Patents by Inventor Jean-François Saint Etienne

Jean-François Saint Etienne 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: 10193830
    Abstract: A subscriber of a deterministic Ethernet communication network using virtual links including a first receiver, a first transmitter, a first memory to record a configuration table relating to a set of virtual links that the subscriber can receive and/or retransmit. A processing unit is configured to implement at least one application, a reception function to receive data frames received by the first receiver, to accept the reception only of the frames corresponding to virtual links belonging to the set of virtual links and to transmit these frames to a sorting function to transmit the data frames received to the application and/or to a transmission function to dispatch the data frames received to the first transmitter while complying with Bandwidth Allocation Gap (BAG) constraints associated with the corresponding virtual links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignees: AIRBUS OPERATIONS (S.A.S.), AIRBUS (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Jean-François Saint-Etienne, Juan Lopez
  • Publication number: 20170295034
    Abstract: An onboard communication network of an aircraft and communication system. The onboard communication network of an aircraft is a deterministic switched Ethernet network including a set of subscribers and at least one switch. It uses virtual links, each defined between a transmitting subscriber and one or more receiving subscribers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Jean-François SAINT-ETIENNE, Juan LOPEZ
  • Publication number: 20170171112
    Abstract: A subscriber of a deterministic Ethernet communication network using virtual links including a first receiver, a first transmitter, a first memory to record a configuration table relating to a set of virtual links that the subscriber can receive and/or retransmit. A processing unit is configured to implement at least one application, a reception function to receive data frames received by the first receiver, to accept the reception only of the frames corresponding to virtual links belonging to the set of virtual links and to transmit these frames to a sorting function to transmit the data frames received to the application and/or to a transmission function to dispatch the data frames received to the first transmitter while complying with Bandwidth Allocation Gap (BAG) constraints associated with the corresponding virtual links.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Jean-François SAINT-ETIENNE, Juan Lopez
  • Patent number: 8312512
    Abstract: An on-board telecommunication system, partitioned into a secure area and a non secure area, including at least a first telecommunication equipment unit in the secure area, a second telecommunication equipment unit in the non secure area, and a first one-way link from the first to the second equipment. The first equipment unit is configured to transmit data on the first link according to a first protocol. The system further includes a second link from the second to the first equipment unit, in accordance with a second protocol, the first two layers of which are distinct of those of the first protocol, the second equipment configured to transmit data on the second link as messages in accordance with the first protocol and encapsulated in frames in accordance with the second protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventor: Jean-Francois Saint-Etienne
  • Publication number: 20090133101
    Abstract: An on-board telecommunication system, partitioned into a secure area and a non secure area, including at least a first telecommunication equipment unit in the secure area, a second telecommunication equipment unit in the non secure area, and a first one-way link from the first to the second equipment. The first equipment unit is configured to transmit data on the first link according to a first protocol. The system further includes a second link from the second to the first equipment unit, in accordance with a second protocol, the first two layers of which are distinct of those of the first protocol, the second equipment configured to transmit data on the second link as messages in accordance with the first protocol and encapsulated in frames in accordance with the second protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: AIRBUS FRANCE
    Inventor: Jean-Francois Saint-Etienne
  • Patent number: 7430180
    Abstract: A packet switching network including subscriber stations connected to each other through at least one switch, which has a behavior defined as deterministic in that any packet sent on the network from a source subscriber station joins the destination subscriber station(s) within a limited time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: Airbus France S.A.S.
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Saint Etienne, Juan Lopez, Dominique Portes, Eddie Gambardella, Bruno Pasquier, Philippe Almeida
  • Publication number: 20080219163
    Abstract: A packet switching network including subscriber stations connected to each other through at least one switch, which has a behavior defined as deterministic in that any packet sent on the network from a source subscriber station joins the destination subscriber station(s) within a limited time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Saint Etienne, Juan Lopez, Dominique Portes, Eddie Gambardella, Bruno Pasquier, Philippe Almeida
  • Patent number: 7395330
    Abstract: A process and system for evaluating the deterministic behavior of a packet switching network including subscriber stations connected to each other through at least one switch, the behavior defined as deterministic if any packet sent on the network from a source subscriber station joins the destination subscriber station(s) within a limited time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: Airbus France S.A.S.
