Patents by Inventor Esa Tapani Tiirola

Esa Tapani Tiirola 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).

  • Discovery in a communication system
    Patent number: 10715992
    Abstract: Discovery of devices in a network of devices comprises assigning resources for the discovery, and providing accordingly at least two discovery patterns of transmission and reception phases for the devices in the network for communication of information between the devices. A device can transmit or receive information in accordance with a dedicated discovery pattern of transmission and reception phases allocated from a set of different discovery patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: HMD Global Oy
    Inventors: Esa Tapani Tiirola, Bernhard Raaf
  • Dynamic Management of Uplink Control Signaling Resources in Wireless Network
    Publication number: 20200221444
    Abstract: A technique includes receiving, by a user device from a base station, a first message indicating a plurality of sets of uplink control channel resources for the uplink transmission of a type of uplink control information, each set of uplink control channel resources having a resource configuration; receiving, by the user device from the base station, a second message that is different from the first message, the second message indicating a selected uplink control channel resources, of the plurality of sets of uplink control channel resources, for the uplink transmission of a type of uplink control information; and sending, by the user device to the base station, uplink control information via the selected set of uplink control channel resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Esa Tapani Tiirola, Kari Juhani HOOLI, Timo Erkki LUNTTILA
  • DISCOVERY SIGNAL TRANSMISSION IN CELLULAR SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20200212980
    Abstract: There is provided a solution for transmitting periodic signals in a cell. According to an aspect a method comprises in a network node: generating a plurality of radio beams in a cell, wherein said plurality of radio beams comprise a plurality of beamforming configurations, and wherein at least one radio beam comprised in the plurality of radio beams comprises a discovery signal transmission; determining, for the at least one radio beam, whether or not at least one terminal device is located in a coverage area of the at least one radio beam; defining a transmission periodicity of the discovery signal transmission on the basis of said determining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Sami-Jukka Hakola, Esa Tapani Tiirola
  • Two-Step Signaling of Uplink Scheduling Assignments
    Publication number: 20200205179
    Abstract: A method including receiving at a wireless communication device first and second scheduling information indicative of attributes related to a data transmission. The first scheduling information including information indicative of contents attributes of the data transmission, and the subsequently received second scheduling information being indicative of time attributes of the data transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Frank Frederiksen, Claudio Rosa, Esa Tapani Tiirola, Timo Erkki Lunttila, Klaus Hugl
  • REPORTING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION IN A MULTIPLE COMPONENT CARRIER NETWORK
    Publication number: 20200178103
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may determine channel state information (CSI) reports with each CSI report being related to a component carrier. The UE may send a subframe with CSI report(s) on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). When a collision occurs in the subframe having the CSI report(s) on the PUCCH a lower priority CSI report may be dropped from the transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: WIRELESS FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Timo Erkki Lunttila, Esa Tapani Tiirola, Kari Pekka Pajukoski, Kari Juhani Hooli
  • CONTROL SIGNALING
    Publication number: 20200169307
    Abstract: An aspect of the invention is in relation to an apparatus comprising: at least one processor and at least one memory including a computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: allocate, by a network node, at least one sector portion beam radiation pattern for downlink common control signaling; configure the downlink common control signaling in a sector portion beam radiation pattern specific manner; define a sector portion beam radiation pattern based association between the downlink common control signaling configuration and an uplink signaling configuration, and convey information on the association for uplink signaling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Sami-Jukka Hakola, Esa Tapani Tiirola, Kari Pekka Pajukoski
  • B-IFDMA Configuration for Unlicensed Band Operation
    Publication number: 20200169368
    Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from appropriate handling of uplink communications. For example, certain wireless communication systems may benefit from an uplink coverage extension for unlicensed band operation. A method can include configuring a first interlace having a first starting physical resource block. The method can also include configuring a second interlace having a second starting physical resource block offset from the first physical resource block. The method can further include transmitting or receiving a signal based on a combination of the first interlace and the second interlace. The combination can include at least one cluster but less than two clusters in each measurement interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Esa Tapani TIIROLA, Kari Juhani HOOLI, Timo Erkii LUNTTILA
