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Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150312251 | ENSURING THE SECURITY OF A DATA TRANSMISSION - Ensuring the security of a data transmission by verifying an identity of a user, comprising: a prior step of enrolling a terminal of the user, comprising: an association of a authentic identity data item of the user and a data item of a terminal available to the user and communicating via a network, the association being stored with data for contacting the terminal via the network, and a determination of an identity derived from at least said information, stored in the memory of the terminal, in correspondence with a data item specific to the user, for the purposes of a later strong authentication based on both the data item specific to the user and on the derived identity, as well as a current step of verifying the user identity. | 10-29-2015 |
20140269925 | 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. | 09-18-2014 |
20140269900 | 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. | 09-18-2014 |
20140149565 | REMOTELY SITED EXECUTION OF A SOFTWARE APPLICATION WITHIN A NETWORK - A method of controlling an execution of a software application. The method includes, within a control device designed for driving at least one multimedia contents restitution device: a step of obtaining, from an execution device configured to trigger an execution of the software application, first connection data to be used by a restitution device to establish a first communication link across a network with the execution device and receiving, during the execution, via the first communication link a multimedia stream resulting from the execution; a step of transmitting to the restitution device parameters for restitution of a multimedia content comprising the first connection data; and a step of dispatching to the restitution device a command for restitution of the multimedia content, intended for triggering a restitution by the restitution device of the multimedia stream. | 05-29-2014 |
20140126770 | PHR/EMR Retrieval System Based on Body Part Recognition and Method of Operation Thereof - A method of filtering an electronic medical record (EMR) based on a selected body part (SBP). The method may be controlled by one or more controllers and may include one or more acts of obtaining image information of a patient, analyzing the image information using an object recognition method, identifying a SBP of the patient based upon the analyzing of the image information, and filtering the EMR of the patient in accordance with the SBP. | 05-08-2014 |
20140126486 | TECHNIQUE FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN USER EQUIPMENT AND A DATA NETWORK IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method for communication, in a packet-mode communication network, between user equipment and a data network. A session is established between the user equipment and a data-network access gateway via an access network. The method includes: detecting a request for access to a service based on at least one packet transmitted by the user equipment via the established session; a first step of determining, based at least one criterion, that a new session is to be established; a step of sending, to the user equipment, a control to establish a new session, the user equipment initiating establishment of the new session; a second step of determining another access gateway, the other gateway being suitable for the service required by the user equipment; and establishing the new session initiated by the user equipment, from which the new session is established between the user equipment and the other gateway. | 05-08-2014 |
20140074929 | PROTECTION AGAINST THE DETECTION OF ALERT SIGNALS - A method of communicating between at least one event detector sensor and a collector of event detection data transmitted by the sensor in the form of an event signalling message whose modulation is defined by at least one spreading code. The method comprises the steps implemented by the sensor of, upon detection of an event, generation of data of event detection, of reception of a synchronization message emitted by the collector, the synchronization message comprising a seed for a pseudo-random generation of at least one spreading code and of pseudo-random generation of at least one spreading code on the basis of the seed. The method furthermore comprises a step of emitting an event signalling message whose modulation is defined by the at least one spreading code generated randomly, the event signalling message comprising the event detection data. | 03-13-2014 |
20140071972 | 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 includes a packet radio network having a first radio access interface and a gateway support node and includes a wireless access network having a second radio access interface and a home agent. 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. | 03-13-2014 |
20140057601 | METHOD OF AUTHENTICATING A FIRST AND A SECOND ENTITY AT A THIRD ENTITY - A method is provided for authenticating a first entity and a second entity at a third entity. The first and third entities share a first secret key, and the second and third entities share a second secret key. The method includes steps of: dispatching by the third entity to the first entity of a challenge, calculation by the first entity, using the first secret key, of an authentication value; dispatching by the first entity to the second entity the authentication value, calculation by the second entity, using the second secret key, of an authentication response; dispatching by the second entity to the third entity of the authentication response; calculation by the third entity of an expected authentication response; and comparison of the authentication response received with the expected calculated authentication response. | 02-27-2014 |
20140010273 | IMPULSE NOISE MEASUREMENT BY SPECTRAL DETECTION - A method and device are provided for measuring impulse noise in a signal. The method includes: measuring at least one first signal; converting the first signal in the frequency domain; defining a variable-frequency triggering threshold on the basis of stationary characteristics of the first signal; measuring a second signal; converting the second signal in the frequency domain; storing the second signal when the second signal reaches or passes the triggering threshold; and high-pass-filtering the stored signal. | 01-09-2014 |
20140007225 | MULTI-PERSON GESTURAL AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF | 01-02-2014 |
20140006794 | PRIVATE/PUBLIC GESTURE SECURITY SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF | 01-02-2014 |
20140006434 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO RECOMMEND APPLICATIONS FROM AN APPLICATION MARKET PLACE TO A NEW DEVICE | 01-02-2014 |
20140006047 | MEDICAL RECORD RETRIEVAL SYSTEM BASED ON SENSOR INFORMATION AND A METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF | 01-02-2014 |
20140003265 | DATA RECEPTION DEVICE AND CORRESPONDING RECEPTION METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM | 01-02-2014 |
20130336139 | METHOD OF COMMUNICATION IN A CO-OPERATIVE NETWORK - A communications method executed by a node of a telecommunications network, the method includes: a training step including determining a “transmission” filter as a function of a received training signal; and a data transmission step of transmitting data to a target node of the network while using the transmission filter as determined during the training step. | 12-19-2013 |
20130332950 | METHOD AND EQUIPMENT FOR COLLECTING AND PROCESSING INFORMATION REPRESENTING EQUIPMENT OPERATING CONDITIONS - The invention relates to a method for communicating information relating to operating conditions of local equipment (STB), to remote equipment. The method according to the invention comprises: a step of measuring at least one value of a primitive parameter Dsk representing said operating conditions, and a step of processing said parameter using a calculation unit (CMEM, CPU) that can execute a plurality of calculation operations. The local equipment (STB), in line with the invention, can produce a multiplicity of data signals relating to variables representing operating conditions of said equipment on the basis of values of primitive parameters Dsk, without it being necessary to pre-define and physically implement a large number of complex functions as in prior art. | 12-12-2013 |
20130322872 | TECHNIQUE FOR DETERMINING A PROPAGATION DELAY OF AN OPTICAL SIGNAL BETWEEN TWO OPTICAL DEVICES VIA AN OPTICAL LINK - A method and apparatus for measuring a propagation delay of an optical signal between first and second devices in an optical transmission network, the optical signal being transmitted from the first device to the second device via a first optical fiber and from the second device to the first device via a second optical fiber. The second device includes a loopback having a first mode enabling the optical signal to be routed between the two devices. The method includes: detecting by the second device a triggering by the first device of a propagation delay measurement; receiving a measurement signal transmitted by the first device via the first optical fiber; and configuring the loopback in a second mode in which the loopback injects a return signal into the first fiber in response to the measurement signal. The first device implements a method for determining the propagation delay. | 12-05-2013 |
20130322611 | METHOD ALLOWING AN EXCHANGE OF CONTEXT INFORMATION WITHIN A GROUP OF USERS SHARING ONE AND THE SAME IDENTIFIER - A method is provided for allowing an exchange of context information within a group of users sharing one and the same identifier. The method includes transmitting information between at least one first terminal and a second terminal associated with a common identifier. The method includes a step of sending by the first terminal a notification of state intended at least for the second terminal and carrying an item of information relating to the context in which a user of the first terminal finds himself. The method allows members of a community of users, which is identified by a unique telephone number, to avail themselves of context information relating to the other members of the community at any moment, and in particular at the precise moment at which a setup request for establishing a communication is presented to them. | 12-05-2013 |
20130318094 | INDEXING AND EXECUTION OF SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS IN A NETWORK - A method is provided for managing the indexing of a software application, implemented by a multimedia content server (DMS). The method includes the following phases: indexing at least one software application as content in a content indexing database, by recording metadata indicating that the thus indexed content is a software application and recording a location address of a data file comprising a software module designed to execute the at least one software application; and transmitting the metadata and the location address to a drive device (DMC), serving to select an indexed content to be delivered and to drive the delivery of a selected content. | 11-28-2013 |
20130311919 | METHOD OF AND DEVICE FOR VALIDATION OF A USER COMMAND FOR CONTROLLING AN APPLICATION - An electronic device includes a display screen; and a graphical user interface displayed on the screen and including: a graphical object automatically movable, in accordance with a predefined movement, along at least part of the screen, wherein the automatic movement of the graphical object is triggered in response to a user input; the predefined movement being such that the graphical object is translated in a first direction from a first region of the screen to a second region of the screen. Movement from the first region to the second region indicates a user command being validated. The device further includes a sensor configured to detect the movement of the graphical object from the first region to the second region; and an application processor configured to execute the user command in response to detection of the movement of the graphical object from the first region to the second region. | 11-21-2013 |
20130309914 | MULTI-ACCESS RJ45 ADAPTOR - A multi-access RJ45 adaptor is provided, which includes an RJ45 plug, at least two RJ45 sockets, and a mobile piece that can move between the at least two RJ45 sockets. The mobile piece is configured to allow insertion of an RJ45 plug into any of the RJ45 sockets and simultaneously to prevent the insertion of another RJ45 plug into the other of the RJ45 sockets. | 11-21-2013 |
20130307766 | USER INTERFACE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method to provide a user interface, the method may be controlled by one or more controllers and may include one or more acts of obtaining image information from a sequence of images of a user; analyzing the image information to recognize the user; recognizing first and second reference objects at least one of which corresponding with respective body parts of the user from the image information; determining whether a first reference object has been placed over or is within a threshold scaled distance of a second reference object; calculating an interaction time between the first reference object and the second reference object when it is determined that the first reference object has been placed over or is within the threshold scaled distance of the second reference object; comparing the interaction time with a threshold reference time; and performing an action in accordance with results of the comparison. | 11-21-2013 |
20130290881 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING A PLURALITY OF ELECTRONIC CONTENTS ON A DISPLAY OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE CONTROLLED BY A USER INTERFACE - A method including: detecting a first input on a first specific element of a user interface of an electronic device, the detection of the first input triggering a selecting mode; while in the selecting mode, when detecting a plurality of second inputs on second specific elements of the user interface, selecting the second specific elements, each second specific element corresponding to an electronic content to be displayed; storing the selected second specific elements; detecting a third input on a third specific element of the user interface, the detection of the third input terminating the selecting mode; after terminating the selecting mode, displaying at least an electronic content corresponding to a first stored second specific element; and detecting a fourth input on a fourth specific element of the user interface triggering the display of another electronic content corresponding to another stored second specific element. | 10-31-2013 |
20130289981 | LOW-DELAY SOUND-ENCODING ALTERNATING BETWEEN PREDICTIVE ENCODING AND TRANSFORM ENCODING - An encoder and a method for encoding a digital signal are provided. The method includes encoding a preceding frame of samples of the digital signal according to a predictive encoding process, and encoding a current frame of samples of the digital signal according to a transform encoding process. The method is implemented such that a first portion of the current frame is also encoded by predictive encoding that is limited relative to the predictive encoding of the preceding frame by reusing at least one parameter of the predictive encoding of the preceding frame and only encoding the parameters of said first portion of the current frame that are not reused. A decoder and a decoding method are also provided, which correspond to the described encoding method. | 10-31-2013 |
20130282387 | FILTERING IN THE TRANSFORMED DOMAIN - A method for processing a signal in the form of consecutive sample blocks, the method comprising filtering in a transformed domain of sub-bands, and particularly equalization processing, applied to a current block in the transformed domain, and filtering-adjustment processing that is applied in the transformed domain to at least one block adjacent to the current block. | 10-24-2013 |
20130281121 | MEDIATION SERVER FOR A GEOPOSITIONING SERVICE IN A NETWORK - The mediation server comprises:
| 10-24-2013 |
20130279612 | NOISE LIMITATION FOR TRANSMISSION IN A MULTI-PATH CHANNEL - A method is provided for limiting noise in a plurality of signals received in a multiple input receiver. The method includes a processing operation for decorrelating of the noise present in the signals received. | 10-24-2013 |
