Patents by Inventor Erik Eriksson

Erik Eriksson 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: 10841912
    Abstract: A network node in a wireless communication network communicates an enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (ePDCCH) to a user equipment (UE). This begins with the transmission, to the UE, of a configuration message that indicates the mappings of ePDCCH onto resource elements for both a first ePDCCH set and a second ePDCCH set. The mapping for the first ePDCCH set avoids the use of resource elements already in use by a first type of signal (e.g., a Cell-Specific Reference Signal or CRS), whereas the mapping for the second ePDCCH set avoids the use of resource elements in use by a second type of signal. The choice of an ePDCCH set for transmitting data to a UE may then be dynamically made in order to avoid interference caused by the first or second types of signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Erik Eriksson, Mattias Frenne, David Hammarwall, George Jöngren
  • Patent number: 10829610
    Abstract: The present invention deals with a process for polymerising olefins in a solution and withdrawing a stream of the solution from the polymerisation reactor and passing it to a sequence of heating steps. The heated solution is passed to a separation step, which is conducted at a pressure of no more than 15 bar and in which separation step a liquid phase comprising the polymer and a vapour phase coexist. A vapour stream and a concentrated solution stream comprising the polymer are withdrawn from the separation step. At least a part of the vapour stream is passed to the first polymerisation reactor, to the second polymerisation reactor or to both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: BOREALIS AG
    Inventors: Mohammad Al-Haj Ali, Michiel Bergstra, Erik Eriksson, Guhan Mathivanan, Jukka Räsänen, Henry Sleijster, Sameer Vijay, Christof Wurnitsch, Samuli Zitting, Vasileios Kanellopoulos, Jani Aho
  • Publication number: 20200351035
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method used in a User Equipment (UE) for reporting Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) acknowledgement (ACK)/non-acknowledgement (NACK) for Physical Downlink Shared Channels (PDSCHs) in dynamic time division duplex (TDD) configurations. In the method, a plurality of PDSCHs are received in DownLink (DL) subframes associated with an UpLink (UL) subframe and indicated by a DL reference TDD configuration. The DL subframes are divided into a first subset of DL subframes and a second subset of DL subframes. The first subset of DL subframes is also indicated by an UL reference TDD configuration. A first set of Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resource indices are assigned based on resources used in transmission of Physical Downlink Control Channels (PDCCHs) corresponding to the PDSCHs received in the DL subframes of the first subset of DL subframes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Shaohua Li, Erik ERIKSSON, Rui FAN, Zhiheng GUO, Jinhua LIU, Xinghua SONG
  • Publication number: 20200351641
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for triggering a long range extension mode of operation for a wireless device in a cellular communications network. In one preferred embodiment, the wireless device is a Machine Type Communication (MTC) device. In one embodiment, a node in the cellular communications network determines that the wireless device is to operate in the long range extension mode if there is difficulty in establishing communication between the wireless device and the cellular communications network. If the wireless device is to operate in the long range extension mode, the node activates one or more long range extension mechanisms with respect to the wireless device such that the wireless device operates in the long range extension mode. In this manner, the long range extension mode is selectively triggered for the wireless device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Kumar Balachandran, Johan Bergman, Konstantinos Dimou, Erik Eriksson, Anders Wallén
  • Publication number: 20200344713
    Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for for providing location information in a communications network. A method is performed by a first device. The first device supports positioning of other devices in the communications network. The method comprises acquiring positioning reference signal configuration from a radio network node in the communications network. The method comprises acquiring location information from a local positioning entity. The method comprises providing the location information to at least one of a radio network node and a second device in the communications network. The method comprises transmitting a positioning reference signal according to the positioning reference signal configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Fredrik Gunnarsson, Erik Eriksson, Pål Frenger, Martin Hessler, Pradeepa Ramachandra
  • Patent number: 10820322
    Abstract: It is provided a method for reducing bit rate requirement over an uplink fronthaul link. The method is performed in a fronthaul transmitter of a radio network node and comprises the steps of: determining a group of frequency-domain resource elements having been received over a wireless channel (40); estimating channel information (42); reducing a number of bits for representing the respective frequency-domain resource element, to thereby obtain a modified resource element (44); transmitting the modified resource elements of the group over the fronthaul link to a fronthaul receiver (46); and transmitting compression metadata (48), indicating how the reduction was performed, over the fronthaul link to the fronthaul receiver which performs the steps of receiving the modified resource elements (50), receiving the compression metadata (52) and expanding the resource elements to increase the number of bits for representing the frequency-domain resource elements (54).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Miguel Berg, Chenguang Lu, Daniel Cederholm, Per-Erik Eriksson
  • Publication number: 20200329430
    Abstract: There is provided provision of timing information of a first timing information source using timing information of a second timing information source to a wireless device. A network node determines that second timing information from the second timing information source is available and that timing information from the first timing information source is derivable from the second timing information. The network node instructs the wireless device to use the second timing information as a source for deriving first timing information of the first timing information source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Erik Eriksson, Pål Frenger, Martin Hessler
