Patents Assigned to Orang
  • Patent number: 7640017
    Abstract: The present invention relates to apparatus for and methods of performing a binding procedure in respect of a mobile node in a foreign packet data network, the mobile node having roamed from a an home packet data network and having a home packet data protocol address, the method comprising the steps of: the mobile node sending its home packet data protocol address to a node of the network responsible for allocating packet data protocol addresses to mobile nodes for use in the foreign network (the allocating node); the allocating node allocating or participating in the allocation of a packet data protocol address to the mobile node; the allocating node receiving a packet data protocol address of a receiving node; and in dependence on the received home packet data protocol address, the receiving node packet data protocol address, and the allocated packet data protocol address, the allocating node sending or arranging for another network node to send a message to the receiving node, the message indicating a bindi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Orange SA
    Inventor: Xiaobao Chen
  • Patent number: 7634259
    Abstract: An applications server is operable to provide a plurality of user driven services by running an application program. The application program is arranged to provide the services in response to user commands for selecting service options. The applications server comprises in accordance with the application program a state machine able to determine a current state of the application program from one of a pre-determined set of states defining a logical procedure through the user selected service options. The states of the state machine includes for each of the modular services, one or more states associated with one or more forms within the service. Each form defines a state of a user interface for providing the services to the user, and each state includes one or more sub-states called situations, defining the commands to be recognised and the predicates to be satisfied to select that state depending upon the estimated user commands and the session state of the user session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Orange SA
    Inventors: Eric R. Shienbrood, David M. Pelland, Gregory T. Howe, Robert Adamsky
  • Publication number: 20090253990
    Abstract: Non-invasive systems and methods to distinguish between blood and synovial fluid in patients are described. In one embodiment, the system comprises a patient interface system that can be placed over a swollen joint. A region of the swollen joint is illuminated with radiation. The scattered or transmitted radiation from the region of effusion is collected by a collection system and detected by a radiation detector. The information from the detector is analyzed by an analytic processing system to diagnose the cause of the joint effusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicant: Children's Hospital of Orange County
    Inventors: Chad Allen Lieber, Diane Jean Nugent, Amit Soni
  • Publication number: 20090245174
    Abstract: Apparatus for and methods of enabling a gateway node of a first packet-switched data network to select a first channel for transferring a data packet to a destination packet data protocol address of a correspondent node provided service in the first network are disclosed. The gateway node is configured to select the first channel from a plurality of channels configured to transfer data packets to the destination packet data protocol address of the correspondent node, wherein the data packet is sent from a mobile node of a second packet-switched data network external to the first network, and wherein the mobile node has been in a communication session with the correspondent node while provided service in a third packet-switched data network different to the second network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: Orange SA
    Inventor: Xiaobao Chen
  • Publication number: 20090206294
    Abstract: A valve stem with a connecting cap for a tire pressure detector has a body, a connecting cap and a fastener. The body is tubular, is a valve stem applied for truck and has an outer section, an inner section and a fixing nut. The inner section is integrally formed coaxially on the outer section and has an outlet hole being formed thereon. The fixing nut is movably mounted on the outer section. The connecting cap is cylinder, has an outer end and a hole and is detachably mounted on the inner section. The hole is coaxially and longitudinally formed on the connecting cap. The fastener corresponds to the hole and the outlet hole and holds a wireless pressure detector on the outer end of the connecting cap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: Orange Electronic Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hung-Chih YU
  • Patent number: 7562314
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus for inputting data by writing characters on a touch sensitive display screen. The data processing apparatus comprises a character recognition processor operable to generate an estimate of a character hand written by a user on the touch sensitive screen. The data processing apparatus includes a processing unit operable to receive the estimated character, and a graphics display device operable to receive the estimated character from the processing unit. The graphics display device is operable to display the estimated characters within a text input window of the display screen. The processing unit is operable in combination with the graphics display driver to display the estimated character on the display screen, substantially at a position proximate to a location to where the user has written the character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Orange SA
    Inventors: Alan Blount, Todd Pinkerton
  • Patent number: 7558240
    Abstract: A telecommunications system communicates internet packet data, carrying a plurality of different types of data, to and/or from a mobile communications user equipment. The system comprises a gateway support node (GGSN), a serving support node (SGSN) and a radio network controller (RNC). The mobile user equipment (UE) is operable to communicate a context application request to the serving support node (SGSN) specifying main quality of service parameters and at least one other data field representing a request for a different set of quality of service parameters, each of the quality of service parameters being provided for one of the different types of data in the data packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Orange SA
    Inventors: Xiaobao Chen, Alan George Stidwell, Martin Barkley Harris
  • Patent number: 7558233
    Abstract: A system for managing access from a plurality of communications networks (20, 21, 22) to a mobile terminal (10) connected to a mobile telecommunications network. The system is adapted to set up a connection from at least one of the communications networks (20, 21, 22) to the mobile terminal (10). Application to mobile telecommunications networks enabling access from a mobile terminal (10) to a plurality of independent communications networks (20, 21, 22) each offering a set of services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Orange France
    Inventor: Etienne Annic
  • Patent number: 7554949
    Abstract: A method of filtering data packets at a network gateway is disdosed. The data packets have a header including a destination address and an extension header, and the method includes selectively blocking ones of the data packets where neither the destination address nor the extension header matches a predetermined criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: Orange S.A.
