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| 20120136936 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING DYNAMIC ACCESS CONTROL RULES TO PERSONAL CLOUD INFORMATION - A system and method are provided for sharing data of a user with contacts, the method comprising collecting the contacts from the user, collecting data related to the communications between the user and his contacts, and automatically grouping the contacts into different groups based on a level of communications between the user and the user's contacts, defining an access level for each group, with each access level granting access to some part of the user's data based on the access level. Advantageously, this permits a dynamic assignment of authority to access content that does not have to be actively managed by the user. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120136852 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING DATA REPRESENTATIVE OF A BUSINESS IN A DATABASE - A computer implemented method is provided for finding, in a database using a social network, a business entity providing a desired product or service. The method comprises: receiving, from a user terminal of a social network user, search criteria data representative of search criteria for a desired product or service, the social network user being associated with a social graph defining one or more relationships between the social network user and further social network users of the social network; transmitting search criteria data to a database storing a directory of businesses entities; receiving from the database a plurality of identifier data; determining if there is a link between the identified business entity and any of the further social network users linked to the social network user by the social graph; and displaying identifying relationships between the business entity and any of the further social network users. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120135682 | MOBILE TELEPHONE AND NFC COMMUNICATION - An electronic entity is adapted for a mobile terminal comprising a subscriber identity card. The electronic entity comprises a near-field communication component, an antenna for the near-field communication component and a wire interface that links the near-field communication component to the subscriber identity card, the near-field communication component being positioned at the level of the antenna. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120134419 | METHODS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING A SIGNAL OF IMAGES, CORRESPONDING ENCODING AND DECODING DEVICES, SIGNAL AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS - A method is provided for encoding an image signal that includes motion information, by selecting a motion vector from among a set of at least three candidate vectors for at least one actual block of an actual image to be encoded. The method includes: determining an optimal-selection subset containing some of the candidate vectors; selecting the motion vector from among the vectors of the optimal-selection subset; and inserting into the signal a piece of information designating the motion vector selected from among the vectors of the optimal-selection subset. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120127991 | METHOD OF SELECTING A NETWORK RESOURCE - A method and apparatus are provided for selecting a network resource, in which a “controlled-entity” device connected to an IP network ( | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120127851 | Method and System for Managing Signalling in a Telecommunication Network - A signaling management method for managing signaling in a telecommunications network, in which, in normal operation, access equipment ( | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120121021 | PREDICTION OF A MOVEMENT VECTOR OF A CURRENT IMAGE PARTITION POINTING TO A REFERENCE ZONE THAT COVERS SEVERAL REFERENCE IMAGE PARTITIONS AND ENCODING AND DECODING USING ONE SUCH PREDICTION - A method and apparatus are provided for predicting a movement vector of a current image partition in relation to a movement vector of a reference partition having the same form as the current image partition and belonging to a reference image (IN- | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120117638 | TECHNIQUE FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS BY A CLIENT ENTITY TO A SERVICE - A technique of controlling access by a client entity to a service in a communications network. Processing modules are interconnected in the network in order to supply the service to the client entity. A processing module implements an individual function of a chain of individual functions associated with the service. The access method includes the following steps implemented by an access control device associated with an access node giving access to the service, the device being referred to as a main device: receiving a chain of processing modules from the access node; sending, to a secondary access control device associated with a processing module of the chain, a request to access the processing module under consideration, the request including an access token negotiated between the main device and the client entity; receiving a response to the access request from the secondary device; and notifying the access node of the response. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120106955 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING A RESOURCE RESERVATION REQUEST AND RELATED DEVICE AND NODE DEVICE - A method and apparatus are provided for processing a delayed resource reservation request in an optical telecommunication network for transferring data between a source device and a destination device, wherein the control plane is different from the transfer plane. Upon a node device of the network receiving the resource reservation request sent from the source device to the destination device via a path including at least one node device, the request containing at least one first parameter relating to the start of the connection at the source device, the method includes the following steps: obtaining information relating to a signal transfer time via the path up to an upstream node device; updating the information by adding a signal transfer time at the intermediate equipment; and calculating a date for the start of the resource reservation at the node device using the value of the first received parameter and the information. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106647 | PREDICTION OF A MOVEMENT VECTOR OF A CURRENT IMAGE PARTITION HAVING A DIFFERENT GEOMETRIC SHAPE OR SIZE FROM THAT OF AT LEAST ONE ADJACENT REFERENCE IMAGE PARTITION AND ENCODING AND DECODING USING ONE SUCH PREDICTION - The invention relates to a method for predicting a movement vector (MVp | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106646 | METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IMAGES, ENCODING AND DECODING DEVICES, CORRESPONDING DATA STREAMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A method and apparatus are provided for encoding an image sequence. The method includes the following steps, for at least one group of blocks of an image: determining, for each block, at least one parameter characteristic of said block; forming at least one cluster including the blocks having at least one similar characteristic parameter; encoding the blocks of said cluster, the similar characteristic parameter(s) associated with said cluster being encoded only once; encoding the blocks that do not belong to any cluster, the characteristic parameter(s) associated with each of said blocks not being encoded; generating a data stream; and inserting into said stream, at least one piece of information on the partitioning of the group(s), in order to identify the outer block(s) within a group. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106398 | METHOD FOR ACTIVATING A COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A method and apparatus are provided for activating a communication terminal situated in a wireless communication network including a plurality of access nodes. The method includes: receiving, by an access node of the communication network, termed an anchor access node, at least one datum to be transmitted to the communication terminal; identifying, by the anchor access node, at least one access node to which the communication terminal was previously attached, termed a last known access node, on the basis of the datum to be transmitted; and transmitting to the at least one last known access node at least one activation datum destined for at least one communication interface of the terminal, making it possible to activate the terminal. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106335 | Method and device for acknowledging a periodic signaling request in a telecommunication network - A method that may be implemented in a CSCF entity to acknowledge a REGISTER type request sent by a terminal. It comprises: a step (E | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120102452 | METHOD FOR ALLOWING DISTRIBUTED RUNNING OF AN APPLICATION AND RELATED PRE-PROCESSING UNIT - Method for allowing distributed running of an application between a device and a server connected via a network. The method includes the following steps carried out by a pre-processing unit: analyzing a code of the application for identifying parts that satisfy or are assumed to satisfy at least one first criterion based on resource consumption; transmitting only the identified application code parts to the server; generating from the application code an enriched application code arranged to call for the execution of one of the identified application code parts on the server only if at least one second criterion based on resource overload is satisfied at the time the application code part is to be run; and transmitting the enriched application code to the device. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120102197 | TECHNIQUE FOR DETERMINING A CHAIN OF INDIVIDUAL FUNCTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH A SERVICE - A method and apparatus are provided for determining a chain of individual functions associated with a service. The functions are designed to be interconnected in order to supply the service to a client entity in a communications network. The method includes the following steps implemented by a determination device: receiving from an access node to the service a temporary chain of individual functions associated with the service requested by the client entity together with a context associated with the client entity; determining an action to be performed on the temporary chain of individual functions associated with the service as a function of the context associated with the client entity; implementing the determined action on the temporary chain in order to obtain a final chain of individual functions; and sending the final chain to the service access node. This method can be implemented for supplying the service to the client entity. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120102098 | METHOD FOR ALLOWING DISTRIBUTED RUNNING OF AN APPLICATION AND RELATED DEVICE AND INFERENCE ENGINE - Method for allowing distributed running of an application between a device and a server connected via a network. The method includes the following steps carried out by the device: obtaining a device profile including resource capacity characteristics of the device; obtaining an application profile including resource consumption characteristics of the application; obtaining device metrics relating to real-time resource usage with respect to the device; obtaining offload rules defining conditions under which an application is to be run at least in part on a server and/or on a device, the conditions involving device resource capacity, application resource consumption and device real-time resource usage; and making a decision by an inference engine to run the application at least in part on the server and/or on the device, by evaluating the offload rules applied to the device profile, application profile and device metrics. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120099607 | METHOD AND DEVICES FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING MULTI-CARRIER SYMBOLS - A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting time/frequency frames. The method includes: framing and mapping data symbols as input to a multi-carrier multiplexer; transforming pilots with multiple-state data modulation known to a receiver of the frames, the pilot modulation state being selected as a function of data that is not known to the receiver and of coding rules that are known to the receiver; and inserting previously-transformed pilots in distributed manner into the mapped frame. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120099493 | METHOD OF PRE-EQUALIZATION BY TIME REVERSAL IN FDD - A method of pre-equalizing a data signal transmitted in frequency division duplex includes receiving via an originating reference antenna a first pilot sequence transmitted by a destination antenna through a first channel, and estimating a first impulse response of the first channel; receiving via a destination antenna a second pilot sequence transmitted by an originating antenna through a second channel, and estimating a second impulse response of the second channel; receiving, via the reference antenna, a third pilot sequence modulated by the second impulse response and transmitted by the destination antenna, and estimating a combined impulse response of the first and second channels in succession; time reversing the combined impulse response; combining the time-reversed combined impulse response and the first impulse response; re-iterating the steps for a portion of the destination and originating antennas; and determining pre-equalization coefficients for the data signal from a set of the impulse response combinations. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120096529 | Method and Device for Managing Authentication of a User - A method and apparatus are provided for managing authentication of a user of a telecommunications network of an operator. The method includes the following steps: on receipt of a request for access to a service provided by the operator of this network by the user, issuing a request for identification of an authentication server destined for an authentication location server, the request including at least one identifier of the user; and on receipt of a response comprising an identifier of an authentication server associated with the identifier of the user, issuing a request for authentication of the user at the server identified for the requested service. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120093176 | METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A MULTICARRIER SIGNAL IMPLEMENTING PROTOTYPE FILTERS, CORRESPONDING DEVICES FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING, SIGNAL AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A method is provided for transmitting a multicarrier signal formed by a temporal succession of multicarrier symbols, which includes: at least one preamble formed by at least three successive multicarrier symbols, known as preamble symbols, including complex-value data elements each associated with a carrier of the signal; and multicarrier symbols, known as data symbols, including real-value data elements each associated with a carrier of the signal. The method includes a carrier-shaping step including filtering the carriers of the preamble symbols using a first prototype filter, and filtering the carriers of the data symbols using a second prototype filter different from the first prototype filter. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120093133 | TECHNIQUE FOR PROCESSING FLOWS IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A method is provided for processing flows in a wireless communications network. Data packets belonging to different flows are received by a device of a communications network and stored in a queue to enable them to be sent by the device over a radio channel to at least one node. Access to the radio channel is time-shared between a plurality of nodes. The method includes: at least one step of determining a duration associated with a flow, the duration corresponding to a virtual duration needed for sending packets of said flow stored in the queue; and in order to send a data packet, a step of selecting one of the flows amongst a plurality of flows, in which step a flow is selected for which the associated duration is the smallest, and a step of sending a packet of the selected flow as extracted from the queue. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120089838 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SECURELY CONFIGURING A TERMINAL - A method of configuring a terminal including initializing the terminal, and which automatically triggers at least: detecting presence of a memory by a basic input/ouput system of the terminal, accessing the memory by the basic input/ouput system, starting up an operating system stored in the memory, and starting up a driver of a telecommunication network access module, the driver of the access module being stored in the memory and configured to drive the access module through a communication link between the terminal and a telecommunication device including the access module. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086805 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A SERVICE, SUCH AS A COMMUNICATION SERVICE - A system an method are provided for providing a service, such as telemonitoring, in particular via the Internet. The system includes a terminal device of a communication network having elements for establishing a connection with a service provider device through at least the communication network, and an application server able to receive a service request from the service provider device on the connection. Thus, the terminal device can make itself accessible to a service provider device as soon as it is put into service. Furthermore, the fact that the terminal device is at the initiative of the connection for this service secures access to the data of the terminal device relating to this service. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120077458 | Module and a Method for Collecting Non-Declarative Information and Implemented by a Telecommunications Terminal - This information collection module implemented in a first telecommunications terminal comprises means for obtaining non-declarative information representative of usage of at least one first application of said first terminal; and means for communicating said non-declarative usage information to a presence server accessible by a second terminal in order to determine a presence status associated with at least one second application of said first terminal. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120072604 | TECHNIQUE FOR DELIVERING CONTENT TO A USER - A technique is provided for delivering content to a user. The user sends at least one quality indicator to a first content-delivery device, referred to as a secondary device. The indicator relates to delivery of a portion of the content by a second content-delivery device, referred to as a primary device. When the secondary device detects an event that might affect the delivery of the content by the primary device to the user, on the basis at least of the quality indicators relating to at least a delivery of content by the primary device, it commands the user to transfer from the primary device to the secondary device in order to enable the secondary device to deliver portions of the content that have not been delivered by the primary device. