Patents Assigned to Telefonica S.A.
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Publication number: 20130144841Abstract: The invention provides a process for performing automatic backups of a user's data contained in the local drives of at lest one computer of a local area network by means of a Residential Gateway, which is in turn connected to a provider's Backup Server.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: Telefonica, S.A.Inventors: Jose Juan Andres Gutierrez, Jose Juan Gonzalez Menaya, Francisco Milagro Lardies
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Patent number: 8457605Abstract: The invention relates to a method for gender identification of a cell-phone subscriber. There are two main steps: constructing a general model of female and male calling behaviour from a set of variables obtained for each subscriber; and classifying an individual calling behaviour of a subscriber comparing it with the general model. The method includes the step of constructing the general model comprises obtaining a set of data, that may be obtained from calling detail records, that are saved at a database every time a subscriber makes or receives a phone call; computing a set of variables using a set of instances from subscribers who their gender is already known; and applying an algorithm which generates groups labelled as male or female behaviour. Finally, in the step of classifying, the gender of the subscriber is identified by assigning to the subscriber the label of the closest group.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2010Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Telefonica, S.A.Inventors: Vanessa Frias Martinez, Enrique Frias Martinez
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Publication number: 20130135992Abstract: The invention relates to a method and system for coordinating and automating the processes of IP traffic offload in transport technology, minimizing the operational problems associated with the configuration of IP and transport layers. The system consists of two main components, a transit traffic management module integrated into a network operator and a routing module for generating new links integrated into each of the IP network nodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2010Publication date: May 30, 2013Applicant: TELEFONICA, S.A.Inventors: Maria Angeles Callejo Rodriguez, Francisco Javier Jimenez Chico
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Publication number: 20130129088Abstract: The invention relates to a system for generating unpredictable pseudorandom numbers in a chaotic manner, comprising discrete chaotic map processing means and an XOR gate for generating unpredictable pseudorandom numbers. The method is based on introducing a high degree of entropy in the system by cyclically shifting chaotic maps to the right.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2009Publication date: May 23, 2013Applicant: TELEFONICA, S.AInventors: Gonzalo Álvarez Marañón, Veronica Fernandez Marmol, Luis Hernandez Encinas, Fausto Montoya Vitini, Amalia Beatriz Orue Lopez, Gerardo Pastor Degano, Miguel Emilio Romera Garcia
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Publication number: 20130132549Abstract: The method comprises modelling a delay-tolerant dynamic network comprising time-varying links transforming it into a static time-expanded network graph, and managing bulk data transfer on the basis of said static time-expanded network graph. The device comprises a scheduler unit with processing capabilities implementing an algorithm which processes arc costs (cijt) and storage costs (pit) as per the method of the first aspect of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2011Publication date: May 23, 2013Applicant: TELEFONICA, S.A.Inventors: Pablo Rodriguez, Parminder Chhabra, Vijay Erramilli, Nikolaos Laoutaris, Ravi Sundaram
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Patent number: 8448257Abstract: Information on the identity of each user connecting via a wireless device is obtained using a prior process of authentication and context information and/or the status of the user; a characteristics vector is generated for each user, which comprises the context information and/or the user status and a user profile. Permissions are assigned to each user, determining the type of secured network resources each user is permitted to access, depending on their characteristics vector; and a secured-network-resource access check is performed, enabling the transfer of data only to/from resources permitted for each user, as a function of the permissions assigned.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2009Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Telefonica, S.A.Inventors: Laura Garcia Garcia, Ariel Hernandez Hernandez, José Enrique Lopez Garcia, Pedro Luis Muñoz Organero
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Patent number: 8446821Abstract: The invention describes a method of providing incentives to users via supporting mechanisms and algorithms for facilitating the move of DT traffic to off-peak hours. It proposes an efficient utilization of the network resources during peak hour under a flat-rate pricing scheme with the cooperation and blessing of the users and without adding complexity to billing.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2010Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Telefonica, S.A.Inventors: Nikolaos Laoutaris, Parminder Chhabra, Pablo Rodriguez Rodriguez, Ravi Sundaram
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Patent number: 8439758Abstract: The invention refers to a method for encouraging a user to comply with his/her medication regimen, comprising the steps of: registering a group of parameters related to a medication intake of said user, which parameters include a time parameter and a user identifier; sending said group of parameters related to a medication intake of the user to a server (40); computing a time difference between said time parameter received and a time parameter associated to said user identifier previously recorded in the server; assigning said user with a pre-established number of points depending on the value of said time difference; and providing said user with information regarding his/her points obtained for the medication intake, including a summary of their medication compliance status using appealing personal awareness. providing symbolic rewards (e.g.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2011Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Telefonica, S.A.Inventors: Rodrigo De Oliveira, Mauro Cherubini, Nuria Oliver
