Patents Assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy
  • Patent number: 11889335
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for downlink channel quality report for narrowband Internet of things user equipment. The method may include determining one or more of a physical random access channel repetition level or a reference signal received power. The method may also include selecting a channel quality table to use based on one or more of the physical random access channel repetition level or the reference signal received power. The method may further include determining a downlink channel quality report by using the selected channel quality table. In addition, the method may include transmitting the downlink channel quality report to the network element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Rapeepat Ratasuk, Nitin Mangalvedhe, David Bhatoolaul
  • Patent number: 11889469
    Abstract: There is provided reduced power consumption in devices that use at least two identities for communications. A method comprises aligning (1302) a plurality of paging occasions across at least two identities of a communication device. The aligning is performed via requesting and receiving (1306) from a communication network a paging occasion for the communication device with at least two identities using at least one of the identities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Laura Luque Sanchez, Devaki Chandramouli, Jakob Lindbjerg Buthler, Faranaz Sabouri-Sichani, Frank Frederiksen, Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas
  • Patent number: 11888878
    Abstract: Various example embodiments relate generally to providing security for a communication network based on detection and mitigation of an attack in the communication network. Various example embodiments supporting attack detection and mitigation may be configured to support detection and mitigation of an attack in a communication network based on distributed collection of network traffic information at network elements and analysis of aggregated network traffic information at a network controller for determining whether a traffic anomaly indicative of an attack on the communication network is detected. Various example embodiments supporting attack detection and mitigation may be configured to support detection and mitigation of an attack in a communication network based on use of traffic records for supporting the collection, aggregation, and analysis of network traffic information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Xuyang Jing, Zheng Yan
  • Patent number: 11888457
    Abstract: Circuitry comprising: a first resonant radio frequency conductive path between a first node and a third node; a second resonant radio frequency conductive path between a second node and the third node; an internode radio frequency conductive path between the first node and the second node; a shunt resonant element coupled to the third node and shared by the first resonant radio frequency conductive path and the second resonant radio frequency conductive path; and a phase shift element for introducing a relative phase shift to the first resonant radio frequency conductive path relative to the second resonant radio frequency conductive path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Senad Bulja, Kim Nielsen
  • Patent number: 11888783
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for selecting or prioritizing between a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and synchronization signal block (SSB) reception are provided. One method may include, when outside a SMTC window and when PDSCH resource allocation overlaps with an occupied SSB location, selecting between the PDSCH and SSB reception according to defined rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Timo Koskela, Juha Pekka Karjalainen, Jorma Johannes Kaikkonen, Mihai Enescu, Sami-Jukka Hakola
  • Patent number: 11885970
    Abstract: According to various, but not necessarily all, embodiments there is provided an apparatus comprising means for binocularly displaying visual content as a first image directed towards a first eye of a user and as a second image directed towards a second eye of the user. The first image comprises a first area in which a blue spectral component of the visual content is reduced as compared to a corresponding first area of the second image. The second image comprises a second, different area in which a blue spectral component of the visual content is reduced as compared to a corresponding second area of the first image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Christopher Wright, Matthew Lawrenson, David Duffy, Timothy Beard
  • Patent number: 11887616
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is disclosed. The apparatus may comprise a means comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, to receive multimedia data representing a scene, the multimedia data comprising at least audio data representing an audio component of the scene. Another operation may comprise determining a location of unwanted sound in the scene. Another operation may comprise performing first audio processing to remove at least part of the unwanted sound from the determined location. Another operation may comprise performing second audio processing to add artificial sound associated to the unwanted sound at the determined location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate, Jussi Artturi Leppänen, Miikka Tapani Vilermo, Arto Lehtiniemi
  • Publication number: 20240031877
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the method includes obtaining virtual relay context information enabling by one or more relay mobile device candidates to relay traffic; and applying the virtual relay context information to be configured as a respective relay mobile device of the one or more relay mobile device candidates for relaying traffic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Lianghai JI, Ling YU, Vinh VAN PHAN, Faranaz SABOURI-SICHANI, Rudraksh SHRIVASTAVA, Sudeep HEGDE
  • Publication number: 20240029745
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising means configured to: obtain at least one audio signal; obtain, for the at least one audio signal, spatial audio signal parameter values, the spatial audio signal parameters values distributed within a time-frequency domain (106); determine a merge metric to control a merging of the spatial audio signal parameter values over the time-frequency domain (201); and merge (203), based on the merge metric (202), the spatial audio signal parameter values to a smaller number of spatial audio signal parameter values overtime and/or frequency within the time-frequency domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Tapani PIHLAJAKUJA, Mikko-Ville LAITINEN
  • Patent number: 11882529
    Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus, such as a user equipment, configured to transmit information in a physical uplink shared channel direction using, selectably, a first waveform or a second waveform, the second waveform having lower peak to average power ratio than the first waveform, provide, to a network node controlling a cell in which the apparatus is attached, first and second power headroom information, and select to either continue using the first waveform on the physical uplink shared channel, or to switch to using the second waveform on the physical uplink shared channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Esa Tapani Tiirola, Kari Juhani Hooli, Cássio Barboza Ribeiro, Marco Maso, Alessio Marcone, Nhat-Quang Nhan, Youngsoo Yuk
