Patents by Inventor Mikko A. Uusitalo
Mikko A. Uusitalo 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).
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Publication number: 20240081012Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for manufacturing a wearable device are described. A method for manufacturing a wearable device may include coupling a printed circuit board (PCB) to an inner ring-shaped housing that contains a plurality of apertures by aligning a plurality of sensors of the PCB with the plurality of apertures. The method may also include coupling an outer ring-shaped housing to the inner ring-shaped housing by surrounding the inner ring-shaped housing with the outer ring-shaped housing. Additionally, the method may include injecting a filler material through an additional aperture of the outer ring-shaped housing to fill a cavity defined by the inner ring-shaped housing and the outer ring-shaped housing, filling at least a portion of the plurality of the inner ring-shaped housing with the filler material.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Teemu Juhani Haverinen, Mikko Latomäki, Jukka-Tapani Mäkinen, Marko Uusitalo, Antti Lämsä
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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: 11581996Abstract: Apparatus, methods, systems, and computer program products for flexible frame structure in control information delivery are provided. An exemplary embodiment provides an apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to receive, at a first device, a sub-frame comprising at least one symbol transmitted over a network from a network node, wherein the at least one symbol comprising control information to the first device, and transmit, from the first device, scheduled data towards the network node based on the control information.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Zexian Li, Mikko A. Uusitalo, Harish Viswanathan, Hamidreza Shariatmadari
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Patent number: 11552661Abstract: This document discloses a solution for detecting interference in a radio access network. According to an aspect, a method includes as performed by a network node of the radio access network: acquiring a first equalized signal representing a signal received by a first radio head serving a terminal device, the first equalized signal including a signal received by the first radio head from the terminal device; acquiring a second equalized signal representing a signal received by a second radio head not serving the terminal device, wherein the second radio head is spatially distant from the first radio head; cross-correlating the first equalized signal with the second equalized signal and determining, on the basis of said cross-correlating, whether or not the second equalized signal also includes a signal received from the terminal device; and as a result of the second equalized signal being determined to include the signal received from the terminal device, causing execution of an interference management action.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OyInventors: Dani Korpi, Mikko Uusitalo, Janne Huttunen, Leo Karkkainen, Mikko Honkala
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Publication number: 20220353012Abstract: An apparatus, method and SW for HARQ control are disclosed. The method includes: inputting (504) a beginning part of a data packet received on a specific frequency band and in a scheduled slot between a user apparatus and a radio access network, and supplementary data related to the data packet, into a neural network with trained parameters to predict a success of decoding the data packet after received in full; and controlling (516) a hybrid automatic repeat request procedure associated with the data packet based on the predicted success using the specific frequency band and the scheduled slot for full-duplex inband signalling.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 4, 2019Publication date: November 3, 2022Inventors: Mikko HONKALA, Dani KORPI, Janne HUTTUNEN, Mikko UUSITALO, Leo KÄRKKÄINEN
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Publication number: 20220329359Abstract: An apparatus, method and SW for HARQ control are disclosed. The method includes: analyzing (514) a beginning part of a data packet received on a specific frequency band and in a scheduled slot between a user apparatus and a radio access network to predict a success of decoding the data packet after received in full; and controlling (516) a hybrid automatic repeat request procedure associated with the data packet based on the predicted success using the specific frequency band and the scheduled slot for full-duplex inband signaling.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 4, 2019Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: Dani Korpi, Leo Kärkkäinen, Mikko Honkala, Janne Huttunen, Mikko Uusitalo
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Patent number: 11405804Abstract: There is provided a method in a radio communication network providing a service for a plurality of devices, the method comprising: determining a service outage probability for a device that is going to move to a sub-area of a coverage area of the network, the service outage probability associated with said sub-area; in response to determining that the service outage probability exceeds a threshold, requesting a measurement device to move to said sub-area and to perform one or more radio frequency measurements; determining whether the service outage probability exceeds another threshold based at least on the requested one or more radio frequency measurements; and triggering at least one action if the service outage probability exceeds said another threshold.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Martti Moisio, Zexian Li, Mikko Uusitalo
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Patent number: 11343651Abstract: A system comprising: a plurality of base stations forming a multicast broadcast single frequency network operating using unlicensed frequency resources; and a network element configured to allocate a transmission period to each of the plurality of base stations, wherein each base station is configured to independently determine whether the unlicensed frequency resources are available for transmission, and transmit a data packet using the unlicensed frequency resources during the allocated transmission period only if the unlicensed frequency resources are determined to be available.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Athul Prasad, Zexian Li, Mikko Uusitalo, Petteri Lunden
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Publication number: 20220159431Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided In one aspect there is provided a method. The method may include detecting, at a first node, an event; generating, at the first node, a message in response to the detected event; and sending, at the first node, the message to at least a second node to enable the second node to determine at least one of a reliability or an importance of the message. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2022Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: Martti Moisio, Silke Holtmanns, Mikko Uusitalo, Zexian Li, Ilkka Keskitalo
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Publication number: 20220103198Abstract: This document discloses a solution for detecting interference in a radio access network. According to an aspect, a method includes as performed by a network node of the radio access network: acquiring a first equalized signal representing a signal received by a first radio head serving a terminal device, the first equalized signal including a signal received by the first radio head from the terminal device; acquiring a second equalized signal representing a signal received by a second radio head not serving the terminal device, wherein the second radio head is spatially distant from the first radio head; cross-correlating the first equalized signal with the second equalized signal and determining, on the basis of said cross-correlating, whether or not the second equalized signal also includes a signal received from the terminal device; and as a result of the second equalized signal being determined to include the signal received from the terminal device, causing execution of an interference management action.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Dani Korpi, Mikko Uusitalo, Janne Huttunen, Leo Karkkainen, Mikko Honkala
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Patent number: 11277721Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided in one aspect there is provided a method. The method may include detecting, at a first node, an event; generating, at the first node, a message in response to the detected event; and sending, at the first node, the message to at least a second node to enable the second node to determine at least one of a reliability or an importance of the message. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2015Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Martti Moisio, Silke Holtmanns, Mikko Uusitalo, Zexian Li, Ilkka Keskitalo
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Publication number: 20210281336Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2021Publication date: September 9, 2021Inventors: Karthik UPADHYA, Martti Moisio, Dani Korpi, Tero Ihalainen, Mikko Uusitalo
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Patent number: 10873867Abstract: An example embodiment includes measuring by a user equipment, at least a signal quality and angle-of-arrival of wireless signals received from a network node; determining, by the user equipment, that the received wireless signals include signals from both primary path wireless beams and/or received reflected path wireless beams, based on the signal quality and the angle of arrival of the wireless signals; ranking, by the user equipment, the received wireless signals to primary path wireless beams and/or received reflected path wireless beams, based on the signal quality; and transmitting, by the user equipment, to the network node, at least one report including indications of both the received primary wireless beams having the best overall signal quality among both the primary and reflected beams, and received reflected path wireless beams having the best signal quality among the received reflected path wireless beams.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2016Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Athul Prasad, Mikko A. Uusitalo, Zexian Li, Petteri Lunden
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Patent number: 10820238Abstract: An apparatus includes at least one data processor and at least one memory storing computer program code. The at least one memory and computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus at least to detect in a wireless communication network an excess capacity condition and to increase, from a currently subscribed-to value, to a higher value an aggregated higher bit rate for a mobile node operating in the wireless communication network.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2011Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Mikko Uusitalo, Mika P. Rinne
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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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Publication number: 20200275291Abstract: There is provided a method in a radio communication network providing a service for a plurality of devices, the method comprising: determining a service outage probability for a device that is going to move to a sub-area of a coverage area of the network, the service outage probability associated with said sub-area; in response to determining that the service outage probability exceeds a threshold, requesting a measurement device to move to said sub-area and to perform one or more radio frequency measurements; determining whether the service outage probability exceeds another threshold based at least on the requested one or more radio frequency measurements; and triggering at least one action if the service outage probability exceeds said another threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2017Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventors: Martti MOISIO, Zexian LI, Mikko UUSITALO
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Publication number: 20200252177Abstract: Apparatus, methods, systems, and computer program products for flexible frame structure in control information delivery are provided. An exemplary embodiment provides an apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to receive, at a first device, a sub-frame comprising at least one symbol transmitted over a network from a network node, wherein the at least one symbol comprising control information to the first device, and transmit, from the first device, scheduled data towards the network node based on the control information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2018Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventors: Zexian Li, Mikko A. Uusitalo, Harish Viswanathan, Hamidreza Shariatmadari
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Publication number: 20200228933Abstract: A system comprising: a plurality of base stations forming a multicast broadcast single frequency network operating using unlicensed frequency resources; and a network element configured to allocate a transmission period to each of the plurality of base stations, wherein each base station is configured to independently determine whether the unlicensed frequency resources are available for transmission, and transmit a data packet using the unlicensed frequency resources during the allocated transmission period only if the unlicensed frequency resources are determined to be available.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2017Publication date: July 16, 2020Inventors: Athul PRASAD, Zexian LI, Mikko UUSITALO, Petteri LUNDEN
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Patent number: 10716036Abstract: A method is provided including configuring, by a network node, a set of resources to be used by at least one user equipment for transmitting a first type of uplink data; receiving from the at least one user equipment information that indicates that at least one resource in the set of resources comprises a second type of uplink data different than the first type of uplink data; and decoding data received on the at least one resource based on the information.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Bikramjit Singh, Mikko A Uusitalo, Frank Frederiksen, Daniela Laselva, Klaus Pedersen, Zexian Li, Ling Yu
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Patent number: 10687197Abstract: In some example embodiments, there is provided a method. The method may include determining whether a communication terminal is within range of a wireless gateway to enable connection establishment between the wireless gateway and the communication terminal; and establishing at least one connection between the wireless gateway and the communication terminal, when the communication terminal is determined to be within range. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also described.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2014Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Ilkka Keskitalo, Zexian Li, Mikko Uusitalo, Martti Moisio