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Christopher Howson

Yvon Legallais

Guillaume Bichot

Anthony Laurent

Philippe Gilberton

Christoph Neumann

Marie Guegan

Ali Louzir

Gilles Straub

Patrick Fontaine

Eric Gautier

Patrice Hirtzlin

Vincent Alleaume

Stephane Onno

Quang Khanh Ngoc Duong

David Harrison

Francois Schnitzler

Chaoying Guo

A first network analysis node in a network receives, from a device, a first message comprising information indicative of a subscription, for the device, to network analytics information, and sends, to a second network node, a second message comprising information indicative of a request for a transfer of at least part of the subscription to network analytics information to a second network analysis node.

Method for analytics data retrieval and corresponding apparatus

A home assistant device captures voice signal expressed by users in the home and extracts vocal features from these captured voice recordings. The device collects data about the current context in the home and requests from an aggregator a background model that is best adapted to the current context. This background model is obtained and locally used by the home assistant device to perform the speaker recognition. Home assistant devices from a plurality of homes contribute to the establishment of a database of background models by aggregating vocal features, clustering them according to the context and computing background models for the different contexts. These background models are then collected, clustered according to their contexts and aggregated by an aggregator in the database. Any home assistant device can then request from the aggregator the background model that fits best its current context, thus improving the speaker recognition.

Apparatus and method for residential speaker recognition

The present disclosure proposes a solution to associate a device with a user by capturing a voice of a speaker by a microphone connected to the network device (e.g. a residential or home gateway), monitoring the IP traffic of the network device and detecting the device contributing to this IP traffic in order to establish a link between the speaker and his device(s) and associate the device with the speaker.

Method for associating a device with a speaker in a gateway, corresponding computer program, computer and apparatus

A method for controlling a rendering time of a second video content stream on a second device to be synchronized with a rendering time of a first video content stream on a first device, said second video content stream being organized in chunks, includes receiving by a control device a request of a chunk of the second video content stream from the second device, receiving by the control device, the packets of the requested chunk, and delivering by the control device the requested chunk to the second device at a delivery time at which said requested chunk should be delivered to the second device so that the rendering time of the second video content stream on the second device is synchronized with the rendering time of the first video content stream on the first device.

Synchronization of content rendering

The invention relates to a storage device management method allowing to manage the storage space, on a storage device, by proposing to an end user to store a new content he was going to consume if its storage determined size is lower than an already stored content size.

Storage device management method and apparatus corresponding computer program product and non-transitory computer readable medium

This method for synchronizing a first multimedia stream rendered on a first terminal and a second multimedia stream rendered on a second terminal, comprises a step of generation, from an original audio sequence of the first stream, of original audio fingerprints, and further comprises steps of:

Synchronization of multimedia streams

The invention relates to a method and a device for converting a data stream transporting content into a file on a server, the content including timestamps for its playback, the timestamps indicating the time elapsed since the start of said content, the method being wherein it includes steps for receiving, from a broadcast channel, streaming content, calculating at least one piece of temporal playback information from at least one of the timestamps and a reference clock, the reference clock being the time reference for a local area network, saving the content to a file on a server, the server file being accessible by a playback terminal connected to the local area network, and saving a piece of temporal playback information to a server file or to a description file associated with the server file.

Method of saving content to a file on a server and corresponding device

A method for delivering content to at least two terminals for synchronous playback is described. The method includes providing a first association of content to a preamble sequence, providing a second association of content to an ending sequence, providing estimations of data delivery duration from a server to at least two terminals and a playback duration of the preamble sequence in at least one of the first and second association, delivering the first and second association to the terminals wherein the playback duration of the preamble sequence is greater than or equal to the largest difference between the estimations, and wherein the estimations of data delivery duration allows each of the at least two terminals to evaluate a local temporization duration for playing-back synchronous content.

Device and method for content delivery adapted for synchronous playbacks

The present invention concerns a transmitting device adapted to send content in bursts in a channel, the channel comprising a plurality of bursts, wherein a burst comprises at least one time slot. The transmitting device comprises first communicating means for receiving content from a first network, second communicating means for sending the content to a second network, the content being successively sent over at least one time slot of the bursts of the channel, time slot means for assigning a channel, and at least one unfilled time slot in the bursts of the channel to at least one second transmitting device located on the second network and signaling means for indicating the channel and the unfilled time slots to the at least one second transmitting device.

System and devices for distributing content in a hierarchical manner

The present invention concerns a method at a file server for sending more than one file to more than one receiver, comprising the steps of aggregating the files into a container, splitting the container into more than one packet, and transmitting the more than one packet to the more than one receiver, wherein, the reception of at least one packet of the container enables a receiver to request the reception of lost packets of the container. To this end, the method comprises the steps of receiving an indication of the number of consecutive lost packets of the container per the more than one receiver and adapting the size of the container, in function of the number of consecutive lost packets at the receivers.

System and method for improving the file transmission reliability

The invention relates to a device for transmission and/or reception of signals. It comprises a first waveguide (,) for the reception/transmission of signals and a second waveguide (,) for the transmission of a signal originating from an oscillator of the reception board, for example, to the transmission board. Particular application to the field of broadcasting signals exchanged between a station and a dwelling, in the scope of the MMDS, LMDS or MVDS, or between a satellite and a dwelling, in the scope of a satellite telecommunications system.

Device for transmission and/or reception of signals

The present invention relates to a process and a device for the wireless transmission of a signal S.sub.1 between a transmitter and at least one receiver. According to the invention, at the sending end:

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