20130276084 | ANONYMOUS ACCESS TO A SERVICE BY MEANS OF AGGREGATED CERTIFICATES - A method of anonymous access to a service, comprising the allocation, by at least one certifying entity, of a plurality of certificates to a user entity, the certificates being calculated on the basis of at least one attribute associated with the user entity, the calculation, by the user entity, of an aggregated certificate on the basis of a plurality of certificates among the certificates allocated to the user entity, the calculation, by the user entity, of a proof of knowledge of the aggregated certificate and a verification, performed by a verifying entity, of at least one of these certificates by means of said proof of knowledge, the access to the service being provided by the verifying entity to the user entity as a function of the result of this verification. | 10-17-2013 |
20130275901 | DRAG AND DROP OPERATION IN A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE WITH SIZE ALTERATION OF THE DRAGGED OBJECT - A method and device are provided for enabling drag and drop targets of a first object onto one of a plurality of second objects in a graphical user interface (GUI), each object being characterized by a respective size. The method includes receiving a drag input on the first object, determining one or more second objects onto which the first object may is likely to be dropped using at least the received drag input, and altering the size of the first object based on the determined one or more second objects respective sizes. | 10-17-2013 |
20130272400 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ENCODING AND DECODING AT LEAST ONE IMAGE IMPLEMENTING A SELECTION OF PIXELS TO BE PREDICTED, AND CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM - A method is provided for decoding a signal that represents at least one image. The method implements at least one iteration of the following steps, for at least one block of the image to be decoded: determining at least one selection parameter from at least one characteristic associated with at least one reference pixel of a reference region of the image, the reference region including at least one previously encoded/decoded block and/or at least one pixel predicted in a preceding iteration; selecting at least one pixel to be predicted in the block to be decoded from the at least one selection parameter; and for at least one selected pixel to be predicted, referred to as an anchor pixel, predicting the anchor pixel from at least one reference pixel, thereby outputting a predicted pixel. | 10-17-2013 |
20130271468 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONSTRUCTING A GRAPH REPRESENTING A BUILDING - The invention relates to a method of constructing a graph representing a building (BAT) in which a person (U) moves. In the invention, the method is adapted to receiving information about the movement of said person in the building over a period of time, said information being collected and transmitted by a portable device (D) associated with said person (U), and in constructing at least one branch of the graph from received movement information. The invention also provides a method of remotely tracking the activity of a person in a building as a function of the constructed graph. The invention also provides a server (S) implementing the method of constructing a graph. | 10-17-2013 |
20130268629 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DIGITAL DATA COMMUNICATION - The method performed by a receiver entity in a hierarchical network, the entity having knowledge of the hierarchical levels of nodes of the network is disclosed. In one aspect, the method comprises, on reception of a request to store data as sent by a sender unit:
| 10-10-2013 |
20130268268 | ENCODING OF AN IMPROVEMENT STAGE IN A HIERARCHICAL ENCODER - A method and coding device are provided for coding a digital audio input signal in a hierarchical coder, which includes a core coding stage with B bits and at least one current improvement coding stage k, delivering quantization indices which are concatenated to form the indices of a preceding embedded coder. The method includes: obtaining possible quantization values for the current improvement stage k by determining absolute reconstruction levels of just the current stage k on the basis of the indices of the preceding embedded coder; and quantizing the input signal of the hierarchical coder having undergone or not a perceptual weighting processing, on the basis of the possible quantization values so as to form a scalar quantization index for the stage k and a quantized signal corresponding to one of the possible quantization values. | 10-10-2013 |
20130263286 | A METHOD OF AUTHENTICATING A USER OF A TERMINAL WITH A SERVICE PROVIDER - A method of authenticating a user of a terminal referred of as a first terminal, and suitable for communicating with a service provider via a first communications network, the provider requesting an authentication of the user of the first terminal before providing a service to the first terminal, wherein the authentication of the user is based on user authentication performed with regard to a second terminal. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262130 | STEREO PARAMETRIC CODING/DECODING FOR CHANNELS IN PHASE OPPOSITION - A method and apparatus for the parametric encoding of a stereo digital-audio signal. The method includes encoding a mono signal produced by downmixing applied to the stereo signal and encoding spatialisation information of the stereo signal. Downmixing includes determining, for a predetermined set of frequency sub-bands, a phase difference between two stereo channels; obtaining an intermediate channel by rotating a first predetermined channel of the stereo signal through an angle obtained by reducing the phase difference; determining the phase of the mono signal from the phase of the signal that is the sum of the intermediate channel and the second stereo signal, and from a phase difference between, on the one hand, the signal that is the sum of the intermediate channel and the second channel and, on the other hand, the second channel of the stereo signal. Also provided are a decoding method, an encoder and a decoder. | 10-03-2013 |
20130260739 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTELY TRIGGERING ACTIONS ON A MOBILE DEVICE - A method for selecting data from a first electronic device for a second electronic device. The second electronic device includes an authentication module and is arranged to receive messages over a communication bearer, and transfer a received message to the authentication module when determining from an indication in the received message that the message is intended for the authentication module. The method includes receiving from the first electronic device the selected data, retrieving one or more commands associated to the selected data, generating using the selected data and associated command(s) a triggering message, the triggering massage including an indication that the triggering message is intended for the authentication module of the second electronic device for triggering the command(s) for the selected data, and sending the triggering message over the communication bearer to the second electronic device, thereby causing the authentication module to trigger the command for the selected data. | 10-03-2013 |
20130250776 | Method and a Device for Relaying in a Communications Network - A method and device for selective relaying in a communications network having a plurality of sources, a relay, and a destination. The method includes the following steps: the relay receives messages transmitted respectively by the sources in order to obtain an estimate of the messages; the relay detects errors in the estimated messages; the relay transmits a representative signal to the destination, the signal being representative of only those messages for which no error was detected and resulting from a non-bijective surjective function applied to the messages detected without error, the function including interleaving and encoding; and the representative signal being transmitted by the relay to the destination with a check signal indicating which messages are represented in the representative signal. | 09-26-2013 |
20130247048 | METHOD OF OPERATING A COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND RELATED COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A method is provided for operating a communication device offering a plurality of features by a plurality of virtual machines, which run on a virtualized representation of a plurality of hardware components. The method includes: obtaining a mapping between at least some features of the plurality of features and corresponding sets of virtual machines of the plurality of virtual machines and hardware components of the plurality of hardware components which are required to enable the features; and upon deciding to activate or deactivate at least one group of features of the plurality of features, switching on or off virtual machines of the plurality of virtual machines and hardware components of the plurality of hardware components depending on the mapping. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246050 | VOICE CONTROL OF APPLICATIONS BY ASSOCIATING USER INPUT WITH ACTION-CONTEXT IDENTIFIER PAIRS - A method is provided for enabling or enhancing a use of voice control in a voice controlled application (VCA) via a development framework. The method includes: providing in the framework a plurality of action-context pairs—also called framework action-context pairs—usable in a memory of an application development device, which includes a processor, that serve to direct execution of the VCA, wherein the framework context defines a list of parameters related to the action and their respective value types; providing at least one of a voice recognition engine (VRE) and a natural language library to match each action-context pair with semantically related vocabulary; providing in the framework a registration mechanism that permits an association to be formed between an action-context pair and a handler in the voice controlled application. An associated development system for developing the VCA and user equipment that executes the VCA are provided as well. | 09-19-2013 |
20130238695 | COMMUNICATION BETWEEN TWO WEB APPLICATIONS - A method for communication between a first web application associated with a first browsing domain and a second web application associated with a second browsing domain. The browser-implemented applications record data from a browser software module and prohibit access to data recorded for selective browsing domains. The browser concurrently displays at least two sub-pages of an initial web page, a first sub-page being used for displaying a user interface for the first web application, a second sub-page being used for displaying a user interface for the second web application being executed independently of the first web application. A first software module of the first web application stores data in a database which is read by a second software module of the second web application, the first and second software modules being associated with a third browsing domain. | 09-12-2013 |
20130232265 | PROCESSING OF DATA FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF PLACEMENT ON STANDBY - A processing of data for the management of the placement on standby of a client terminal connected to an operator terminal of an access network, the method comprising, in said client terminal, the following steps: a) determining a policy for placing the client terminal on standby, b) monitoring a client interface of said client terminal, disposed between said client terminal and a part of a local network situated downstream of said client terminal, c) monitoring an access network interface of said client terminal, disposed between said client terminal and said operator terminal. | 09-05-2013 |
20130227707 | RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREROF - A communication method to publish a user message suitable for one or more vendors. The communication method may be performed by one or more controllers and may include one or more acts of receiving a message from a user station of a user; processing the received message to anonymize the message to conceal an identity of the user; publishing the anonymized message and anonymous link information; receiving a request from a vendor of the one or more vendors for user context information corresponding to the user in response to the published anonymized message; receiving restriction information in accordance with a user persona selected by the user from a plurality of user personas that are each associated with the user; and providing the user context information in accordance with the restriction information. | 08-29-2013 |
20130226849 | Adapting the Operation of an Appliance - A method for adapting the operation of an apparatus connected to a network deployed in an environment, including the steps of: collecting data relating to the environment from a plurality of sources; identifying usual environmental situations from an analysis of the collected data; detecting a deviation from at least one identified usual situation; and sending a control to the apparatus for adapting the operation thereof to the detected deviation. | 08-29-2013 |
20130226592 | METHOD FOR BROWSING WITHIN A CONTENT DISPLAYABLE BY BROWSING COMMANDS, BROWSING DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED PROGRAM - A method for browsing in a visual content such as a document or a list. The content is available on a terminal having a browsing command. Part of the content is displayed on a display of the terminal. The browsing commands enable the contents displayed on the screen to be made to scroll in the direction specified by the command introduced. The displayed part is duplicated into two identical images when one end of the content situated in the direction of movement specified by the browsing command is displayed on the means for displaying. A first image remains still and a second image moves in the direction of movement specified by the browsing command so long as the command is active. In this way, the user sees that the command has indeed been taken into account and notes visually that the end of the visual content has been reached. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223529 | Scalable Video Encoding Using a Hierarchical Epitome - A method and apparatus are provided for encoding an image sequence and outputting a signal having a layered organization with at least a base layer and an enhancement layer. For at least one current image of the sequence, the method includes constructing a hierarchical epitome associated with the enhancement layer corresponding to a maximum resolution level of the current image, using: an epitome associated with the enhancement layer corresponding to the maximum resolution level of the current image; and at least one epitome associated with a preceding layer corresponding to a resolution level lower than the maximum resolution level of the current image. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223215 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR REGULATING TRANSMISSIONS IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A transmission regulation method which may be performed by a station having at least one data frame for transmitting over a telecommunications network is disclosed. In one aspect, the method comprises, during at least one selection round from a set of selection rounds, obtaining a value representative either of an authorization to transmit or a prohibition to transmit the frame. Furthermore, when the value is representative of an authorization to transmit, transmitting an information signal over a first communications channel of the network, to inform the other stations that the station has obtained a value representative of an authorization to transmit; or when the value is representative of a prohibition to transmit, listening for an information signal, if any, transmitted over the first communications channel of the network. The method listens to or transmits over a second communications channel of the network that is different from the first communications channel. | 08-29-2013 |
