Patents by Inventor Benny Vejlgaard

Benny Vejlgaard has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11671938
    Abstract: A network element estimates a position of a user equipment served by a first network and a second network. At the network element, at least one memory and computer program code are configured to, with at least one processor, cause the network element to: determine first position measurement information for the user equipment in the first network; obtain position assistance data associated with the second network, the position assistance data including at least second position measurement information for the user equipment in the second network; obtain frequency offset information and time offset information for transmissions in the first network and transmissions in the second network; and estimate a position of the user equipment based on the first position measurement information, the second position measurement information, the frequency offset information and the time offset information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Benny Vejlgaard, Johannes Harrebek, Ryan Keating, Jürgen Hofmann
  • Patent number: 11664959
    Abstract: A method for a user equipment includes determining full duplex capability and metric thresholds during cell search or attachment to a base station and reporting these to the base station; when in an RRC-connected state, dynamically sending reports of the metric conditions to the base station; and receiving instructions, based on the reports of the metric conditions, to communicate with the base station in one of a full duplex mode and a time division duplex mode. A method for a base station includes receiving a full duplex capability and metric thresholds from a user equipment; when in an RRC-connected state, initially scheduling the user equipment for communications in a time division duplex mode; receiving reports of metric conditions dynamically from the user equipment; and sending instructions, based on the reports, to the user equipment to communicate in one of a full duplex mode and a time division duplex mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Benny Vejlgaard, Johannes Harrebek, Oana-Elena Barbu
  • Publication number: 20230156658
    Abstract: 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 configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform: determining, for a terminal node, at least one time delay value for a plurality of access nodes; determining at least one metric for the access nodes, the at least one metric indicative of probability of line of sight conditions between the terminal node and the access nodes; determining, based, at least in part, on the at least one metric, a first set of line of sight time delay values having an associated probability of line of sight conditions above a threshold; determining, based, at least in part, on the at least one metric, a second set of time delay values having an associated probability of line of sight conditions below the threshold; determining a position estimate of the terminal node based, at least in part, on the first set of line of sight time delay values; de
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Oana-Elena BARBU, Johannes HARREBEK, Benny VEJLGAARD
  • Publication number: 20230155662
    Abstract: A terminal device including circuitry configured to perform: measuring, for each candidate positioning beam pair of a first subset of candidate positioning beam pairs, at least one respective positioning reference signal metric, wherein each candidate positioning beam pair represents a combination of a respective receive beam of the terminal device and a respective transmit beam of a respective network node of one or more network nodes; estimating, for each candidate positioning beam pair of a second subset of candidate positioning beam pairs, at least one respective positioning reference signal metric at least partially based on the measured positioning reference signal metrics; selecting one or more candidate positioning beam pairs as positioning beam pairs for downlink positioning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Oana-Elena Barbu, Ryan Keating, Johannes Harrebek, Benny Vejlgaard
  • Publication number: 20230142743
    Abstract: A system comprising a first access node that provides a first beacon and a second access node that provides a second beacon, the system further comprising a terminal device that performs, in parallel or semi-parallel, a first beam sweep and a second beam sweep, wherein the first beam sweep is performed by a first antenna panel and the second beam sweep is performed by a second antenna panel the terminal device obtains results from the first and the second beam sweep, wherein the results comprise at least a power measurement, and, based on the results, the terminal device identifies one of the first or the second access node and initiates a connection to the identified first or the second access node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Johannes HARREBEK, Benny VEJLGAARD, Rafhael AMORIM, Simon SVENDSEN
  • Publication number: 20230137760
    Abstract: There are provided apparatuses, methods and computer program products. In accordance with an embodiment, there is disclosed a method including receiving positioning reference signals from a positioning signal transmitter; forming a delay search space from the received positioning reference signals to obtain a plurality of channel taps; estimating a noise precision for the channel taps; estimating channel gains for the channel taps; and estimating a probability of line of sight signal for the channel taps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Oana-Elena Barbu, Benny Vejlgaard
