Patents by Inventor Frank Kowalewski

Frank Kowalewski 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: 20110285213
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a determining device for determining a transmission parameter for wirelessly transmitting energy (414) from a sending device (402) to a receiving apparatus (401) is provided, comprising: an authorization checking device which is configured to carry out an authorization (403, 404, 405, 406) in order to determine whether the receiving apparatus is authorized to receive energy from the sending device, a sending/receiving apparatus which is configured to send and receive messages (409, 410, 411) during a message exchange with the receiving apparatus in order to determine the transmission parameter (413); and a parameter determining device which is configured to determine the transmission parameter (413) based on the authorization and based on the message exchange, if the receiving apparatus is authorized to receive energy from the sending device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: INTEL MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventor: Frank Kowalewski
  • Publication number: 20110289148
    Abstract: In a method for assigning a control role for a collaborative communication session, a message is received which indicates, independently of a media transfer request for a collaborative communication session, that a control role for the collaborative communication session is intended to be assigned to at least one terminal which is specified by the message as a holder of a control role, and a control role for the collaborative communication session is assigned to the at least one terminal which is specified by the message as the holder of a control role. In a method for requesting a control role for a collaborative communication session, a message which corresponds to the received message is sent. The methods are carried out by appropriately designed apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: INTEL MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventor: Frank Kowalewski
  • Patent number: 8041326
    Abstract: A data transmission system includes a transmitter configured to transmit a data signal in the form of a data stream of data bursts in at least two transmission modes to a receiver, in the first mode a reference signal being transmitted by the transmitter in each data burst and being evaluated in the receiver, and in the second mode no reference signal being transmitted by the transmitter in each data burst. In the second mode, in place of the reference signal, additional redundancy data of the data signal are transmitted in each data burst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: IPCOM GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Frank Kowalewski
  • Patent number: 7991438
    Abstract: A mobile telecommunications terminal is provided, which makes possible, so as to use the least possible amount of power, a query of messages present for the mobile telecommunications terminal in a telecommunications network. The mobile telecommunications terminal includes a receiving device for receiving messages from the telecommunications network in a receive mode. At the mobile telecommunications terminal, a query mode can be established, in which a control unit, in the event that the receive mode is switched off, activates the receive mode at at least one first predetermined time. The control unit checks whether, within a second predetermined time period after the activation of the receive mode, information was received in the receiving device regarding at least one message present in the telecommunications network (10) for the mobile telecommunications terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: IPCOM GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Martin Hans, Frank Kowalewski, Josef Laumen, Gunnar Schmidt, Siegfried Baer, Mark Beckmann
  • Publication number: 20110153765
    Abstract: A method for ascertaining active sessions may include receiving a request to ascertain active sessions by a session information server; transmitting respective challenges for document contents, which indicate whether sessions are currently active, from the session information server to at least one document management server which has a respective associated communication session server, wherein in the case of precisely one document management server the latter has at least two associated session servers; receiving respective challenge responses from the document management server, which indicate active sessions controlled by the session server associated with the respective document management server or which indicate that such sessions currently do not exist, by the session information server; and transmitting a first response, which indicates one or more active sessions controlled by the session servers associated with the document management server or which indicates that such sessions currently do not ex
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventor: Frank Kowalewski
  • Publication number: 20110093537
    Abstract: A method for ascertaining active communication sessions may include receiving a request to ascertain active communication sessions by a communication session information server; transmitting respective challenges to determine whether communication sessions are currently active from the communication session information server to at least two communication session servers; receiving respective challenge responses from the at least two communication session servers, which indicate one or more active communication sessions controlled by the respective communication session server or indicate that such communication sessions currently do not exist, by the communication session information server; and transmitting a first response, which indicates one or more active communication sessions controlled by the at least two communication session servers or indicates that such communication sessions currently do not exist, by the communication session information server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventor: Frank Kowalewski
