Patents by Inventor Raphael Visoz

Raphael Visoz 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: 11968636
    Abstract: A communication method implemented by a base station having at least one cell and forming part of a mobile access network including neighbouring cells of the cell. The method includes broadcasting blocks referred to as SSB blocks at a first periodicity value for synchronising a terminal and for allowing said terminal to receive SIBs of which at least one of said SIBs includes an identifier of at least one neighbouring cell, a second periodicity value of SSB blocks broadcast by said neighbouring cell and a frequency position of an SSB block of said neighbouring cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Raphaël Visoz, Benoït Graves
  • Patent number: 11924123
    Abstract: A method for managing a transmission of sequences of symbols of predetermined duration by means of a terminal having dual connectivity with a first device for accessing a network and with a second device for accessing a network is described, the terminal being configured to transmit, when dual-connected, sequences of symbols over a first uplink to the first access device and over a second uplink to the second access device during disjoint time intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Raphaël Visoz, Hao Lin, Benoît Graves
  • Publication number: 20240007150
    Abstract: A telecommunication method with feedback, from a terminal to an access point, of a minimum processing time required for the terminal to perform N iterations of iterative decoding with interference cancellation on at least one data packet transmitted by the access point and carried by a single physical channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventor: Raphaël Visoz
  • Publication number: 20230246704
    Abstract: A message method intended for an OMAMRC telecommunication system with M sources si i?{1, . . . , M], potentially L relays (r1 . . . , rL) and a destination. The transmission is of FDM type in a band divided into B mutually orthogonal sub-bands. The method includes: a simultaneous transmission of the M sources in a time interval with allocation of at least one sub-band per source and at least one cooperative retransmission for a time interval of at least one relay node taken from among the M sources and the L relays which is selected using a selection strategy with allocation of at least one sub-band per node selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Raphaël Visoz, Ali Al Khansa
  • Publication number: 20230040332
    Abstract: A reception method implemented by a reception device implementing a plurality of receive antennas. The method includes: estimating an interference covariance matrix representative of the spatial structure of the interference between the receive antennas; and transmitting at least one item of information about a quality of service associated with at least one acquisition technique for acquiring knowledge of the channel at transmission, able to be used by a transmission device implementing a plurality of transmit antennas, obtained from the interference covariance matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Raphaël Visoz, Thierry Clessienne
  • Publication number: 20230022762
    Abstract: A method for managing a communication set up according to a first communication mode between terminals in a telecommunications system. The method includes: obtaining, by a first terminal participating in the communication, a request to change communication mode so as to transition from the first communication mode to a second communication mode; switching the communication from the first communication mode to the second communication mode; wherein the first communication mode and the second communication mode are different communication modes in a set comprising a two-way voice communication mode, a one-way voice communication mode, and a text-based communication mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Jean Schwoerer, Raphaël Visoz
  • Patent number: 11418252
    Abstract: A method for transmitting successive messages forming a frame in a telecommunication system with M sources (s1, . . . , sM), L relays and a destination, M>1, L?1 according to an orthogonal multiple-access scheme of the channel between the M sources and the L relays with a maximum number of M+Tmax time slots per transmitted frame including M slots and Tmax cooperative transmission slots. The method includes: a slow type link adaptation determining an initial rate for each source by destination based on an average SNR of each link and transmitting to each source the initial rate; and for each frame out of several, successively transmitting the messages of the M sources during the M slots phase with, respectively, modulation and coding schemes determined from the initial rates. The link adaptation maximizes the aggregate rate of all the sources subject to the constraint of a target average BLER ?com after Tmax?X?1 cooperative transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Stefan Cerovic, Abdulaziz Mohamad, Raphael Visoz
  • Patent number: 11411680
    Abstract: A method for transmitting successive messages forming a frame, implemented by a telecommunications system with M sources (S1, . . . , SM), possibly L relays (R1, . . . , RL) and a destination, M?2, L?0. The method implements a HARQ mechanism and includes: transmitting, from the destination to the nodes (R1, R2, . . . , RL+M), a control message indicating its set (SD,t?1) of correctly decoded source messages; determining, by each node (R1, R2, . . . , RL+M), whether at least one message from its set of correctly decoded source messages does not belong to the set of source messages correctly decoded by the destination; and transmitting a binary indicator by a node (R1, R2, . . . , RL+M) to the destination indicating the result of the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Stefan Cerovic, Raphael Visoz
  • Publication number: 20220240195
    Abstract: A method and user equipment to select an emission power from a set of possible emission powers depending on their location relative to a base station. In a 5G development scenario, a massive number of user equipment will be deployed. The data exchanged by this user equipment is mainly signalling data whose volume generates an overload of the network resources. A resource access scheme called uncoordinated resource access scheme reduces the volume of the exchanged data. So that the base station can decode all signals emitted by the user equipment, it is necessary to have a number of emission power levels greater than the number of user equipment. By proposing the user equipment to select an emission power from a set of possible emission powers depending on their location relative to the base station, the solution allows the base station to decode the signals emitted by a greater number of user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Asma Selmi, Jean Schwoerer, Raphaël Visoz, Jean-Pierre Cances
  • Patent number: 11368261
    Abstract: A method for transmitting consecutive messages forming a frame for a telecommunication system. The system has M sources, optionally L relays, and a destination, M?2, L?0. An orthogonal multiple-access multiple-relay channel scheme is used between the M sources and the L relays with a maximum number of M+T max time intervals per transmitted frame, including M intervals allocated during a first phase to the consecutive transmission of the M sources and T used intervals for at least one cooperative transmission allocated during a second phase to at least one node selected according to a selection strategy. T used?Tmax. The link adaptation implemented by the destination is slow and maximizes average utility metrics under constraint of an average individual BLER for each source. The utility metrics include average spectral efficiency tied to the strategy for selecting the nodes intervening during the second phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Stefan Cerovic, Raphaël Visoz
  • Publication number: 20220150850
    Abstract: A communication method implemented by a base station having at least one cell and forming part of a mobile access network including neighbouring cells of the cell. The method includes broadcasting blocks referred to as SSB blocks at a first periodicity value for synchronising a terminal and for allowing said terminal to receive SIBs of which at least one of said SIBs includes an identifier of at least one neighbouring cell, a second periodicity value of SSB blocks broadcast by said neighbouring cell and a frequency position of an SSB block of said neighbouring cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Raphaël Visoz, Benoït Graves
  • Publication number: 20220038227
    Abstract: A method for managing a transmission of sequences of symbols of predetermined duration by means of a terminal having dual connectivity with a first device for accessing a network and with a second device for accessing a network is described, the terminal being configured to transmit, when dual-connected, sequences of symbols over a first uplink to the first access device and over a second uplink to the second access device during disjoint time intervals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Raphaël Visoz, Hao Lin, Benoît Graves
  • Publication number: 20210392018
    Abstract: A method of transmitting, by a first device, pilot symbols to allow a second device to estimate a transmission channel between the first and second devices. The first device has a first antenna that is active in transmission and a second antenna that is passive in transmission. The method includes: transmitting, by the first active antenna, a signal conveying pilot symbols associated with the first active antenna, and during which the second passive antenna is set to a transparency impedance to obtain a level of signal backscattered by the second passive antenna less than a first threshold; and transmitting by the first active antenna a signal conveying pilot symbols associated with the second passive antenna, and during which the second passive antenna is set to a scattering impedance to obtain a level of signal backscattered by the second passive antenna greater than a second threshold greater than the first threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Dinh Thuy Phan Huy, Raphaël Visoz, Philippe Ratajczak
  • Publication number: 20210067284
    Abstract: A method for transmitting consecutive messages forming a frame for a telecommunication system. The system has M sources, optionally L relays, and a destination, M?2, L?0. An orthogonal multiple-access multiple-relay channel scheme is used between the M sources and the L relays with a maximum number of M+T max time intervals per transmitted frame, including M intervals allocated during a first phase to the consecutive transmission of the M sources and T used intervals for at least one cooperative transmission allocated during a second phase to at least one node selected according to a selection strategy. T used?Tmax. The link adaptation implemented by the destination is slow and maximizes average utility metrics under constraint of an average individual BLER for each source. The utility metrics include average spectral efficiency tied to the strategy for selecting the nodes intervening during the second phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Stefan Cerovic, Raphaël Visoz
  • Patent number: 10931405
