Patents by Inventor Christian Drewes

Christian Drewes 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: 20200205062
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement includes a preprocessing circuit configured to obtain context information related to a user location, a learning circuit configured to determine a predicted user movement based on context information related to a user location to obtain a predicted route and to determine predicted radio conditions along the predicted route, and a decision circuit configured to, based on the predicted radio conditions, identify one or more first areas expected to have a first type of radio conditions and one or more second areas expected to have a second type of radio conditions different from the first type of radio conditions and to control radio activity while traveling on the predicted route according to the one or more first areas and the one or more second areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Shahrnaz Azizi, Biljana Badic, John Browne, Dave Cavalcanti, Hyung-Nam Choi, Thorsten Clevorn, Ajay Gupta, Maruti Gupta Hyde, Ralph Hasholzner, Nageen Himayat, Simon Hunt, Ingolf Karls, Thomas Kenney, Yiting Liao, Chris Macnamara, Marta Martinez Tarradell, Markus Dominik Mueck, Venkatesan Nallampatti Ekambaram, Niall Power, Bernhard Raaf, Reinhold Schneider, Ashish Singh, Sarabjot Singh, Srikathyayani Srikanteswara, Shilpa Talwar, Feng Xue, Zhibin Yu, Robert Zaus, Stefan Franz, Uwe Kliemann, Christian Drewes, Juergen Kreuchauf
  • Patent number: 10673501
    Abstract: A communications terminal may include: a plurality of antennas; and a selection circuit configured to select at least one antenna of the plurality of antennas as a transmit antenna for a transmission to a radio communications network, wherein a selection of the transmit antenna may be based on a selection criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thorsten Clevorn, Christian Drewes, Jan Ellenbeck, Juergen Kreuchauf
  • Patent number: 10673560
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a mobile communication system, including: a first transmission path configured to transmit a message according to a first radio access technology; a second transmission path configured to transmit the message according to a second radio access technology; and an encoder configured to encode the message by a code before transmission of the message over the first transmission path and the second transmission path, wherein the code comprises at least two subcodes, and wherein the encoder is configured to encode the message intended for transmission over the first transmission path with a first subcode of the at least two subcodes and to encode the message intended for transmission over the second transmission path with a second subcode of the at least two subcodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Markus Dominik Mueck, Christian Drewes, Mark Sagi
  • Patent number: 10660106
    Abstract: A radio resource management system is disclosed and can include a receiver to receive a plurality of registration requests, each of the registration requests being from a separate one of a plurality of radio communication devices. The receiver is configured to further to receive, prior to receiving a spectrum assignment request from a first radio communication device among the plurality of radio communication devices, location information and radio information from the plurality of radio communication devices. The radio resource management system can also include a transmitter and a processor. The processor is configured to determine available spectrum based on the radio information and the location information and to cause the transmitter to transmit a spectrum assignment to the first radio communication device based on the available spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Mueck, Christian Drewes, Wen Xu
  • Patent number: 10645706
    Abstract: A radio communication device is disclosed and can include a processor configured to cause a transmitter to transmit a registration request to a radio resource management system. The processor is further configured to determine, prior to transmitting a spectrum assignment request to the radio resource management system, radio information to be included in the spectrum assignment request. The transmitter is further caused to transmit the spectrum assignment request including the determined radio information to the radio resource management system. The device further includes a receiver to receive a spectrum assignment based on transmitting the spectrum assignment request, and radio information to the radio resource management system. The processor is further configured to assign the spectrum assignment to an end user device in response to receiving the spectrum assignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Mueck, Christian Drewes, Wen Xu
  • Publication number: 20200128472
    Abstract: Examples provide an access node controller, an apparatus for an access node, an access node for a mobile communication system, a mobile communication system, method and computer program for an access node. The access node controller is configured to determine one or more transmission parameters for a first access node of a mobile communication system. The mobile communication system further comprises a second access node. The access node controller comprises one or more interfaces configured to obtain priority area information of the second access node. The second access node has priority access in the priority area compared to the first access node. The access node controller comprises a control module configured to control the one or more interfaces and configured to determine the one or more transmission parameters for the first access node based on the priority area information of the second access node and based on an access condition at a priority area boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Beeshanga Jayawickrama, Ying He, Srikathyayani Srikanteswara, Markus Dominik Mueck, Eryk Dutkiewicz, Christian Drewes
