Patents by Inventor Bart A. Theeten

Bart A. Theeten 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).

  • Publication number: 20240022429
    Abstract: In validating a new validator for a proof-of-origin blockchain, an announce message is received including: a unique tag (T) uniquely identifying one fixed communication line of a subscriber of a fixed communication operator; a peer identifier (peer@) of the new validator; an identifier of an authorised signer, and a cryptographic signature (S2) of the authorised signer over at least the unique tag (T) and the peer identifier (peer@); validity of the announce message is verified, including checking from the PoO blockchain that the authorised signer is registered there as an authorised signer and checking the cryptographic signature (S2) of the authorised signer in the announce message. If each checking of the verifying is positive, then accepting the new validator for the PoO blockchain and mapping in the PoO blockchain the unique tag with at least the peer identifier, otherwise refusing the new validator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Bart THEETEN, Michael TIMMERS
  • Publication number: 20150248461
    Abstract: A streaming query control capability is presented herein. The streaming query control capability may support improvement or optimization of various aspects of streaming queries. The streaming query control capability may support improvements or optimization in streaming query performance within an environment. The streaming query control capability may support improvements in streaming query performance via improvements in deployment of a streaming query to an environment. The streaming query control capability may support improvements in streaming query performance via modification of a streaming query intended for execution in an environment based on measurement data collected from the environment. The streaming query control capability may support improvements in streaming query performance via integrated deployment and activation of multiple streaming queries sharing a common characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Bart A. Theeten, Nico Janssens
  • Publication number: 20150248462
    Abstract: A streaming query control capability is presented herein. The streaming query control capability may support improvement or optimization of various aspects of streaming queries. The streaming query control capability may support improvements or optimization in streaming query performance within an environment. The streaming query control capability may support improvements in streaming query performance via improvements in deployment of a streaming query to an environment. The streaming query control capability may support improvements in streaming query performance via modification of a streaming query intended for execution in an environment based on measurement data collected from the environment. The streaming query control capability may support improvements in streaming query performance via integrated deployment and activation of multiple streaming queries sharing a common characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Bart A. Theeten, Nico Janssens
  • Patent number: 9071593
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for providing access to private digital content are disclosed. The private digital content is owned by an owner and installed on a content server and access is provided to a first client which is capable of rendering said digital content. Predetermined information required for gaining authorized access to said content server by said first client is generated by a second client. The predetermined information is transferred from said second client to said first client then used by said first client to get access to said private digital content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Bart Vrancken, Bart Theeten
  • Publication number: 20150039629
    Abstract: A method for storing tagged content items in a distributed data exchange system, comprising: A1. generating a Bloom 1 filter for each tag associated with a content item; A2. generating a key consisting of the juxtaposition of a membership word of the Bloom 1 filter and a membership word index inside the Bloom 1 filter; A3, generating a value comprising a compact representation of all tags, and a reference to the content item; and A4. adding the key-value pair to a distributed hash table. and for searching tagged content items, comprising: B1. receiving a multiple keyword search query; B2. choosing a keyword; B3. retrieving from the distributed hash table a first list of content items having the keyword as associated tag; and B4. filtering the first list via the compact representation of all tags to obtain a second list of content items that comprise all keywords as associated tags.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Bart Theeten, Fabio Pianese
  • Publication number: 20120210448
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for providing access to private digital content are disclosed. The private digital content is owned by an owner and installed on a content server and access is provided to a first client which is capable of rendering said digital content. Predetermined information required for gaining authorized access to said content server by said first client is generated by a second client. The predetermined information is transferred from said second client to said first client then used by said first client to get access to said private digital content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Inventors: Bart Vrancken, Bart Theeten
  • Publication number: 20080065683
    Abstract: This invention concerns an arrangement for invoking a requested service, the arrangement comprises a discovery service (2106), the discovery service (2106) comprising storage means for storing a data model of at least one service and retrieval means for retrieving a service (2103, 2104, 2105), where the storage means are adapted to store relationships between services, comprising in advance retrieval means for retrieving a path of multiple services in said data model, where the concatenation of the services correspond to the requested service. The invention concerns also a method for invoking a requested service, the method comprising the steps of retrieving in advance a path of multiple services in said data model, where the concatenation of the services correspond to a requested service for invoking the service on the path consecutively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Applicant: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventor: Bart Theeten
  • Publication number: 20080065656
    Abstract: This invention concerns an arrangement for identifying a data model of at least one service (2103, 2104, 2105), the arrangement comprises a discovery service (2106), comprising storage means for storing data models of the at least one service and for storing a relationship between the data models, and the arrangement comprises inspection means for gathering data models of a service and for establishing relationship between the data models and data models of the at least one service. The invention also concerns a data federation method for identifying a data model of at least one service, by inspecting a service and deriving a data model of the service, establishing a relationship between already known data models of the at least one service, and providing the data models of these services and the relationship between the data models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Applicant: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Bart THEETEN, David Vanderfeesten
  • Patent number: 6968553
    Abstract: A common gateway architecture designed to be generic across different types of network elements and different network protocols, permitting network elements to be added incrementally without recompilation of the entire network element manager, thus reducing overall software maintenance overhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Assignee: Alcatel
    Inventor: Bart A. Theeten
  • Patent number: 6792608
    Abstract: A network navigator interface system and method incorporating a client/server architecture in which a network coarse-grained model (or single object) (NameSpaceObject) is used to create a fine-grained object model is disclosed. The disclosed invention permits a client application to discover the detailed interface provided by each object instance in the fine-grained model. A client application wishing to invoke an operation on a server-side object first obtains an object reference (IOR) to a NameSpaceObject instance. Each NameSpaceObject instance stores a pointer to an object in the fine-grained model. The NameSpaceObject interface provides operations to move this pointer around in a hierarchical model. Once the pointer is set to reference a certain object in the fine-grained model, this object becomes the target for all further operations. The available operations include object contents discovery/manipulation, object interface discovery and operation invocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: Alcatel
    Inventor: Bart A. Theeten