Abstract: A method and a device for guiding an individual in an environment comprising at least one actuator capable of being remotely controlled is disclosed. The method is implemented by a computer, and comprises determining, based on a starting point and a destination point for the individual in the environment and based on a digital model of the environment comprising a location of each actuator, a path within the environment connecting the starting point and the destination point, determining, from the determined path, a set of actuators located on the path, and issuing of an activation command for at least one actuator in the set of actuators in order to guide the individual along the path.

Abstract: A method for displaying a virtual keyboard layout to be used for responding to a received message on a mobile terminal. The method includes: analyzing the received message by a processing unit of the mobile terminal, so as to search for a contextual parameter associated with the received message; selecting, by the processing unit, a virtual keyboard layout, among a set of virtual keyboard layouts displayable on a screen of the mobile terminal, as a function of the result of the search for a contextual parameter associated with the received message; and displaying the selected virtual keyboard layout on the screen.

Abstract: A method is provided for conditional implementation of a service on an object connected to a local area network. The implementation of the service is associated on the object with at least one location datum. The method includes the following acts performed on the object: receiving a request to implement the service from a first terminal, the request including at least the identifier of the service and the identifier of the terminal; receiving a message including at least one location datum of the first terminal; comparing the location datum of the first terminal with the location datum associated with the implementation of the service; and, as a function of the results of the comparison, implementing the service on the object.

Abstract: A method for transmitting downlink data from a mobile communication network to a mobile terminal. The method includes: transmitting, from a mobile terminal to a first network entity of the mobile communication network, a parameter indicating that the mobile terminal wishes to use signalling messages rather than a data transport channel for transmission of downlink data; and transmitting, from a second network entity of the mobile communication network to the mobile terminal, at least one signalling message in which downlink data received by a third network entity of the mobile communication network have been inserted.

Abstract: A system for transporting inventory in a storage facility is disclosed. The system includes a control server, a robotic apparatus, and a payload (i.e., a mobile storage unit (MSU)). The robotic apparatus includes a track plate, a top plate superimposing the track plate, and a latch lock mechanism including a plurality of latch locks. The control server communicates instructions to the robotic apparatus for transporting the MSU. Based on the instructions, the robotic apparatus aligns beneath a base plate that is attached to a bottom surface of the MSU and raises the top plate to lift the MSU. When the top plate moves relative to the track plate, the plurality of latch locks engage with the base plate of the MSU based on a degree of alignment between the top plate and the base plate, to secure the MSU with the robotic apparatus.

Abstract: A system for managing inventory items within a storage facility includes a control server communicably coupled to a first robotic apparatus and a second robotic apparatus. The storage facility includes a dynamic storage space in which a dynamic storage system is placed beneath the static storage system. The control server maps inventory items to one of the dynamic storage system and the static storage system based on a set of attributes. The control server receives request for fulfillment of an order. Based on the received request, the first robotic apparatus retrieves inventory items stored in the dynamic storage system, and the second robotic apparatus retrieves inventory items stored in the static storage system. The inventory items collected from the dynamic storage system and the static storage system are transported to an order fulfillment and replenishment location to consolidate the retrieved items and fulfill the order.

Abstract: Provided is a locker system that includes a plurality of lockable doors, a security lock mechanism, and a plurality of compartments. Opening of each lockable door is controlled based on a corresponding security parameter. The security lock mechanism controls opening and closing of each lockable door based on the corresponding security parameter. Each compartment is accessible from a front side and a rear side of the locker system. An access to each compartment from the front side is controlled by a corresponding lockable door. Each compartment is open from the rear side. When a robotic apparatus, transporting one or more items associated with a process at a storage facility, aligns with the locker system from the rear side, the one or more items are accessible from the front side based on opening of one or more corresponding lockable doors of one or more compartments of the plurality of compartments.

Abstract: Some embodiments relate to a selection method enabling a first user of an IP network to select one client device from a plurality of client devices of a second user connected to the IP network. The method comprises the client device of the first user sending a request to the second user the request being of a dedicated type or having a header containing a dedicated indicator. At least one of the client devices of the second user that has received the request responds to the first user message via a request indicating the technical capabilities of the client device of the second user and requests the client device of the first user to supply the technical capabilities of that client device of the first user. The method may have applications to IMS networks.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an alarm system comprising a plurality of detectors, each configured to detect an event in an environment and to emit an event detection signal, and a plurality of alarm signal emitters, each configured to emit at least one alarm signal in case of the detection of an event, the detectors and the emitters being linked to one another, wherein each of the emitters is configured to emit a plurality of distinct alarm signals. In case of the detection of an event by a first detector, a first identifier is assigned to at least one first emitter, the closest to the first detector out of the plurality of emitters, and an alarm generation instruction is transmitted to the first emitter with the first identifier, to activate the first emitter with a first alarm signal which is a function of the first identifier.

