Alcatel Lucent

Alcatel

Gérard Delegue

Emmanuel Marilly

Olivier Martinot

Stéphane Betge-Brezetz

Michel Chevanne

Sylvain Squedin

Mohamed Adel Saidi

Nicolas Bouche

Arnaud Gonguet

Olivier Poupel

Johann Daigremont

Erwan Baynaud

Olivier Durecu

Lionel Fournigault

A processing a device (D), for a network equipment element (RP) of a communication network equipped with an accounting and billing management module, includes processing means (MT) which are tasked, firstly, to determine, from values representing selected local parameters of their equipment element (RP) and/or of selected traffic streams received by this equipment element (RP), associated with the identifier of a customer in the network, usage data concerning the resources of the network corresponding to said customer identifier, and secondly, to transmit these usage data, and the identifier associated with them, to the accounting and billing management module for a possible billing of the customer designated by this identifier.

Device for processing the measurements of parameters and/or of traffic streams, for local accounting of the use of resources, for an equipment element in a communication network

A method for generating data enabling searching for content complements intended for terminals of a telecommunication network is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes selecting content from a terminal, generating identification information of the selected content, sending a marker generation request to a content complement server, and, in response to receiving the request, generating and saving a marker at the content complement server. The request includes the user's identification data and the identification information of the selected content. The marker includes the user's identification data, the identification information of the selected content, and search characteristics data enabling an additional search for content related to the selected content. A system, a terminal, and a server associated with the method are also provided.

Method for generating data enabling the search for content, system, terminal, and server complements to implement the method

The object of the invention is an audiovisual program content preparation method. The inventive method comprises the following steps:

Audiovisual program content preparation method, and associated system

A system is dedicated to the transmission of additional contents (CA) accessible in interactive mode and associated with contents (CP) broadcast to primary communication terminals (TP, TP), connected to a broadcasting network (R) and associated with programming information (PI). This system comprises i) an equipment (ST) required to associate a data set (ES) with each additional content (CA), including a content definition, an address to access it and a broadcast date, depending on programming information (PI), and to transmit each set (ES) through the broadcasting network before the broadcast date contained in it, ii) primary communication terminals (TP, TP) required to store each transmitted set (ES) and to enable loading of the definition and the address contained in it during a time interval including the broadcast date contained in it, and iii) secondary communication terminals (TS-TS) each being capable of loading each definition and the associated address, stored by a neighboring primary communication terminal (TP, TP), during the associated time interval so as to immediately display and/or broadcast it and thus enable its user to select it to request transmission of the additional content associated with it to the associated address through a communication network (R).

System and method for transmitting interactive services associated with broadcast contents, in real time or off line

The invention concerns user profiles associated with terminals. It consists of a method for adapting a common user profile () used by a service provider of audio and/or video broadcast on a common terminal to customize the service provided, including: a step of detecting at least one new terminal (or) in the neighborhood of the common terminal; a step of enabling at least one new terminal detected on at least one first condition that it is to remain in the neighborhood of the common terminal for a duration compatible with the customization of the service provided; a step of determining one or more user profiles corresponding to one or more new enabled terminals; a step of correlating one or more predetermined profiles with one or more parameters representing the common profile used by the service provider so as to obtain a new common user profile; a step of implementation, by the service provider, of said new common user profile at least if the new common user profile is sufficiently different from the common user profile used by the service provider, to modify the customization of the service provided.

Method for adapting a common user profile

An installed device (D) is intented to local assurance management for a network element (NE) in a communication network (N) equipped with a network management system (NMS), where said equipment element (NE) presents a chosen configuration and contains means (MM) for the measurement of parameter values in the network as well as a management information base (MIB) which stores management data representing the measured values. The device or arrangement (D) includes management means (MAE) used to adapt the configuration of the equipment element (NE) in accordance with at least the management data stored in the management information base (MIB) and with chosen rules known as assurance rules.

Local assurance management device for an equipment element in a communication network

A method of sharing multimedia data, comprising:

Method for interactive real time sharing of multimedia data, server, and interactive real time communication network

A network management system for determining the synchronization between two streams of packets transmitted in a transport network measures throughput variations for each of the streams of packets and determines the synchronization by comparing the variations.

Network or service management system for determining the synchronization between two streams of packets

A diagnostic device, for use in a communication network including network equipments is provided. The diagnostic device includes a diagnostic module that is adapted to determine the cause of problems occurring within the network on the basis of information provided by the network equipments. The diagnostic module includes a knowledge base in the form of basic diagnostic units and a processing module adapted to establish hierarchical associations between basic diagnostic units selected in the knowledge base to constitute configurable diagnostic models adapted to determine the cause of problems.

Modular evolving knowledge-based diagnostic device for use in communication networks

A device for monitoring service data for controlling traffic engineering modules () and delivered by management modules () of a communications network. The device comprises i) a memory () for storing rules each defined by at least one condition representative of an event in the network associated with one of the traffic engineering modules () and at least one action representative of at least one command to be executed by the associated module and ii) monitoring means () adapted, on receiving service data designating an event, to extract from the memory () at least one of the rules corresponding to the event and to deliver each command representative of the action associated with the condition representative of the event to the traffic engineering module () associated with that event in the extracted rule.

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Cachan, France

Gérard Delegue