Patents by Inventor Elena Costa

Elena Costa 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: 20060198354
    Abstract: Data is transmitted via time division multiple access methods and every radio cell includes one base station each for the radio coverage of a plurality of mobile stations assigned to the radio cell. The base station receives, in addition to mobile station signals of its own radio cell, mobile station signals of neighboring radio cells and determines, on the basis of the mobile station signals received, a time synchronization value and/or a frequency synchronization value to which the base station synchronizes itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2004
    Publication date: September 7, 2006
    Inventor: Elena Costa
  • Publication number: 20060046734
    Abstract: Radio system resource management is provided in a cellular radio communication network like a multiple-carrier network. Information is transmitted on at least one frequency range consisting of a plurality of sub-carriers. The sub-carriers of the frequency range are temporarily made available to each cellular radio for transmitting information. The sub-carriers of the frequency range are temporarily assigned to a given number of cellular radios in such a way that each assigned sub-carrier is made available to a set of the cellular radios for information transmission. In the transmission framework, the assignment of information necessary for a transmission decision reduces the signalling complexity to a single symbol OFDM, thereby reducing interferences and increasing spectrum efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Publication date: March 2, 2006
    Inventors: Elena Costa, Harald Haas, Matthias Lott, Egon Schultz
  • Publication number: 20050044464
    Abstract: A data packet is sent from a first radio station to several second radio stations in a transmission channel, whereby the data packet is provided with a first error protection for a first transmission over the radio interface. Subsequently, the data packet is sent by the first radio station to the second radio station at least one further time, whereby the data packet is provided with a second error protection for further transmission over the radio interface, which has a higher redundancy than the first error protection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2002
    Publication date: February 24, 2005
    Inventors: Elena Costa, Matthias Lott, Egon Schulz
  • Publication number: 20050018782
    Abstract: OFDM symbols are generated using data from one or more users or from one or more data sources represented on a number of sub-carriers. To inhibit multiple-access interference on application of the CDMA principle, the data are transformed in a data-source specific manner and only subsequently allocated to the sub-carriers, independently of the transformation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2002
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Inventors: Elena Costa, Dirk Galda, Harald Haas, Hermann Rohling, Egon Schulz