The following 4 patent applications have been filed in the framework of SmartenIT by ALBLF between June 2013 and February 2014. Four of these applications have been published by the EU Patent Office in December 2014 and January 2015.

Patents applications 1 and 2 are about the ALTO Quality Aggregation System (AQAS) TM mechanism presented in D2.2. They claim and specify how QoE results can be collected and integrated in an ALTO Server database to select application paths and endpoints.
Patents applications 3 and 4 are about the MUCAPS TM mechanism presented in D2.2 and described in D2.4 and D3.3. 4 and 5 claim and specify how the application paths and endpoints selection metrics can be automatically identified w.r.t. configuration parameters such as application, access type and time where as 5 focuses on the in-network deployment of the Multi-Access and Cost AltO (MACAO) decision bloc and related communication interfaces.

Patent list:

• "Methods And Systems For Monitoring The Quality-Of-Experience Of An Application Available Over A Network", KERBOEUF Sylvaine, RANDRIAMASY Claire Sabine, FAUCHEUX FrÈderic, filed June 3rd 2013, country: EU. European Patent Application: EP2811692 A1, European Patent Publication: EP 2811692 A1 20141210
  

• "Methods And Systems For Providing Alto Metrics Reflecting Application Endpoint Performances", RANDRIAMASY Claire Sabine, FAUCHEUX FrÈderic, KERBOEUF Sylvaine, filed June 3rd 2013, country: EU. European Patent Application: EP 2 811 719 A1, European Patent Publication: EP 2811719 A1 20141210
  

• "Automated application metric selection for Multi-Cost ALTO queries", RANDRIAMASY Claire Sabine, LAFRAGETTE Jean-Luc, filed July 19th 2013. European Patent Application: EP2827557 A1. European Patent Publication: EP 2827557 A1 20150121
  

• "Automated metric weight tuning for Multi-Cost ALTO queries", RANDRIAMASY Claire Sabine, LAFRAGETTE Jean-Luc, filed July 19th 2013, country: EU. European Patent Application: EP 13306043 A 20130719. European Patent Publication: EP 2827558 A1 20150121