Patents by Inventor Patrick Bruas

Patrick Bruas 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: 9130663
    Abstract: A system and method for modifying the carrier frequency of first and second signals associated with first and second sequences, respectively, of consecutive time intervals, comprises: first means determining two carrier frequencies respectively associated with each of the two signals based on one time interval or at least two consecutive and continuous time intervals, said time interval(s) belonging to a sequence of consecutive time intervals of known duration; and second means determining a first time interval or at least two first consecutive time intervals belonging to the first sequence, based on a second time interval belonging to the second sequence, by establishing a temporal correspondence between each end of said time interval of said second sequence and an interval of said first sequence including this end. The first means determines said carrier frequencies based on one time interval or at least two consecutive time intervals, belonging to said first sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Patrick Bruas, Marc Touret
  • Patent number: 8218700
    Abstract: Method and device making it possible to synchronize a master station and one or more subscriber stations in a wireless communications network, comprising at least one processor disposed at the level of each of the subscriber stations and suitable for calculating each subscriber's transmit time adjustment by taking account of the rate of variation of the satellite-subscriber path, a master station side processor suitable for measuring the loop error and a processor suitable for comparing the value of the error with a threshold value and as soon as the loop error value for a subscriber station is less than or equal to the threshold value, for giving said subscriber station permission to send its traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventor: Patrick Bruas
  • Patent number: 8095066
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of optimizing the resources used in a satellite or aircraft telecommunications system (onboard segment). The method includes expressing the difference in consumption EdB between the consumption of onboard power and the consumption of onboard bandwidth as a function of a plurality of terms including a quality indicator, an informational term expressing onboard parameters and a corrective term. The quality indicator QaF?depends on the antenna system, onboard and on the ground, and on conditions of propagation and interference of the medium. The informational term ?dB depends on modem parameters. The term K? depends on onboard parameters such as the maximum incoming flux density and the bandwidth. A corrective term CdB characterizing the consumption of onboard power attributable to the upward noise which is amplified and transposed on board. At least one of the parameters QaF?, K?, ?dB is modified in order to tend toward the cancellation of the absolute value of the term EdB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventor: Patrick Bruas
  • Patent number: 7925218
    Abstract: Method for planning and/or dimensioning links between several stations in a wireless telecommunication system including the following steps: a) establishing a relation, in logarithmic scale, for each existing link between the ground equivalent radiated power, EIRPground, the signal to noise density ratio required (C/No)req for a link, and a quality indicator QaF, b) determining the quality indicator QaF from the contribution of the first type items (link analysis disturbance) that are linear in EIRPground and the second type items that are non-linear in EIRPground, c) determining the EIRPground from the quality indicator QaF determined in step b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventor: Patrick Bruas
  • Publication number: 20090129311
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of optimizing the resources used in a satellite or aircraft telecommunications system (onboard segment). The method includes expressing the difference in consumption EdB between the consumption of onboard power and the consumption of onboard bandwidth as a function of a plurality of terms including a quality indicator, an informational term expressing onboard parameters and a corrective term. The quality indicator QaF?depends on the antenna system, onboard and on the ground, and on conditions of propagation and interference of the medium. The informational term ?dB depends on modem parameters. The term K? depends on onboard parameters such as the maximum incoming flux density and the bandwidth. A corrective term CdB characterizing the consumption of onboard power attributable to the upward noise which is amplified and transposed on board. At least one of the parameters QaF?, K?, ?dB is modified in order to tend toward the cancellation of the absolute value of the term EdB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: Thales
    Inventor: Patrick BRUAS
  • Publication number: 20080285627
    Abstract: Method and device making it possible to synchronize a master station and one or more subscriber stations in a wireless communications network, comprising at least one processor disposed at the level of each of the subscriber stations and suitable for calculating each subscriber's transmit time adjustment by taking account of the rate of variation of the satellite-subscriber path, a master station side processor suitable for measuring the loop error and a processor suitable for comparing the value of the error with a threshold value and as soon as the loop error value for a subscriber station is less than or equal to the threshold value, for giving said subscriber station permission to send its traffic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: THALES
    Inventor: Patrick Bruas
  • Publication number: 20080268788
    Abstract: Method for planning and/or dimensioning links between several stations in a wireless telecommunication system including the following steps: a) establishing a relation, in logarithmic scale, for each existing link between the ground equivalent radiated power, EIRPground, the signal to noise density ratio required (C/No)req for a link, and a quality indicator QaF, b) determining the quality indicator QaF from the contribution of the first type items (link analysis disturbance) that are linear in EIRPground and the second type items that are non-linear in EIRPground, c) determining the EIRPground from the quality indicator QaF determined in step b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2005
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: THALES
    Inventor: Patrick Bruas
  • Patent number: 7366232
    Abstract: A method and device for determining at least one traffic parameter in a data transmission system including at least one transmitter and one receiver, wherein the receiver includes a modem with equalizer. The method includes determining at least one piece of data given by the equalizer, wherein the piece of data includes the equalization error Ei; and determining one or more traffic parameters in taking account of the data provided, the fixed quality of service QoS and a relationship linking the quality of service and the equalization error Ei.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventor: Patrick Bruas
  • Publication number: 20030128749
    Abstract: In a method and device for determining at least one traffic parameter in a data transmission system comprising at least one transmitter and one receiver, said receiver comprises a modem with equalizer. The method comprises at least the following steps: determining at least one piece of data given by the equalizer such as the equalization error Ei; determining one or more traffic parameters in taking account of the data provided, the fixed quality of service QoS and a relationship linking the quality of service and the equalization error Ei.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Applicant: THALES
    Inventor: Patrick Bruas