Patents by Inventor Eric Carreel

Eric Carreel 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: 8244892
    Abstract: Radiocommunication device comprising a starter software module suitable to allow a simplified radio link of the radiocommunication device with a local radiocommunication network and allow a downloading, by this simplified radio link, of an update of a use software module that is contained in the radiocommunication device and that is suitable to enable a normal radio link to be set up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Eric Carreel, Sébastien Royer De La Bastie, Arnaud Mouiche
  • Publication number: 20120122430
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for weighing a use located on an electronic scale in communication with a mobile telecommunication terminal having a display screen, the scale and the mobile terminal both wirelessly communicating with a telecommunication network adapted to put at least the mobile terminal in communication with an additional communication device, the method including a weighing step, a two-way communication step during which the scale transmits weighing data resulting from the weighing to the mobile terminal, and a display step during which the mobile terminal displays weighing data on the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Inventors: Cedric Hutchings, Eric Carreel
  • Patent number: 7580257
    Abstract: Apparatus comprising a portable electronic appliance and a data input appliance which is adapted to deliver information to the portable electronic appliance via the recharging interface for recharging the batteries of the portable electronic appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Inventel Systemes
    Inventors: Bruno Beguet, Olivier Amberny, Sébastien Royer De La Bastie, Eric Carreel
  • Publication number: 20080295093
    Abstract: A method for dynamic hosting of software applications in a system comprising local area networks and an operator network delivering services to users, wherein each local network comprises user terminals and a gateway which is connected to the operator network, establishing a communication channel between the network operator and the user upon request from the user of a terminal, enabling the user to access the services delivered, wherein the gateway is devoid of a user interface to access services and comprises a volatile memory and a non-volatile memory, comprising a downloading step during which a software application is at least partially downloaded and at least one part of the downloaded software application is stored in the volatile memory of the gateway, wherein at least one part of the downloaded software application in the volatile memory is not downloaded to the non-volatile memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2005
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Inventors: Cedric Hutchings, Clement Moreau, Eric Carreel
  • Publication number: 20080253339
    Abstract: Local radiocommunication device comprising an IP access point adapted to communicate outwards from the network in IP mode, a point-to-point communication module adapted to communicate with a terminal according to at least one point-to-point communication protocol, and an interface adapted to allow the IP access point to communicate with the point-to-point communication module and thus to allow the said terminal to communicate with the outside of the local radiocommunication network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2005
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Inventors: David Libault, Jerome Gonzalez, Eric Carreel
  • Publication number: 20080250404
    Abstract: Radiocommunication device comprising a starter software module suitable to allow a simplified radio link of the radiocommunication device with a local radiocommunication network and allow a downloading, by this simplified radio link, of an update of a use software module that is contained in the radiocommunication device and that is suitable to enable a normal radio link to be set up.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2006
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Eric Carreel, Sebastien Royer De La Bastie, Arnaud Mouiche
  • Publication number: 20070243861
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for software updating of a system comprising an operator's network and local area networks including respectively terminals equipped with a user interface, and a gateway device connected to the operator's network and setting up, upon request from the user of a terminal, an access channel to the services, the gateway device not being provided with user interface for accessing the services and comprising a set of software applications, said method comprising a preliminary step during which an event is triggered to transmit, over a communication channel set up in response to a user request, a message concerning said updating and to communicate the message to the user via the terminal and a step of downloading towards the gateway device an updating of the set of software applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2005
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Inventors: Cedric Hutchings, Clement Moreau, Eric Carreel
  • Patent number: 7110759
    Abstract: The invention relates to a local radio communication system comprising a central controller (9), several bases (7) which are connected to the controller and several terminals (5) which communicate with the bases. The bases (7) communicate with the terminals using a local radio communication protocol with time division multiple access. Said bases are adapted to real-time transmit chronological information to the controller releasing to the transmissions planned for said bases. The controller is adapted to determine if there is a risk of interferences occurring between the planned transmissions and to impose a chronology for said planned transmissions on the bases in order to limit said interferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Inventel Systems
    Inventors: Jacques Lewiner, Eric Carreel
  • Publication number: 20060035650
    Abstract: The invention concerns a central base for a private wireless local area network wherein the central base includes electronic circuits that include an electronic central unit and which is supplied with electricity with at least one live supply line intended to be connected to an external electricity power source. The central base is suitable for communicating on the one hand with a public telecommunication network, and on the other hand with at least one wireless peripheral device according to a digital bi-directional wireless protocol for a private wireless local area network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2003
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Applicant: INVENTEL SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Oliver Amberny, Bruno Deguet, Henri-Nicolas Olivier, Eric Carreel
  • Patent number: 6799031
    Abstract: The invention concerns a local combined telephone and an alarm system comprising a central base communicating through two-way radio channel, according to a multiple access communication protocol, with telephone stations and detectors adapted to detect an emergency situation. The base transmits at regular intervals of less than 10 minutes, scanning messages addressed to the detectors and determines whether the detectors are operating, depending on whether it receives clearance messages from the detectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Inventel
