Patents by Inventor Christophe Levy

Christophe Levy 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: 8305266
    Abstract: The invention relates to a network making it possible to calculate and provide ionospheric corrections to the users of a satellite navigation system, wherein the network also comprises: an aeronautical segment comprising an aeronautical user segment composed of a plurality of aircraft each one having an on-board RF receiver capable of measuring delays of the navigation signals transmitted by the satellites and an aeronautical data communication means between the plurality of aircraft and the ground segment in order to transmit said measurements of delays to the ground segment, and means, at the level of the ground segment, of receiving measurements of delays used for the calculation of the grid, the measurements of delays coming from the plurality of aircraft and from the plurality of ground stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Damidaux, Jean-Christophe Levy
  • Publication number: 20120062418
    Abstract: A method and a system calculates the low probability events for the evaluation of the precision performance of a satellite navigation system, and makes it possible to certify the precision performance of a satellite navigation system for high levels of requirement by modelling events of low probability on the basis of the implementation of the theory of extreme values conjointly with the use of a chart for evaluating precision performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: THALES
    Inventor: Jean-Christophe Levy
  • Publication number: 20120062417
    Abstract: A method and a system verifies the precision performance of a satellite navigation system that can certify compliance with a level of precision whatever the observation conditions, notably as regards satellite geometry, and is a performance verification tool for the design, verification and qualification of a satellite navigation system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: THALES
    Inventor: Jean-Christophe Levy
  • Patent number: 8080103
    Abstract: A demolding composition, to be used for the production of parts of hydraulic-setting material, includes at least one oil and at least one calcium salt, calcium borates and calcium salts of fatty acids being excluded from the at least one calcium salt. A process for the preparation of a part molded in hydraulic-setting material, includes coating sides of an appropriate mold with the demolding composition; introducing a freshly-prepared hydraulic-setting composition; and removing the part from the mold after hardening and optional curing of the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Lafarge
    Inventors: Stéphane Venon, Gilles Chanvillard, Isabelle Dubois-Brugger, Christophe Levy, Vincent Teissier
  • Publication number: 20110209034
    Abstract: A method is provided for improving the acquisition of a data set transmitted repeatedly in a difficult environment, which is particularly appropriate to satellite radionavigation systems. The main characteristic of the method is to provide “contextual” aid relating to the transmitted data by indicating the nature and the possible updating of these data so that the receiver can accumulate the energy when the data are repeated in an identical manner. These aid data being short, it is possible to obtain good quality of reception and protection of this aid by virtue of its longer coding than that of the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: THALES
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Damidaux, Jean-Christophe Levy
  • Patent number: 7994974
    Abstract: The invention relates to a calculation device providing means for estimating an indication of integrity of a satellite navigation system, including a means for estimating in real time, by measuring data calculated by the navigation system, an indication of integrity of the system with respect to very low-probability location errors, the device including a means for receiving data calculated by the location system, a means for estimating a model of distribution of location errors, a means for estimating parameters characterizing the distribution model, a calculation means applying the extreme values theory as a function of the parameters characterizing the distribution model enabling the modeling of the distribution of very low-probability location errors, a means for estimating in real time an indication of integrity for very low-probability location errors, and a means for transmitting in real time an indication of integrity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventor: Jean-Christophe Levy
  • Publication number: 20110050494
    Abstract: The invention relates to a network making it possible to calculate and provide ionospheric corrections to the users of a satellite navigation system, wherein the network also comprises: an aeronautical segment comprising an aeronautical user segment composed of a plurality of aircraft each one having an on-board RF receiver capable of measuring delays of the navigation signals transmitted by the satellites and an aeronautical data communication means between the plurality of aircraft and the ground segment in order to transmit said measurements of delays to the ground segment, and means, at the level of the ground segment, of receiving measurements of delays used for the calculation of the grid, the measurements of delays coming from the plurality of aircraft and from the plurality of ground stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: THALES
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Damidaux, Jean-Christophe Levy
  • Publication number: 20110025558
    Abstract: The invention relates to a calculation device providing means for estimating an indication of integrity of a satellite navigation system, including a means for estimating in real time, by measuring data calculated by the navigation system, an indication of integrity of the system with respect to very low-probability location errors, the device including a means for receiving data calculated by the location system, a means for estimating a model of distribution of location errors, a means for estimating parameters characterizing the distribution model, a calculation means applying the extreme values theory as a function of the parameters characterizing the distribution model enabling the modeling of the distribution of very low-probability location errors, a means for estimating in real time an indication of integrity for very low-probability location errors, and a means for transmitting in real time an indication of integrity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: THALES
    Inventor: Jean-Christophe Levy
  • Publication number: 20100107928
    Abstract: A demoulding composition, to be used for the production of parts of hydraulic-setting material, includes at least one oil and at least one calcium salt, calcium borates and calcium salts of fatty acids being excluded from the at least one calcium salt. A process for the preparation of a part moulded in hydraulic-setting material, includes coating sides of an appropriate mould with the demoulding composition; introducing a freshly-prepared hydraulic-setting composition; and removing the part from the mould after hardening and optional curing of the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: Lafage
    Inventors: Stephane Venon, Gilles Chanvillard, Isabelle Dubois-Brugger, Christophe Levy, Vincent Teissier
  • Publication number: 20090234581
    Abstract: A device (PD) is dedicated to processing navigation data related to satellites in a satellite navigation system in orbit around a heavenly body. This device (PD) comprises processing means (PM) tasked with comparing integrity data (ID), which represents reliability values of corrections to errors in the orbital positioning and/or synchronization of the satellites, to at least one selected set of N selected threshold values, N being an integer greater than or equal to one, in such a way as to deliver at least one group of cartographic data representative of at most N+1 geographic areas defined with respect to said heavenly body and in which said integrity data is less than the N threshold values of the selected set, greater than the N threshold values of the selected set Si, or between two threshold values of the selected set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2006
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Jean Christophe Levy, Didier Flament
  • Patent number: 7511660
    Abstract: A device dedicated to generating integrity messages relating to at least one satellite navigation system including a set of satellite surveillance stations and to be sent to navigation receivers. The device includes a processor responsible for determining at chosen times the stations that are active (i.e. nominal or degraded) for each system concerned and, after each such determination, for generating an integrity message including at least primary data representative of the active (i.e. nominal or degraded) stations. The processor is also responsible, each time it detects that at least one station has become degraded or inactive between two successive chosen times, for generating an integrity alert message including at least primary data representative of each station that has become degraded or inactive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Jean-Louis Damidaux, Mathias Van-Den-Bossche, Jean Christophe Levy
  • Publication number: 20080308013
    Abstract: The invention concerns a fast binder comprising; cement; at least one superplasticizer; calcium nitrite; and at least one formic derivative. The invention also concerns concrete mixtures obtained from said binder and methods for making same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicants: CHRYSO, LAFARGE
    Inventors: Serge Sabio, Bruno Pellerin, Christophe Levy, Serge Ghilardi
  • Patent number: 6616755
    Abstract: The invention concerns a self-levelling concrete and a method for making a structural part from said concrete. The concrete which comprises aggregate and solid particles with size grading not more than 12 mm, comprises a superplasticizer which is a compound containing a least an amino-(dialkylene phosphonic) group and at least a polyalkylated chain, or one of its salts. The method is implemented by advantageously pumping the concrete using one or several immersion tubes with their injecting end at a lower level than the framework.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: Lafarge Platres
    Inventors: Christophe Levy, Rémy Garcia