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).

  • 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
  • Patent number: 10070350
    Abstract: A method including receiving a message at a first cell including at least one of: state information for the first cell; and state information for any neighbouring cells of the first cell; and determining a neighbouring relationship between the first cell and any neighbouring cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Yi Zhi Yao, Bernhard Wegmann
  • Patent number: 10051532
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are provided by which a user equipment receives information enabling handover and/or apparatus type identification related to a handover, and stores the information enabling handover and/or apparatus type identification. In case of a connection failure, the stored information enabling handover and/or apparatus type identification may later be used to evaluate the cause for the connection failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Krzysztof Kordybach, Richard Waldhauser, Bernhard Wegmann, Ingo Viering
  • Patent number: 10034180
    Abstract: There is provided a method and an apparatus for determining an adjustment of a tilt angle (?1, ?2) for a beam emitted from an antenna (130) of a base station (100) which is serving a vertically sectorized cell (150) of a cellular radio telecommunication network. The method comprises (a) configuring user equipments (162, 164) being located in the vertically sectorized cell (150) with dedicated measurements, (b) collecting the dedicated measurements for a specific time interval, (c) obtaining a spatial user equipment distribution among a first sector (152) of the cell (150) and a second sector (154) of the cell (150) based on the collected dedicated measurements, (d) ascertaining an optimized spatial overlap region between the first sector (152) and the second sector (154) based on the obtained spatial user equipment distribution, and (e) determining the adjustment of the tilt angle (?1, ?2) based on the ascertained optimized spatial overlap region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Seppo Olavi Hamalainen, Petri Eskelinen, Henrik Martikainen, Bernhard Wegmann, Krzysztof Kordybach
  • Patent number: 10009806
    Abstract: A method includes optimizing a handover behavior of a mobile radio communication network including at least a first base station and a second base station. The method includes (a) performing a handover of a UE from the first base station to the second base station; (b) adding an information element representing a property of the UE to a report message including information about the performed handover; (c) forwarding the report message from the second base station to the first base station; and (d) optimizing the handover behavior of the mobile radio communication network based on the added information element. Further, it is described a base station which is configured for carrying out the described handover behavior optimization method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Bernhard Wegmann, Ingo Viering, Dirk Rose, Krzysztof Kordybach
  • Patent number: 9894571
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and computer program products are disclosed for enhancing mobility robustness optimization in self optimizing networks. Neighbor relation information indicating relations between a handover source cell and candidate handover target cell(s), each including a first counter indicating events of an unsuccessful handover of a user equipment from the handover source cell to one candidate handover target cell, and a second counter indicating events of connection re-establishment attempt of the user equipment to the candidate handover target cell after an unsuccessful handover to another cell. A first candidate handover target cell to which handover of the user equipment was unsuccessful and a second candidate handover target cell to which the user equipment has re-established a connection, out of the candidate handover target cells, are determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Bernhard Wegmann, Ingo Viering, Richard Waldhauser, Krzysztof Kordybach, Yi Zhi Yao
  • Patent number: 9867092
    Abstract: There are provided measures for detection and inhibition of multiple consecutive inter-RAT ping-pong handovers (also called handover bounces). Such measures exemplarily include detecting multiple consecutive ping-pong handovers of a communication endpoint between two radio access technologies, wherein a ping-pong handover includes a handover from one of said two radio access technologies to the other of said two radio access technologies and a handover from the other of said two radio access technologies to the one of said two radio access technologies, and causing immediate inhibition of certain handovers of said communication endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Bernhard Wegmann, Krzysztof Kordybach
  • Publication number: 20170251409
    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: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Bernhard WEGMANN, Ahmad AWADA
  • Publication number: 20170223557
    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: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Bernhard WEGMANN, Ingo VIERING, Henrik MARTIKAINEN, Andreas LOBINGER
  • Patent number: 9655020
    Abstract: A method includes (a) detecting based on reporting information from UEs, HO problems which have occurred within a predefined time interval, (b) classifying the detected HO problems into three categories, (c) determining information being related to at least one of the detected HO problems, wherein the information represents a refinement of one or more of the three categories or wherein the information represents a further category, (d) counting a the numbers of HO problems which have been classified into the various categories, (e) reporting a key performance indicator message indicative for the numbers of the various categories and for the determined information, and (f) adapting, based on the reported key performance indicator message, the value a mobility related network configuration parameter of the mobile radio communication network such that the mobility robustness of the communication network is optimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Bernhard Wegmann, Ingo Viering, Ahmad Awada