Patents by Inventor Thomas Fehrenbach

Thomas Fehrenbach 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: 20220337990
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication system, is described. The UE is to receive a configuration command, the configuration command to cause the UE to act as a relay UE so as to provide functionality to support connectivity to a destination for one or more remote UEs of the wireless communication system. Responsive to receiving the configuration command, the UE is to accept or reject the configuration command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Roya EBRAHIM REZAGAH, Nithin SRINIVASAN, Baris GÖKTEPE, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL
  • Patent number: 11463224
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a transceiver, wherein the transceiver is configured to transmit or receive data in at least one transmission time interval on certain allocated resource elements of a wireless communication system, wherein the transceiver is configured to at least partially blank a transmission time interval for a data block to be transmitted or received by the transmitter, wherein the transceiver is configured (a) to signal to another transceiver a transmission grant in a blanked part of the at least partially blanked transmission time interval or (b) to at least partially blank the transmission time interval based on a blanking pattern received from another transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Corschune e.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Fehrenbach, Baris Goektepe, Thomas Haustein, Thomas Wirth, Lars Thiele
  • Patent number: 11457440
    Abstract: A receiver, e.g. an IoT device, receives and processes a radio signal. The radio signal has at least a first frequency band and a second frequency band. The first frequency band includes a first signal, the second frequency band includes a second signal, and each of the first signal and the second signal includes a plurality of frames, each frame having a plurality of subframes (M-subframe). One or more of the subframes of the first signal include connecting information allowing a receiver to establish a connection with a wireless communication system. All of the subframes of the second signal are free of any connecting information. The receiver establishes the connection with the wireless communication system using the connecting information, and, after having established the connection with the wireless communication system and responsive to band information indicating the second frequency band, operate in the second frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Fehrenbach, Thomas Wirth
  • Publication number: 20220295445
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication system is described. The UE is to signal to the wireless communication system information enabling a network entity of the wireless communication system to decide how to handle one or more incoming operation requests for the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Baris GÖKTEPE, Roya EBRAHIM REZAGAH, Nithin SRINIVASAN, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE
  • Publication number: 20220295338
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes one or more base stations, and one or more user devices, UEs. When running a certain application, the UE is to communicate over a session, like a PDU session, the session having associated therewith a current Quality of Service, QoS, profile, the current QoS profile selected form a plurality of different QoS profiles associated with the session. In case of a certain event, the wireless communication system is to replace the current QoS profile for the session by a new QoS profile for the session, the new QoS profile selected from a subset or all of the plurality of different QoS profiles associated with the session and/or one or more QoS profiles not yet associated with the session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Roya EBRAHIM REZAGAH, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Thomas HAUSTEIN, Sarun SELVANESAN
  • Patent number: 11438736
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a novel form of communication within a cellular wireless communication network. One aspect of the invention concerns a User Equipment for a cellular network, wherein the UE inter alia includes a first interface for UE-to-Basestation communication configured to communicate with a base station of the cellular network and a second interface for UE-to-UE communication configured to communicate with one or more other UEs of a UE-Group to which the UE belongs. According to the invention the UE is configured to receive via its first interface configuration data for configuring its second interface, and to coordinate, via the second interface, a communication within the UE Group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Fehrenbach, Thomas Wirth, Cornelius Hellge, Robin Thomas, Thomas Schierl, Lars Thiele, Eiko Seidel
  • Publication number: 20220264542
    Abstract: A transceiver for a wireless communication system for serving a plurality of user equipments is provided. A coverage area of the transceiver includes one zone or a plurality of zones, each zone having mapped thereto a resource pool. The transceiver is configured to signal to less than all user equipments assigned to a certain zone to return to the transceiver a zone occupancy report for the certain zone. The zone occupancy report indicates an occupancy status of the resource pool mapped to the certain zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Robin THOMAS, Thomas WIRTH, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GÖKTEPE, Sarun SELVANESAN