    Inventors: Jacques Lewiner, Eric Carreel
  • Patent number: 6765475
    Abstract: Radio paging receiver comprising a central unit associated with a memory containing a tree-structured database comprising a plurality of menu pages and text pages, each menu page including at least an entry capable of being selected to display on the screen another menu page or a text page. Each entry of each menu page comprises a data field capable of being displayed and a call code corresponding to another menu page or text page. Moreover, the central unit is designed for updating the stored menu pages on the basis of radio messages comprising a menu page identification code and at least one entry designed to appear in the menu page presenting said identification code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignees: Inventel Systemes
    Inventors: Jacques Lewiner, Eric Carreel, Xavier Debreuil, Bruno Deguet, Jérôme Lucaes, Frédéric Thepaut
  • Publication number: 20040116164
    Abstract: Apparatus comprising a portable electronic appliance (2) and a data input appliance (3) which is adapted to deliver information to the portable electronic appliance via the recharging interface (10) for recharging the batteries of the portable electronic appliance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2003
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Inventors: Bruno Beguet, Olivier Amberny, Sebastien Royer De La Bastie, Eric Carreel
  • Publication number: 20040116114
    Abstract: The invention relates to a local radio communication system comprising a central controller (9), several bases (7) which are connected to the controller and several terminals (5) which communicate with the bases. The bases (7) communicate with the terminals using a local radio communication protocol with time division multiple access. Said bases are adapted to real-time transmit chronological information to the controller releasing to the transmissions planned for said bases. The controller is adapted to determine if there is a risk of interferences occurring between the planned transmissions and to impose a chronology for said planned transmissions on the bases in order to limit said interferences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Inventors: Jacques Lewiner, Eric Carreel
  • Patent number: 6703966
    Abstract: To measure the absolute speed of a body 100 moving relative to the ground 33 using an onboard speed sensor 1, a radar wave is transmitted towards the ground by an antenna with a wide aperture angle. The wave reflected by a reflecting obstacle on the ground and the transmitted wave are mixed and the frequency content of the low frequency signal obtained is determined. The speed of the moving object and the height of the transmitter and receiver antennas above the ground can then be measured by adjusting a theoretical curve to the time-varying evolution of the Doppler frequency corresponding to the reflecting obstacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Inventors: Céline Corbrion, Jacques Lewiner, Thierry Ditchi, Eric Carreel
  • Patent number: 6557281
    Abstract: A public display panel includes an external casing which has at least one transparent opening, a support band made of flexible material which carries juxtaposed posters, and a driving mechanism for selectively displaying posters opposite the transparent opening. This display panel further includes an electronic interface adapted to receive data representing new posters to be printed on the support band, an electronic central unit communicating with the interface, and a printer controlled by this central unit for printing new posters on the support board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Inventors: Jacques Lewiner, Eric Carreel
  • Publication number: 20030052814
    Abstract: To measure the absolute speed of a body 100 moving relative to the ground 33 using an onboard speed sensor 1, a radar wave is transmitted towards the ground by an antenna with a wide aperture angle. The wave reflected by a reflecting obstacle on the ground and the transmitted wave are mixed and the frequency content of the low frequency signal obtained is determined. The speed of the moving object and the height of the transmitter and receiver antennas above the ground can then be measured by adjusting a theoretical curve to the time-varying evolution of the Doppler frequency corresponding to the reflecting obstacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2002
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Inventors: C?eacute;line Corbrion, Jacques Lewiner, Thierry Ditchi, Eric Carreel
  • Patent number: 6349262
    Abstract: The invention concerns a traffic information device comprising a portable one-way messaging receiver (10), designed to provide motorists with information concerning running times in a road network, said receiver comprising a keyboard (12) receiver memory contains, for each road network section, a starting point, an arrival point and an elementary running time. Moreover, the central unit is adapted to update the elementary running times of the sections on the basis of received radio messages, and to compute and display the global running time between a starting point and an arrival point as required, based on the stored elementary running times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2002
    Inventors: Jacques Lewiner, Eric Carreel
  • Patent number: 6181915
    Abstract: The invention relates to a portable one-way radio pager comprising receiver means (4, 5, 6) for receiving radio messages, a memory (8) for storing the messages, a screen (2), a simplified keypad (3), and an electronic CPU (7). The memory includes an address book (8a) which is designed to include at least names and associated telephone numbers, and the CPU is designed to recognize special “downloading” messages to store the contents of such messages in the address book, and to display the data contained in the address book on the screen at the request of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Inventors: Jacques Lewiner, Eric Carreel
  • Patent number: 6157813
    Abstract: A portable one-way radio pager includes receiver means for receiving coded radio messages, a CPU for processing the messages, and a control memory containing at least one number referred to as "validity data" representative of a certain sum of money, the CPU being designed to decrement the validity data progressively during operation of the pager and to prevent normal operation of the pager when said validity data is less than a predetermined minimum value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Inventors: Jacques Lewiner, Eric Carreel
  • Patent number: 6097317
    Abstract: The portable appliance informs users about waiting times at stops in a bus network, the appliance comprising a radio receiver to receive data enabling waiting times to be determined, an interrogation keypad, a central unit for evaluating the estimated time of arrival of the next bus at a particular stop, a screen for displaying the waiting time for said bus, and a sound emitter. The central unit is designed to update cyclically the estimated time of arrival for the next bus and to actuate the sound emitter when said estimated time of arrival differs excessively from the time of arrival initially estimated the last time the appliance was interrogated by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Assignee: J. C. Decaux International
    Inventors: Jacques Lewiner, Eric Carreel