Patents by Inventor Cédric LAISNARD

Cédric LAISNARD 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).

  • Mediator for optimizing the transmission of media contents between a multimedia resource function and a plurality of terminals
    Patent number: 9825997
    Abstract: A mediator for the transmission of media contents includes means for receiving video content requests from terminals when they request to take part in said video call conference, and for optimizing these requests, in order to avoid requesting any redundant video stream from a multimedia resource function, before forwarding the optimized requests to the multimedia resource function; means for implementing virtual conferees as a function of the video content requests from said terminals, for receiving the video streams that have been requested by the optimized request, from the multimedia resource function, and then forwarding the received video streams to the terminals that have requested them, in a broadcast way when a same video stream has been requested by several terminals, and means for commanding the telephony server to accept the implemented virtual conferees in the video call conference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Marin Osmond, Cédric Laisnard
  • A MEDIATOR FOR OPTIMIZING THE TRANSMISSION OF MEDIA CONTENTS BETWEEN A MULTIMEDIA RESOURCE FUNCTION AND A PLURALITY OF TERMINALS
    Publication number: 20160021147
    Abstract: A mediator for the transmission of media contents includes means for receiving video content requests from terminals when they request to take part in said video call conference, and for optimizing these requests, in order to avoid requesting any redundant video stream from a multimedia resource function, before forwarding the optimized requests to the multimedia resource function; means for implementing virtual conferees as a function of the video content requests from said terminals, for receiving the video streams that have been requested by the optimized request, from the multimedia resource function, and then forwarding the received video streams to the terminals that have requested them, in a broadcast way when a same video stream has been requested by several terminals, and means for commanding the telephony server to accept the implemented virtual conferees in the video call conference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Marin OSMOND, Cédric LAISNARD