Patents by Inventor Bertram Gunzelmann

Bertram Gunzelmann 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: 11924132
    Abstract: A communication device comprises a receiver including at least two receive antennas and configured to receive at least one reference signal of a plurality of reference signals, each reference signal being transmitted from at least one base station at a predefined reference signal transmission time; a controller configured to switch between at least two receive configurations of the at least two antennas during a reception period of the at least one reference signal; and a signal quality determiner configured to determine a parameter indicative of a first signal quality of the received reference signal for each receive configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Zhibin Yu, Michael Ruder, Holger Neuhaus, Yeong-Sun Hwang, Bertram Gunzelmann
  • Patent number: 11844024
    Abstract: Methods and devices including a processing circuit for a User Equipment, UE, wherein the UE includes a radio frequency, RF, receiver, wherein the processing circuit is configured to set a power switching pattern of the RF receiver for UE power saving in Discontinuous Reception, DRX, Radio Resource Control, RRC, IDLE mode based on a paging occasion, PO, and a signal block associated with the PO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhibin Yu, Bertram Gunzelmann, Rui Huang
  • Publication number: 20230337213
    Abstract: A central trajectory controller including a cell interface configured to establish signaling connections with one or more backhaul moving cells and to establish signaling connections with one or more outer moving cells, an input data repository configured to obtain input data related to a radio environment of the one or more outer moving cells and the one or more backhaul moving cells, and a trajectory processor configured to determine, based on the input data, first coarse trajectories for the one or more backhaul moving cells and second coarse trajectories for the one or more outer moving cells, the cell interface further configured to send the first coarse trajectories to the one or more backhaul moving cells and to send the second coarse trajectories to the one or more outer moving cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Biljana BADIC, Steven A. BOWERS, Yang-Seok CHOI, Miltiadis FILIPPOU, Bertram GUNZELMANN, Nageen HIMAYAT, Ingolf KARLS, Nirlesh Kumar KOSHTA, Rajkumar KRISHNAPERUMAL, Markus Dominik MUECK, Hosein NIKOPOUR, Pradeep PANGI, Jerome PARRON, Bernhard RAAF, Sabine ROESSEL, Dario SABELLA, Bernd SCHALLER, Domagoj SIPRAK, Christopher STOBART, Shashanka TOTADAMANE RAMAPPA, Sudeep MANITHARA VAMANAN, Zhibin YU, Jing ZHU
  • Patent number: 11751025
    Abstract: A communication device for multi-radio access technology (RAT) communications includes one or more processors and a plurality of transceivers. Each transceiver is configured to operate in at least one RAT of a plurality of RATs. The processors are configured to establish connection with a second communication device using a first transceiver of the plurality of transceivers and a first RAT of the plurality of RATs. A first data stream associated with a communication link connected to the second communication device and a third communication device is receive via a convergence function at the second communication device. The communication link uses a second RAT of the plurality of RATs. A code sequence is applied to a second data stream to generate an encoded second data stream, which is transmitted to the third communication device via a second communication link established based on information received via the first data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Stefan Fechtel, Kilian Roth, Bertram Gunzelmann, Markus Dominik Mueck, Ingolf Karls, Zhibin Yu, Thorsten Clevorn, Nageen Himayat, Dave A. Cavalcanti, Ana Lucia Pinheiro, Bahareh Sadeghi, Hassnaa Moustafa, Marcio Rogerio Juliato, Rafael Misoczki, Emily H. Qi, Jeffrey R. Foerster, Duncan Kitchin, Debdeep Chatterjee, Jong-Kae Fwu, Carlos Aldana, Shilpa Talwar, Harry G. Skinner, Debabani Choudhury
  • Publication number: 20230254194
    Abstract: A communication device is provided that includes a receiver configured to receive a radio frequency signal. The communication device further includes a processor configured to determine a shift frequency based on a component radio frequency signal. The processor is configured to determine a second signal based on the radio frequency signal. The component radio frequency signal is based on the radio frequency signal and associated with a frequency related to the radio frequency signal represented in the frequency domain. The second signal is determined based on shifting frequencies related to the radio frequency signal represented in the frequency domain by the shift frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Tobias Scholand, Jian Gu, Bertram Gunzelmann, Markus Jordan, Thomas Esch
