Patents by Inventor Carolin Huppert

Carolin Huppert 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).

  • Method, apparatus and computer program product for enhanced control channel usage in carrier aggregation
    Patent number: 10051637
    Abstract: The present invention addresses a method, apparatus and computer program product for managing control channel usage in Carrier Aggregation, which implement defining a time reuse factor for a Physical Uplink Control Channel resource on a Primary Cell for enabling time multiplexing the subframes of the resource, and assigning a Physical Uplink Control Channel resource element to a requesting User Equipment by using colliding resources in different subframes, wherein the time reuse factor is variably set based on at least one of the number of requesting User Equipments and the individual traffic needs of the requesting User Equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Mieszko Chmiel, Simon Goedecke, Carolin Huppert
  • Method, Apparatus and Computer Program Product for enhanced Control Channel Usage in Carrier Aggregation
    Publication number: 20170048869
    Abstract: The present invention addresses a method, apparatus and computer program product for managing control channel usage in Carrier Aggregation, which implement defining a time reuse factor for a Physical Uplink Control Channel resource on a Primary Cell for enabling time multiplexing the subframes of the resource, and assigning a Physical Uplink Control Channel resource element to a requesting User Equipment by using colliding resources in different subframes, wherein the time reuse factor is variably set based on at least one of the number of requesting User Equipments and the individual traffic needs of the requesting User Equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: Mieszko Chmiel, Simon Goedecke, Carolin Huppert