Patents by Inventor Bernard Agasse

Bernard Agasse 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).

  • Transmission and reception of television programmes and other data
    Patent number: 7934234
    Abstract: In a digital television system, a receiver/decoder (or “set-top-box”) can download one or more of several applications which can be run by the receiver/decoder to provide interactivity with the user. The applications include: an Internet browser application which uses a PSTN connection to make Internet requests and the television signal path to receive Internet responses; a shopping application operable in an “impulse” mode and a “catalogue” mode; a banking application; a quiz application which runs in synchronization with a quiz television programme; a magazine browser application; and a weather or traffic application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Thierry Furet, Bernard Agasse, Claire Frezal-Hugonet, Hongtao Liao, Jacques Moly, Christophe Declerck, Liang Rui Yang
  • Navigation system for a multichannel digital television system
    Patent number: 7757252
    Abstract: The present invention provides a digital television system where access rights to a programme or channel are received analyzed by the decoder in determining whether to permit or prohibit full audio and visual access by the user to that programme or channel when displayed in respective windows of a mosaic formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing S.A.
    Inventor: Bernard Agasse
  • Portal for a communications system
    Patent number: 7174512
    Abstract: A portal for a communications system that includes a remote terminal connected via a communications network to a broadcast center. The portal includes a display connected to the remote terminal for displaying an arrangement of cells, each cell including a visual object and an underlying application. A user input device enables user inputs to select one of the cells. The portal provides simple and intuitive access to the wide variety of services currently offered, and to be offered in the future, in communications systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing S.A.
    Inventors: Christy R. Martin, Bernard Agasse
  • Transmission and reception of television programmes and other data
    Publication number: 20040139472
    Abstract: In a digital television system, a receiver/decoder (or “set-top-box”) can download one or more of several applications which can be run by the receiver/decoder to provide interactivity with the user. The applications include: an Internet browser application which uses a PSTN connection to make Internet requests and the television signal path to receive Internet responses; a shopping application operable in an “impulse” mode and a “catalogue” mode; a banking application; a quiz application which runs in synchronization with a quiz television programme; a magazine browser application; and a weather or traffic application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Inventors: Thierry Furet, Bernard Agasse, Claire Frezal-Hugonet, Hongtao Liao, Jacques Moly, Christophe Declerck, Liang Rui Yang
  • Portal for a communications system
    Publication number: 20020067376
    Abstract: A portal for a communications system that includes a remote terminal connected via a communications network to a broadcast center. The portal includes a display connected to the remote terminal for displaying an arrangement of cells, each cell including a visual object and an underlying application. A user input device enables user inputs to select one of the cells. The portal provides simple and intuitive access to the wide variety of services currently offered, and to be offered in the future, in communications systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2001
    Publication date: June 6, 2002
    Inventors: Christy R. Martin, Bernard Agasse