  • Communication efficiency
    Patent number: 10666404
    Abstract: There is provided a method for defining at least one channel reservation window the method comprising: setting length for each of the at least one channel reservation window such that each channel reservation window comprises a plurality of sub-frames; dividing the length of each channel reservation window into a transmission part and an idle part, wherein the idle part consists of one or more symbols in one sub-frame; maximizing, at a symbol level accuracy, the length of the transmission part such that a ratio between the length of the idle part and the length of the transmission part fulfils a predetermined criterion; and concatenating the transmission part and the idle part so as to form the channel reservation window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Esa Tapani Tiirola, Kari Juhani Hooli, Timo Erkki Lunttila
  • METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20200127708
    Abstract: There is provided a method comprising, in an antenna array comprising a plurality of antenna elements for use in a multiple-input multiple-output system, using at least one receiver for reception of at least one first signal by at least one of the plurality of antenna elements and using at least one first transceiver for at least one of transmission and reception of at least one second signal by at least one of the plurality of antenna elements, wherein the at least one receiver operates using at least one of a lower accuracy and a narrower bandwidth relative to the at least one first transceiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Sami-Jukka Hakola, Esa Tapani Tiirola, Kari Pekka Pajukoski, Henrik Christian Liljestrom
  • Discovery signal transmission in cellular system
    Patent number: 10630358
    Abstract: There is provided a solution for transmitting periodic signals in a cell. According to an aspect a method comprises in a network node: generating a plurality of radio beams in a cell, wherein said plurality of radio beams comprise a plurality of beam-forming configurations, and wherein at least one radio beam comprised in the plurality of radio beams comprises a discovery signal transmission; determining, for the at least one radio beam, whether or not at least one terminal device is located in a coverage area of the at least one radio beam; defining a transmission periodicity of the discovery signal transmission on the basis of said determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Sami-Jukka Hakola, Esa Tapani Tiirola
  • DISCOVERY SIGNAL BLOCK MAPPING
    Publication number: 20200112956
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for signal block mapping are provided. One method includes configuring, by a network node (e.g., base station or eNB), a group of discovery signaling blocks. The method may then include mapping the discovery signaling blocks of the group onto a subframe structure, including the group information into each of the discovery signaling blocks, and transmitting the discovery signaling blocks in the subframe structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Sami-Jukka HAKOLA, Esa Tapani TIIROLA, Kari Pekka PAJUKOSKI, Eeva LAHETKANGAS
  • Two-step signaling of uplink scheduling assignments
    Patent number: 10616911
    Abstract: A method including receiving at a wireless communication device first and second scheduling information indicative of attributes related to a data transmission. The first scheduling information including information indicative of contents attributes of the data transmission, and the subsequently received second scheduling information being indicative of time attributes of the data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Frank Frederiksen, Claudio Rosa, Esa Tapani Tiirola, Timo Erkki Lunttila, Klaus Hugl
  • Communication of control information and data in frames
    Patent number: 10609707
    Abstract: A frame or a subframe including control information and data is transmitted using orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA). At least one different OFDMA parameter and/or format is applied to said control information than to said data. At a receiver the frame or subframe is processed by taking into account the application of the at least one different OFDMA parameter and/or format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Eeva Lahetkangas, Kari Pekka Pajukoski, Esa Tapani Tiirola
  • Method and apparatus for performing hybrid automatic repeat request processes
    Patent number: 10587370
