Patents Assigned to Franc Telecom
  • Patent number: 8639289
    Abstract: A system for managing at least one service access authentication data item, including a device for accessing at least one service. The system also includes a mobile terminal including a mechanism managing the authentication data item and an identifier of the service, a communication interface between the access device and the management mechanism, and a software interface configured to determine the service identifier and to utilize the management mechanism, via the communication interface, on access to the service. The system for example is applicable to website access authentication services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Anne-Sophie Dagorn, David Picquenot, Pierre Lemoine
  • Patent number: 8639845
    Abstract: The invention relates to multimedia page editing via a terminal. A server supplies multimedia pages to the terminal in the form of object arrangement commands for objects identified by parameters. A method according to the invention comprises a preliminary step wherein the server transmits all or part of the object-related parameters as well as a store command, whereby the parameters are stored in a terminal memory; and a main step wherein the server transmits a simple parameter retrieval command for editing at least one multimedia page in which the above-mentioned object appears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventor: Cédric Gegout
  • Patent number: 8630273
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of dynamic appropriation of at least one second multimedia device by a first device situated in a geographical area in which said at least one second multimedia device is situated in the event of a request to set up a call between the first device and a third device, the method including a step of setting up a first signaling link between a server and the first device and a step of controlling the second and third devices from said server with a view to setting up between the second and third devices at least one first payload data stream forming a first part of said call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Romaric Petion, Jean-Christian Villey, Xavier Marjou, Sarah Tronet
  • Patent number: 8630864
    Abstract: A method of bitrate switching on decoding an audio signal coded by a audio coding system, said decoding comprising a post-processing step depending on the bitrate. On switching from an initial bitrate to a final bitrate, said method includes a transition step of continuous change from a signal at the initial bitrate to a signal at the final bitrate, one or both of said signals being post-processed. Application to transmission of VoIP speech and/or audio signals in data packet networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Stéphane Ragot, David Virette, Balazs Kovesi
  • Patent number: 8631481
    Abstract: A transmission of a digital content to a user terminal is managed by a network comprising a service subnetwork adapted for providing the terminal with a service token, and a digital contents distribution subnetwork which includes a control part and a transmission part. The control part of the distribution subnetwork receives a request from the user terminal for a digital content, indicating a service token. Next, if the service token is recognized as valid, an address relating to the distribution subnetwork is determined and a session token associated with said address is generated. A message indicating said address and the session token associated with said address is then transmitted to the user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Gaël Fromentoux, Frédéric Fieau
  • Patent number: 8631329
    Abstract: A method is provided for the restitution of multimedia data transmitted by a gateway to a communications terminal via a first transmission channel. The method includes the following steps: interrogating the terminal via the gateway about its capabilities of restituting the multimedia data; transmitting, to the gateway via the terminal, a list of commands that it is capable of executing; transmitting, via the gateway, multimedia data with the aid of at least one series of commands that is part of the list of commands that can be executed by the terminal, and restituting, in this terminal, the multimedia data with the aid of the received command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Stephane Rouchy, Christophe Dion, Matthieu Malledant
  • Publication number: 20140010273
    Abstract: A method and device are provided for measuring impulse noise in a signal. The method includes: measuring at least one first signal; converting the first signal in the frequency domain; defining a variable-frequency triggering threshold on the basis of stationary characteristics of the first signal; measuring a second signal; converting the second signal in the frequency domain; storing the second signal when the second signal reaches or passes the triggering threshold; and high-pass-filtering the stored signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: France Telecom
    Inventors: Rabah Tarafi, Alain Cario
  • Patent number: 8627505
    Abstract: A technique of controlling access by a client entity to a service in a communications network. Processing modules are interconnected in the network in order to supply the service to the client entity. A processing module implements an individual function of a chain of individual functions associated with the service. The access method includes the following steps implemented by an access control device associated with an access node giving access to the service, the device being referred to as a main device: receiving a chain of processing modules from the access node; sending, to a secondary access control device associated with a processing module of the chain, a request to access the processing module under consideration, the request including an access token negotiated between the main device and the client entity; receiving a response to the access request from the secondary device; and notifying the access node of the response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Benoît Radier, Mikaël Salaun, Andreas Klenk, Michael Kleis
  • Publication number: 20140003265
    Abstract: A data reception device in a communication network using a plurality of radio frequency channels. At least two adjacent radio frequency channels are concatenated so as to form a concatenated channel. The device is configured to receive “received” data transmitted in at least one radio frequency channel of the concatenated channel; transpose the received data at an intermediate frequency, thus outputting data at an intermediate frequency; filtering the data at the intermediate frequency with a filter including at least two separate filtering channels, each filtering channel including a band-pass filter, the frequency band of which corresponds to the frequency band of a separate radio frequency channel of the concatenated channel such that the total frequency band of the filters is equal to the frequency band of the concatenated channel; activating at least one of the filtering channels; and recombining data from the filtering channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: France Telecom
    Inventors: Marc Lanoiselee, Laurent Cariou
  • Patent number: 8615390
    Abstract: The invention relates to transform coding/decoding of a digital audio signal represented by a succession of frames, using windows of different lengths. For the coding within the meaning of the invention, it is sought to detect (51) a particular event, such as an attack, in a current frame (Ti); and, at least if said particular event is detected at the start of the current frame (53), a short window (54) is directly applied in order to code (56) the current frame (Ti) without applying a transition window. Thus, the coding has a reduced delay in relation to the prior art. In addition, an ad hoc processing is applied during decoding in order to compensate for the direct passage from a long window to a short window during coding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Balazs Kovesi, David Virette, Pierrick Philippe
  • Patent number: 8615563
    Abstract: Method for switching access nodes for a terminal capable of implementing a set of applications with at least one remote communicating entity through a packet-switched network, said terminal being associated with a set of first communication contexts, a first communication context including a same first transport configuration common to the set of applications and a first application configuration corresponding to a given application. The method comprises the following steps, reiterated for all the first communication contexts: reception by the terminal of an access node switching notification message, said message indicating a second communication context including a second transport configuration, reception by the terminal of notification message count information, filtering of said second transport configuration of said second communication context on the basis of said count information, transmission of a filtered notification message to the application corresponding to the current iteration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Philippe Herbelin, Khadija Daoud Triki, Cédric Leveque
  • Patent number: 8612220
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for quantifying components, wherein certain components are each determined based on a plurality of audio signals and can be calculated by the application of a linear conversion on the audio signals, said method comprising: determining a quantification function to be applied to the components by testing a condition relative to an audio signal and depending on a comparison made between a psycho-acoustic masking threshold relative to the audio signal and a value determined based on the reverse linear conversion and quantification errors of the components by the function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Adil Mouhssine, Abdellatif Benjelloun Touimi, Pierre Duhamel
  • Patent number: 8611746
    Abstract: A system and an associated method of bidirectional optical transmission between a central terminal (101) and a plurality of client terminals (11, 12) via a passive optical network (PON) (3), wherein the conversion of an OTDM signal into a WDM signal (respectively the conversion of a WDM signal into an OTDM signal) is effected by an optical converter (20) (respectively 21) by a soliton trapping effect during a downlink (respectively uplink) transmission stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Erwan Pincemin, Franck Payoux
  • Patent number: 8611413
    Abstract: A method of transmitting an image portion, in a coding phase, comprises: analyzing a coding context; adapting a parameter of a group of prediction functions that can be used for coding; forming a first predicted descriptor using a selected prediction function; and determining and transmitting a residue (?) between the first predicted descriptor and the current descriptor. The method further includes a decoding phase comprising: analyzing a decoding context; adapting a parameter of a group of prediction functions that can be used for decoding; forming a second predicted descriptor (P*) using a selected prediction function; and combining the second predicted descriptor and the received residue to deliver a decoded version of the current descriptor (V*).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Joël Jung, Guillaume Laroche, Marc Ballavoine
  • Publication number: 20130332950
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for communicating information relating to operating conditions of local equipment (STB), to remote equipment. The method according to the invention comprises: a step of measuring at least one value of a primitive parameter Dsk representing said operating conditions, and a step of processing said parameter using a calculation unit (CMEM, CPU) that can execute a plurality of calculation operations. The local equipment (STB), in line with the invention, can produce a multiplicity of data signals relating to variables representing operating conditions of said equipment on the basis of values of primitive parameters Dsk, without it being necessary to pre-define and physically implement a large number of complex functions as in prior art.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2011
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: France Telecom
    Inventors: Gilbert Landais, Simon Gloanec
  • Patent number: 8605909
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method and a system for sound spatialization of a first set of not less than one of the audio channels encoded on of a number of frequency subbands (SBk) and decoded in a transformed domain (Fl, C, Fr, Sr, SI, Ife) into a second set of not less than two (Bl, Br) sound channels in the time domain, from modelling filters converted into a gain and a delay applicable in the transformed domain involving: filtering (A) through equalization, subband delay of the signal by applying at least one gain and one delay to generate from each of said encoded channels an equalized and delayed component; adding (B) a subset of equalized and delayed signals to create a number of filtered signals corresponding to not less than two; synthesizing (C) each of said filtered signals to obtain the second set of not less than two reproduction sound channels (Bl, Br) in the time domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Marc Emerit, Pierrick Philippe, David Virette
  • Patent number: 8606276
    Abstract: A telecommunications system provides mobile communications to mobile user equipment and includes an internet protocol access network and a cellular mobile radio network. The mobile user equipment activates a connection on the cellular mobile radio network using the packet switched communications channel whilst receiving a communications service via the internet protocol access network. The mobile user equipment communicates via the connection on the packet-switched channel of the cellular mobile radio network in response to a handover event from the internet protocol access network to the cellular mobile radio network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Raynald Bornier, Jean-Louis Fuccellaro
  • Patent number: 8607127
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of transmission error concealment in a digital signal split up into a plurality of successive frames associated with different time intervals in which, on reception, the signal might comprise erased frames and valid frames and in order to replace at least the first erased frame (N) after a valid frame, at least two steps are performed, a first step (E1) of preparation not producing any missing sample and comprising at least one analysis of a valid decoded signal and a second step (E2) of concealment producing the missing samples of the signal corresponding to said erased frame. The first step and the second step are executed in different time intervals. The invention relates also to a device of concealment implementing the method according to the invention as well as a decoder comprising such a device. The invention allows the distribution of the error concealment complexity on different time intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Balazs Kovesi, Stéphane Ragot
  • Patent number: 8605621
    Abstract: A gateway (25) between an ad hoc network (5) and a fixed network (2) in a hybrid telecommunications network (1) selects, from amongst candidate nodes (10) of the ad hoc network (5) that are located one hop from that gateway (25) and that have connectivity with that gateway (25) above a predetermined threshold, at least one gateway node (10?) for relaying at least part of the traffic between other nodes (10) of the ad hoc network (5) and the gateway (25).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Usman Javaid, Djamal-Eddine Meddour
  • Patent number: 8607332
    Abstract: A system for managing sensitive personal data includes a first data processing subsystem and a second data processing subsystem. The first data processing subsystem includes a generating unit and a private database. The generating unit generates a common key from data identifying a person. The private database associates the common key with the identification data. The second data processing subsystem includes an obtaining unit, a generating unit, a receiving unit and a storing unit. The obtaining unit obtains the common key. The generating unit generates a random number from the common key. The receiving unit receives a registration message including sensitive personal data of the person and the random number. The storing unit stores the personal data in a second database in association with the random number and the common key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Sébastien Canard, Stéphane Guilloteau, François Boudet