Patents by Inventor Peter Werner

Peter Werner 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: 9625205
    Abstract: A refrigeration device includes an ice or water dispenser having an actuating lever. A light source is spaced apart in a light-emitting direction of the light source by an air gap from a light-coupling surface of the actuating lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Becke, Max Eicher, Swetlana Gorodezki, Maike Kirschbaum, Mathias Sigl, Ralph Staud, Thomas Tischer, Hans Peter Werner
  • Publication number: 20170086247
    Abstract: A control node (140; 150) of a cellular network establishes one or more control plane sessions with a gateway node (160). On the basis of these one or more control plane sessions with the gateway node (160), the control node (140; 150) also establishes one or more control plane sessions with one or more radio access network nodes (112, 114; 122, 24) to control multicast transmissions by the one or more radio access network nodes (112, 14; 122, 124). Further, the control node (140; 150) detects a connection failure to the gateway node (160). When detecting the connection failure, the control node (140; 150) starts a first timer. Further, also the gateway node (160) detects the connection failure. When detecting the connection failure, the gateway node (160) starts a second timer. The second timer is configured with a longer duration than the first timer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Ibtissam El Khayat, Björn Knuthammar, Jie Ling, Tobias Ljungström, Peter Werner, Qi Xia, Tingyu Zhang
  • Patent number: 9587393
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing sandwich construction elements for substantially load-bearing and self-supporting building parts. In one embodiment of the invention, a method is provided including a) producing at least one layer of a mechanically bonded fiber nonwoven which is impregnated with a binder based on at least one heat-curable resin system b) curing the heat-curable resin system in order to produce at least one hardened layer of the fiber nonwoven, and fixed thermally, c) bringing a heat-foamable or heat-foamed phenol resin into contact with that surface of at least one hardened layer of the fiber nonwoven which has been modified according to step b), d) possibly annealing the composite produced in a) to c), and e) curing the further binder based on at least one heat-curable resin system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Inventors: Franz Josef Müller, Peter Werner, Peter Stracke
  • Patent number: 9561948
    Abstract: A multifunctional module for a refrigerating apparatus with a module housing, includes a controllable function valve arranged for dispensing water from a water circuit. The module housing includes a leak detection device for detecting water leakage inside the module housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: BSH HAUSGERÄTE GMBH
    Inventors: Elmar Fahnle, Eugen Gaplikow, Hans Gerd Keller, Michael Krapp, Karl-Friedrich Laible, Vitaliy Rimkevich, Hans Peter Werner
  • Publication number: 20160337910
    Abstract: A method in a network node for sending a message to a first group of wireless devices. The first group of wireless devices is served by a Primary Cell. The network node and the first group of wireless devices operate in a wireless communications network. The network node sends a single message to the first group of wireless devices. The wireless devices in the first group of wireless devices are in carrier aggregation mode, being further served by a Secondary Cell, SCell, of the network node. The single message comprises a first common Radio Network Temporary Identifier addressing all the wireless devices in the first group of wireless devices. The single message further comprises information related to the SCell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Peter WERNER, Stefan JOHANSSON, Paul SCHLIWA-BERTLING
  • Publication number: 20160337876
    Abstract: A method in a user node for reducing signalling load in a multimedia broadcast multicast services, MBMS, network, the method comprising: receiving (301) from a network node a broadcasted system information block with information about at least one MBMS service supported by a current frequency for said service; initiating (302) a connection establishment procedure, the connection establishment procedure including one or more connection establishment messages sent between the user node and the network node to set up a connection; and during the connection establishment procedure, transmitting (303) an information to the network node in one of the one or more connection establishment messages indicating that the current frequency is a frequency of interest for the user node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Peter ÖSTRUP, Peter WERNER
  • Patent number: 9445324
    Abstract: The embodiments disclosed relates to a method and a network node that determines a time period between a first handover and a second handover of a user equipment. The first handover is to or from a first cell and the second handover is to or from a second cell. The network node sets a threshold value based on a difference in cell quality between the first cell and the second cell. The difference in cell quality is associated with the first or second handover. The network node then determines the type of handover, of at least one of the first and second handover, based on the time period and threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON
    Inventors: Mehdi Amirijoo, Walter Müller, Peter Werner, Petter Bergman
  • Patent number: 9410243
    Abstract: A method for fabricating monolayer graphene-boron nitride heterostructures in a single atomically thin membrane that limits intermixing at boundaries between graphene and h-BN, so as to achieve atomically sharp interfaces between these materials. In one embodiment, the method comprises exposing a ruthenium substrate to ethylene, exposing the ruthenium substrate to oxygen after exposure to ethylene and exposing the ruthenium substrate to borazine after exposure to oxygen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Werner Sutter, Eli Anguelova Sutter
  • Publication number: 20160201974
    Abstract: A refrigerating device includes a door rack and a camera housing support for positioning a camera module. The camera housing support is disposed adjacent the door rack. An outer surface of the camera housing support is at least partly flush with an outer surface of the door rack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: BSH Bosch Und Siemens Hausgerate GMBH
    Inventors: JOCHEN GRIMMINGER, STEPHAN KEMPFLE, HANS PETER WERNER, GERHARD WETZL
  • Publication number: 20160178263
    Abstract: A refrigerating device includes a camera module for capturing a first digital image with markings in the interior of the refrigerating device. The refrigerating device includes a processing device which is configured to convert the first digital image into a second digital image on the basis of the captured markings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: JOCHEN GRIMMINGER, STEPHAN KEMPFLE, HANS PETER WERNER, GERHARD WETZEL
  • Publication number: 20160140637