20130219180 | DATA PROCESSING FOR SECURING LOCAL RESOURCES IN A MOBILE DEVICE - A method of data processing for securing local resources in a mobile device. The method includes: a) when network connectivity is available: coupling the mobile device with a first identity module associated to a first International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI), receiving in the first identity module a network challenge from a communication network, ciphering the network challenge using a secret key, and sending a corresponding response to the network for subsequent successful authentication, b) after a successful authentication to the communication network: associating at least a part of the local resources to the first IMSI, and storing, in a database of the mobile device, authentication data related to the challenge/response duplet, granting access to local resources associated to the first IMSI. | 08-22-2013 |
20130215965 | VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING USING AN EPITOME - A method and apparatus are provided for encoding an image sequence. The method includes the following steps for at least one current image of the sequence, namely: construction of an epitome representative of the current image, from a set of at least two images from the sequence; and inter-image prediction of the current image from the epitome. | 08-22-2013 |
20130210385 | METHOD FOR ACCESSING A CSG FEMTOCELL - A method implemented by a terminal for accessing a CSG femtocell of a first access network. The terminal includes a list containing identifiers of CSG femtocells to which an access right is defined. The method includes: scanning a frequency band for discovering CSG femtocells; decoding, based on a key, a data stream broadcasted from the CGS femtocells; obtaining, based on the decoded data stream, an identifier of the CSG femtocells; and determining, based on the list, whether the terminal has authorised access to the discovered femtocells. The frequency band, the key or the list is determined based on a message received from a remote server via a second cellular access network different from the first access network. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208693 | DYNAMIC CONNECTION OF A MOBILE TERMINAL TO A LOCAL NETWORK - A method for connecting a terminal to a telecommunication network via an access point. After a request to connect a terminal to a first access point, the first access point determines if it has access to a resource for serving the terminal and, if possible, serves the terminal. If not, the first access point requests, from at least one second access point to which is it connected, a resource for serving the terminal; and in the event that the resource is available to the second access point, the first access point transfers, to the terminal, data for enabling the terminal to connect to the second access point. | 08-15-2013 |
20130206939 | DEVICE, KIT AND METHOD FOR ANCHORING AN ELEMENT ON AN EXTERIOR FACE OF A WALL OF A BUILDING - A device, kit, and method are provided for anchoring an element on an exterior face of a wall of a building. The method includes, from the inside of the wall, running a line into a hole passing through the wall and fixing said line to an element anchoring device. The device comprising a fastener of said element, a bearing means, a first fixing means and a guide able to guide a second fixing means that collaborates with said first means. The method includes, from the inside, pulling said line in order to introduce the guide into said hole and, from the inside and using the guide, fixing the two fixing means together to press the bearing means firmly against the exterior face of the wall. | 08-15-2013 |
20130205036 | PROCESSING DATA FOR TRANSFERRING OR MIRRORING A MEDIA STREAM - A method of processing data for limiting, during a multimedia session involving a first user terminal, transferring or mirroring a media stream to other user terminals, including: a) receiving a request to transfer or mirror a media stream transmitted by the first user terminal, the request containing information relating to a second user terminal which is the target of the transfer or mirroring operation, and information relating to the media stream to be transferred or mirrored; b) comparing the information relating to the second user terminal and to the media stream to be transferred or mirrored with a series of information elements relating to transfer or mirroring operations authorized for the multimedia session, and determining, according to the comparison, an authorization for the transfer or mirroring operation; and c) when the transfer or mirroring operation is authorized, transferring or mirroring the media stream to the second user terminal. | 08-08-2013 |
20130204630 | Controlling a Noise-Shaping Feedback Loop in a Digital Audio Signal Encoder - A method and apparatus are provided for controlling the shaping of encoding noise during the ADPCM encoding of a digital audio input signal. The noise-shaping is carried out through the use of feedback that comprises filtering noise. The method includes the following steps: obtaining a parameter for indicating a high spectral dynamic range of the signal, the parameter indicating a risk of instability of the feedback; detecting a risk of instability by comparing the indication parameter to at least one predetermined threshold; limiting the feedback in the event that a risk of instability is detected; and gradually reactivating the feedback over a predetermined number of frames subsequent to the current frame for which the feedback is limited. Also provided is an encoder with feedback, including a control module implementing the control method as described. | 08-08-2013 |
20130203352 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ASSISTING IN THE POSITIONING OF A NEAR-FIELD COMMUNICATION MODULE IN RELATION TO AN ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSPONDER - The invention relates to a method and a terminal for assisting in the positioning of a near-field communication module of a terminal in relation to an electromagnetic transponder placed in an environment. The method comprises a step of acquisition by the terminal of at least one image of visual information representative of the placement of the transponder, a step of analysis of the acquired image to determine a position indicating the placement of the transponder in the environment, a step of determination of at least one movement of the terminal to be performed so as to position the communication module in such a way that a communication can be set up between the communication module and the transponder and a step of restoration of information representative of the at least one movement to be performed. | 08-08-2013 |
20130201958 | RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MULTIPLE USER ANTENNAS - The invention relates to a multiantenna radio communications method wherein frequency subbands B | 08-08-2013 |
20130195445 | COMPENSATION OF MODAL DISPERSION OF POLARIZATION BY DETERMINISTIC JAMMING OF POLARIZATION - A method of calculating a series of control parameters to be applied to a polarization controller arranged so as to compensate for the modal dispersion of polarization affecting an optical signal passing through an optical link by calculating a plurality of polarization states of which the respective representations on a Poincaré sphere are separated from one another by a distance greater than a minimum distance dependent on an acceptable threshold of bit error ratios and, for each state of polarization thus calculated, associating at least one control parameter to be applied to the polarization controller with the calculated state of polarization. | 08-01-2013 |
20130194960 | LOCATION OF EQUIPMENT BY ITS IP ADDRESS - A technique for locating equipment connected via a high-speed line to a distributor device of fixed and predetermined position. The technique involves measuring signal attenuation between the equipment and the distributor device, and estimating the position of the equipment relative to the distributor device, deduced from this attenuation measurement. | 08-01-2013 |
20130187750 | MANAGING APPLICATION FAILURES IN A SYSTEM OF DOMESTIC APPLIANCES - A method of managing a system provides a minimum service in the system. The system includes a set of pieces of equipment including data-gathering equipment and/or equipment that is to be controlled, the pieces of equipment being connected to a management module via respective first communications links. The management module is suitable for determining a control command as a function of data received from at least one piece of data-gathering equipment via a first communications link and for transmitting the control command to at least one piece of equipment that is to be controlled. The method is adapted to detect an absence of application signaling activity from the management module over a predetermined time period and to trigger a minimum service by sending an alert message to at least one piece of equipment of the system. | 07-25-2013 |
20130185454 | TECHNIQUE FOR OBTAINING, VIA A FIRST NODE, INFORMATION RELATING TO PATH CONGESTION - A method for obtaining, by a first node, information relating to a congestion on a path allowing the routing of packets from said first node destined for a second node in a packet communications network, said congestion potentially degrading said routing. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182788 | DOUBLE-ITERATIVE METHOD OF TRANSMITTING MULTIPLE STREAMS PER USER IN A MULTI-USER MIMO SYSTEM, AND A CORRESPONDING TRANSMITTER, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND DATA MEDIUM - A multi-stream transmission method and device are provided for transmitting N data streams allocated to K different users. The method is implemented by a transmitter for a multi-user MIMO system having N | 07-18-2013 |
20130177092 | METHODS OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A MULTICARRIER SIGNAL, AND CORRESPONDING TRANSMITTER, RECEIVER, RETURN SIGNAL, AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS - The invention relates to a method of receiving a signal corresponding to a multicarrier signal transmitted via at least one transmission channel, the method comprising an estimation step ( | 07-11-2013 |
20130176161 | OBJECT DETECTION METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM - A method and apparatus are provided for detecting an object to be detected. The object is associated with a profile, wherein the profile characterizes the reflection of a signal on the object. The method includes, for a device in a telecommunication network, the acts of selecting a first profile corresponding to a first object to be detected; requesting, based on the first profile, a resource allocation to the communication network; receiving the resource allocation from the communication network; transmitting a signal in the direction of a second object using the allocated resource; receiving a reflected signal, corresponding to the reflection of the transmitted signal on the second object; computing a second profile using the received reflected signal; and indicating the detection of the first object to be detected when the second profile matches the first profile. | 07-11-2013 |
20130174070 | DRAG AND DROP OPERATION IN A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE WITH HIGHLIGHT OF TARGET OBJECTS - A method and apparatus are provided for indicating drag and drop targets for a first object among a plurality of second objects in a graphical user interface (GUI). The method includes rendering with a first rendering mode a first group of second objects within the GUI onto which a selected first object is likely to be dropped, rendering with a second rendering mode distinct from the first rendering mode a second group of second objects, the second group consisting of the remaining second objects, receiving a drag input on the first object, and updating the groups based at least upon an updated position of the first object derived from the received drag input. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173799 | ENRICHMENT, MANAGEMENT OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT AND SETTING UP OF A COMMUNICATION ACCORDING TO ENRICHED MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - An enrichment of multimedia content, management of multimedia content and setting up of a communication according to enriched multimedia content. A multimedia content enrichment method comprising an association of at least one identifier of a first user with multimedia content during management of said content by a communication terminal of said first user, said association allowing a second user having access to said multimedia content to request setting up of a communication between a communication terminal of said second user and a communication terminal of said first user by using one of said at least one identifier(s) of said first user. | 07-04-2013 |
20130166524 | DATA COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MODULES - A method is proposed for exchanging a data set between a transmitting module, associated with a first domain, and a destination module associated with a second domain. The transmitting module and the destination module are adapted to be loaded into a browser module having access to a local database for recording data and accessing the data recorded by one or more modules belonging to a single browsing domain and to any module loaded in the browser module that is also associated with said single browsing domain. The method comprises the following steps: storage, by a storage module associated with a third domain, of the data set in the local database; requesting a receiving module, associated with the third browsing domain, to read the data set; reading, by the receiving module, of the data set in the local database. | 06-27-2013 |
20130159817 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION IN A MULTI-INPUT AND MULTI-OUTPUT CHANNEL DISTRIBUTING A CODE WORD BETWEEN SEVERAL MAPPING MATRICES, AND CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM - A method for transmitting a source binary sequence, including at least one source word, in a transmission channel, The method includes the following steps, for at least one source word: error-correcting encoding the source word, outputting a code word; matrix mapping the code word, distributing bits constituting the code word within at least two mapping matrices, which are reversible and observe a criterion of uniqueness in the cancellation of a syndrome associated with the code word; and consecutively transmitting the at least two mapping matrices. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159417 | METHOD FOR NOTIFICATION OF EVENTS ON A DEVICE RUNNING MULTIPLE USER IDENTITIES - The present method and system implements a method for presenting notifications on an electronic device partitioned into two or more distinct instances, each instance being aware of separate sets of events associated to applications running in that instance. The method includes collecting for each instance the notifications corresponding to the separate sets of events, rendering in the active instance the active instance notifications using a first display mode, while rendering the other instance notifications using a second display mode. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159134 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO RECOMMEND APPLICATIONS FROM AN APPLICATION MARKET PLACE TO AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - a method and system are provided for populating an electronic device registered for a user with applications from an application platform that the electronic device is operating with. The method is carried out by an application recommendation node. The method includes the acts of collecting a user profile for the user and an identifier for the electronic device, selecting a list of applications from the application platform based on the user profile, associating the list of applications with the identifier, receiving notification of a first presentation of the identifier following the association, and pushing the list of applications to the electronic device corresponding to the identifier following the notification. | 06-20-2013 |
20130154872 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR LOCATING AT LEAST ONE OBSTACLE IN A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK, A CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM - A method and apparatus are provided for locating an obstacle between a transmitter and a receiver. The method includes: determining at least one elliptical ring in which the obstacle is situated, the elliptical ring being defined by two confocal ellipses, having their focuses corresponding to the transmitter and to the receiver, each elliptical ring being associated with a physical echo generated by an obstacle; estimating a distance between the obstacle and a focus as a function of the separation between the confocal ellipses at the obstacle in a plane normal to the axis defined by the focuses so as to obtain a set of potential location zones for the obstacle in the elliptical ring; and lifting the ambiguity between the various potential location zones of the obstacle so as to deliver a location zone of the obstacle. | 06-20-2013 |
