Patents by Inventor Alex Fournié

Alex Fournié has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11440502
    Abstract: A method for transmitting in a passive activation system in a motor vehicle. Between each use-case module and a protocol driver an intermediate management layer is inserted that receives requests from the modules and stores them in a list according to oldness and priority ranking, selects a main request with the highest priority ranking, selects requests compatible with the main request, sends at least one grouped signal corresponding to the main and compatible requests to a portable activation device, receives back from the activation device at least one signal transmitted to the intermediate layer allowing the activation device to be located and then the location thereof to be sent to the case modules that sent the main request or a compatible request, and deletes the main and compatible requests from the list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignees: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE FRANCE, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Alex Fournié, Christophe Grisey, Cédric Boudet, Xavier Bressan
  • Publication number: 20200282952
    Abstract: A method for transmitting in a passive activation system in a motor vehicle. Between each use-case module and a protocol driver an intermediate management layer is inserted that receives requests from the modules and stores them in a list according to oldness and priority ranking, selects a main request with the highest priority ranking, selects requests compatible with the main request, sends at least one grouped signal corresponding to the main and compatible requests to a portable activation device, receives back from the activation device at least one signal transmitted to the intermediate layer allowing the activation device to be located and then the location thereof to be sent to the case modules that sent the main request or a compatible request, and deletes the main and compatible requests from the list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Alex Fournié, Christophe Grisey, Cédric Boudet, Xavier Bressan
  • Patent number: 10762730
    Abstract: A method for securely accessing a motor vehicle whose opening elements are locked and unlocked through wireless communication between a portable access device and an access control module on board the vehicle. The method includes authenticating the device with the access control module, unlocking the vehicle when the device has been authenticated, periodically transmitting, by way of the access control module, an interrogation signal into at least part of the passenger compartment of the vehicle intended for the device following unlocking of the vehicle, upon each reception by the device of said interrogation signal, triggering a first timeout the duration of which is greater than the transmission period of the interrogation signal, and deactivating the device when the first timeout has expired and the immobile state of the device is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignees: Continental Automotive France, Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Alain Brillon, Alex Fournié, Isabelle Bacaer
  • Publication number: 20200193750
    Abstract: A method for securely accessing a motor vehicle whose opening elements are locked and unlocked through wireless communication between a portable access device and an access control module on board the vehicle. The method includes authenticating the device with the access control module, unlocking the vehicle when the device has been authenticated, periodically transmitting, by way of the access control module, an interrogation signal into at least part of the passenger compartment of the vehicle intended for the device following unlocking of the vehicle, upon each reception by the device of said interrogation signal, triggering a first timeout the duration of which is greater than the transmission period of the interrogation signal, and deactivating the device when the first timeout has expired and the immobile state of the device is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Alain Brillon, Alex Fournié, Isabelle Bacaer
  • Patent number: 10431028
    Abstract: A method of defense against an attack relay action on a remote activation of a function present in an automotive vehicle. The attack relay receives a frame of electromagnetic waves emitted by the activation module and retransmits it to the at least one activation device, nevertheless out of range of emission of the activation module, which dispatches a response frame of electromagnetic waves to the activation module. There is performed, out of range of emission of the activation module, an at least partial interception of a retransmitted frame of electromagnetic waves originating from the attack relay in the direction of the activation device. An at least partial destruction of the retransmitted frame at the activation device and/or of the response frame of the activation device toward the activation module rendering the activation of the function inoperative is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignees: Continental Automotive France, Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Alain Brillon, Alex Fournie, Isabelle Verdon
  • Publication number: 20190244457
    Abstract: A method of defense against an attack relay action on a remote activation of a function present in an automotive vehicle. The attack relay receives a frame of electromagnetic waves emitted by the activation module and retransmits it to the at least one activation device, nevertheless out of range of emission of the activation module, which dispatches a response frame of electromagnetic waves to the activation module. There is performed, out of range of emission of the activation module, an at least partial interception of a retransmitted frame of electromagnetic waves originating from the attack relay in the direction of the activation device. An at least partial destruction of the retransmitted frame at the activation device and/or of the response frame of the activation device toward the activation module rendering the activation of the function inoperative is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicants: Continental Automotive France, Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Alain Brillon, Alex Fournie, Isabelle Verdon