  • Publication number: 20220264523
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for one or more wireless communication systems, includes one or more transceiver chains. The UE shares at least one transceiver chain with at least two connections to the one or more wireless communication systems. The UE is connected to one or more network entities, like a gNB or another UE, with the connections, and perform one or more operations on the connections at respective operation occasions. When the UE transmits or receives on a current one of the connections, it does not to transmit or receive on the other connections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GÖKTEPE, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Nithin SRINIVASAN
  • Publication number: 20220263630
    Abstract: A user device for a wireless communication system is served by a base station and uses one or more frequency bands for a communication with one or more entities in the wireless communication system. The frequency bands include CORESETs, each including one or more search spaces carrying control information for the UE. The UE groups some or all of the CORESETs into respective CORESET groups, or some or all of the search spaces into respective search space groups. A CORESET group includes some or all CORESETs within a certain time window, and a search space group includes some or all search spaces within the certain time window. The grouping is responsive to one or more group IDs the UE is configured with, each group ID pointing to or indicating a CORESET group or a search space group, and/or determining CORESETs or search spaces to be within the same time window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GÖKTEPE, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Khaled Shawky HASSAN HUSSEIN, Martin LEYH, Thomas HEYN, Bernhard NIEMANN, Julian POPP, Nithin SRINIVASAN
  • Patent number: 11405948
    Abstract: Examples refer to communication networks between user equipments, UEs, with other devices, such as a base station, BS. Examples refer to communication methods, e.g., for uplink, UL. A joint-resource pool (JRP) is defined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Khaled Shawky Hassan Hussein, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Fehrenbach, Thomas Haustein
  • Patent number: 11405137
    Abstract: Data to be transmitted over a channel from a transmitter to a receiver is encoded to obtain a codeword. The codeword is defined by a plurality of variable nodes associated with a plurality of the check nodes of a bipartite graph representing the code. The codeword is transmitted over the channel such that certain variable nodes are transmitted prior to other variable nodes. The certain variable nodes are associated with a subset of the check nodes of the bipartite graph and define a subcodeword known at the receiver. At the receiver, a decodability of the transmitted codeword is estimated using the subcodeword prior to receiving all variable nodes of the codeword.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Baris Goektepe, Thomas Fehrenbach, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Schierl, Yago Sanchez De La Fuente, Thomas Wiegand
  • Publication number: 20220240129
    Abstract: A concept for handovers in cellular networks, a concept for improved handling of tracking/paging areas for, for instance, user entities in inactive modes and a concept for enabling intelligent route selection in cellular networks are presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Robin Rajan THOMAS, Thomas WIRTH, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas SCHIERL, Eiko SEIDEL, Lars THIELE, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Publication number: 20220240226
    Abstract: According to embodiments (main aspect), a wireless communication system includes one or more base stations and a plurality of user equipment UEs. The plurality of user equipment is configured for a sidelink communication (e.g., a sidelink transmission), wherein a sidelink communication includes one or more sidelink frames each having a control region and a data region wherein the control region includes a first control region and a second control region, wherein the first control region including basic information regarding a sidelink transmission of a packet, the second control region including information regarding data transmission resource location or data transmission resource locations of the packet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas WIRTH, Sarun SELVANESAN, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Cornelius HELLGE, Baris GÖKTEPE, Thomas SCHIERL, Roya EBRAHIM REZAGAH
  • Publication number: 20220231738
    Abstract: A device includes a wireless interface configured for wirelessly transmitting a signal to a receiver; and a precoder unit configured for obtaining a first data signal to be transmitted and a second data signal to be transmitted; and for performing a first multipath-precoding of the first data signal according to a first set of paths between the device and the receiver to obtain a first precoded signal; and for performing a second multipath-precoding of the second data signal according to a second set of paths between the device and the receiver to obtain and a second precoded signal; wherein the precoder unit is configured for generating the first precoded signal and the second precoded signal such that the second precoded signal is delayed with respect to the first precoded signal at the receiver. The device is configured for transmitting the first precoded signal and the second precoded signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas HAUSTEIN, Lars THIELE, Martin KURRAS, Baris GÖKTEPE, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Wilhelm KEUSGEN, Hanguang WU