  • Patent number: 11882429
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus, said apparatus comprising means for determining for at least one of a plurality of user equipments, based on an activation probability value of some or all of the plurality of user equipments, uplink resources for use by the at least one user equipment; and providing an indication of the determined uplink resources to the at least one user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Matha Deghel, Anna Pantelidou, Philippe Sehier
  • Patent number: 11882401
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program product for receiving captured spatial audio information comprising at least one audio signal and at least one audio parameter for controlling the at least one audio signal, receiving an instruction to set an audio parameter to a first parameter value, setting, in response to determining that the first parameter value fulfils at least one criterion, the audio parameter to a second parameter value and changing the audio parameter from the second parameter value to the first parameter value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Antti Eronen, Jussi Leppänen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Miikka Vilermo, Toni Mäkinen
  • Patent number: 11882595
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising means for: receiving a first bandwidth part configuration caused to support dynamic adaptation of transmission bandwidth part in listen before talk communication systems, the first bandwidth part configuration comprising at least two bandwidth parts: a first bandwidth part and at least one associated temporal bandwidth part; determining which of the at least two bandwidth parts is used for a transmission burst; determining for the transmission burst a second, temporal, bandwidth part configuration caused to determine the transmission parameters for the transmission burst based on the at least one associated temporal bandwidth part and the determining which of the at least two bandwidth parts is used for the transmission burst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Kari Juhani Hooli, Esa Tapani Tiirola, Timo Erkki Lunttila, Karol Schober
  • Patent number: 11882466
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for calibrating beam orientation errors for improved positioning. For example, certain embodiments may utilize collection of various measurements to compute, and correct for, beam orientation errors. Additionally, or alternatively, certain embodiments may collect information about propagation conditions in a network and may establish virtual anchors for the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Oana-Elena Barbu, Ryan Keating
  • Patent number: 11882475
    Abstract: There is provided a method at a user equipment, comprising: determining a first cell to connect with; determining capabilities of the user equipment in relation to carrier aggregation comprising a carrier of the first cell; performing idle mode radio measurements of those carriers that the user equipment can, based on the determined capabilities, aggregate with the carrier of the first cell; and reporting results of the idle mode radio measurements to a network node of the first cell upon connection establishment with the first cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Lars Dalsgaard, Tero Henttonen, Elena Virtej
  • Publication number: 20240023178
    Abstract: Inter-alia, a method is disclosed comprising: receiving a beam report information indicative of quality information about at least one of at least one beam of a first set of sidelink, SL beam management reference signals, -BMRS, or at least one beam of a second set of SL-BMRS; determining whether the beam report information is indicative of quality information of at least one beam of the first set of SL-BMRS or of at least one beam of the second set of SL-BMRS, or a combination of at least two beams of the first set of SL-BMRS and the second set of SL-BMRS; and attempting to establish or establishing communication based on the beam report information. It is further disclosed an according apparatus, computer program and system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Simon SVENDSEN, Samantha CAPORAL DEL BARRIO, Nuno Manuel KIILERICH PRATAS
  • Publication number: 20240023007
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for supporting the identification and selection of multiple network slices for remote user equipment. In the context of a method, the method includes receiving a first request from a remote user device, the request comprising a network identifier and requested slice information. The method also includes, based at least on the network identifier and the requested slice information, obtaining a slice identifier set comprising at least one slice identifier, and causing transmission of the slice identifier set to the remote user device for use in a session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Laurent THIEBAUT, Devaki CHANDRAMOULI, György WOLFNER, Hannu Petri HIETALAHTI
  • Publication number: 20240023051
    Abstract: According to an aspect, there is provided an apparatus for a first terminal device. The apparatus is configured to perform the following. The apparatus transmits (301) a first uplink reference signal at a first transmission time instance measured according to a local reference clock of the first terminal device. The apparatus applies (302) a frequency shift to a frequency of the local reference clock at a frequency-shift time instance measured according to the local reference clock and following the first transmission time instance. Based on the first transmission time instance, a second transmission time instance for an upcoming transmission of a second uplink reference signal, the frequency shift and the frequency-shift time instance, the apparatus calculates (303) a shift of transmission timing for the upcoming transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Johannes HARREBEK, Benny VEJLGAARD, Ryan KEATING
  • Publication number: 20240022361
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method comprising receiving a data packet from an access node, combining the received data packet with previous repetitions of the data packet to obtain a combined data packet, attempting to decode information comprised in the combined data packet, determining that the attempt to decode was not successful, determining an estimate of energy required for a correct reception of the data packet and based, at least partly, on the determined estimation for the energy, determining an additional number of repetitions of the data packet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Jeroen WIGARD, Rapeepat RATASUK, Mads LAURIDSEN, Frank FREDERIKSEN
  • Patent number: 11877226
    Abstract: The method at the user equipment (UE) includes first receiving authorization information, the authorization information including configuration data for reduced capability (REDCAP) devices in the communication network, second receiving system information from at least one first base station serving a first cell, the system information including information specific to a device category associated with the UE, determining access information for the first cell, based at least in part on the system information and the authorization information, and accessing the first cell, or identifying a second cell. The user equipment and the base station are configured to perform the method, thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Jussi-Pekka Koskinen, Jorma Johannes Kaikkonen, Samuli Heikki Turtinen