Patents Assigned to Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
  • Patent number: 8891681
    Abstract: A transmitter comprises a baseband signal path, which is designed to provide a first baseband signal having an in-phase component and a quadrature component in a first mode of the transmitter and to provide a second baseband signal having an amplitude component and a phase component in a second mode of the transmitter; an oscillator circuit, which is designed to provide an oscillator signal, wherein the oscillator circuit is furthermore designed to provide the oscillator signal as an unmodulated signal in the first mode and to provide the oscillator signal as a modulated signal in the second mode, wherein a modulation of the oscillator signal in the second mode is based on the phase component of the second baseband signal; and a radio-frequency digital-to-analogue converter (RF-DAC), which is designed to receive the oscillator signal, the first baseband signal and the amplitude component of the second baseband signal, wherein the RF-DAC is furthermore designed to provide the vector-modulated RF output signal
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Zdravko Boos, Bernd-Ulrich Klepser, Martin Simon
  • Patent number: 8891396
    Abstract: A communication device is provided comprising a message generator configured to generate a message indicating that a mobile terminal is to determine a list of locations at which the mobile terminal has detected a need for a data communication with a mobile communication network and to transmit the determined list of locations to the mobile communication network and a transmitter configured to transmit the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Schmidt, Maik Bienas, Achim Luft
  • Patent number: 8891591
    Abstract: A receiver circuit includes an estimation unit configured to estimate a noise power of a transmission channel, a calculation unit configured to calculate a decision variable based on the noise power, and a decision unit configured to make a ternary decision based on the decision variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Rajarajan Balraj, Thorsten Clevorn, Herbert Dawid
  • Patent number: 8892747
    Abstract: A communication system in which a communication service client terminal specifies a criterion, with further communication service client terminals which meet the criterion being able to be participants in a communication service which is provided. A server computer is configured to produce a list of the further communication service client units which meet the criterion and to transmit the list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Laumen, Holger Schmidt, Norbert Schwagmann, Frank Kowalewski
  • Patent number: 8890635
    Abstract: A signal generator for a transmitter or a receiver for transmitting or receiving RF-signals according to a given communication protocol includes an oscillator and a mismatch compensator. The oscillator is configured to provide a signal generator output signal having a signal generator output frequency and comprises a fine tuning circuit for providing a fine adjustment of the signal generator output frequency based on a fine tuning signal and a coarse tuning circuit for providing a course adjustment of the signal generator output frequency based on a coarse tuning signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Belitzer, Andre Hanke, Boris Kapfelsperger, Volker Thomas, Elmar Wagner
  • Patent number: 8891680
    Abstract: A transmission arrangement for modulating useful signals onto a carrier frequency signal has a frequency generator for generating the carrier frequency signal, a first modulation path for modulating a first useful signal onto the carrier frequency signal, and a second modulation path for modulating a second useful signal onto the carrier frequency signal. The first modulation path has a digital modulator for providing an amplitude signal and a Cartesian signal pair from the first useful signal and a Cartesian modulator for modulating the Cartesian signal pair onto the carrier frequency signal in order to provide an intermediate signal. The first modulation path is configured in such a manner that the amplitude signal is modulated onto the intermediate signal in order to provide an output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Adler, Andre Hanke
  • Patent number: 8891491
    Abstract: The method includes receiving a signal in a multiple carrier mobile communication system, the signal including at least two reference symbols of different types, determining a first channel estimate at a symbol position of a first reference symbol of a first type, determining a second channel estimate at a symbol position of a second reference symbol of a second type, and determining a quantity being a function of a cross-correlation between the first and second channel estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Cecilia Carbonelli, Michael Horvat
  • Patent number: 8892091
    Abstract: A communication device is provided comprising a message generator configured to generate a message indicating that a mobile terminal should provide data from which information about the configuration of the mobile terminal for the reception of paging messages is derivable and a transmitter configured to transmit the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Schmidt, Maik Bienas, Achim Luft
  • Patent number: 8892106
    Abstract: A cell transfer controller is described comprising a detector configured to detect radio cells available for a mobile terminal; a determiner configured to determine, for a first radio cell detected by the detector, a waiting period after which the radio cell is selectable by the cell transfer controller as a target cell for a cell transfer and a controller, configured to increase the length of the waiting period in case that during the waiting period, the detector detects a second radio cell which fulfills a predetermined criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Esch, Miroslaw Filipowicz, Kumaran Subramanian, Dirk Nickisch
  • Patent number: 8884696
    Abstract: A control circuit and a method for controlling an operation of a power amplifier core are provided. The power amplifier core is switchable between an envelope tracking operation mode and a non-envelope tracking operation mode. The control circuit is configured to provide a control signal for controlling the operation of the power amplifier core or to process an amplified signal received from the power amplifier core in dependence on the operation mode of the power amplifier core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Langer
  • Patent number: 8886143
    Abstract: A LTE compliant RF transceiver includes at least one transmit path and at least two receive paths. A switching arrangement connected between a transmit PLL synthesizer and at least one transmit path as well as between a receive PLL synthesizer and at least two receive paths allows the transmit PLL synthesizer to selectively be connected to the receive side of the transceiver as well as the receive PLL synthesizer to selectively be connected to the transmit side of the transceiver, thereby considerably increasing flexibility of the RF transceiver which enables both speed-up of handover procedures and power savings. A modem including the transceiver is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventor: Gunnar Nitsche
  • Patent number: 8886730
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method for changing a collaborative communications session may be provided. The method may include: sending a request message requesting for authorizing a change of a collaborative communications session to an end device of the collaborative communications session; determining whether an authorization message is received from the end device in response to the request message sent; and changing the collaborative communications session, in case it is determined that an authorization message is received from the end device in response to the request message sent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventor: Frank Kowalewski
  • Patent number: 8885753
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a data signal by a transmission unit of a wireless multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) communication system. The communication system includes the transmission unit and a reception unit, the transmission unit having a plurality of transmission antennas and the reception unit having a plurality of reception antennas. The method includes performing a first transmission of a data signal, the first transmission including transmitting the data signal by each one of the plurality of transmission antennas, and performing a second transmission of the data signal at a time later than the first transmission, the second transmission including transmitting at least one spectrally modified signal variant of the data signal by at least one antenna of the plurality of transmission antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Mueck, Christian Drewes, Wen Xu
  • Patent number: 8884835
    Abstract: An antenna system includes a ground plane including at least one slot, a first antenna element coupled to a first portion of the ground plane, a second antenna element coupled to a second portion of the ground plane which is spaced apart from the first portion and a tuner configured to change the influence of the slot to a current flow through the ground plane from the first portion to the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Mauro Pelosi, Alexandru Daniel Tatomirescu, Mikael Bergholz Knudsen, Gert F. Pedersen, Osama Nafeth Alrabadi, Samantha Caporal Del Barrio, Poul Olesen, Peter Bundgaard
  • Patent number: 8885651
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a communication device is described comprising a first determiner configured to determine a signal transmission time between the communication device and another communication device, wherein the communication device and the other communication device have a communication session with each other and communication resources are allocated for exchanging data in course of the communication session; a second determiner configured to determine a waiting period based on the determined signal transmission time; a transmitter configured to transmit a message indicating that the communication session is to be ended; and a controller configured to control the communication device to release the communication resources when the waiting period has elapsed since the transmitting of the message by the transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Arvind Purohit, Sudhir Pola
  • Patent number: 8879671
    Abstract: A device such as a worker, window-size and iteration control unit (WWICU) is proposed. The WWICU determines processing, iteration, and window information based on format information indicative of one or more formats to be processed by a decoding process. The processing information may include a number of parallel workers, the iteration information may include a number of half-iterations, and the window information may include a window size to be used in the decoding process. The WWICU then determines time information including a total cycle count based on the processing information, the iteration information, and the window information. In response to determining that the total cycle count is not beyond a threshold value, the WWICU may transmit configuration information including the processing, iteration, and window information to a device, such as a turbo decoding device, configurable to perform the decoding process based on the configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Axel Huebner, Jens Berkmann, Maria Fresia, Armin Hautle
  • Patent number: 8880005
    Abstract: A transceiver comprising a first frequency signal generator for generating a reception frequency signal, and a second frequency signal generator for generating a transmission frequency signal. The first frequency signal generator is coupled to the second frequency signal generator to supply the reception frequency signal to the second frequency signal generator as a reference frequency signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Guenter Maerzinger, Bernd Adler
  • Patent number: 8879980
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a mobile radio communication device may be provided. The mobile radio communication device may include a first communication interface configured to communicate with another mobile radio communication device, a second communication interface configured to communicate with a mobile radio base station, and a relay quality determiner configured to determine a quality of relaying data between the other mobile radio communication device and the mobile radio base station via the first communication interface and the second communication interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Maik Bienas, Markus Dominik Mueck, Andreas Schmidt
  • Patent number: 8878360
    Abstract: A stacked semiconductor device and method of manufacturing a stacked semiconductor device are described. The semiconductor device may include a reconstituted base layer having a plurality of embedded semiconductor chips. A first redistribution layer may contact the electrically conductive contacts of the embedded chips and extend beyond the boundary of one or more of the embedded chips, forming a fan-out area. Another chip may be stacked above the chips embedded in the base layer and be electrically connected to the embedded chips by a second redistribution layer. Additional layers of chips may be included in the semiconductor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten Meyer, Gerald Ofner, Sven Albers
  • Patent number: 8880811
    Abstract: A data processing device is described with a memory and a first and a second data processing component. The first data processing component comprises a control memory comprising, for each memory region of a plurality of memory regions of the memory, an indication whether a data access to the memory region may be carried out by the first data processing component and a data access circuit configured to carry out a data access to a memory region of the plurality of memory regions if a data access to the memory region may be carried out by the first data processing component; and a setting circuit configured to set the indication for a memory region to indicate that a data access to the memory region may not be carried out by the first data processing component in response to the completion of a data access of the first data processing component to the memory region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Mirko Sauermann, Alexander Schackow, Cyprian Grassmann, Ulrich Hachmann, Ronalf Kramer, Dominik Langen, Wolfgang Raab