Patents by Inventor Hélène Bouilloux-Lafont

Hélène Bouilloux-Lafont 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).

  • Creation of a chat room for television network
    Patent number: 7743096
    Abstract: A chat system for a digital television network comprises a digital operator head end system for broadcasting to subscriber decoders. The head end system comprises a chat room creation device which communicates with a chat server to create, cancel and/or join an event related chat room, a trigger device which may be programmed to activate itself at the occurrence of an event and automatically sends a request for creation of a chat room to the chat room creation device, a broadcast device used for preparing a transmission of information to the subscriber decoders, and a notification server to generate a notification message to be transmitted by the broadcast device, the notification message being related to the creation of an event related chat room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignees: Thomson Licensing S.A.
    Inventors: Héléne Bouilloux-Lafont, Issam Aglan, Hervé Lemaitre, Emmanuel Tessier
  • Selecting advertisement on a set top box in a television network
    Patent number: 7640562
    Abstract: A method for selecting advertisement in a Set Top Box (STB) of a television network comprises receiving advertisement selection information for one or a plurality of advertisement associations. Each advertisement association associates an advertisement space with an advertisement. The advertisement selection information corresponds for each advertisement association to a value of probability for selecting the advertisement for the advertisement space. A selection of an advertisement for a determined advertisement space is triggered and a random value or a pseudo-random value generated. An advertisement is selected using the random value or the pseudo-random value, by selecting a determined advertisement association that associates an advertisement with the determined advertisement space and for which the corresponding advertisement selection information has a value of probability that relates to the random value or the pseudo-random value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: THOMSON Licensing S.A.
    Inventors: Hélène Bouilloux-Lafont, Oliver Bister, Franck Bachet, Axel Taldir
  • Selecting advertisement on a set top box in a television network
    Publication number: 20070028261
    Abstract: A method for selecting advertisement in a Set Top Box (STB) of a television network comprises receiving advertisement selection information for one or a plurality of advertisement associations. Each advertisement association associates an advertisement space with an advertisement. The advertisement selection information corresponds for each advertisement association to a value of probability for selecting the advertisement for the advertisement space. A selection of an advertisement for a determined advertisement space is triggered and a random value or a pseudo-random value generated. An advertisement is selected using the random value or the pseudo-random value, by selecting a determined advertisement association that associates an advertisement with the determined advertisement space and for which the corresponding advertisement selection information has a value of probability that relates to the random value or the pseudo-random value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2003
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventor: Helene Bouilloux-Lafont