Abstract: A message treatment process executed by a user's terminal when a message is being drafted is disclosed. The terminal has access to a corpus of messages containing at least one message sent by that user to at least one recipient user. In one aspect, at least one part of the message drafted by the user is retrieved. Concerning at least one message in the corpus, a semantic similarity score is calculated with a view to match at least part of the draft message with one message at least in the predetermined corpus of messages. At least one message is selected in the corpus of messages, based on the semantic similarity score calculated for a least one message in the corpus, then at least part of a previously received reply to at least one selected message is replicated.

Abstract: A method for processing a transaction between a source terminal and a destination terminal having a transaction phase is disclosed. In one aspect the method comprises receiving by a source BTS, connected to the source terminal a transaction request originating from the source terminal the request carrying at least one identifier of the destination terminal and a transaction amount. Then obtaining by the source BTS destination terminal location information on the basis of at least one location database, denoted BLDB and the destination terminal identifier. Then determining by the source BTS at least one destination BTS connected to the destination terminal on the basis of the destination terminal location information. Then transmitting to the destination terminal by the destination BTS the request or one item of information relating to the transaction.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for managing at least one communication pathway between a first router (30) and a second router (130), being characterised in that it comprises the following steps: establishing a session (40) between a terminal (10) connected to the first router (30) and a remote piece of equipment (70) connected to the second router (130); analysing at least one characteristic of the session (40) in order to determine whether said session (40) is collaborative and if this is the case: receiving at least one signalling message containing at least one piece of information relating to a characteristic of said session (40); determining parameters of the connection between said routers (30, 130) depending on the at least one obtained piece of information; modifying the at least one communication pathway (80) between said routers (30, 130), depending on the determined connection parameters; and transmitting the data of said session (40) over said modified communication pathway (80).

Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to a protection device for a piece of electronic equipment comprising a housing having a female port. In one aspect, the device comprises a shell suitable for receiving the housing of the equipment, having a male port matching the female port, such that when the shell receives the housing, the male port is engaged in the female port of the equipment. At least one slider that can be moved along an axis by a user to a setpoint position. A position sensor sensing the position of the cursor is configured to transmit a signal representative of the setpoint position to the male port.

Abstract: The invention relates to an autonomous device for alert in case of motion of a vehicle, comprising: an electrical energy recovery facility (11) adapted to recover electrical energy generated by rotation of a wheel (2) of the vehicle, a temporary accumulation module (12) adapted to store at least part of said electrical energy, a telecommunication module (13) adapted to be supplied by the temporary accumulation module, and configured to emit, in response to its being supplied with electrical energy by the temporary accumulation module (12), a communication destined for a network (3) for dispatching an alert message destined for a terminal (4).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for operating a device characterized in that it comprises the following steps of, performed by a processing unit of the device: determining (a) that a notification is to be outputted through a user interface of the device during an unavailability time period; postponing (b) outputting said notification until after the occurrence of an event indicative of the availability of a user of the device.

Abstract: A circuit has an input and a two-wire output. The circuit is designed for use with HTPE transducers and comprised of four stages. The first stage is a charge amplifier based on operational amplifier, the second stage is a 1-pole passive low-pass filter, the third stage is an active 2-pole low-pass filter based on two JFETs, and the fourth stage is an emitter follower comprising two bipolar junction transistors connected to each other in Darlington configuration.

Abstract: The invention deals a method for controlling the execution of a program by a terminal (1) comprising a screen (12), wherein the method comprises the steps of: configuring the program into an enabled state, wherein at least one process of the program is allowed to be executed by the terminal (1), and a disabled state, wherein execution of any process of the program by the terminal (1) is forbidden, wherein the method further comprises the steps of: displaying (100) on the screen (12) an icon (G) for starting the program according to a first rendering if the program is configured in the enabled state, and displaying (114) said icon (G) according to a second rendering different from the first rendering if the program is configured in the disabled state.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for securing a contactless service transaction, said service (11) being stored in the mobile terminal (10), said transaction involving the mobile terminal, a contactless reader (12) and a remote server (13), said server storing at least one piece of data and/or sensitive function of the service, said terminal comprising a security module (14), said method being characterised in that the terminal also stores a contactless security application (15) and that it comprises: receiving (E41) a first value (?) for determining a session key; receiving (E49) a second value for determining a session key (?) and a first one-time password (OTPin); sending (E58) the second value for determining a session key and a message (MAC) for authenticating at least the first password, intended for being verified by the reader, said first and second determination values being used to calculate (E50, E61) a session key (Ksess) intended for being used to secure the exchanges.