Patents by Inventor Oliver Hoffmann

Oliver Hoffmann 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: 20230227063
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for the fully automated guidance of a motor vehicle by a vehicle system in a driving situation of at least one driving situation class, wherein the vehicle system has a control device and accesses position data of a position sensor. The method starts with providing a traffic rule database in which traffic rule sets for a plurality of geographic regions are stored in a machine-readable formal language and which can be accessed by the control device, and determining a geographical region currently traveled by the motor vehicle based on the current position data and retrieving a traffic rule set for the currently traveled geographical region from the traffic rule database via the control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: David Alexander BADOUIN, Mohamed Essayed BOUZOURAA, Oliver HOFFMANN, Aykut BAYKARA, Denny MARX
  • Publication number: 20230061787
    Abstract: Systems and processes for calculating sustainability footprints and controlling associated systems are provided herein. Activity data may be received for an organization, and emissions factors may be determined for the activity data. Absolute, relative, and/or average relative footprints may be calculated for the organization based on the activity data and the emissions factors. An indication of the absolute, relative, and/or average relative footprints may be generated for display on a graphical user interface of a computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: SAP SE
    Inventors: Stefan Feickert, Rupert Lange, Ramana Mohanbabu, Frank Oliver Hoffmann, Arkadiy Syamtomov, Ranjit Alapati, Nisheeth Agarwal, Swarnava Chatterjee
  • Patent number: 11520548
    Abstract: In a method for simulating a printing process of print jobs in a digital high-capacity printing system with print server and printing apparatus having a plurality of modules: a simulation state of the printing apparatus is activated by (e.g. a user of) a monitoring module of the digital high-capacity printing system, a print job is started with print data at the print server by the monitoring module, the print data is transferred to the printing apparatus, printing is simulated by supplying unrastered print data to an image raster computer of the printing apparatus while data is withdrawn from the image raster computer, and feedback is provided to the monitoring module of the digital high-capacity printing system about the occurrence of an error message. The speed of the removal may correspond to the print speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Production Printing Holding B.V.
    Inventors: Gerhard Brandl, Leo Graf, Oliver Hoffmann, Oelzner Frank
  • Publication number: 20210109698
    Abstract: In a method for simulating a printing process of print jobs in a digital high-capacity printing system with print server and printing apparatus having a plurality of modules: a simulation state of the printing apparatus is activated by (e.g. a user of) a monitoring module of the digital high-capacity printing system, a print job is started with print data at the print server by the monitoring module, the print data is transferred to the printing apparatus, printing is simulated by supplying unrastered print data to an image raster unit of the printing apparatus while data are withdrawn from the image raster, wherein the speed of the removal corresponds to the print speed, feedback is provided to the monitoring module of the digital high-capacity printing system about the occurrence of an error message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: Canon Production Printing Holding B.V.
    Inventors: Gerhard Brandl, Leo Graf, Oliver Hoffmann, Oelzner Frank
  • Patent number: 9906367
    Abstract: The present disclosure involves systems and methods for providing end-to-end tamper protection in a cloud integration environment. One example method includes receiving, at a receiver in a cloud-based integration scenario, a B2B communication from a sender including data associated with a business transaction, the received communication in a target format. The cloud-based integration system transforms the original communication in a source format into the target format of the receiver. A digitally-signed sender fingerprint of critical fields extracted from the set of data associated with the at least one business transaction in the source format of the original B2B communication are received and verified as signed by the sender. A receiver fingerprint in the target format is generated using the critical fields from the received communication based on a pre-defined algorithm. The sender fingerprint and the generated receiver fingerprint are compared to determine if they are identical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Frank Oliver Hoffmann, Christian Becker
  • Publication number: 20160070517
    Abstract: In a method to print a source PDF file with at least one reference to an external object, initially determining whether at least one reference to an external object is included in the source PDF file. If so, a target PDF file is generated wherein, in addition to information of the source PDF file, all referenced external objects are included in the target PDF file in an embedded form. The target PDF file is converted into print data and the target PDF file is printed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: Oce Printing Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Oliver Hoffmann, Robert Wallner
  • Publication number: 20160043868