  • Patent number: 10780490
    Abstract: An electromagnetic brake system for a metal-making process. The electromagnetic brake system includes a two-level magnetic structure, in particular an upper magnetic core structure configured to be mounted to an upper portion of a mold and a lower magnetic core structure configured to be mounted to a lower portion of a mold. Lateral coils on the upper magnetic structure are configured to be controlled to generate a first magnetic field in a first field direction and inner coils are configured to be controlled to generate a second magnetic field in a second field direction, simultaneously with the first magnetic field. The lower magnetic core structure has lower coils which are configured to be controlled to generate a third magnetic field in the first direction simultaneously as the lateral coils and the inner coils generate their fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Martin Tobias Sedén, Anders Lehman, Jan-Erik Eriksson
  • Patent number: 10785761
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for estimating one or more channel properties of a downlink from a cellular communications network based on quasi co-located antenna ports with respect to the one or more channel properties. In one embodiment, a user equipment receives a downlink subframe including a downlink control channel from the cellular communications network. The user equipment estimates one or more large-scale channel properties for an antenna port of interest in the downlink control channel based on a subset of reference signals that correspond to antenna ports in the cellular communications network that are quasi co-located with the antenna port of interest with respect to the one or more large-scale channel properties. As a result of using the quasi co-located antenna ports, estimation of the one or more large-scale channel properties is substantially improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Mattias Frenne, Stefano Sorrentino, Erik Eriksson
  • Patent number: 10785007
    Abstract: A receiver apparatus receives a terminal-specific demodulation reference signal having a rank k and estimates an effective multi-layer channel response, using the received terminal-specific demodulation reference signal. The receiver demodulates first data symbols from first time-frequency resource elements, using the estimate of the effective multi-layer channel response and using a first symbols-to-virtual-antenna mapping matrix M to obtain nc modulation symbols from each of the first time-frequency resource elements, wherein nc>1 and wherein the first symbol-to-transmit-layer mapping matrix M has dimensions k by nc. The first data symbols are decoded to obtain downlink control information assigning second time-frequency resource elements to the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jonas Fröberg Olsson, Erik Eriksson, Pål Frenger, Martin Hessler
  • Patent number: 10779225
    Abstract: Methods, network nodes (300, 304) of a radio network and a wireless device (302), for controlling operation of the wireless device (302) accessing the radio network. A signalling network node (300) obtains (3:2) an access parameter configuration. The access parameter configuration is one out of a compressed set of prodefined access parameter configurations where different synchronization signals are associated with different access parameter configurations according to a predefined mapping such that a range of different synchronization signals are jointly mapped to an access parameter in the compressed set of predefined access parameter configurations. The signalling network node (300) further obtains (3:2) and signals (3:3) to the wireless device (302) a synchronization signal that is associated with the access parameter configuration according to said prodefined mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Pål Frenger, Erik Eriksson, Martin Hessler
  • Publication number: 20200287681
    Abstract: A cellular network supports radio communication based on a first configuration which organizes a time-frequency space in first resource elements and radio communication based on a second configuration which organizes the time-frequency space in second resource elements and assigns at least one of the second resource elements to a utilization which is in conflict with the radio communication based on the first configuration. A node of the cellular network sends an indication to a communication device. The indication comprises time domain and/or frequency domain information for defining a pattern comprising at least one of the first resource elements which is to be disregarded by the communication device when performing radio communication with the cellular network based on the first configuration and/or the second configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Jonas Fröberg Olsson, Andreas Bergström, Erik Eriksson, Pål Frenger, Martin Hessler
  • Publication number: 20200277413
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for removing hydrocarbons comprising the steps of: (A) passing a stream of a solution into a separator wherein a liquid phase comprising polymer and a vapour phase coexist; (B) withdrawing a vapour stream and a concentrated solution stream from the separator; (C) passing at least a part of the vapour stream into a first fractionator; (D) withdrawing a first overhead stream and a first bottom stream from the first fractionator; (E) passing the first bottom stream to a second fractionator; (F) withdrawing a second overhead stream and a second bottom stream from the second fractionator; characterised in that at least a part of the second overhead stream is withdrawn as a purge stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2018
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Mohammad Al-Haj Ali, Erik Eriksson, Guhan Mathivanan, Jukka Räsänen, Henry Sleijster, Sameer Vijay, Samuli Zitting
  • Patent number: 10764910