  • Publication number: 20220232634
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication system according to an embodiment is provided. A backoff rule is stored within a storage of a base station and within a storage of the user device. Or, the user device is to transmit the backoff rule to the base station. Or, the user device is to receive the backoff rule from the base station. The user device is to determine a random backoff counter depending on the backoff rule. Moreover, the user device is to decrement the random backoff counter if a transmission channel is not occupied for a certain duration. Furthermore, the user device is to transmit a data packet via the transmission channel, if the random backoff counter reaches a predefined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GÖKTEPE, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Nithin SRINIVASAN
  • Publication number: 20220232580
    Abstract: A first transceiver for a wireless communication system according to an embodiment is to determine information on an occupancy of a transmission channel. Moreover, the first transceiver is to transmit the information on the occupancy of the transmission channel to a second transceiver. Furthermore, the first transceiver is to determine the information on the occupancy of the transmission channel and to transmit the information on the occupancy of the transmission channel to the second transceiver without having received from the second transceiver a ready-to-transmit message with which the second transceiver would inform the first transceiver that the second transceiver intends to transmit user data to the first transceiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Baris GOEKTEPE, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Khaled Shawky HASSAN HUSSEIN, Martin LEYH, Lars THIELE, Martin KURRAS, Nithin SRINIVASAN
  • Publication number: 20220224447
    Abstract: Embodiments provide an apparatus, wherein the apparatus includes a plurality of Hybrid ARQ, HARQ, entities, each of the plurality of HARQ entities configured to operate a HARQ process associated with one of a plurality of HARQ behaviors, the plurality of HARQ behaviors being different, and/or a Hybrid ARQ, HARQ, entity configured to operate a plurality of HARQ processes, each HARQ processes associated with one of a plurality of HARQ behaviors, the plurality of HARQ behaviors being different, wherein the apparatus is configured to receive a control information from a transceiver in a wireless communication system, the control information transmitted over a radio channel of the wireless communication system, the control information including a Hybrid ARQ, HARQ, identifier identifying one HARQ behavior out of the plurality of HARQ behaviors or one HARQ process out of the plurality of HARQ processes, the one HARQ process associated with a HARQ behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Eiko SEIDEL, Baris GÖKTEPE, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE
  • Publication number: 20220224457
    Abstract: A transceiver for a wireless communication system, the wireless communication system including a plurality of user devices, UEs, to communicate with each other using a sidelink, SL, is described. For a transmission of a packet, like a data packet, using the sidelink, the transceiver is configured to determine one or more transmission requirements for the transmission of the data packet using the sidelink. Responsive to the one or more determined transmission requirements, the transceiver is configured to send one or more control messages, the one or more control messages including one or more of: A common control message including parameters for a HARQ-based transmission using the sidelink and for a blind or HARQ-free transmission using the sidelink, A control message including parameters for a blind or HARQ-free transmission using the sidelink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Roya EBRAHIM REZAGAH, Baris GÖKTEPE, Sarun SELVANESAN, Nithin SRINIVASAN, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE
  • Patent number: 11387946
    Abstract: Methods and systems for communicating according to an automatic repeat request, ARQ, scheme, and/or hybrid ARQ, HARQ, scheme are provided. A method may include: performing a first data transmission on a dedicated resource on a first channel; simultaneously to the first data transmission or in a subsequent resource, performing at least one redundancy transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Khaled Shawky Hassan Hussein, Thomas Fehrenbach
  • Publication number: 20220217497
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication system is described. The wireless communication system includes a plurality of user devices, UEs. The UE is to communicate with one or more further UEs using a sidelink, SL. One or more location information elements describe a location or position of a UE, wherein the location information element includes a first part and a second part, wherein, for locations or positions within a certain area, the first part of the location information element is one of a set of fixed first parts and the second part of the location information element varies dependent on the actual or exact location or position of the UE. When being in the certain area, the UE is to receive from the further UE, e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Roya EBRAHIM REZAGAH, Baris GÖKTEPE, Sarun SELVANESAN, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE