Patents by Inventor Patrick Blanc

Patrick Blanc 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: 8378247
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wire (1) which comprises a copper or pinchbeck core (2) surrounded by a pinchbeck coating consisting of a continuous pinchbeck sub-layer (3) in phase ? and a superficial layer (4) with a fractured pinchbeck structure in phase ? enabling the appearance of pinchbeck in phase ? in the fractures (5a). In this way, the electrical discharge machining speed is essentially increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Thermocompact
    Inventors: Patrick Blanc, Michel Ly, Gerald Sanchez
  • Patent number: 7853266
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method of managing an overload in a cell of a cellular radio communication network comprising a plurality of user equipments (UE) each of which can switch between a plurality of states including a Cell_DCH state and a Cell_FACH state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Grégoire Moinet, Patrick Blanc
  • Patent number: 7738923
    Abstract: To provide a system for selecting a processing device that can run an initial service and manages at least one resource, wherein the system allows to increase the extensibility of an initial service, to increase the stability of a running service, and to improve the utilization of the resources provided by several processing devices, it is suggested that, for each initial service two extension services are determined, wherein each extension service defines a set of resources for further extension; a reservation mode that indicates an extension service is assigned to each processing device that guarantees this extension service to be reserved for the initial service; and a processing device is only selected, if a reservation mode is assigned to it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Hubert Fritz, Patrick Blanc
  • Patent number: 7711326
    Abstract: A method of adjusting transmission power for base stations transmitting in macro-diversity in a mobile radiocommunications system, wherein a reference transmission power for said adjustment is signaled to each of said base stations together with an adjustment period, and wherein each of said base stations periodically adjusts its transmission power to said reference transmission power, at said adjustment period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: ALCATEL
    Inventor: Patrick Blanc
  • Publication number: 20090245123
    Abstract: A method for simultaneous access to circuit services and packet services in a cellular mobile radio system comprising second generation cells and third generation cells, in which method, if a packet or a circuit connection is required by a terminal already having a circuit or a packet connection set up in a second generation cell, the method determines whether a change of cell to a third generation cell is possible and, if so, effects said change of cell in order to allow said circuit and packet connections simultaneously in a third generation cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Patrick BLANC, Stanislas BOURDEAUT, Nicolas DREVON
  • Publication number: 20080061038
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wire (1) which comprises a copper or pinchbeck core (2) surrounded by a pinchbeck coating consisting of a continuous pinchbeck sub-layer (3) in phase ? and a superficial layer (4) with a fractured pinchbeck structure in phase ? enabling the appearance of pinchbeck in phase ? in the fractures (5a). In this way, the electrical discharge machining speed is essentially increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2006
    Publication date: March 13, 2008
    Applicant: Thermocompact
    Inventors: Patrick Blanc, Michel Ly, Gerald Sanchez
  • Publication number: 20070165570
    Abstract: To provide a system for selecting a processing device that can run an initial service and manages at least one resource, wherein the system allows to increase the extensibility of an initial service, to increase the stability of a running service, and to improve the utilization of the resources provided by several processing devices, it is suggested that, for each initial service two extension services are determined, wherein each extension service defines a set of resources for further extension; a reservation mode that indicates an extension service is assigned to each processing device that guarantees this extension service to be reserved for the initial service; and a processing device is only selected, if a reservation mode is assigned to it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Applicant: ALCATEL LUCENT
    Inventors: Hubert Fritz, Patrick Blanc
  • Publication number: 20070135113
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method of managing an overload in a cell of a cellular radio communication network comprising a plurality of user equipments (UE) each of which can switch between a plurality of states including a Cell_DCH state and a Cell_FACH state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2006
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Applicant: EVOLIUM S.A.S.
    Inventors: Gregoire MOINET, Patrick Blanc
  • Publication number: 20050273707
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide a mechanism to create and maintain web pages and other types of output pages. The system and methods use an author markup language (AML) to define output pages. Additionally, a Component Markup Language (CML) may be used to define components that may be referenced by the AML. The AML and CML may be translated to an intermediate format, which may then be further processed at runtime to combine dynamic data with the intermediate format to produce the output page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2005
    Publication date: December 8, 2005
    Inventors: Peter Chu, Kenneth Chu, Rajal Shah, Jun Zhang, Jeffrey Meyer, Ilya Izrailevsky, Benjamin Listwon, Patrick Blanc
  • Publication number: 20050185655
    Abstract: A mobile communications network comprises a core network (CN) connected to a radio access network (UTRAN). This network is constructed in such a way as to associate to each RAB, with a view to its establishment, a maximum rate for the pre-emption of resources from the network. Accordingly, when its radio access network (UTRAN) receives an RAB assignment request (associated to a requested rate and a maximum pre-emption rate) but there are insufficient resources available to allow the establishment of this RAB at the requested rate, it pre-empts resources from the network, which have previously been allocated to at least one other RAB, in order to perform the establishment of the RAB at a rate less than or equal to the maximum pre-emption rate associated to it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Publication date: August 25, 2005
    Inventors: Patrick Blanc, Nicolas Billy
  • Publication number: 20040184439
    Abstract: A method for simultaneous access to circuit services and packet services in a cellular mobile radio system comprising second generation cells and third generation cells, in which method, if a packet or a circuit connection is required by a terminal already having a circuit or a packet connection set up in a second generation cell, the method determines whether a change of cell to a third generation cell is possible and, if so, effects said change of cell in order to allow said circuit and packet connections simultaneously in a third generation cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Applicant: EVOLIUM S.A.S.
