Patents by Inventor Thorsten Hehn

Thorsten Hehn 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: 20180184334
    Abstract: A method for resource allocation in a mobile communication system including base stations from mobile communication providers and participants from mobile communication providers, wherein each provider has assigned a dedicated spectrum for resource allocation for its own participants, wherein the participants from the providers communicate directly among each other, wherein a provider allocates a part of its dedicated spectrum for the direct communication among the participants from the providers, wherein the part of a dedicated spectrum of a provider for the direct communication among the participants from the providers is divided into sections, with each provider having been assigned at least one section of the part of the dedicated spectrum of the provider, wherein the resource allocation management functionality for allocating a part of its dedicated spectrum for the direct communication among the participants from the providers is shifted from provider to provider from time slice to time slice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Thorsten HEHN, Roman ALIEIEV
  • Publication number: 20180184272
    Abstract: A method for organizing the communication between mobile radio network subscriber stations in a mobile radio cell, wherein a mobile radio network management unit, especially the scheduler of a base station, in the mobile radio cell performs the allocation of the radio resources. The mobile radio network management unit defines for the mobile radio cell a number of subradio areas in which a number of mobile radio subscriber stations are allowed to use the same radio resources for direct communication with one another in parallel operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Thorsten HEHN, Ernst ZIELINSKI, Steffen SCHMITZ, Andreas KWOCZEK, Teodor BUBURUZAN, Roman ALIEIEV
  • Publication number: 20180054849
    Abstract: A method for the digital transmission of data blocks from a transmitting station to a receiving station, wherein delta information is generated at the transmitting end which indicates the positions at which a further data block differs from the preceding data block. The delta information is provided with error protection and is added to the further data block and is transmitted. The received first and the at least one extended further data block are stored in the receiving station. The delta information of the at least one extended further data block is then retrieved and applied to the stored preceding data block. It is thereby made comparable with the at least one further data block. A soft combining of the received further data block and the transformed preceding data block is then carried out. The payload of the further data block is retrieved from the combined data block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventor: Thorsten HEHN
  • Publication number: 20180005460
    Abstract: A method for the acquisition of collective surroundings information for cooperative and/or autonomous driving. The method includes a vehicle equipped with an on-board unit and surroundings observation apparatus which produces a report about a detected vehicle not equipped with an on-board unit and transmits the report to the further vehicles which are moving or are located in the respective area. The further vehicles which receive the report transmit back a confirmation message to the reporting vehicle and confirm that the further vehicles are happy with the report. The further vehicles then refrain from transmitting a separate report about the unequipped vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Roman ALIEIEV, Thorsten HEHN
  • Patent number: 9807566
    Abstract: A method for adapting at least one parameter of a communication system between two subscribers, wherein at least one subscriber is mobile, in which case a current position of the mobile subscriber is determined at a time and a channel quality for a future time is estimated on the basis of the current position using an environmental model, wherein at least one parameter is changed at the future time on the basis of the estimation. Also disclosed is an apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Roman Alieiev, Andreas Kwoczek, Thorsten Hehn
  • Publication number: 20170041760
    Abstract: A method for adapting at least one parameter of a communication system between two subscribers, wherein at least one subscriber is mobile, in which case a current position of the mobile subscriber is determined at a time and a channel quality for a future time is estimated on the basis of the current position using an environmental model, wherein at least one parameter is changed at the future time on the basis of the estimation. Also disclosed is an apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Roman ALIEIEV, Andreas KWOCZEK, Thorsten HEHN
  • Patent number: 9179176
    Abstract: A method for operating a data receiver for audio and/or video data, wherein a planned and variable program title sequence having program titles is recorded, audio and/or video data relating to at least one program title are received via a data link and are buffered, and audio and/or video data of at least one program title are reproduced. The transmission resources of the data link for audio and/or video data to be transmitted and to be buffered are distributed over at least two program titles that have not yet been reproduced by the data receiver. Also disclosed are a data receiver associated with the method and a media reproduction system connected thereto, in particular in a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: Thorsten Hehn, Jens Krause, Urs Thürmann, Martin Weiser
  • Publication number: 20140298391
    Abstract: A method for operating a data receiver for audio and/or video data, wherein a planned and variable program title sequence having program titles is recorded, audio and/or video data relating to at least one program title are received via a data link and are buffered, and audio and/or video data of at least one program title are reproduced. The transmission resources of the data link for audio and/or video data to be transmitted and to be buffered are distributed over at least two program titles that have not yet been reproduced by the data receiver. Also disclosed are a data receiver associated with the method and a media reproduction system connected thereto, in particular in a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: Thorsten Hehn, Jens Krause, Urs Thürmann, Martin Weiser