Patents Assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGY OY
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Patent number: 11956615Abstract: An apparatus including means configured to: obtain at least one audio stream, wherein the at least one audio stream includes one or more transport audio signals, wherein the one or more transport audio signals is a defined type of transport audio signal; and convert the one or more transport audio signals to at least one or more further transport audio signals, the one or more further transport audio signals being a further defined type of transport audio signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Mikko-Ville Laitinen, Lasse Laaksonen, Juha Vilkamo
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Publication number: 20240114528Abstract: The disclosure relates to an apparatus comprising: means for receiving (800) sidelink control information sent from a relay user equipment; and means for performing (802) flow control for ingress data sent from the apparatus to the relay user equipment to be relayed to a destination user equipment paired with the apparatus based on the sidelink control information sent from the relay user equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Vinh VAN PHAN, Ling YU, Faranaz SABOURI-SICHANI, Stepan KUCERA, Berthold PANZNER, Ravi Prasad R K, György Tamás WOLFNER, Hannu Petri HIETALAHTI
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Patent number: 11950155Abstract: In some example embodiments, there may be provided a method that includes receiving, at a user equipment while being served by a first system and during protocol data unit session establishment or modification procedure, a message including an access point name aggregate maximum bit rate value; and when there is an inter-system change from the first system to the second system, setting, at the user equipment, the access point name aggregate maximum bit rate value of a session management context for the second system to the received access point name aggregate maximum bit rate value received while being served by the first system. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also described.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Sung Hwan Won, Devaki Chandramouli
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Patent number: 11948088Abstract: Method and apparatus are disclosed for image recognition. The method may include performing a vision task on an image by using a multi-scales capsules network, wherein the multi-scales capsules network includes at least two branches and an aggregation block, each of the at least two branches includes a convolution block, a primary capsules block and a transformation block, and a dimension of capsules of the primary capsules block in each of the at least two branches is different.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2018Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Nokia Technologies OYInventor: Tiancai Wang
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Patent number: 11950206Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprising: receiving from a network node, by a user equipment of a plurality of user equipment associated with more than one communication beam of a communication network, information comprising locations in time of the user equipment during paging occasions with at least one cell of the communication network associated over more than one communication beam, wherein the information identifies any provided order of the more than one communication beam covering the locations in time of the user equipment during the paging occasions; and based on the information, identifying by the user equipment at least one communication beam and timing of at least one paging occasion, of the paging occasions, for the user equipment.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Jeroen Wigard, Mads Lauridsen, Kim Nielsen, István Z. Kovács, Jens Steiner, Rafhael Amorim, Nuno K. Pratas
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Patent number: 11949479Abstract: One example of this disclosure includes sending codebook based sweeping information to at least one UE; receiving Precoding Index reports from said at least one UE; grouping said at least one UE into at least one group, wherein the UEs in the same group are covered by the same transmitting precoding; sending beamformed CSI-RS in accordance with said at least one group; receiving CSI reports from UEs of said at least one group, so as to transfer data to said at least one UE accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2018Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventor: Jinping Hao
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Patent number: 11950063Abstract: A device may be configured to: obtain at least a first audio signal and a second audio signal, wherein the first audio signal and the second audio signal are captured with a microphone array comprising at least two microphones; identify a first direction for a plurality of frequency bands; and identify a second direction for the plurality of frequency bands; wherein the first direction and the second direction are identified based, at least partially, on spatial analysis of the first audio signal and the second audio signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Mikko-Ville Laitinen, Juha Vilkamo
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Patent number: 11950195Abstract: A method, device and computer readable medium for performing measurements in telecommunication systems are disclosed. The method comprises: includes receiving, from a first network device, a first configuration of a first measurement object for a carrier frequency; receiving, from a second network device, a second configuration of a second measurement object for the carrier frequency; determining an absolute time difference between a first measurement timing in the first configuration and a second measurement timing in the second configuration; and in response to determining that the absolute time difference is below a predetermined threshold, performing a single measurement for the carrier frequency based on the first measurement timing in the first configuration or the second measurement timing in the second configuration.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2018Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Jing He, Lars Dalsgaard, Riikka Nurminen, Li Zhang
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Patent number: 11950150Abstract: A source network apparatus (10) which provides access for a user equipment (30) to a communication network transmits (S102) a handover command to the user equipment (30), the handover command indicating a target network apparatus (20) for providing access for the user equipment (30) to the communication network, and a detach condition on when the user equipment (30) is to detach from the source network apparatus (10) after having accessed the target network apparatus (20) (S204) and received user plane data packets from the target network apparatus (20) (S205), wherein the source network apparatus (10) continues exchanging user plane data packets with the user equipment (30) (S101, S103) until the user equipment (30) detaches (S306) from the source network apparatus (10).Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2018Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Ahmad Awada, Ingo Viering, Jedrzej Stanczak
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Patent number: 11949465Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for machine learning based channel state information (CSI) estimation and feedback configuration are provided. A method may include learning channel state information feedback from one or more user equipment as time series data. The method may also include building a predictive model for user equipment feedback based on the learned channel state information feedback. The method may further include configuring a channel state information trigger with the one or more user equipment based on the predictive model. In addition, the method may include signaling predicted channel state information to the one or more user equipment.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Athul Prasad, Amitabha Ghosh, Gilsoo Lee, Jie Chen, Jun Tan
