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).

  • Patent number: 11570043
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Sylvaine Kerboeuf, Quang Trung Luu, Michel Kieffer, Alexandre Mouradian
  • Publication number: 20220376974
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Sylvaine KERBOEUF, Quang Trung LUU, Michel KIEFFER, Alexandre MOURADIAN
  • Patent number: 11431562
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Sylvaine Kerboeuf, Quang Trung Luu, Michel Kieffer, Alexandre Mouradian
  • Publication number: 20210392040
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Sylvaine KERBOEUF, Quang Trung LUU, Michel KIEFFER, Alexandre MOURADIAN
  • Publication number: 20140115100
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: ALCATEL LUCENT
    Inventors: Nesrine Changuel, Bessem Sayadi, Michel Kieffer
  • Patent number: 8489968
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Cedric Marin, Michel Kieffer, Pierre Duhamel
  • Patent number: 8458570
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Cedric Marin, Michel Kieffer, Pierre Duhamel
  • Publication number: 20110087952
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Inventors: Cedric Marin, Michel Kieffer, Pierre Duhamel
  • Publication number: 20110083032
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Inventors: Cedric Marin, Michel Kieffer, Pierre Duhamel