Patents Assigned to Nokia Technology
  • Patent number: 10782868
    Abstract: A method comprising: enabling display at a first target location in a display image of a first portion of an image; and enabling, in response to a defined user action, non-linear image-content-dependent navigation to a second portion of the image to change the display image to include at a second target location in the display image the second portion of the image, wherein the second portion of the image is dependent upon a content of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate, Jussi Leppänen
  • Patent number: 10782846
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for intuitive multitasking. An indication may be received at a first device, of an incoming request for electronic communication received at a second device. A user may utilize a user interface of the first device to accept or decline the request for electronic communication received at the second device. The communication may be a phone call, short message service message, email, and/or the like. A first user interface area may be associated with a first device, and a second user interface area may be associated with the second device. The first and second interfaces areas may be provided concurrently on the first device to enable the user to interact with the second device using the user interface of the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Karl Townsend, Rob Haitani
  • Patent number: 10785589
    Abstract: Apparatus comprising one or more processors configured to: receive at least two microphone audio signals (101) for audio signal processing wherein the audio signal processing comprises at least a spatial audio signal processing (303) and beamforming processing (305); determine spatial information (304) based on the audio signal processing associated with the at least two microphone audio signals; determine focus information (308) for the beamforming processing associated with the at least two microphone audio signals; and apply a spatial filter (307) in order to synthesize at least one spatially processed audio signal (312) based on the at least one beamformed audio signal from the at least two microphone audio signals (101), the spatial information (304) and the focus information (308) in such a way that the spatial filter (307), the at least one beamformed audio signal (306), the spatial information (304) and the focus information (308) are configured to be used to spatially synthesize (307) the at least on
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Mikko Tammi, Toni Mäkinen, Jussi Virolainen, Mikko Heikkinen
  • Patent number: 10784895
    Abstract: A method includes accessing information, and at least one of encoding or decoding the information using a parity check matrix based on a coding rate. A portion of a data part in the parity check matrix has been generated based on part or all of another matrix. Apparatus, computer programs, and computer program products are also described. The apparatus may be a wireless mobile device or a wireless network access node. A communication system may include one or more of the wireless mobile devices and one or more of the access nodes, each using a version of the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jingyuan Sun, Deshan Miao, Yi Zhang, Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe
  • Patent number: 10785011
    Abstract: A method and apparatus may include receiving a first signal. The first signal includes first configuration information, second configuration information, and third configuration information. The method may also include detecting a second signal based on the first configuration information. The method may also include transmitting a third signal based on the second configuration information. The method may also include transmitting a fourth signal based on the third configuration information and the detected second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Kari Hooli, Esa Tiirola, Timo Lunttila, Juha Korhonen, Esa Malkamäki
  • Patent number: 10783130
    Abstract: Co-occurrence data representing e.g. preferences and facts observed in a plurality of situations may be stored in a matrix as combinations of high-dimensional sparse vectors. The matrix may be called e.g. as an experience matrix. The data stored in the experience matrix may be subsequently utilized e.g. for predicting a preference of a user in a new situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Minna Hellstrom, Mikko Lonnfors, Eki Monni, Istvan Beszteri, Mikko Terho, Leo Karkkainen
  • Patent number: 10785565
    Abstract: Apparatus including a processor configured to: receive an audio signal from a close microphone, wherein the audio signal is input in a spatial audio mixing, and the close microphone is associated with a first sound source; receive a beam-formed audio signal from a microphone array, wherein the beam-formed audio signal is a result of forming a beam of the microphone array directed from the microphone array towards the close microphone so as to enhance the audio signal; determine a time duration where no further sound source is active within the sound scene the first sound source; and determine a time difference, during the time duration, between the audio signal and the beam-formed audio signal to enable alignment of the audio signal and the beam-formed audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate, Jussi Leppanen
  • Patent number: 10785630
