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Interdigital Ce Patent Holdings

Patrick Fontaine

Ludovic Jeanne

Renaud Dore

Charline Guguen

Samuel Guillouard

Yvon Legallais

Philippe Gilberton

Vincent Demoulin

Patrick Lopez

Philippe Chambelin

Christoph Neumann

Francois Baron

Damien Bonnet

Gilles Straub

Jean-Yves Le Naour

Anthony Laurent

Stephane Gouache

Jean-Ronan Vigouroux

Charline Taibi

Christopher Howson

François Baron

Ingrid Autier

Erwan Le Merrer

Valérie Allie

Kandaraj Piamrat

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 home assistant device and a method for privacy-preserving vocal interactions. A microphone captures an audio signal corresponding to a vocal user query. The identity of the speaker is determined, and an obfuscated name is generated corresponding to the identified speaker. The audio signal is analysed to determine the intent of the user and a personalized answer is generated in combination with the obfuscated name. This answer is then de-obfuscated by reintroducing the speaker name. The de-obfuscated answer is rendered to the speaker.

Device and method for privacy-preserving vocal interaction

A device and method for monitoring a first device proximity to a second device is disclosed. The first device is for example a smartphone and the second device is for example a wearable device. Proximity between both devices is monitored in conjunction with an electronic calendar so as to trigger an alert in case proximity between both devices is going to be lost while an event of the calendar is imminent.

Device and method for monitoring proximity between two devices

It is provided a method for pairing two devices, one of which is a first device the other is a second device, wherein the method is implemented at the first device, including: generating a pattern to be displayed on either of or both of the first and second devices; sending whole or a part of the tracing pattern to the second device for displaying the tracing pattern on the second device if any; displaying the corresponding pattern on the first device; receiving information indicating the result of tracing the pattern on the second device; and accepting pairing the two devices.

Method and device for pairing devices

The invention relates to a method and a device for interconnection in a network gateway comprising a first wireless communication interface and a second interface adapted to the implementation of content sharing operations using an interoperability protocol, the method comprising steps of transmission, by the first interface, of at least one information element aiming to enable the gateway to be detected by a remote equipment as being compatible with a function for reproduction using a wireless communication interface, of reception of data frames defined in a link layer of a wireless network protocol, the data frames comprising an item of audiovisual content and being received from a second remote device connected to the first interface by means of a wireless connection and of transmission of the content received at said second interface to a reproduction device.

WiFi display compatible network gateway

The invention relates to a device for transmission in a wireless network comprising a plurality of base stations and at least one mobile terminal, a mobile terminal (MT) transmitting a same signal () intended for the plurality of base stations (BS, BS, BS). In order to optimize the synchronization of the mobile terminal with the plurality of base stations, the method comprises a step of transmission of an item of information representative of a first temporal offset intended for the mobile terminal, the first offset being according to at least one reception time () of the first signal by at least one base station (BS, BS, BS). The invention also relates to the corresponding device for reception.

Method for reception in a wireless network and corresponding device for reception

A device and a method for authorizing access to a service on a first device upon detection of a second device located in near proximity, while preferably using broadcast transmission, is disclosed. The second device broadcasts on a second broadcast network a message comprising at least a group identifier common to the set of devices that can access the service and a time reference value corresponding to the emission time of the message, according to a common time reference received by all devices from a first broadcast network. The first device authorizes access to the service only if the group identifier received from the message is the same as the group identifier of the device and if the delay between the measured arrival of the message and its emission time is lower than a threshold.

Apparatus and method for autorizing access to a service according to device proximity

The invention relates to method for configuring a first wireless network that includes at least one access point. In order to optimize the configuration of the first wireless network, the method comprises a step of configuring at least one parameter of the at least one access point of the first wireless network on the basis of at least a portion of the linking balance of a second wireless network including at least two nodes, the nodes being positioned in a predetermined physical space.

Method for configuring a wireless network

Method for managing the power consumption in a WLAN wireless communication network, comprising an access point device for access to the wireless network and a remote station connected to the access point device. The access point transmitting control and information frames to the remote station, the method comprising the steps of insertion of at least one item of information, into at least one of the control and information frames, relating to a future period of inactivity of the access point, of deactivation of the WLAN access point and of reactivation of the WLAN access point at the end of the period of inactivity.

Low power consumption mode for WLAN access point

The invention concerns a method for estimating a distance from a first communication device to a second communication device. According to an aspect of the invention, the method comprises:

Method for estimating a distance from a first communication device to a second communication device, and corresponding communication devices, server and system

This method of detection of a mobile device location, comprises the steps of:

Detection of a mobile device location

The present invention concerns a method and a device for transmitting data between a sender, and at least two receivers, in a network where a data between a sender and a receiver is carried on a connection and where a unicast connection enables a sender to send the data and a receiver to acknowledge a reception of the data. The method comprises the steps of opening a unique unicast connection identified with a connection identifier; and indicating the connection identifier to the sender and the receivers, so that the sender sends the data on the unicast connection, and the receivers receive the data on the unicast connection.

Method and device for transmitting data to several receivers using ARQ

A method for establishing a first and second association between a main node and respectively a first and second wireless node is disclosed. The first association associates a first virtual access point VAPof the main node and the first node. The first virtual access point transmits to the first node first beacon frames comprising a first item of information BSSIDrepresentative of the first association BSS. The first virtual access point VAPis identified by a services set identifier SSID. According to the invention, when the main node receives from the node a request for the establishment of the second association BSS, the method comprises, at controller level, a step of creation of a second virtual access point so as to isolate the transmissions over the associations.

Method of establishing a first and a second association which are decoupled

The invention relates to a method of communication adapted to the transmission of data packets that can be transmitted according to various physical modes. In order to optimize transmission, the method comprises the following steps:

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