Patents by Inventor Michael Färber

Michael Färber 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: 10425834
    Abstract: Techniques to support directional transmission and reception by wireless network boosters are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise logic, at least a portion of which is in hardware, the logic to receive a directionally-transmitted booster reference signal, receive a system information message comprising timing offset information, and determine a time at which to send a link establishment message based on the timing offset information and a time of receipt of the directionally-transmitted booster reference signal. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Andreas Schmidt, Maik Bienas, Martin Hans, Michael Faerber
  • Patent number: 10368300
    Abstract: An apparatus for a transceiver of a mobile communication system includes an interface configured to obtain receive signal information. The apparatus further includes a control module configured to determine a first cell identifying information of the mobile communication system based on the receive signal information, and configured to estimate an interfering signal information transmitted by a second cell of the mobile communication system based on the receive signal information. The interfering signal comprises control or payload data information of a second transceiver. The control module is further configured to detect a synchronization signal information transmitted for the cell based on the receive signal information and the interfering signal information. The control module is further configured to identify the first cell identifying information based on the synchronization signal information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Wen Xu, Xiaojun Ma, Michael Faerber
  • Patent number: 10362525
    Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and methods of relay backhauling with millimeter wave carrier aggregation. For example, a first Relay Node (RN) may include a cellular transceiver configured to communicate with a Donor evolved Node B (DeNB) over a cellular frequency band of a Primary cell (PCell); a millimeter-wave (mmWave) transceiver to communicate with a second RN via a backhaul link over a mmWave frequency band of a Secondary cell (SCell) within the PCell; and a controller to process a Relay-Physical-Downlink-Control-Channel (R-PDCCH) message received by the cellular transceiver over the cellular frequency band of the PCell, the R-PD-CCH message including cross-carrier scheduling information to schedule a downlink allocation over the backhaul link, the controller to trigger the mmWave transceiver to receive a downlink data packet from the second RN during the downlink allocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Honglei Miao, Michael Faerber, Bernhard Raaf
  • Publication number: 20190200199
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a chip-enhanced battery for a machine type communication (MTC) device, the chip-enhanced battery comprising: a battery; and a microchip integrated with the battery, wherein the microchip comprises a subscriber identification module (SIM) with stored instructions to establish communication with a mobile network operator (MNO) upon an insertion of the chip-enhanced battery into the MTC device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2016
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Faerber, Ingolf Karls, Yang Yang, Miltiadis Filippou, Camila Priale Olivares, Maria Fresia, Leonardo Gomes Baltar, Kilian Roth
  • Publication number: 20190081751
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods to implement enhanced sounding reference signaling for uplink (UL) beam tracking in communication systems are described. In one example, an apparatus of an evolved Node B (eNB) comprising processing circuitry to broadcast system information about one or more sets of uplink transmit time intervals and bandwidths available for a sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission from a first user equipment (UE), configure one or more UE-specific SRS processes for the first UE for uplink beam tracking, and configure one or more millimeter wave access points (mmW APs) to transmit a mmW signal to the first UE and receive a mmW signal from the first UE. Other examples are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Honglei Miao, Hyejung Jung, Michael Faerber
  • Patent number: 10212662
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for enabling wireless communication devices in a cellular wireless network to utilize small cells having coverage within a macro cell are disclosed herein. User equipment (UE) can detect the need for using a booster providing a small cell, detect availability of small cells and submit a request to infrastructure of the cellular wireless network to aid in connection with the booster that provides the small cell. The request can be enhanced with small cell location queries, small cell activation requests and/or assistance data to enable meaningful small cell selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andreas Schmidt, Maik Bienas, Michael Faerber, Martin Hans
  • Publication number: 20190053000
