Patents by Inventor François Colon

François Colon 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).

  • Publication number: 20230068045
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for activating access to a vehicle within a vehicle fleet parked in a parking area not covered by a data network, comprising the following steps: transmission of an activation signal from a user's computer equipment, which transmission is done via a short-range wireless connection in the parking area, reception of the activation signal by embedded computer equipment of a plurality of vehicles of the vehicle fleet, implementation of a computerised logic process leading to the election of at least one vehicle from among the plurality of vehicles, identification of the elected vehicle: by transmitting, from the elected vehicle, location information of said vehicle, and/or by transmitting one or more pieces of identification data of the elected vehicle to the user equipment, from the embedded equipment of one of the plurality of vehicles, which transmission is done via a short-range wireless connection in the parking area, transmission of an access authorisation to the elected
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: VULOG
    Inventor: François COLON
  • Publication number: 20230059145
    Abstract: A method for displaying, on a digital map, the geographical position of vehicles available for hire, the method including the following steps: retrieving the real geographical position, at a time T0, of vehicles available for hire, for each of the vehicles: calculating, by a route calculation module, a route between: a starting point corresponding to the real geographical position of the vehicle at T0, and an arrival point defined with respect to the geographical position of a mobile terminal of a user, calculating, by a calculation module, an estimated geographical position of the vehicle at a time T2 on the calculated route, wherein T2>T0, and, at a time T1, displaying on the digital map the estimated geographical position of all or a portion of the vehicles, wherein T2>T1>T0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: VULOG
    Inventor: François COLON
  • Publication number: 20220358841
    Abstract: A method for managing parking spaces for vehicles, which spaces are located in a geographical area and are associated with a controller, configured to allocate one or more parking characteristics to said spaces, the method including collection and storage of historical navigation data of identified vehicles and/or of identified drivers, statistical analysis of said stored data to predict the use of the spaces by the identified vehicles and/or the identified drivers, and modification of one or more parking characteristics allocated by the controller according to predicted space use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: VULOG
    Inventor: François COLON
  • Publication number: 20220114501
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a prompt request, including: calculation by a server of a first number of requests to reserve vehicles in a fleet of shared vehicles, in a predetermined geographical area, the calculation of the first number taking into account: the number of reservation requests actually received by the server at a given moment, and/or a number of estimated reservation requests, determination by the server of the geographical positions of the fleet vehicles, calculation of a second number of fleet vehicles that are available in the geographical area, comparison by the server of the first and the second number, if the second number is lower than the first number, identification by the server of the fleet vehicles—which are not available and are in operation; and the geographical position of which is in the geographical area or at a predetermined distance from the geographical area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: VULOG
    Inventor: François COLON
  • Publication number: 20220113146
    Abstract: A method for planning a journey, including:—determining a starting point and an end point of the journey from an electronic device, selecting at least two vehicles for transport between the starting point and the end point where the journey includes a first journey section using a vehicle and a second journey section using a different vehicle, using a fleet of shared vehicles, attribution of statuses to the fleet vehicles, which statuses are at least: determination of the geographical positions of the fleet vehicles, as soon as the starting point and the end point of the journey are known by the server: selection of at least one vehicle in the fleet which is located between the starting point and the end point and which has the status ‘Available for reservation’, and calculation of a best route between the starting point and the end point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: VULOG
    Inventor: François COLON
  • Publication number: 20220091617
    Abstract: A method for assisting an autonomous motor vehicle includes using an autonomous motor vehicle equipped with an automatic driving device which is adapted to decide driving actions to be carried out in order to autonomously circulate on a route, connecting the automatic driving device to a computer server of a remote control center through a wireless communication network, determining the geographical position of the vehicle., The method also includes predictive detection of a critical event on the route upstream of the position of the vehicle, which results in said operator takes control of the remote vehicle and decides driving actions, predictive detection of the critical event resulting from the combined analysis of data that includes, data on the state of the traffic lanes taken on the route upstream, the road conditions, the meteorological conditions, data coming from sensors installed on the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: VULOG
    Inventor: François COLON
  • Publication number: 20200334588
