Patents by Inventor Nicolas Boudier

Nicolas Boudier 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).

  • Telecommunications system and a multibeam satellite usable in such a system
    Patent number: 6542479
    Abstract: A telecommunication system has a space segment which includes a satellite carrying a multibeam telecommunications payload and a terrestrial segment comprising gateways for access to a terrestrial network. There is one gateway within a terrestrial coverage of each beam or of a group of beams. User terminals communicate with the payload of the satellite. The payload has, on a forward path from any gateway to any user terminal, a frame by frame routing unit for messages transmitted in time division multiplex. On a return path from a user terminal to a gateway the payload has a routing unit operating within each group of carriers belonging to a given beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Matra Marconi Space France
    Inventors: Nicolas Boudier, Eric Alberty, Laurent Thomasson