    Inventor: Xiaobao Chen
  • Patent number: 7549329
    Abstract: A tire pressure detecting valve stem has a case, a body and a tire pressure detector. The case is rectangular and has an inner surface. The body is a valve stem and is integrally and transversely mounted on the case and has an inner section and a center pin. The inner section is integrally mounted in the case. The center pin is conductive, is coaxially mounted in the inner section and protrudes from the inner surface of the case. The tire pressure detector corresponds to and is mounted on the inner surface and is electronically connected to the center pin. Because the case is integrally and compactly mounted on the inner section of the body, the case will be mounted on and stay close to a rim when the body is mounted through the rim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: Orange Electronic Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hung-Chih Yu, Feng-Yi Chang
  • Patent number: 7536904
    Abstract: The tire pressure detector and valve stem assembly has a valve stem, a wireless pressure detector and a fastener. The valve stem has an outer section and an inner section. The inner section is integrally and coaxially formed on the outer section and has a distal end, an outlet hole, a sidewall and at least one clamping surface. The at least one clamping surface is flat and is tangentially formed on the sidewall. To assemble, only a regular tool such as a clamp or a spanner is necessary to clamp the inner section on the clamping surface when mounting or dismounting the valve stem onto or from a rim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Orange Electronic Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hung-Chih Yu
  • Publication number: 20080220743
    Abstract: A method of customizing a mobile station in a mobile telecommunications system. A portable authentication module is provided for insertion into the mobile station, the authentication module comprising a function for authenticating a subscriber in the mobile telecommunications system when the authentication module is inserted in the mobile station. The authentication module further includes one or more software applications for customizing the mobile station. The one or more customizing software applications are transferred onto the mobile station in response to insertion of the authentication module into the mobile station, and then activated, in order to customize the mobile station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Applicant: Orange SA
    Inventors: Eric Gilles Mora, Yves Maitre
  • Patent number: 7419825
    Abstract: During the growth and study of NSCs, a range of molecules present on the surface of multipotent neural stem and progenitor cells (NSCs) were identified. These markers were identified using a number of human and murine neural stem cell lines, including retinal stem cells (RSCs). The NSC-specific markers identified included gene products as well as non-protein molecules and sugar epitopes not directly coded in the genome. Together with surface markers which were determined to be absent from the surface of hNSCs, the molecules described herein provide a means to enrich for neural stem cells, or neural progenitor subpopulations, particularly using combinatorial cell sorting strategies. These same molecules also represent targets for pharmacological manipulation of NSC populations and subpopulations, both in vivo and ex vivo.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Children's Hospital of Orange County
    Inventors: Henry Klassen, Michael Schwartz, Michael J. Young
  • Patent number: 7403778
    Abstract: A method of, apparatus for and a computer program for controlling handover of a mobile station conducting a communications session in a mobile communications network, the network including a plurality of radio access domains, the method comprising receiving a trigger indicating a requirement for handover; testing at least one possible handover meeting said requirement against network policy; and controlling handover in accordance with said requirement and said network policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Orange Personal Communications Services Limited
    Inventor: Paul Reynolds
  • Patent number: 7349004
    Abstract: A mobile telephone handset comprising a radio telecommunications interface for wirelessly transmitting and receiving radio signals to and from a mobile telecommunications network is disclosed. The handset comprises first and second audio loudspeakers positioned to output audio from two different locations on the handset, wherein the first audio loudspeaker is mounted on a first portion and the second audio loudspeaker is mounted on a second, different portion, and wherein the first and second portions are movable from a first relative position in which the handset is compact and in which the audio loudspeakers are relatively closely spaced to a second relative position in which the audio loudspeakers are relatively widely spaced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignee: Orange Personal Communications Services Limited