    Abstract: A websearch system for providing content to users may include a content provider, a user account interface, and a web-based search engine module. The content provider interface may facilitate interactions with content providers for preparing for-pay content for availability via web-based searching. The user account interface may facilitate the registration of end users for receiving for-pay content via web-based searching. The web-based search engine module may receive search parameters from a user; rank respective for-pay content items based on price, user feedback regarding the for-pay content and/or the relevant content provider, and/or information related to content-related disputes; identify search results that include for-pay content items; display particular search results including at least one of the for-pay content items; and provide the user access to the particular for-pay content item; wherein the user is charged a specified price for access to the selected for-pay content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Balazs Szabo, Peter Werner Balsiger
  • Publication number: 20160135099
    Abstract: A method for allowing a user equipment to determine whether Service Area Identities (SAIs) of a list of SAIs are current SAIs or neighboring SAIs by: receiving a list of SAIs from a network node, where the list is indicative of Service Areas capable of providing the broadcasted service to the user equipment and comprise at least one current SAI and at least one neighboring SAI; identifying, in the list, the SAIs as arranged into two distinguishable groups, where a first group comprise the at least one current SAI and a second group comprise the at least one neighboring SAI, and distinguishing, based on the arrangement of the list, current SAIs from neighboring SAIs. A method is also disclosed for arranging a SAI list into the two distinguishable groups by a network node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Peter WERNER, Björn KNUTHAMMAR, Joakim LEUHUSEN
  • Publication number: 20160125320
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for information retrieval. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a flight search query, the flight search query identifying a plurality of flight parameters including a departure location, a destination location, and at least one date; obtaining a plurality of flight search results that satisfy the flight search query; grouping the plurality of flight search results into groups based at least in part on calculated similarity between flight search results of the plurality of flight search results, wherein the similarity is based on a combination of a plurality of features of the respective flight itineraries of the flight search results; and providing the plurality of flight search results for display in a flight search results interface including providing at least one group result of the generated groups of flight search results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Ralf Metzger, Jiri Semecky, Peter Werner Balsiger, Piotr Maciej Buczek, Ally Gale, Lukas Platinsky
  • Publication number: 20160085245
    Abstract: A refrigeration appliance includes a supply pipe for water and a controllable safety valve in the supply pipe which shuts off a water supply connection. A controllable functional valve in a water circuit of the refrigeration appliance distributes water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: ELMAR FAEHNLE, EUGEN GAPLIKOW, HANS GERD KELLER, MICHAEL KRAPP, KARL-FRIEDRICH LAIBLE, VITALIY RIMKEVICH, HANS PETER WERNER
  • Publication number: 20160076801
    Abstract: A refrigeration appliance has a supply pipe for connecting the refrigeration appliance to a water supply connection and has a controllable safety valve in the supply pipe of the refrigeration appliance for shutting off the water supply connection. The refrigeration appliance further contains a leak detection device for detecting a leak in a water circuit, which leak detection device contains a micro-switch for interrupting a current supply to the safety valve when a leak is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: ELMAR FAEHNLE, EUGEN GAPLIKOW, HANS GERD KELLER, MICHAEL KRAPP, KARL-FRIEDRICH LAIBLE, VITALIY RIMKEVICH, HANS PETER WERNER
  • Publication number: 20160054048
    Abstract: A refrigeration appliance includes a water pipe inside the refrigeration appliance. A collecting tray collects leakage water and an empty conduit conducts the leakage water from the water pipe inside the empty conduit to the collecting tray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: BSH HAUSGERAETE GMBH
    Inventors: ELMAR FAEHNLE, EUGEN GAPLIKOW, HANS GERD KELLER, MICHAEL KRAPP, KARL-FRIEDRICH LAIBLE, VITALIY RIMKEVICH, HANS PETER WERNER
  • Patent number: 9253135
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods for providing a single notification for display in an application from multiple received notifications are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a first notification for an application and receiving a second notification for the application subsequent to the first notification, and analyzing content of the first notification and content of the second notification. The method also includes determining, based on the analysis, whether the second notification is related to the first notification, and providing, for display, a single notification includes at least a portion of the content of the first notification and at least a portion of the content of the second notification when the second notification is related to the first notification. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Maciej Szymon Nowakowski, Peter Werner Balsiger
  • Patent number: 9179348
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method in a first radio base station for determining a performance state of a first cell served by the first radio base station, which first radio base station is comprised in a radio communications network. The method comprises determining traffic statistics of the first cell, comparing the traffic statistics with a threshold value, when the determined traffic statistics goes beyond the threshold value, transmitting a data request to a second radio base station requesting data retrieved in or associated with a second cell to be used to determine performance state of the first cell, receiving a data response indicating the requested data from the second radio base station, and determining the performance state of the first cell based on the data response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Peter Östrup, Diana Andrei, Pontus Sandberg, Peter Werner
  • Publication number: 20150247667
    Abstract: A refrigeration device includes an ice or water dispenser having an actuating lever. A light source is spaced apart in a light-emitting direction of the light source by an air gap from a light-coupling surface of the actuating lever.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Christoph Becke, Max Eicher, Swetlana Gorodezki, Maike Kirschbaum, Mathias Sigl, Ralph Staud, Thomas Tischer, Hans Peter Werner
  • Patent number: 9119122
    Abstract: It is presented a method for adjusting handover parameters of a processed base station in relation to neighboring base stations, neighboring the processed base station. The method being executed in a handover parameter determiner and comprises: obtaining (20) a list of neighboring base stations of the mobile communication network; determining (22), for each of the neighboring base stations in the list, a capability to send handover issue report messages; and adjusting (24) the handover parameters based on the determined capabilities for each of the neighboring base stations in the list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Petter Bergman, Peter Werner