  • Patent number: 7904098
    Abstract: A method of assigning transmission channels in a telecommunications network and a user station are provided, which facilitate an increase in the capacity of a telecommunications network. The telecommunications network may include multiple base stations and mobile stations, the transmission channels being provided for transmitting signals between the base stations and the mobile stations. In uncoordinated operation of the base stations, at least one of the transmission channels is assigned for transmitting signals between one of the base stations and one of the mobile stations as a function of a channel measurement, in which the transmission power on all possible transmission channels is measured, if the previously measured transmission power on this transmission channel is minimal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Ipcom GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Martin Hans, Frank Kowalewski, Josef Laumen, Gunnar Schmidt, Detlef Lechner, Siegfried Baer, Mark Beckmann
  • Patent number: 7894832
    Abstract: A method for transmitting short messages (5) in a telecommunications network (10) is proposed, which enables especially simple, convenient downloading of data fields (15, 20, 25, 30) of the short message (5) from a network operator (70). A notice is sent to a subscriber (60) of the telecommunications network (10) as a function of a short message (5) transmitted to the telecommunications network (10) for the subscriber (60). With the notice, data that include items of information about the makeup and/or content of the short message (5) are transmitted to the subscriber (60).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Ipcom GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ralf Fischer, Martin Hans, Frank Kowalewski, Holger Schulz, Gunnar Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20100279723
    Abstract: A method for transmitting short messages (5) in a telecommunications network (10) is proposed, which enables especially simple, convenient downloading of data fields (15, 20, 25, 30) of the short message (5) from a network operator (70). A notice is sent to a subscriber (60) of the telecommunications network (10) as a function of a short message (5) transmitted to the telecommunications network (10) for the subscriber (60). With the notice, data that include items of information about the makeup and/or content of the short message (5) are transmitted to the subscriber (60).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: IPCOM GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ralf Fischer, Martin Hans, Frank Kowalewski, Holger Shulz, Gunnar Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20100197280
    Abstract: A transceiver, comprising an interface for receiving at least one message, a display unit provided to assume at least one switched-on operating state and at least one switched-off operating state, a message indicator indicating a receipt of a message by a unit of a signal, independent of the operating state of the display unit, wherein the message is associated with at least one message parameter, and a unit for evaluating the message parameter with the signal provided as a function of evaluation of the message parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: IPCOM GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Martin HANS, Frank KOWALEWSKI, Josef LAUMEN, Gunnar SCHMIDT, Joachim STEIGER, Siegfried BAER, Mark BECKMANN, Thomas GOTTSCHALK
  • Publication number: 20100151829
    Abstract: A mobile telecommunications terminal is provided, which makes possible, so as to use the least possible amount of power, a query of messages present for the mobile telecommunications terminal in a telecommunications network. The mobile telecommunications terminal includes a receiving device for receiving messages from the telecommunications network in a receive mode. At the mobile telecommunications terminal, a query mode can be established, in which a control unit, in the event that the receive mode is switched off, activates the receive mode at at least one first predetermined time. The control unit checks whether, within a second predetermined time period after the activation of the receive mode, information was received in the receiving device regarding at least one message present in the telecommunications network (10) for the mobile telecommunications terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Inventors: Martin Hans, Frank Kowalewski, Josef Laumen, Gunnar Schmidt, Siegfried Baer, Mark Beckmann
  • Patent number: 7684811
    Abstract: A method is provided for transmitting a short message in a telecommunication network to a number of communication stations, wherein address data for the transmission of the short message to more than one communication station are transmitted with a short message, wherein a first header information item is transmitted with a number of data fields in the data section of the short message, each data field including the address data of at least one communication station, and in the second header information item, which is arranged preceding the first header information item, the address data of a first communication station or the network unit are transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Mark Beckmann, Siegfried Bär, Thomas Gottschalk, Martin Hans, Frank Kowalewski, Josef Laumen, Frank Schange, Gunnar Schmidt
  • Patent number: 7684789
    Abstract: A transceiver, comprising an interface for receiving at least one message, a display unit provided to assume at least one switched-on operating state and at least one switched-off operating state, a message indicator indicating a receipt of a message by a unit of a signal, independent of the operating state of the display unit, wherein the message is associated with at least one message parameter, and a unit for evaluating the message parameter with the signal provided as a function of evaluation of the message parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: IPCOM GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Martin Hans, Frank Kowalewski, Josef Laumen, Gunnar Schmidt, Joachim Steiger, Siegfried Baer, Mark Beckmann, Thomas Gottschalk
