Patents by Inventor Jean-Francois Cartier

Jean-Francois Cartier 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: 8029631
    Abstract: Disposable hygiene pants with a front portion (2), a rear portion (3) and a crotch portion (4) provided with two leg openings (5, 6), the longitudinal edge portions (21, 22) of the front portion being connected by longitudinal weld seams (7, 8) to the longitudinal edge portions (31, 32) of the rear portion (3) in order to form a waist opening (9) and two leg openings (5, 6) in the crotch portion, which leg openings are outwardly delimited in the transverse direction by the inner end portions of the weld seams as seen in the longitudinal direction of the hygiene pants. The hygiene pants have an outer cover (10) and comprise an absorption unit (11). The cover is preferably made of an elastic laminate. The weld seams (7, 8) are each reinforced by at least one reinforcing strip (15, 16) containing thermoplastic fibers and have a tensile strength, in a direction transverse to the weld seam, in excess of 5 N/25.4 mm at least in the portions reinforced with said nonwoven strip (15, 16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: SCA Hygiene Products AB
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Cartier, Christian Dumas, Hans Een, Marcus Lehto, Lucas Back
  • Patent number: 8031630
    Abstract: Customer virtual local area networks (C-VLANs) connecting multiple LAN segments are set up through a provider network (12). Provider edge bridges (PEs) are coupled to customer edge bridges (CEs) to provide a transparent link between LAN segments. To determine whether a backdoor link is used in the C-VLAN topology, PEs monitor MAC address from a predetermined time after a TCN is received to determine if there are contradictory addresses or new addresses relative to the existing MAC address tables (or forwarding databases) that are indicative of a backdoor link. If so, an unlearning message is sent to bridges in the provider domain. In another embodiment, CEs set a snoop bit to indicate which TCNs must be snooped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: David Elie-Dit-Cosaque, Girish Chiruvolu, Jessy Rouyer, Ljubisa Tancevski, Jean-Francois Cartier, Laurence Rose, L. Michele Goodwin
  • Patent number: 7959619
    Abstract: Disposable hygiene pants with a front portion (2), a rear portion (3) and a crotch portion (4) provided with two leg openings (5, 6), the longitudinal edge portions (21, 22) of the front portion being connected by longitudinal weld seams (7, 8) to the longitudinal edge portions (31, 32) of the rear portion (3) in order to form a waist opening (9) and two leg openings (5, 6) in the crotch portion, which leg openings are outwardly delimited in the transverse direction by the inner end portions of the weld seams as seen in the longitudinal direction of the hygiene pants. The hygiene pants have an outer cover (10) and comprise an absorption unit (11). The cover is preferably made of an elastic laminate. The weld seams (7, 8) are each reinforced by at least one reinforcing strip (15, 16) containing thermoplastic fibers and have a tensile strength, in a direction transverse to the weld seam, in excess of 5 N/25.4 mm at least in the portions reinforced with said nonwoven strip (15, 16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: SCA Hygiene Products AB
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Cartier, Christian Dumas, Hans Een, Marcus Lehto, Lucas Back
  • Publication number: 20090107614
    Abstract: Disposable hygiene pants with a front portion (2), a rear portion (3) and a crotch portion (4) provided with two leg openings (5, 6), the longitudinal edge portions (21, 22) of the front portion being connected by longitudinal weld seams (7, 8) to the longitudinal edge portions (31, 32) of the rear portion (3) in order to form a waist opening (9) and two leg openings (5, 6) in the crotch portion, which leg openings are outwardly delimited in the transverse direction by the inner end portions of the weld seams as seen in the longitudinal direction of the hygiene pants. The hygiene pants have an outer cover (10) and comprise an absorption unit (11). The cover is preferably made of an elastic laminate. The weld seams (7, 8) are each reinforced by at least one reinforcing strip (15, 16) containing thermoplastic fibers and have a tensile strength, in a direction transverse to the weld seam, in excess of 5 N/25.4 mm at least in the portions reinforced with said nonwoven strip (15, 16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: SCA HYGIENE PRODUCTS AB
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Cartier, Christian Dumas, Hans Een, Marcus Lehto, Lucas Back
  • Publication number: 20060271009
    Abstract: Disposable hygiene pants with a front portion (2), a rear portion (3) and a crotch portion (4) provided with two leg openings (5, 6), the longitudinal edge portions (21, 22) of the front portion being connected by longitudinal weld seams (7, 8) to the longitudinal edge portions (31, 32) of the rear portion (3) in order to form a waist opening (9) and two leg openings (5, 6) in the crotch portion, which leg openings are outwardly delimited in the transverse direction by the inner end portions of the weld seams as seen in the longitudinal direction of the hygiene pants. The hygiene pants have an outer cover (10) and comprise an absorption unit (11). The cover is preferably made of an elastic laminate. The weld seams (7, 8) are each reinforced by at least one reinforcing strip (15, 16) containing thermoplastic fibers and have a tensile strength, in a direction transverse to the weld seam, in excess of 5 N/25.4 mm at least in the portions reinforced with said nonwoven strip (15, 16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Publication date: November 30, 2006
    Applicant: SCA HYGIENE PRODUCTS AB
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Cartier, Christian Dumas, Hans Een, Marcus Lehto, Lucas Back
  • Publication number: 20040174828
    Abstract: Customer virtual local area networks (C-VLANs) connecting multiple LAN segments are set up through a provider network (12). Provider edge bridges (PEs) are coupled to customer edge bridges (CEs) to provide a transparent link between LAN segments. To determine whether a backdoor link is used in the C-VLAN topology, PEs monitor MAC address from a predetermined time after a TCN is received to determine if there are contradictory addresses or new addresses relative to the existing MAC address tables (or forwarding databases) that are indicative of a backdoor link. If so, an unlearning message is sent to bridges in the provider domain. In another embodiment, CEs set a snoop bit to indicate which TCNs must be snooped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2003
    Publication date: September 9, 2004
    Applicant: Alcatel
    Inventors: David Elie-Dit-Cosaque, Girish Chiruvolu, Jessy Rouyer, Ljubisa Tancevski, Jean-Francois Cartier, Laurence Rose, L. Michele Goodwin
  • Publication number: 20040133666
    Abstract: The invention relates to network equipment (E1, E2, E3) for transmitting data packets, some of which contain requests for a service implemented by a plurality of servers (S1, S2, S3), which network equipment is characterized in that it includes means for receiving data packets containing or referring to executable code adapted to distribute said service requests among said plurality of servers and means for deciding to transmit said data packets to another network equipment or to execute said executable code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Applicant: ALCATEL
    Inventors: Olivier Marce, Carlo Drago, Laurent Clevy, Olivier Le Moigne, Philippe Bereski, Jean-Francois Cartier
  • Publication number: 20030016625
    Abstract: A system and method for traffic congestion control at the media access controller (MAC) level. The MAC receives an inbound packet and preclassifies the packet for determining its priority. A utilization level of a queue associated with the determined priority is analyzed for determining its level of congestion. The packet is admitted or not based on the congestion information. Admitted packets are forwarded to the packet switching controller which engages in further classification and congestion control for determining whether the admitted packet is to be forwarded to a destination address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2002
    Publication date: January 23, 2003
    Inventors: Anees Narsinh, James A. Hitzelberger, Jean-Francois Cartier, Levillain Philippe