Patents by Inventor Bernd Holfeld

Bernd Holfeld 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).

  • Publication number: 20260142769
    Abstract: A receiver receives and processes a data signal having at least one data signal block. The data signal block has a number of symbols in the time domain and a number of sub-carriers in the frequency domain. The data signal block includes a control region to provide control data to the receiver and a payload region to provide payload data to the receiver. Payload data is allocated to the control region of the data signal block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2026
    Publication date: May 21, 2026
    Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GOEKTEPE, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas SCHIERL, Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Dennis WIERUCH, Bernd HOLFELD, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas HAUSTEIN, Lars THIELE, Martin KURRAS
  • Patent number: 12537638
    Abstract: A receiver receives and processes a data signal having at least one data signal block. The data signal block has a number of symbols in the time domain and a number of sub-carriers in the frequency domain. The data signal block includes a control region to provide control data to the receiver and a payload region to provide payload data to the receiver. Payload data is allocated to the control region of the data signal block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2026
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Fehrenbach, Baris Goektepe, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Schierl, Yago Sánchez De La Fuente, Dennis Wieruch, Bernd Holfeld, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Haustein, Lars Thiele, Martin Kurras
  • Publication number: 20250175316
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with different novel concepts for reducing latency in data transmission. These concepts may be exploited by a transceiver configured to perform wireless data communication with a third party device by aggregating time division duplex carriers having different temporal distribution of uplink times and downlink times. These concepts may further be exploited by an apparatus configured to perform data transmission or reception via allocations of transmission resources of aggregated carriers in units of transmission time intervals into which the aggregated carriers are subdivided, wherein the aggregated carriers are temporally subdivided into the transmission time intervals in a temporal grid, respectively, wherein the aggregated carriers' grids are temporally mutually offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2025
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Inventors: Thomas Fehrenbach, Dennis Wieruch, Bernd Holfeld, Thomas Wirth, Cornelius Hellge, Lars Thiele, Thomas Haustein
  • Patent number: 12231375
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with different novel concepts for reducing latency in data transmission. These concepts may be exploited by a transceiver configured to perform wireless data communication with a third party device by aggregating time division duplex carriers having different temporal distribution of uplink times and downlink times. These concepts may further be exploited by an apparatus configured to perform data transmission or reception via allocations of transmission resources of aggregated carriers in units of transmission time intervals into which the aggregated carriers are subdivided, wherein the aggregated carriers are temporally subdivided into the transmission time intervals in a temporal grid, respectively, wherein the aggregated carriers' grids are temporally mutually offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Fehrenbach, Dennis Wieruch, Bernd Holfeld, Thomas Wirth, Cornelius Hellge, Lars Thiele, Thomas Haustein
  • Publication number: 20240064790
    Abstract: A receiver configured for receiving a wireless signal having a signal transmitted through a channel using resource elements of a wireless communications network has a determiner configured for determining a resource information indicating the resource elements and for determining a channel metric of the channel. There receiver has an associator configured for associating the resource information with the channel metric using an identity information contained in the signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Dennis WIERUCH, Peter JUNG, Bernd HOLFELD
  • Patent number: 11785628
    Abstract: A receiver configured for receiving a wireless signal having a signal transmitted through a channel using resource elements of a wireless communications network has a determiner configured for determining a resource information indicating the resource elements and for determining a channel metric of the channel. There receiver has an associator configured for associating the resource information with the channel metric using an identity information contained in the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Dennis Wieruch, Peter Jung, Bernd Holfeld
  • Publication number: 20230246762
    Abstract: A receiver receives and processes a data signal having at least one data signal block. The data signal block has a number of symbols in the time domain and a number of sub-carriers in the frequency domain. The data signal block includes a control region to provide control data to the receiver and a payload region to provide payload data to the receiver. Payload data is allocated to the control region of the data signal block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GOEKTEPE, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas SCHIERL, Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Dennis WIERUCH, Bernd HOLFELD, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas HAUSTEIN, Lars THIELE, Martin KURRAS