    Abstract: A method and apparatus may include receiving an uplink grant in a specific subframe of a frame and/or a physical hybrid-ARQ indicator channel transmission, for a physical-uplink-shared-channel transmission or retransmission on a special subframe. The method may also include determining that the uplink grant validates transmitting a physical-uplink-shared-channel transmission on the special subframe, or that the physical hybrid-ARQ indicator channel transmission validates transmitting a physical-uplink-shared-channel retransmission on the special subframe. The method may also include determining transmission parameters for transmitting the physical-uplink-shared-channel transmission or retransmission. The method may also include transmitting the physical-uplink-shared-channel transmission or retransmission on the special subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Chunhai Yao, Timo Erkki Lunttila, Klaus Hugl, Esa Tapani Tiirola
  • COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20200068556
    Abstract: There is provided a method comprising: transmitting, by an apparatus, an indication of a plurality of resource elements for uplink transmissions of uplink control information and uplink data; and receiving, by the apparatus, uplink control information on a portion of said plurality of resource elements, the portion being defined by a mapping operation, wherein said mapping operation comprises: partitioning the plurality of resource elements to define a predetermined number of frequency domain resource element sets; and mapping the uplink control information to the plurality of resource elements in the predetermined number of frequency domain resource element sets to identify the portion of the plurality of resource elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Esa Tapani Tiirola, Kari Juhani Hooli, Kari Pekka Pajukoski, Timo Erkki Lunttila
  • Beamformed transmission in cellular system
    Patent number: 10574326
    Abstract: There is provided a solution for efficient communications in a cellular communication system employing beamforming transmissions. In an embodiment, a terminal device (120) carries out the following: scanning for at least one message amongst a plurality of radio beams (112, 114) in a cell (100) according to a search space defining a plurality of scanning configurations; measuring a signal quality of at least one radio beam in the cell; adapting the search space on the basis of the measured signal quality; and performing said scanning for the at least one message according to the adapted search space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Sami-Jukka Hakola, Esa Tapani Tiirola
  • Radio frame configuration
    Patent number: 10574347
    Abstract: There is provided a frame structure for a cellular communication system. According to an embodiment, there is provided a first radio frame configuration defining a frame structure of a radio frame comprising at least one sub-frame dedicated only for downlink transmission. There is also provided a second radio frame configuration defining a frame structure of a radio frame comprising at least one flexible special sub-frame configurable as either a flexible downlink sub-frame or as a flexible uplink sub-frame, wherein the flexible downlink sub-frame and the flexible uplink sub-frame both comprise an uplink part and a downlink part, and wherein both the uplink part and the downlink part carry at least one of control information and a reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Esa Tapani Tiirola, Kari Pekka Pajukoski, Kari Juhani Hooli
  • FLEXIBLE INDICATION OF TRANSMISSION TIMING
    Publication number: 20200053677
    Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from improved signaling. For example, anew radio communication system may benefit from a flexible indication of transmission timing. A method may include determining, at the user equipment, transmission timing based on a first parameter and a second parameter. The first parameter may indicate an offset as a number of slots. The second parameter may indicate an offset as a number of symbols within one of the slots. The method may also include using the transmission timing to at least one of send an uplink transmission or receive a downlink transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Esa Tapani TIIROLA, Sigen YE, Klaus Ingemann PEDERSEN, Volker BRAUN, Juho Mikko Oskari PIRSKANEN
  • Reporting channel state information in a multiple component carrier network
    Patent number: 10555198
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may determine channel state information (CSI) reports with each CSI report being related to a component carrier. The UE may send a subframe with CSI report(s) on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). When a collision occurs in the subframe having the CSI report(s) on the PUCCH a lower priority CSI report may be dropped from the transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: WIRELESS FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Timo Erkki Lunttila, Esa Tapani Tiirola, Kari Pekka Pajukoski, Kari Juhani Hooli
  • Resource Processing in a Communication System Using Multipe Protocols
    Publication number: 20200029308
    Abstract: There is provided a method including determining that a first resource is to be designated as being used in accordance with a first communications protocol; forming an indication for a second apparatus operating in accordance with a second communications protocol, the indication indicating that the first resource is to be blanked; and transmitting, using dedicated signaling, the formed indication to the second apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Esa Tapani TIIROLA, Sami-Jukka HAKOLA, Karri Markus RANTA-AHO