Patents by Inventor Bernhard Wegmann

Bernhard Wegmann 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: 12192877
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media of a proactive switch of vehicle-to-everything communication from a device-to-device connection to a connection routed by one or more network devices. In example embodiments, a first terminal device receives, from a second terminal device via a device-to-device connection, an indication of a decision to switch the device-to-device connection to a connection routed by at least one network device for communication with the second terminal device. Based on the received indication from the second terminal device, the first terminal device then determines proactive switching from the device-to-device connection to the routed connection to be performed. The first terminal device then sends a request to a first network device of the at least one network device to set up the routed connection, the request indicating a cause for the determined proactive switching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Lianghai Ji, Jakob Lindbjerg Buthler, Vinh Van Phan, Ling Yu, Hajo Bakker, Rudraksh Shrivastava, Bernhard Wegmann, Xiang Xu
  • Publication number: 20240381212
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising at least one processor, and at least one memory storing instructions, the at least one memory and the instructions configured to, with the at least one processor, cause a network device to determine a first information characterizing at least one of a) a number of cells prepared for a conditional handover or a conditional primary secondary cell change of a terminal device, b) a number of preparation activities associated with the conditional handover or the conditional primary secondary cell change of the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Bernhard WEGMANN, Irina-Mihaela BALAN, Ahmad AWADA, Ugur Baran ELMALI
  • Publication number: 20240292301
    Abstract: A UE may determine that at least one execution condition for performing handover from a source cell to a target cell is met and the target cell does not support at least one of a network slice or a service the UE requires; based on the determination, store information related to a radio environment associated with the UE; perform handover to the target cell; and transmit the stored information to the target cell after the handover. A target network node may receive the transmitted information; and provide the information to a source network node. The source network node may receive the information; and perform a root cause analysis for the handover execution of the user equipment based, at least partially, on the received information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Muhammad NASEER-UL-ISLAM, lrina-Mihaela BALAN, Bernhard WEGMANN
  • Publication number: 20240284276
    Abstract: There is provided a method, computer program, and apparatus for causing an apparatus for a first access node to perform: establishing a connection towards a user equipment via a serving cell supported by the first access node; instructing the user equipment to obtain a first timing advance value for a target cell supported by a second access node, wherein the first timing advance value indicates a timing for transmitting uplink transmissions to the target cell; receiving, from the user equipment, an indication that the first timing advance value is or will soon be invalid; and determining whether to instruct the user equipment to obtain a second timing advance value for the target cell in dependence on the received indication, the second timing advance value being obtained later in time than the first timing advance value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Ahmad AWADA, Sanjay GOYAL, Ali KARIMIDEHKORDI, Bernhard WEGMANN, Ugur Baran ELMALI, Timo KOSKELA
  • Publication number: 20240284275
    Abstract: There is provided a method, computer program, and for an apparatus for causing an apparatus for a user equipment to perform: receiving, a first timing advance value for a target cell supported by a second access node, wherein the first timing advance value indicates a timing for transmitting uplink transmissions to the target cell; receiving, an indication of when the first timing advance value will be invalid; using the indication of when the first timing advance value will be invalid to determine that the first timing advance value is or will soon be invalid; and determining whether to autonomously initiate obtaining a second timing advance value for the target cell in dependence on the determination of whether the first timing advance value is or will soon be invalid, the second timing advance value being obtained later in time than the first timing advance value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Ahmad AWADA, Sanjay GOYAL, Ali KARIMIDEHKORDI, Bernhard WEGMANN, Ugur Baran ELMALI, Timo KOSKELA
  • Publication number: 20240284369
    Abstract: There is provided a method, computer program, and apparatus for causing an apparatus for a first access node to perform: establishing a connection towards a user equipment via a serving cell supported by the first access node; instructing the user equipment to obtain a first timing advance value for a target cell supported by a second access node, wherein the first timing advance value indicates a timing for transmitting uplink transmissions to the target cell; receiving, from the second access node, an indication that the first timing advance value is or will soon be invalid; and determining whether to instruct the user equipment to obtain a second timing advance value for the target cell in dependence on the received indication, the second timing advance value being obtained later in time than the first timing advance value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Ahmad AWADA, Sanjay GOYAL, Ali KARIMIDEHKORDI, Bernhard WEGMANN, Ugur Baran ELMALI, Timo KOSKELA
