Patents by Inventor Bernard Raaf

Bernard Raaf 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: 9544171
    Abstract: An apparatus (UEA) may generate a zero-tail signal to be transmitted in an LTE/LTE-A cell, by introducing time domain samples with zero power or very low power in specific positions of a time symbol tail. The apparatus (UEA) may transmit the generated zero-tail signal to a base station (eNB), such that a first user terminal (UEA) is located in the cell farther away (e.g. on a cell edge) from the base station (eNB) than a second user terminal (UEB). Thus coexistence of signals sent by user terminals (UEA, UEB) located at different distances from the base station (eNB) within a same receiver window is enabled without inter-symbol interference. The generated zero-tail signal may also be transmitted from the first user terminal (UEA) or from the base station (eNB) in an outdoor system that is detectable by a neighboring indoor system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OY
    Inventors: Gilberto Berardinelli, Bernard Raaf, Fernando Tavares, Juergen Michel
  • Publication number: 20160006586
    Abstract: An apparatus (UEA) may generate a zero-tail signal to be transmitted in an LTE/LTE-A cell, by introducing time domain samples with zero power or very low power in specific positions of a time symbol tail. The apparatus (UEA) may transmit the generated zero-tail signal to a base station (eNB), such that a first user terminal (UEA) is located in the cell farther away (e.g. on a cell egde) from the base station (eNB) than a second user terminal (UEB). Thus coexistence of signals sent by user terminals (UEA, UEB) located at different distances from the base station (eNB) within a same receiver window is enabled without inter-symbol interference. The generated zero-tail signal may also be transmitted from the first user terminal (UEA) or from the base station (eNB) in an outdoor system that is detectable by a neighbouring indoor system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: Gilberto BERARDINELLI, Bernard RAAF, Fernando TAVARES, Juergen MICHEL
  • Patent number: 8605664
    Abstract: A method and a system for transmitting data by a transmitter over a channel having a predetermined channel quality estimate, comprises the steps of splitting (S2P) input data stream (S40, S60, S80) to be transmitted into a plurality of data sub-streams (S40a, S40b, S40c); processing (SYM1, SYM2, SYMj) each of the plurality of data sub-streams (S40a, S40b, S40c) into a plurality of symbol subsets (S41, S42, S43) by selecting a certain scheme of coded-modulation (BPSK, QPSK, 16-QAM); processing, separately, each of the plurality of symbol subsets (S41, S42, S43), via a plurality of separate Discrete Fourier Transforms (DFT1, DFT2, DFT3), herein after denoted as DFTs, to obtain a plurality of DFT-precoded data sub-streams (S44, S45, S46); allocating each DFT-precoded data sub-stream (S44, S45, S46) in a frequency resource block (RB1, RB2, RB3), via a sub-carrier mapping module (SCM), so that for each data sub-stream (S40a, S40b, S40c) the selected scheme of coded-modulation (BPSK, QPSK, 16-QAM) is chosen in depe
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventors: Josef Martin Eichinger, Yan Gao, RĂ¼diger Halfmann, Thomas Haustein, Bernard Raaf, Egon Schulz, Wolfgang Zirwas
  • Publication number: 20050094561
    Abstract: A data transfer method via a packet oriented channel and a continuous channel in parallel between a mobile station and a base stations, where the transfer via the continuous channel is interrupted whereby at least one transfer gap is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2004
    Publication date: May 5, 2005
    Inventor: Bernard Raaf