Patents by Inventor Emmanuel Bury

Emmanuel Bury 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: 8001234
    Abstract: The invention is intended to co-ordinate telecommunication services (2) provided to users by means of terminals (3, 4, 5) which are connected to different telecommunication networks (1). For said purpose, the invention comprises the following steps: a service mediation server (10) co-ordinates different telecommunication services activated by users; the terminals (3, 4, 5) connect to the server and transmit users profiles thereto, said profiles specifying availability modes, activate the profiles and availability modes and access the connected services; and the service mediation server determines a reachability state for each user, which is dependent on at least one user terminal being connected to the server and the active availability mode and profile of the user, and transmits said state to the connected user terminals specified in a list of contacts in the active profile of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Alan Kerdraon, Emmanuel Bury, Jacques Olivier Rebillon
  • Patent number: 7477732
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method which consists in introducing for each registered user a profile comprising filtering and agenda data, determining and updating an accessibility status of each registered user terminal (10, 11), depending on whether the latter is accessible or not through a network, and following a call by a caller to the registered user: determining an availability status of the called user depending on whether the caller is authorized to communicate with the called party on the basis of the called party's profile data, and an identification of the caller, if the called party is not accessible or does not authorize the caller to complete his call, proposing to the caller to be automatically put through to the called party, when the latter will be accessible and available for the caller, if the latter agrees, triggering an automatic recall procedure enabling to put through the caller's call (17) to the called party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Emmanuel Bury, Alan Kerdraon, Jacques-Olivier Rebillon, Eric Flammant
  • Publication number: 20070118629
    Abstract: The invention is intended to co-ordinate telecommunication services (2) provided to users by means of terminals (3, 4, 5) which are connected to different telecommunication networks (1). For said purpose, the invention comprises the following steps: a service mediation server (10) co-ordinates different telecommunication services activated by users; the terminals (3, 4, 5) connect to the server and transmit users profiles thereto, said profiles specifying availability modes, activate the profiles and availability modes and access the connected services; and the service mediation server determines a reachability state for each user, which is dependent on at least one user terminal being connected to the server and the active availability mode and profile of the user, and transmits said state to the connected user terminals specified in a list of contacts in the active profile of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2004
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Alan Kerdraon, Emmanuel Bury, Jacques Rebillon
  • Publication number: 20050063527
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method which consists in introducing for each registered user a profile comprising filtering and agenda data, determining and updating an accessibility status of each registered user terminal (10, 11), depending on whether the latter is accessible or not through a network, and following a call by a caller to the registered user: determining an availability status of the called user depending on whether the caller is authorized to communicate with the called party on the basis of the called party's profile data, and an identification of the caller, if the called party is not accessible or does not authorize the caller to complete his call, proposing to the caller to be automatically put through to the called party, when the latter will be accessible and available for the caller, if the latter agrees, triggering an automatic recall procedure enabling to put through the caller's call (17) to the called party.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Publication date: March 24, 2005
    Inventors: Emmanuel Bury, Alan Kerdraon, Jacques-Olivier Rebillon, Eric Flammant