Patents are important steps in the process of transferring technology to marketplace. Patent creation has strong implications for the Institute: patents are incentives for their creators, as they imply recognition for their creativity and material reward when these inventions are marketable. These incentives encourage innovation, the guarantee to the continuous improvement in the quality of research and, ultimately, of human life. It is IMDEA Networks Institute’s policy to share a very high percentage of financial proceeds with inventors (our researchers) as reward for their excellence and hard work.
The following are examples of our patenting activities. This is not an exhaustive list of all IMDEA Networks' patents, as we are unable to disclose some due to confidentiality agreements with the funding companies.
Spanish Patent Application (March 2018)
Title: Método para determinar información de tipo geométrico en dispositivos de redes en la banda de ondas milimétricas [METHOD FOR DETERMINING GEOMETRIC INFORMATION OF MMWAVE NETWORK DEVICES]
Inventors: Guillermo BIELSA LÓPEZ, Joan PALACIOS BELTRAN, Paolo CASARI, Joerg WIDMER, Adrian LOCH NAVARRO
Rights: IMDEA Networks Institute
Overview: A method for determining geometric information of mmWave network devices comprising collecting measures, by at least one of the devices, of signal strength and SNR of a transmission received from another device of the mmWave network; estimating angle information of the received signals to generate a set of informed particles comprising initial values of state of each informed particle and input in a modified particle filter; the modified particle filter evolving the sets of informed particles and past particles to obtain a set of evolved particles which, in turn, is evolved to obtain a set of posterior particles delivered by the modified particle filter. Finally, the modified particle filter delivers as output final values of geometric information of the at least one device extracted from the delivered set of posterior particles.
Application number (OEPM): P201830297 (27.03.2018)
Spanish Patent Granted (February 2016)
Title: Procedimiento de establecimiento y borrado de caminos y de reenvío de tramas para conexiones de transporte y puente de red [METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING AND CLEARING PATHS AND FORWARDING FRAMES FOR TRANSPORT CONNECTIONS, AND NETWORK BRIDGE]
Inventors: Arturo AZCORRA, Guillermo IBÁÑEZ FERNÁNDEZ, Elisa ROJAS SÁNCHEZ, Isaías MARTÍNEZ YELMO
Rights: Joint patent between IMDEA Networks Institute and University of Alcalá (Spain)
Overview: The present invention describes mechanisms that, in a network of transparent bridges, both seek and establish a specific path for each new TCP connection established between two terminals. The new path is established by the border bridge connected to the source terminal when receiving a TCP segment type SYN to establish a connection, encapsulating the said segment within a special path request packet that is resent by all network links and is responded to in unicast mode by the border bridge of the destination terminal through an acceptance package in which the SYN + ACK response segment of terminal S is encapsulated, the said packet confirming both the TCP connection as well as the chosen path between A and S. The path is automatically cleared after a certain period of time without the use of the connection or through exchanges of FIN segments in both directions of the connection.
Application number (OEPM): P201301133 (10.12.2013) | Publication number (1) (OEPM): ES2540595 A1 (10.07.2015) | Publication number (2) (OEPM): ES2540595 B2 (02.02.2016) | Patent granted (OEPM): 26.01.2016 | Application number (US): US 15/103,049 (10.12.2014) | Publication number (US): US 2016/0308727 A1 (20.10.2016) | Application number (PCT): PCT/ES2014/070905 (10.12.2014) | Publication number (PCT): WO 2015/086877 A1 (18.06.2015)
Spanish Patent Granted (January 2011)
Title: Procedimiento de generación de direcciones IPv4 [PROCEDURE OF IPV4 ADDRESS GENERATION]
Inventors: Arturo AZCORRA SALOÑA, Michal KRYCZA, Marcelo BANGULO BRAUN, Iljitsch VAN BENIJNUM, Alberto GARCÍA MARTÍNEZ
Rights: IMDEA Networks Institute
Overview: Method for generating additional IPv4 addresses extended within an Internet IPv4 header by inserting an additional IPv4 address associated with a network device, by means of an insertion and extraction module, as a suffix within the identification field and/or as a fragment of the position of the IPv4 header to be carried over the Internet IP from a first network device to a second network device.
Application number (OEPM): P200930504 (24.07.2009) | Publication number (1) (OEPM): ES2332498 (A1) (05.02.2010) | Publication number (2) (OEPM): ES2332498 (B1) (02.02.2011) | Patent granted (OEPM): 21.01.2011 | Owners: IMDEA Networks