Patents by Inventor Dirk-Jaap Plas

Dirk-Jaap Plas 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: 8767733
    Abstract: The invention includes a method and apparatus for dynamically establishing a multicast group. The method includes receiving, from a first user device, a request to establish a multicast group including a plurality of parameters adapted for establishing the multicast group, obtaining a multicast address for the multicast group, and establishing the multicast group using the assigned multicast address and the parameters. The parameters include at least one multicast group definition parameter and at least one multicast session description parameter. The multicast address and at least a portion of the parameters are adapted for being provided to a second user device to enable the second user device to dynamically join the multicast group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Dennis Bijwaard, Arjan deHeer, Dirk-Jaap Plas
  • Publication number: 20120275457
    Abstract: The invention includes a method and apparatus for dynamically establishing a multicast group. The method includes receiving, from a first user device, a request to establish a multicast group including a plurality of parameters adapted for establishing the multicast group, obtaining a multicast address for the multicast group, and establishing the multicast group using the assigned multicast address and the parameters. The parameters include at least one multicast group definition parameter and at least one multicast session description parameter. The multicast address and at least a portion of the parameters are adapted for being provided to a second user device to enable the second user device to dynamically join the multicast group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Inventors: Dennis Bijwaard, Arjan deHeer, Dirk-Jaap Plas
  • Patent number: 8249068
    Abstract: The invention includes a method and apparatus for dynamically establishing a multicast group. The method includes receiving, from a first user device, a request to establish a multicast group including a plurality of parameters adapted for establishing the multicast group, obtaining a multicast address for the multicast group, and establishing the multicast group using the assigned multicast address and the parameters. The parameters include at least one multicast group definition parameter and at least one multicast session description parameter. The multicast address and at least a portion of the parameters are adapted for being provided to a second user device to enable the second user device to dynamically join the multicast group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Dennis Bijwaard, Arjan deHeer, Dirk-Jaap Plas
  • Patent number: 8180036
    Abstract: The invention comprises a method and apparatus for enabling missed call information to be accessed from a remote device via a packet network. Specifically, the method comprises receiving missed call information associated with a called party, storing the missed call information and transmitting the missed call information towards a remote device associated with the called party via a packet network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Dirk-Jaap Plas, Jeroen van Bemmel, Harold Teunissen
  • Publication number: 20080095183
    Abstract: The invention includes a method and apparatus for dynamically establishing a multicast group. The method includes receiving, from a first user device, a request to establish a multicast group including a plurality of parameters adapted for establishing the multicast group, obtaining a multicast address for the multicast group, and establishing the multicast group using the assigned multicast address and the parameters. The parameters include at least one multicast group definition parameter and at least one multicast session description parameter. The multicast address and at least a portion of the parameters are adapted for being provided to a second user device to enable the second user device to dynamically join the multicast group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Inventors: Dennis Bijwaard, Arjan deHeer, Dirk-Jaap Plas
  • Publication number: 20070143168
    Abstract: A meeting scheduling service is provided that overcomes the problems of accessing scheduling information due to organizational boundaries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Inventor: Dirk-Jaap Plas
  • Publication number: 20070143459
    Abstract: A method and system for protecting privacy-sensitive information through redundancy, encryption and distribution of information is provided. Information to be stored is received from one of a number of devices. The information is divided into a number of segments that are stored distributed across a set of storage facilities that are nodes on a network and associated with the devices. A virtual disk device driver represents the set of storage facilities and communicates with a master node on the network. The master node maintains an index table that stores the location the segments of a virtual disk. Each segment has an identifier and a version. The virtual disk is controlled by the virtual disk driver. The device runs the virtual disk device driver to store information that is divided into the segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Inventors: Harold Batteram, Dirk-Jaap Plas
  • Publication number: 20070143419
    Abstract: An e-mail attachment as a one-time clickable link reduces the overhead of sending a potentially large number of e-mails with potentially large attachments to a mailing list. A method of providing the subscribers to the mailing list with the same information just as secure by the use of a one-time clickable link is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Inventor: Dirk-Jaap Plas
  • Publication number: 20060067498
    Abstract: The invention comprises a method and apparatus for enabling missed call information to be accessed from a remote device via a packet network. Specifically, the method comprises receiving missed call information associated with a called party, storing the missed call information and transmitting the missed call information towards a remote device associated with the called party via a packet network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Publication date: March 30, 2006
    Inventors: Dirk-Jaap Plas, Jeroen van Bemmel, Harold Teunissen