  • Publication number: 20200119802
    Abstract: A radio communication device may be provided. The radio communication device may include: a receiver configured to receive data using an antenna on a first carrier and a second carrier; an operation mode determination circuit configured to determine an active antenna operation mode based on information of the first carrier and information of the second carrier; and an antenna controller configured to control the antenna to operate in the determined active antenna operation mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Thorsten Clevorn, Christian Drewes, Pablo Herrero, Juergen Kreuchauf
  • Patent number: 10616899
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a radio resource manager device is provided. The radio resource manager device may include a receiver configured to receive an application applying for radio resources; an interference allowance determiner configured to determine whether interference of signal transmission during radio communication using radio resources is allowed; and a radio resource assigner configured to assign radio resources based on the determined interference allowance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Mueck, Christian Drewes, Wen Xu
  • Patent number: 10609595
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device may include a radio processing circuit and a baseband processing circuit adapted to interact with the radio processing circuit. The mobile terminal device may be configured to transmit or receive a data sequence using a first channel and a second channel according to a data allocation ratio, wherein the data sequence is allocated between frequency division duplexing (FDD) transmission or reception and time division duplexing (TDD) transmission or reception according to the data allocation ratio, and concurrently to transmitting or receiving the data sequence, recurrently adjust the data allocation ratio to re-allocate the distribution of the data sequence between FDD transmission or reception and TDD transmission or reception on the first channel and the second channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Markus Dominik Mueck, Michael Heimlich, Pierce Rixon, Beeshanga Jayawickrama, Eryk Dutkiewicz, Christian Drewes, Gengfa Fang
  • Publication number: 20200076653
    Abstract: A communication device is provided that includes a baseband circuit and a transmitter configured to transmit a first signal and a projected signal. The baseband circuit is configured to determine the projected signal based on an estimated signal state information such that an energy of a shaped projected signal is smaller than an energy of a shaped signal. The estimated signal state information is an estimate of a signal state information based on the first signal and a received signal that is received by a receiver of the second communication device. The shaped projected signal is the projected signal received by the receiver of the second communication device and filtered by a filter of the second communication device. The shaped signal is the received signal filtered by the filter of the second communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Markus Dominik Mueck, Ingolf Karls, Christian Drewes, Erfan Majeed, Guido Bruck, Peter Jung
  • Publication number: 20200068455
    Abstract: A wireless device having a receiver configured to receive, from a second wireless device, information about one or more infrastructure devices having respective coverage areas in which the second wireless device traveled, wherein the information comprises time stamp information and geographical information of the second wireless device when the information was observed; and a processor configured to process the information of the one or more infrastructure devices to determine to which of the infrastructure devices the wireless device is to be handed over.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Biljana Badic, Zhibin Yu, Markus Dominik Mueck, Bernhard Raaf, Christian Drewes, Dave Cavalcanti, Ana Lucia A. Pinheiro, Nageen Himayat, Ranganadh Karella
  • Patent number: 10560176
    Abstract: A radio communication device may be provided. The radio communication device may include: a receiver configured to receive data using an antenna on a first carrier and a second carrier; an operation mode determination circuit configured to determine an active antenna operation mode based on information of the first carrier and information of the second carrier; and an antenna controller configured to control the antenna to operate in the determined active antenna operation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten Clevorn, Christian Drewes, Pablo Herrero, Juergen Kreuchauf
  • Patent number: 10560125
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a data processing device, comprising: a digital front end (DFE) configured to convert an antenna signal to digital data, wherein the digital data comprises a plurality of data symbols; a baseband (BB) circuitry configured to process the digital data in baseband; and a digital interface between the DFE and the BB circuitry, wherein the DFE comprises a data compression circuitry configured to compress the plurality of data symbols for use in transmission via the digital interface to the BB circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Shilpa Talwar, Christian Drewes, Andreas Augustin, Peter Noest, Stefan Mueller-Weinfurtner, Oner Orhan, Hosein Nikopour, Junyoung Nam
  • Publication number: 20200015244
    Abstract: A communication terminal is described comprising a first transceiver configured for communication according to a first radio access technology and a second transceiver configured for communication according to a second radio access technology. The second transceiver is configured to determine whether a frequency range is occupied by a transmission according to the second radio access technology and to notify the first transceiver whether the frequency range is occupied by a transmission according to the second radio access technology. The first transceiver is configured to receive signals transmitted in the frequency range based on the notification from the second transceiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Tianyan Pu, Chunhui Liu, Sabine Roessel, Christian Drewes