20130148964 | METHOD FOR SWITCHING AN OPTICAL DATA STREAM, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND CORRESPONDING STORAGE MEANS AND NODE - A method and apparatus for switching an optical data stream via an optical network node, capable of switching optical data received at input ports to output ports. The method includes the following steps performed by a processing chain upon detection of a stream at a given wavelength by a given input port: determining a resource of the node based on a predetermined routing policy such that, for a given wavelength common to source and destination nodes of the stream, routing within the network is carried out according to a routing tree covering the network, a root of the tree being the destination node; consulting an occupancy table for the resource, indicating if at least one possible preceding stream is using the resource; determining a delay to be applied by the processing chain to prevent a collision between the stream and the possible preceding stream; and configuring the processing chain to apply the delay. | 06-13-2013 |
20130142131 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING A SIGNAL FOR A MULTI-USER MIMO SYSTEM, AND CORRESPONDING TRANSMITTER, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND DATA MEDIUM - A method and apparatus for simultaneously transmitting K data streams allocated respectively to K different users. The method is implemented by a transmitter for a multi-user MIMO system having N | 06-06-2013 |
20130142085 | CALL TRANSFER PROCESSING IN SIP MODE - Methods and devices for supervising a transfer of a call or of processing a call set up between first and second terminals in a communications network implementing an SIP type signaling protocol. The method is implemented after sending or receiving, as the case may be, a command to transfer the already-set up call to a call between the first terminal and a third terminal. The supervision method obtains an item of information relating to setting up the call between the first and third terminals and sends a command to resume the call between the first and second terminals as a function of whether at least one non-set up criterion is true. The processing method transmits information relating to setting up the call between the first and third terminals and sets up a call between the first and second terminals as a function of whether the resumption command is received. | 06-06-2013 |
20130103798 | LAUNCHING SESSIONS ON A COMMUNICATION SERVER - A method for creating a plurality of multimedia sessions between a first user and a second user, a first multimedia session being set up between the first and second users via a first server. The method comprises the following steps implemented by a second server: receiving a connection request from a first terminal of the first user comprising an identifier of the first user; transmitting the identifier of the first user to the first server in order to request at least an identifier of a user sharing the first multimedia session with the first user via the first server; receiving from the first server at least an identifier of said second user; and creating a second multimedia session between the first terminal of the first user and a second terminal of the second user via the second server. | 04-25-2013 |
20130103408 | Adaptive Linear Predictive Coding/Decoding - A method of coding/decoding of a digital audio signal comprising a succession of consecutive blocks of data, on the basis of a predictive filter. A modified predictive filter is used for the coding of at least one current block, the modified filter being constructed by the combination of: a rear filter calculated for a past block, preceding the current block, and enrichment parameters for the rear filter, which are determined as a function of the signal in the current block and comprising the coefficients of a modifying filter. | 04-25-2013 |
20130101124 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING ACOUSTIC SHOCKS - A method and device are provided for detecting acoustic shocks in an audio stream. The method includes: breaking down the audio stream into audio frames; analyzing the audio frames in order to assign each audio frame a category value from among a plurality of predefined values; and determining the probability of an acoustic shock occurring in a current frame, based on a sequence of a given length of category values assigned to a set of frames, using a two-state Markov model, defined by a predetermined transition matrix and transmission matrix. | 04-25-2013 |
20130101022 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ENCODING AND DECODING AT LEAST ONE IMAGE IMPLEMENTING AN ESTIMATION IN THE TRANSFORM DOMAIN, AND CORRESPONDING SIGNAL AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A method and device are provided for encoding at least one image broken up into blocks. The method includes, for at least one current block, transforming the current block from the spatial domain into a transformed domain, outputting a transformed block including of a set of coefficients representative of the current block, referred to as original coefficients. The method further includes selecting a subset of original coefficients from the set and, for at least one original coefficient of the subset, the following steps: estimating the original coefficient, outputting an estimated coefficient in the transformed domain; determining a residual of a coefficient by comparing the original coefficient and the estimated coefficient; and encoding the residual of a coefficient. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100941 | COMMUNICATION METHOD - A method for a node to transmit data in a telecommunications network is disclosed. In one method aspect, it comprises, selecting a time slot j in a window having a plurality of time slots and preceding a transmission period, listening to time slots preceding the time slot j, wherein the transmission period presents a plurality of transmission channels. Furthermore, the method comprises counting a number of time-slot transmissions during the time slots preceding the time slot j wherein when the number of time-slot transmissions is greater than a threshold, the data transmission is postponed or cancelled. Furthermore, when the number of time-slot transmissions is less than or equal to the threshold, a transmission is made during the time slot j, and one of the transmission channels is determined as a function of said number of time-slot transmissions. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100915 | METHOD OF ALLOCATING RESOURCES TO MOBILE TERMINALS - The invention provides a method of allocating resources to mobile terminals. The method comprises the following iterative steps: mobile terminals having at least one elastic link cause the data rates on their elastic links to grow in application of a predetermined temporal law; and when a mobile terminal having at least one constant link detects that its coverage on the constant link is threatened, it sends an alert message to the base station of the cell, with said base station then requiring said mobile terminals that have at least one elastic link to reduce temporarily their data rates on those elastic links by a predetermined quantity. The method is applicable to networks of the W-CDMA type or of the LTE type. | 04-25-2013 |
20130097446 | METHOD OF CONTROL OF AN ACCESS POINT OF A HOME GATEWAY OF A HOME NETWORK - A method of controlling a domestic gateway, intended to connect at least one domestic terminal of a domestic computer network to a telecommunication network. The domestic gateway includes an access point configured so as to establish a connection between the domestic terminal and the domestic gateway. Method includes: a step of verifying the state of the connection between the domestic gateway and the domestic terminal via the access point, and a step of cyclically placing the access point on standby if the connection is inactive, in which the access point is alternately enabled for a duration of activity and disabled for a duration of sleep. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094691 | PROCESSING DATA FOR ENCODING AND DECODING A MESSAGE - Processing data for encoding and decoding a message transmitted through a communication channel having adjacent information known during the encoding, the encoding method comprising the construction of a surjective correcting code produced from a characterization of the adjacent information in a system of spherical coordinates. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094474 | METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING A LINK BETWEEN TWO COMMUNICATION FACILITIES - The invention relates to a method for establishing a link through which at least one data stream is to be transmitted. A first communication facility and a second communication facility form a first and second end of the link, respectively. A first base station is connected to the first communication facility, and a second base station is connected to the second communication facility, the first base station having preselected the second base station from among a plurality of base stations. The method includes the following steps, implemented by the first communication facility: extracting an identifier of the first base station and an identifier of the second base station, said identifiers being included in a message transmitted by the first base station; and establishing the link between the first communication facility and the second communication facility from the extracted identifier of the first base station and the extracted identifier of the second base station. | 04-18-2013 |
20130094412 | TRANSMISSION CONTROL IN A TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK - The invention relates to a transmission control method implemented by a station having at least one data frame to be transmitted via a wireless telecommunication network. In one aspect, the method comprises, at each selection round from a maximum number of selection rounds: a step of obtaining a value representative of either an authorization to transmit said frame, or of a prohibition to transmit said frame; and, when the value is representative of an authorization for transmission, transmitting an information signal in the network so as to indicate, to the other stations, that the station has obtained a value representative of an authorization for transmission. The transmission of the information signal is at least partially carried out during the transmission of a data frame in the network. | 04-18-2013 |
20130091265 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A PROFILE FOR A USER/APPLICATION SERVICE PAIR TO ACCESS DATA RELATED TO THE OPERATION OF A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method for determining a profile for a user/application service pair to access data related to the operation of a communication network, or operation data, said data being needed in order to implement the application service at an application layer of a communication device. The method includes a step of determining the access profile on the basis of information related to a service level corresponding to the user/application service pair and on the basis of information related to an access policy associated with the operation data required by the application service. Said method also includes a step of storing the access profile related to the user/application service pair. | 04-11-2013 |
20130086649 | METHOD AND DEVICES FOR SECURE COMMUNICATIONS IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - The invention relates to a method for secure communications in a telecommunications network, said network comprising a group of servers S | 04-04-2013 |
20130086225 | MECHANISM FOR THE CONTEXTUAL OBSCURING OF DIGITAL DATA - A method and apparatus are disclosed for providing an attribute of a user profile to a requesting electronic device through a personal data server, the user profile being stored on a first electronic device of the user, the attribute pertaining to a data type characterized by a plurality of accuracy levels. The method includes for the personal data server receiving a request from the requesting electronic device for an attribute of the user profile, collecting the requested attribute from the first electronic device, comparing the user profile and a profile of the requesting electronic device, changing the accuracy level of the collected attribute based on the comparison to define an updated attribute, and providing the updated attribute to the requesting electronic device in response to the request. | 04-04-2013 |
20130085748 | Method and device for modifying a compounded voice message - A method and device are provided for modifying a compounded voice message having at least one first voice component. The method includes a step of obtaining at least one second voice component, a step of updating at least one item of information belonging to a group of items of information associated with the compounded voice message as a function of the at least one second voice component and a step of making available the compounded voice message comprising the at least one first and second voice components, and the group of items of information associated with the compounded voice message. The compounded voice message is intended to be consulted by at least one recipient user. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083914 | TRANSFERRING A CALL FROM A FIRST FIXED COMMUNICATIONS TERMINAL IN A LOCAL NETWORK TO A SECOND FIXED COMMUNICATIONS TERMINAL IN THE SAME LOCAL NETWORK - A method is provided for transferring an incoming call made to a first fixed communications terminal attached to a local network, towards a second fixed communications terminal forming part of a plurality of fixed communications terminals situated in the local network. The method includes: making comparisons between firstly data about the incoming call and secondly call data associated with the fixed communications terminals of the plurality of terminals as previously recorded in the local network; selecting, as the second fixed communications terminal, a favorite fixed communications terminal in application of a similarity criterion between the call data associated with that terminal and the data about the incoming call; and causing the incoming call to be transferred to the selected favorite fixed communications terminal. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083907 | Method and Device for Consulting a Voice Message - A method for consulting a voice message received and a method for providing a compounded voice message. The compounded voice message is composed of at least one first and one second voice component and is associated with a group of items of information relating to the voice components. The method for consultation includes reading at least one voice component of the voice message, detecting at least one user interaction concomitant upon the reading of the at least one voice component, sending at least one signal relating to the interaction detected, and receiving a command of an action to be performed relating to a voice component read from the voice message and to at least one item of information of the group of items of information associated with the voice message. Also provided is a device implementing the method for consulting a compounded voice message. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083791 | METHOD OF UPDATING A TIME SYNCHRONIZATION REFERENCE - A method and apparatus are provided for updating a temporal synchronization reference exchanged between a first item of equipment and at least one second item of equipment belonging to a communication network. The method includes the following steps implemented by one of the two items of equipment: a step of receiving a traceability cue relating to a frequency-synchronization reference; a step of determining the periodicity of updating of the temporal synchronization reference as a function of said traceability cue received. The updating makes it possible to maintain the temporal synchronization reference of the second item of equipment. | 04-04-2013 |
