Patents by Inventor Meik Kottkamp

Meik Kottkamp 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).

  • Publication number: 20100302959
    Abstract: A controller of a private base station receives data on a travel time depending on a propagation delay between a private base station and a user terminal. The controller outputs a control signal to a controllable amplifier for decreasing a transmission power of the private base station if the measured travel time is longer than a predetermined reference time or quality of service is lower than reference quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: Volker Breuer, Joerg Gustrau, Meik Kottkamp, Demian Martos-Riano, Thomas Ulrich, Alexander Vesely
  • Publication number: 20100197320
    Abstract: A user terminal receives at least one signal with information depending on a location of the user terminal. The user terminal processes the at least one signal for providing data related to the location while it is in a cell of an accessible private base station and saves the data as a reference data. After that, the user terminal receives at least one signal with information depending on the location of the user terminal and a broadcast from a private base station. The user terminal processes the at least one signal for providing data related to a location of the user terminal and compares the data and a reference data with each other. The controller enables a contact to the private base station if the data and the reference data match each other and, otherwise, disables a contact to the private base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: Thomas Ulrich, Volker Breuer, Alexander Vesely, Meik Kottkamp, Demian Martos Riano, Jörg Gustrau
  • Publication number: 20100184441
    Abstract: First and second network-based radio stations receive information content, i.e., useful information, transmitted by a subscriber station and control information relating to the useful information. The first network-based radio station and the second network-based radio station transmit the control information, but only the first network-based radio station transmits the useful information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2007
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Inventors: Volker Breuer, Meik Kottkamp, Thomas Ulrich, Alexander Vesely
  • Publication number: 20100182954
    Abstract: There is provided a private base station including a processing unit configured to scan data of overlaying macro cells of a public radio network in order to report the location of the private base station; a communication unit configured to request a connectivity service from the public radio network by using identification data of the private base station and the location of the private base station; and a communication unit configured to receive grant to utilize the re-quested connectivity service once the identification data has been verified by the public radio network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Inventors: Thomas Ulrich, Volker Breuer, Alexander Vesely, Meik Kottkamp, Demian Martos Riano, Jörg Gustrau
  • Patent number: 7068629
    Abstract: A method and radio communication system for synchronizing subscriber stations, wherein a time slot is assigned to a number of base stations for transmitting at least one synchronization sequence and adjacent base stations use a different time offset with respect to the beginning of the time slot for transmitting the synchronization sequence. Thus, superposition can be precluded even in the case of a synchronized operation of the base stations. So that the subscriber station can still determine the beginning of the time slot, the time offset is transmitted. The time offset corresponds to the choice of one or more synchronization sequences and/or the sequence of a number of synchronization sequences. The information relating to the time offset is transmitted coded in this manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Benz, Anja Klein, Armin Sitte, Thomas Ulrich, Michael Faerber, Meik Kottkamp, Volker Sommer
  • Patent number: 7065353
    Abstract: In a cellular telecommunications system using wireless telecommunication between mobile parts and base stations, a method of handing off telecommunications connections from uncoordinated, unlicensed operation of the system to coordinated, licensed operation and vice versa. The method requires only simple circuitry and little energy consumption in the mobile parts. Initial monitoring is carried out in the base station, which supports uncoordinated, unlicensed system operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Edgar Bolinth, Uwe Schwark, Michael Färber, Armin Sitte, Thomas Ulrich, Anja Klein, Meik Kottkamp, Erich Kamperschroer, Michael Benz
  • Patent number: 6885875
    Abstract: According to the invention, transmissions of the second radio station are received in the first radio station in which the operating instruction for transmission power of the second radio station is determined. The operating instruction is transmitted during a following transmission of the first radio station to the second radio station, whereupon the latter takes into account the operating instruction for power regulation during one of its following transmissions. Contrary to prior art, no time invariable or fixed step size is used. An operating instruction is used instead which is related to a variable step size in transmission power regulation. The variable step size is subscriber-dependent and time-dependent regulated by the radio stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Benz, Michael Faerber, Franz Goldhofer, Anja Klein, Reinhard Koehn, Meik Kottkamp, Joern Krause, Holger Landenberger, Sebastian Obermanns, Stefan Oestreich, Armin Sitte, Volker Sommer, Jean-Michel Traynard, Thomas Ulrich
  • Patent number: 6650907
    Abstract: In order to control the transmitting power provided for point-to-multipoint telecommunications links in a telecommunications system with wireless telecommunication and uncoordinated unlicensed system operation, without significant restriction of the transmitting range, use is made of the fact that the maximum number of mobile stations (MS1 . . . MSn) registered in a base station (BS1) is known. Thus, the base station knows at any time how many and which mobile stations are registered. If all mobile stations are registered (NACT=NSCHED), the base station can match the transmitting power to the mobile station received as the “weakest one”. In other cases, if not all mobile stations are registered (NACT≠NSCHED), the base station will alternately transmit with the maximum transmitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Erich Kamperschroer, Uwe Schwark, Edgar Bolinth, Michael Färber, Anja Klein, Meik Kottkamp, Armin Sitte, Thomas Ulrich, Michael Benz
  • Patent number: 6405020
    Abstract: A method for voice transmission via a radio interface in a digital radio communication system includes the step of transmitting at least one signal between a base station of a base station system and a radio station. At least one characteristic value relating to the transmission conditions of the radio interface is determined from this signal. The characteristic value is stored in at least one storage device and is taken into account at a later point in time in addition to currently determined characteristic values for a voice and channel coding on the transmitter side. A base station system for voice transmission via a radio interface in a digital radio communication system is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stefan Oestreich, Michael Farber, Meik Kottkamp
  • Patent number: 6320854
    Abstract: A method for allocating radio channels in a radio communications system having timeslots includes the steps of allocating the radio channel for the downlink direction to a mobile station as a function of a channel allocation pattern which indicates the transmission power levels for the timeslots. The mobile station corrects the allocation of the radio channel as a function of an interference pattern which indicates the interference power levels in the timeslots. The allocation process results in the transmission power level being distributed as uniformly as possible between the timeslots which are provided for a connection from the radio station in the downlink direction, wherein the allocation process is a function of the occupancy of the timeslots in accordance with the channel allocation pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Färber, Martin Haardt, Anja Klein, Meik Kottkamp, Werner Mohr, Jürgen Schindler
  • Patent number: 6236265
    Abstract: A method and circuit for preamplifying reception signals for a radio station. A first preamplifier is connected between an antenna unit and to the radio station. A second preamplifier is provided in the radio station, the second preamplifier being bridged by a bridge line. A switch can selectively switch the radio signals through either the second preamplier or the bridge line, under control of a controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Faerber, Helmut Heinz, Meik Kottkamp