Abstract: A device is dedicated to the management of communications between communication terminals (TMi, TFi and PCi). This device includes a memory (M) which stores user identifiers in correspondence with lists of at least one communication terminal identifier, and processing means (PM) which are charged, when they receive a call request to a user, known as the called user, from another user, known as the calling user, to access the memory (M) in order to extract from it the lists of identifiers associated with the calling and called users, and then to determine, from these extracted lists, a calling and a called terminal which are likely to establish a call between them that will satisfy the call request, in accordance with at least one availability criterion.

Abstract: The present invention contains a priority base station (20) placed in a sensitive area (19) to restrict unwanted calls using mobile telephones (5-7). In one example, the base station is a priority base station where a mobile telephone has a preference for the type of base station that it represents. The priority base station then exclusively manages communication with the mobile telephones to neutralize their sending-receiving.

Abstract: A wireless communications network (WLAN) comprises i) an access point (AP) coupled to a call server (ER) connected to at least one remote communications network (PTN, PDN), ii) means of reservation (MR) responsible for reserving a section of the communication bandwidth of the wireless network (WLAN) for the transmission of requests to establish a link with one of the remote networks, meeting at least one of the priority criteria selected, iii) processing means (PM) responsible for determining if a request to establish a link meets each priority criterion selected, and if so to associate to said request an authorization to use the reserved section, and iv) management means (MM) responsible, when they receive a request associated to an authorization of use, for determining the necessary resources to establish the required link, and if said necessary resources are still available within the network, in order to, if so, allocate the determined necessary resources to the establishment of the required link.

Abstract: This method includes: a step (1, 2A, 2B) of a server receiving a request from a calling terminal to set up a call between the calling terminal and an emergency call center, and a step (5) of setting up a call between the calling terminal and the call center; a step (2B, 8) of identifying, in the call set-up request, a type of event belonging to a list of predefined event types, such as medical problems, fire, etc.; a step (9) of identifying a community having capabilities suited to the type of event identified; and a step (11) of sending information to at least one terminal belonging to the community thus identified. A preferred embodiment of the method further includes sending (11) at least one terminal belonging to the community thus identified the location of the calling terminal and the type of event identified.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of synchronizing a plurality of base stations in a wireless telecommunications system (100) comprising base stations (BS1 to BS5) interconnected by an IP architecture local area network (10), the method including a step of hierarchical organization carried out in each group of base stations (BS1 to BS4) covering interconnected picocells (P1 to P4) by assigning positive integer numbers (No.1 to No.4) in increasing order and a fine synchronization step involving listening to a lower numbered base station of its group.

Abstract: A method is disclosed of providing services to private terminals belonging to a private network including a private database which contains primary identifiers of the private terminals associated with first data representative of services to which the private terminals have access within the private network and which can be connected to a public network including an intelligent platform and connected to the private network. The method includes a first step in which there is stored, at an address accessible to the intelligent platform, second data representative of at least a portion of the private database and, at an address of the public network, third data representative of the primary identifier of each private terminal, of the associated private network, and of the intelligent platform having access to the second data of the private network.

Abstract: The invention concerns a communication server (2) enabling provision to terminals (4), connected to a first communication network (PLMN) and capable of simultaneously exchanging, in accordance with a selected protocol, signalling data on a first channel transmission and voice data on a second transmission channel, of services offered by a second private communication network (RP). The server (2) comprises control means (6) for transmitting to a terminal (4) connected to the first network (PLMN), over the first channel and in accordance with the selected criterion, configuration data designed to enable a connection with the server (2) to be set up on said first channel by the terminal (4), during a voice link on the second channel, so as to provide said terminal, during the voice link, with services offered by the second network (RP).

Abstract: A wireless communications network (WLAN) comprises i) an access point (AP) coupled to a call server (ER) connected to at least one remote communications network (PTN, PDN), ii) means of reservation (MR) responsible for reserving a section of the communication bandwidth of the wireless network (WLAN) for the transmission of requests to establish a link with one of the remote networks, meeting at least one of the priority criteria selected, iii) processing means (PM) responsible for determining if a request to establish a link meets each priority criterion selected, and if so to associate to said request an authorization to use the reserved section, and iv) management means (MM) responsible, when they receive a request associated to an authorization of use, for determining the necessary resources to establish the required link, and if said necessary resources are still available within the network, in order to, if so, allocate the determined necessary resources to the establishment of the required link.

Abstract: A management device (D) for radio access points (AP), of a wireless communications network (WLAN), comprises processing means (PM) responsible for dynamically determining the transmission power level of each access point (AP) that it manages depending on the presence and/or respective locations of communication terminals (UEj) in relation to the said access points and to at least one criterion selected, so that said access points establish said levels.

Abstract: A device is dedicated to the management of communications between communication terminals (TMi, TFi and PCi). This device includes a memory (M) which stores user identifiers in correspondence with lists of at least one communication terminal identifier, and processing means (PM) which are charged, when they receive a call request to a user, known as the called user, from another user, known as the calling user, to access the memory (M) in order to extract from it the lists of identifiers associated with the calling and called users, and then to determine, from these extracted lists, a calling and a called terminal which are likely to establish a call between them that will satisfy the call request, in accordance with at least one availability criterion.