20130083077 | METHOD OF DISPLAYING A DIGITAL CONTENT ON A SCREEN - A method and apparatus are provided for displaying digital content on a screen of a terminal. The method includes a step of creating zones derived from the content; and a step of displaying the zones in succession on the screen. | 04-04-2013 |
20130079011 | TRAFFIC LOAD MANAGEMENT METHOD, NETWORK AND DEVICE - A radiocommunication network includes a core network including primary and secondary nodes and a radio access network including radio controllers. Each primary node connects at least one secondary node, and each secondary node connects at least one radio controller via respective links. In relation to a given primary node, at least one entity in the radiocommunication network calculates respective target load reduction values for the links connecting the given primary node and secondary nodes, depending on an excess value between a current load of the given primary node and a primary node load threshold, and calculates respective target load reduction values for the links connecting said secondary nodes connected to the given primary node and radio controllers, depending on calculated target load reduction values. Actions are taken for changing traffic distribution by taking account of calculated target load reduction values. | 03-28-2013 |
20130077977 | Method and module for processing a request for transmitting a radio signal in an ROF system - A method and apparatus for processing a request to transmit a radio signal emitted by a radio terminal to a radio management module. The radio management module authorizes the radio terminal to emit the radio signal to a radio module associated with the radio terminal. The radio module has optical processing elements connected to one end of an optical link via which the radio signal modulated on the optical carrier is to be transmitted. The method includes the following steps, applied by an optical management module connected to the radio management module: generating an activation request to activate the optical processing elements of the radio module associated with the terminal by transmission-related parameters included in the transmission request, the transmission-related parameters being transmitted to the optical management module by the radio management module, and emitting, to the associated radio module, the activation request to activate the optical processing elements. | 03-28-2013 |
20130074069 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CROSS-PLATFORM APPLICATION EXECUTION AND DISPLAY - A method is provided for downloading and running a non-native application designed for a source operating system (OS) on a target device having a target OS, the method includes: connecting the target device to a source device having the application in a paring operation; transferring a shareable provisional profile containing characteristics related to the application, including information on the source OS needed to run the application from the source device to the target device; and obtaining the source OS on the target device. Once the source OS is present on the target device, the method downloads the application from the source device to the target device, executes the source OS as a virtual machine on the target device, and runs the application within the source OS virtual machine. | 03-21-2013 |
20130072258 | SHELL FOR MOBILE TELEPHONE WITH NFC FUNCTIONALITY - A shell for a mobile telephone able to comprise a subscriber identity card. The mobile telephone has, on the one hand, a front face exhibiting a user interface and, on the other hand, a rear face. The shell has an internal surface and an external surface. This shell has a suitable shape adapted for removably receiving the mobile telephone so that the rear face of the mobile telephone is held along the internal surface of the shell. The internal surface comprises: a first means adapted for holding a near-field communication device and an antenna associated therewith; and a second means adapted for guiding at least a portion of a wire-based interface intended to link the near-field communication device to the subscriber identity card. | 03-21-2013 |
20130072255 | NFC FOR MOBILE TELEPHONE - An electronic entity for a mobile terminal including a subscriber identity card and power supply therefor. The electronic entity includes a near-field communication device, an antenna, and a wire-based interface with the mobile terminal to provide the power supply. A voltage converter supplies operating power to the near-field communication device via the wire-based interface which in turn supplies power to the subscriber identity card. | 03-21-2013 |
20130070697 | Method and Device for Transmitting, Method for Receiving and Destination Device, Corresponding Multicarrier Signal and Computer Program. - A method for transmitting data packets in a communication network using a plurality of radio frequency channels, at least two of the radio frequency channels being concatenated to form a concatenated channel. The method includes: acquiring and reserving at least one of the channels from the concatenated channel, thus reserving a first frequency band for transmitting data packets to a first target device; acquiring and reserving channels from the concatenated channel that were unreserved during the first step of acquisition and reservation, thus reserving a second frequency band for transmitting data packets to a second target device; generating a preamble specific to a selected data packet, which includes a simultaneous transmission indicator on the first and second frequency bands; and simultaneously transmitting the data packets on the first and second frequency bands, from the selected packet and the specific preamble, before the selected packet on the second frequency band. | 03-21-2013 |
20130070603 | LINK-STATE ROUTING METHOD FOR ROUTING DATA STREAMS IN A MESHED NETWORK COMPRISING NODES CONNECTED BY THREE-STATE LINKS - A link-state routing method for routing a data stream in a meshed communications network comprising a plurality of nodes connected by links, at least one node of said network comprising a topology table which comprises at least one link, in which the node implements: a step of measuring a parameter relating to the load on said link, a step of comparison of the measured load parameter with a predetermined overload threshold, an overload state being assigned to said link when said overload threshold is exceeded by said load parameter; and a step of distributing an item of information relating to said overload state of said link to at least some of the nodes of said network. | 03-21-2013 |
20130069844 | ANTENNA FOR AN NFC DEVICE - An antenna for near-field communication, comprising at least four turns and having an outside periphery and an inside periphery both of substantially rectangular shape. An inter-turn distance separates two adjacent turns. Each turn has a width substantially equal to the inter-turn distance. In addition, the inside periphery has: (i) a length less than 7 times the distance between the outside periphery and the inside periphery along a longitudinal axis of said antenna, and (ii) a width less than 4 times the distance between the outside periphery and the inside periphery along a lateral axis of said antenna. | 03-21-2013 |
20130064194 | METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA USING A PLURALITY OF RADIO CHANNELS, TRANSMISSION AND DESTINATION DEVICES, CORRESPONDING SIGNAL AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting data packets in a communication network using a plurality of radio channels. The network is organized into a plurality of communication layers including a data link layer MAC and a physical layer PHY. The method includes aggregating data packets to be transmitted to a single recipient, in the MAC layer, outputting at least two aggregated packets, with which a single header of the PHY layer is associated. At least two of the radio channels are concatenated to form a concatenated channel. The aggregated packets are simultaneously transmitted respectively over at least two separate concatenated sub-channels, one concatenated sub-channel including at least one of the radio channels of the concatenated channel. | 03-14-2013 |
20130058652 | OPTICAL LINE TERMINATION DEVICE ALLOWING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF AN OFDM MODULATION TECHNIQUE - A line termination device for an optical network able to receive at least one optical signal at least a part of which is polarized according to a particular axis of polarization, said device comprising: means for modifying the axis of polarization of the part of the optical signal, means for modulating the part of the optical signal of which the axis of polarization has been modified, comprising a modulator able to suppress the optical carrier of the optical signal, the modification means being devised so as to modify an axis of polarization of a part of the modulated optical signal. | 03-07-2013 |
20130051408 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING A DIGITAL SIGNAL IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM, AND A CORRESPONDING PROGRAM PRODUCT AND RELAY DEVICE - A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting frames of N>2 symbols for use in a distributed system having at least two transmitter nodes. The method includes circularly permutating a frame of N symbols; multiplying m first permutated symbols by a phase coefficient (φ≠1, for 002-28-2013 | |
20130043982 | METHOD OF IDENTIFYING AND AUTHENTICATING A RADIO TAG BY A READER - A method and apparatus are provided for identifying and authenticating a radio tag by a radio reader. The tag forms part of a set of tags in a radio range of the reader and has selected a time slot from a set of available time slots. The method includes: a step of the reader sending a query message during the selected time slot; and a step of the reader receiving a reply message from the tag that selected the time slot. The reply message includes a random value selected by the tag. The tag stores authentication coupons and the reply from the tag received by the reader during the time slot contains, as a random value selected by the tag, a value that is a function of one of the coupons. | 02-21-2013 |
20130041918 | MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTER-FILE SHARING BETWEEN AT LEAST TWO DEVICES - A method for managing computer files in a first device storing the files according to a first file tree, comprising the following steps: for a current level of the first file tree, receiving data representing a level of the same rank of a second data structure representing a second file tree of a second device communicating with the first device; comparing the current level with the level of the same rank of the second file tree, in order to determine the presence in the second file tree, at the rank level of the current level, of an element that is not found in the first file tree at the current level; and, in the event that an element of the second file tree is not found in the first file tree, adding a descriptor of said element to the first file tree at the current level, wherein the descriptor enables access to said element from the first file tree. | 02-14-2013 |
20130039425 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING A MOTION INFORMATION ITEM, ENCODING AND DECODING METHODS, CORRESPONDING DEVICES, SIGNAL AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A method and apparatus are provided for processing movement information relating to a regular image of a sequence of images. The method includes: a step of building a list including at least one expected piece of movement information and at least one unexpected piece of movement information; a first step of associating expected movement information with movement information according to a first rule for optimizing the cost of encoding the movement information to be encoded; a second step of associating each unexpected piece of movement information not associated during the first association step with movement information to be encoded, identified among the pieces of movement information of the list, according to a second rule which aims to ensure that each piece of movement information is associated with a single piece of movement information to be encoded. | 02-14-2013 |
20130036204 | RECEPTION OF A DIGITAL CONTENT IN TRICK MODE - A terminal receives a digital content which is transmitted in the form of a data stream in a network. This digital content is received by the terminal with a reception throughput, a nominal rendering time being associated with the digital content. Activation of a trick mode corresponding to a modification of the nominal rendering time according to a modification factor associated with the trick mode is detected on the terminal. Data to be requested are then determined according to the modification factor and according to a value representative of reception throughput. The data are then requested from the network and the requested data are received. | 02-07-2013 |
20130034163 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ENCODING AND DECODING AN IMAGE SEQUENCE IMPLEMENTING A PREDICTION BY FORWARD MOTION COMPENSATION, CORRESPONDING STREAM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A method and apparatus for encoding a sequence of images by predicting at least one current image by forward motion compensation from at least one reference image. Prediction implements, for at least one current block of the current image: forward projection of a block of the reference image on the current image, delivering a projected block at least partially overlapping the current block; partitioning the current block delivering a sub-block at least partially overlapped by at least one projected block; and at least one iteration of the following steps for at least one overlapped sub-block: checking that the overlapped sub-block complies with a predetermined allotting criterion; with a positive check, allotting, to the overlapped sub-block, one of the projected motion vectors; and with a negative check, and so long as a predetermined minimum size is not reached for the overlapped sub-block: partitioning of the overlapped sub-block. | 02-07-2013 |
20130034044 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING A DIGITAL SIGNAL FOR A MARC SYSTEM WITH A FULL-DUPLEX RELAY, A CORRESPONDING PROGRAM PRODUCT AND RELAY DEVICE - A method and apparatus for transmitting a signal for a network having at least four nodes comprising two transmitters, a relay, and a receiver that are connected together by non-orthogonal links implementing a spatially-distributed network code. The method includes each transmitter delivering a code word per block of K information bits and transmitting the code words during N time slots; iterative joint detection/decoding in the relay to separate respective streams and determine, per stream, a vector representative of the received code word; jointly coding two vectors derived from the two streams to determine redundancy information representative of two code words transmitted during N time slots; transmitting, by the relay, redundancy information during N time slots; and sequencing in the relay such that the redundancy information transmitted during the N time slots corresponds to the code words transmitted during the preceding N time slots. | 02-07-2013 |
20130031189 | NOTIFICATION ENGINE - A method and apparatus are provided. The method is carried out by a notification engine, for delivering to a user equipment a group of incoming notifications from at least one application running on the user equipment. The application running on the user equipment is registered on the notification engine. The method includes: defining at least one criterion for delivering notifications, buffering the incoming notifications, and delivering according to the criterion a group of previously buffered notifications. | 01-31-2013 |
20130030918 | System and Method for Providing Indications of Participating Advertisers to a Portable User Device - A method of providing indications of participating advertisers to a portable user device including detecting a plurality of participating advertisers in a vicinity of the portable user device; determining a relative proximity of the portable user device to each of the plurality of the participating advertisers; rendering an indication of the participating advertisers on the portable user device to convey the determined relative proximity of each of the plurality of the participating advertisers; detecting a change in the relative proximity of the participating advertisers; and changing the rendering of the participating advertisers on the portable user device to convey the detected change in the relative proximity of the participating advertisers. | 01-31-2013 |