  • Patent number: 11700619
    Abstract: An apparatus for a wireless communication system is configured to perform semi-persistent scheduling (SPS), wherein a size of an SPS interval is based on one or more transmission time intervals (TTIs). A further apparatus for a wireless communication system is described, wherein the apparatus is configured to perform semi-persistent scheduling, and wherein the apparatus is configured such that the semi-persistent scheduling is controlled via a configuration message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Bernd Holfeld, Dennis Wieruch, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Fehrenbach, Cornelius Hellge, Yago Sánchez De La Fuente, Thomas Schierl
  • Patent number: 11658778
    Abstract: A receiver receives and processes a data signal having at least one data signal block. The data signal block has a number of symbols in the time domain and a number of sub-carriers in the frequency domain. The data signal block includes a control region to provide control data to the receiver and a payload region to provide payload data to the receiver. Payload data is allocated to the control region of the data signal block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Fehrenbach, Baris Goektepe, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Schierl, Yago Sánchez De La Fuente, Dennis Wieruch, Bernd Holfeld, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Haustein, Lars Thiele, Martin Kurras
  • Patent number: 11438042
    Abstract: A transmitter for transmitting data to a receiver of a wireless communication network, the transmitter includes at least one antenna, a codebook, an encoder, and a transceiver coupled to the encoder and to the at least one antenna. The codebook includes a plurality of codewords, each codeword being a vector including a plurality of symbols, each symbol to be transmitted over resources of the wireless communication network. The encoder is configured to receive an information message to be transmitted to a receiver of the wireless communication network, to select from the codebook the codeword associated with the received information message, and to divide the selected codeword into a plurality of sub-codewords.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Zoran Utkovski, Renato Luis Garrido Cavalcante, Patrick Agostini, Martin Kasparick, Bernd Holfeld
  • Patent number: 11374672
    Abstract: Various embodiments to enable Spectrum Access System (SAS) controlled interference management are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a memory to store network configuration data and a processing device coupled to the memory. The processing device to generate a protection band based on interference measurements. The protection band is allocated to at least one of the infrastructure node of a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network infrastructure. In this regard, the interference measurements are related to transmissions of data between infrastructure nodes of the LTE network infrastructure. Thereupon, a time slot is determined for the at least one of the infrastructure node based on the protection band. The time slot indicates an allocated time frame to access data in the LTE network infrastructure using a radio frequency in accordance with the protection band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bilijana Badic, Markus Dominik Mueck, Srikathyayani Kathyayani Srikanteswara, Sabine Roessel, Thomas Wirth, Bernd Holfeld, Thomas Haustein
  • Patent number: 11356150
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a cellular communication network having a base station serving a radio cell and at least one user equipment located within the radio cell, wherein the base station is configured to receive a radio signal from the user equipment and to determine at least one signal property of the received radio signal, wherein the base station is further configured to assign a user equipment identifier to the user equipment based on the a least one determined signal property. The present invention further concerns a base station to be used in the above mentioned cellular network as well as corresponding methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Martin Kasparick, Renato Luis Garrido Cavalcante, Dennis Wieruch, Josef Bernhard, Gerd Kilian, Benjamin Sackenreuter, Bernd Holfeld, Thomas Fehrenbach
  • Publication number: 20220109554
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with different novel concepts for reducing latency in data transmission. These concepts may be exploited by a transceiver configured to perform wireless data communication with a third party device by aggregating time division duplex carriers having different temporal distribution of uplink times and downlink times. These concepts may further be exploited by an apparatus configured to perform data transmission or reception via allocations of transmission resources of aggregated carriers in units of transmission time intervals into which the aggregated carriers are subdivided, wherein the aggregated carriers are temporally subdivided into the transmission time intervals in a temporal grid, respectively, wherein the aggregated carriers' grids are temporally mutually offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Dennis WIERUCH, Bernd HOLFELD, Thomas WIRTH, Cornelius HELLGE, Lars THIELE, Thomas HAUSTEIN
  • Patent number: 11223467