    Abstract: A method for relaying messages via a half-duplex relay for a telecommunications system with M sources, L relays and a destination, where M>1, L?1, according to an orthogonal multiple access scheme of the transmission channel between the L relays and the destination. The method includes: decoding, via a relay, M messages each being associated with a frame and coming from a source among the M sources with detection of errors on the messages; transmitting from the relay to the destination a signal representative of a least one portion of a set of the messages for which no errors have been detected by the relay conditional on authorization from the destination, transmitting from the relay to the destination of a monitoring signal indicating a set of messages for which no errors have been detected by this relay, this transmission of the monitoring signal occurring before the transmission of the representative signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Abdulaziz Mohamad, Raphael Visoz, Antoine Berthet
  • Publication number: 20210021375
    Abstract: A method for transmitting successive messages forming a frame, implemented by a telecommunications system with M sources (S1, . . . , SM), possibly L relays (R1, . . . , RL) and a destination, M?2, L?0. The method implements a HARQ mechanism and includes: transmitting, from the destination to the nodes (R1, R2, . . . , RL+M), a control message indicating its set (SD,t?1) of correctly decoded source messages; determining, by each node (R1, R2, . . . , RL+M), whether at least one message from its set of correctly decoded source messages does not belong to the set of source messages correctly decoded by the destination; and transmitting a binary indicator by a node (R1, R2, . . . , RL+M) to the destination indicating the result of the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Stefan Cerovic, Raphael Visoz
  • Patent number: 10680753
    Abstract: A relaying method in a telecommunication system having a plurality of sources, a half-duplex relay and a recipient. The relay performs a receiving phase of: receiving codewords transmitted by the sources, including estimating for each source a message associated with the codewords transmitted by the source, error detection and decision of error-free decoded messages, which determine the set of sources decoded without error by the relay; a phase of coding and transmitting to the recipient a signal uniquely representative of the selection of messages, such that, after each reception of a block from different sources, the relay receives and decodes a return path from the destination indicating if no or at least one message is decoded without error, these messages determining the set of sources decoded without error. The relay switches from the receiving phase to the coding and transmission phase once a logic rule is valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Raphael Visoz, Abdulaziz Mohamad, Antoine Berthet
  • Patent number: 10680754
    Abstract: A full-duplex relay and method of a telecommunication system having several sources, at least the relay and a recipient. The relay includes: a decoder estimating a message for each source, from successive received blocks transmitted during a current interval by a source, a decision module deciding which source messages were decoded without error from the estimated messages, a network encoder encoding a selection of the messages decoded without error and a transmitter transmitting a signal representative of the network encoded messages to the destination and a control signal indicating the selected messages. The decision module selects messages decoded without error at the input of the network encoder by only considering a return path from the destination indicating correct or incorrect decoding of messages. After each reception of a block, the decision module prevents the emission by the transmitter for a time period necessary to receive and decode the return path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Abdulaziz Mohamad, Raphael Visoz, Antoine Berthet
  • Publication number: 20200119804
    Abstract: A method for transmitting successive messages forming a frame in a telecommunication system with M sources (s1, . . . , sM), L relays and a destination, M>1, L?1 according to an orthogonal multiple-access scheme of the channel between the M sources and the L relays with a maximum number of M+Tmax time slots per transmitted frame including M slots and Tmax cooperative transmission slots. The method includes: a slow type link adaptation determining an initial rate for each source by destination based on an average SNR of each link and transmitting to each source the initial rate; and for each frame out of several, successively transmitting the messages of the M sources during the M slots phase with, respectively, modulation and coding schemes determined from the initial rates. The link adaptation maximizes the aggregate rate of all the sources subject to the constraint of a target average BLER ?com after Tmax?X?1 cooperative transmissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Stephan Cerovic, Abdulaziz Mohamad, Raphael Visoz
  • Patent number: 10397881
    Abstract: A method of coordinating a transmitter with K?1 transmitters of a group of K transmitters. The K transmitters are in communication respectively with K receivers via channels that are described, for a frequency band m by direct transmission channel gains (gji,m) when j=i and by interfering transmission channel gains (gji,m) when j?i between the transmitter j and the receiver i, i?{1, . . . , K}, j?{1, . . . , K}, K>1. Each transmitter has available an estimate of the direct channel gain and estimates of the gains of channels interfering with its receiver. The method includes an “exchange” stage during which the K transmitters transmit simultaneously K respective sequences of subframes of respective power levels per band m coding the estimated channel gains (?ji,m) and during which the K transmitters receive, after each subframe, signal to interference plus noise ratios as returned by the K receivers to their respective transmitters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Samson Lasaulce, Vineeth Satheeskumar Varma, Raphael Visoz