    Abstract: A method for updating a database for returning a vehicle which includes generating an availability indicator; transmitting the availability indicator to at least one user device belonging to a first user via a short-range wireless link; saving all the information in a memory of the device until subsequently detecting access to a data network; automatically transmitting all the information including said availability indicator to a remote server; and updating a database modifying a vehicle availability status within a fleet of vehicles by a computer of the remote server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: VULOG
    Inventor: François COLON
  • Publication number: 20200258009
    Abstract: A method for making available a vehicle, including generating a first query from a first device of a first user of a vehicle, to a server from a data network, in order to indicate a making available of said vehicle in a first zone; receiving of a third query by the first device, from the remote server, indicating a request for access to said vehicle by a second user; acceptance of the request for access from the first device, and in the first query includes a piece of information on vehicle availability, a piece of status information indicating a status of the vehicle specifying that the vehicle is in operation, and; a first piece of geographical information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: VULOG
    Inventor: François COLON
  • Patent number: 9143475
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a unified messaging proxy and a method thereof. The unified messaging proxy advantageously enables a user to be communicatively coupled with the same account on a messaging platform using multiple end user devices at the same time, allowing the user to read messages on a first end user device and send messages from a second end user device. The unified messaging proxy manages the multiple end user devices and intercepts all messages to and from the multiple end user devices and the messaging platform. From its perspective, the messaging platform only sees a single client messaging application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Synchronoss Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jérémi Kurzanski, François Colon
  • Patent number: 9124645
    Abstract: The invention relates to an instantaneous messaging system for mobile terminals comprising one or several instantaneous messaging servers (S1, S2) able to deliver instantaneous messaging services to mobile terminals (TA, TB1, TC1, TD1, TB2, TE2, TF2) connected to said servers and of which the users (A, B1, C1, D1, B2, E2, F2) have opened an instantaneous messaging session, and a virtual presence server (100) independent of the existing instantaneous messaging servers (S1, S2), said virtual presence server being connected to at least one mobile client terminal (TA) and to at least one of the existing messaging servers (S1, S2), wherein said virtual presence server (100) comprises means to automatically manage an instantaneous messaging session in place of said user (A), said means of management being activated when the connection between said mobile client terminal (TA) and said virtual presence server is cut off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Inventor: François Colon
  • Publication number: 20140351329
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for automatically reporting an event based on files received on a computer server, the aforementioned method comprising: acquiring, in digital file form, a photograph and/or video, linking the acquired file with: a geo-location datum and a timestamp datum, transferring the file and the linked geo-location and timestamp data to a remote computer server, creating an analysis window that determines: a geographic zone defined around the place where the photograph and/or video was acquired, a temporal zone defined based on the time when the photograph and/or video was acquired, acquiring other photograph and/or video digital files and linking them with geo-location and timestamp data, and then transferring these files and this data to the remote server, analyzing the variation of the frequency of the number of files received by the remote server within the analysis window, in order to automatically report an event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventor: François COLON
  • Patent number: 8856900
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method and a system for authorising a connection between a computer terminal and a source server, including an initialization phase wherein: the terminal connects to a gateway server, the gateway server sends a secret key to the terminal, the terminal hides the password in a data file by applying an encryption algorithm bootstrapped by the secret key, then deletes the secret key and the password, and a connection phase wherein: the terminal sends the data file containing the password to the gateway server, the gateway server extracts the files password by executing a reverse encryption algorithm bootstrapped by the secret key, and sends the password to the source server without saving it, the source server analysis the received password and authorizes the connection with the terminal if the password is authenticated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Synchronoss Technologies France
    Inventor: François Colon
  • Patent number: 8386559
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for exchanging requests between the computer application of a mobile terminal (A) and an instantaneous messaging server (1), wherein: the computer application sends requests (2) to server (1) relative to the detection of an event (3), requests (2) are sent according to a request frequency set to a first value, whereby: when requests (2) are sent, if the event (3) is not detected by server (1), said server controls the computer application so that the latter sends the requests (2) according to a request frequency set to a second value that is lower than the first value, as soon as server (1) detects the event (3), said server controls the computer application so that the latter sends the requests (2) according to a request frequency set to the first value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Miyowa