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120063319 | METHOD FOR MANAGING PATHS BETWEEN A SOURCE NODE AND A DESTINATION NODE WITHIN THE DATA LINK LAYER, CORRESPONDING SOURCE NODE AND TABLE - A method is provided for managing paths between at least one source node and at least one destination node within the link layer in a mesh communication network including a plurality of intermediate nodes. At a given moment, at least two separate paths between the source node and the destination node are defined for distributing streams to be transmitted between the source node and the destination node. The method includes the following steps that are carried out in the source node: allocating a stream identifier to the streams; associating information representing a stream category to the streams; allocating one of the paths to one of the streams while taking into account the stream identifier and the stream category information. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120059650 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR THE OBJECTIVE EVALUATION OF THE VOICE QUALITY OF A SPEECH SIGNAL TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE BACKGROUND NOISE CONTAINED IN THE SIGNAL - A method and device are provided for the objective evaluation of voice quality of a speech signal. The device includes: a module for extracting a background noise signal, referred to as a noise signal, from the speech signal; a module for calculating the audio parameters of the noise signal; a module for classifying the background noise contained in the noise signal on the basis of the calculated audio parameters, according to a predefined set of background noise classes; and a module for evaluating the voice quality of the speech signal on the basis of at least the resulting classification relative to the background noise in the speech signal. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120057510 | METHOD OF PRE-EQUALIZING A DATA SIGNAL BY TIME REVERSAL IN FDD - Pre-equalizing a data signal transmitted in frequency division duplex by an originating entity having a set of originating antennas to a destination entity having a set of destination antennas, including: transmitting a first pilot by a destination antenna; the originating entity estimating a first impulse response of a first channel; an iterative step including an originating antenna transmitting a second pilot modulated by the first impulse response; the destination entity estimating and time reversing a combined impulse response of the first and second channels; the destination antenna transmitting a third pilot modulated by the time-reversed response; estimating a composite response of the channels; re-iterating the iterative step for some originating antennas; and re-iterating the steps of transmitting a first pilot, estimating the first response, and the iterative step for some destination antennas; and determining pre-equalization coefficients for the data signal from a combination of a set of composite impulse responses. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120042147 | MEMORY ALLOCATION METHOD AND A METHOD FOR MANAGING DATA RELATED TO AN APPLICATION STORED IN A SECURITY MODULE ASSOCIATED WITH A TERMINAL, AN ASSOCIATED SECURITY MODULE AND AN ASSOCIATED TERMINAL - A method is provided for allocating memory associated with an application of a security module of a terminal, including the steps of receiving from said application a request for allocation of memory external to the security module, of sending a memory allocation command to the terminal, and of receiving and storing memory allocation information in association with an identifier of said application. A method is also provided for managing data for such application, including the steps of receiving a request to read or write in an external memory, and of determining and sending a read or write command as a function of said request and the memory allocation information associated with the application identifier in order to read or write data. A security module and a terminal including that security module are also provided. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120042015 | COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND METHOD - A communications system communicates messages from an application server within a network to a user of the network. An application server generates a message for an intended recipient under the control of an application program. The application server generates delivery information indicating rules for delivering the message, and communicates the message and the delivery information to the intended recipient. A presence server monitors the presence state of users. A message processor intercepts the message and the delivery information associated with the message, obtains from the presence server, the presence state of the intended recipient of the intercepted message, and controls the communication of the intercepted message to the intended recipient in dependence on the presence state of the intended recipient and delivery rules indicated by the delivery information associated with the message. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120036154 | DYNAMIC CONTENT LINKED TO CONTACT IDENTIFIERS - A system, method, device and interface for accessing dynamic contact data. The system may include associating a telephone number with one or more uniform resource locators (URLs) identifying corresponding data sources, submitting a query in a form of a telephone number, retrieving the associated one or more URLs, retrieving data from the data sources corresponding to the one or more URLs, and rendering the retrieved data. Associating may be performed by a publisher interacting with a service platform server. The one or more of submitting, retrieving and rendering may be performed by a customer interacting with a service platform server. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120023245 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING A PIECE OF INFORMATION INDICATIVE OF A DESIRE TO BE INVOLVED IN AT LEAST ONE USER APPLICATION SESSION - A method and apparatus are provided for processing an item of information indicative of a desire for involvement in at least one application session, established according to the SIP protocol, in progress for a user of a telecommunications network. The at least one session is controlled by a first terminal of the user. The method is implemented by the first controller terminal, and includes receiving a notification of an event relating to the user, which includes at least one item of information indicative of a level of involvement desired by a second terminal of the user, and making a decision relating to the desired level of involvement. In the case of a positive decision, an involvement command is transmitted relating to the level of involvement desired by the second terminal to the telecommunications network. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023197 | Negotiation Method for Providing a Service to a Terminal - A negotiation method and server are provided for delivery of a service to a terminal. Also provided are a method for configuring a terminal and a terminal using the method. In particular, the methods and apparatus relate to interfaces for interaction with services available to users of a service. The negotiation method includes sending to the terminal of a set of proposals for interactions with a delivery component of the service capable of enabling the terminal to indicate to the delivery component that the terminal accepts at least one proposal from the set of interaction proposals. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120022864 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CLASSIFYING BACKGROUND NOISE CONTAINED IN AN AUDIO SIGNAL - Embodiments of methods and devices for classifying background noise contained in an audio signal are disclosed. In one embodiment, the device includes a module for extracting from the audio signal a background noise signal, termed the noise signal. Also included is a second that calculates a first parameter, termed the temporal indicator. The temporal indicator relates to the temporal evolution of the noise signal. The second module also calculates a second parameter, termed the frequency indicator. The frequency indicator relates to the frequency spectrum of the noise signal. Finally, the device includes a third module that classifies the background noise by selecting, as a function of the calculated values of the temporal indicator and of the frequency indicator, a class of background noise from among a predefined set of classes of background noise. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020476 | Method for Performing a Cryptographic Task in an Electronic Hardware Component - A method and apparatus are provided to perform a cryptographic task on at least one numerical datum in an electronic hardware component. The method includes a step of at least partial use of an encryption function. This encryption function includes a basic encryption function obtained by the addition between an intermediate function arising from composition of a coding function with a first function, and a second function. This method can be applied to the encryption of a datum or to the decryption of a datum. Also, a method is provided for generating a public key and a device able to implement one of these methods. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120017083 | GROUP SIGNATURE WITH LOCAL REVOCATION VERIFICATION WITH CAPACITY FOR LIFTING ANONYMITY - The cryptographic scheme subdivides time into periods with an index j=0, 1, 2, etc. A public key indicates elements u and v of a first cyclic group G | 01-19-2012 |
| 20110320951 | Methods for Controlling and Managing an Interactive Dialog, Platform and Application Server Executing these Methods - In this method for controlling an interactive dialog, the platform sends the application server intermediate requests comprising data representative of a part only of the interaction between the user and the terminal, prior to the end of the interaction, to which the application server responds via intermediate responses. This method therefore anticipates the complete user input and offers a faster and more interactive service. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320509 | MANAGING THE SITE WHERE DATA IS STORED IN A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM - A management method for managing the site is provided where data is stored in a distributed storage system including a plurality of devices connected together by means of a network, the devices having respective data storage sites in which a user may store data, wherein the site where data is stored in the system is selected as a function of information associated with the user of the system. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320430 | OBJECT RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method for recommending an object in a communication network using a bookmark, said method comprising, for an object search engine in the communication network, the acts of indexing a bookmark created by a first user in association with search keywords comprising an identifier of the first user and an identifier of at least one second user with whom the first user wants to share the bookmark; providing to a second user, in response to a search request from said second user, a search result comprising a link usable for accessing an object linked with the bookmark. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110317651 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR TRANSMISSION WITH TIME-FREQUENCY MAPPING OF SYMBOLS IN SUB-CHANNELS - A method is provided for mapping data symbols at the input of a multi-carrier modulator, which data symbols are interleaved in blocks of K symbols, into sub-channels of size equal to N | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110314123 | METHOD FOR SWITCHING AN ACCESS NODE - Method for switching access nodes for a terminal capable of implementing a set of applications with at least one remote communicating entity through a packet-switched network, said terminal being associated with a set of first communication contexts, a first communication context including a same first transport configuration common to the set of applications and a first application configuration corresponding to a given application. The method comprises the following steps, reiterated for all the first communication contexts: reception by the terminal of an access node switching notification message, said message indicating a second communication context including a second transport configuration, reception by the terminal of notification message count information, filtering of said second transport configuration of said second communication context on the basis of said count information, transmission of a filtered notification message to the application corresponding to the current iteration. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110311059 | METHOD OF NAVIGATING IN A SOUND CONTENT - A method of navigating in a sound content wherein at least one key word is stored in association with at least two positions representative of said key word in the sound content, and wherein the method comprises: a step of displaying a representation of the sound content; during playback of the sound content, a step of detecting a current extract representative of a key word stored at a first position; a step of determining at least one second extract representative of said key word and a second position as a function of the stored positions; and a step of highlighting the position of the extracts in the representation of the sound content. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110307795 | DATA STORAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD, DEVICE AND USER INTERFACE - A method of managing data storage for a device having a local storage memory and a user interface, the device being capable of transferring data to a network having a remote storage memory, the remote storage memory having a higher storage capacity than the local storage memory. The method comprises: obtaining, by means of said user interface of the device, a target maximum storage criterion to be satisfied by the local storage memory; and on detection that said target maximum storage criterion is not satisfied by the local storage memory, selecting a set of data stored in the local storage memory to be transferred from the device to the network for storage in the remote storage memory, in such a way that the target maximum storage criterion be subsequently satisfied by the local storage memory. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110297740 | AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION OF A TERMINAL - A method and apparatus are provided for requesting configuration of a terminal connected to a subscriber card that contains at least one application. The terminal is adapted to receive via a second communications interface a response to a request including configuration information of the terminal, to act for at least one application of the subscriber card to determine whether an interface application associated with the at least one application is or is not present in the terminal. The terminal is adapted to send via a first telecommunications interface at least one command for downloading the interface application, if the interface application not present. A configuration method and apparatus are also provided for sending configuration information in response to a request, to receive at least one download command and to transmit it to a remote server, and to update the configuration information, after downloading the interface application specified in the command. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110289367 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FLEXIBLE ERROR CORRECTION ENCODING AND CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM - An error correction encoding device is provided that combines redundancy data with source data, said device including: at least three encoding stages and at least two permutation stages. Each encoding stage implements at least one set of three basic encoding modules, in which a first encoding stage receives said source data and a last encoding stage provides said redundancy data. Each encoding module implements a basic code and includes c inputs and c outputs, c being an integer. The permutation stages are inserted between two consecutive encoding stages and each permutation stage implements a c-cyclic permutation. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110286521 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENCODING AN IMAGE USING A PREDICTION MASK DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE AND CORRESPONDING SIGNALS AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS - A method is provided for encoding at least one image, divided into macroblocks, one macroblock including a set of blocks de pixels. The method includes, for at least one current macroblock of a current image, at least two iterations of the following steps: allocation of a priority level for encoding to at least one pixel of the current macroblock, selection of a pixel with the highest priority level called the priority pixel, prediction of a set of pixels including the priority pixel and a step of encoding a remainder from prediction for a region made up of predicted pixels of the macroblock, called the predicted region, the encoding step being used as and when the predicted region meets a predetermined encoding criterion. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110273450 | METHOD OF REPRESENTING A MATERIAL - A method is provided for representing a material by approximating an original function modeling the interaction of the material and of light emitted by a light source, which function is defined as a function of pixels, of viewpoints, and of light directions, the method comprising: for each viewpoint, the steps of performing a polynomial approximation of the original modeling function and a geometric approximation of a residue resulting from the difference between the original modeling function and the polynomial approximation of said function; and a step of simplification by decomposing the results obtained from the two approximations into wavelet packets. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110267989 | PROCESSING OF A REQUEST TO INSTIGATE COMMUNICATION BY A ROUTING DEVICE ASSOCIATED WITH A PLURALITY OF TERMINALS - A method and apparatus are provided for processing a request to instigate communication, received by a routing device associated with a plurality of terminals. The request relates to a communication to be established between a sender device of the request and at least one of the terminals. The method includes a step of comparing communication capabilities of said sender device with respective communication capabilities of one or more terminals, called addressee terminals, which are able to establish said communication, so as to identify at least one terminal having capabilities making it possible to establish with the sender device a communication of maximum quality. A call notification is transmitted to at least one of the addressee terminals, which is suitable for triggering on the addressee terminal a call presentation prompting a user to use, by priority, one of the terminals identified during the comparison step to establish the communication. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110264777 | COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND METHOD - A communications device includes a message manager that controls communication of subscription messages between applications programs on the device and a network to subscribe to messaging events. The messaging events provide message information in response to conditions occurring as determined by entities within the network. The message manager includes a subscription table for storing an association between messaging events and the applications programs, which have subscribed to the messaging events, and receives an instruction from one of the applications programs to subscribe to a messaging event and to determine from the subscription table whether one or more of the other applications programs has currently subscribed to the messaging event. The message manager, upon receipt of an incoming message generated in accordance with the messaging event, communicates the message information contained in the received incoming message to one or more of applications programs, which have subscribed to the messaging event. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110261888 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CODING AN IMAGE SEQUENCE IMPLEMENTING BLOCKS OF DIFFERENT SIZE, SIGNAL, DATA MEDIUM, DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS CORRESPONDING THERETO - A method is provided for coding an image sequence, including splitting a current image into blocks of standard size, termed macroblocks. For at least one current macroblock of the current image, the method further includes: constructing at least one block of greater size than the current macroblock, termed a large block, which includes the current macroblock and at least one neighbor macroblock in the current image, taking account of characteristics of the current image; coding the large block, delivering base coding information, making it possible to reconstruct a base layer of said current image, and for at least one large block, determining enhancement information associated with at least one macroblock present in the large block. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110261824 | VIRTUAL CIRCUIT CONFIGURATION METHOD - A method and apparatus are provided for configuring a virtual circuit set up between a first and a second terminal installation. The virtual circuit is carried by an underlying path including a first link set up between the first terminal installation and an intermediate installation, and a second link set up between the intermediate installation and the second terminal installation. A third link of the underlying path is set up between the intermediate installation and a third terminal installation. The method includes a step of configuring the third terminal installation, on completion of which the latter is able to process in reception a data stream transmitted through the virtual circuit. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110261810 | NOTIFICATION METHOD AND GATEWAY FOR ACCESSING A VOICE OVER IP NETWORK - A method is implemented by an access gateway to a voice over IP network, connected to a plurality of terminals associated with one and the same telephonic identifier in said network, and comprises, on detection by said gateway of a switch to a connected or disconnected state of a call established between an external terminal and a terminal of said plurality of terminals, transmitting to at least one other terminal of said plurality of terminals a message comprising information relating to said switch of said call to said connected or disconnected state. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110255844 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PARSING A VIDEO SEQUENCE - A system and method are provided for parsing a digital video sequence, having a series of frames, into at least one segment including frames having a same camera motion quality category, selected from a predetermined list of possible camera motion quality categories. The method includes obtaining, for each of the frames, at least three pieces of information representative of the motion in the frame. The information includes: translational motion information, representative of translational motion in the frame; rotational motion information, representative of rotational motion in the frame; and scale motion information, representative of scale motion in the frame. The method further includes processing the at least three pieces of information representative of the motion in the frame, to attribute one of the camera motion quality categories to each of the frames. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110255601 | PREDICTION OF AN IMAGE BY COMPENSATION DURING FORWARD MOVEMENT - A method is provided for predicting an image by compensation during forward movement from at least one reference image. For at least one block of a reference image, referred to as a reference block, the prediction method includes the following steps: determining at least one piece of movement information, representing a movement between said reference block and a matching block in the image to be predicted; determining at least one enlarged block, including the reference block and at least one point of a block adjacent to said reference block in the reference image; and determining a prediction value for at least one point of the image to be predicted from the at least one enlarged block and from the movement information determined for the reference block. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110255569 | METHOD FOR SENDING PULSES IN A TRANSMISSION CHANNEL - A method and apparatus are provided for sending pulses from a sender device to a receiver device in a transmission channel. The pulses represent information symbols, with each of these pulses being associated with a time slot in a symbol time. The method includes a training step that is carried out before sending payload information and that includes sending a training sequence made up of two parts. A first part of the training sequence includes at least one pulse of energy that is greater than the energy of a pulse carrying payload information. There are a large number of time slots between the sending of the pulse and the sending of the next pulse. A second part of the training sequence includes a set of pulses known in advance and similar to the pulses used for carrying payload information, the energy of each of these pulses being equivalent to the energy of a pulse carrying payload information. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110255495 | METHOD OF SENDING A DATA SIGNAL VIA A PLURALITY OF TRANSMITTER ENTITIES - A method of sending a data signal comprising a series of symbols to a receiver includes generating a plurality of OFDM signals respectively transmitted by a plurality of transmitter entities. The method includes the steps of generating a plurality of a succession of pairs of symbols, including the substeps of generating at least one pair of symbols orthogonal to a current pair of symbols of said succession of pairs of symbols, generating at least one duplicated pair of symbols by duplicating the current pair of symbols, and allocating at least one current pair of symbols, at least one orthogonal pair of symbols and at least one duplicated pair of symbols to the transmitter entities of the plurality of transmitter entities, said substeps being repeated for all the pairs of symbols of said series of symbols, and generating the plurality of OFDM signals from the plurality of a succession of pairs of symbols, the OFDM signals including a plurality of sub-carriers equal to twice the number of transmitter entities. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110254792 | USER INTERFACE TO PROVIDE ENHANCED CONTROL OF AN APPLICATION PROGRAM - A method for imparting control to an application program (AP) running on a mobile device, said method comprising the acts of displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) of the AP on a touch panel of the mobile device; capturing a touch input on a portion of the GUI; the method further comprising, when identifying the touch input as a touch input of a predefined first type, the acts of imparting a first AP control associated to the portion of the GUI; monitoring an occurrence of a spatial movement of the mobile device; imparting a second AP control associated to the portion of the GUI in response to the capture of a spatial movement. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110249822 | ADVANCED ENCODING OF MULTI-CHANNEL DIGITAL AUDIO SIGNALS - A method is provided for coding a multi-channel audio signal representing a sound scene comprising a plurality of sound sources. The method comprises decomposing the multi-channel signal into frequency bands and the following performed per frequency band: obtaining data representative of the direction of the sound sources of the sound scene, selecting a set of sound sources constituting principal sources, adapting the data representative of the direction of the selected principal sources, as a function of restitution characteristics of the multi-channel signal, determining a matrix for mixing the principal sources as a function of the adapted data, matrixing the principal sources by the matrix determined so as to obtain a sum signal with a reduced number of channels and coding the data representative of the direction of the sound sources and forming a binary stream comprising the coded data, the binary stream being transmittable in parallel with the sum signal. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110249821 | ENCODING OF MULTICHANNEL DIGITAL AUDIO SIGNALS - A method for coding a multi-channel audio signal representing a sound scene comprising a plurality of sound sources is provided. This method comprises decomposing the multi-channel signal into frequency bands and, per frequency band, obtaining directivity information per sound source of the sound scene, the information being representative of the spatial distribution of the sound source in the sound scene, of selecting a set of sound sources of the sound scene constituting principal sources, of matrixing the selected principal sources to obtain a sum signal with a reduced number of channels and, of coding the directivity information and of forming a binary stream comprising the coded directivity information, the binary stream being transmittable in parallel with the sum signal. A decoding method is also provided that is able to decode the sum signal and the directivity information to obtain a multi-channel signal, to an adapted coder and an adapted decoder. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110249815 | METHOD OF IMPLEMENTING A BLOCK CIPHER ALGORITHM - A method is provided of implementing a block cipher algorithm by a device storing a fixed initialization datum, comprising, before execution of a first iteration of the algorithm in the course of a session, a step of determining a modified initialization datum by way of a determined function supplied as input with the fixed initialization datum and a state value specific to the session, the state value being stored in the device, said modified initialization datum being usable to implement the first iteration of the algorithm. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110249751 | PREDICTION OF IMAGES BY REPARTITIONING OF A PORTION OF REFERENCE CAUSAL ZONE, CODING AND DECODING USING SUCH A PREDICTION - A method is provided for decoding a data stream representative of an image or of a sequence of images, the stream comprising data representative of at least one portion of one of the images, the method implementing a step of predicting a motion vector of a partition of a current image portion, with respect to a reference causal zone which has been partitioned according to a mode of coding determined for the zone. The prediction step comprises, in relation to said current partition: partitioning anew at least one portion of the reference causal zone into a plurality of reference partitions, determining motion vectors respectively associated with reference partitions obtained subsequent to the new partitioning, determining a predictor motion vector on the basis of said determined motion vectors, and predicting the motion vector of said current partition on the basis of said determined predictor motion vector. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110249083 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING TEXT DATA - A method is provided for processing text data in a telecommunication context between at least one first terminal and one second terminal, comprising, after a processing device receives text data from the first terminal, generating image data integrating the received text data in order to transmit the image data to at least the second terminal. The invention also relates to a corresponding device and to a call system including such a device. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110246895 | METHOD OF IMAGE PROCESSING WITH DYNAMIC ANONYMIZATION - A method is provided for processing at least one image, comprising a representation of a first user for presentation to a second user, comprising steps for: obtaining an indication representative, either of an absence of relationship between the first and the second user, or of a relationship existing between the first and the second user; and modifying said image before presentation to the second user, in such a way that the first user is not identifiable by the second user, said modifying step being intended to be executed if it is determined, in accordance with at least one anonymization rule defined in relation to said cue, that said image need undergo such a modification. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110230190 | METHOD OF MANAGING A USER TERMINAL IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK, AND AN ASSOCIATED DEVICE - A method and apparatus are provided for managing a terminal of a user of a telecommunications network. The terminal is connected to the telecommunications network via at least one access network. The method includes a step, executed on receiving a registration request including an address of record of the user, an address of contact of the terminal, and an access network type of the terminal, of storing in a database an association between the address of record of the user, the access network type of the terminal, and the address of contact of the terminal. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110230174 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO IDENTIFY AND TRANSFER TO A WIRELESS DEVICE ACTIONABLE ITEMS BASED ON USER SELECTED CONTENT - A system, method, device and interface for selecting data for a wireless device. The system, method, device and interface provide for categorizing selected data based on two or more categories, determining an action based on the categorization, and transferring the selected data and the determined action to the wireless device. In one embodiment, the categorization of the selected data may also be transferred to the wireless device. The categorizing of the selected data may include receiving input related to the categorizing, and altering a categorizing algorithm utilized in performing the categorization in response to the received input. The input may include a new category and/or a change in an existing category. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110228671 | Method and System for Regulating Reboot Traffic in a Telecommunications Network - A method of regulating traffic in a telecommunications network, including a first step of detecting a fault affecting a node or a link of the network. The second step below is then executed: the nodes located immediately upstream of said node/link that experienced the fault forward to the latter the registration requests sent by users of the network, to the extent that the throughput of said registration requests is below a predetermined clipping threshold associated with the registration requests; if the throughput of registration requests exceeds said clipping threshold, the excess requests are not forwarded to the node/link that experienced the fault, and the network sends to each user that sent a request refused in this way, a response prompting that user to observe a time-out period, said response specifying the recommended duration of said time-out period. Application in particular to IP networks using SIP signaling protocols. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110224995 | CODING WITH NOISE SHAPING IN A HIERARCHICAL CODER - A method is provided for hierarchical coding of a digital audio signal comprising, for a current frame of the input signal: a core coding, delivering a scalar quantization index for each sample of the current frame and at least one enhancement coding delivering indices of scalar quantization for each coded sample of an enhancement signal. The enhancement coding comprises a step of obtaining a filter for shaping the coding noise used to determine a target signal and in that the indices of scalar quantization of said enhancement signal are determined by minimizing the error between a set of possible values of scalar quantization and said target signal. The coding method can also comprise a shaping of the coding noise for the core bitrate coding. A coder implementing the coding method is also provided. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110214075 | Process for displaying in a web browser the rendering produced by an application - A process for displaying—in a web browser of a user computer terminal—the rendering that is produced by an application designed to be executed independently by a computer operating system. This process includes a stage that consists in executing (E | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110208863 | Remote Network Access via a Visited Network - Remote access for a terminal to a first network via a second network is managed; the first network being linked to the second network via a network apparatus. At the level of the network apparatus, there is received, from the terminal via the second network, a request for remote access to the first network indicating access information comprising a first parameter corresponding to a physical address of the terminal and a second parameter corresponding to a secret key of the gateway. The network apparatus thereafter decides whether the terminal is authorized to remotely access the first network on the basis of said access information. This network apparatus subsequently emits, bound for the terminal via the second network, a message indicating whether the terminal is authorized to remotely access the first network. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110206129 | IMAGE PREDICTION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method is provided for computing a predicted frame from a first and a second reference frames, the method comprising, for each block of pixels in the predicted frame, the acts of defining a first block of pixels in the first reference frame collocated with a third block of pixels which is the block of pixels in the predicted frame; defining a second block of pixels corresponding, in the second reference frame, to the first block of pixels along the motion vector of the first block from the first to second reference frames; computing a first set of coefficients allowing the transformation of the pixels of the first block into pixels of the second block; computing pixels of the third block using the first set of coefficients and pixels from a fourth block collocated in the first reference frame with the second block of pixels. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110205896 | Method and Device for Monitoring Service Quality in a Network - A method of monitoring the end-to-end quality of a service in a telecommunications network includes: a step (F | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110202668 | Methods for Creating and Using a Telecommunications Link between Two Users of a Telecommunications Network - A technique is disclosed for the creation and the use of a telecommunications link between two users of a telecommunications network. Disclosed in particular is the technical creation of a social links network employing a telecommunications network. A method is disclosed for creating a telecommunications link between a first set of communications devices associated with a first user and a second set of communications devices associated with a second user, including generating a pair of certified identifiers of the first and second users allowing a communications session to be set up between at least a communications device of the first set and a communications device of the second set. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202622 | METHOD OF CONFIGURING PARAMETERS FOR MANAGING DATA PACKETS OF A DATA STREAM - A method and apparatus are provided for configuring management parameter values of data messages of a data stream. The method includes a first step of sending from a first communications network to a second communications network a first message of the data stream including a first data message management parameter value and a second step of sending from the second network to the first network a second message of the data stream including a second data message management parameter value. The method further includes a step of selecting from the first and second management parameter values a management parameter value to be applied to all the data messages of the data stream. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110199955 | METHOD AND DEVICES FOR MANAGING A DATA FLOW TRANSFER - A method is provided for managing a transfer of a data stream received by a mobile terminal of a first network to a second network, the terminal having subscribed to at least one multicasting group receiving the data stream, and being connected to the first network by way of an access router for the first network, termed the first router. The method comprises: detecting, by an access router for the second network, termed the second router, an arrival of the terminal in the second network; obtaining, by the second router, information relating to at least one multicasting group to which the terminal has subscribed, on the basis of a reading of a subscription table; and receiving the data stream by the second router, on the basis of the information obtained, and retransmission to the terminal. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110194784 | ENCODING AND DECODING WITH ELIMINATION OF ONE OR MORE PREDETERMINED PREDICTORS - A method is provided for encoding an image or a sequence of images generating a data flow comprising data representing a group of pixels in one of said images, said method including: calculating a predetermined number of predictors in relation to said group of pixels, and selecting an optimal predictor in accordance with a predetermined selection criterion. Between the calculation and selection steps, a step of eliminating at least one predictor with a calculated predetermined number is performed, which comprises, for at least two i | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110194680 | METHOD TO MANAGE MULTIPLE CALLER IDENTITIES IN A TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a telecommunication system, providing to a recipient end point a caller identification (CID) from a calling end point, the calling end point including a default CID and at least one additional CID, the method includes receiving a call setup message from the calling end point, the call setup message including the additional CID, allocating a temporary end point for the call, from a pool of available end points, sending contact data for the allocated temporary end point to the calling end point, processing a first call received from the calling end point to the temporary end point, processing a second call to the recipient end point using the additional CID as the calling CID, and joining the first and second calls to generate a call from the calling end point to the recipient end point. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110188768 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD AND DEVICE IMPLEMENTING AN IMPROVED PREDICTION, CORRESPONDING DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, SIGNAL AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS - Techniques are provided for encoding and decoding image data. The techniques implement a prediction of data of a current block based on at least one already encoded block or reference block, wherein said prediction step takes into account a set of encoded blocks adjacent to said current block and including blocks that have not yet been considered according to said writing path order. Encoding includes the steps of: generating a dependence tree associating a current block with at least one reference block from which the predicted block associated with the current block has been predetermined; and inserting information representative of said dependence tree into said set of data associated with each block. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110179463 | SELECTION OF A DATA STREAM - In order to assist the selection of a data stream to be played back on a receiver device from a plurality of data streams received by the receiver device, a plurality of data streams are received in a processor unit simultaneously with auxiliary data respectively associated with said data streams. Then, on the basis of the received auxiliary data, information for assisting selection of what is to be displayed for each data stream is determined. Thereafter, the data streams are linked with the respectively determined selection assistance information. These linked data streams are then transmitted to the receiver device. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110178809 | CRITICAL SAMPLING ENCODING WITH A PREDICTIVE ENCODER - A method for encoding and decoding a digital audio signal is provided, said method comprising the steps of: encoding a first sequence of samples of the digital signal according to a transform encoding; encoding a second sequence of samples of the digital signal according to a predictive encoding; wherein the second sequence starts before the end of the first sequence, a subsequence common to the first and second sequences being thus encoded both by predictive encoding and by transform encoding. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110178617 | PRE-ECHO ATTENUATION IN A DIGITAL AUDIO SIGNAL - A method is provided for attenuating pre-echoes in a digital audio signal generated from a transform encoding, comprising, upon decoding and for a current frame of said digital audio signal: defining a concatenated signal from at least the reconstructed signal of the current frame, dividing said concatenated signal into subunits of samples having a predetermined length, calculating the time envelope of the concatenated signal, detecting the transition of the time envelope towards a high-energy area, determining the low-energy sub-units preceding a subunit in which a transition has been detected, and an attenuation step in said determined subunits. The attenuation is carried out according to an attenuation factor calculated for each of the determined subunits, based on the time envelope of the concatenated signal. The invention also relates to a device for implementing said method, and to a decoder including such a device. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110177828 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING THE LOCATION OF A MOBILE TERMINAL - A method and system are provided for estimating the location of a mobile radio-communication terminal, the mobile terminal having a plurality of antennas, and being in communication range of at least one transmitter having a plurality of antennas, the method comprising; measuring the time of arrival of a signal transmitted from the M antennas of the at least one transmitter at each of the N antennas of the mobile terminal to determine M×N range measurements corresponding to the M×N transmission paths of said signal between the M antennas of the transmitter and the N antennas of the mobile terminal; and estimating the location of the mobile terminal based on the M×N range measurements. The location of the mobile terminal may be estimated by applying a least squares method. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110176547 | Method of Broadcasting Data by a Multicast Source with Broadcasting of an Identifier of the Broadcasting Strategy in a Multicast Signalling Channel - A method of broadcasting data from a multicast source (S) to a plurality of receivers (CL) in a telecommunications network ( | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110176411 | METHOD FOR PROTECTING A PSEUDO-WIRE - A method and apparatus are provided for establishing a first pseudo-wire between a first item of input terminal equipment and an item of output terminal equipment, used by the first item of input terminal equipment. The method includes a step of transmitting a first message requesting establishment of the first pseudo-wire to an item of switching equipment, the first pseudo-wire to be established consisting of a first link between the first item of input terminal equipment and the item of switching equipment and of a second link between the item of switching equipment and the item of output terminal equipment. In such a method, the first establishment-request message also includes a request to establish at least one backup pseudo-wire consisting of the second link and of a third link to be established between the item of switching equipment and a second item of input terminal equipment. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110173616 | DETERMINATION AND MANAGEMENT OF VIRTUAL NETWORKS - A method for determination of topology of virtual networks comprises the following steps implemented by a physical node, physical nodes being connected by a physical network and designed to support virtual nodes of these virtual networks: determination of resource parameters defining a physical configuration of the physical network and a physical configuration specific to the physical node and determination of request parameters defining service requests relating to the virtual networks. The method further comprises, in the case of modification of at least one parameter belonging to the group comprising the resource parameters and the request parameters between a current point in time and a preceding point in time, the broadcast of at least the modified parameters within the physical network, the updating of the resource and request parameters as a function of the modified parameters and the determination of topologies for the virtual networks by means of the updated parameters. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110173492 | TECHNIQUE FOR PROTECTING LEAF NODES OF A POINT-TO-MULTIPOINT TREE IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK IN CONNECTED MODE - A technique protects, in a communications network, a point-to-multipoint primary tree between a root node and primary leaf nodes of the network if a failure occurs affecting one of the primary leaf nodes. One network node receives from another upstream network node a request to protect the primary tree via a backup branch leading to a backup leaf node situated downstream from said node, if a failure affecting one of the primary leaf nodes to be protected occurs, the backup leaf node being associated with the primary leaf node to be protected. If the node is connected directly to the downstream primary leaf node to be protected, it configures a backup routing rule for routing packets from an upstream primary branch to the downstream backup branch and, possibly, to the downstream primary branch(es) and is activated in the event of a failure affecting the primary leaf node to be protected. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110170633 | TRANSMISSION METHOD TAKING ECHO INTO ACCOUNT - A transmission method and device are provided for taking account of an echo. The method and the device adapt the send power mask to take account of an echo's power estimated on the basis of an echo function, the echo being due to the transmission by a transmission channel of a sequence sent by the sender device. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110170532 | DISTRIBUTION OF AN AUTHENTICATION FUNCTION IN A MOBILE NETWORK - A mobile terminal is authenticated in a packet transmission mobile network comprising an access network responsible for authenticating said mobile terminal and an access point to said access network. A counter indicating the number of authentication requests already received is managed. At the access network level, an authentication request is received from the mobile terminal. Then the counter is incremented by one. Then the mobile terminal is authenticated, the number indicated by the counter is compared with a threshold value, and, on the basis of that comparison, it is decided whether to authorize the authenticated mobile terminal to assume the role of the access network to authenticate another mobile terminal. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110170448 | MANAGEMENT OF ROUTING TOPOLOGY IN A NETWORK - In a packet communication network comprising a plurality of nodes connected by respective links according to a routing topology, ordered metrics are respectively associated with links each connecting two nodes together directly. On detection of a modification of the routing topology, at the level of a first node connected by a link to at least one second node, a timer value associated with the second node is determined. Next, the timer is set. Finally, on expiring of this timer, a topology update message is emitted destined for the second node. The timer value is provided by an increasing function taking as parameter the metric associated with said link connecting the first node to the second node, so that the larger the metric, the larger the timer value. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110167385 | PROCESSING OF DATA FOR IMPROVED DISPLAY - A method and system relate to the processing of data in order to display thumbnails, when commanded by a user, containing information concerning multimedia content, for example television programs, having respective durations and available via a plurality of respective sources and at respective times. The thumbnails are distributed across a screen: by time of availability along a first axis, and by source along a second axis distinct from the first axis. In particular, the apparent dimensions of the thumbnails are equal and independent of the content duration. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110167138 | Method and Device for Redirecting a Data Flow Monitoring Query - A method of redirecting a request (R_act) sent by a terminal equipment (STB) for control of a data stream (FL | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110161824 | Process and system for interaction with an application that is shared among multiple users - This invention relates in a general way to the shared digital interfaces that allow collaborative work among multiple users, and in particular a process and a system for interaction with a common application ( | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110161785 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING A DIGITAL SIGNAL BETWEEN AT LEAST TWO TRANSMITTERS AND AT LEAST ONE RECEIVER, USING AT LEAST ONE RELAY, AND CORRESPONDING PROGRAM PRODUCT AND RELAY DEVICE - A method is provided for transmitting a digital signal between at least two transmitters and at least one receiver, using a concatenation of at least two codes. The method includes a first encoding step, in the transmitters, which outputs at least two first code words; a first transmission step of the first code words, via at least two distinct transmission channels; a receiving step, in at least one relay device, of at least two of the first code words, known as intermediate code words; a step of intertwining at least one part of the bits of the intermediate code words that outputs the intertwined bits; a second step of encoding the intertwined bits, in the relay(s), which outputs at least one second code word, taking into consideration the intermediate code words; a second step of transmitting the second code word(s) through the relay device(s), so as to enable, in the receiver(s), an iterative decoding, taking into account the first code words, and then a redundancy formed by the second code word(s). | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110154263 | Method and Device for Controlling the Display of a Plurality of Elements of a List on a Display Device - Elements of a list are caused to scroll in a first display mode on a display device in response to a movement made on a touch interface along a determined scroll axis, and starting from the first mode, a display is triggered on the display device of the list in at least one second display mode in response to a movement made on the touch interface along a trigger axis that is different from the list scroll axis. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110145350 | PERSONALIZED MESSAGING ON WEB INSERTS - A method is provided for rendering a personal message sent by a sender for a recipient. The method includes: receiving the personal message by a processing software component of a server of a communications network; detecting, by the server, a connection of the recipient to an information rendering space; and replacing an advertisement insert display by the message subsequently to the connection of the recipient as a function of at least one rendering parameter accompanying the message. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145310 | METHOD FOR UPDATING AN ENCODER BY FILTER INTERPOLATION - A method for updating the processing capacity of an encoder or decoder to use a modulated transform having a size greater than a predetermined initial size is provided, particularly, where the encoders or decoders are for storing an initial prototype filter defined by an ordered set of initial size coefficients. A step is provided for constructing a prototype filter of a size greater than the initial size to implement the modulated transform of the greater size by inserting at least one coefficient between two consecutive coefficients of the initial prototype filter. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110130124 | STATUS PROMPT METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method for managing a user equipment in a social communication network, said user equipment comprising a user networking application, said user networking application comprising a configurable user status for displaying the status of the user to other users in the social communication network, said method comprising the acts of activating a status prompt upon a change of state of the user equipment by the user, receiving a user input of a status, and setting the configurable user status using the received user input. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110129092 | RECONSTRUCTION OF MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO DATA - A method for processing sound data is provided for the reconstruction of multi-channel audio data on the basis at least of data on a reduced number of channels and of spatialization data. A test is carried out to determine whether the spatialization data received are valid. If the test is positive, a spatialization value is predicted according to a per respective model of a plurality of models. A prediction model is chosen on the basis of the spatialization values thus predicted and on the basis of the spatialization data received, to permit, in case of subsequent reception of defective spatialization data, a prediction according to this chosen model of a spatialization value and to use this predicted spatialization value for the reconstruction of the multi-channel audio data. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110128888 | DISTRIBUTION OF ROUTES IN A NETWORK OF ROUTERS - An autonomous system comprises a plurality of routers within a packet transmission network, respective links joining the routers according to a topology of routers. At the level of a first router of the autonomous system which is joined to a second router, for a route exiting the autonomous system through an exit router, a path is determined between the second router and the exit router according to performance criteria. Next, the route is announced to the second router if the first router is situated on the previously determined path. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110128884 | ROUTING ADAPTABLE TO ELECTROMAGNETIC CONDITIONS IN A MULTIHOP NETWORK - A method for routing in a multihop network comprises, for at least one multihop network node: a/ obtaining a value of an electromagnetic field near said node; b/ predetermining a ratio between said obtained value and a predefined electromagnetic field threshold value; c/ using the predetermined ratio to optionally select said node as a routing node for at least one message in the multihop network. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110122791 | TECHNIQUE FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A PLURALITY OF NODES - A method is provided for communication between a plurality nodes organized as a ring provided with transmission resources at least one of which is a control resource dedicated to transmitting control information and associated with at least one transmission resource, said method comprising the following step executed by a node of the ring: a step of receiving information relating to a reservation of a transmission window of the transmission resource received over the associated control resource. The method further comprises, if the transmission window is reserved by another node of the ring, steps of: comparing the respective volumes of reservations of resources of the ring made by the node in question and by the other node during a reference period; and pre-empting said reservation of the transmission window as a function of the result of the comparison step. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110119624 | PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGEMENT OF A GRAPHICAL INTERFACE FOR THE DISPLAY OF APPLICATION SOFTWARE GRAPHICAL COMPONENTS - A process for the management of a graphical user interface ( | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110116630 | Traceable Method and System for Broadcasting Digital Data - A method and system for a user to obtain a derived value K | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110116542 | SYMBOL PLANE ENCODING/DECODING WITH DYNAMIC CALCULATION OF PROBABILITY TABLES - The invention relates to an arithmetic encoding by bit planes (MSB, . . . , LSB), that comprises using tables of probability to have a 0 or 1 bit for encoding each bit plane. According to an embodiment of the invention, the probability tables are calculated dynamically for each signal frame based on a probability density model (Mod) corresponding to the distribution (H) of the signal (X) on each frame. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110115680 | METHOD OF ESTIMATING THE FOCUSING QUALITY OF A SIGNAL PRE-EQUALIZED BY TIME REVERSAL - A method is provided for estimating the focusing quality of a signal pre-equalized by time reversal of an estimated propagation channel between a source antenna of a source communicating entity and a destination antenna of a destination communicating entity, the method comprising a step of evaluating a focusing quality of the signal received at the destination antenna relative to a value at a focal point of a representation of a curve of received power as a function of a distance between the destination antenna and the focal point. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110110458 | METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A MULTICARRIER SIGNAL COMPRISING A GUARD INTERVAL, CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS, TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DEVICES, AND SIGNAL - A method is provided for transmitting a multiple-carrier signal. The method includes modulating data symbols representative of a data signal to be transmitted, which includes a filtering by at least one prototype function using at least two different filtering coefficients, thus providing a modulated signal including a time sequence of multiple-carrier symbols. A hold interval is inserted in front of at least one multiple-carrier symbol of the modulated signal, thus providing the multiple-carrier signal. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110110414 | MULTICELLULAR COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATIONS IN A DECENTRALIZED NETWORK - In a multicellular cooperative radio communications method, the terminals estimate and communicate to all the access points of a cooperating cluster of access points information on the transmission channels between them and each access point of the cluster. The access points include homologous processor for scheduling the servicing of the terminals and operating in accordance with a particular criterion common to all the access points. Finally, the servicing of the terminals is effected jointly by said access points, in an order determined by the processor, using transmission parameters on the basis of the information on the transmission channels transmitted by the terminals. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110110375 | METHOD OF RECEIVING A DATA PACKET IN AN IPV6 DOMAIN, AN ASSOCIATED DEVICE AND AN ASSOCIATED HOME GATEWAY - A method of receiving an IPv6 data packet in an IPv6 domain connected to an IPv4 domain, said packet comprising an IPv6 destination address and an IPv6 source address. The method comprises the following steps: identifying an IPv6 destination address constructed by concatenating an operator prefix, an IPv4 destination address, and a destination port number; if necessary, regularizing at least one address of the data packet and modifying the data packet; and routing the modified data packet to its destination. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110110374 | METHOD OF RECEIVING A DATA PACKET COMING FROM AN IPV4 DOMAIN IN AN IPV6 DOMAIN, AN ASSOCIATED DEVICE, AND ASSOCIATED ACCESS EQUIPMENT - A method of receiving a data packet from an IPv4 domain in an IPv6 domain, said data packet comprising an IPv4 destination address and a destination port number. The method comprises the following steps: constructing an IPv6 destination address by concatenating an operator prefix, said IPv4 address, and the destination port number; generating an IPv6 data packet from the IPv6 constructed destination address and the received IPv4 data packet; and routing the generated IPv6 data packet in the IPv6 domain using the IPv6 constructed destination address, said constructed address belonging to a range of IPv6 addresses routable to an interconnection equipment of the IPv6 domain with the IPv4 destination address. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110110292 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING A COMMUNICATIONS SIGNAL - A method is provided for sending a communications signal in a communications network having a plurality of nodes assuming alternating sleeping and waking states and in which a sender node executes a step of sending an initial preamble, prior to sending data to a destination node. The method includes at least one operation of a neighbor node of the sender node relaying the initial preamble, where a relaying operation corresponds to sending a preamble formed from the preamble sent during the preceding relaying operation, the preamble sent during the first relaying operation being formed from the initial preamble, and the at least one relaying operation continuing until the destination node for the data detects the sent preamble. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110107102 | METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING AN ENTITY BY A VERIFIER - A method for authenticating an entity by a verifier, the entity having an identifier, the verifier having a pair of private and public keys, comprising: sending to the entity a first random number selected by the verifier; a step wherein the entity encrypts a value by means of the public key of the verifier, said value including the first random number and an authentication datum on which the identifier of the entity depends; and the entity of said encrypted value sending a reply to authenticate said entity. The invention can be applied to the field of low-cost cryptography, especially the field of radio-identification. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110106959 | METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING A FLOW BETWEEN HETEROGENEOUS ACCESS POINTS - A method is provided for handing off flows. The flow, having a flow identifier, is established between a terminal and a correspondent. The terminal has as many terminal identifiers as access interfaces to access networks of mutually different data technologies. A first execution entity converts a handoff execution order emanating from a decision entity into execution messages by taking into account a hierarchy of execution entities of a current network. After a handoff decision has been taken for a given pair of flow and terminal identifiers, the decision entity sends an execution order to the first execution entity. The first execution entity: selects a mobility protocol from the mobility protocols supported by the execution entities of the hierarchy associated with the current network; selects in the hierarchy at least one execution entity responsible for executing the mobility protocol; and sends to the selected execution entities respective execution messages. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110106857 | Method for Automatically Adding an Address into an Address Book - A method for automatic addition of an address of a correspondent to an address book of a user, a communications session having been established between said user and said correspondent, said method comprising a step for obtaining said address, and a step for adding said address to said address book, said addition step being conditioned by the adherence to at least one rule taking into account a communication history of said user, wherein said addition step is preceded by a step for determination of a common contact between said user and said correspondent. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110106543 | SPATIAL SYNTHESIS OF MULTICHANNEL AUDIO SIGNALS - A method and associated device are provided for spatial synthesis of a sum signal to obtain at least two output signals, the sum signal as well as the spatialization parameters being output from a parametric coding by matrixing of an original multi-channel signal. The method comprises: decorrelation of the sum signal to obtain a decorrelated signal; applying a synthesis matrix, whose coefficients depend on the spatialization parameters, to the decorrelated signal and to the sum signal to obtain said output signals, wherein for at least one range of value of at least one spatialization parameter, the coefficients of the synthesis matrix are determined according to a criterion of minimizing a quantitative function, relating to the quantity of decorrelated signal in each of the output signals obtained by applying the synthesis matrix. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110103487 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENCODING A SEQUENCE OF IMAGES IMPLEMENTING A TEMPORAL PREDICTION, CORRESPONDING SIGNAL, DATA STORAGE MEDIUM, METHOD AND DECODING DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS - A method and apparatus are provided for coding a sequence of images. The method includes a step of coding at least one block of a current image of the sequence, implementing a prediction associating the block with at least one corresponding block in a reference image. The prediction includes the following steps, for at least one given block of the current image or of the reference image: determination of a plurality of control vectors for the block; at least one splitting of the block into sub-blocks; determination of a plurality of control vectors for the sub-blocks; and determination of a prediction value for at least one point of the current image. Moreover, the method includes a step of inserting, into a signal representative of the sequence, information regarding reconstruction of the control vectors for the given block. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110103457 | METHOD OF DYNAMIC CONTROL OF THE FOCUSING OF A SIGNAL PRE-EQUALIZED BY TIME REVERSAL - A method is provided for dynamically controlling the focus of a signal pre-equalized by time reversal of an estimated propagation channel between a source antenna of a source communicating entity and a destination antenna of a destination communicating entity at a current instant, said method comprising steps for evaluation by the destination communicating entity of a relative focus quality of the pre-equalized signal sent by the source antenna and received by the destination antenna, compared to a quality at a focal point, and if the evaluated relative focus quality does not satisfy a predetermined criterion, for request, by the destination communicating entity, to modify the focus addressed to the source communicating entity for a subsequent instant. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110096917 | AUTOMATED CALL SET-UP BETWEEN TWO TERMINALS - A method and apparatus are provided for sending a first terminal a message including a command adapted to trigger automatic sending by the first terminal of a request to set up a call between the first terminal and a second terminal. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110096868 | TRANSMISSION OF A PIECE OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT ACROSS A NETWORK TO A TELECOMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A method is provided for transmitting at least one piece of multimedia content to at least one telecommunication terminal, comprising: a step of sending, by a transmitting device, a request to establish a communication link-up between the transmitting device and the terminal, said sending step being carried out after an instance of one event from a predetermined set of events, said terminal to be notified of said request; and a step of transmitting said piece of multimedia content across said link-up in the form of a telephone and/or television flow, said stage of transmission to be carried out after detecting the actual establishment of said link-up. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110080464 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR FILLING OCCLUDED AREAS OF A DEPTH OR DISPARITY MAP ESTIMATED FROM AT LEAST TWO IMAGES - A method of filling occluded areas of a depth or disparity map estimated from at least two images and consisting of a matrix of pixels forming a set of lines and columns, each pixel of the map being associated with a depth or disparity value (pixel value) and any pixel of an occluded area (invalid pixel) being associated with a pixel value identifiable as being invalid. This method comprises a step of processing each line of the map pixel by pixel in a predefined direction and assigning each invalid pixel Pi encountered on a current line a value determined as a function of the values associated with the pixels in a predefined vicinity around the first valid pixel P | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110078581 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO SERVE THE DYNAMIC RELEVANT ADVERTISEMENTS FROM THE ACCESS NODE - The present system relates to an access node for granting a telecommunication device access to a content provider over a telecommunication network, the content being in the form of a webpage comprising one or more ad spaces for displaying banners ads uploaded from banner ad providers when said webpage is displayed on said telecommunication device, the access node being operable to forward a request for a first webpage sent by the telecom-munication device to the content provider, receive the first webpage from the content provider, said first webpage comprising one or more ad spaces for banner ad(s), verify that at least one first ad space has been tagged by the content provider with an indication identifiable by the access node, modify the first webpage to include in the first ad space a banner ad selected by the access node, when the first ad space is tagged with such an identifiable indication, forward the modified first webpage for subsequent display of said first webpage on the telecommunication device, thereby granting said telecommunication device access to the content provider. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110074668 | CONTROL DEVICE - The present system relates to a device for imparting control to an application program. The device comprises a first sensor for carrying out a brainwave measurement when said first sensor is in contact with a user's head. The device further comprising a second sensor adapted to generate an output signal obtained from a measurement by the second sensor, when can for instance be a gyro sensor or a camera. The device is operable to use the output signal for imparting control to the application program in case the brainwave measurement falls outside a given interval of brainwave measurement values. The present system thus discloses a device that has an increased accuracy compared to the prior art devices. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110069609 | TECHNIQUE FOR PROTECTING A POINT-TO-MULTIPOINT PRIMARY TREE IN A CONNECTED MODE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - The invention relates to a technique for protecting a point-to-multipoint primary tree in a connected mode communications network set up from a primary root node to leaf nodes in the event of a fault affecting the primary root node by means of a back-up tree between a back-up root node and at least one merge node, said at least one merge node belonging to a branch of the primary tree coming from the primary root node. A merge node executes the following steps:
