Patents by Inventor Nicolas VALOT

Nicolas VALOT 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: 9170858
    Abstract: The subject of the present invention is a method for processing alerts by an avionic system FWS that makes it possible to optimize the processing of these alerts without unnecessarily consuming “processor time”. The method according to the invention is characterized in that it consists in having processed, on each processing cycle of the processor of the FWS, only the operations relating to alerts for which the result has been modified since the preceding processing cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Laurent Flotte, Fabien Guilley, Nicolas Valot
  • Publication number: 20120316705
    Abstract: The subject of the present invention is a method for processing alerts by an avionic system FWS that makes it possible to optimize the processing of these alerts without unnecessarily consuming “processor time”. The method according to the invention is characterized in that it consists in having processed, on each processing cycle of the processor of the FWS, only the operations relating to alerts for which the result has been modified since the preceding processing cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: THALES
    Inventors: Laurent FLOTTE, Fabien GUILLEY, Nicolas VALOT
  • Publication number: 20120004794
    Abstract: A device and method for managing tasks for the piloting of an aircraft includes a means for detecting alerts of the flight systems and an alerts management means for presenting the alerts and the tasks of the resolution procedures to the crew. The device includes means for recording additional procedures and tasks and modifications of attributes of tasks with respect to the tasks recorded in the first recording means, a means for triggering the additional tasks able to order the alerts management means to present the additional tasks, the triggering means operating according to a mode of asynchronous acquisition of trigger data originating from the flight systems and a means for selecting the recorded additional procedures and additional tasks so as to transmit the modified procedures and the modified attributes of the tasks to the alerts management means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: THALES
    Inventors: Fabien GUILLEY, Nicolas VALOT, Gilles Jacques Yves FRANCOIS