Patents by Inventor Stephane Fillod

Stephane Fillod 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).

  • Synchronised control method of a plurality of formatting equipment and stream formating equipment
    Patent number: 8335234
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the domain of control methods of a plurality of formatting equipment (FE1, FE2) of streams (TS) used as backup. The items of equipment receive the streams (TS) and send, to a modulator (MOD1), formatted streams (TS_SFN1, TS_SFN2) comprising a succession of blocks of packets called “megaframe” and megaframe initialization packets (MIP) used by the modulator (MOD1) to identify in time a megaframe (MFn) relatively to a time base (TB).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Inventors: Stéphane Fillod, Pascal Gravoille, Stéphane Guillemot
  • Method of transmitting digital data packets and device implementing the method and receiver
    Patent number: 8065591
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of transmitting digital data packets protected by error correction packets and more precisely the manner of inserting these correction packets into the data packet stream so as to increase the correction effectiveness of the error correction method while limiting the latency introduced into the transmission. The packets are set out in matrix form, error packets are computed on lines and columns and are inserted regularly into the stream at a sufficient distance from the data packets that they protect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Arnaud Maillet, Mary-Luc Champel, Stéphane Fillod, Laurent Marie
  • Synchronised control method of a plurality of formatting equipment and stream formatting equipment
    Publication number: 20100103956
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the domain of control methods of a plurality of formatting equipment (FE1, FE2) of streams (TS) used as backup. The items of equipment receive the streams (TS) and send, to a modulator (MOD1), formatted streams (TS_SFN1, TS_SFN2) comprising a succession of blocks of packets called “megaframe” and megaframe initialisation packets (MIP) used by the modulator (MOD1) to identify in time a megaframe (MFn) relatively to a time base (TB).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventors: Stéphane Fillod, Pascal Gravoille, Stéphane Guillemot
  • Method of Transmitting Digital Data Packets and Device Implementing the Method and Receiver
    Publication number: 20080250299
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of transmitting digital data packets protected by error correction packets and more precisely the manner of inserting these correction packets into the data packet stream so as to increase the correction effectiveness of the error correction method while limiting the latency introduced into the transmission. The packets are set out in matrix form, error packets are computed on lines and columns and are inserted regularly into the stream at a sufficient distance from the data packets that they protect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2005
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Arnaud Maillet, Mary-Luc Champel, Stephane Fillod, Laurent Marie