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Saint Etienne, Juan Lopez, Dominique Portes, Eddie Gambardella, Bruno Pasquier, Philippe Almeida
  • Patent number: 7379995
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for checking the deterministic behavior of a packet switching network comprising subscriber stations connected to each other through at least one switch, this behavior being said to be deterministic in the sense that every packet sent on the network from a source subscriber station joins the destination subscriber station(s) within a limited time, characterized in that the following relation is satisfied for each output port on each switch on the network: ? ? [ 1 + int ? ( ( Jitter ? ? In ) i ? i + max ? ? Latency BAGi ) ] * ( max ? ? ? frame ? ? duration ) ? max ? ? latency i = number ? ? of ? ? virtual ? ? links ? ? passing ? ? through ? ? the ? ? buffer in which: the max latency value is the maximum residence time in the output buffer of a switch, this value may be different for each switch in the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Airbus France
    Inventors: Jean-François Saint Etienne, Juan Lopez, Dominique Portes, Eddie Gambardella, Bruno Pasquier, Philippe Almeida
  • Patent number: 7362755
    Abstract: A process for implementing a redundant switched full-duplex Ethernet type communication network including at least two independent elementary networks, each elementary network including at least one source subscriber equipment and at least one destination subscriber equipment, connected to each other through at least one physical link through at least one switch, each equipment being connected to each of these elementary networks. The process performs a frame by frame redundancy on each elementary network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Airbus France S.A.S.
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Saint Etienne, Juan Lopez, Dominique Portes, Eddie Gambardella, Bruno Pasquier, Philippe Almeida
  • Patent number: 7356028
    Abstract: A redundant switched full-duplex Ethernet type communication network including at least two independent elementary networks, each elementary network including at least one source subscriber equipment and at least one destination subscriber equipment, connected to each other through at least one physical link through at least one switch, each equipment being connected to each of these elementary networks. A control performs a frame by frame redundancy on each elementary network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: Airbus France S.A.S.
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Saint Etienne, Juan Lopez, Dominique Portes, Eddie Gambardella, Bruno Pasquier, Philippe Almeida
  • Patent number: 7352744
    Abstract: A switched full-duplex Ethernet type communication network including at least one source subscriber equipment and at least one destination subscriber equipment connected to each other through at least one physical link through at least one switch and at least one virtual link, which is the conceptual representation of a link from a source equipment to at least one destination equipment. Each equipment transmitting Ethernet frames segregates between virtual links and allocation of a passband for each virtual link and multiplexes virtual links on the physical link output from this equipment. Each transmitted frame has a field that identifies the virtual link to which it belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Airbus France S.A.S.
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Saint Etienne, Juan Lopez, Dominique Portes, Eddie Gambardella, Bruno Pasquier, Philippe Almeida
  • Patent number: 7346052
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for implementation of a redundant switched full-duplex Ethernet type communication network comprising at least two independent elementary networks, each elementary network (RE1, RE2) comprising at least one source subscriber equipment and at least one destination subscriber equipment, connected to each other through at least one physical link through at least one switch, each equipment being connected to each of these elementary networks (RE1, RE2) in which a frame by frame redundancy is made on each elementary network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: Airbus France
    Inventors: Jean-François Saint Etienne, Juan Lopez, Dominique Portes, Eddie Gambardella, Bruno Pasquier, Philippe Almeida
  • Patent number: 7339901
    Abstract: A process for controlling a switched full-duplex Ethernet type communication network including at least one source subscriber equipment and at least one destination subscriber equipment connected to each other through at least one physical link through at least one switch and at least one virtual link, which is the conceptual representation of a link from a source equipment to at least one destination equipment. In the process each equipment transmitting Ethernet frames segregates between virtual links and allocates a passband for each virtual link and multiplexes virtual links on the physical link output from this equipment. Each transmitted frame has a field that identifies the virtual link to which it belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Airbus France S.A.S.