20130022354 | DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR MERGING OPTICAL COMPONENTS ASSOCIATED WITH ONE WAVELENGTH INTO A MERGED OPTICAL COMPONENT - A device and a method are provided for merging a plurality of optical components associated with one wavelength into an optical component associated with the wavelength. The merging device includes, for each optical component of the plurality of components for merging: an optical element arranged to switch to a blocking position for blocking the optical component for merging, as a function of a blocking signal; a duplication element arranged to duplicate the optical component for merging for sending to combination element. The combination element is arranged to obtain the blocking signal by combining the duplicated optical components of the plurality of components other than the optical component for merging. A merging element is arranged to merge the optical components output by the optical element. The merging device may be integrated in an optical combiner of optical signals. | 01-24-2013 |
20130022088 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING A DIGITAL SIGNAL FOR A SEMI-ORTHOGONAL MARC SYSTEM HAVING HALF-DUPLEX RELAY, AND CORRESPONDING PROGRAM PRODUCT AND RELAY DEVICE - A method and device are provided for transmitting a digital signal intended for a network having at least four nodes including two transmitters, a relay and a receiver separated from one another by non-orthogonal links, except between the relay and the destination, between which the link is orthogonal, implementing a spatially distributed network code. The method includes: encoding, in each transmitter, supplying a code word for every block of K bits of information; transmitting, in the transmitters, the code word during αN transmission intervals, αε [0,1]; jointly, iteratively detecting/decoding, in the relay, in order to separate interfering streams from the transmitters and to determine, for each stream, a vector representing the K bits of information associated with the code word; jointly encoding, in the relay, the two vectors in order to determine redundancy information, and scheduling the relays to transmit the redundancy information during the (1−α)N following transmission intervals. | 01-24-2013 |
20130021939 | LOCATING SENSORS OF A NETWORK OF WIRELESS SENSORS - A method and apparatus are provided for locating the positions of sensors of a network of sensors suitable for communicating with one another by radio connection. The method is suitable for receiving, from sensors of the network of sensors, measurements of relative distances between sensors of the network; for calculating a topology for the network of sensors from the received distance measurements, the topology comprising nodes representative of sensors of the network of sensors; and for determining absolute positions for the sensors by anchoring the calculated topology in an absolute frame of reference on the basis of constraints associated with an environment plan of the network of sensors. The invention also provides a locating device implementing the management method. | 01-24-2013 |
20130019003 | Method for Managing Records in an IMS Network, and S-CSCF Server Implementing Said MethodAANM Bouvet; BertrandAACI Perros-GuirecAACO FRAAGP Bouvet; Bertrand Perros-Guirec FR - A method and apparatus are provided for management of registrations in an IMS network. The method includes: creating, for a given public identity, at least two registration queues, each one being associated with a registration policy; receiving a registration message sent by a terminal having the public identity; and assigning one of the registration queues to the terminal on the basis of a field included in the message. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018986 | ADAPTABLE DATA STREAM TRANSMISSIONAANM Ellouze; SelimAACI LannionAACO FRAAGP Ellouze; Selim Lannion FRAANM Fromentoux; GaelAACI Pleumeur BodouAACO FRAAGP Fromentoux; Gael Pleumeur Bodou FRAANM Marjou; XavierAACI LannionAACO FRAAGP Marjou; Xavier Lannion FR - A method of transmitting a data stream previously coded according to an adaptable coding between a first terminal and a second terminal through the intermediary of a session established according to an HTTP-based transport protocol is disclosed. In one aspect, collection is by the first terminal of a set of context information relating to the session, to the first terminal and to the second terminal. Then, formation is of an adaptation scheme as a function of the set of context information. Next, adaptation is of the data stream by the first terminal as a function of the adaptation scheme. Lastly, transmission is of the adapted data stream by the first terminal to the second terminal. | 01-17-2013 |
20130011141 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INSERTING/EXTRACTING OPTICAL SUBBAND INTO MULTIBAND OPTICAL OFDM SIGNAL - A device for inserting/extracting at least one optical subband into an optical channel consisting of a plurality of optical subbands. The device includes an extraction means that is capable of extracting a first optical subband belonging to the optical channel, a suppression means that is arranged so as to obtain a filtered optical channel from the optical channel wherein at least one second subband is suppressed, and a coupling means that is capable of inserting a replacement optical subband in place of the second subband in the filtered optical channel so as to obtain a modified optical channel. The device moreover relates to an optical insertion/extraction switcher, using one or more insertion/extraction devices, and to the corresponding insertion/extraction methods. | 01-10-2013 |
20130010953 | ENCRYPTION AND DECRYPTION METHOD - A method and apparatus are provided for encrypting a plaintext message element into a ciphertext message element associated with a random vector a first subset of encrypting users. The message element is encoded using an error correcting code and then encrypted by a secret matrix, parameterized by the random vector and with noise added by a noise vector. The method includes obtaining the secret matrix parameterized by the random vector and with noise by adding together user secret matrices specific to each of the encryption users. The user secret matrices are parameterized by the random vectors and having noise added by respective noise vectors specific to the encrypting users. | 01-10-2013 |
20130006522 | METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING GEO-FENCES FOR A SPATIAL RECOMMENDATION AND DISCOVERY SYSTEM - A system, method, device, computer program, user interface, and apparatus to associate an object of interest of a map in a location database with a geo-fence. The method includes selecting a first time interval; selecting a mode of transportation; determining terrestrial routes starting from the object of interest; for each determined terrestrial route, determining an end point that can be reach on the terrestrial route within the first time interval using the selected mode of transportation; and storing a geo-fence for the first time interval and mode of transportation in associating with the determined end points. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006515 | GEO-SPATIAL RECOMMENDATION AND DISCOVERY SYSTEM - A system, method, device, computer program, user interface, and apparatus for method of transmitting content to a user equipment. The method includes receiving an intent from a user of the user equipment; gathering a time window of validity for the intent; receiving location information from the user equipment; determining a mode of transportation based on the location information; and, for the duration of the time window, querying a location database of points of interest (POIs) to retrieve candidate POIs that match the user intent and are located within reach of the user equipment based on the time left of the time window and the mode of transportation; presenting the candidate POIs to the user equipment. | 01-03-2013 |
20130003884 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING A SOURCE SIGNAL, METHOD FOR RECEIVING A TRANSMITTED SIGNAL, CORRESPONDING TRANSMITTER, RECEIVER, SIGNAL AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS - A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting a source signal including a plurality of binary sequences to NR receiving antennas, where NR is no lower than 2. The method implements, for at least one first binary sequence of the source signal, pre-filtering for focusing a signal to be transmitted on at least one of the reception antennas, referred to as the target antenna. The target antenna and the associated focus pre-filtering step are selected according to a value of the first binary sequence intended for being considered as received. The method also includes transmitting the pre-filtered signal. | 01-03-2013 |
20130003749 | CONTROLLING A DEVICE OF A REMOTE NETWORK FROM A LOCAL NETWORK - A method and apparatus are provided for controlling at least one UPnP device of a remote network from a local network by a local relay module of the local network, which is able to communicate with at least one remote relay module of a remote network. The relay module obtains, via the remote relay module, at least one identifier of a UPnP device detected in the remote network by a UPnP monitoring point associated with this remote relay module, and records at least one identifier received in association with identification data of the remote relay module having provided this identifier. The relay module controls a UPnP device of the remote network by way of the monitoring point associated with the remote relay module, identified by the identification data recorded in association with an identifier of this UPnP device. | 01-03-2013 |
20130003628 | METHOD FOR DEACTIVATING AT LEAST ONE COMPONENT OF AN ENTITY OF A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK, CORRESPONDING DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A method and apparatus are provided for deactivating at least one component of an entity of a wireless communication network including a plurality of entities. The communication network is organized into a plurality of communication layers, including a physical layer. The method includes, in the physical layer: a step of receiving a header of a frame of data extracted from a physical signal during reception; a step of decoding the header outputting at least one piece of information showing at least one addressee entity of the frame; a step of deactivating at least one component of the recipient entity of the header when the information representing the addressee entity designates an entity other than the recipient entity. | 01-03-2013 |
20120331463 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN ON-DEMAND SOFTWARE EXECUTION SERVICE - A method for providing an on-demand software execution service comprising the following steps: receiving from at least one terminal, at least one request for executing at least one software package, by a virtual machine launched on a virtual machine launching server from files from a set of files for launching virtual machines, and selecting from a set of servers at least one server to which the request will be directed, according to a rule for distributing the execution load of virtual machines by servers of said set of servers. | 12-27-2012 |
20120321074 | METHOD FOR CONVERSION OF A FIRST ENCRYPTION INTO A SECOND ENCRYPTION - A method for converting, by means of a conversion entity, a first digit into a second digit, the first cipher corresponding to the result of a symmetric probabilistic encryption of an plain message element using a first secret matrix parameterized by a random vector, the second digit corresponding to the result of a symmetric probabilistic encryption of the plain message element using a second secret matrix that is parameterized by the random vector, characterized in that the method includes a step of: calculating the second digit by encrypting the first digit using a secret conversion matrix which is a function of the first and second secret matrices, and which is parameterized by the random vector. | 12-20-2012 |
20120319467 | Method and A Device for Reducing the Electricity Consumption Associated with a Communications Line - A method and device are provided for reducing electricity consumption associated with a communications line having a set of N carriers of predetermined power suitable for conveying information to a receiver device. The method is adapted to determine first and second groups, each having respectively at least one of the carriers of the set N; to determine a volume of information to be conveyed on the N carriers during a unit of time; and if the determined volume is less than a predetermined threshold, to allocate a power less than the predetermined power to the carriers of the second group, the power of the carriers of the first group being maintained. | 12-20-2012 |
20120314878 | MULTICHANNEL AUDIO STREAM COMPRESSION - A method for compressing an audio stream, including a plurality of signals, describing a sound scene produced by a plurality of sources in a space, by: identifying the sources from an audio stream; determining a frequency band, energy level and spatial position in the space for each of the identified sources; determining, for each identified source, a spatial resolution corresponding to the smallest difference in position of said source in the space which a listener is capable of perceiving, on the basis of: the frequency band, the energy level, and the spatial position of said source; and, on the frequency band, energy level, and spatial position of at least one subset of the other identified sources; generating a compressed stream comprising the information required to restore each identified source with at least the same corresponding spatial resolution. | 12-13-2012 |
20120314618 | Management of Private Virtual Networks - A transmission system including a plurality of edge routers. The system manages a plurality of virtual networks, each network linking a plurality of remote networks therebetween. An edge router manages a topology table that indicates one or more adjacent edge routers for a given virtual network and at least one remote network identifier for an adjacent edge router. A route change made in relation to a remote network of a given virtual network is detected on the edge router. On the basis of the topology table, one or more adjacent edge routers and the corresponding remote network identifiers are determined for the virtual network. The route change is transmitted to said adjacent edge routers by indicating the corresponding remote network identifiers. | 12-13-2012 |
20120311145 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO MONITOR EQUIPMENT OF AN IT INFRASTRUCTURE - The present system relates to a method for rating an application by a user. The application is downloaded by the user from an application store server to his/her electronic device and is executable on the electronic device. The method includes, for the electronic device, the acts of monitoring application usage data for the application after a first execution of the application by the user, when the application usage data matches a predefined usage data criterion, sending a request to the user for evaluation of the application, and upon entry of an evaluation by the user, forwarding the entry to the application store server. | 12-06-2012 |
20120309361 | Method and System for Personalizing Unavailability Messages - The present invention relates in a general manner to the generation of unavailability messages (MESS.TXT, MESS.VOC) upon a failure to establish a communication. Thus, in a method of communication comprising, on the sending of a call from a calling user (B) to a called user (A), there are provided the following steps: determining (E | 12-06-2012 |
20120307921 | METHOD FOR SELECTING A TRANSMISSION MODE - A method and device are provided for selecting a transmission mode, for a first telecommunications entity having a plurality of different modes for transmitting a communications signal to a second telecommunications entity. The various transmission modes provide the same data rate D. The method includes: for a given transmission mode, determining the value of a first metric α that measures degradation relating to a given distance d stemming from the transmission medium of the communications signal for a given environment compared with a reference model for the transmission medium, as a result of a multi-path effect and/or of an attenuation effect of the transmission medium; and comparing values of the metric α for different modes in order to select at least one transmission mode. | 12-06-2012 |