  • Patent number: 11641644
    Abstract: A central trajectory controller including a cell interface configured to establish signaling connections with one or more backhaul moving cells and to establish signaling connections with one or more outer moving cells, an input data repository configured to obtain input data related to a radio environment of the one or more outer moving cells and the one or more backhaul moving cells, and a trajectory processor configured to determine, based on the input data, first coarse trajectories for the one or more backhaul moving cells and second coarse trajectories for the one or more outer moving cells, the cell interface further configured to send the first coarse trajectories to the one or more backhaul moving cells and to send the second coarse trajectories to the one or more outer moving cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Biljana Badic, Steven A. Bowers, Yang-Seok Choi, Miltiadis Filippou, Bertram Gunzelmann, Nageen Himayat, Ingolf Karls, Nirlesh Kumar Koshta, Rajkumar Krishnaperumal, Markus Dominik Mueck, Hosein Nikopour, Pradeep C Pangi, Jerome Parron, Bernhard Raaf, Sabine Roessel, Dario Sabella, Bernd Schaller, Domagoj Siprak, Christopher Stobart, Shashanka Totadamane Ramappa, Sudeep Manithara Vamanan, Zhibin Yu, Jing Zhu
  • Publication number: 20230101423
    Abstract: A communication device comprises a receiver including at least two receive antennas and configured to receive at least one reference signal of a plurality of reference signals, each reference signal being transmitted from at least one base station at a predefined reference signal transmission time; a controller configured to switch between at least two receive configurations of the at least two antennas during a reception period of the at least one reference signal; and a signal quality determiner configured to determine a parameter indicative of a first signal quality of the received reference signal for each receive configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Zhibin Yu, Michael Ruder, Holger Neuhaus, Yeong-Sun Hwang, Bertram Gunzelmann
  • Publication number: 20220353650
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a communication device for vehicular radio communications. The communication device includes one or more processors configured to identify a plurality of vehicular communication devices that form a cluster of cooperating vehicular communication devices. The one or more processors also determine channel resource allocations for the plurality of vehicular communication devices that includes channel resources allocated for a first vehicular radio communication technology and channel resources allocated for a second vehicular radio communication technology. The one or more processors also transmit the channel resource allocation to the plurality of vehicular communication devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Carlos ALDANA, Biljana BADIC, Dave CAVALCANTI, Debabani CHOUDHURY, Christian DREWES, Jong-Kae FWU, Bertram GUNZELMANN, Nageen HIMAYAT, Ingolf KARLS, Duncan KITCHIN, Markus Dominik MUECK, Bernhard RAAF, Domagoj SIPRAK, Harry SKINNER, Christopher STOBART, Shilpa TALWAR, Zhibin YU
  • Publication number: 20220353652
    Abstract: A communication device for multi-radio access technology (RAT) communications includes one or more processors and a plurality of transceivers. Each transceiver is configured to operate in at least one RAT of a plurality of RATs. The processors are configured to establish connection with a second communication device using a first transceiver of the plurality of transceivers and a first RAT of the plurality of RATs. A first data stream associated with a communication link connected to the second communication device and a third communication device is receive via a convergence function at the second communication device. The communication link uses a second RAT of the plurality of RATs. A code sequence is applied to a second data stream to generate an encoded second data stream, which is transmitted to the third communication device via a second communication link established based on information received via the first data stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Stefan Fechtel, Kilian Peter Anton Roth, Bertram Gunzelmann, Markus Dominik Mueck, Ingolf Karls, Zhibin Yu, Thorsten Clevorn, Nageen Himayat, Dave A. Cavalcanti, Ana Lucia Pinheiro, Bahareh Sadeghi, Hassnaa Moustafa, Marcio Rogerio Juliato, Rafael Misoczki, Emily H. Qi, Jeffrey R. Foerster, Duncan Kitchin, Debdeep Chatterjee, Jong-Kae Fwu, Carlos Aldana, Shilpa Talwar, Harry G. Skinner, Debabani Choudhury