    Inventor: François Colon
  • Patent number: 8315611
    Abstract: A communication network includes a mobile terminal designed to receive information in a target format, source servers designed to deliver information in source formats, and an intermediate server that is independent of the source servers. Information destined for the mobile terminal goes through the intermediate server. The intermediate server is designed to receive information in the source formats from the source servers, convert to the target format the information received in the source formats, transmit the information in the target format to the mobile terminal, analyze an initial request sent by the mobile terminal, use a memory zone of the intermediate server to identify one of the source servers in response to the initial request, and transmit a request relay to the identified source server to receive information in source formats from the identified source server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Miyowa
    Inventor: François Colon
  • Patent number: 8239464
    Abstract: The invention relates to an instantaneous messaging system for mobile terminals comprising one or several instantaneous messaging service servers (S1, S2) able to deliver instantaneous messaging services to mobile terminals (TA, TB1, TC1, TD1, TB2, TE2, TF2) connected to said servers and of which the users (A, B1, C1, D1, B2, E2, F2) have opened an instantaneous messaging session, and a virtual presence server (100) independent of the existing instantaneous messaging service servers (S1, S2), said virtual presence server being connected to at least one mobile client terminal (TA) and to at least one of the existing messaging servers (S1, S2) in such a way that the information intended for or sent by said mobile client terminal transits by said virtual presence server, wherein the instantaneous messaging service servers (S1, S2) are configured to transmit contact lists intended for mobile client terminal (TA), said lists being intercepted by the virtual presence server (100), the latter comprising a means to a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Miyowa
    Inventor: François Colon
  • Patent number: 7962546
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for sending content from a mobile sending device belonging to an originator to at least one receiving device associated with a respective recipient. The mobile sending device sends said content to a storage server; the storage server stores the content, associating a content identifier with it; the storage server builds a content page including the content, the content page being associated with a first address, the first address depending at least on the content identifier; the storage server sends the mobile sending device a first message including a second address associated with a recipient-selection page; the mobile sending device accesses said recipient-selection page by the second address; and the originator builds, by the recipient-selection page, a list including an identifier of the receiving device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Miyowa
    Inventor: François Colon
  • Publication number: 20110016512
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method and a system for authorising a connection between a computer terminal and a source server, including an initialisation phase wherein: the terminal connects to a gateway server, the gateway server sends a secret key to the terminal, the terminal hides the password in a data file by applying an encryption algorithm bootstrapped by the secret key, then deletes the secret key and the password, and a connection phase wherein: the terminal sends the data file containing the password to the gateway server, the gateway server extracts the files password by executing a reverse encryption algorithm bootstrapped by the secret key, and sends the password to the source server without saving it, the source server analyses the received password and authorises the connection with the terminal if the password is authenticated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: MIYOWA
    Inventor: François Colon
  • Publication number: 20100293376
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method and a device for authenticating a client mobile terminal on a remote server of said terminal, with said server sending a challenge to said mobile terminal in advance, said mobile terminal having to respond to the challenge, to authenticate at the same time, by transmitting a response consisting in encoding said challenge combined with a secret key known to said terminal and the same time to the server, wherein the secret key is hidden in a media file recorded in the mobile terminal using steganography.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: MIYOWA
    Inventor: François Colon
  • Publication number: 20100228790
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for activating functionalities provided in a computer terminal and delivered by sources servers, with one of these functionalities being an instant messaging service in which a list including “user” contacts is displayed on the screen of said terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: Miyowa
    Inventor: Francois Colon
  • Publication number: 20100179982
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for auditing data relating to the utilization of a computer application run in a terminal including the following steps: the running of the application from a set of functions using the components of a framework; the auditing of the components of the framework, and the transmission of the results obtained from said auditing step to a remote server. The method includes the following preliminary steps: the prior labeling of each component of the framework; the transmission to the terminal of a list of components of the framework to be audited, and the integration of an auditing instruction in at least one component of the framework.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2009
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: Miyowa
    Inventor: Francois Colon