    Inventors: Patrick Blanc, Stanislas Bourdeaut, Nicolas Drevon
  • Publication number: 20040092259
    Abstract: A method of drawing up a list of neighboring cells for a mobile station in a cellular mobile radio system, which method is essentially characterized in that, said system including a plurality of separate networks, said list is an optimized list, drawn up in the access network of the server network of said mobile station, on the basis of a list of networks authorized for said mobile station received from the core network of said server network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Inventors: Patrick Blanc, Pascal Treillard
  • Patent number: 6717932
    Abstract: A method for shoring capacity in a code division multiple access mobile radiocommunication system, between a given number of users of said system, a method wherein said given number is predetermined, said method including a step of allocating code resources to said users, as a function of said predetermined number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: Alcatel
    Inventors: Patrick Blanc, Rémi de Montgolfier
  • Patent number: 6661777
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for controlling uplink transmission in a wireless communication network. It comprises broadcasting to the user equipments a maximum transmission rate, so as to limit the risks of collisions and the risk that the network collapses. In the case of a CDMA network, the maximum transmission rate may be broadcast as a maximum user bit rate, in the form of a minimum spreading factor. This information may be broadcast at each frame, so that it is taken into account by a user equipment for uplink transmission in the next frame. The invention also proposes processes for controlling access of the user equipment to the resources. These processes limit the number of users that may access the resources at a given time, or limit the throughput of the user equipment at the time the user equipment accesses the resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Alcatel
    Inventors: Patrick Blanc, Rémi de Montgolfier
  • Patent number: 6430398
    Abstract: A method for improving performances of a mobile radiocommunication system using a power control loop which controls power according to a transmission quality target value, and an adjustment process for adjusting said transmission quality target value, a method wherein said adjustment process is controlled based on an assessment of the convergence of said power control loop around said transmission quality target value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: Alcatel
    Inventor: Patrick Blanc
  • Publication number: 20020021673
    Abstract: A method of taking account of traffic processing capacity for the purpose of traffic load control in a mobile radio network, wherein account is taken of one or more limits in said processing capacity corresponding to one or more parameters representative of said traffic load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2001
    Publication date: February 21, 2002
    Applicant: ALCATEL
    Inventors: Pascal Agin, Patrick Blanc, Olivier Visbecq
  • Patent number: 6341225
    Abstract: A method for improving performances of a mobile radiocommunication system using a power control loop which controls power according to a transmission quality target value, and an adjustment process for adjusting the transmission quality target value, a method wherein the adjustment process is limited, based on the thus controlled power reaching a maximum value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2002
    Assignee: Alcatel
    Inventor: Patrick Blanc
  • Publication number: 20020002057
    Abstract: A method of adjusting transmission power for base stations transmitting in macro-diversity in a mobile radiocommunications system, wherein a reference transmission power for said adjustment is signalled to each of said base stations together with an adjustment period, and wherein each of said base stations periodically adjusts its transmission power to said reference transmission power, at said adjustment period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Publication date: January 3, 2002
    Applicant: ALCATEL
    Inventor: Patrick Blanc
  • Patent number: 6259686
    Abstract: The network allows communications at various bit rates, with signals transmitted in successive frames each divided into elementary timeslots which can be used for different communications. A frequency band is allocated to communications between base stations of a group of cells and mobile stations. This band is subdivided into blocks of width 2M−1×B0, where B0 is a predefined spectral width and M an integer greater than 1 chosen as a function of a maximum communication bit rate. Each of the blocks is divided into carriers of width 2m(i)−1×B0, m(i) being an integer dependent on the relevant block such that 1≦m(i)≦M. The partition of the blocks and of the carriers within the allocated frequency band is identical for all the cells of the group. To support a communication in one of the cells, a logic channel is selected, defined, depending on the bit rate required, as one or more timeslots on one of the carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Patrick Blanc, Anne-Gäele Acx