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FRANCE TELECOM

1,234Patents
504Active
1,234Granted
55Portfolio score

Filing activity: Jan 24, 1991 → Jun 28, 2013 · 412 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5991413A Process for the acceptance of a virtual prepaid card use request permitting the reuse of its serial number Physics 311 Expired
US7689409B2 Text language identification Physics 302 Active
US8238947B2 Method and installation for transmitting a message with predetermined duration of validity addressed to a subscriber terminal Electricity 296 Active
US5990013A Process for treating a semiconductor substrate comprising a surface-treatment step Electricity 281 Expired
US7376632B1 Model and method for using an interactive rational agent, multiagent server and system implementing same Physics 279 Expired
US7203486B2 Wireless system having a dynamically configured multimodal user interface based on user preferences Electricity 267 Expired
US7003519B1 Method of thematic classification of documents, themetic classification module, and search engine incorporating such a module Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 260 Expired
US5864806A Decision-directed frame-synchronous adaptive equalization filtering of a speech signal by implementing a hidden markov model Physics 249 Expired
US5446747A Error-correction coding method with at least two systematic convolutional codings in parallel, corresponding iterative decoding method, decoding module and decoder Electricity 237 Expired
US5684385A Customized storage, high voltage, photovoltaic power station Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 228 Expired
US6713356B1 Method for making a semiconductor device comprising a stack alternately consisting of silicon layers and dielectric material layers Electricity 202 Expired
US5465375A Multiprocessor system with cascaded modules combining processors through a programmable logic cell array Physics 194 Expired
US5563897A Method for detecting information bits processed by concatenated block codes Electricity 171 Expired
US5452288A Method for the transmission of digital data in radio paging systems and corresponding radio paging receiver Electricity 164 Expired
US6014646A Process for making a payment using an account manager Physics 154 Expired
US5740232A Smart card based system for telephone-securized transactions Physics 144 Expired
US6307939A Method and equipment for allocating to a television program, which is already conditionally accessed, a complementary conditional access Electricity 143 Expired
US5661806A Process of combined authentication of a telecommunication terminal and of a user module Electricity 142 Expired
US5383208A Device and method to control the output power of laser diodes Electricity 134 Expired
US5154180A Method and device for determining a subject's sleep state by processing an electroencephalographic signal Human Necessities 132 Expired
US5307376A Device for the coherent demodulation of time-frequency interlaced digital data, with estimation of the frequency response of the transmission channel and threshold, and corresponsing transmitter Electricity 130 Expired
US5237564A Frame switching relay for asynchronous digital network Electricity 112 Expired
US6122763A Process for transmitting information bits with error correction coding and decoder for the implementation of this process Electricity 107 Expired
US5264689A Rechargeable prepaid memory card with both unit and page counters Physics 105 Expired
US7283153B2 Home-based remote medical assistance Physics 102 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.