Abstract: Drainage of body fluid from an area of undesirably high pressure can be accomplished by interconnecting an artificial non-blood fluid conduit with the vascular system. For example, an artificial non-blood fluid conduit can be inserted into the eye to fluidly interconnect the anterior chamber with a location of lower pressure. The conduit can have a growth factor for stimulating growth of new blood vessels in the location of lower pressure to connect the new blood vessels with the non-blood fluid conduit.

Abstract: Some embodiments relate to a method of authorizing the establishment of a peer-to-peer stream between two user terminals of a mobile telecommunications network. The method is implemented in a platform of the mobile telecommunications network and comprises receiving, from a server of a peer-to-peer service provider, a request to establish a peer-to-peer stream between a first user terminal and a second user terminal, the establishment request including a stream identifier, the stream identifier including at least an identifier of the first user terminal and an identifier of the second user terminal. The method also comprises deciding whether to authorize the establishment of the peer-to-peer stream between the first user terminal and the second user terminal and sending an authorization or rejection message for the peer-to-peer stream to a network gateway in charge of controlling the streams transiting on the mobile telecommunications network, the message including the stream identifier.

Abstract: A terminal receives a digital content which is transmitted in the form of a data stream in a network. This digital content is received by the terminal with a reception throughput, a nominal rendering time being associated with the digital content. Activation of a trick mode corresponding to a modification of the nominal rendering time according to a modification factor associated with the trick mode is detected on the terminal. Data to be requested are then determined according to the modification factor and according to a value representative of reception throughput. The data are then requested from the network and the requested data are received.

Abstract: A sound spatialization, with the application of at least one transfer function with room effect to at least one sound signal. This application amounts to multiplying, in the spectral range, spectral components of the sound signal by the spectral components of a filter corresponding to the transfer function, each spectral component of the filter having a temporal evolution in a time-frequency representation. In particular, the spectral components of the filter are especially ignored, for the above-mentioned multiplications of components, beyond a threshold frequency and after at least a given instant in said time-frequency representation.

Abstract: A transmission control protocol communications method between a first device and a second device. The method includes the following acts: a) the first device, or a proxy connected to the first device, collects information about existence of network address translators and/or firewalls, if any, placed in series on at least one possible communications path between the first device and the second device and known to the first device or to the proxy connected to the first device; b) the first device or the proxy creates an entry in at least one such network address translator and/or firewall, the entry including at least one IP address and/or at least one port number of the first device; and c) the first device or the proxy transmits to the second device the at least one IP address and/or the at least one port number in a TCP option.

Abstract: A method of coding/decoding of a digital audio signal comprising a succession of consecutive blocks of data, on the basis of a predictive filter. A modified predictive filter is used for the coding of at least one current block, the modified filter being constructed by the combination of: a rear filter calculated for a past block, preceding the current block, and enrichment parameters for the rear filter, which are determined as a function of the signal in the current block and comprising the coefficients of a modifying filter.

Abstract: A method for multi-carrier transmission of a signal including OFDM blocks formed from N carriers modulated by a constellation symbol. The method includes, for at least one OFDM block: a phase of prebuilding M prebuilt complex time samples representative of the N carriers of the OFDM block, and a phase of correcting the constellation symbols modulating the N carriers, including the following acts, repeated for each carrier: detection of P samples having a power higher than a predefined threshold, delivering the P samples and M?P zero samples, forming M complex time samples to be corrected, correcting the constellation symbol on the basis of the M complex time samples to be corrected, delivering an item of complex correction data, building M complex time samples associated with the item of complex correction data, and updating the M prebuilt complex time samples.

Abstract: A signal processing device, media, and method are provided, where a signal comprises a succession of samples distributed in successive frames. The processing is implemented during decoding of such a signal in order to replace at least one signal frame lost in decoding, and comprising in particular: a) searching, in a valid signal available to the decoder, for a signal segment of length corresponding to a period set as a function of the valid signal; b) analyzing a spectrum of the segment in order to determine spectral components of the segment; and c) synthesizing at least one replacement frame for the lost frame by construction of a synthesized signal from at least a portion of the spectral components.

Abstract: A method which serves to display a new rectangular window in a display zone on a screen, the display zone already including at least one first rectangular window, the new window being displayed progressively towards the inside and starting from an edge of the first window is disclosed. In one aspect, the method comprises shifting the content of the first window from the edge through a distance corresponding to the dimension of said new window in a second direction perpendicular to a first direction parallel to the edge. The method may also comprise displaying the new window along the edge, the display having the effect of correspondingly reducing said first window in the second direction and, once the entire new window has been displayed, managing the scrolling of the initial content in the first window.

Abstract: A method of managing fixed and mobile terminals in an environment comprising a mobile network including an IMS network, and an enterprise network including IP-PBX equipment, the method consisting in particular in: determining (S30) the mobile terminals of the mobile network that are registered with the IMS network and the enterprise terminals that are registered with the IP-PBX equipment of the enterprise network; while a multimedia communications session involving any terminal that is determined as being registered with the IMS network or with the IP-PBX equipment as the case may be, is being initialized via the IMS network, obtaining (S32) the capabilities of said terminal; and updating (S31, S33) a database with information identifying the mobile terminals of the mobile network that are registered with the IMS network and the enterprise terminals that are registered with the IP-PBX equipment, and with information representative of the capabilities that have been obtained for each identified terminal.

Abstract: A method is provided for communication, which is implemented by an interfacing device of a server of a first network for distributing digital content. The method includes: receiving a content ingestion request emitted by a device of a second network for distributing content, with a view to storage of the content in the second distribution network; and when the first distribution network is not able to respond to the request, dispatching an enquiry destined for at least one third network for distributing content, requesting a transfer of the content to the second distribution network. The first distribution network delegates the transfer of the content. The third distribution network then transfers the digital content to the second content distribution network.

Abstract: One embodiment described herein relates to a method of predicting the performance of a communication system on a transmission channel. The system may comprise a transmitter suitable for applying bit interleaved coded modulation to information bits issued by a source to generate coded symbols, these coded symbols being transmitted by the transmitter over the transmission channel. The coded modulation may be based on a turbo-code comprising at least two constituent codes. The system may also comprise an iterative receiver, suitable for performing an iterative interference cancellation technique to process the coded symbols received from the transmission channel, the iterative receiver comprising an equalizer, a demodulator, and a turbo-decoder that are activated during each iteration performed by the iterative receiver.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system are provided for sharing web pages. The method includes: executing one or more programs stored in a memory of the computer system for generating a representation of a web page that is displayed in a window of a web browser in a user interface of the client computer system; recording the web page over a period of time, the recording including web page changes resulting from input events; recording each input event along with a time stamp associated with the event and associating the time stamp with the event, wherein the recording of the web page, input events, and time stamps are placed in a screencast file; extracting from the screencast file portions related to selected time stamps of the recorded input events; and assembling the portions to generate a combined web page recording.

Abstract: A method is provided for reserving a bandwidth in a local network for a service delivered by a services platform. The service is intended to be executed on a user terminal of the network. The method includes the following acts implemented by the services platform: receiving a first request for access to the service, originating from the user terminal via a network gateway, the request selecting a service offered by the services platform, after selection of the service, determining at least one parameter defining a bandwidth required for the execution of the selected service, generating and dispatching to the terminal, via the network gateway of a universal address of the service selected including a domain name, the domain name including in a first label at least the parameter defining the necessary bandwidth, and other labels forming a name of the services platform.

Abstract: A method is provided for computing a predicted frame from a first and a second reference frames, the method comprising, for each block of pixels in the predicted frame, the acts of defining a first block of pixels in the first reference frame collocated with a third block of pixels which is the block of pixels in the predicted frame; defining a second block of pixels corresponding, in the second reference frame, to the first block of pixels along the motion vector of the first block from the first to second reference frames; computing a first set of coefficients allowing the transformation of the pixels of the first block into pixels of the second block; computing pixels of the third block using the first set of coefficients and pixels from a fourth block collocated in the first reference frame with the second block of pixels.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for transmitting data on a terminal in a call, such that it comprises, when a call initiated from the terminal is set up to another party, steps of determining (301) the call number of the correspondent; of reading (302) a configuration information item comprising at least one association between the determined call number and a datum identifier, the datum identifier being associated with a command to obtain the datum; of obtaining (303), by executing the associated command, the identified datum, and of transmitting (305) the datum to a recipient. The invention relates also to a communication terminal implementing the method.

Abstract: The invention relates to a receiving device (Rx1_b) capable of receiving an optical signal emitted by an emitting device including a light source for emitting the optical signal, the optical signal being transmitted by a passive optical network having wavelength division multiplexing, the receiving device including: an optical amplifier (Amp_b) for amplifying the optical signal received from the emitting device; an optical detector (D_b) capable of detecting data in the amplified optical signal; an optical reflector (Ref_b) configured to return the amplified optical signal toward the emitting device, such as to tune the wavelength of the optical signal emitted by the emitting device by means of a round trip of the optical signal between the emitting device and the optical reflector.

Abstract: A method is provided for selecting a device in a telecommunications network in accordance with characteristics relating to the implementation of a telecommunications service, comprising the following steps: a) receiving a set of characteristics relating to said service; b) forming a first symbolic address for querying an address server, using at least one portion of the overall characteristics of the set on the one hand, and an address domain name on the other hand; c) sending the first address to the address server; d) receiving a list of one or more devices compatible with the characteristics; and e) selecting one device from the list.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of grouping transmitter-receiver pairs for communicating over a communications network. For each group of a set of groups of transmitter-receiver pairs, the pairs of the group execute an iterative interference alignment technique for I1 iterations on signals transmitted by the group. Each transmitter of the group successively sends a pilot signal that has been precoded by a matrix resulting from that execution. Each receiver of the group evaluates a metric representative of a distance between a vector subspace generated by the pilot signal transmitted by the transmitter with which it forms a pair and a vector subspace generated by interferences determined from the pilot signals transmitted by the other transmitters. A central unit calculates a global metric associated for each group on the basis of the metrics from the receivers of the group and selects from the set a group that optimizes the global metric.