  • Publication number: 20240276337
    Abstract: This specification describes a terminal device comprising: means for establishing a radio communications link between the terminal device and a serving cell of a telecommunications network; means for executing a transfer of the radio communications link from the serving cell to a target cell of the telecommunications network; means for detecting that a timer, expiry of which causes declaration of a radio link failure with the serving cell, has reached a threshold value but has been stopped prior to expiry and prior to execution of the transfer; and means for, after successful execution of the transfer, controlling the transmission or the content of a transfer report based on the detecting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Bernhard WEGMANN, Ahmad AWADA, Irina-Mihaela BALAN, Ugur Baran ELMALI, Guillaume DECARREAU
  • Publication number: 20240163743
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media of enabling a successful Mobility Robustness Optimization analysis for primary secondary cell (PSCell) changes. The method comprises transmitting, from a terminal device to a master node of the terminal device, information related to a node initiating a successful PSCell change for the terminal device, wherein the information is indicative of at least one of the following: whether the node initiating the successful PSCell change is either a master node or a secondary node for the apparatus; a cell identifier of the node initiating the successful PSCell change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Ugur Baran ELMALI, Irina-Mihaela BALAN, Guillaume DECARREAU, Ahmad AWADA, Bernhard WEGMANN
  • Publication number: 20240163766
    Abstract: There is provided a method, apparatus and computer program for causing an apparatus for a first network node to perform: for a first network node, the method comprising: preparing a first set of conditions for a user equipment to autonomously execute during a Conditional PSCell addition, CPA, and/or a Conditional PSCell change, CPC, wherein the first set of conditions comprises at least one first execution condition associated with a quality of a radio network environment to be experienced by the user equipment, and at least one second execution condition associated with a momentary traffic that the user equipment has to transmit and/or receive; and signalling the first set of conditions to the user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Ahmad AWADA, Bernhard WEGMANN
  • Publication number: 20240107390
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable medium of a configuration of successful primary secondary cell (PSCell) change report. The method comprises obtaining information associated with a SPCR; and determining a configuration of the SPCR based at least partly on the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Ugur Baran ELMALI, Irina-Mihaela Balan, Guillaume Decarreau, Ahmad Awada, Bernhard Wegmann
  • Patent number: 11601855
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for mobility failure evidence-related operations. A UE may measure, record, and report a channel access waiting (CAW) time period that elapsed from having a handover-related message in a transmission buffer until a channel for transmission of the handover-related message was obtained or until an acknowledgement or negative acknowledgement from a receiver of the handover-related message was received. The CAW time period information may be provided to a network node, and the network node may control mobility robustness optimization based on the received information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Bernhard Wegmann, Anna Pantelidou, Arto Lehti
  • Publication number: 20230008394
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for mobility failure evidence-related operations. A UE may measure, record, and report a channel access waiting (CAW) time period that elapsed from having a handover-related message in a transmission buffer until a channel for transmission of the handover-related message was obtained or until an acknowledgement or negative acknowledgement from a receiver of the handover-related message was received. The CAW time period information may be provided to a network node, and the network node may control mobility robustness optimization based on the received information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Bernhard WEGMANN, Anna PANTELIDOU, Arto LEHTI
  • Publication number: 20220248301
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media of a proactive switch of vehicle-to-everything communication from a device-to-device connection to a connection routed by one or more network devices. In example embodiments, a first terminal device receives, from a second terminal device via a device-to-device connection, an indication of a decision to switch the device-to-device connection to a connection routed by at least one network device for communication with the second terminal device. Based on the received indication from the second terminal device, the first terminal device then determines proactive switching from the device-to-device connection to the routed connection to be performed. The first terminal device then sends a request to a first network device of the at least one network device to set up the routed connection, the request indicating a cause for the determined proactive switching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2019
