Patents by Inventor Michel Kieffer
Michel Kieffer 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).
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Patent number: 11570043Abstract: A network slice managing entity, comprising means configured to obtain a service request for a network slice, the service request defining service requirements; request network slice descriptions from a database and selecting at least one network slice which support said service requirements according to the descriptions; generate a resource graph comprising nodes representing infrastructure resources and links representing connections between the nodes, the resource graph depicting resources needed for providing the service, wherein the generating is carried out based on a network slice description of the selected at least one network slice; transmit the resource graph to an infrastructure manager for mapping a topology of said network infrastructure onto said resource graph and determining at least one subset of said network infrastructure; and, receive a mapping result from said infrastructure manager containing said at least one subset of said network infrastructure.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OYInventors: Sylvaine Kerboeuf, Quang Trung Luu, Michel Kieffer, Alexandre Mouradian
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Publication number: 20220376974Abstract: A network slice managing entity, comprising means configured to obtain a service request for a network slice, the service request defining service requirements; request network slice descriptions from a database and selecting at least one network slice which support said service requirements according to the descriptions; generate a resource graph comprising nodes representing infrastructure resources and links representing connections between the nodes, the resource graph depicting resources needed for providing the service, wherein the generating is carried out based on a network slice description of the selected at least one network slice; transmit the resource graph to an infrastructure manager for mapping a topology of said network infrastructure onto said resource graph and determining at least one subset of said network infrastructure; and, receive a mapping result from said infrastructure manager containing said at least one subset of said network infrastructure.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventors: Sylvaine KERBOEUF, Quang Trung LUU, Michel KIEFFER, Alexandre MOURADIAN
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Patent number: 11431562Abstract: A network slice managing entity, comprising means configured to obtain a service request for a network slice, the service request defining service requirements; request network slice descriptions from a database and selecting at least one network slice which support said service requirements according to the descriptions; generate a resource graph comprising nodes representing infrastructure resources and links representing connections between the nodes, the resource graph depicting resources needed for providing the service, wherein the generating is carried out based on a network slice description of the selected at least one network slice; transmit the resource graph to an infrastructure manager for mapping a topology of said network infrastructure onto said resource graph and determining at least one subset of said network infrastructure; and, receive a mapping result from said infrastructure manager containing said at least one subset of said network infrastructure.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2018Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OYInventors: Sylvaine Kerboeuf, Quang Trung Luu, Michel Kieffer, Alexandre Mouradian
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Publication number: 20210392040Abstract: A network slice managing entity, comprising means configured to obtain a service request for a network slice, the service request defining service requirements; request network slice descriptions from a database and selecting at least one network slice which support said service requirements according to the descriptions; generate a resource graph comprising nodes representing infrastructure resources and links representing connections between the nodes, the resource graph depicting resources needed for providing the service, wherein the generating is carried out based on a network slice description of the selected at least one network slice; transmit the resource graph to an infrastructure manager for mapping a topology of said network infrastructure onto said resource graph and determining at least one subset of said network infrastructure; and, receive a mapping result from said infrastructure manager containing said at least one subset of said network infrastructure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2018Publication date: December 16, 2021Inventors: Sylvaine KERBOEUF, Quang Trung LUU, Michel KIEFFER, Alexandre MOURADIAN
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Publication number: 20140115100Abstract: A video packets scheduling method for multimedia streaming toward a receiver (7) provided with a video decoder (72), via a transmission chain including an access point (11) and a proxy (3), said proxy (3) provided with post-encoder buffers (31) and with a controller (32), said access point (11) provided with a buffer (4) of lower layer, said method comprising a resolution step of an optimisation problem controlling the state of the buffer (4) in the access point (11) and the state of the post-encoder buffers (31) in the proxy (3).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2012Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: ALCATEL LUCENTInventors: Nesrine Changuel, Bessem Sayadi, Michel Kieffer
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Patent number: 8489968Abstract: A method for recovering transmission errors, comprising: receiving a data packet comprising an error detection code associated to data contained in the packet, wherein the data associated to the error detection code comprises primary data and secondary data, checking the error detection code of the received packet to detect an erroneous state of the associated data, when the erroneous state is detected, determining a finite set of candidate values for the primary data and, for each values of the set: determining a marginal likelihood of the candidate value as a function of the error detection code of the received packet, determining a first correlation between the primary data of the received packet and the candidate value, and selecting a corrected value for the primary data among the set of candidate values as a function of said marginal likelihoods and said first correlations.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2009Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Cedric Marin, Michel Kieffer, Pierre Duhamel
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Patent number: 8458570Abstract: A method for recovering transmission errors, comprising: receiving a data packet comprising an error detection code associated to data contained in the packet, wherein the data associated to the error detection code comprises primary data and secondary data, checking the error detection code of the received packet to detect an erroneous state of the associated data, when the erroneous state is detected, determining a finite set of candidate values for the primary data and, for each values of the set: determining a marginal likelihood of the candidate value as a function of the error detection code of the received packet, determining a first correlation between the primary data of the received packet and the candidate value, and selecting a corrected value for the primary data among the set of candidate values as a function of said marginal likelihoods and said first correlations.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2009Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Cedric Marin, Michel Kieffer, Pierre Duhamel
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Publication number: 20110087952Abstract: A method for recovering transmission errors, comprising: receiving a data packet (50) comprising an error detection code (51) associated to data contained in the packet, wherein the data associated to the error detection code comprises primary data (52) and secondary data (53), checking the error detection code of the received packet to detect an erroneous state of the associated data, when the erroneous state is detected, (86) determining a finite set of candidate values for the primary data and, for each candidate values of the set: determining a marginal likelihood of the candidate value as a function of the error detection code of the received packet, determining a first correlation between the primary data of the received packet and the candidate value, and selecting a corrected value for the primary data among the set of candidate values as a function of said marginal likelihoods and said first correlations.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2009Publication date: April 14, 2011Inventors: Cedric Marin, Michel Kieffer, Pierre Duhamel
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Publication number: 20110083032Abstract: A permeable protocol layer decoder (10) for decoding a protocol data unit comprises an error detection code checking means (2) for checking an error detection code of the protocol data unit to detect an erroneous state of the control data, and a control data correction means (6) operable to determine a finite set of candidate values for the control data, to determine error detection code values associated to the candidate values of the set, to determine first correlations between the control data of the received protocol data unit and the respective candidate values, to determine second correlations between the error detection code of the received protocol data unit and error detection code values associated to the respective candidate values, and to select a corrected value of the control data among the set of candidate values as a function of said first and second correlations.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2009Publication date: April 7, 2011Inventors: Cedric Marin, Michel Kieffer, Pierre Duhamel