    Abstract: According to various examples, a processing system is described comprising a plurality of hardware circuit components, each hardware circuit component configured to provide a processing functionality, a data path leading through the plurality of hardware circuit components, at least one programmable circuit and a controller configured to select one of the hardware circuit components to be replaced by the at least one programmable circuit, program the programmable circuit to provide the processing functionality provided by the selected hardware circuit component and configure the data path to lead through the programmable circuit instead of the selected hardware circuit component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Miltiadis Filippou, Michael Faerber, Ingolf Karls, Leonardo Gomes Baltar, Markus Dominik Mueck
  • Patent number: 10154486
    Abstract: Technology for downlink signaling between an enhanced Node B (eNB) and user equipment (UE) with a selected cyclic prefix (CP) for the UE is disclosed. In an example, a user equipment (UE) can include circuitry configured to: estimate a delay spread for a corresponding channel between the eNB and the UE; communicate the estimated delay spread from the UE to the eNB to enable the eNB to determine a selected cyclic prefix (CP) length for downlink signaling; receive the selected CP length from the eNB for a transmission time interval (TTI); and process received downlink data for the TTI using the selected CP length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Honglei Miao, Cecilia Carbonelli, Michael Faerber, Ingolf Karls, Bernhard Raaf, Hyung-Nam Choi, Maria Fresia
  • Publication number: 20180279388
    Abstract: Described is a User Equipment (UE) comprising one or more processors to generate a transmission to an Evolved Node-B (eNB) listing a service-specific resource partition supported by the UE. The eNB may comprise one or more processors to process the transmission listing the service-specific resource partition from the UE. In response, the one or more processors of the eNB may be further to generate a partition configuration transmission to configure the service-specific resource partition. The one or more processors of the UE may then be further to process the partition configuration transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: INTEL IP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Honglei Miao, Gang Xiong, Jong-Kae Fwu, Michael Faerber
  • Publication number: 20180249461
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe systems, devices, and methods for self-organized multi-hop millimeter wave backhaul links. Various embodiments may include a relay node receiving discovery signal information from an eNB and measuring millimeter wave discovery signals of other relay nodes based on the information. Measurements may be fed back to the eNB and used to create a millimeter wave backhaul link. Other embodiments may be described or claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Honglei Miao, Michael Faerber
  • Publication number: 20180248610
    Abstract: A method for radio communication is described comprising receiving a millimeter wave signal via a radio communication from a transmit antenna by means of a receive antenna, wherein at least one of the transmit antenna and the receive antenna is a directional antenna with adjustable directivity, determining a reception quality of the millimeter wave signal as received by the receive antenna for a first directivity of the directional antenna, reducing the directivity of the directional antenna to a second directivity based on whether the reception quality is above a required reception quality and continuing the radio communication with the second directivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Michael FAERBER, Ingolf KARLS, Maria FRESIA, Kilian ROTH, Honglei MIAO
  • Patent number: 10051543
    Abstract: A mobile small station including a transceiver, a processor, and a memory having instructions for execution by the processor to exchange measurement information with a macro station, provide a wide area network connection and act as a relay for a small station moving network with the mobile small station, and perform handover of relay responsibilities to another mobile small station in the small station moving network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Martin Hans, Andreas Schmidt, Maik Bienas, Michael Faerber, Carlos Cordeiro, Huaning Niu, Pingping Zong, Qian Li
  • Patent number: 10039107
    Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of dynamic allocation of radio resources. For example, a resource allocator may dynamically allocate to a plurality of nodes of a cellular network non-cellular radio resources for communication over a plurality of non-cellular wireless communication links, the resource allocator may be configured to assign the non-cellular radio resources to a plurality of resource blocks corresponding to a plurality of link types, and to dynamically allocate to a non-cellular wireless communication link resources from a resource block corresponding to a link type of the non-cellular wireless communication link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Faerber, Andreas Schmidt, Martin Hans, Maik Bienas
  • Publication number: 20180212653
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a beamforming device (200), including: a first beamforming circuit (201) configured to generate a first beam (211) based on a first set of beamforming coefficients; a second beamforming circuit (202) configured to generate a second beam (212) based on a second set of beamforming coefficients; and a scheduling circuit (203) configured to allocate (204, 206) a first set of frequency resources, a second set of frequency resources, the first set of beamforming coefficients and the second set of beamforming coefficients to a plurality of mobile stations (UE0, UE1, UE2) based on an optimality criterion related to a target scheduling metric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Honglei Miao, Bernhard Raaf, Michael Faerber