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Lianghai JI, Jakob Lindbjerg BUTHLER, Vinh VAN PHAN, Ling YU, Hajo BAKKER, Rudraksh SHRIVASTAVA, Bernhard WEGMANN, Xiang Xu
  • Publication number: 20200169924
    Abstract: A mechanism for enhancing service continuity for a serving node is described. The mechanism comprising, for each user equipment being served by the serving node, sending a report comprising measurements of neighbouring cells of the user equipment to the serving node. Upon receiving each report, said serving node is configured to determine at least one target cell for the user equipment, wherein said target cell is indicated by two different target cell identities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Andreas LOBINGER, Bernhard WEGMANN, Anton Oskari ENQVIST
  • Patent number: 10524152
    Abstract: There are provided measures for improvement of coverage hole analysis. Such measures exemplarily include detecting a radio link failure, producing a failure report including information indicative of a radio condition during a time period between said radio link failure and a successful establishment of a radio link, detecting said successful establishment of said radio link, and transmitting, after detection of said successful establishment of said radio link, said failure report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Bernhard Wegmann, Henrik Martikainen, Ingo Viering, Tero Henttonen
  • Patent number: 10492242
    Abstract: The present invention provides apparatuses, methods, computer programs, computer program products and computer-readable media regarding enhanced timer setting for mobility robustness optimization. The present invention includes detecting, at a user equipment, establishment of a connection to a cell, determining, at the user equipment, whether the connection is established by a connection re-establishment procedure, detecting, at the user equipment, a radio link failure of the connection to the cell, and transmitting, by the user equipment, a message to a base station serving another cell after a further re-establishment or setup of the connection, the message including an indication from which it is derivable whether the radio link failure occurred within a certain time after the establishment of the connection by the connection re-establishment procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Bernhard Wegmann, Ahmad Awada
  • Patent number: 10433190
    Abstract: The present invention provides apparatuses, methods, computer programs, computer program products and computer-readable media regarding signaling physical cell identifier problems. Certain aspects of the present invention include receiving, at a network node, information regarding a suspected identifier problem from a first base station, the information indicating the suspected identifier problem between the first base station and a second base station, and analyzing the suspected identifier problem based on the received information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Bernhard Wegmann, Ingo Viering, Henrik Martikainen, Andreas Lobinger
  • Publication number: 20190132776
    Abstract: There is provided a method comprising receiving first information from a spectrum management entity at an entity associated with a network, the first information comprising an indication that a first channel will not be available after a first time interval, receiving, during the first time interval, an indication of a second channel for use by the network and using the indication, during the first time interval, to cause initiation of a handover by at least one user device from the first channel to the second channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Christian MARKWART, Bernhard WEGMANN
  • Patent number: 10264502
    Abstract: It is provided a method for adapting a parameter being indicative for a trigger signal for starting measurements, by a first base station of a first radio access network of a first type of radio access technology, of a signal quality of signals being received from a second base station of a second radio access network of a second type of radio access technology. The method includes measuring by a user equipment, which is served by the second base station, the signal quality of signals being received from the first base station, reporting a signal being indicative for the measured signal quality from the user equipment to a network entity, and adapting, by the network entity, a parameter based on the measured signal quality, wherein the parameter is indicative for a trigger signal for starting measuring a further signal quality of signals being received from the second base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Bernhard Wegmann, Ingo Viering, Andreas Lobinger, Dirk Rose, Cinzia Sartori, Juergen Michel
  • Publication number: 20180262935
    Abstract: There are provided measures for improvement of coverage hole analysis. Such measures exemplarily include detecting a radio link failure, producing a failure report including information indicative of a radio condition during a time period between said radio link failure and a successful establishment of a radio link, detecting said successful establishment of said radio link, and transmitting, after detection of said successful establishment of said radio link, said failure report.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Bernhard Wegmann, Henrik MARTIKAINEN, Ingo VIERING, Tero HENTTONEN