Patents by Inventor Annie Gravey

Annie Gravey 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).

  • Process for the renewal--during communication--of the traffic parameters of an ATM network
    Patent number: 6018517
    Abstract: A process for renegotiating, during a communication, the parameters of a traffic contract on an ATM network.The present invention relates to a renegotiation process, during a communication on an ATM network, of the parameters of the traffic contract that relates to this communication. It is characterized in that it consists:a. in predicting, for a predetermined period of time between two successive renegotiations, the maximal length that would be reached by a virtual file fed by the traffic of said communication, for at least a given thruput rate of said file.b. in deducing from said maximal length one or more new parameters for the traffic contract, andc. in renegotiating with the network on the basis of said (new) traffic parameter or parameters for said period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Assignee: France Telecom SA
    Inventors: Samy Bengio, Fabrice Clerot, Annie Gravey, Daniel Collobert