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Publication number: 20130110776Abstract: The method and system for synchronizing social networks and Personal Contact Cards (PCC) update the profile of a user published in an Open Mobile Alliance Converged Address Book (OMA CAB) system with the information published and updated on one or more social networks to which the user subscribes, by means of synchronization by polling or synchronization by subscription/notification. To do so, the user sends prior authorization to access the user profile published in the social network to a telecommunication services provider operating the OMA CAB system.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2010Publication date: May 2, 2013Applicant: TELEFONICA, S.A.Inventors: Jose Luis Nunez Diaz, Eduardo Fullea Carrera, Rafael Moron Abad, Jose Juan Sanchez Dasi, Bienvenido Gomez Carreno
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Publication number: 20130097057Abstract: A system including a user looking for a candidate user for a telematic operation or transaction within a distributed reputation system; making, in addition to requests for information about reputation to trusted users, other requests for information on reputation to the very candidates, such that the selected candidate is selected because the candidate has a criterion of reputation over the other users that is as similar as possible to that of the user who is searching for a candidate. According to the method, a block of reputation-related data is included in a data-collection step, based on the similarity of reputation-related criteria between a user searching for candidates for an operation and the candidates.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2009Publication date: April 18, 2013Applicant: TELEFONICA, S.AInventors: Luis Miguel Vaquero Gonzalez, Luis Rodero Merino
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Publication number: 20130090086Abstract: In a method for validating a location provided by a user equipment requesting a service to a telecommunication network, the network receives (202) an information relating to the location of the user equipment and detects (203-205) the network access point to which the user equipment is connected. The method then provides for retrieving in a database historical information relative to locations of user equipments during connections to the detected network access point. A validation index is automatically generated based on the received location and on the retrieved historical information. The location provided by the user equipment is validated based on the validation index. A telecommunication network suitable to implement the method is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2011Publication date: April 11, 2013Applicant: TELEFONICA, S.A.Inventor: Jose Manuel Lopez Lopez
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Publication number: 20130083755Abstract: This invention proposes a method for assigning resources in the downlink based on the CQI parameter reported by the UE compatible with the LTE standard. The method looks for saving signalling resources when conditions are such that no major a vantage can be obtained from frequency selective scheduling. The method is divided into two processes, a non real time process used to determine whether the conditions for its application are present; and the new assignment procedure. For the latter, the method defines different assignment procedures based on whether the CQI value reported by the UE is higher or not of a given threshold whose calculation is also defined. A new parameter, the MAB, is defined for the assignment in case of CQI higher than the threshold, while frequency distributed scheduling is used if it is lower. The proposed method is believed to improve the LTE spectral efficiency with reduced complexity.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2010Publication date: April 4, 2013Applicant: TELEFONICA, S.A.Inventors: Ignacio Berberana Fernandez-Murias, Avelina Vega Novella, Luis Miguel Del Apio Recio
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Publication number: 20130051800Abstract: System for integration of channels with quantum information in communication networks. The network includes fibre-optic segments and conventional equipment, whilst a quantum key distribution (QKD) system has devices for the exchange of information by a quantum channel. The system includes at least one filter for each one of the exchange devices and at least one unit for managing conventional and quantum channels that reduces the noise in quantum channels and has at least the following functions: attenuation of insertion power of conventional channels in the network; different polarizations in the various conventional and quantum channels; and changes of wavelength assignment in not only conventional but also quantum channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2010Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: TELEFONICA, S.A.Inventors: Mercedes Soto Rodriguez, David Menendez Gonzalez, Jose Antonio Pozas Alvarez, Vicente Martin Ayuso, Daniel Lancho Lancho, Jesus Martinez Mateo
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Publication number: 20130054236Abstract: A method for the detection of noise and speech segments in a digital audio input signal, the input signal being divided into a plurality of frames including a first stage in which a first classification of a frame as noise is performed if the mean energy value for this frame and the previous N frames is not greater than a first energy threshold, N>1, a second stage in which for each frame that has not been classified as noise in the first stage it is decided if the frame is classified as noise or as speech based on combining at least a first criterion of spectral similarity of the frame with acoustic noise and speech models, a second criterion of analysis of the energy of the frame and a third criterion of duration, and of using a state machine for detecting the beginning of a segment as an accumulation of a determined number of consecutive frames with acoustic similarity greater than a first threshold and for detecting the end of the segment; a third stage in which the classification as speech or as noiseType: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2010Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: TELEFONICA, S.A.Inventors: Carlos Garcia Martinez, Helenca Duxans Barrobés, Mauricio Sendra Vicens, David Cadenas Sanchez
