Patents by Inventor Cedric Artigue

Cedric Artigue 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: 10056970
    Abstract: An access network for terminals of a digital telecommunications system includes base stations adapted for receiving radiofrequency signals emitted by the terminals, each terminal a physical layer processing module adapted to form a radiofrequency signal on the basis of binary data in accordance with a predefined physical layer protocol. Moreover, for at least one base station, termed the “partial station”, an inverse physical layer processing, making it possible to extract binary data from a radiofrequency signal, is distributed between the partial station and a processing server distinct from the partial station, an inverse physical layer processing module being made up of a first inverse processing module, integrated into the partial station, and a second inverse processing module, integrated into the processing server. The invention also relates to a method of digital telecommunications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: SIGFOX
    Inventors: Marc Vertes, Cèdric Artigue, Christophe Fourtet
  • Patent number: 9768897
    Abstract: A method of searching for the presence of a useful signal of predefined spectral width ?B in a multiplexing band having a spectral width greater than ?B, includes calculating a frequency signal representative of a power spectral density in the multiplexing band, calculating a non-useful signal by filtering the frequency signal by means of a filter capable of suppressing all or part of signals having a spectral width equal to or smaller than ?B, calculating a power ratio signal representative of the ratio of the frequency signal to the non-useful signal, and comparing the power ratio signal with a predefined threshold value. The method may be employed using a computer program product, a receiver unit, and/or a station of a digital telecommunications system comprising such a receiver unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: SIGFOX
    Inventor: Cédric Artigue
  • Publication number: 20170180039
    Abstract: An access network for terminals of a digital telecommunications system includes base stations adapted for receiving radiofrequency signals emitted by the terminals, each terminal a physical layer processing module adapted to form a radiofrequency signal on the basis of binary data in accordance with a predefined physical layer protocol. Moreover, for at least one base station, termed the “partial station”, an inverse physical layer processing, making it possible to extract binary data from a radiofrequency signal, is distributed between the partial station and a processing server distinct from the partial station, an inverse physical layer processing module being made up of a first inverse processing module, integrated into the partial station, and a second inverse processing module, integrated into the processing server. The invention also relates to a method of digital telecommunications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Marc Vertes, Cèdric Artigue, Christophe Fourtet
  • Patent number: 9590796
    Abstract: An access network for terminals of a digital telecommunications system includes base stations adapted for receiving radiofrequency signals emitted by the terminals, each terminal a physical layer processing module adapted to form a radiofrequency signal on the basis of binary data in accordance with a predefined physical layer protocol. Moreover, for at least one base station, termed the “partial station”, an inverse physical layer processing, making it possible to extract binary data from a radiofrequency signal, is distributed between the partial station and a processing server distinct from the partial station, an inverse physical layer processing module being made up of a first inverse processing module, integrated into the partial station, and a second inverse processing module, integrated into the processing server. The invention also relates to a method of digital telecommunications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: SIGFOX
    Inventors: Marc Vertes, Cèdric Artigue, Christophe Fourtet
  • Patent number: 9544077
    Abstract: A method for transmitting useful information between a transmitting terminal and a receiving terminal connected via a transmission channel. The transmitting terminal defines control information for the useful information, and searches in an association table, which is accessible from the transmitting terminal, for a frame-synchronization word associated with the control information. The transmitting terminal generates a frame of data from the useful information, and transmits, over the transmission channel, a data stream that includes the frame-synchronization word and the frame of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: SIGFOX
    Inventors: Marc Vertes, Cedric Artigue, Nicolas Chalbos
  • Publication number: 20150244483
    Abstract: A method for transmitting useful information between a transmitting terminal and a receiving terminal connected via a transmission channel. The transmitting terminal defines control information for the useful information, and searches in an association table, which is accessible from the transmitting terminal, for a frame-synchronization word associated with the control information. The transmitting terminal generates a frame of data from the useful information, and transmits, over the transmission channel, a data stream that includes the frame-synchronization word and the frame of data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Marc Vertes, Cedric Artigue, Nicolas Chalbos
  • Publication number: 20150155960
    Abstract: A method of searching for the presence of a useful signal of predefined spectral width ?B in a multiplexing band having a spectral width greater than ?B, includes calculating a frequency signal representative of a power spectral density in the multiplexing band, calculating a non-useful signal by filtering the frequency signal by means of a filter capable of suppressing all or part of signals having a spectral width equal to or smaller than ?B, calculating a power ratio signal representative of the ratio of the frequency signal to the non-useful signal, and comparing the power ratio signal with a predefined threshold value. The method may be employed using a computer program product, a receiver unit, and/or a station of a digital telecommunications system comprising such a receiver unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventor: Cédric Artigue
  • Patent number: 8995576
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for estimating frequency bias negatively affecting a digital signal representative of a symbol frame, wherein said method comprises the steps of: generating the digital signal at a sampling period Te that is shorter than a predefined period of each of the symbols of the frame; calculating values for a plurality of pairs of samples of the digital signal, each value being representative of a phase difference between the samples of a pair; estimating the frequency bias negatively affecting the digital signal on the basis of the values calculated for Np pairs of samples selected such that a plurality of said Np pairs belong strictly to a single symbol in the frame. The present invention also relates to a module for implementing the estimation method, as well as to a telecommunication method and system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: SIGFOX
    Inventors: Cédric Artigue, Christophe Fourtet, Marc Vertes
  • Publication number: 20140321451
    Abstract: An access network for terminals of a digital telecommunications system includes base stations adapted for receiving radiofrequency signals emitted by the terminals, each terminal a physical layer processing module adapted to form a radiofrequency signal on the basis of binary data in accordance with a predefined physical layer protocol. Moreover, for at least one base station, termed the “partial station”, an inverse physical layer processing, making it possible to extract binary data from a radiofrequency signal, is distributed between the partial station and a processing server distinct from the partial station, an inverse physical layer processing module being made up of a first inverse processing module, integrated into the partial station, and a second inverse processing module, integrated into the processing server. The invention also relates to a method of digital telecommunications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Marc Vertes, Cèdric Artigue, Christophe Fourtet
  • Publication number: 20140219325
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for estimating frequency bias negatively affecting a digital signal representative of a symbol frame, wherein said method comprises the steps of: generating the digital signal at a sampling period Te that is shorter than a predefined period of each of the symbols of the frame; calculating values for a plurality of pairs of samples of the digital signal, each value being representative of a phase difference between the samples of a pair; estimating the frequency bias negatively affecting the digital signal on the basis of the values calculated for Np pairs of samples selected such that a plurality of said Np pairs belong strictly to a single symbol in the frame. The present invention also relates to a module for implementing the estimation method, as well as to a telecommunication method and system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: SIGFOX
    Inventors: Cédric Artigue, Christophe Fourtet, Marc Vertes