  • Publication number: 20230132552
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising: radio frequency paths for antenna elements of an array of antenna elements; and means for: determining which of a first group of radio frequency paths are transmission radio frequency paths to be used for transmission and which of a second group of radio frequency paths are reception radio frequency paths to be used for reception; and controlling when to use the determined transmission radio frequency paths for transmission and the determined reception radio frequency paths for reception.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Johannes HARREBEK, Benny VEJLGAARD, Simon SVENDSEN, Christian ROM
  • Publication number: 20230119415
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described, including: obtaining a first received signal from a transmission system; obtaining or generating a first transmission signal for transmission using the transmission system; obtaining a plurality of input data, wherein the input data include transmission system data associated with the transmission system, environmental data and timestamp data; providing the first transmission signal and the plurality of input data as inputs to a self-interference correction algorithm to generate a self-interference estimate; and subtracting the self-interference estimate from the first received signal to generate a modified received signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Oana-Elena Barbu, Benny VEJLGAARD
  • Publication number: 20230115908
    Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method comprising, determining, by a network node, a timing offset (TOA) of a first wireless link, determining, by the network node, a timing offset (TOB) of a second wireless link, determining, by the network node, a timing offset (TOC) of a third wireless link, calculating, by the network node, a timing calibration value of the first sidelink device using the timing offset (TOA) of the first wireless link, the timing offset (TOB) of the second wireless link and the timing offset (TOC) of the third wireless link and transmitting, by the network node, at least the timing calibration value of the first sidelink device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Jan Torst HVIID, Benny VEJLGAARD, Oana-Elena BARBU, Renato Barbosa ABREU, Thomas Haaning JACOBSEN, Johannes HARREBEK
  • Publication number: 20230096627
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to the field of wireless communications, and in particular to techniques for performing one-step data transmissions from a User Equipment (UE) to a Base Station (BS), without requiring the UE to transit from an idle state to a connected state in a wireless communication network. To make it possible to perform the one-step data transmission, the UE receives a confirmation from the BS that the BS supports the one-step data transmission (which means that the BS has allocated, in advance, the UL resources for performing the one-step data transmission), and to have a pre-stored database associating cell IDs of different cells with corresponding pre-allocated UL resources and transmission parameters. Said confirmation from the BS may be represented by a predefined signal sequence, the presence of which will inform the UE about the possibility of performing the one-step data transmission within a cell of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas Haaning Jacobsen, Benny Vejlgaard, Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas
  • Patent number: 11616562
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for multi-link establishment for sidelink (SL) enhancement. A method may include transmitting, to a user equipment, a coordination request for communication over a plurality of beams. Beamformed reference signals may be exchanged with the user equipment identifying corresponding beams of the apparatus and the user equipment. Coordination information comprising at least one of preferred or non-preferred time-frequency-beam resources of the user equipment may be received from the user equipment including preferred or non-preferred radio resources of the user equipment and associated simultaneous links for their communication. At least one of preferred or non-preferred time-frequency-beam resources may be determined for their communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas, Oana-Elena Barbu, Benny Vejlgaard, Daniel Medina
  • Publication number: 20230084811
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for apparatus positioning are provided. Solution comprises monitoring relative vertical movement of an apparatus utilising repeated readings of a barometric sensor; comparing monitored relative movement to a given threshold and determining whether the vertical position of the apparatus is changed or unchanged based on the comparison and controlling calculation of the position of the apparatus based on the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Benny VEJLGAARD, Johannes HARREBEK, Oana-Elena BARBU
  • Patent number: 11606124
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising: an antenna array comprising a plurality of antenna elements configured for receiving multiple input multiple output (MIMO) signals. The antenna array comprises at least a first subpart of the antenna array comprising a first subsection of the plurality of antenna elements. A second subpart of the antenna array comprises a second subsection of the plurality of antenna elements. An alignment of the antenna elements in the second subpart deviates substantially by 30°-60° from an alignment of the antenna elements in the first subpart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Simon Svendsen, Christian Rom, Benny Vejlgaard, Johannes Harrebek