  • Publication number: 20100062797
    Abstract: A method for group communication between subscribers to different messaging services involves a first message, which has been sent by a second subscriber using a first messaging service, being received by a communication terminal of a first subscriber in a group communication session in which said communication terminal, the second subscriber and a third subscriber are participating. The communication terminal is used in the group communication session to send a second message, which contains a content from the received first message, to the third subscriber for reception using a second messaging service, which is different than the first messaging service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Frank Kowalewski, Thomas Luetzenkirchen
  • Publication number: 20100036960
    Abstract: The application describes a method for sending data which involves the reception of a first piece of information which represents the first change in a data record and of a first data change indicator associated with the first change, the making of a second change, the ascertainment of a second data change indicator on the basis of the first data change indicator, and the sending of a second piece of information, which represents the second change in the first changed data record to produce the second changed data record, and of the second data change indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventor: Frank Kowalewski
  • Publication number: 20100014501
    Abstract: A data transmission system includes a transmitter configured to transmit a data signal in the form of a data stream of data bursts in at least two transmission modes to a receiver, in the first mode a reference signal being transmitted by the transmitter in each data burst and being evaluated in the receiver, and in the second mode no reference signal being transmitted by the transmitter in each data burst. In the second mode, in place of the reference signal, additional redundancy data of the data signal are transmitted in each data burst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Inventor: Frank Kowalewski
  • Publication number: 20100008354
    Abstract: A telecommunication system for bidirectional data transmission of a data set between a data transmission device and a data reception device via at least one packet-oriented network device, which includes encapsulation of the data set to enable a connection-oriented data transmission of the data set; connection-oriented transmission of the encapsulated data set by means of at least one mobile telephone from the data transmission device to a base station of a mobile telephone network; evaluation of the data encapsulation protocol in the base station for an unpacking of the data set to enable a packet-oriented data transmission of the data set; and packet-oriented transmission of the data set from the base station to the data reception device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Inventors: Martin Hans, Frank Kowalewski, Josef Laumen, Gunnar Schmidt, Siegfried Baer, Mark Beckmann
  • Publication number: 20090291698
    Abstract: For transmitting messages in a radiotelecommunications network from a first subscriber station, a transmission frame at least two data fields with data in a first data format transmitted in a first data field of the short message, and data in a second data format, different from the first data format, are transmitted in a second data field of the short message, a first identification code, which identifies a makeup of the short message, is transmitted in the first data field and includes information about at least one of a number of data fields, one or more data formats of data in the data fields, and a size of the data fields, and in each of two data fields, one data-field-specific identification code, which identifies a makeup and content of the corresponding data field, per data field is transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Inventors: Martin Hans, Frank Kowalewski, Holger Schulz, Ralf Fischer, Gunnar Schmidt
  • Patent number: 7613168
    Abstract: A method for bidirectional data transmission of a data set between a data transmission device and a data reception device via at least one packet-oriented network device, which includes encapsulation of the data set to enable a connection-oriented data transmission of the data set; connection-oriented transmission of the encapsulated data set by means of at least one telecommunications device from the data transmission device to the packet-oriented network device; evaluation of the data encapsulation protocol in the packet-oriented network device for an unpacking of the data set to enable a packet-oriented data transmission of the data set; and packet-oriented transmission of the data set from the packet-oriented network device to the data reception device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: IPCom GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Martin Hans, Frank Kowalewski, Josef Laumen, Gunnar Schmidt, Siegfried Baer, Mark Beckmann
  • Patent number: 7606548
    Abstract: A data transmission method in which a data signal is transmitted between transmitter and receiver in the form of a data stream of data bursts in at least two transmission modes, in the first mode a reference signal being transmitted by the transmitter in each data burst and being evaluated in the receiver, and in the second mode no reference signal being transmitted by the transmitter in each data burst. In the second mode, in place of the reference signal, additional redundancy data of the data signal are transmitted in each data burst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: IPCOM GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Frank Kowalewski