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Publication number: 20130042298Abstract: A system and a method in which a user makes a service request with a service provider through a data network. The service provider receives from trust generating equipment, located in an access provider, an assessment of the security level of the user; said equipment in turn receiving a delivery of information about the trust level provided by said user; and in order for the aforementioned equipment to collect information about the user identity, the network traffic generated by the user, the security status of the user device and the geographical location of the user device, this information being analyzed and summarized in a trust label which is sent to the service provider.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2009Publication date: February 14, 2013Applicant: TELEFONICA S.A.Inventors: Carlos Plaza Fonseca, Manuel Amaya Calvo
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Patent number: 8345934Abstract: A method for automatically selecting and organizing a subset of photos from a set of photos provided by a user, who has an account on at least one social network providing some context, for creating a summarized photo album with a storytelling structure. The method comprises: arranging the set of photos into a three level hierarchy, acts, scenes and shots; checking whether photos are photos with people or not; obtaining an aesthetic measure of the photos; creating and ranking face clusters; selecting the most aesthetic photo of each face cluster; selecting photos with people until complete a predefined number of photos of the summarized album picking the ones which optimize the function: Of(C,C*,S,CSN)=?fAf(S)??fd(HCharacter(S)HCharacter(C?CSN)??fd(HAct(S),HAct(C*)); and then selecting non-people photos which minimize the following function Oa: Oa(C*,S)=d(HAct,(S),HAct(C*)); ordering all the selected photos in chronological order; and finally discarding all the photos which have not been selected.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2011Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Telefonica, S.A.Inventors: Pere Obrador, Rodrigo de Oliveira, Nuria Oliver
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Publication number: 20120324044Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for distributing routing information for redundant connection. The method is implemented in hierarchical IPv6 Internet protocol (IP) networks comprising a plurality of different autonomous systems (AS) which use a border gateway routing protocol (BGP-4) to communicate, which protocol does not allow routing sessions to be established automatically, which prevents multi-provider services from being created. The method of the invention makes it possible to create multi-provider services in the networks discussed above by using the BGP-4 protocol established by the current standards and technologies. This makes it possible to increase services offered by the providers.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2009Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: TELEFONICA, S.A.Inventor: Pedro Andrés Aranda Gutierrez
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Publication number: 20120324541Abstract: The present invention relates to a subscription method and system providing a modification of the UPnP standard, which by means of TISPAN delegated NASS authentication allows a user to play contents provided by a service provider via subscription by means of a control point which can be any consumer electronic device of the user. The modification of the standard is based on adding a field called ‘subscriptionURL’ and a variable called ‘subscriptionStatus’. These modifications, the association established by the TISPAN CLF module between the user IP and the user IMSI and the implementation of a UPnP device in the user equipment, allow subscribing to the services provided by several service providers.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2009Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: TELEFONICA, S.A.Inventor: José Manuel Palacios Valverde
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Publication number: 20120315939Abstract: A method for reporting channel quality information in a wireless telecommunication network, wherein the network includes a radio base station in wireless communication with a plurality of user equipments by user transmission channels, and wherein the method includes the radio base station: detecting a coherence bandwidth associated to a total transmission channel, the total transmission channel including the user transmission channels of the plurality of user equipments; selecting one reporting technique for reporting channel quality information among a plurality of available reporting techniques, the selection being based on the coherence bandwidth; and transmitting a first message to each of the plurality of user equipments, the message reporting an indication of the selected reporting technique. A radio base station, a public mobile network and a user equipment suitable to implement the method are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2011Publication date: December 13, 2012Applicant: TELEFONICA S.A.Inventor: Ignacio Berberana
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Publication number: 20120296755Abstract: A method and a system for improving the selection of a group of services, in an exchange services environment, by a user of a telecommunication network.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2011Publication date: November 22, 2012Applicant: TELEFONICA, S.A.Inventors: Maria Aranzazu Toro Escudero, Sergio Garcia Gomez