Patents by Inventor Christoph König

Christoph König 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: 20240067204
    Abstract: A method for setting up a virtual ad hoc network for transmitting at least one piece of information to a first transportation vehicle as a first network subscriber. The method includes the information being provided based on first data from at least one second network subscriber, and at least one second network subscriber being a second transportation vehicle or an infrastructure component; wherein a motor-vehicle-external, central data processing device receives second data from multiple potential second network subscribers and takes the second data and at least one space-time parameter as a basis for determining the second network subscribers and setting up the virtual ad hoc network with the first transportation vehicle, as the first network subscriber, and the determined second network subscribers, the space-time parameter defining a specific area of relevance that has a predetermined physical and temporal correlation with the current position of the first transportation vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Christian BRUNS, Jakob SPIEGELBERG, Jan SONNENBERG, Bernd LEHMANN, Laura FIEBACK, Marius SPIKA, Tatjana KRUSCHA, Fabian GALETZKA, Benjamin GROß, Jan KEMPA, Christoph KÖNIG, Marvin SCHRÖDER
  • Publication number: 20230373498
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method, to a computer program comprising instructions, and to a device for environment sensing in a vehicle. For the environment sensing, environment data are recorded by means of at least one vehicle sensor. A prediction is calculated by means of a trained machine learning model based on the recorded environment data, wherein the prediction includes a measure of uncertainty for the prediction. Equally, a deviation value is determined for the recorded environment data that provides a measure of how significantly the recorded environment data deviate from training data for the machine learning model. At least one conformity score is determined based on the measure of uncertainty and the deviation value and then a prediction set is determined based on the at least one determined conformity score. Then, a control signal is generated depending on the determined prediction set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Marvin Schröder, Tatjana Kruscha, Fabian Galetzka, Benjamin Groß, Jan Kempa, Christoph König, Jakob Spiegelberg, Jan Sonnenberg, Christian Bruns, Bernd Lehmann, Laura Fieback, Marius Spika
  • Publication number: 20230013950
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a data acquisition device for mobile devices, having a processing unit and a memory unit. The data acquisition unit includes a communications module for transmitting acquired data to a backend server, and a bus interface for receiving messages transmitted via an internal communications bus of the mobile device. The processing unit is configured to use the data received in the messages to form a data series, and to store the data series in the memory unit. In order to reduce the memory required, the processing unit is configured to conduct a preliminary analysis of the stored data series to extract at least one region of interest of the data series and transfer the same to the communications module, which is configured to transmit the at least one extracted region of the data series to the backend server. This procedure is equivalent to data aggregation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventor: Christoph König
  • Patent number: 10521985
    Abstract: A method securely opens a door connected to a system and includes a central unit, a mobile terminal, a local control unit and a door opening device that are configured to transmit data. The method includes transmitting a first key to the mobile terminal by the central unit; transmitting the first key to the control unit by the mobile terminal via the door opening device; generating a second key by the control unit depending on the first key; transmitting the second key from the control unit to the mobile terminal via the door opening device; generating a third key by the mobile terminal depending on the second key; transmitting the third key to the central unit by the mobile terminal via the door opening device; and controlling opening of the door depending on the third key by the central unit by transmitting a request to the door opening device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Fujitsu Technology Solutions Intellectual Property GmbH
    Inventor: Christoph König
  • Patent number: 9907893
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system of a plurality of medical treatment units that are respectively associated with a patient, and a plurality of peripheral appliances also respectively associated with a patient. The peripheral appliances transmit control signals and patient signals to the treatment units, while the treatment units receive the control signals and patient signals from the peripheral appliances. The present invention ensures that the treatment units do not receive patient signals from other peripheral appliances that are not associated with the particular patient. The operating staff allocate a peripheral appliance to a patient and confirm the successful association of the peripheral appliance with the treatment unit allocated to the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Dejan Nikolic, Christoph Koenig
  • Publication number: 20170316627
    Abstract: A method securely opens a door connected to a system and includes a central unit, a mobile terminal, a local control unit and a door opening device that are configured to transmit data. The method includes transmitting a first key to the mobile terminal by the central unit; transmitting the first key to the control unit by the mobile terminal via the door opening device; generating a second key by the control unit depending on the first key; transmitting the second key from the control unit to the mobile terminal via the door opening device; generating a third key by the mobile terminal depending on the second key; transmitting the third key to the central unit by the mobile terminal via the door opening device; and controlling opening of the door depending on the third key by the central unit by transmitting a request to the door opening device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventor: Christoph König
  • Patent number: 9662765