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Patent number: 11950209Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a device, method, apparatus and computer readable storage medium for reusing control resources for data transmission. In example embodiments, if downlink data is to be transmitted to a terminal device, a network device determines a control resource set associated with the terminal device in a control resource region. The network device selects, from the control resource set, localized control resources for control information associated with the downlink data, and selects data resources for the downlink data in the control resource region and a data resource region. The network device transmits the control information to the terminal device by using the localized control resources, and transmits the downlink data to the terminal device by using the data resources.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Dongsheng Fan, Yigang Cai
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Patent number: 11950041Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program for controlling an earphone device is disclosed. The apparatus may comprise means for detecting a condition corresponding to an earphone device becoming disengaged from a user's ear and for operating said earphone device in an adjustment mode based on detecting the condition, wherein, in the adjustment mode, an operation associated with a touch sensor on said earphone device is changed.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi, Jussi Artturi Leppänen, Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate
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Patent number: 11949484Abstract: In one embodiment, a trainable logic includes determination logic configured to determine a plurality of available receiver configurations and associate each receiver configuration with a context matrix; codebook logic configured to select a quantisation codebook to be used by the trainable logic for the context matrices; and learning logic configured to learn from a training dataset including a plurality of received signal samples relevant to reconstruction of a transmitted message. The learning logic is configured to generate, from the training dataset, a set of superposed parameters and context matrices corresponding to the plurality of available receiver configurations and a set of contextual parameters for each context; quantize the context matrices according to the quantisation codebook; and repeat the generation of superposed parameters, context matrices and quantization of context matrices until a stop criterion is met.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Faycal Ait Aoudia, Jakob Hoydis
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Patent number: 11949485Abstract: According to a first embodiment, a method may include determining, by a user equipment, that a secondary cell beam failure has occurred at a medium access control layer. The method may further include determining, by the user equipment, one or more other secondary cell candidates based on at least candidate beam measurements of a primary cell. The method may further include transmitting, by the user equipment, one or more data packets related to one or more selected other secondary cell candidates.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Timo Koskela, Samuli Turtinen, Jorma Kaikkonen, Mihai Enescu, Sami Hakola, Juha Karjalainen
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Patent number: 11950169Abstract: Apparatus, methods and computer program products for user equipment positioning solutions and related signalling. An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to at least send (550), to a network node of a communication network, at least one signaling configuration with at least one set periodicity, wherein the at least one signaling configuration is for use at the network node in calculating at least position information for relaying to the communication network at least for positioning support of the apparatus, and receive (570) the positioning support from the communication network in response to the at least one signaling configuration.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Ryan Keating, Rapeepat Ratasuk, Tzu-Chung Hsieh
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Publication number: 20240106472Abstract: An apparatus comprising a first reception path comprising a first low noise amplifier; multiple downstream receiver circuitry; a switching arrangement configured to, in a first state, couple the first reception path to one of the multiple downstream receiver circuitry and configured to, in a second state, simultaneously couple the first reception path to a plurality of the multiple downstream receiver circuitry; and a controller configured to place the switching arrangement in the second state to support reception of a first bandwidth, wherein the switching arrangement is configured in the second state to enable processing of the received first bandwidth as a plurality of overlapping bandwidths wherein each of the plurality of overlapping bandwidths is processed via one of the plurality of the multiple downstream receiver circuitry.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Kim NIELSEN, Bent Henneberg RYSGAARD, Stig BLÜCHER BRINK, Amol DHERE
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Publication number: 20240107225Abstract: There is provided an apparatus comprising means for receiving spatial audio capture requirement(s) of one or more user devices; determining position and/or orientation information of the one or more user devices; generating one or more privacy masks at least partly based on the spatial audio capture requirement(s) and position and/or orientation information of the one or more user devices; and transmitting the generated privacy masks to the one or more user devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2020Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Nokia Technologies OYInventors: Sujeet Shyamsundar MATE, Antti Johannes ERONEN, Arto Juhani LEHTINIEMI, Lasse Juhani LAAKSONEN
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Publication number: 20240106531Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for determining a time window during which system information blocks containing satellite assistance information should be read in order for the apparatus to reliably maintain up-to-date satellite assistance information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Frank FREDERIKSEN, Jeroen WIGARD, Rafhael MEDEIROS DE AMORIM
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Publication number: 20240107624Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for selecting system information blocks containing satellite assistance information to be read such that up-to-date satellite assistance information in order for the apparatus to maintain up to date satellite assistance information. The apparatus and method take account of the discontinuous mode of operation of the apparatus and seek to align the selected system information blocks with the operational times of the apparatus. The apparatus and method also seek to preferentially select the system information blocks closest to the end of the valid time period for the current satellite assistance information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Frank FREDERIKSEN, Jeroen WIGARD, Rafhael MEDEIROS DE AMORIM
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Patent number: 11943105Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, apparatus, device and computer readable storage media for management of application servers network edge computing device and a method, apparatus, device and computer readable storage media for performing management operation related to application servers network edge computing device. In example embodiments, at a management function module, a calling function deployment command is transmitted to a network edge computing device to deploy a calling function instance thereon, the calling function instance being configured to connect with application servers for respective applications and handle communications between terminal devices and the application server. A management command for application servers on the network edge computing device is transmitted to at least one of the network edge computing device and the calling function instance, in response to a network condition meeting one of predetermined management policies.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2018Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Jiongxuan Chen, Zhi Wang, Yigang Cai