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| 20110057779 | METHOD OF AUTHENTICATING A RADIO TAG BY A RADIO READER - The invention relates to a method of authenticating a radio tag by a radio reader, the tag possessing an identifier accessible to the reader via a database of tag identifiers, comprising: dispatching an authentication request by the reader to the tag, dispatching by the tag, a response, calculated by applying a first function to at least the identifier, a calculation by the tag and by the reader of a new identifier, by applying a second function to the identifier, comprising: if the response dispatched by the tag corresponds to a result obtained by applying said first function to an identifier of the base, a dispatching by the reader a first value, calculated by applying a third function to said identifier of the base. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110055532 | METHOD FOR CONFIGURING AN ELECTRONIC ORGANIZER - This method for configuring an electronic organizer installed in an item of electronic equipment comprises: a step of obtaining, based on digital data resulting from a digitization of a representation of a code, data encoded in this code and comprising at least one item of date information associated with a content; and a step of configuring said electronic organizer in order to program, on at least one date or at at least one time defined by this item of date information, an execution of a function relating to said content. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110045780 | RADIO MEASUREMENT IN A RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A radiocommunications network includes terminals and a network entity. The network entity determines at least one subset of network terminals on the basis of the distances between the terminals. A message is then sent to at least some of the terminals of said subset requesting them to effect a measurement. A value representing a capacity of a terminal to effect a measurement is associated with each terminal of the subset and the terminals that effect said measurement are determined on the basis of the respective values associated with them. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110044352 | TECHNIQUE FOR DETERMINING A POINT-TO-MULTIPOINT TREE LINKING A ROOT NODE TO A PLURALITY OF LEAF NODES - A method is provided for determining a point-to-multipoint tree connecting a root node to a plurality of leaf nodes (some nodes in different domains) used by a path calculation entity associated with a current domain. The method comprises receiving from at least one other path calculation entity associated with a downstream domain at least one message including a first set of identifiers including at least one identifier of a bunch of branches comprising at least one branch and a respective cost associated with said bunch, the bunch comprising at least one branch enabling connection to leaf nodes in downstream domains, and determining at least one new bunch of branches comprising at least one branch as a function of said at least one first set received, said new bunch of branches having a minimum cost and making it possible also to contact the leaf nodes of the current domain. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110044167 | AUTO ADAPTIVE QUALITY OF SERVICE ARCHITECTURE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD OF PROVISIONING CUSTOMER PREMISES TRAFFIC - A customer premises device is provided for monitoring quality of service (QOS) metrics between a network edge and a customer. The device includes a memory which stores at least one user profile, and, information regarding active sessions of traffic flow through the customer premises device. A hardware and/or software/firmware based controller monitors traffic flow between the customer and the network edge and receives requests for new active sessions. The processor accesses the at least one user profile stored in memory to identify a policy hierarchy with respect to active sessions of traffic flow upon receipt of a request to establish a new active session. The processor selects a candidate active session to be terminated based upon the policy hierarchy and terminates the selected session in accordance with information stored in memory regarding the selected session. In this manner, the processor enforces quality of service, for both upstream and downstream sessions, based upon the policy hierarchy of the user profile. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110040885 | MECHANISM FOR UPDATING PARAMETERS OF A SESSION SET UP THROUGH A VIRTUAL CIRCUIT - A method of communicating through a pseudo-wire set up between first and second provider edge nodes of a packet-switched network through at least one router of the packet-switched network, said method comprising, during a phase of transmitting data through the pseudo-wire in accordance with parameters defining a first communication session set up between the first and second provider edge nodes steps of: the second provider edge node receiving a set up message a of second communication session between the first and second provider edge nodes, the setting up message comprising parameters defining the second session, and the second equipment sending the router a notification message comprising parameters defining the second session and indicating switching of data transmission to the second communication session, the phase of transmitting data continuing in accordance with the parameters defining the second communication session. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110038386 | TRANSMISSION OF A VIDEO STREAM CODED BY HIERARCHICAL CODING - A video stream is produced coded in a hierarchical manner in the form of a base stream and of an enhancement stream heightened along one dimension and transmitted via a packet transmission network according to a determined transmission protocol. At the level of a transmission entity, a first series is ordered according to a first order of coded packets, from an encoder. A series of packets is obtained, coded according to a second order by grouping said coded packets into groups of N packets, by traversing in the first order the coded packets of the first series, said N packets of one and the same group either all relating to the base stream or all relating to the enhancement stream. Thereafter, packets to be transmitted are composed, said packets comprising respectively as payload the groups of the series of coded packets. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110038383 | A TECHNIQUE FOR TRANSMISSION BY A NODE OF A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A transmission method is used by a node of a communications network, wherein nodes communicate with one another via a carrier-sense multiple-access channel, said method comprising a step of sending a signal at a given transmit power and a given data rate to a receiver node over the channel, and wherein the transmit power of the sent signal assumes successively a first power value during a first time period and then a second power value during a second time period, the two power values being different and one of them being equal to the given power, the first time period representing the given power and the second time period representing the data rate. The invention also relates to a method of receiving a signal sent by the transmission method enabling the transmit power and the data rate used by the sender node to be deduced from the received signal. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110037260 | PORTABLE MECHATRONICAL DEVICE FOR GENERATING ELECTRIC POWER - The device includes, in a housing, an actuator electrically connected to a battery for charging a portable item such as a mobile terminal. For a rotating actuator comprising a first member submitted to an oscillatory motion, for example a walker carrying the housing, and a second member making up at least partially a mass part, the mass part is able to oscillate around the axle of the armature with respect to the first member. A servo control system can control the actuator sometimes as a motor supplied by the battery or by allowing the mass part to move freely, sometimes as a generator charging the battery, by slaving the motion speed of the mass part to the acceleration of the oscillatory motion of the first member. This enables to recover as much electric power as possible from the walker. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110029786 | METHOD FOR ACCESSING AND TRANSFERRING DATA LINKED TO AN APPLICATION INSTALLED ON A SECURITY MODULE ASSOCIATED WITH A MOBILE TERMINAL, AND ASSOCIATED SECURITY MODULE, MANAGEMENT SERVER AND SYSTEM - A method is provided for transferring data linked to an application installed on a security module associated with a mobile terminal, the data being stored in a first secure memory area of the security module, suitable for receiving a request to access the data, to read the data, and to transmit or store the data after encryption. A method is also provided for accessing these data suitable for transmitting a request to access, to receive and to decrypt the encrypted data. A security module, a management server, and a system implementing the transfer and access methods are also provided. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110029668 | MANAGEMENT OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF CONTENTS - A method of transmitting management information for entities linked to a contents distribution network comprises a registration of entities linked to the distribution network with a notification entity; a detection of at least one event by at least one entity linked to the distribution network; a transmission of information regarding detection of events by said entity linked to the distribution network to the notification entity; and a transmission of management information corresponding to said event by said notification entity to the registered entities linked to the distribution network, wherein said detection comprises the observation and the analysis of signalling messages circulating over the contents distribution network. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110028101 | A METHOD OF DYNAMICALLY COMPENSATING A RELATIVE MOVEMENT OF A COMMUNICATING ENTITY - A method of dynamically compensating a movement of a source communicating entity relative to a destination communicating entity comprising a set of destination antennas, an antenna data signal transmitted by a source antenna of the source communicating entity being pre-equalized by time reversing an estimated propagation channel between said source antenna and a reference destination antenna at a current time, the method comprising the iterative steps of the destination communicating entity estimating a current focus, estimating movement of the current focus, and selecting, for the next time period, a reference destination antenna for estimating the propagation channel and a target destination antenna for receiving said data signal. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110026845 | PREDICTION OF IMAGES BY PRIOR DETERMINATION OF A FAMILY OF REFERENCE PIXELS, CODING AND DECODING USING SUCH A PREDICTION - A method is provided for predicting partitions of at least one group of pixels in an image to be coded, with respect to a group of reference pixels. Accordingly, the group of reference pixels is obtained by calculating a function characteristic of a predetermined mode of prediction, the reference pixels of the group obtained being variable from one partition to another. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110026594 | CODING AND DECODING OF AN IMAGE OR OF A SEQUENCE OF IMAGES SLICED INTO PARTITIONS OF PIXELS OF LINEAR FORM - A method is provided of coding an image or a sequence of images generating a stream of data comprising data representative of at least one group of pixels in one of said images. Such a method comprises the steps of: selecting, for a group of pixels to be coded, an initial partition of predetermined linear form, slicing said group of pixels to be coded according to said selected initial partition, propagating said initial partition selected in said group of pixels to be coded, until the latter is sliced in its entirety into a plurality of partitions of predetermined form, selecting, for said sliced group of pixels, a predetermined order of traversal of said partitions, predicting and coding said partitions one after the other, according to said selected order of traversal. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110022884 | DEFENSE COMMUNICATION MODE FOR AN APPARATUS ABLE TO COMMUNICATE BY MEANS OF VARIOUS COMMUNICATION SERVICES - An appliance communicates via a communication network via various communication services available for transmitting data via said communication network, said appliance comprising means of: detecting an anomaly in a communication that is established with said appliance via one of said communication services, implementing a defense communication mode, wherein the communications to be established with said appliance via a communication service for which a detection has occurred are inhibited, the communications to be established via another communication service being allowed. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110021184 | METHOD OF MANAGING A DATA TRANSMISSION SERVICE - A method is provided for managing a service for transmitting data, between a communicating entity operating according to a first mode and a core network of a second mode, through an access node of an access network. The method includes beforehand a step of converting a request for activation of service in the first mode emitted by the communicating entity, into a request for activation of service in the second mode destined for the core network. The method further includes a step of selecting a radio support of the first mode between the access node and the communicating entity and establishing of a resource of the second mode between the access node and the core network, a step of sending a notification to the core network of an allocation of a radio access support of the second mode including a radio support and a resource of the second mode, and a step of sending a notification to the communicating entity of an allocation of a radio access support of the first mode including a radio support and a resource of the first mode. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110019665 | Method of Terminating a Call and Voice-Over-IP Terminal - A method of terminating a call is used by a voice over IP terminal ( | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110019588 | METHOD OF ROUTING A DATA PACKET IN A NETWORK AND AN ASSOCIATED DEVICE - A method of routing a data packet in a telecommunications network, said packet comprising a primary destination address and a destination port number. On reception of said packet, the following steps are executed: determining a port mask defining a range of port numbers to which the destination port number belongs; selecting an identifier of a destination piece of equipment of the packet from a plurality of equipment identifiers associated with said destination address on the basis of the port mask; and routing the packet to the destination piece of equipment on the basis of said identifier. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110019537 | METHOD OF ROUTING A DATA PACKET VIA A ROUTER IN A PACKET COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK SUPPORTED BY A TRANSPORT NETWORK - The invention relates to a method of routing a data packet via a router ( | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110013614 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM AND METHOD - A telecommunications system communicates data packets to and from a mobile terminal in accordance with a mobile internet protocol. The system comprises a packet radio network including a first radio access interface and a gateway support node. The packet radio network is operable to communicate data packets to and from the mobile terminal, through the gateway support node and via the first radio access interface. The gateway support node is operable to provide a home address via which a correspondent node may transmit data packets via the gateway support node to the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal is attached to the packet radio network. The system further comprises a wireless access network including a second radio access interface and a home agent, the wireless access network being operable to communicate data packets to and from the mobile terminal through the home agent via the second radio access interface, the wireless access network being operable to provide a care of address for the mobile terminal via which the correspondent node may transmit data packets via the home agent to the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal is attached to the wireless access network. The mobile terminal is arranged to connect to one of the packet radio network or the wireless access network and, when connected, to detect which of the packet radio network and the wireless access network the mobile terminal has connected. Upon detection that the mobile terminal is attached to the packet radio network, the mobile terminal and the home agent are arranged so that data packets are transmitted to and from the mobile terminal via the gateway support node in preference to the home agent. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110009771 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING TRANSFER FUNCTIONS OF THE HRTF TYPE - The invention relates to a method for determining transfer functions of the HRTF type for an individual, that comprises: measuring, for a first number of directions, the transfer functions of the HRTF type specific to said individual; matching the directivity functions associated with said measured functions of the HRTF type, with reference directivity functions associated with reference transfer functions of the HRTF type, said reference functions of the HRTF type being determined for a second number of directions higher that said first number of directions and reconstructing the measured directivity functions from said reference directivity functions. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110009146 | TRANSMISSION RESOURCE MANAGEMENT - A communication network comprises a management entity adapted for allocating a transmission resource to a terminal from a plurality of terminals. A mobility value is associated with each terminal of the plurality of terminals, this mobility value indicating a level of mobility of a terminal in the communication network. Next, a terminal is selected from among the plurality of terminals on the basis of a characteristic relating to a condition of instantaneous transmission of the terminal and of a characteristic relating to a condition of mean transmission of the terminal, while taking account of the mobility value which is associated therewith. Thereafter, the transmission resource is allocated to the selected terminal. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110008047 | DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR MANAGING THE TRANSMISSION POWER OF AN OPTICAL SOURCE ACCORDING TO THE LEVEL OF OPTICAL LOSSES OF AN OPTICAL LINK - A device and method are provided for transmitting an optical signal including at least two optical components to be transmitted respectively through at least two optical links that can be established respectively between the transmission device and at least two terminal devices. The transmission device and method associate, based on at least one parameter representative of the optical losses of the optical links, at least one of the optical components to at least one optical link selected from the optical links and to a transmission optical power. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110007977 | ENCODING AND DECODING AN IMAGE OR IMAGE SEQUENCE DIVIDED INTO PIXEL BLOCKS - A method and apparatus are provided for coding an image or a sequence of images, generating a data stream including data representative of pixel groups, referred to as blocks, in one of the images. The method includes: grouping blocks in a cluster of blocks according to the proximity of their respective values corresponding to at least one block parameter to be coded; determining a value of the parameter, the value being characteristic of said group of blocks; coding blocks of the cluster, where the values of the blocks for the parameter are coded implicitly by inheritance of the characteristic value or are coded as refinements relative to the characteristic value, and coding a data structure associated with the cluster of blocks, the data structure including data associated with the characteristic value. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110007827 | CONCEALMENT OF TRANSMISSION ERROR IN A DIGITAL AUDIO SIGNAL IN A HIERARCHICAL DECODING STRUCTURE - A method is provided for concealing a transmission error in a digital signal chopped into a plurality of successive frames associated with different time intervals in which, on reception, the signal may comprise erased frames and valid frames, the valid frames comprising information relating to the concealment of frame loss. The method is implemented during a hierarchical decoding using a core decoding and a transform-based decoding using windows introducing a time delay of less than a frame with respect to the core decoding. The method includes concealing a first set of missing samples for the erased frame, implemented in a first time interval; a step of concealing a second set of missing samples utilizing information of said valid frame and implemented in a second time interval; and a step of transition between the first and the second set of missing samples to obtain at least part of the missing frame. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110004925 | DATA PROCESSING WITH A POSTERIORI OR A PRIORI AUTHENTICATION - A method and apparatus are provided for processing data. The method includes a step of receiving, during a first communication session established with said server, a request formulated by a first user defining at least one processing operation to be executed on first data, and a step of executing said processing operation on said first data, during a second communication session established with said server after said first session for a second user. The step of executing is applied on condition that the second user has been authenticated via a strong authentication method during the second session and that a relationship between the first and second users has been verified. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110004912 | METHOD OF CODING A SCALABLE VIDEO STREAM DESTINED FOR USERS WITH DIFFERENT PROFILES - A method is provided of coding a video sequence as a video stream having a base layer and one or more refinement layers destined for users having different user profiles. A visual object is coded in at least one of the refinement layers codes, which is distinct from visual objects coded in the base layer or in another of the refinement layers. The visual object corresponds to semantic content destined specifically for the users of one of the profiles. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110002408 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING MULTI-CARRIER SIGNALS IN A MULTI-ANTENNA SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method of transmitting a multi-carrier signal intended to be used by a system with Nt transmit antennas, where Nt is greater than or equal to two, and Nr receive antennas, where Nr is greater than or equal to one, of the type using OFDM/OQAM modulation and distributing symbols before transmission in a time-frequency plane, in which method the symbols are distributed over blocks of particular size n | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110002323 | DYNAMIC TIME INTERLEAVING METHOD AND AN ASSOCIATED DEVICE - The present invention relates to a time interleaving method ( | 01-06-2011 |