    Abstract: A wireless device is configured with a plurality of channel-sensing resources, each channel-sensing resource being associated with at least one corresponding transmission resource. The wireless device evaluates (810), in response to a determination that first data is ready to be transmitted by the wireless device, whether one or more of the plurality of channel-sensing resources are occupied, and transmits (820) at least a part of the first data on at least one transmission resource associated with at least one channel-sensing resource, in response to detecting that the at least one of the plurality of channel-sensing resources is not occupied. The wireless device further receives (830) a grant for a scheduled transmission at least partly overlapping with at least one of said plurality of channel-sensing resources; and transmits (840) second data in accordance with the received grant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Martin Hessler, Erik Eriksson, Pål Frenger, Jonas Fröberg Olsson
  • Patent number: 10759880
    Abstract: A process for producing a polymer composition comprising the steps (A) to (M) as recited herein, involving the polymerization, in a polymerization reactor of a first polymer, a first stream thereof being passed into a first separator wherein a first liquid phase comprising the polymer and a first vapor phase coexist; withdrawing a first vapor stream and a first concentrated solution stream comprising the polymer from the first separator, passing at least a part of the first vapor stream to a first fractionator; withdrawing a first overhead stream and a first bottom stream from the first fractionator; recovering at least a part of the first overhead stream as a first recycle stream and passing it to the polymerization reactor; passing the first concentrated solution stream from the first separator to a second separator, wherein a second liquid phase comprising the polymer and a second vapor phase coexist; passing at least a part of the second vapor stream to a second fractionator; withdrawing a second overhead
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Borealis AG
    Inventors: Mohammad Al-Haj Ali, Erik Eriksson, Guhan Mathivanan, Henry Sleijster, Sameer Vijay, Christof Wurnitsch, Samuli Zitting
  • Patent number: 10757565
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for triggering a long range extension mode of operation for a wireless device in a cellular communications network. In one preferred embodiment, the wireless device is a Machine Type Communication (MTC) device. In one embodiment, a node in the cellular communications network determines that the wireless device is to operate in the long range extension mode if there is difficulty in establishing communication between the wireless device and the cellular communications network. If the wireless device is to operate in the long range extension mode, the node activates one or more long range extension mechanisms with respect to the wireless device such that the wireless device operates in the long range extension mode. In this manner, the long range extension mode is selectively triggered for the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Kumar Balachandran, Johan Bergman, Konstantinos Dimou, Erik Eriksson, Anders Wallén
  • Patent number: 10756875
    Abstract: A method is disclosed performed by a base unit, of a base station system of a wireless communication network. The base station system further comprises a remote unit connected via a wired transmission line to the base unit, the remote unit being arranged for transmitting signals wirelessly to a wireless communication device. The method comprises modulating received Media Access Control, MAC, data packets onto a plurality of sub-frequency bands of a frequency band of the transmission line, and transmitting, to the remote unit, the modulated MAC data packets over the transmission line. Further, a corresponding method performed by a remote unit is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Fredrik Lindqvist, Per-Erik Eriksson
  • Patent number: 10736034
    Abstract: There is provided provision of timing information of a first timing information source using timing information of a second timing information source to a wireless device. A network node determines that second timing information from the second timing information source is available and that timing information from the first timing information source is derivable from the second timing information. The network node instructs the wireless device to use the second timing information as a source for deriving first timing information of the first timing information source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Erik Eriksson, Pål Frenger, Martin Hessler
  • Patent number: 10728766
    Abstract: A method and a network node (130) for managing a geo-fence for use by a source radio network node (120) are disclosed. The network node (130) receives (A010) indications about signal quality at respective positions of user equipments (110), wherein the user equipments (110) have been subject to hand-overs from the source radio network node (120) at the respective positions, wherein the hand-overs are based on signal quality measured for the user equipments (110). The network node (130) defines (A040) the geo-fence based on the respective positions and the indications about signal quality, wherein the geo-fence defines a geographical area. The network node (130) supports (A050) a hand-over of a user equipment (110) from the source radio network node (120) to a target radio network node (121) while using the geo-fence, wherein the hand-over is performed without measurements, by the user equipment (110), of signal quality towards the target radio network node (121) for the user equipment (110).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Pål Frenger, Erik Eriksson, Martin Hessler, Pradeepa Ramachandra
  • Publication number: 20200236592
    Abstract: A method and transition device for enabling communication of data between a remote radio unit and a central baseband unit in a wireless network. When detecting a first interface configuration used by the remote radio unit and a second interface configuration used by the baseband unit, the transition device configures interface functions, based on the first and second interface configurations. The interface functions are selected from a set of predefined interface functions associated with different interface configurations. The transition device then establishes a data flow between the remote radio unit and the central baseband unit over the transition device, and performs conversion between the first interface configuration and the second interface configuration for data communicated in the data flow, using the selected interface functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Miguel BERG, Per-Erik ERIKSSON, Chenguang LU, Jacob ÖSTERLING, Elmar TROJER