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for facilitating efficient device discovery. In regards to a method implemented by a master device, a first identifier is received and stored. The method also receives a data packet comprising a second identifier from a particular device and determines whether at least a portion of the first identifier matches at least a portion of the second identifier. The method then, in an instant in which there is a match, causes a connection procedure to be initiated with the particular device. According to one example embodiment, the first identifier may be received from via a cloud service. According to another example embodiment, the first identifier may be received during an active data connection with another device. Corresponding apparatus and computer program products as employed by both master and slave devices are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Arto Palin, Jukka Reunamaki
  • Patent number: 10784945
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for robust system information (SI) delivery are provided. One method may include receiving, by a network node, a SI request from a UE, and transmitting an acknowledgement of the SI request to the UE. In one example, the method may include selecting, by the network node, a subset of downlink beams for transmitting the requested SI message. In an embodiment, the selecting may include selecting the subset of downlink beams based on SI requests associated with SS/PBCH blocks, and the subset of downlink beams associated with the SI requests are used for the delivery of an SI message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Ahmad Awada, Manivannan Thyagarajan, Jorma Kaikkonen
  • Patent number: 10783896
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program wherein the method comprises: obtaining a beamforming signal using respective signals from a first microphone and a second microphone; reducing the data size of the beamforming signal by grouping the beamforming signal into frequency bands and obtaining a data value for each of the frequency bands; and forming a bit stream comprising at least the reduced size beamforming signal and the signal from the first microphone wherein the bit stream enables parameters of a beamed audio channel to be controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Toni Henrik Makinen, Mikko Tapio Tammi, Miikka Tapani Vilermo
  • Patent number: 10785653
    Abstract: A short message service (SMS) message is encrypted using an encryption key stored at a user equipment and an access and mobility management function (AMF) and the encrypted SMS message is added to a payload of a non-access stratum (NAS) message that includes an NAS header. Integrity protection is applied to the NAS message using an integrity key stored at the user equipment and the AMF and the integrity-protected NAS message is transmitted. The NAS message is received via an NAS link between the user equipment and the AMF. An integrity check is performed on the NAS message using the integrity key. An encrypted short message service (SMS) message is extracted from a payload of the NAS message in response to the integrity check being successful and the encrypted SMS message is decrypted using the encryption key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Suresh Nair, Anja Jerichow, Nagendra S. Bykampadi
  • Publication number: 20200295576
    Abstract: This specification describes a method comprising: receiving, by a charging activation apparatus associated with an electric vehicle, a first instance of a charging session ID from first server apparatus associated with a first electricity provider which is the electricity provider of a driver or owner of the electric vehicle; receiving, by the charging activation apparatus, a second instance of the charging session ID from second server apparatus associated with a second electricity provider which is the electricity provider for a power outlet with which the electric vehicle is currently io electrically connected; comparing, by the charging activation apparatus, the first and second instances of the charging session ID; and determining, by the charging activation apparatus, if the first and second instances of the charging session ID correspond and, if the first and second instances of the charging session ID are determined to correspond, causing activation of charging of the electric vehicle via the is elect
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jarmo KEMPPAINEN, Jerome BEAUREPAIRE
  • Patent number: 10779361
    Abstract: The method includes sending a request to a core network entity to register the radio access network entity with the core network entity for at least one tracking area, the core network entity being in charge of mobility management and/or paging coordination in a cellular mobile communication network. The method further includes receiving a notification of an acceptation or a rejection of said request that indicates if the core network entity has accepted the registration. The radio access network entity is configured to perform the method. The core network entity is configured to interface with the radio access network entity to perform the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies OY
    Inventors: Nicolas Drevon, Alain Bultinck, Laurent Thiebaut
  • Patent number: 10778848
    Abstract: A communications system comprising at least one user equipment at least one resource node arranged to manage resource for communication with said at least one user equipment at least one managing node for managing traffic flow, wherein said at least one resource node and said at least one managing node are arranged so that information is passed between at least one resource node and at least one managing node, said at least one managing node selecting at least one parameter for a new traffic flow based on said information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Otso Auterinen
