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
Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program provide for obtaining channel response data including a channel frequency response of a channel over a frequency spectrum, wherein the channel frequency response is generated in response to a transmission over the channel or a simulation thereof; and generating an indication of channel impairments in response to applying the channel response data to a transformer-based machine-learning (ML) model trained to predict a channel impairment estimate.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 18, 2023
Publication date:
January 25, 2024
Applicant:
Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
Inventors:
Philippe DIERICKX, Axel VAN DAMME, Nicolas DUPUIS, Olivier DELABY
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
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
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
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.
Abstract: Example embodiments describe an optical line terminal, OLT, configured to perform determining a fragmentation allocation for respective ONUs; and notifying, the respective ONUs, of the fragmentation allocation. Other example embodiments relate to an optical network unit, ONU, configured to perform receiving, from the OLT, fragmentation allocation for fragmenting one or more packets; processing the packets in accordance with the fragmentation allocation to obtain fragmented and unfragmented packets; and forwarding, to the OLT, the fragmented and unfragmented packets in accordance with the dynamic upstream allocation map.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 22, 2021
Date of Patent:
January 23, 2024
Assignee:
Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
Inventors:
Bart Pauwels, Michael Fivez, Carl Mertens, Koenraad Schelfhout, Werner Van Hoof
Abstract: It must be understood that such structure comprising CP1 and CS1 is implicitly there, even if the transmitter only explicitly prepends a CP1. Indeed, and explained by example of a full duplex multicarrier system, the receiver will still be required to discard a number of samples equivalent to a cyclic suffix from the received time samples of each symbol to obtain orthogonality with the echo received from the transmit symbols.
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
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
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
Abstract: The method comprises the steps of: the Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) receiving (Step 1) user's subscription information, in order to determine an initial policy; the Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) applying (Step 2) the initial rules; the Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) triggering (Step 3) the Extended Online Charging System (EOCS) for the user's service/network resource usage; the Extended Online Charging System (EOCS) rating and charging (step 4) the user, in real time; the Extended Online Charging System (EOCS) triggering (Step 5) a change of policy in the Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF); the Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) determining (Step 6) new rules for the new policy; the Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) receiving (Step 7) the new rules and applying them.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 7, 2021
Date of Patent:
January 23, 2024
Assignees:
ALCATEL LUCENT, NOKIA OF AMERICA CORPORATION
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
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
Abstract: A demultiplexer-free wavelength division multiplexing receiver based on cascaded-bandgap waveguide photodiodes, includes a substrate; and a plurality of different absorbing material sections forming a plurality of independent photodetector sections, each with a different thickness and a different bandgap. The plurality of photodetector sections may be fabricated at the same time on the same substrate, whereby different widths between each pair of mask stripes results in a different thickness of each photodetector section and a different bandgap of each photodetector section. The photodetector sections are then optically connected together into concatenated photodetector sections forming a single elongated optical waveguide.
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
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
Abstract: In accordance with example embodiments of the invention there is at least a method and apparatus to perform determining a mismatch between at least one of a location or the number of physical resource blocks occupied by at least one of a plurality of physical uplink shared channel transmissions and at least one of a location or a number of physical resource blocks occupied by a physical uplink control channel for a physical uplink control channel transmission; and based on the determined mismatch, performing operations comprising at least one of: multiplexing uplink control information for the physical uplink control channel transmission with the at least one of the plurality of physical uplink shared channel transmissions, adapting the at least one of the location or the number of physical resource blocks of the physical uplink control channel transmission for matching the at least one of the location or the number of physical resource blocks occupied by the at least one of the plurality of physical uplink s
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 29, 2021
Date of Patent:
January 16, 2024
Assignee:
Nokia Technologies Oy
Inventors:
Alessio Marcone, Nhat-Quang Nhan, Marco Maso
Abstract: A head-mounted audio output apparatus comprising: a hybrid audio system comprising multiple transducers, wherein the hybrid audio system is configured to render sound for a user of the apparatus into different audio output channels using different associated transducers; means for automatically changing a cut-off frequency of a first one of the audio output channels in dependence upon the transducer associated with the first one of the audio output channels.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 8, 2021
Date of Patent:
January 16, 2024
Assignee:
NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
Inventors:
Lasse Juhani Laaksonen, Jussi Leppänen, Miikka Vilermo, Arto Lehtiniemi
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