Abstract: The present invention consists of a method of authorizing access to a cellular mobile radio network from a simplified mobile telephone, simplified in particular in that it does not include a reader adapted to receive a subscriber identification module. According to the invention, access to the network is made possible in particular by a service initialization phase during which a subscriber to the network supplies to the network data representing a serial number specific to the simplified mobile telephone, for example its IMEI number, and data characteristic of each telephone number that can be called from the simplified mobile telephone, all of the data being stored in a data base of a server of the network in a private directory associated with the simplified mobile telephone.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of synchronizing a plurality of base stations in a wireless telecommunications system (100) comprising base stations (BS1 to BS5) interconnected by an IP architecture local area network (10), the method including a step of hierarchical organization carried out in each group of base stations (BS1 to BS4) covering interconnected picocells (P1 to P4) by assigning positive integer numbers (No.1 to No.4) in increasing order and a fine synchronization step involving listening to a lower numbered base station of its group.

Abstract: A processing server (10) allocates user terminals (8) resources of a local area network (WLAN). The server (10) is connected to at least one access point (1) to the local area network (WLAN) and includes control means (11) adapted, firstly, to classify the terminals (8) in a first group or a second group according to whether or not they are adapted to establish with said local area network (WLAN) communications encrypted in accordance with at least one format and, secondly, to allocate resources of the local area network (WLAN) to terminals (8) attempting to establish communication therewith as a function of whether they are classified in said first group or said second group.

Abstract: A method of initializing a link between a mobile terminal of a public mobile network and a domestic base station, for example a public switched network base station, comprises authentication of the mobile terminal by the public mobile network, transmission of data for initializing the link with the domestic base station to the terminal from the public mobile network and transmission of the data from the mobile terminal to the domestic base station. The public mobile network operator can therefore manage the channels used by the mobile terminal for the link with the domestic base station. The method further assures authentication that is as secure as that of the public mobile network.

Abstract: A microchip card enables a user to access at least one chosen application on a particular server by means of any communication terminal using at least one mode of communication and fitted with a reader compatible with the microchip card. The card includes memory for storing sets of parameters specific to the mode(s) of communication used by the terminal and to the chosen application(s) and a system which can recognize the mode(s) of communication the terminal in which it is inserted can use. A selector system connected to the memory and to the recognition system selects a set of parameters corresponding to a recognized mode of communication of the terminal and to the chosen application. The selected parameter set is delivered to the terminal to enable access to the chosen application from that terminal.

Abstract: A method is disclosed of providing services to private terminals belonging to a private network including a private database which contains primary identifiers of the private terminals associated with first data representative of services to which the private terminals have access within the private network and which can be connected to a public network including an intelligent platform and connected to the private network. The method includes a first step in which there is stored, at an address accessible to the intelligent platform, second data representative of at least a portion of the private database and, at an address of the public network, third data representative of the primary identifier of each private terminal, of the associated private network, and of the intelligent platform having access to the second data of the private network.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of managing SMS type telephone messages in a telecommunications network (R), said method comprising a step of receiving an SMS type telephone message (S1, S2) containing information (I1, I2) in a telephone terminal (1, 2) of said network,

Abstract: A gateway can be provided between digital signal transmission networks where one of the networks is a private telecommunication network offering a GSM mobile telephone service using a GSM digital transmission protocol and the other network is the Internet. An internetwork gateway for setting up a call between a GSM, UMTS, PCS or Bluetooth first mobile telephone terminal connected to the private telecommunication network and another terminal which belongs to another network, can be addressed by means of an Internet address and is adapted to send and receive RTP/IP voice and/or UDP/IP or TCP/IP data, includes transcoders for transcoding information from the digital transmission protocol used in the first terminal to the protocol used in the second terminal and vice versa.

Abstract: A method of managing a mobile radio network is disclosed which is intended for use in a mobile radio network provided with a mobile infrastructure, for example because it is located on a ship. A ship may be located either in an area that is not served by any public mobile radio network or in an area that is served by a public mobile radio network. A first objective of the method disclosed is to enable the ship to communicate with a public telephone network at the lowest cost in all cases. A second objective is to avoid interference if a fixed infrastructure mobile radio network is using resources that are also being used by the network on board the ship.

Abstract: A method is disclosed of controlling access for and/or vis-à-vis users who access a computer network enabling exchange of information, in particular the Internet, using terminals and via an access node that is shared or specific to an organization, for example a company's private automatic branch exchange, to which the terminals are connected to access the computer network via a server. The method temporarily stores, for downstream filtering, the multimedia data stream received from the computer network and addressed to a user terminal in response to an access request formulated from that terminal. The downstream filtering is applied in particular by means of an arrangement for authorizing or blocking transmission of the data stream to the terminal as a function of particular criteria. The criteria are independent of the terminal and the access provider.