI number associated with the secondary service provider; and sending the dummy location update message to the secondary service provider associated with the secondary IMSI number such that the user is provided communication services by the secondary service provider based on the primary IMSI number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Anuj Gupta, Sushil Kumar Saini
  • Patent number: 9295105
    Abstract: Wireless stations (and their associated operation) making up a static, multi-hop wireless network are simplified because topological modeling and routing/scheduling decisions are shifted from the stations to a controller external to the network. The controller may determine routing paths and schedules for each of the wireless stations in a network based on the topology of a given network along with other network characteristics. Thereafter, the so-determined paths and schedules are sent to the associated wireless stations. By simplifying the operation of a wireless station, the amount of energy required to be used by each station may be reduced thereby maximizing the lifetime of the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Yigal Bejerano, Amit Kumar
  • Publication number: 20160078220
    Abstract: A capability for providing policy enforcement in a topology abstraction system is presented. The capability for providing policy enforcement in a topology abstraction system may support use of topology abstraction policies to control abstraction of topology information of a topology (e.g., a network topology of a communication network or any other suitable type of topology). The capability for providing policy enforcement in a topology abstraction system providing an abstract representation of a topology may support use of topology abstraction policies to control selection (or acceptance) of topology elements for inclusion within the abstract representation of a topology and filtering (or rejection) of topology elements from being included within the abstract representation of a topology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicants: ALCATEL LUCENT, ALCATEL-LUCENT USA INC.
    Inventors: Michael Scharf, Thomas Voith, Manuel Stein, Yihao Zhang, Gordon Wilfong
  • Publication number: 20160080202
    Abstract: A capability for sparsifying a representation of pairwise cost information is presented herein. The capability for sparsifying a representation of pairwise cost information may be used to sparsify a representation of pairwise cost information for a set of nodes. The sparsification of a representation of pairwise cost information for a set of nodes may provide thereby a sparsified representation of the pairwise cost information for the set of nodes. The sparsification of the representation of pairwise cost information for the set of nodes may be based on clustering of the nodes of the set of nodes into clusters. The sparsification of the representation of pairwise cost information for the set of nodes may be based on calculation of intra-cluster costs and inter-cluster costs, where the intra-cluster costs and inter-cluster costs are calculated based on the pairwise cost information of the representation of the pairwise cost information for the set of nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicants: ALCATEL LUCENT, ALCATEL-LUCENT USA INC.
    Inventors: Yihao Zhang, Gordon Wilfong, Michael Scharf
  • Publication number: 20160080095
    Abstract: A method for estimating the speed of a user equipment connected to a base station of a wireless network, the method comprising the following steps: —performing signal strength measurements (S) of a radio signal transmitted between the user equipment and the base station; —performing a spectral analysis (11) of the signal strength measurements; —determining the frequency of a local maximum in the power spectrum of the signal strength measurements; —estimating (12), from previously established reference data, the speed of the user equipment that corresponds to the determined frequency, the reference data associating a given user equipment speed with a certain determined frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicants: INRIA, ALCATEL LUCENT
    Inventors: Majed HADDAD, Veronique CAPDEVIELLE, Afef FEKI, Eitan ALTMAN
  • Patent number: 9287600
    Abstract: A conductor is formed of a first portion to define a first area in a plane that is substantially perpendicular to a first magnetic field direction in a first cavity resonator and a second portion to define a second area in a plane that is substantially perpendicular to a second magnetic field direction in a second cavity resonator. Inductive current generated in the first portion flows in substantially the same direction as current in the second portion. The conductor may be deployed in an aperture between the first and second cavity resonators to couple or cross-couple the first and second cavity resonators. The conductor may also be deployed to couple or cross-couple cavity resonators in a filter implemented in a broadcast- or base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: ALCATEL-LUCENT SHANGHAI BELL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yan Cao, Dieter Pelz
  • Patent number: 9288680
    Abstract: A method of setting an almost blank subframe (ABS) duty cycle in a heterogeneous network including a macro cell and one or more small cells, the one or more small cells being underlaid with respect to the macro cell includes obtaining, at a network element, loading information corresponding to each of the macro cell and the one or more small cells, the loading information including, for each of the macro cell and the one or more small cells, an indication of an amount of information buffered at the cell for each user attached to the cell; and determining the ABS duty cycle based on the obtained loading information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Subramanian Vasudevan, Rahul N. Pupala, Kathiravetpillai Sivanesan
  • Patent number: 9286154
    Abstract: A memory system comprising a qubit array configured to store therein and read one or more entangled qubit states encoded using a quantum stabilizer code. The quantum-memory system further comprises a quantum-state-refresh module configured to change an entangled qubit state in the qubit array when an error is detected therein. The quantum-state-refresh module is configured to detect an error by performing a redundant measurement of a set of syndrome values corresponding to the quantum stabilizer code, with the redundant measurement being based on a block error-correction code. In one embodiment, the block error-correction code is a low-density generator-matrix code or a low-density parity-check code constructed using an EXIT-function optimization method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventor: Alexei Ashikhmin
  • Patent number: 9288310
    Abstract: A method and system for initial personalization of a smart card coupled with a communication device of a user who is not yet a subscriber of any telecommunication network are disclosed. A temporary international identity and a temporary authentication key are stored in the smart card and in a home location register connected to a roaming entity of a telecommunication network. A series of signals are exchanged between the smart card, the roaming entity, an application server and a personalization server to establish a secure session between the smart card and the personalization server. During the secure session, the smart card receives a message containing an initial international identity from the personalization server, and replaces the temporary international identity and the temporary authentication key by the initial international identity and the initial authentication key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Yacine El Mghazli, Abdullatif Shikfa