  • Publication number: 20200007384
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing node failures in a mesh network is provided. In an example method for, a trigger is sent to a target node to return test data. The test data received from the target node is analyzed. The target node is classified as valid if the test data is within expected parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Markus Dominik Mueck, Christian Drewes, Eryk Dutkiewicz, Gengfa Fang, Sabine Roessel, Keith Nolan, Pierce Rixon, Srikathyayani Srikanteswara
  • Publication number: 20190387562
    Abstract: A system and a method for controlling communication between a network and a terminal device, the method including: selecting a plurality of network access nodes based on each network access node being associated with a distinguishing transmission feature transmission feature; allocating a digital bit pattern to each distinguishing transmission feature; modifying a transmission to the terminal device based on the digital bit pattern; transmitting the transmission to the terminal device; receiving the transmission at the terminal device; identifying the distinguishing transmission feature from the transmission; and processing the transmission based on the digital bit pattern allocated to the distinguishing transmission feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Markus Dominik Mueck, Ingolf Karls, Christian Drewes, Erfan Majeed, Guido Bruck, Peter Jung
  • Publication number: 20190379468
    Abstract: Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for channel state determination, such as, for instance, determining one or more channel state parameters for a wireless communication channel between a user equipment (UE) and a base station in a mobile network. Some embodiments are particularly directed to a radio access network (RAN) control system that determines one or more channel state parameters for wireless communication channels in a RAN portion of a mobile network based on propagation data in a channel state base (CSB) database. For example, propagation behavior of a wireless communication channel between a UE and a base station may be calculated by the radio access KSPCS based, at least in part, on propagation data in the CSB database and a physical location of the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: INTEL IP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sabine ROESSEL, Stefania SESIA, Tommaso BALERCIA, Christian DREWES, Josef HAUSNER, Patricia GUITTON-OUHAMOU
  • Patent number: 10506444
    Abstract: A shared spectrum network device in a higher-tier network may include one or more processors configured to receive information provided from a lower-tier network, estimate, based on the information, interference to the higher-tier network from one or more transmitters of the lower-tier network, compare the estimated interference to a threshold value, and identify a geographic zone in which transmission by one or more transmitters of the lower-tier network is limited based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Srikathyayani Srikanteswara, Markus Dominik Mueck, Ying He, Beeshanga Jayawickrama, Eryk Dutkiewicz, Biljana Badic, Zhibin Yu, Christian Drewes
  • Publication number: 20190364492
    Abstract: A circuit arrangement includes a preprocessing circuit configured to obtain context information related to a user location, a learning circuit configured to determine a predicted user movement based on context information related to a user location to obtain a predicted route and to determine predicted radio conditions along the predicted route, and a decision circuit configured to, based on the predicted radio conditions, identify one or more first areas expected to have a first type of radio conditions and one or more second areas expected to have a second type of radio conditions different from the first type of radio conditions and to control radio activity while traveling on the predicted route according to the one or more first areas and the one or more second areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Shahrnaz Azizi, Biljana Badic, John Browne, Dave Cavalcanti, Hyung-Nam Choi, Thorsten Clevorn, Ajay Gupta, Maruti Gupta Hyde, Ralph Hasholzner, Nageen Himayat, Simon Hunt, Ingolf Karls, Thomas Kenney, Yiting Liao, Chris Macnamara, Marta Martinez Tarradell, Markus Dominik Mueck, Venkatesan Nallampatti Ekambaram, Niall Power, Bernhard Raaf, Reinhold Schneider, Ashish Singh, Sarabjot Singh, Srikathyayani Srikanteswara, Shilpa Talwar, Feng Xue, Zhibin Yu, Robert Zaus, Stefan Franz, Uwe Kliemann, Christian Drewes, Juergen Kreuchauf
  • Patent number: 10484929
    Abstract: Examples provide an access node controller, an apparatus for an access node, an access node for a mobile communication system, a mobile communication system, method and computer program for an access node. The access node controller is configured to determine one or more transmission parameters for a first access node of a mobile communication system. The mobile communication system further comprises a second access node. The access node controller comprises one or more interfaces configured to obtain priority area information of the second access node. The second access node has priority access in the priority area compared to the first access node. The access node controller comprises a control module configured to control the one or more interfaces and configured to determine the one or more transmission parameters for the first access node based on the priority area information of the second access node and based on an access condition at a priority area boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Beeshanga Jayawickrama, Ying He, Srikathyayani Srikanteswara, Markus Dominik Mueck, Eryk Dutkiewicz, Christian Drewes