Patents Assigned to Nokia Technolgies Oy
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Patent number: 11671187Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed, in which the apparatus comprising circuitry configured for: estimating or determining a future communications state for each of a plurality a mobile devices K associated with a base station, the future communications state being indicative of the mobile device communicating in an uplink to a base station or in a downlink from the base station at a future time slot t or being idle and also determining a target position of at least one of the mobile devices, based at least partly on its estimated communication state, for enabling re-positioning of said at least one mobile device to the determined target position substantially at said future time slot t.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Nokia Technolgies OyInventors: Karthik Upadhya, Martti Moisio, Dani Korpi, Tero Ihalainen, Mikko Uusitalo
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Patent number: 11469815Abstract: A system, apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for accurately and efficiently determining communication offsets between at least one user equipment (UE) device and at least one non-terrestrial network (NTN) device may include a UE device including: a memory storing computer readable instructions and at least one processor configured to, determine location information of the UE device; receive group information from a NTN device, the group information including a plurality of group IDs corresponding to a plurality of group coverage areas within a beam coverage area, each of the plurality of group IDs including location information of a corresponding reference point, and group offset information associated with the corresponding reference point; select a group ID from the plurality of group IDs based on the location information of the UE device and the plurality of reference points; and perform UL transmission based on the group offset information.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Nokia Technolgies OyInventors: Tzu-Chung Frank Hsieh, Ryan Keating
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Patent number: 11329186Abstract: An apparatus (201) comprises a light emitter (202) and a photodetector (203) formed on a single fluid-permeable substrate (206) such that the photodetector (203) is able to detect light emitted by the light emitter (202) after interaction of the light with a user of the apparatus (201). The photodetector comprises a channel member (207) which may be made from graphene, respective source and drain electrodes (208, 209), a layer of photosensitive material (210) configured to vary the flow of electrical current through the channel member (207) on exposure to light from the light emitter (202), and a gate electrode (211).Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2016Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Nokia Technolgies OyInventors: Alexander Bessonov, Darryl Cotton, Adam Robinson
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Patent number: 11171444Abstract: An apparatus and method, the apparatus comprising: a layer of quantum tunnelling composite configured such that in a non-compressed state the quantum tunnelling composite is an electrical insulator and in a compressed state the layer of quantum tunnelling composite is an electrical conductor; a magnetic portion configured to cause compression of the quantum tunnelling composite; and wherein the apparatus is configured to be coupled to a reciprocal apparatus where the reciprocal apparatus comprises a reciprocal magnetic portion such that when the apparatus is coupled to the reciprocal apparatus the magnetic portion causes compression of the quantum tunnelling composite to provide a direct current path through the quantum tunnelling composite to the reciprocal apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2016Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Nokia Technolgies OyInventor: Piers Andrew
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Patent number: 11128836Abstract: A first input and a second input are received from a front camera and a rear camera respectively of a user device The first input is a video of a first object having a first orientation with respect to the front camera, the second input is a video of a second object having a second orientation with respect to the rear camera. A video output is generated including a first part based on the first input and a second part based on the second input. The video output is presented relative to a viewpoint of a first viewer, such that, at the viewpoint, the first and second parts of the video output are visible at the same time and the first object in the first part of the video output is orientated towards the second object in the second part of the video output.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Nokia Technolgies OyInventors: Jussi Artturi Leppanen, Miikka Vilermo, Antti Eronen
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Patent number: 11076319Abstract: In accordance with example embodiments of the invention there is at least a method and apparatus to perform determining, by a network node of a communication network, for assignment to at least one network device more than one resource configuration comprising a resource configuration for a contention based resource and a further resource configuration for a dedicated resource, wherein the further resource configuration is reserved as a fall back for a case where a data communication using the contention based resource is not successfully decoded by the network node; and communicating between the network node and the at least one network device information comprising the more than one resource configuration for use to communicate the data communication.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Nokia Technolgies OyInventors: Ryan Keating, Nitin Mangalvedhe, Rapeepat Ratasuk, Srinivasan Selvaganapathy
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Patent number: 11064437Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method, comprising: transmitting a request frame, from a first wireless device to a second wireless device, the request frame indicating a at least one requested transmission window for receiving a wake-up frame via a wake-up radio, and receiving, by the first wireless device from the second wireless device, the wake-up frame via the wake-up radio during at least one allocated transmission window, wherein the at least one allocated transmission window is based on the at least one requested transmission window.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2017Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Nokia Technolgies OyInventors: Janne Marin, Enrico Henrik Rantala, Mika Ilkka Kasslin, Olli Petteri Alanen
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Patent number: 10995001Abstract: A percolation network of functionalised reduced graphene oxide flakes, the percolation network configured to allow for hopping of charge carriers between adjacent reduced graphene oxide flakes to enable a flow of charge carriers through the percolation network, and wherein the reduced graphene oxide flakes are functionalised to facilitate detectable changes in the flow of charge carriers in response to a stimulus to the percolation network.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2014Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Nokia Technolgies OyInventors: Samiul Md Haque, Elisabetta Spigone, Jani Kivioja
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Patent number: 10893350Abstract: A virtual reality apparatus comprising: at least one heat-generating virtual reality electronic component; a housing configured to contain the at least one heat-generating virtual reality electronic component; a microphone having an audio input positioned at a surface of the housing; and a plurality of elongated heat-conducting elements configured to conduct heat generated by the at least one heat-generating virtual reality electronic component from the inside of the housing to the outside of the housing, wherein the plurality of elongated heat-conducting elements protrude from the surface of the housing in proximity to the audio input of the microphone to disturb the flow of air at the surface and reduce the amount of wind noise detected by the microphone.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Nokia Technolgies OyInventors: Asta Maria Kärkkäinen, Miikka Tapani Vilermo
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Patent number: 10874312Abstract: A user wearable apparatus including an optical sensor structure configured to optically monitor an area of a body of a user wearing the apparatus to monitor a physiological property of the user. A movement of at least one part of the optical sensor structure is caused to change the monitored area of the body of the user and to determine a desired monitoring area, and thereafter the monitoring of the physiological property of the user is maintained at the determined desired monitoring area.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2016Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Nokia Technolgies OyInventors: Jarkko Rouvinen, Matti Kosonen
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Patent number: 10880715Abstract: A method including causing transmission of at least one signal to at least one apparatus, separate from an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle, to cause the at least one apparatus to provide feedback to at least one passenger of the autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle to provide control information of the autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2015Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Nokia Technolgies OyInventors: Jussi Leppanen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Antti Eronen
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Patent number: 10764928Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from reliable random access. For example, fifth generation (5G) wireless communication systems may benefit from a coordinated reliable random access technique based on common random access channel resources for a quality of service aware multi-connectivity link. A method can include preparing a random access message at a user equipment. The method can also include transmitting the random access message from the user equipment on a shared resource. The shared resource can include a resource, such as a random access channel, known by a plurality of access nodes or shared by a plurality of access nodes.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2015Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Nokia Technolgies OyInventors: Zexian Li, Juho Pirskanen, Martti Moisio, Mikko Uusitalo, Juha S. Korhonen
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Patent number: 10718575Abstract: An apparatus and heat transfer system, the apparatus comprising: a substrate; a plurality of nucleation sites provided on the substrate; a nanostructured surface surrounding the nucleation sites arranged to enable coalescence induced droplet jumping; wherein both the plurality of nucleation sites and the nanostructured surface are hydrophobic.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2017Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: Nokia Technolgies OyInventors: Ryan Enright, Ross Lundy, Shenghui Lei, Shreyas Chavan