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with different novel concepts for reducing latency in data transmission. These concepts may be exploited by a transceiver configured to perform wireless data communication with a third party device by aggregating time division duplex carriers having different temporal distribution of uplink times and downlink times. These concepts may further be exploited by an apparatus configured to perform data transmission or reception via allocations of transmission resources of aggregated carriers in units of transmission time intervals into which the aggregated carriers are subdivided, wherein the aggregated carriers are temporally subdivided into the transmission time intervals in a temporal grid, respectively, wherein the aggregated carriers' grids are temporally mutually offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Fehrenbach, Dennis Wieruch, Bernd Holfeld, Thomas Wirth, Cornelius Hellge, Lars Thiele, Thomas Haustein
  • Publication number: 20210400708
    Abstract: An apparatus for a wireless communication system is configured to perform semi-persistent scheduling (SPS), wherein a size of an SPS interval is based on one or more transmission time intervals (TT's). A further apparatus for a wireless communication system is described, wherein the apparatus is configured to perform semi-persistent scheduling, and wherein the apparatus is configured such that the semi-persistent scheduling is controlled via a configuration message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Bernd HOLFELD, Dennis WIERUCH, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Cornelius HELLGE, Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Thomas SCHIERL
  • Patent number: 11122611
    Abstract: An apparatus for a wireless communication system is configured to perform semi-persistent scheduling (SPS), wherein a size of an SPS interval is based on one or more transmission time intervals (TT's). A further apparatus for a wireless communication system is described, wherein the apparatus is configured to perform semi-persistent scheduling, and wherein the apparatus is configured such that the semi-persistent scheduling is controlled via a configuration message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Bernd Holfeld, Dennis Wieruch, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Fehrenbach, Cornelius Hellge, Yago Sánchez De La Fuente, Thomas Schierl
  • Patent number: 11089630
    Abstract: A base station is configured to control a wireless communications network cell of a wireless communications network. The base station is configured to establish a connection to a first user equipment and to a second user equipment using a random access process. For establishing the connection to the first user equipment, the base station is configured to use a sequence of a first random access preamble, the sequence having a first length. For establishing the connection of the second user equipment, the base station is configured to use a sequence of a second random access preamble, the sequence having a second length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Martin Kasparick, Renato Luis Garrido Cavalcante, Dennis Wieruch, Josef Bernhard, Gerd Kilian, Benjamin Sackenreuter, Bernd Holfeld, Thomas Fehrenbach
  • Publication number: 20210092761
    Abstract: An apparatus for a wireless communication system is configured to perform semi-persistent scheduling (SPS), wherein a size of an SPS interval is based on one or more transmission time intervals (TT's). A further apparatus for a wireless communication system is described, wherein the apparatus is configured to perform semi-persistent scheduling, and wherein the apparatus is configured such that the semi-persistent scheduling is controlled via a configuration message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Bernd HOLFELD, Dennis WIERUCH, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Cornelius HELLGE, Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Thomas SCHIERL
  • Patent number: 10841943
    Abstract: An apparatus for a wireless communication system, is configured to perform semi-persistent scheduling (SPS), wherein a size of an SPS interval is based on one or more transmission time intervals (TTIs). A further apparatus for a wireless communication system is described, wherein the apparatus is configured to perform semi-persistent scheduling, and wherein the apparatus is configured such that the semi-persistent scheduling is controlled via a configuration message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Bernd Holfeld, Dennis Wieruch, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Fehrenbach, Cornelius Hellge, Yago Sánchez de la Fuente, Thomas Schierl
  • Publication number: 20200287603
    Abstract: A transmitter for transmitting data to a receiver of a wireless communication network, the transmitter includes at least one antenna, a codebook, an encoder, and a transceiver coupled to the encoder and to the at least one antenna. The codebook includes a plurality of codewords, each codeword being a vector including a plurality of symbols, each symbol to be transmitted over resources of the wireless communication network. The encoder is configured to receive an information message to be transmitted to a receiver of the wireless communication network, to select from the codebook the codeword associated with the received information message, and to divide the selected codeword into a plurality of sub-codewords.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Zoran UTKOVSKI, Renato Luis GARRIDO CAVALCANTE, Patrick AGOSTINI, Martin KASPARICK, Bernd HOLFELD