  • Patent number: 11463212
    Abstract: A communication device comprises a receiver including at least two receive antennas and configured to receive at least one reference signal of a plurality of reference signals, each reference signal being transmitted from at least one base station at a predefined reference signal transmission time; a controller configured to switch between at least two receive configurations of the at least two antennas during a reception period of the at least one reference signal; and a signal quality determiner configured to determine a parameter indicative of a first signal quality of the received reference signal for each receive configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Zhibin Yu, Michael Ruder, Holger Neuhaus, Yeong-Sun Hwang, Bertram Gunzelmann
  • Patent number: 11424811
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to an antenna array circuitry for analog beamforming, the antenna array circuitry comprising: a plurality of antenna elements, wherein each antenna element is configured to receive a respective analog signal (r(1,t), r(2,t), r(N,t)), wherein the plurality of antenna elements is adjustable based on a code-word, wherein the code-word comprises respective phase configurations (?p(1), ?p(2), ?p(N)) of the plurality of antenna elements, wherein the code-word is based on a superposition of a predetermined set of basic code-words, wherein each basic code-word associates with a corresponding sub-beam, wherein a main radiation lobe of the corresponding sub-beam points in a predefined spatial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhibin Yu, Ansgar Scherb, Andre Janssen, Bertram Gunzelmann, Yeong-Sun Hwang, Holger Neuhaus
  • Patent number: 11336319
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement including one or more processors configured to: detect a presence of one or more human object proximities based on sensor data; identify one or more coverage sectors of one or more antenna arrays, operably coupled to the one or more processors, in response to the detected presence of the one or more human object proximities; determine whether radio waves within the one or more identified coverage sectors satisfy a transmit power criteria; select one or more candidate coverage sectors of the one or more antenna arrays based the one or more identified coverage sectors; and determine at least one radio link quality for the radio waves of the one or more candidate coverage sectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Biljana Badic, Michael Glik, Bertram Gunzelmann, Tom Harel, Yeong-Sun Hwang, Andre Janssen, Jonathan Kosloff, Sebastian Mitelberg, Markus Dominik Mueck, Bernhard Raaf, Jianqiang Rao, Nir Tishbi, Zhibin Yu
  • Patent number: 11304037
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques for V2X communications using multiple radio access technologies (RATs) are described herein. A communication associated with one or more of the multiple RATs may be received at a device. The device may include a transceiver interface with multiple connections to communicate with multiple transceiver chains. The multiple transceiver chains can be configured to support multiple RATs. Additionally, the multiple transceiver chains may be controlled via the multiple connections of the transceiver interface to coordinate the multiple RATs to complete the communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Stefan Fechtel, Kilian Peter Anton Roth, Bertram Gunzelmann, Markus Dominik Mueck, Ingolf Karls, Zhibin Yu, Thorsten Clevorn, Nageen Himayat, Dave A. Cavalcanti, Ana Lucia Pinheiro, Bahareh Sadeghi, Hassnaa Moustafa, Marcio Rogerio Juliato, Rafael Misoczki, Emily H. Qi, Jeffrey R. Foerster, Duncan Kitchin, Debdeep Chatterjee, Jong-Kae Fwu, Carlos Aldana, Shilpa Talwar, Harry G. Skinner, Debabani Choudhury
  • Patent number: 11304144
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a User Equipment, UE, circuitry, comprising: a Radio Frequency, RF, circuitry, configured to receive RF signals from a serving cell, the RF signals comprising reference signals and a burst of paging occasions, POs within a Discontinuous Reception, DRX, cycle; and a baseband circuitry, configured to: select a candidate set of POs from the burst of POs based on a priority metric with respect to the reference signals which are associated to the POs, and set a power switching pattern of the RF circuitry based on the selected candidate set of POs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhibin Yu, Bertram Gunzelmann, Jianqiang Rao, Rui Huang
  • Patent number: 11296772