    Inventors: Paul Priestman, Oliver King, Sean Lewis
  • Patent number: 7248871
    Abstract: A method of identifying areas for improving radio communications coverage in a mobile radio network under analysis. The method comprises detecting cancel location signalling data, update location signalling data and service signalling data. The cancel location signalling data is generated to cancel a registration of mobile user equipment from a visitor subscriber database of the analyzed mobile radio network. The cancel location signalling data includes mobile subscriber identifiers of the mobile user equipment. The location update signalling data informs the home subscriber database of the home network of the mobile user equipment that the mobile user equipment is to be registered as having roamed to a visitor subscriber database of at least one other mobile network. The location update signalling data includes identifiers of the visitor subscriber database and the mobile subscriber identifier of the user equipment being registered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Orange SA
    Inventors: Marc Balon, Francois Verzele
  • Publication number: 20070123277
    Abstract: A telecommunications system provides a facility for communicating a Short Message Service (SMS) message to a mobile user equipment using a subscriber identity number when the mobile user equipment is communicating via an Internet Protocol network using an Internet Protocol (IP) communication being terminated on the IP network. The system comprises an SMS network including a Short Message Service Centre (SM-SC), a gateway mobile switching centre (GMSC), the SMS network providing a facility for communicating SMS messages, and an Internet Protocol/SMS (IP/SMS) gateway for communicating between the SMS network and the IP network. The system also includes a home location database for maintaining address data identifying a current location of a mobile user equipment. The gateway mobile switching centre is operable in response to the SMS message to interrogate the home location database for an address to which the SMS message should be sent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2004
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: Orange SA
    Inventors: Martin Harris, Nick Sampson, Nigel Bird
  • Publication number: 20070110008
    Abstract: A communications system for land vehicles usable in the field of radio communications with any electronic data processing equipment connected to a mobile telecommunications network. The communications system enables the connection of a communication terminal (TP_i) to a mobile communications network (2) from a vehicle (1) of the kind including a local network (PAN) linked to the vehicle, and a server for connecting said local network to the communications network (GPRS, UMTS). The local network (3) provides a resource (Cext) for connecting a requesting communications terminal (TP_k) and the mobile communications network (2), and resources (Cint) for setting up a connection between two mobile terminals (TP_i, TP_j) connected to the local network (PAN) linked to the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2004
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Applicant: Orange France
    Inventors: Jerome Trift, Francois-Gael Ottogalli, Yves Thorigne
  • Publication number: 20070008920
    Abstract: System and method for creating a split terminal (T+?En) for accessing a service (S). The system comprises a base terminal (T), equipped with a management device (PA0) for executing a split terminal procedure (UES), and a plurality of equipments (En) connected in series to said base terminal (T), said equipments (En) respectively being each equipped with at least one management device (PAn) for executing said split terminal procedure (UES). The system can be applied for setting up a secured connection for exchanging data between a base terminal (T) and a number of communicating equipments (En).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Publication date: January 11, 2007
    Applicant: Orange France
    Inventor: Etienne Annic
  • Patent number: 7149524
    Abstract: A method of, apparatus for and a computer program for controlling handover of a mobile station conducting a communications session in a mobile communications network, the network including a plurality of radio access domains, the method comprising: receiving a trigger indicating a requirement for handover; testing at least one possible handover meeting said requirement against network policy; and controlling handover in accordance with said requirement and said network policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Orange Personal Communications Services, Ltd.
    Inventor: Paul Reynolds