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EP About this file: EP2478675

EP2478675 - DISTRIBUTED FLOW MECHANISM FOR PEER-TO-PEER STREAMING [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusThe application is deemed to be withdrawn
Status updated on  17.04.2020
Database last updated on 25.09.2024
FormerGrant of patent is intended
Status updated on  04.07.2019
FormerExamination is in progress
Status updated on  04.04.2017
Most recent event   Tooltip17.04.2020Application deemed to be withdrawnpublished on 20.05.2020  [2020/21]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Thomson Licensing
1-5, rue Jeanne d'Arc
92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux / FR
[2012/30]
Inventor(s)01 / MASSOULIE, Laurent
Technicolor
1 rue Jeanne d'Arc
F-92443 Issy Les Moulineaux cedex / FR
02 / TOMOZEI, Dan-Cristian
Technicolor
1 rue Jeanne d'Arc
F-92443 Issy Les Moulineaux cedex / FR
 [2012/30]
Representative(s)Vidon Brevets & Stratégie
16B, rue de Jouanet
BP 90333
35703 Rennes Cedex 7 / FR
[N/P]
Former [2012/30]Lindemann, Robert
Deutsche Thomson OHG European Patent Operations Karl-Wiechert-Allee 74
30625 Hannover / DE
Application number, filing date10751699.913.09.2010
WO2010EP63402
Priority number, dateEP2009030584114.09.2009         Original published format: EP 09305841
[2012/30]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report
No.:WO2011029936
Date:17.03.2011
Language:EN
[2011/11]
Type: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP2478675
Date:25.07.2012
Language:EN
The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 17.03.2011 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
[2012/30]
Search report(s)International search report - published on:EP17.03.2011
ClassificationIPC:H04L29/08, H04L12/801, H04L12/715, H04L12/835, H04L12/825
[2019/28]
CPC:
H04L47/10 (EP,US); H04L45/64 (EP,US); H04L47/12 (US);
H04L47/17 (EP,US); H04L47/25 (EP,US); H04L47/263 (EP,US);
H04L47/30 (EP,US); H04L67/104 (EP,US); H04L67/1085 (EP,US);
Y02D30/50 (EP,US) (-)
Former IPC [2012/30]H04L12/56
Designated contracting statesAL,   AT,   BE,   BG,   CH,   CY,   CZ,   DE,   DK,   EE,   ES,   FI,   FR,   GB,   GR,   HR,   HU,   IE,   IS,   IT,   LI,   LT,   LU,   LV,   MC,   MK,   MT,   NL,   NO,   PL,   PT,   RO,   SE,   SI,   SK,   SM,   TR [2012/30]
TitleGerman:VERTEILTER FLUSSMECHANISMUS FÜR PEER-TO-PEER-STREAMING[2019/29]
English:DISTRIBUTED FLOW MECHANISM FOR PEER-TO-PEER STREAMING[2012/30]
French:MÉCANISME DE FLUX DISTRIBUÉ POUR DIFFUSION DE POSTE À POSTE[2019/29]
Former [2012/30]VERTEILTER FLUSSMECHANISMUS FÜR PEER-TO-PEER-STREAMING
Former [2012/30]MÉCANISME DE FLUX DISTRIBUÉ POUR DIFFUSION EN CONTINU DE POSTE À POSTE
Entry into regional phase20.02.2012National basic fee paid 
20.02.2012Designation fee(s) paid 
20.02.2012Examination fee paid 
Examination procedure20.02.2012Examination requested  [2012/30]
11.10.2012Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
23.01.2013Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
07.02.2013Reply to a communication from the examining division
24.03.2017Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
13.09.2017Reply to a communication from the examining division
05.07.2019Communication of intention to grant the patent
16.11.2019Application deemed to be withdrawn, date of legal effect  [2020/21]
03.01.2020Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: fee for grant / fee for printing not paid in time  [2020/21]
Divisional application(s)The date of the Examining Division's first communication in respect of the earliest application for which a communication has been issued is  23.01.2013
Fees paidRenewal fee
25.09.2012Renewal fee patent year 03
26.09.2013Renewal fee patent year 04
26.09.2014Renewal fee patent year 05
24.09.2015Renewal fee patent year 06
23.09.2016Renewal fee patent year 07
26.09.2017Renewal fee patent year 08
27.09.2018Renewal fee patent year 09
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Cited inInternational search[XI]WO0250655  (NOKIA CORP [FI], et al) [X] 1,3,4,7,9,12-15 * the whole document * [I] 2,5,6,10,11;
 [XI]EP1441288  (MICROSOFT CORP [US]) [X] 2,3,5,7,8 * the whole document * [I] 4,6;
 [XP]  - DAN-CRISTIAN TOMOZEI ET AL, "Flow Control for Cost-Efficient Peer-to-Peer Streaming", INTERNET CITATION, (20091221), page 12PP, URL: http://www.thlab.net/~dantom/pub/nc-rate.pdf, (20100505), XP007912941 [XP] 12-15 * page 2, column l - page 4, column l *
 [A]  - CHUAN WU ET AL, "Dynamic Bandwidth Auctions in Multioverlay P2P Streaming with Network Coding", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS, IEEE SERVICE CENTER, LOS ALAMITOS, CA, US, (20080601), vol. 19, no. 6, ISSN 1045-9219, pages 806 - 820, XP011205095 [A] 1-15 * page 1 - page 4 *
 [A]  - FABIO PICCONI AND LAURENT MASSOULIE, "ISP-friend or foe? Making P2P live streaming ISP-aware", INTERNET CITATION, (20081127), page COMPLETE, URL: http://www.thlab.net/~picconi/CR-PRL-2008-11-0001.pdf, (20090918), XP007909830 [A] 1-15 * page 1 - page 4 *
by applicant   - DESMOND S. LUN; NIRANJAN RATNAKAR; MURIEL MEDARD; RALF KOETTER; DAVID R. KARGER; TRACEY HO; EBAD AHMED; FANG ZHAO, "Minimum cost multicast over coded packet networks", IEEE/ACM TRANS. NETW., (2006), vol. 14, pages 2608 - 2623
    - S. BHADRA; S. SHAKKOTTAI; P. GUPTA, "Min-cost selfish multicast with network coding", INFORMATION THEORY, IEEE TRANSACTIONS, (2006), vol. 52, no. 11, pages 5077 - 5087
    - MINGHUA CHEN; MIROSLAV PONEC; SUDIPTA SENGUPTA; JIN LI; PHILIP A. CHOU, "Utility maximization in peer-to-peer systems", SIGMETRICS '08: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2008 ACM SIGMETRICS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MEASUREMENT AND MODELING OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS, (2008), pages 169 - 180
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