  • Publication number: 20180160363
    Abstract: An apparatus for a transceiver of a mobile communication system includes an interface configured to obtain receive signal information. The apparatus further includes a control module configured to determine a first cell identifying information of the mobile communication system based on the receive signal information, and configured to estimate an interfering signal information transmitted by a second cell of the mobile communication system based on the receive signal information. The interfering signal comprises control or payload data information of a second transceiver. The control module is further configured to detect a synchronization signal information transmitted for the cell based on the receive signal information and the interfering signal information. The control module is further configured to identify the first cell identifying information based on the synchronization signal information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Wen Xu, Xiaojun Ma, Michael Faerber
  • Publication number: 20180098228
    Abstract: Techniques to support directional transmission and reception by wireless network boosters are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise logic, at least a portion of which is in hardware, the logic to receive a directionally-transmitted booster reference signal, receive a system information message comprising timing offset information, and determine a time at which to send a link establishment message based on the timing offset information and a time of receipt of the directionally-transmitted booster reference signal. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Applicant: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Andreas Schmidt, Maik Bienas, Martin Hans, Michael Faerber
  • Patent number: 9867201
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods, apparatuses and a computer program product related to joint assignment and scheduling for overlapping coordinated multi-point transmission (CoMP) clusters. The present invention includes acquiring, at a network entity, for each of a plurality of user equipments connected to a resource of a cooperation area, a connectivity ratio of each user equipment to the resource, selecting, at the network entity, among the plurality of user equipments connected to the resource of a cooperation area, a first user equipment having a lowest current connectivity ratio, and determining whether the current connectivity ratio of the selected user equipment is equal to or smaller than a stored connectivity ratio of the selected user equipment to another resource available for the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OY
    Inventors: Michael Faerber, Wolfgang Mennerich, Wolfgang Zirwas
  • Publication number: 20170230893
    Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and methods of relay backhauling with millimeter wave carrier aggregation. For example, a first Relay Node (RN) may include a cellular transceiver configured to communicate with a Donor evolved Node B (DeNB) over a cellular frequency band of a Primary cell (PCell); a millimeter-wave (mmWave) transceiver to communicate with a second RN via a backhaul link over a mmWave frequency band of a Secondary cell (SCell) within the PCell; and a controller to process a Relay-Physical-Downlink-Control-Channel (R-PDCCH) message received by the cellular transceiver over the cellular frequency band of the PCell, the R-PD-CCH message including cross-carrier scheduling information to schedule a downlink allocation over the backhaul link, the controller to trigger the mmWave transceiver to receive a downlink data packet from the second RN during the downlink allocation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Honglei Miao, Michael Faerber, Bernhard Raaf
  • Patent number: 9713129
    Abstract: Traffic engineering functionalities are described in a heterogeneous network that includes an anchor base station serving a cellular macro cell and booster base stations serving mmWave enabled small cells. The described functionalities are designed to cope with dynamic changes in the heterogeneous environment such as loss of a backhaul link between the anchor base station and the booster base station, loss of a link between a terminal and one of the base stations, and loss of beam forming in a mmWave link between the terminal and the booster base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Carlos Cordeiro, Martin Hans, Michael Faerber, Andreas Schmidt, Pingping Zong, Qian Li
  • Patent number: 9686694
    Abstract: Techniques to support directional transmission and reception by wireless network boosters are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise logic, at least a portion of which is in hardware, the logic to receive a directionally-transmitted booster reference signal, receive a system information message comprising timing offset information, and determine a time at which to send a link establishment message based on the timing offset information and a time of receipt of the directionally-transmitted booster reference signal. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andreas Schmidt, Maik Bienas, Martin Hans, Michael Faerber