Patents by Inventor Manfred Litzenburger

Manfred Litzenburger has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8965450
    Abstract: A method is provided of operation of a user terminal in a network for radio communications comprising a first radio access network and a second radio access network. The user terminal comprising a first radio, a second radio, a first antenna and a second antenna. The first radio comprises two ports for connection to antennas. At least one of the two antennas is switchably connectable to each of the radios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Dirk Hofmann, Manfred Litzenburger
  • Patent number: 7756521
    Abstract: A method for allocating subcarrier frequencies to a user terminal in a wireless system using multi-carrier modulation such as OFDM in which a network is adapted to communicate with a plurality of user terminals for data transmission, signaling control and link adaptation via an air interface downlink channel and feedback channel, and where a number of terminals estimate their own specific channel transfer function, wherein upon terminal channel transfer function estimation over a certain period of time, a set of terminals report to the network, over their feedback channel, information about their measured channel transfer function and interference noise estimate and the network, according to this information, allocates the subcarrier frequencies of at least one first frequency subset to the set of terminals which sent said information following a frequency-selective allocation scheme and allocates the subcarrier frequencies of at least one second frequency subset to the rest of the terminals according to a fr
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Alcatel
    Inventors: Christian Georg Gerlach, Paul A. M. Buné, Manfred Litzenburger
  • Patent number: 7630347
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an interface unit comprising a first component for establishing a connection to a radio network controller of a radio network sub-system by means of a first communication protocol, a second component for establishing a connection to at least one access point of a wireless local area network by means of a second communication protocol, a third component for converting the second communication protocol to the first communication protocol and for converting the first communication protocol to the second communication protocol and a fourth component for providing data indicative of a load situation of at least one access point to the radio network controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Alcatel
    Inventors: Stephen Kaminski, Hajo Bakker, Klaus Keil, Manfred Litzenburger
  • Publication number: 20090137214
    Abstract: A method is provided of operation of a user terminal in a network for radio communications comprising a first radio access network and a second radio access network. The user terminal comprising a first radio, a second radio, a first antenna and a second antenna. The first radio comprises two ports for connection to antennas. At least one of the two antennas is switchably connectable to each of the radios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Inventors: Dirk Hofmann, Manfred Litzenburger
  • Publication number: 20070217328
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for OFDM transmission with low latency, whereby at least one pilot symbol (P, Pf, Ps) is transmitted within a transmission time interval (TTIn), said at least one pilot symbol (P, Pf, Ps) is used for channel estimation, OFDM symbols are equalized according to said channel estimation, at least one forward error correction codeword is decoded after equalization of said OFDM symbols, and one of said at least one pilot symbol (P, Pf) is transmitted in the last OFDM symbol of the transmission time interval (TTIn), a base station, a user terminal and a network therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2007
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Applicant: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Paul A.M. Bune, Rupert Rheinschmitt, Manfred Litzenburger
  • Publication number: 20050085236
    Abstract: A method for allocating subcarrier frequencies to a user terminal in a wireless system using multi-carrier modulation such as OFDM in which a network is adapted to communicate with a plurality of user terminals for data transmission, signaling control and link adaptation via an air interface downlink channel and feedback channel, and where a number of terminals estimate their own specific channel transfer function, wherein upon terminal channel transfer function estimation over a certain period of time, a set of terminals report to the network, over their feedback channel, information about their measured channel transfer function and interference noise estimate and the network, according to this information, allocates the subcarrier frequencies of at least one first frequency subset to the set of terminals which sent said information following a frequency-selective allocation scheme and allocates the subcarrier frequencies of at least one second frequency subset to the rest of the terminals according to a fr
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2004
    Publication date: April 21, 2005
    Inventors: Christian Gerlach, Paul Bune, Manfred Litzenburger
  • Publication number: 20040076179
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an interface unit comprising a first component for establishing a connection to a radio network controller of a radio network sub-system by means of a first communication protocol, a second component for establishing a connection to at least one access point of a wireless local area network by means of a second communication protocol, a third component for converting the second communication protocol to the first communication protocol and for converting the first communication protocol to the second communication protocol and a fourth component for providing data indicative of a load situation of at least one access point to the radio network controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2003
    Publication date: April 22, 2004
    Applicant: ALCATEL
    Inventors: Stephen Kaminski, Hajo Bakker, Klaus Keil, Manfred Litzenburger