  • Patent number: 10778476
    Abstract: According to an aspect, there is provided a waveform processing device. The waveform processing device includes circuitry for receiving an input signal including one or more subsequent orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, OFDM, symbol blocks each of which includes a cyclic prefix and an OFDM data block and corresponds to one or more subbands. Further, the waveform processing device includes circuitry for segmenting each OFDM symbol block of the input signal into a set of a pre-defined number of partially overlapping signal blocks of equal length so that non-overlapping samples of the pre-defined number of partially overlapping signal blocks in each set include, in combination, an OFDM data block. Moreover, the waveform processing device includes circuitry for filtering each signal block in each set and for combining the filtered signal blocks in each set using overlap-and-save processing to produce one or more filtered OFDM data blocks for each subband.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Markku Renfors, Kari Pekka Pajukoski, Toni Aleksi Levanen, Juha Yli-Kaakinen, Alaa Eddin Loulou
  • Patent number: 10779245
    Abstract: In accordance with the exemplary embodiments of the invention there is at least a method and apparatus to perform receiving, by a user equipment, signaling including at least one of a plurality of reference signal received power (RSRP) threshold levels; determining, by the user equipment, a power class parameter associated with the user equipment; and selecting, based on at least the at least one of the plurality of reference signal received power threshold levels and said power class parameter, a resource set of one or more resource sets to perform a network access procedure with a communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Jussi-Pekka Koskinen, Jorma Kaikkonen
  • Patent number: 10776936
    Abstract: A method comprising: providing a first 3D point cloud and a second 3D point cloud about an object obtained using different sensing techniques; removing a scale difference between the 3D point clouds based on a mean distance of points in corresponding subsets of the first and second 3D point clouds; arranging the 3D point clouds in a two-level structure, wherein a first level is a macro structure describing boundaries of the object and a second level is a micro structure consisting of supervoxels of the 3D point cloud; constructing a first graph from the first 3D point cloud and a second graph from the second 3D point cloud such that the supervoxels represent nodes of the graphs and adjacencies of the supervoxels represents edges of the graphs; matching the first and second graph for obtaining a transformation matrix; and registering the 3D point clouds together by applying the transformation matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Lixin Fan, Xiaoshui Huang, Qiang Wu, Jian Zhang
  • Patent number: 10778293
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for dynamic transmit diversity fallback are provided. One method may include configuring a user equipment with a maximum number of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) layers used for transmission mode 9 or transmission mode 10 scheduling, and performing, by a network node, at least one of transmission mode 9 or transmission mode 10 scheduling. The configuring may include indicating to the user equipment to use a modified mapping table providing transmit diversity fallback for the at least one of transmission mode 9 or transmission mode 10 scheduling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Klaus Hugl, Timo Lunttila
  • Patent number: 10779232
    Abstract: The example embodiments of the invention provide at least a method and apparatus to measure, by a user equipment, a communication quality with at least one measured cell of a communication node while the user equipment is in an idle or inactive state; upon the user equipment transitioning to a connected state, determine by the user equipment that the communication quality with the at least one measured cell is larger than a threshold; and transmit information comprising a measurement report from the user equipment to a network equipment that the at least one measured cell meets the threshold for the network equipment to signal the user equipment to configure communication with the at least one measured cell without further measurements from the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Jari Petteri Lunden, Elena Virtej, Tero Henttonen
  • Patent number: 10778988
    Abstract: A method, comprising: receiving a video comprising video frames as an input; generating set of object proposals from the video; generating object tracklets comprising regions appearing in consecutive frames of the video, said regions corresponding to object proposals with a predetermined level of confidence; constructing a graph comprising the object proposals and superpixels grouped from the pixels of the frame; calculating a first cost function for superpixel likelihoods in terms of the object proposals in an object tracklet; calculating a second cost function for object proposal likelihoods in terms of the superpixels in the frame; minimizing the first and the second cost function with each other; computing posterior probabilities of each superpixel; and assigning each superpixel with an object class with a maximum posterior probability to constitute semantic object segmentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Tinghuai Wang