20120307837 | MULTIPOINT-TO-POINT PSEUDOWIRE - A method is provided for transmitting a data stream from a plurality of terminating (leaf) devices toward another terminating (root) device, the leaf and root devices forming the ends of a multipoint-to-point pseudowire based on a packet switched network to which the terminating devices belong, the method comprising: receiving, by a switching device, also belonging to the packet switched network, a first data stream sent by a first leaf device toward the root device, receiving, by the switching device, a second data stream sent by a second leaf device toward the root device, aggregating the first and second data streams into a third data stream, the switching device having been configured to aggregate the first and second data streams via a parameter called the aggregation parameter, included in a pseudowire establishment request, and transmitting the third data stream toward the root device. | 12-06-2012 |
20120300922 | METHOD OF GENERATING A CORRESPONDENCE TABLE FOR A CRYPTOGRAPHIC WHITE BOX - A method is provided for generating a correspondence table suitable for use in a cryptographic processing method and comprising storing a plurality of input data and of output data in the table, each input datum being associated with at least one output datum in the table. For each input datum, at least one of the output data is obtained by applying a coding function to a first subsidiary datum and to an encrypted intermediate datum depending on the input datum. Also provided are a corresponding encryption method, a storage unit suitable for storing the correspondence table generated by the above generation method, a device for physically implementing such a correspondence table, a decryption device including such a storage unit, and a computer program product suitable for implementing the above generation method. | 11-29-2012 |
20120300723 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR REGULATING TRANSMISSION IN A WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A method and apparatus are provided for regulating transmissions according to a tournament method, implemented by a station having at least one data packet to be transmitted via a wireless communication network having a predetermined bandwidth. The method includes a step during which the station determines whether or not to participate in a tournament, the likelihood of a station participating in a tournament depending on the predetermined bandwidth. Specifically, the likelihood of a station participating in a tournament is selected to be higher as the predetermined bandwidth gets higher. | 11-29-2012 |
20120294249 | Telecommunication Transmission Method and System - A method of scheduling a signal transmission to a user equipment in a transmitter system, said transmitter system comprising a plurality of spatially distributed transmitters for transmitting signals to said user equipment and a base station for controlling said plurality of spatially distributed transmitters, said method comprising, for said base station, the acts of obtaining for the user equipment a quantization vector estimating the state of the channel between the transmitter system and the user equipment, obtaining for the user equipment a weighting factor representing an attenuation of the channel between the user equipment and at least one of the plurality of spatially distributed transmitters, and scheduling a signal transmission to the user equipment using the obtained quantization vector weighted with the obtained weighting factor. | 11-22-2012 |
20120294246 | METHOD FOR ALLOCATING DATA-TRANSMISSION RESOURCES, AND CORRESPONDING SWITCHING METHOD, ACCESS POINT, TERMINAL, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND SIGNAL - A method and apparatus are provided for allocating resources in a communication network including at least one access point exchanging data with at least one terminal connected thereto, and managing at least two communication channels. The method in the access point implements a phase of associating and authenticating a terminal with the access point, including a step of associating a unique identifier with the terminal, and a phase of managing the assembly of channels. The phase of managing includes implementing a reference table associating one of the channels to a terminal identified by the unique identifier thereof, including the following steps: detecting a switching of a terminal connected with the access point, from an initial channel to a destination channel; and updating the reference table to associate the unique identifier of the terminal to the destination channel. | 11-22-2012 |
20120290871 | METHOD OF CHANGING OVER FROM A PRIMARY HSS TO A BACKUP HSS IN AN IP NETWORK - A method is provided for changing over from a primary home subscriber server (HSS) to a backup HSS in an IP network, said network having a plurality of call server control function (CSCF) (or application) servers, in which, after detection of a loss of connection between one of said CSCF (or application) servers and a primary HSS to which it is normally connected, the CSCF (or application) server connects itself to a backup HSS. The method also comprises the following steps: a) a predetermined broadcast device is informed of said loss of connection with said HSS; b) said broadcast device sends a predetermined fault message at least to the other CSCF (or application) servers that are normally connected to said primary HSS, said message containing the reference of said primary HSS; and c) said other CSCF (or application) servers connect themselves to said backup HSS. | 11-15-2012 |
20120287832 | ACCESS CONTROL FOR A SERVICE SUBSCRIPTION - A subscription to a service provided in a communication network is managed by a first terminal. The communication network includes a second terminal, and the service includes transmission of digital information. An access entity is capable of obtaining a maximum rising throughput value allocated to the first terminal and a descending throughput value allocated to the second terminal. On the access entity of the network, an access request is received for subscribing the second terminal to the service provided by the first terminal. Then, a decision about access to or refusal of subscription of the second terminal is made on the basis of the maximum rising throughput value allocated to the first terminal and on the basis of the descending throughput value allocated to the second terminal. And finally, a response indicating the decision is sent. | 11-15-2012 |
20120284363 | Method and device for transmitting content - A process and device are provided for transmitting content i by a supplier of this content. The process includes: a step of receiving by the supplier a transmission request of the content i originating from a requester, a step of obtaining by the supplier an estimation Ni of a number of suppliers of the content, and a step of transmitting the content i, during which the supplier sends the requester at least part of the content i by allocating to the requester an average proportion of the bandwidth allocated by this supplier to distribution of content calculated in the form of a coefficient, which is function of the number Ni of suppliers of the content i and of a real value A, common to all the content to be transmitted, serving to adjust the impact on the coefficient of the number Ni of suppliers of the content i. | 11-08-2012 |
20120282910 | Management of a Wireless Communication Interface of a Terminal - The management method of the invention comprises: an obtaining step (E | 11-08-2012 |
20120278864 | Monitoring Method and Device - The method of the invention comprises:
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20120278044 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MANAGING TRANSMISSIONS OF MEASUREMENTS PERIODICALLY CARRIED OUT BY A SENSOR - A method and device are provided for managing transmissions of a plurality of sets of measurements performed periodically by a measurement sensor capable of communicating with a collection device via a radio network. The method determines, according to a random distribution law, a date of transmission for each set of measurements of the plurality and transmits a message relating to at least one set of measurements, on one of the dates of transmission determined for the plurality. | 11-01-2012 |
20120265542 | OPTIMIZED PARAMETRIC STEREO DECODING - A method and decoder are provided for parametrically decoding a stereo digital audio signal. The method includes synthesizing the stereo signal, per frequency sub-band, on the basis of a decoded mono signal ({circumflex over (M)}[j]), arising from a downmix of the stereo signal and from spatial information parameters of the stereo signal, in such a way that the signals obtained have the following form: | 10-18-2012 |
20120263232 | METHODS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IMAGES, CORRESPONDING ENCODING AND DECODING DEVICES AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS - A method is provided for encoding an image represented by a sequence of symbols. The method includes the following steps: defining subsequences within the sequence; and going through the subsequences applying the following sub-steps for a routine subsequence: determining an adjacent routine encoded group including two previously encoded subsequences, one of which belongs to an adjacent encoded group associated with a subsequence that is separate from the routine subsequence; initializing a routine probability of occurrence of a symbol, taking into account two known probabilities of occurrence of the symbol, relating to two previously encoded subsequences of the adjacent routine encoded group; the consecutive entropic encoding of the symbols, and updating the routine probability of occurrence; and storing the routine probability of occurrence after encoding the last symbol. | 10-18-2012 |
20120260318 | ACCESS TO A NETWORK FOR DISTRIBUTING DIGITAL CONTENT - A transmission of a digital content to a user terminal is managed by a network comprising a service subnetwork adapted for providing the terminal with a service token, and a digital contents distribution subnetwork which includes a control part and a transmission part. The control part of the distribution subnetwork receives a request from the user terminal for a digital content, indicating a service token. Next, if the service token is recognized as valid, an address relating to the distribution subnetwork is determined and a session token associated with said address is generated. A message indicating said address and the session token associated with said address is then transmitted to the user terminal. | 10-11-2012 |
20120259931 | SOCIAL NETWORK ENABLER - A method and apparatus are provided for connecting a first group of users from at least one first social network with users from at least one second social network. The first group of users is registered on the second social network as a generic first user. The method is carried out by a network scheduler and includes collecting a first message from at least one second user from the second social network intended to the generic first user, selecting a user from the first group of users based on a predefined criterion, and providing the first message to the selected user and presenting the second user as the sender of the first message. | 10-11-2012 |
20120259920 | PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATION ACCORDING TO TRANSMISSION CAPACITY - In a peer-to-peer communication network between terminals, classes are assigned respectively to said terminals, a class indicating the transmission capacity of the terminal. The transmission capacity of a terminal corresponds to at least one transmission characteristic associated with the terminal and depends at least on a type of underlying physical network to which the terminal belongs. At a first terminal, a request is received to transmit digital content to a second terminal, the request indicating the class assigned to the second terminal. Then a decision is made whether or not to transmit a least a portion of the digital content to the second terminal, on the basis of said indicated class. Finally, the decision is transmitted to the second terminal. | 10-11-2012 |
20120257496 | TECHNIQUE FOR CONTROLLING A LOAD STATE OF A PHYSICAL LINK CARRYING A PLURALITY OF VIRTUAL LINKS - A control method is provided for controlling a load state of a physical link between two physical network nodes in a physical network. A physical link carries a plurality of virtual links, and a virtual link connects together two virtual nodes belonging to a virtual network. First and second metrics are associated with the virtual link. The control method includes the following steps implemented by one of the two physical network nodes: a step of detecting a load state of a physical link; a step of identifying a virtual link for which a present metric is the first metric; and a step of sending a command to the virtual node carried by the physical node and to which the identified virtual link is connected, the command requesting a modification of the present metric from the first metric to the second metric for the virtual link. | 10-11-2012 |
20120254793 | ENHANCED USER INTERFACE TO TRANSFER MEDIA CONTENT - A method and apparatus are provided for sharing a media content displayed in a window of the touch input interface of a first electronic device with at least one second electronic device. The first electronic device includes a processor controlling the touch input interface. The method is carried out by the processor and includes the acts of enabling displacement of the window in response to capturing a first touch input indicative of an initiation of a transfer, capturing a continuous touch input across the interface from an initial position in the window, displacing the window with each additional touch input of the continuous touch input, sending an activation message that the media content is to be played on the second device when determining that the window is within a given distance of a virtual representation of the second electronic device on the interface. | 10-04-2012 |
20120254477 | MANAGING DATA STORAGE IN A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SPACE - A method and apparatus are provided for selecting at least one device for manipulating data. The at least one device is selected from a plurality of devices forming a distributed storage space. Selection of a device includes taking account of at least one item of technical information associated with the device. | 10-04-2012 |
20120254449 | CONTROLLING A DATA EXCHANGE SESSION BETWEEN TERMINALS OF A FIRST USER AND AT LEAST ONE TERMINAL OF A SECOND USER - A method, device, program, server and terminal are provided for monitoring a data-exchange session between first terminals belonging to a first user and at least one second terminal belonging to a second user. The method includes, after the first user receives an invitation to establish a session, creating a first group of the first terminals belonging to the first user suitable for enabling the session to be established with the first group. | 10-04-2012 |
20120250932 | Device and Method for Processing Images to Determine a Signature of a Film - The invention relates to a method of processing images to determine at least one signature of a film, characterized in that it includes a step of selecting chronologically a series of images from said film, a step of evaluating shifts relating to at least one descriptor corresponding to a physical property between consecutive images in order to obtain primary visual shifts, a step of calculating differences between said primary visual shifts to determine secondary visual shifts, a step of calculating differences between said secondary visual shifts to determine tertiary visual shifts, and a step of determining a mean value and a standard deviation of the primary, secondary, and tertiary visual shifts to obtain the signature of the film. | 10-04-2012 |
20120250545 | SELECTION OF DYNAMIC RELAYS FOR COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATIONS IN A MOBILE NETWORK - The invention relates to the selection of at least one dynamic node, in a mobile network, as a candidate for relaying a data communication signal between a transmitting entity and a receiving entity of the network. In terms of the invention: at least one first area around at least one first entity among the transmitting and receiving entities is defined, beyond which a data communication signal is attenuated beyond a first predetermined threshold; and the selection of nodes as possible candidates for relaying the communication signal on the basis of the definition of the first area is limited. | 10-04-2012 |
