Patents by Inventor Thomas Loewel

Thomas Loewel 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: 9723081
    Abstract: An exemplary technique is provided for operating a vehicle mountable controller that is mounted to a vehicle and used to control at least a part of the vehicle's operation. The vehicle mountable controller may be used as a network element in a computer network. An idle controller resource of the vehicle mountable controller is provided for remote processing to the computer network. The technique includes determining an operating mode of the vehicle in which the vehicle mountable controller is mounted, and performing a test to determine whether to use the vehicle mountable controller as a network element in the computer network based on the operating mode of the vehicle at a time that the test is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Thomas Loewel, Ralph Ballentin
  • Publication number: 20150112507
    Abstract: An exemplary technique is provided for operating a vehicle mountable controller that is mounted to a vehicle and used to control at least a part of the vehicle's operation. The vehicle mountable controller may be used as a network element in a computer network. An idle controller resource of the vehicle mountable controller is provided for remote processing to the computer network. The technique includes determining an operating mode of the vehicle in which the vehicle mountable controller is mounted, and performing a test to determine whether to use the vehicle mountable controller as a network element in the computer network based on the operating mode of the vehicle at a time that the test is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas Loewel, Ralph Ballentin
  • Publication number: 20140025364
    Abstract: A System for predicting energy need of a plurality of electric-energy vehicles across a determined management area. A processor in the system aggregates, from each electric-energy vehicle within the management area, positional information and energy-need information of each electric vehicle. The processor is adapted to process the positional information and the energy-need information by way of a cognitive method, to determine predictions of the movement of the vehicle and endurance of the battery. The processor is further adapted to combine this determined information to generate a predicted energy distribution model over said management area, indicative of future energy needs for said electric-energy vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2011
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Ralf Ballentin, Thomas Loewel, Matthias Sund
  • Patent number: 7386060
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of reducing a peak-to-average power ratio of a signal to be transmitted. The method comprises the steps of detecting a portion of the signal being above a clipping threshold level, decomposing the portion of the signal into a number of functions, the number of functions being proportional to a duration of the portion of the signal, performing the number of soft-clippings on the signal by means of a reference function, the positions of the soft-clippings being given by the positions of the functions and the respective scalings of the reference function being determined by the amplitudes of the functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: ALCATEL
    Inventors: Peter Jaenecke, Thomas Loewel
  • Publication number: 20040179468
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of reducing a peak-to-average power ratio of a signal to be transmitted. The method comprises the steps of detecting a portion of the signal being above a clipping threshold level, decomposing the portion of the signal into a number of functions, the number of functions being proportional to a duration of the portion of the signal, performing the number of soft-clippings on the signal by means of a reference function, the positions of the soft-clippings being given by the positions of the functions and the respective scalings of the reference function being determined by the amplitudes of the functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2004
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Applicant: ALCATEL
    Inventors: Peter Jaenecke, Thomas Loewel