    Abstract: The present disclosure involves systems and methods for providing end-to-end tamper protection in a cloud integration environment. One example method includes receiving, at a receiver in a cloud-based integration scenario, a B2B communication from a sender including data associated with a business transaction, the received communication in a target format. The cloud-based integration system transforms the original communication in a source format into the target format of the receiver. A digitally-signed sender fingerprint of critical fields extracted from the set of data associated with the at least one business transaction in the source format of the original B2B communication are received and verified as signed by the sender. A receiver fingerprint in the target format is generated using the critical fields from the received communication based on a pre-defined algorithm. The sender fingerprint and the generated receiver fingerprint are compared to determine if they are identical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Frank Oliver Hoffmann, Christian Becker
  • Patent number: 9147139
    Abstract: In a method or system for processing a color print image for digital printing at a predetermined printing apparatus, the print image is deconstructed into color separations according to characteristic color curves of the printing apparatus. The color separations are stored in a data unit as greyscale bitmap images and at least one of a color code and color values are associated with each color separation in the data unit. The print image encoded in the data unit is presented at a display device for monitoring or management before printout at the printing apparatus, the print image being presented at the display device by means of at least one of the color code and color values associated with the respective color separations such that the individual color separations are transparently superimposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Océ Printing Systems GmbH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Robert Wallner, Oliver Hoffmann
  • Publication number: 20140240729
    Abstract: In a method or system for processing a color print image for digital printing at a predetermined printing apparatus, the print image is deconstructed into color separations according to characteristic color curves of the printing apparatus. The color separations are stored in a data unit as greyscale bitmap images and at least one of a color code and color values are associated with each color separation in the data unit. The print image encoded in the data unit is presented at a display device for monitoring or management before printout at the printing apparatus, the print image being presented at the display device by means of at least one of the color code and color values associated with the respective color separations such that the individual color separations are transparently superimposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventors: Robert Wallner, Oliver Hoffmann
  • Publication number: 20140074968
    Abstract: Techniques for managing nodes include receiving a message from a particular tenant of a plurality of tenants; identifying a particular node of a plurality of nodes that is based on the message and that is mapped to the particular tenant, each node providing one or more functionalities and each tenant mapped to one or more nodes; identifying a particular version, of one or more versions, of the particular node that is based on the message, the particular tenant mapped to each version of the particular node; and providing the message to the particular version of the particular node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: SAP AG
    Inventors: ULF FILDEBRANDT, FRANK OLIVER HOFFMANN, ANDRE HILDEBRANDT, OLIVER KIESELBACH
  • Patent number: 8661107
    Abstract: A computer program product tangibly embodied in a computer readable storage device includes a business network meta model comprising entity objects configured to generate interactive representations of a business network, including at least a business application representation and an information technology representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Frank Oliver Hoffmann, Joerg Ackermann, Christoph Liebig, Till Westmann, Ankur Bhatt, Christian Illenberger, Gunther Rothermel, Daniel Ritter
  • Patent number: 8595344
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes displaying virtualization level options for a business network to a user, the virtualization level options including at least: a first virtualization level option that includes externalizing interaction logic in the business network, a second virtualization level option that includes virtualizing content in the business network, and a third virtualization level option that includes virtualizing components in the business network. The method includes receiving a selection by the user of at least one of the virtualization level options. The method includes initiating a virtualization process in the business network according to the selected virtualization level option.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Ankur Bhatt, Christoph Liebig, Frank Oliver Hoffmann
  • Publication number: 20120102171
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes displaying virtualization level options for a business network to a user, the virtualization level options including at least: a first virtualization level option that includes externalizing interaction logic in the business network, a second virtualization level option that includes virtualizing content in the business network, and a third virtualization level option that includes virtualizing components in the business network. The method includes receiving a selection by the user of at least one of the virtualization level options. The method includes initiating a virtualization process in the business network according to the selected virtualization level option.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: SAP AG
    Inventors: Ankur Bhatt, Christoph Liebig, Frank Oliver Hoffmann
  • Publication number: 20120089685
    Abstract: A computer program product tangibly embodied in a computer readable storage device includes a business network meta model comprising entity objects configured to generate interactive representations of a business network, including at least a business application representation and an information technology representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: SAP AG
    Inventors: Frank Oliver Hoffmann, Joerg Ackermann, Christoph Liebig, Till Westmann, Ankur Bhatt, Christian Illenberger, Gunther Rothermel, Daniel Ritter
  • Publication number: 20120089534
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes: receiving metadata about a business network, the metadata gathered by computer-based entities performing automated discovery of the business network; generating a business network model based on the metadata, the business network model comprising objects and associations between them, the objects representing aspects of the business network found by the automated discovery, including at least: participants, systems, relationships, applications, interfaces, middleware, process steps, and documents; and modifying the business network model based on at least one input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: SAP AG
    Inventors: Christoph Liebig, Ankur Bhatt, Gunther Rothermel, Joerg Ackermann, Daniel Ritter, Frank Beunings, Frank Oliver Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 7895349
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer systems and program products implementing a messaging protocol. The messaging protocol may be a messaging protocol for transporting a message across a messaging landscape in a collaborative network. Techniques include sending a message that is defined to include a structured message header with information related to at least one component from a set of components defined by a protocol, including protocol version information in a message such that a component of a messaging landscape can interpret the message based on the version information, defining a message as one of a class of messages, end-to-end acknowledgement for messages, and security for headers and payloads of messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: SAP Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Frank Oliver Hoffmann, Juergen Frank, Steven T. Winkler, Christoph Hofmann
  • Publication number: 20100138508
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer systems and program products implementing a messaging protocol. The messaging protocol may be a messaging protocol for transporting a message across a messaging landscape in a collaborative network. Techniques include sending a message that is defined to include a structured message header with information related to at least one component from a set of components defined by a protocol, including protocol version information in a message such that a component of a messaging landscape can interpret the message based on the version information, defining a message as one of a class of messages, end-to-end acknowledgement for messages, and security for headers and payloads of messages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Inventors: Frank Oliver Hoffmann, Juergen Frank, Steven T. Winkler, Christoph Hofmann
  • Patent number: 7680945
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer systems and program products implementing a messaging protocol. The messaging protocol may be a messaging protocol for transporting a message across a messaging landscape in a collaborative network. Techniques include sending a message that is defined to include a structured message header with information related to at least one component from a set of components defined by a protocol, including protocol version information in a message such that a component of a messaging landscape can interpret the message based on the version information, defining a message as one of a class of messages, end-to-end acknowledgement for messages, and security for headers and payloads of messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Frank Oliver Hoffmann, Juergen Frank, Steven T. Winkler, Christoph Hofmann
  • Publication number: 20080309153
    Abstract: In a dual-circuit hydraulic motorcycle brake system with two hand or foot-operated master cylinders, at the commencement of the pump operation in one of the brake circuits, the change-over valve (20) and/or the separating valve (19) of that brake circuit assume a switching position in which the pressure which can be generated by the pump (9) is prevented from causing a reactive effect on the associated hand-operated or foot-operated master brake cylinder (7, 13). To this end, the separating valve (19) in the brake line may be switched to a closed or throttling position, while the change-over valve (20) in the suction path is closed. Alternatively, both the change-over valve (20) and the separating valve (19) can be opened at the same time so that the pump conveys brake fluid in a circle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Inventors: Alfred Eckert, Oliver Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 7337872
    Abstract: A hydraulic power steering system with a steering gear and a hydraulic actuator for supporting a steering wheel actuation by the driver of a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, includes components for actively applying an additional steering torque, the components for actively applying an additional steering torque including at least one additional torque actuator and a steering torque detector being mounted as a module on a steering wheel shaft that connects the steering wheel to the steering gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Jürgen Böhm, Steffen Linkenbach, Oliver Hoffmann, Joachim Nell, Andreas Schirling, Norman Muth, Johannes Görlach