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Saint Etienne, Juan Lopez, Dominique Portes, Eddie Gambardella, Bruno Pasquier, Philippe Almeida
  • Patent number: 7242683
    Abstract: This invention describes a switched full-duplex Ethernet type communication network comprising at least one source subscriber equipment (13) and at least one destination subscriber equipment (14) connected to each other through at least one physical link through at least one switch and at least one virtual link (VL), which is the conceptual representation of a link from a source equipment (13) to at least one destination equipment (14), in which each equipment transmitting Ethernet frames comprises: means of segregation between virtual links and allocation of a passband for each virtual link, means of multiplexing virtual links on the physical link output from this equipment, each transmitted frame having a field that identifies the virtual link to which it belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Airbus France
    Inventors: Jean-François Saint Etienne, Juan Lopez, Dominique Portes, Eddie Gambardella, Bruno Pasquier, Philippe Almeida
  • Publication number: 20040218554
    Abstract: A switched full-duplex Ethernet type communication network including at least one source subscriber equipment and at least one destination subscriber equipment connected to each other through at least one physical link through at least one switch and at least one virtual link, which is the conceptual representation of a link from a source equipment to at least one destination equipment. Each equipment transmitting Ethernet frames segregates between virtual links and allocation of a passband for each virtual link and multiplexes virtual links on the physical link output from this equipment. Each transmitted frame has a field that identifies the virtual link to which it belongs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Saint Etienne, Juan Lopez, Dominique Portes, Eddie Gambardella, Bruno Pasquier, Philippe Almeida
  • Publication number: 20040208116
    Abstract: A redundant switched full-duplex Ethernet type communication network including at least two independent elementary networks, each elementary network including at least one source subscriber equipment and at least one destination subscriber equipment, connected to each other through at least one physical link through at least one switch, each equipment being connected to each of these elementary networks. A control performs a frame by frame redundancy on each elementary network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Saint Etienne, Juan Lopez, Dominique Portes, Eddie Gambardella, Bruno Pasquier, Philippe Almeida
  • Publication number: 20040160944
    Abstract: A process for implementing a redundant switched full-duplex Ethernet type communication network including at least two independent elementary networks, each elementary network including at least one source subscriber equipment and at least one destination subscriber equipment, connected to each other through at least one physical link through at least one switch, each equipment being connected to each of these elementary networks. The process performs a frame by frame redundancy on each elementary network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Publication date: August 19, 2004
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Saint Etienne, Juan Lopez, Dominique Portes, Eddie Gambardella, Bruno Pasquier, Philippe Almeida
  • Publication number: 20040151118
    Abstract: A process for controlling a switched full-duplex Ethernet type communication network including at least one source subscriber equipment and at least one destination subscriber equipment connected to each other through at least one physical link through at least one switch and at least one virtual link, which is the conceptual representation of a link from a source equipment to at least one destination equipment. In the process each equipment transmitting Ethernet frames segregates between virtual links and allocates a passband for each virtual link and multiplexes virtual links on the physical link output from this equipment. Each transmitted frame has a field that identifies the virtual link to which it belongs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Saint Etienne, Juan Lopez, Dominique Portes, Eddie Gambardella, Bruno Pasquier, Philippe Almeida
  • Publication number: 20040153542
    Abstract: A process and system for evaluating the deterministic behavior of a packet switching network including subscriber stations connected to each other through at least one switch, the behavior defined as deterministic if any packet sent on the network from a source subscriber station joins the destination subscriber station(s) within a limited time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Saint Etienne, Juan Lopez, Dominique Portes, Eddie Gambardella, Bruno Pasquier, Philippe Almeida