| 20100333021 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING INFORMATION CONCERNING CONTENT ACCESS AND RELATED APPARATUSES - The invention relates to a method for obtaining information concerning the access to a plurality of content accessible by individuals having access apparatuses (I). To this end, the method comprises obtaining a graphical representation including aggregated information on an amount of accesses of at least one piece of content from the plurality of content by a panel of individuals, the panel of individuals including individuals accessing or having accessed at least one piece of content of a subassembly of content of the plurality of content, and controlling a display of said graphical representation so that a user can select at least one piece of content from the displayed graphical representation. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100333013 | Method of Managing the Display of a Window of an Application on a First Screen, a Program, and a Terminal using it - A method of managing a window of an application displayed on a first screen, a program, and a terminal using it. In particular, the terminal is an interactive table. The method includes the determination of a first parameter about the display of the window as a function of a second parameter about an activation element on activation of the application by the activation element. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100332819 | DIGITAL CONTENT ACCESS CONTROL - Control of access to at least one digital content is managed as a function of at least one access criterion. The digital content is transmitted to at least one terminal in the form a data stream. The access criterion is stored in the terminal as a function of an identifier. The terminal receives the data stream in association with a control message indicating the identifier. It then retrieves the stored access criterion as a function of the identifier received in the control message. Finally, it verifies whether the stored access criterion is satisfied in order, where appropriate, to authorize access to the content. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100332541 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A MULTIMEDIA DOCUMENT IN A REFERENCE BASE, CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM AND IDENTIFICATION DEVICE - A method is provided for identifying a multimedia document, aimed at verifying whether the multimedia document to be identified is similar or not to at least one multimedia document referenced in a base of reference multimedia documents. The method includes assignment of a number of votes to at least one reference multimedia document and selection of multimedia documents similar to the multimedia document to be identified. The selection step includes: determining a probabilistic distribution of the number of votes assigned to a reference multimedia document, as a function of the total number of documents referenced in the base and of the total number of votes, under a random voting assumption; and obtaining a threshold of selection of the similar multimedia documents from among the reference multimedia documents, on the basis of the probabilistic distribution. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100329173 | Method of controlling an entity of a remote network from a local network - A method and apparatus are provided for controlling at least one entity of a remote source network from a local home network. The method is implemented by a relay module, termed a roaming relay module, designed so that when the module is executed by an appliance connected to the home network, the module communicates with a relay module, termed a source relay module, executed by an appliance of the source network and serves as communication relay in relation to the at least one entity. The method includes: a step of reception of a first request by the roaming relay module via a control interface, complying with a first protocol usable to control the entity from the source network; and a step of sending from the roaming relay module to the source relay module, a second request intended to be converted by the source relay module into at least one third request complying with the first protocol. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100329138 | METHOD OF OBTAINING INFORMATION REPRESENTATIVE OF AN AVAILABILITY, A DEVICE FOR OBTAINING INFORMATION, AND A CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM - A method is provided of obtaining information representative of an availability of a communications network, which includes a plurality of equipment exchanging routing data in accordance with a routing protocol. The method includes a stage of storing in chronological order at least some of the routing data exchanged between at least one first equipment and at least one second equipment; a stage of totaling unavailability times as a function of the routing data stored in chronological order for a predetermined time period; a stage of obtaining the information representative of an availability for the time period as a function of the totaled unavailability times. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100324907 | ATTENUATION OF OVERVOICING, IN PARTICULAR FOR THE GENERATION OF AN EXCITATION AT A DECODER WHEN DATA IS MISSING - The invention proposes the synthesis of a signal consisting of consecutive blocks. It proposes more particularly, on receipt of such a signal, to replace, by synthesis, lost or erroneous blocks of this signal. To this end, it proposes an attenuation of the overvoicing during the generation of a signal synthesis. More particularly, a voiced excitation is generated on the basis of the pitch period (T) estimated or transmitted at the previous block, by optionally applying a correction of plus or minus a sample of the duration of this period (counted in terms of number of samples), by constituting groups (A′,B′,C′,D′) of at least two samples and inverting positions of samples in the groups, randomly (B′,C′) or in a forced manner. An over-harmonicity in the excitation generated is thus broken and the effect of overvoicing in the synthesis of the generated signal is thereby attenuated. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100324820 | OBJECT LOCATION - The invention relates to a method of locating an object, comprising a step of locating an object and a step of verifying the existence of a pre-established connection between the location of the object and at least one place associated with the object. In the affirmative, a step of providing an information item dependent on at least one place resulting from the verification step. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100322529 | Device And Method For Scalable Encoding And Decoding Of Image Data Flow And Corresponding Signal And Computer Program - Method of coding an image or a sequence of images generating a flow of data in the form of groups of blocks, at least one group of blocks containing image blocks having a resolution and a quality level of identical quantification, characterized in that said method comprises at least the following steps for the at least one group of blocks, of a) a first coding so that each block of the at least one group of blocks has at least one associated parameter that is given a first value, and b) a second coding for giving said associated parameter for at least one block of said at least one group of blocks a second value, so that for said at least one bloc, the first and second values given for said parameter can be combined during decoding in order to provide a value assigned to said parameter. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100322220 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REGULATING SENDING IN A WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method of regulating sending implemented by a station having at least one data packet to be sent via a wireless communication network comprises at least one step of obtaining a binary value representative either of an authorization to send, or of a prohibition to send, a step of sending said packet, said sending step being executed on condition that at least one criterion relating to the binary value or values obtained is satisfied, wherein the binary value or values are dependent on an index value assigned randomly to said station and a class of packets to which the packet to be sent belongs. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100318349 | SYNTHESIS OF LOST BLOCKS OF A DIGITAL AUDIO SIGNAL, WITH PITCH PERIOD CORRECTION - The present invention relates to signal modification before pitch period repetition for the synthesis of blocks lost on decoding digital audio signals. The effects of repetition of transitories, such as the plosives of a speech signal, are avoided by comparing the samples of a pitch period with those of the previous pitch period. The signal is modified preferentially by taking the minimum between a current sample (e( | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100311427 | CONTROL OF RADIO CELL ACTIVITY - A cellular network includes a first cell management entity adapted for managing a first radio cell that can be in an active or inactive state, a second cell management entity adapted for managing at least a second radio cell, and at least one control entity adapted for controlling the first cell management entity, wherein said first and second radio cells at least partially overlap each other geographically. At the control entity, a piece of presence information is obtained concerning the presence of at least one terminal in a radio neighbouring area of the first cell. An activity state of the first cell is then decided on the basis of the piece of presence information, the radio neighbouring area of the first cell including at least the second cell. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100309995 | METHOD FOR SENDING AND RECEIVING A SIGNAL IN A MULTIPLE-ANTENNA SYSTEM IMPLEMENTING SPATIAL PRE-ENCODING, CORRESPONDING SENDER, RECEIVER AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS - A method and apparatus are provided for emitting and receiving a signal in a multi-antennae system, using spatial precoding. A method for emitting a signal from an emitter towards a receiver via a transmission channel, in the form of a set of data flows, includes distributing the emission antennae into a plurality of groups containing at least one antenna, at least one group containing two antennae, according to at least one piece of information representing the transmission channel. The method also includes: attributing an efficiency to each emission antenna; allocating an emission power to each data flow; and spatial precoding the signal, using a matrix for diagonal precoding by blocks, containing at least two blocks, each block being associated with one of the groups of antennae. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100309829 | TIME-REVERSAL PRE-EQUALIZATION METHOD - A method of pre-equalizing a data signal transmitted by a source communicating entity comprising a set of source antennas to a destination communicating entity comprising a set of destination antennas, the method comprising a step of a reference antenna of the set of source antennas receiving a first pulse transmitted by a destination antenna via a first propagation channel, a step of the reference antenna receiving a combined impulse response representing the successive passages of a second pulse through a second propagation channel between a source antenna and the destination antenna and the first propagation channel, a step of time reversing the combined impulse response, a step of combining the time-reversed combined impulse response and an impulse response representing the passage of said first pulse through said first propagation channel, the above steps being repeated for at least a portion of the set of destination antennas and at least a portion of the set of source antennas, and a step of determining pre-equalization coefficients of the data signal from a set of the combinations of impulse responses. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100306686 | METHOD FOR REPRESENTING A USER, AND CORRESPONDING DEVICE AND COMPUTER SOFTWARE PRODUCT - The invention relates to a method of representing a user. According to the invention, the method includes a step of configuring at least one means for representing said user taking account of at least one representation parameter derived from at least one geographical location information item obtained from a terminal in the possession of said user. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100306629 | PROCESSING OF BIT ERRORS IN A DIGITAL AUDIO BIT FRAME - The invention relates to a method of processing bit errors in a bit frame emanating from a digital audio coder, comprising a step of receiving a current bit frame liable to comprise bit errors. According to the invention, the bit frame comprises sensitive bits to be protected which are catalogued in at least one category according to the type of parameter that they code and the method furthermore comprises the steps of receiving protection bits, of reading the sensitive bits received in the current bit frame, the number of sensitive bits being lower than the number of bits of the bit frame, of detecting bit errors as a function of said protection bits received and of said sensitive bits received and in the event of detecting at least one erroneous bit in said bit frame, of modifying the current bit frame before decoding, as a function of the category in which the erroneous bit is catalogued. The invention also pertains to a device implementing the method according to the invention as well as to a decoder and a coding/decoding system comprising such a device. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100306625 | TRANSMISSION ERROR DISSIMULATION IN A DIGITAL SIGNAL WITH COMPLEXITY DISTRIBUTION - The present invention relates to a method of transmission error concealment in a digital signal split up into a plurality of successive frames associated with different time intervals in which, on reception, the signal might comprise erased frames and valid frames and in order to replace at least the first erased frame (N) after a valid frame, at least two steps are performed, a first step (E | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100305952 | AUDIO ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD AND ASSOCIATED AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS - The invention relates to a method for sequencing spectral components of elements to be encoded (A | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100303060 | SECOND CALL MODE CALL SET-UP BETWEEN TWO USERS - A method is provided of setting up a call between first and second users having respective first and second application identifiers, shared between the users, the first user being connected to a communications application and being adapted to communicate in a first call mode with the second user, adapted to receive a connection request, to obtain an identifier of a second call mode of the first user and an identifier of the second mode of the second user and to set up a second call mode call between the two users as a function of the identifiers obtained. In addition, a method is provided of requesting the setting up of a second mode call between the first user and the second user, the first user being connected to a communications application and being adapted to communicate in a first call mode with the second user, adapted to send a connection request. A terminal and a server respectively are provided for implementing the call set-up request method and the call set-up method. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100302977 | TIME-REVERSAL METHOD OF PRE-EQUALIZING A DATA SIGNAL - A method of pre-equalizing a frequency-division duplex data signal transmitted by a source communicating entity having a set of source antennas to a destination communicating entity having a set of destination antennas, the method comprising a step of transmitting a pulse via a destination antenna to the source communicating entity, a step of the destination antenna transmitting to the source communicating entity a combined impulse response representing the successive passage of said pulse through a first propagation channel between the destination antenna and a reference antenna of the set of source antennas and a second propagation channel between a source antenna and the destination antenna, said step being repeated for at least some of the source antennas, the steps of transmission of a pulse and iterative transmission of a time-reversed impulse response being repeated for at least some of the destination antennas, and a step of determining pre-equalization coefficients of the data signal from a combination of a set of time-reversed combined impulse responses received by the source communicating entity. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100299618 | METHOD OF MANAGING A SET OF VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT CONTROL ENTITIES, DEVICE, AND CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A method is provided for managing a set of entities, each controlling a virtual environment in which user representations evolve. The method includes the following steps: monitoring at least one characteristic of each of the entities and/or at least one characteristic of a corresponding virtual environment; proposing to transfer and/or transferring at least one of the user representations from a first virtual environment to a second virtual environment, as a function of the characteristic or characteristics monitored. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100299361 | DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR PREDICTING COMMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH A PRODUCT - A method is provided for predicting comments on a given product from a predetermined list of products information, which is displayed on a display screen for a given user having a stored user profile describing the preferences of the user for at least a portion of the product list. The method includes: determining from a user profile database a set of user profiles close to the profile of the given user, obtaining a list of comments on the given product posted by users corresponding to the profiles of the determined set, and sending to the display screen a predetermined number of comments from the list obtained to be displayed in association with information on the given product. Also, a comment prediction device is provided, which uses the method as described and a prediction system. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100298022 | CONFIGURATION OF RADIO COVERAGE - A cellular radio communications network includes a plurality of radio cells. A target radio coverage is associated with each radio cell. Each operational radio cell provides an effective radio coverage defined by a transmission power value of said radio cell. A given transmission power value is applied ( | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100296813 | OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED CENTRAL EQUIPMENT AND ACCESS NETWORK - A method and apparatus are provided for processing a composite optical signal formed of a sequence of time sectors obtained by time-division multiplexing a plurality of optical signals transmitted on a plurality of transmission channels of a shared optical access network. The method includes: taking account of a schedule for transmission of the plurality of optical signals in the access network, the schedule associating with a time sector an optical signal of the sequence and a transmission channel of the plurality of transmission channels used by the optical signal; recovering a set of representative performance parameters of the transmission channel associated with the time sector; and adaptively correcting the time sector using the set of parameters. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100293477 | METHOD FOR MANAGING THE DISPLAY OR DELETION OF A USER REPRESENTATION IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT - A method is provided for displaying a representation of a user in a virtual environment in which a plurality of user representations evolves. The method includes the following steps for a given user: determination of a destination zone in the virtual environment in which the representation of the user is to be rendered; determination of an appearance zone in the virtual environment; displaying of the representation in the appearance zone; and automatic movement of the representation from the appearance zone to the destination zone. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100293188 | METHOD FOR REDUCING THE WORKLOAD OF SERVERS, CORRESPONDING TERMINAL, DEVICE AND COMPUTER SOFTWARE PRODUCT - A method is provided for generating a query request to be transmitted to at least one receiving entity in a communication network. The method includes: receiving a developed and previously formulated query request; selecting a synthetic form adapted to the developed query request from a set of pre-established synthetic forms; and constructing a synthetic query request from the selected synthetic form, wherein the synthetic query request is to be transmitted to the receiving entity. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100293036 | DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR UPDATING A USER PROFILE - A device is provided for updating a user profile stored in a memory accessible to the device. The device includes a display screen for displaying a graphical user interface representing a product page showing a plurality of descriptors. The device is such that each of at least some of the plurality of descriptors of the viewed product page is associated with an interest indicator linked to the user profile and represented on the graphical user interface by an illustration. The device includes a user interface for selecting an illustration representing an interest indicator for a descriptor from the product page and for selecting an illustration from a set of illustrations representing different levels of interest. The level of interest corresponds to the selected illustration being stored for updating the user profile. Also, methods are provided for updating a user profile and providing product recommendations using such a profile. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100290334 | Spectrum Characterization for Communication Equipment - The invention concerns the processing of digital signals, in particular spectral scanning upon reception of a signal. Said processing includes multicarrier shape filtering ( | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100287439 | ENCODING METHOD AND DEVICE TO DETERMINE TLDPC CODES - Encoding method ( | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100284294 | COMMUNICATION BY RETURN PATHWAY FROM A TERMINAL TO A TRANSMITTER FOR REDUCING IN PARTICULAR INTERFERENCE BETWEEN BEAMS FROM THE TRANSMITTER - The invention relates to a communication by return pathway from a terminal to a transmitter for reducing in particular interference between beams from the transmitter. A telecommunication system comprises a transmitter designed to render simultaneously active a first number of beams, as resources for a plurality of user terminals. Within the sense of the invention, each terminal calculates, while taking account of interference noise, at least one second preferred number of beams to be rendered simultaneously active by the transmitter, and sends to the transmitter, through the return pathway, an indication of this second preferred number, among information about the quality of reception. The transmitter can then adjust the first number of beams to be rendered active, as a function of the returns from the terminals, for a next burst. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100283639 | TRANSFORM-BASED CODING/DECODING, WITH ADAPTIVE WINDOWS - The present invention provides coding/decoding a digital signal, in particular using a transform with overlap employing weighting windows. In the invention, two consecutive and equal-size blocks of samples of the signal may be weighted by respective different successive windows. These two windows may be chosen independently of each other according to a criterion specific to the characteristics of the signal (entropy, data rate/distortion, etc.) that are determined for each of the two blocks. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100281396 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING USER REPRESENTATIONS, CORRESPONDING DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A method is provided for monitoring a representation of a user in a virtual environment. The method includes: a step of continuous supervision of a state of transfer of data between a terminal of said user and an entity for management of said virtual environment; a step of adaptation of a behaviour of said representation following a modification of said data transfer state. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100281336 | METHOD AND ENTITY FOR PROBABILISTIC SYMMETRICAL ENCRYPTION - The invention relates to a method of probabilistic symmetric encryption of a plaintext message element with the aid of a secret key that can be represented in the form of a matrix. It comprises an operation of encrypting the plaintext message element, with the aid of the matrix parametrized by a random vector, so as to obtain an encrypted message element coupled to the random vector. Furthermore, there is envisaged a step of encoding the plaintext message element as a code word with the aid of an error correcting code having a given correction capacity and a step of adding a noise vector. The error correcting code and the noise vector are adapted so that the Hamming weight of the noise vector is less than or equal to the correction capacity of the correcting code. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100281177 | METHOD OF GENERATING A FILE DESCRIBING A BITSTREAM, CORRESPONDING DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - Method of generating a file describing a bit stream, corresponding device and computer program product. The invention relates to a method of generating a description file ( | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100280984 | METHOD FOR ANALYZING A MULTIMEDIA CONTENT, CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND ANALYSIS DEVICE - A method is provided for analyzing a piece of multimedia content including a time series of elementary entities, in order to check whether or not the piece of multimedia content includes at least one piece of reference content referenced in a content base. The method includes, for at least one elementary entity of the multimedia content and selected according to a predetermined selection rule, or current elementary entity: allocating a plausibility probability to each elementary entity of a set of current candidate elementary entities; allocating a transition probability between the current candidate elementary entity or entities and at least one previous candidate elementary entity; allocating an identification probability of at least one scenario including a time series of candidate elementary entities; deciding the recognition of one of the reference content and/or carrying on the analysis using a subsequent elementary entity of the piece of multimedia content. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100278444 | METHOD FOR THE VARIABLE-COMPLEXITY DECODING OF AN IMAGE SIGNAL, CORRESPONDING DECODING TERMINAL, ENCODING METHOD, ENCODING DEVICE, COMPUTER SIGNAL AND PROGRAMS - A method is provided decoding a digital image signal in a decoding terminal that uses a variable-complexity decoding, enabling, for at least one step in the decoding, selection of at least one decoding tool from at least two available decoding tools. The method includes the following steps: identifying from the images control images and intermediate images; applying to each of the control images, for at least one step of the decoding, at least one predetermined decoding tool imposed by the signal; applying to at least one of the intermediate images, for at least one step of the decoding, at least one decoding tool selected by the decoding terminal and not imposed by the signal. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100278053 | Method for Organizing Packets Belonging to Streams, and Associated Equipment - The inventive method consists in determining a flow (F) to which belongs each new incoming packet (P), when said flow (F) is on a list of active flows, in introducing said packet into a fair share scheduling mechanism ( | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100275246 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR MAINTAINING AN ADDRESS TRANSLATION TABLE - The invention relates to a device for maintaining an address translation table, placed in series between a terminal and a third-party entity of a telecommunications network. According to the invention, such a device is adapted to verify the existence in the address translation table of an entry specific to the exchange of application signaling messages using said protocol between the terminal and the third-party entity and, if there is no entry specific to the exchange of application signaling messages using said protocol between the terminal and the third-party entity, to create a specific entry in the address translation table associating with a private address and a private port of the terminal in a private network connecting it to said device a public address and a public port of the terminal in the telecommunications network and an indication of the validity of the entry, this validity indication taking into account the first reception time. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100275242 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING APPLICATIONS INSTALLED ON A SECURITY MODULE ASSOCIATED WITH A MOBILE TERMINAL, AND AN ASSOCIATED SECURITY MODULE, MOBILE TERMINAL, AND SERVER - The invention relates to a method of controlling applications installed in a security module associated with a mobile terminal and adapted to increment at least one transaction value during a transaction effected by an application and, if that transaction value reaches an associated predetermined value, sending at least one connection command to a management server and blocking at least one application if the command fails. The invention also relates to a method of managing such applications adapted to receive a connection command, verify the user rights and update at least one transaction value and/or block at least one application as a function of the verification result. The invention further relates to a management server, a mobile terminal and a security module that can be used with a mobile terminal. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100275009 | METHOD FOR THE UNIQUE AUTHENTICATION OF A USER BY SERVICE PROVIDERS - The invention relates to a method for unique authentication of a user (U) by at least one service provider (SP), said method including a preliminary identity federation stage of federating an identity (user@sp) of said user for said service provider and an identity (user@idp) of the user (U) for an identity provider (IdP). According to the invention, said preliminary identity federation stage includes the steps of: the user (U) generating a user alias ([alias]) for that service provider (SP) and sending said identity provider (IdP) a masked alias ([alias] | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100274900 | MANAGEMENT OF A COMMUNICATION IN A HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK - A communication of a first terminal is managed in a communication network comprising subnetworks. The first terminal can communicate with at least one second terminal and at least one subnetwork of the network is accessible via this second terminal. At the level of the first terminal, information relating to resources of the subnetwork which is accessible via the second terminal is received from the second terminal. On the basis of this information, a subnetwork is selected for the communication of the first terminal from among a set of subnetworks of the network comprising at least this subnetwork accessible via the second terminal. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100273507 | TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for a user equipment to transmit a set of data to at least a first telecommunication network, said user equipment comprising a rechargeable power supply, said method comprising the acts of acquiring network related information from at least a second telecommunication network by the user equipment and initiating the transmission of a set of data to the at least first telecommunication network upon detection of the charging of the power supply, the set of data comprising said network related information. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100272084 | ACCESS NODE SWITCHING METHOD - A method of switching a terminal from a source access node (NA | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100269160 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING VIRTUAL USER DOMAINS - The present invention addresses the previous of lack of subscriber identity tracking and management for residential broadband lines and provides customized access and enhanced IP services for a subscriber's household members (virtual user domain) and his/her circle of extended families, relatives, and friends (multiple virtual user domains). Rather than treating a broadband link as a single connection with a single set of services and quality constraints, the present invention enables the subscriber to create multiple user profiles per broadband link; tailor activities such as web services to a specific user and group profile; provide restricted access to minors (e.g. allow only age appropriate content to be viewed); and facilitate connection at multiple access points on a carrier's edge network. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100269113 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AT LEAST ONE APPLICATIONS PROCESS AND CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A method and apparatus are provided for controlling at least one application process comprising a plurality of application services, which are executed in an application environment in order to provide a service. One such method includes steps enabling a globally asynchronous implementation of the aforementioned application services without generating a timeout in relation to a client that requested the implementation of said application process. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100269090 | METHOD OF MAKING IT POSSIBLE TO SIMPLIFY THE PROGRAMMING OF SOFTWARE - A method for aiding the programming of software comprising a step of displaying a description area used to display a graphical description of said software and at least one step of displaying at least one interface element in a control area so as to propose to a user that he undertake an operation for describing said software by instructing an update of said graphical description by means of said interface element, the description operation currently proposed being dependent each time on the last description operation performed, in such a way as to prompt the user to define said software according to a predefined succession of description operations. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100268766 | DATA MANAGEMENT IN A GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM - In a geographical information system, a spatial environment is represented according to representation data with reference to geographical areas. The geographical information system comprises a server and a terminal connected via a communication network. The server stores the representation data according to the geographical areas. A selection of a plurality of geographical areas is made at the level of the terminal, as a function of a criterion relating to a load level of the terminal. A request is sent from the terminal to the server indicating the selected plurality of geographical areas. The terminal receives the representation data according to a continuous transmission protocol. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100266046 | MOTION ENCODING AND DECODING - A method is provided for encoding a portion of a current image, including: an estimation of motion between the current image portion and a plurality of candidate image portions in order to form motion components, an evaluation of a performance criterion for each candidate image portion, and the selection of a reference image portion using said performance criteria. In the method, for at least one motion component, the motion estimation, the performance criteria evaluation and the reference image portion selection only use information considered to be available at the decoder and no motion information is inserted into an output flow intended for a decoder. A corresponding decoding method is also provided. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100265143 | ELECTROMAGNETIC ANTENNA RECONFIGURABLE BY ELECTROWETTING - The invention relates to an electromagnetic antenna that comprises a radiating element composed of a first, electrically conducting, fluid substance (F | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100265060 | LOCATING AN OBJECT - The invention relates to a method of locating an object capable of being located by at least one location unit. The invention comprises a step of selecting at least one location unit as a function of the locale in which the object is situated. | 10-21-2010 |
