Alcatel Lucent

Nokia Technologies Oy

Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy

Mathieu Boussard

Benoit Christophe

Ludovic Noirie

Serge Papillon

Denis Leclerc

Bruno Mongazon-Cazavet

Alain Pastor

Abdelkrim Hebbar

Qi Liao

Julien Robinson

Ilaria Malanchini

Vincent Toubiana

Daniel Kofman

Vincent Verdot

Alessandro Lieto

Sameh Ben Fredj

Fabien Bataille

Bruno Mongazon-cazavet

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for dependency-aware quality of service (QoS) profile provisioning. The method may include obtaining information on at least one application data flow, and dependency information between one application and at least one other application. The method may also include receiving, from a network, information on an updated quality of service profile for the at least one application, and information on another updated quality of service profile for the at least one other application. The updated quality of service profile and the another updated quality of service profile may be selected based on the dependency graph.

Dependency-aware quality of service profile provisioning

A method comprising: retrieving update rules stored in a distributed ledger from the distributed ledger; checking whether or not a received initial transaction fulfills all the retrieved update rules; creating a block comprising the initial transaction if the initial transaction fulfills all the retrieved update rules; broadcasting the block into a network of the distributed ledger, wherein, the initial transaction requests to modify a content of a slice and/or an intent of the slice; if the initial transaction requests to modify the content of the slice, at least one of the update rules constrains the content of the slice or the modifying of the content of the slice, and if the initial transaction requests to modify the intent of the slice, at least one of the update rules constrains the intent of the slice or the modifying of the intent of the slice.

Consensus automation

A controller such as an instant micro-connectivity controller includes a transceiver configured to receive a network access request (NAR) associated with an activity of an application executing on a device in a managed network. The NAR indicates a request for access by the application for a duration of the activity and the NAR includes a timestamp and information indicating the duration. The controller also includes a processor configured to selectively grant the request based on information included in the NAR and generate configuration information for the managed network in response to granting the request. In some cases, the configuration information is used to configure one or more of authorizations for a network switch, a firewall, a network address translation (NAT) element, and a router to route messages associated with the activity of the application.

Managing network connectivity using network activity requests

The invention relates to a method for enabling the discovery of at least one service () matching a discovery request and provided by an object located in a space among interconnected smart spaces. The method comprises:&#x2014;modelling the interconnected smart spaces in an n-level architecture () comprised of lowest-level nodes () representing spaces containing physical connected objects and upper-level nodes (),&#x2014;at each lowest-level node (): clustering services () associated with said physical connected objects into at least one lowest-level service cluster (), aggregating parameters () defining each cluster () into information aggregation, and sending () said information aggregation to parent nodes,&#x2014;at each node () from levelto n: clustering received information aggregation into at least one upper-level cluster (), aggregating parameters () defining each cluster () into local information aggregation, building a cluster matching table based on the local information aggregation and received information aggregation, and sending () said local information aggregation to parent nodes, if any, these steps being performed recursively within each node starting from level, and wherein upon reception at a processing parent node () of the request for a service (), processing the request to forward it level by level to child nodes upon successive matching of the request with the cluster matching table until the request reaches a target lowest-level node () representative of a space containing the object providing the service () matching the request.

Method and system for discovery of services in interconnected smart spaces

A capability for managing a representation of a smart environment is presented herein. The capability for managing a representation of a smart environment is configured to support augmented reality (AR)-based management of a representation of a smart environment, which may include AR-based generation of a representation of the smart environment, AR-based alignment of the representation of the smart environment with the physical reality of the smart environment, and the like.

Augmented reality based management of a representation of a smart environment

In one embodiment, prior to similarity measure computation, concept expansion based on disjunctive normal form (DNF) decomposition and non-conventional reasoning is applied to an original ontology to generate an expanded ontology having the original concepts plus one or more pseudo concepts. As a result, the similarity measure computation can produce results that more accurately reflect a human point of view than convention techniques.

Ontological concept expansion

The present invention concerns a method for determining a sequence of services linked to a conversation in which a user () takes part from a communication system (), as well as the associated communication system (). According to the invention, the method includes the following stages:

Communication method and system for determining a sequence of services linked to a conversation

The invention concerns in particular a system comprising: a first terminal (); a second terminal (oror); at least a first messaging system (oror) able to transmit, to the second terminal, at least the message body of a message () from the first terminal; at least one device () controlling at least one condition (), at least once, the said control device allowing the first messaging system to transmit to the second terminal at least the message body of the said message if the condition control result is positive, the said control device preventing the first messaging system from transmitting to the second terminal at least the message body of the said message if the condition control is negative, at least during the time for which the condition control result remains negative; at least one data server (ororor) external to the control device; at least one link providing communication through the Internet between on the hand the external server, or at least one of the external servers, and on the other hand the control device, the condition control device being designed to: store a message sent by the first terminal; receive at least one item of information from at least one external server; at least partially perform the condition control relating to the said message stored by means of the information received from the external server.

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Chailly-en-Bière, France

Mathieu Boussard