  • Publication number: 20230031232
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: detecting an occurrence of a maximum permissible exposure event; and reporting maximum permissible exposure assistance information in response to the detection of the occurrence of the maximum permissible exposure event, wherein reporting the maximum permissible exposure assistance information comprises: generating a scheduled report in the event that a periodic scheduling override condition is invalid, wherein the scheduled report is sent when a first time period expires; and generating an unscheduled report in the event that the periodic scheduling override condition is valid, wherein the unscheduled report is sent without waiting for the first time period to expire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas, Simon Svendsen, Samantha Caporal Del Barrio, Sari Kaarina Nielsen, Benny Vejlgaard
  • Publication number: 20230017529
    Abstract: To facilitate positioning a user device, the user device is configured to measure, per an antenna array, reference signals received from transmission-reception points and to check, whether a downlink reference signal from a transmission-reception point is received in a serving antenna array and in one or more non-serving antenna arrays with a first delay. A non-serving antenna array receiving the signal with the first delay is an alternative antenna array to the serving antenna array. When the serving antenna array is under a maximum permissible exposure event, the user device is configured to select, which one of one or more alternative antenna arrays and the serving antenna panel is to be used for transmitting at least a positioning signal to the transmission-reception point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Samantha Caporal Del Barrio, Simon Svendsen, Johannes Harrebek, Benny Vejlgaard
  • Patent number: 11557835
    Abstract: Apparatus for transmitting and/or receiving radio frequency, RF, signals, particularly for a mobile radio device for a wireless communications system, particularly a cellular communications system, said apparatus comprising a primary antenna module having a first radiation pattern, at least one secondary antenna module having a second radiation pattern, which is different from said first radiation pattern, and a control unit configured to selectively activate and/or deactivate said primary antenna module and/or said at least one secondary antenna module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Christian Rom, Benny Vejlgaard, Simon Svendsen, Samantha Caporal del Barrio, Filipa Fernandes, Johannes Harrebek
  • Publication number: 20230011877
    Abstract: Aspects and embodiments relate to an apparatus and method for performing antenna panel management.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Christian ROM, Samantha CAPORAL DEL BARRIO, Simon SVENDSEN, Johannes HARREBEK, Benny VEJLGAARD
  • Publication number: 20230009653
    Abstract: Interference management in calibration of a pre-distorter for a power amplifier of a user device. The method includes measuring strength of signals received via of beams of one or more antenna arrays of a user equipment; ordering the beams on the basis of the measurement strengths; selecting from the ordered beams at least one beam for calibration of a pre-distorter for a power amplifier of the user equipment; obtaining information of available measurement resources for the calibration; transmitting a calibration signal using the selected beam at the time of the available measurement resources; receiving the calibration signal by another radio frequency chain of the antenna array which is not used in the transmission of the calibration signal; obtaining calibration information on the basis of the transmitted calibration signal and the received calibration signal; and calibrating the pre-distorter based on the calibration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Benny Vejlgaard, Alessio Marcone
  • Publication number: 20220416877
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: receiving, at a user device, a downlink reference signal from a communication node of a mobile communication system, wherein the downlink reference signal is received by one of a plurality of beams of a receiver of the user device in accordance with a configured beam alignment; determining whether to initiate beam switching to reconfigure the beam alignment at said receiver based, at least in part, on a signal power of the received downlink reference signal; and determining, in the event that beam switching is to be initiated, whether to initiate communication node assisted beam switching or non-communication node assisted beam switching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Simon SVENDSEN, Samantha CAPORAL DEL BARRIO, Christian ROM, Benny VEJLGAARD
  • Patent number: 11539388
    Abstract: Apparatus for receiving radio frequency, RF, signals, comprising at least two antenna panels, wherein each of the at least two antenna panels is configured to provide a respective received signal with an associated frequency spectrum, wherein the apparatus is configured to apply a frequency shift to at least one of the received signals such that center frequencies of at least two adjacent frequency spectra comprise a predetermined frequency distance from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Benny Vejlgaard, Simon Svendsen, Johannes Harrebek, Christian Rom, Samantha Caporal Del Barrio