    Abstract: A device for electromechanically assisted roller burnishing (EMRB) may comprise: a roller burnishing tool with exactly one current-leading roller burnishing element for burnishing a workpiece, wherein the roller burnishing element represents a first electrical contact element for electrically contacting first location of the workpiece, and a second electrical contact element for electrically contacting second location of the workpiece; wherein the first and the second electrical contact elements can be positioned at a settable spatial distance to one another, so that on moving the roller burnishing element on the workpiece, a current path in the workpiece between the first and the second contact elements is always a constant length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Technische Universität Berlin
    Inventors: Holger Hüning, Jens König, Eckart Uhlmann, Christoph König
  • Patent number: 9626425
    Abstract: A cloud storage system that includes at least one interface that connects the cloud storage system to a data network, at least one non-volatile mass memory, and at least one control unit connected to the interface and to the at least one mass memory and arranged to 1) receive requests from a user with regard to data objects from the interface according to a data transmission protocol, 2) store data objects transmitted according to a write request in the at least one mass memory and 3) retrieve data objects requested according to a read request from the at least one mass memory, wherein a predetermined storage period is assigned to each data object, stored in the at least one non-volatile mass memory by a write request, at the latest upon receiving the write request, and the stored data objects in a predetermined group cannot be changed by subsequent requests according to the protocol via the interface before expiration of the assigned storage period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Christoph König
  • Patent number: 9525458
    Abstract: There is provided a wireless audio transmission system, in particular a wireless microphone system, for wireless audio transmission. The system has at least one wireless microphone unit for detecting audio signals and for wirelessly transmitting the detected audio signals, and a central unit. The central unit has a wireless receiving unit for receiving the wirelessly transmitted audio signals from the wireless microphone units, a pilot tone transmitting unit for transmitting a first pilot tone on a pilot channel, and a pilot tone receiving unit for receiving and processing a second pilot tone signal. The pilot tone signal has information in respect of the wireless transmission between the microphone units and the central unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Axel Schmidt, Gerrit Buhe, Andreas Wilzeck, Qipeng Cai, Maria Dolores Pérez-Guirao, Christoph König, Hanwen Cao
  • Publication number: 20160283501
    Abstract: A storage device includes at least one interface to access files stored by the storage device, and at least one mass storage system for non-volatile storage of files; wherein the storage device is configured, on receiving a write command to write a file via the at least one interface, to store metadata relating to the at least one file in an inode associated with the file of the mass storage system, and the stored metadata relating to the file include at least the file name of the file and information relating to a directory in which the file is stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Christoph König, Alexander König
  • Patent number: 9419796
    Abstract: A method for storing data in which the data to be stored is divided into a plurality of source blocks, each source block subjected to steps including defining a block key for the source block based on a random function, encrypting the source block by utilizing the defined block key, selecting at least one first storage location and one second storage location from a plurality of different available storage locations, storing control data that includes information on the defined block key at the first selected storage location, and storing encrypted data that includes information on the encrypted source block at the second selected storage location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Christoph König
  • Publication number: 20150047162
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and method for electromechanically roller burnishing a surface of a workpiece, in which precisely one current-guiding roller burnishing element for roller burnishing and one separate electrical contact element are used and, as the roller burnishing element is moved on the workpiece surface, said electrical contact element is guided thereafter such that a current path of a constant length is directed through the workpiece as roller burnishing takes place. The invention allows, in a cost-effective manner, a high surface quality to be achieved as well as a precisely-adjustable microstructural alteration to the upper layers of the workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventors: Holger Hüning, Jens König, Eckart Uhlmann, Christoph König
  • Publication number: 20140143255
    Abstract: A cloud storage system that includes at least one interface that connects the cloud storage system to a data network, at least one non-volatile mass memory, and at least one control unit connected to the interface and to the at least one mass memory and arranged to 1) receive requests from a user with regard to data objects from the interface according to a data transmission protocol, 2) store data objects transmitted according to a write request in the at least one mass memory and 3) retrieve data objects requested according to a read request from the at least one mass memory, wherein a predetermined storage period is assigned to each data object, stored in the at least one non-volatile mass memory by a write request, at the latest upon receiving the write request, and the stored data objects in a predetermined group cannot be changed by subsequent requests according to the protocol via the interface before expiration of the assigned storage period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: Fujitsu Technology Solutions Intellectual Property GmbH
    Inventor: Christoph König
  • Patent number: 8650246
    Abstract: A distributed method for licensing a software product is disclosed. Access to a software product by a user is requested at a client-side. An identity of the user and a local setting of the client-side are determined. At a server-side, licensing information specific to the determined local setting is selected from a licensing database. The selected licensing information is transmitted from the server-side to the client-side and then output at the client-side to the user. At the client-side, confirmation of a license agreement for the software product based on the output licensing information is requested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Technology Solutions Intellectual Property GmbH
    Inventor: Christoph Koenig
  • Patent number: 8454550
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for detecting moisture, which is intended for the use in an apparatus for monitoring an access to a patient for a device by means of which a fluid is conducted to and/or removed from a patient via a hose line, in particular for monitoring the vascular access during an extracorporeal blood treatment, wherein blood of a patient is removed from the patient via an arterial hose line, which has an arterial puncture cannula, and is conducted back to the patient via a venous hose line, which has a venous puncture cannula. The apparatus for detecting moisture is designed as a pad which is made of a flexible material and is to be applied onto the patient's skin and which comprises an upper side facing away from the patient's skin and a lower side facing the patient's skin. The pad comprises an opening for the passage of fluid, in particular blood, and a moisture sensor having contact elements for the connection of the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Koenig, Alexander Schroers, Andreas Wuepper, Alexander Heide, Juergen Klewinghaus
  • Patent number: 8298152
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and a method for monitoring an access to a patient, in particular a vascular access in extracorporeal blood treatment, in which a patient's blood is withdrawn from the patient via an arterial conduit and is returned to the patient via a venous conduit. In the device according to the present invention and in the method according to the present invention, an alternating voltage signal, relative to a common ground potential, is coupled in and out of the arterial and venous conduits, and the blood flowing through the arterial and venous conduits is at ground potential. In this way, disturbances, which can be attributed particularly to movements of the conduits, are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph König, Wolfgang Kleinekofort
  • Publication number: 20120224713
    Abstract: There is provided a wireless audio transmission system, in particular a wireless microphone system, for wireless audio transmission. The system has at least one wireless microphone unit for detecting audio signals and for wirelessly transmitting the detected audio signals, and a central unit. The central unit has a wireless receiving unit for receiving the wirelessly transmitted audio signals from The wireless microphone units, a pilot tone transmitting unit for transmitting a first pilot tone on a pilot channel, and a pilot tone receiving unit for receiving and processing a second pilot tone signal. The pilot tone signal has information in respect of the wireless transmission between the microphone units and the central unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2010
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Inventors: Axel Schmidt, Gerrit Buhe, Andreas Wilzeck, Qipeng Cai, Maria Dolores Pérez-Guirao, Christoph König, Hanwen Cao
  • Publication number: 20120203990
    Abstract: A method for storing data in which the data to be stored is divided into a plurality of source blocks, each source block subjected to steps including defining a block key for the source block based on a random function, encrypting the source block by utilizing the defined block key, selecting at least one first storage location and one second storage location from a plurality of different available storage locations, storing control data that includes information on the defined block key at the first selected storage location, and storing encrypted data that includes information on the encrypted source block at the second selected storage location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: Fujitsu Technology Solutions Intellectual Property GmbH
    Inventor: Christoph König
  • Publication number: 20120159624
    Abstract: A computer security method includes receiving a security alert associated with an electronic attack to at least one computer system of a data network, identifying a first set of business services which may be affected by the electronic attack, estimating, based on an identified first set of potentially affected business services, a first potential cost to a business when the electronic attack is successful, identifying at least one counteraction which may be employed to prevent or mitigate the electronic attack, identifying a second set of business services which may be affected by the at least one counteraction, estimating, based on the identified second set of potentially affected business services, a second potential cost to the business when the counteraction is employed, and comparing the first potential cost and the second potential cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Fujitsu Technology Solutions Intellectual Property GmbH
    Inventor: Christoph König
  • Publication number: 20120029410
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for detecting moisture, which is intended for the use in an apparatus for monitoring an access to a patient for a device by means of which a fluid is conducted to and/or removed from a patient via a hose line, in particular for monitoring the vascular access during an extracorporeal blood treatment, wherein blood of a patient is removed from the patient via an arterial hose line, which has an arterial puncture cannula, and is conducted back to the patient via a venous hose line, which has a venous puncture cannula. The apparatus for detecting moisture is designed as a pad which is made of a flexible material and is to be applied onto the patient's skin and which comprises an upper side facing away from the patient's skin and a lower side facing the patient's skin. The pad comprises an opening for the passage of fluid, in particular blood, and a moisture sensor having contact elements for the connection of the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Inventors: Christoph Koenig, Schroers Alexander, Wuepper Andreas, Heide Alexander, Klewinghaus Juergen