Patents by Inventor Marc Boullet

Marc Boullet 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: 8537830
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for automatically registering various system attributes with a VoIP device such as an VoIP phone. The system attributes are provided by a network, preferably an adjacent switching device made aware of the system attributes through one of a number of learning mechanisms. The system attributes may include one or more of the following: the VLAN identification used for VoIP communications in the subnet in which the VoIP phone is connected; the switching device identification, switching device slot, and switching device port number to which the VoIP phone is connected. The switch, slot, and port are used in some embodiments by an IP PBX system to construct a relational database that associates the geographic location of the connection with the IP phone for purposes of reporting the physical location of the VoIP user to emergency response personnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Michael See, Marc Boullet
  • Publication number: 20110200037
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for automatically registering various system attributes with a VoIP device such as an VoIP phone. The system attributes are provided by a network, preferably an adjacent switching device made aware of the system attributes through one of a number of learning mechanisms. The system attributes may include one or more of the following: the VLAN identification used for VoIP communications in the subnet in which the VoIP phone is connected; the switching device identification, switching device slot, and switching device port number to which the VoIP phone is connected. The switch, slot, and port are used in some embodiments by an IP PBX system to construct a relational database that associates the geographic location of the connection with the IP phone for purposes of reporting the physical location of the VoIP user to emergency response personnel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventors: Michael See, Marc Boullet
  • Patent number: 7912065
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for automatically registering various system attributes with a VoIP device such as an VoIP phone. The system attributes are provided by a network, preferably an adjacent switching device made aware of the system attributes through one of a number of learning mechanisms. The system attributes may include one or more of the following: the VLAN identification used for VoIP communications in the subnet in which the VoIP phone is connected; the switching device identification, switching device slot, and switching device port number to which the VoIP phone is connected. The switch, slot, and port are used in some embodiments by an IP PBX system to construct a relational database that associates the geographic location of the connection with the IP phone for purposes of reporting the physical location of the VoIP user to emergency response personnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.
    Inventors: Michael See, Marc Boullet
  • Publication number: 20050044271
    Abstract: A process for allocating a non-data device (12) to a voice VLAN (19), where the non-data device (12) is connected to a default VLAN (20) by means a port (21), the non-data device (12) requests a first address to a first DHCP server (13) and uses of the first address allocated for interacting with a dedicated server (14) to obtain a response containing voice VLAND identifier, following it releases the first address and tags its frames with voice VLAN identifier, then the non-data device (12) requests a second address a second DHCP server (17) associated with the voice VLAN (19).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2002
    Publication date: February 24, 2005
    Inventors: Patrick Bastide, Marc Boullet
  • Publication number: 20040199644
    Abstract: The method assigns a terminal (IPP1) a virtual network identifier in a local area network (LAN) including a plurality of virtual networks (VLAN1, . . . , VLAN3) and a dynamic host configuration server (DHCPS).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2003
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Applicant: ALCATEL
    Inventors: Raymond Gass, Michel Le Creff, Patrick Bastide, Marc Boullet
  • Publication number: 20040125923
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for automatically registering various system attributes with a VoIP device such as an VoIP phone. The system attributes are provided by a network, preferably an adjacent switching device made aware of the system attributes through one of a number of learning mechanisms. The system attributes may include one or more of the following: the VLAN identification used for VoIP communications in the subnet in which the VoIP phone is connected; the switching device identification, switching device slot, and switching device port number to which the VoIP phone is connected. The switch, slot, and port are used in some embodiments by an IP PBX system to construct a relational database that associates the geographic location of the connection with the IP phone for purposes of reporting the physical location of the VoIP user to emergency response personnel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Inventors: Michael See, Marc Boullet
  • Patent number: 5124983
    Abstract: A method of arbitration for transmit mode access to the synchronous transmission medium of a distributed switching network whose architecture is based on a transmission medium time-shared between different stations, in which carries information in repetitive time positions, and in which a nominal time position being assigned on the basis of predetermined access criteria to respective stations communicating within the network, and spillover of stations outside the nominal time positions thus assigned is allowed. The arbitration method allocates an increasing access priority for an increasing seniority due to such spillover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1992
    Assignee: Alcatel Business Systems
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Landez, Marc Boullet