Patents by Inventor Gildas Cotten

Gildas Cotten 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).

  • Method and device for processing a request for obtaining multimedia data
    Patent number: 7647549
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method of processing a request for obtaining multimedia digital data, said request having a number of descriptors characterizing it, characterized in that said method has the following steps: analysis of the descriptors characterizing the request being processed; comparison of the result of the analysis with the descriptors of other requests processed earlier; according to the result of the comparison, a decision as regards knowing whether the request being processed is: identical to a request processed earlier, in the sense that the two requests have the same request descriptors; similar to a request processed earlier, in the sense that the two requests have at least one request descriptor in common; new compared with the requests processed earlier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Franck Denoual, Gildas Cotten, Lilian Labelle
  • Method and device for processing a request for obtaining multimedia data
    Publication number: 20030083755
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method of processing a request for obtaining multimedia digital data, said request having a number of descriptors characterizing it, characterized in that said method has the following steps:
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2002
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Franck Denoual, Gildas Cotten, Lilian Labelle