    Abstract: A wireless device includes a radio frequency transceiver, an antenna array, and one or more processors configured to transmit and receive signals with the radio frequency transceiver and the antenna array, and further configured to transmit, with a first antenna beam, a first plurality of blocks of payload data, transmit, with a second antenna beam, a second plurality of blocks of payload data, receive from a receiver device, feedback on the first plurality of blocks and the second plurality of blocks that requests retransmission or transmit power adjustments, select, based on the feedback, an antenna beam as a transmit antenna beam, and transmit payload data to the receiver device with the transmit antenna beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhibin Yu, Bertram Gunzelmann, Francois Deparis, Qing Xu
  • Patent number: 11228880
    Abstract: A communication device for a vehicular radio communications includes one or more processors configured to identify a plurality of vehicular communication devices that form a cluster of cooperating vehicular communication devices, determine channel resource allocations for the plurality of vehicular communication devices that includes channel resources allocated for a first vehicular radio communication technology and channel resources allocated for a second vehicular radio communication technology, and transmit the channel resource allocation to the plurality of vehicular communication devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Carlos Aldana, Dave Cavalcanti, Debabani Choudhury, Jong-Kae Fwu, Bertram Gunzelmann, Nageen Himayat, Ingolf Karls, Duncan Kitchin, Markus Dominik Mueck, Harry Skinner, Christopher Stobart, Shilpa Talwar, Zhibin Yu
  • Patent number: 11165495
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for communicating in a wireless network including apparatus comprising transceiver circuitry to send and receive data in a plurality of time periods, defined by a time division duplex (TDD) time grid, to another entity, the plurality of time periods corresponding to a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols and the transceiver circuitry being operable to switch from receive mode to transmit mode and/or from transmit mode to receive mode according to a flexible uplink and downlink allocation of the plurality of time periods; and baseband circuitry coupled to the transceiver circuitry to control the transceiver circuitry to switch during a switching interval embedded within a time period corresponding to an OFDM symbol of the plurality of OFDM symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sabine Roessel, Holger Neuhaus, Yeong-Sun Hwang, Bertram Gunzelmann, Andreas Menkhoff, Elmar Wagner, Jong-Kae Fwu, Xiangyang Zhuang
  • Publication number: 20210329561
    Abstract: Methods and devices including a processing circuit for a User Equipment, UE, wherein the UE includes a radio frequency, RF, receiver, wherein the processing circuit is configured to set a power switching pattern of the RF receiver for UE power saving in Discontinuous Reception, DRX, Radio Resource Control, RRC, IDLE mode based on a paging occasion, PO, and a signal block associated with the PO.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Zhibin YU, Bertram GUNZELMANN, Rui HUANG
  • Publication number: 20210329562
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a User Equipment, UE, circuitry, comprising: a Radio Frequency, RF, circuitry, configured to receive RF signals from a serving cell, the RF signals comprising reference signals and a burst of paging occasions, POs within a Discontinuous Reception, DRX, cycle; and a baseband circuitry, configured to: select a candidate set of POs from the burst of POs based on a priority metric with respect to the reference signals which are associated to the POs, and set a power switching pattern of the RF circuitry based on the selected candidate set of POs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Zhibin YU, Bertram GUNZELMANN, Jianqiang RAO, Rui HUANG
  • Publication number: 20210266058
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to an antenna array circuitry for analog beamforming, the antenna array circuitry comprising: a plurality of antenna elements, wherein each antenna element is configured to receive a respective analog signal (r(1,t), r(2,t), r(N,t)), wherein the plurality of antenna elements is adjustable based on a code-word, wherein the code-word comprises respective phase configurations (?p(1), ?p(2), ?p(N)) of the plurality of antenna elements, wherein the code-word is based on a superposition of a predetermined set of basic code-words, wherein each basic code-word associates with a corresponding sub-beam, wherein a main radiation lobe of the corresponding sub-beam points in a predefined spatial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Zhibin YU, Ansgar SCHERB, Andre JANSSEN, Bertram GUNZELMANN, Yeong-Sun HWANG, Holger NEUHAUS