Patents by Inventor Francois J. N. Cosquer

Francois J. N. Cosquer 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: 7912098
    Abstract: The invention provides for systems, methods, and a transport re-encapsulator/tagger for delivering streaming media to customer premises equipment. A digital streaming media system broadcasts streaming media to provider networks which use middleware which has certain requirements for the transport encapsulation and tagging of headers of the streaming media. The invention provides for re-encapsulating/tagging of media broadcasts having one type of transport encapsulation/tagging into a type of transport encapsulation/tagging required by the middleware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Francois J. N. Cosquer, Tim Barrett
  • Patent number: 7757283
    Abstract: This method and system for detecting abnormal traffic in a communications network is based on classifying the traffic in risk and status categories and maintaining a service status table with this information for each service at a respective node. The risk categories are initially established based on known software vulnerabilities recognized for the respective service. An early notifier enables further processing of services suspected of malware propagation. Status categories enable segregating the traffic with a “under attack status” from the “non under attack” status, so that the intrusion detection system at the respective node only processes the “under attack” traffic. In this way, the time and amount of processing performed by the intrusion detection system is considerably reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Robert, Francois J. N. Cosquer
  • Patent number: 7743421
    Abstract: Communication network security risk exposure management systems and methods are disclosed. Risks to a communication network are determined by analyzing assets of the communication network and vulnerabilities affecting the assets. Assets may include physical assets such as equipment or logical assets such as software or data. Risk analysis may be adapted to assess risks to a particular feature of a communication network by analyzing assets of the communication network which are associated with that feature and one or more of vulnerabilities which affect the feature and vulnerabilities which affect the assets associated with the feature. A feature may be an asset itself or a function or service offered in the network and supported by particular assets, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Francois J. N. Cosquer, Bertrand Marquet, Robert W. MacIntosh, Yvon Leclerc, Scott David D'Souza
  • Publication number: 20080240155
    Abstract: The invention provides for systems, methods, and a transport re-encapsulator/tagger for delivering streaming media to customer premises equipment. A digital streaming media system broadcasts streaming media to provider networks which use middleware which has certain requirements for the transport encapsulation and tagging of headers of the streaming media. The invention provides for re-encapsulating/tagging of media broadcasts having one type of transport encapsulation/tagging into a type of transport encapsulation/tagging required by the middleware.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Francois J.N. Cosquer, Tim Barrett
  • Patent number: 7305554
    Abstract: Systems and methods of dynamically introducing security features into a client-server application program are described. A security server between an application server and a database has multiple security components with a shared dependency. This shared dependency enables the introduction of a new security component providing a new security function without compromising the security of the application program. The new security component acquires state information from other security components in the security server thereby dynamically reconfiguring the component-based security system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Alcatel Canada Inc.
    Inventors: Bertrand Marquet, Adrian Mario Rossi, Francois J. N. Cosquer
  • Publication number: 20040117622
    Abstract: Systems and methods of dynamically introducing security features into a client-server application program are described. A security server between an application server and a database has multiple security components with a shared dependency. This shared dependency enables the introduction of a new security component providing a new security function without compromising the security of the application program. The new security component acquires state information from other security components in the security server thereby dynamically reconfiguring the component-based security system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2002
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Inventors: Bertrand Marquet, Adrian Mario Rossi, Francois J.N Cosquer