20120250497 | METHODS FOR SENDING AND PROCESSING AN SIP RESPONSE - Devices, systems, and methods for sending and processing session initiation protocol (SIP) responses are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method for sending an SIP response through a first telecommunications network node is described. The method includes receiving, by means of the first node, a SIP request sent by means of a second node of the network. The method includes detecting an event that interferes with processing of said request by means of the first node. The method further includes sending, to the second node, a SIP response notifying said interference. The method also includes, before the sending step, activating, within the SIP response, a parameter that allows the request to be rerouted, said parameter being configurable by means of the second node. | 10-04-2012 |
20120244896 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING A COMMUNICATION SIGNAL - A data transmitter is provided for transmitting data that makes it possible for nodes, relaying the preamble transmitted by a transmitter node, to also transmit data to a single destination node without, in turn, transmitting another preamble. In a network comprising a plurality of nodes that alternately observe sleeping and waking periods in an asynchronous manner relative to each other, a node receives a first preamble that is transmitted by at least one transmitter node. The first preamble comprises at least one first set of information related to transmission, by the transmitter node, of a first data set to a destination node. The adjacent node transmits a second data set to the destination node or to another node from the transmission of the first data set. | 09-27-2012 |
20120236815 | Data Transmission Method and System - A method and apparatus are provided for allocating carriers from a list of carriers in a telecommunication network. Each of the carriers allow transmission of a transmission control frame, each of said transmission control frame has a data block corresponding to a data stream and an indication of the previous carrier allocated to the data stream. The method includes, for a transmission control frame and a carrier selected for allocation to the transmission control frame in the list of carriers, the steps of determining the number of binary bits needed to identify the number of carriers in the list of carriers, coding the indication based on the determined number of binary bits, and removing the allocated carrier from the list of carriers. | 09-20-2012 |
20120225653 | METHOD FOR SELECTING A DEVICE IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A method is provided for selecting a device in a telecommunications network in accordance with characteristics relating to the implementation of a telecommunications service, comprising the following steps: a) receiving a set of characteristics relating to said service; b) forming a first symbolic address for querying an address server, using at least one portion of the overall characteristics of the set on the one hand, and an address domain name on the other hand; c) sending the first address to the address server; d) receiving a list of one or more devices compatible with the characteristics; and e) selecting one device from the list. | 09-06-2012 |
20120224631 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR IMAGE ENCODING AND DECODING, AND CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAMS - A method and device relate to coding an image split up into partitions, which comprises the selection of at least one mode of coding and of its associated coding information items, from among items placed in competition, the prediction of the data of a current partition, the determination of residual data. Calculation of the value of a function representative of said residual data are performed, then the comparison of said calculated value with a value selected as value of competition index from among the associated values. If the values are equal, said signal transmitted comprises said residual data and said associated coding information items. If not, the residual data determined are modified so that the value of the function representative of the residual data is equal to the selected value of competition index, the signal transmitted comprising the modified residual data, excluding the selected value of competition index. | 09-06-2012 |
20120220280 | METHOD OF MASKING AN IDENTIFIER OF AT LEAST ONE DESTINATION OF A CALL, AND A CORRESPONDING DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A method of setting up a call between a user and at least one destination comprises, prior to setting up the call, a masking stage for masking the identifier, which stage comprises the following steps, for at least one destination: intercepting an identifier of the destination as input by the user; and modifying a signal including the identifier and used for displaying the identifier, or for setting up said call. | 08-30-2012 |
20120219066 | DATA SUBSTREAM ENCAPSULATION METHOD, DE-ENCAPSULATION METHOD, AND CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAMS - A method and apparatus are provided for encapsulating a plurality of data substreams encoded in a bit stream, wherein the encoded data substream is obtained by entropy encoding of a symbol subsequence representing an image or a series of images. The method includes grouping data substreams into substream pairs according to an iterative traversal order predetermined from the plurality of substreams, and on the basis of a pair of the substreams, obtaining a symmetrical pair by reversing a data order making up the second substream of the pair. The obtained pairs are then concatenated within a sequence. The binary stream is created by encapsulating the sequence and information related to a number of substreams and related to the sizes of pairs of symmetrical substreams. | 08-30-2012 |
20120216300 | METHOD AND CLIENT AGENT FOR MONITORING THE USE OF PROTECTED CONTENT - A method and apparatus are provided for controlling use of content protected with a digital rights management license which contains conditions for the use. When a request to use the content is received by a client agent controlling the use of the content, the conditions of use are checked. Within this check, a determination is made that the use of the content is conditional upon an obligation to perform a parental control operation on the content. A request for authorization to use the content is then transmitted from the controlling client agent to a parental control management module. After a parental control operation has been performed on the content by the parental control management module, the agent receives a result of the parental control operation. If the result is negative, a denial of use of the content is notified in response to the request to use the content. | 08-23-2012 |
20120207311 | OPTIMIZED LOW-BIT RATE PARAMETRIC CODING/DECODING - A parametric coding method and apparatus are provided for coding a multichannel digital audio signal. The method includes a coding step for coding a signal from a channel reduction matrixing of the multichannel signal. The coding method also includes: obtaining, for each frame of predetermined length, spatial information parameters of the multichannel signal; dividing the spatial information parameters into a plurality of blocks of parameters; selecting a block of parameters as a function of the index of the current frame; and coding the block of parameters selected for the current frame. | 08-16-2012 |
20120207168 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR ROUTING DATA PACKETS BETWEEN IPv4 AND IPv6 NETWORKS - A data packet routing system is provided wherein: at least one terminal belonging to a private IPv4 network is connected to a gateway itself connected to an IPv6 network; at least one interface device at the interface between said IPv6 network and a public IPv4 network implements a translation function comprising exchanging a private IPv4 address with a public IPv4 address. The gateway allocates to the terminal an IPv6 address by providing an IPv6 prefix with the private IPv4 address of the terminal in its private IPv4 network; said gateway verifying whether IPv4 address conflict exists, and if IPv4 it does exist, for replacing said private IPv4 address locally with a substitute private IPv4 address. A method is provided that routes an IPv4 data packet sent by a source terminal belonging to a first IPv4 domain via an IPv6 domain to a destination terminal belonging to a second IPv4 domain. | 08-16-2012 |
20120201389 | PROCESSING OF SOUND DATA ENCODED IN A SUB-BAND DOMAIN - Processing of sound data encoded in a sub-band domain, for dual-channel playback of binaural or transaural® type is provided, in which a matrix filtering is applied so as to pass from a sound representation with N channels with N>0, to a dual-channel representation. This sound representation with N channels comprises considering N virtual loudspeakers surrounding the head of a listener, and, for each virtual loudspeaker of at least some of the loudspeakers: a first transfer function specific to an ipsilateral path from the loudspeaker to a first ear of the listener, facing the loudspeaker, and a second transfer function specific to a contralateral path from said loudspeaker to the second ear of the listener, masked from the loudspeaker by the listener's head. The matrix filtering comprises a multiplicative coefficient defined by the spectrum, in the sub-band domain, of the second transfer function deconvolved with the first transfer function. | 08-09-2012 |
20120200386 | METHOD OF MUTUALLY AUTHENTICATING A READER AND A RADIO TAG - A method and apparatus are provided for mutually authenticating a reader and a radio tag. The method includes: a step of the tag sending data to the reader, the data enabling an index to be determined for identifying an authentication coupon of the reader, the index being selected by the tag; a step of the reader obtaining the coupon from the determined index and of the reader sending the coupon to the tag; a step of the tag obtaining an authentication value from the selected index and of the tag verifying that the coupon received from the reader corresponds to the authentication value that is obtained, if the verification is positive, then a step of finalizing the authentication of the tag by the reader; and if the verification is negative, interrupting the mutual authentication method. | 08-09-2012 |
20120195320 | DATA SHARING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method is provided for sharing data between a plurality of nodes in a communication network. The communication network includes a first sharing router and a second sharing router. The first sharing router and second sharing router each have a memory, the memory including a record table for storing at least one record, wherein each record includes at least a reference describing the data to share and, at least one of the data to share or the address of at least a data node associated with the data to share, so that a collecting node may further collect the data. | 08-02-2012 |
20120191971 | METHOD AND DEVICES FOR SECURE COMMUNICATIONS IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A secure communications method is provided for use in a telecommunications network, wherein a transaction between an entity A and an entity B of the network comprises: entity A sending an authorization request to an Authorization Server S, in which request the entity A identifies itself and authenticates itself; the entity A declares to the Authorization Server its intention to communicate with a certain entity B; the Authorization Server determines a secret key that it shares with the entity B; the Authorization Server generates a session key and sends it to the entity A; the session key being a one-way function of the secret key and also being a function of an integer (transaction number) allocated to the transaction; the Authorization Server also generates a transaction identifier that is a function depending at least on the transaction number in non-invertible manner. | 07-26-2012 |
20120187354 | TRANSMISSION CABLE INSTALLATION DEVICE - A transmission cable installation device is provided, which includes a protective sheath surrounding at least one transmission cable and having at least one longitudinal recess. A rigid element is inserted in one of said at least one recess. Also provided are a protective sheath and a profiled support suitable for being inserted in a recess in the protective sheath. | 07-26-2012 |
20120185256 | ALLOCATION OF BITS IN AN ENHANCEMENT CODING/DECODING FOR IMPROVING A HIERARCHICAL CODING/DECODING OF DIGITAL AUDIO SIGNALS - A method of binary allocation in an enhancement coding/decoding for improving a hierarchical coding/decoding of digital audio signals, including a core coding/decoding in a first frequency band and a band extension coding/decoding in a second frequency band. For a predetermined number of bits to be allocated for the enhancement coding/decoding, a first number of bits is allocated to a coding/decoding for correcting the core coding/decoding in the first frequency band and according to a first mode of coding/decoding and a second number of bits is allocated to an enhancement coding/decoding for improving the extension coding/decoding in the second frequency band and according to a second mode of coding/decoding. Also provided are an allocation module implementing the method and a coder and decoder including this module. | 07-19-2012 |
20120185255 | IMPROVED CODING/DECODING OF DIGITAL AUDIO SIGNALS - A method of hierarchical coding of a digital audio frequency input signal into several frequency sub-bands, including a core coding of the input signal according to a first throughput and at least one enhancement coding of higher throughput, of a residual signal. The core coding uses a binary allocation according to an energy criterion. The method includes for the enhancement coding: calculating a frequency-based masking threshold for at least part of the frequency bands processed by the enhancement coding; determining a perceptual importance per frequency sub-band as a function of the masking threshold and as a function of the number of bits allocated for the core coding; binary allocation of bits in the frequency sub-bands processed by the enhancement coding, as a function of the perceptual importance determined; and coding the residual signal according to the bit allocation. Also provided are a decoding method, a coder and a decoder. | 07-19-2012 |
20120183070 | METHOD OF CODING AND DECODING IMAGES, CORRESPONDING DEVICE FOR CODING AND DECODING AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A method and apparatus are provided for coding a signal from images, the images being split into sub-blocks of pixels. The method includes grouping at least two sub-blocks into at least one block of larger size, when the sub-blocks comply with at least one predetermined grouping criterion. A prediction is performed by applying at least one mode of motion prediction using at least two distinct motion prediction vectors, for at least one block of larger size, the motion prediction vectors being associated respectively with sub-sets of the block of larger size, comprising at least one of the sub-blocks of the block of larger size. The sub-sets are predefined and distinct. | 07-19-2012 |
20120177115 | ENCODING AND DECODING A VIDEO IMAGE SEQUENCE BY IMAGE AREAS - The invention relates to a method for coding a sequence of video images comprising a cutting into zones of at least one current image of the sequence,
| 07-12-2012 |
20120170733 | METHOD FOR NOTIFYING COMMUNICATION IN PROGRESS TO TERMINALS CONNECTED TO A DOMESTIC GATEWAY - A method for notifying a call involving a terminal connected to a domestic gateway, the setting up of the call involving the passage of a signaling flow through the domestic gateway, the method comprising a step of receiving a message signaling acceptance of the call, comprising the steps of: determining at least one terminal connected to the domestic gateway and not being involved in the call, and sending a call-in-progress notification message to the at least one terminal. | 07-05-2012 |
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 |