Patents by Inventor Gunnar Heikkila
Gunnar Heikkila 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).
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Publication number: 20190052932Abstract: It is provided a method, performed by a MOS, Mean Opinion Score, estimator, for predicting a multimedia session MOS. The multimedia comprises a video and an audio, wherein video quality is represented by a list of per time unit scores of a video quality, an initial buffering event and rebuffering events in the video, and wherein audio quality is represented by a list of per time unit scores of audio quality. The method comprises: generating video features from the list of per time unit scores of the video quality; generating audio features from the list of per time unit scores of the audio quality; generating buffering features from the initial buffering event and rebuffering events in the video; and estimating a multimedia session MOS from the generated video features, generated audio features and generated buffering features by using machine learning technique.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2017Publication date: February 14, 2019Inventors: Jing Fu, Junaid Shaikh, Tomas Lundberg, Gunnar Heikkilä
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Patent number: 10015688Abstract: A technique that assists in identifying services for monitoring data traffic in a communication network is provided. The communication network includes a terminal configured to transceive data traffic and a component configured to measure data traffic. As to a method aspect of the technique, the terminal associates one or more communication services that are executed or executable at the terminal with one or more communication endpoints. The terminal further sends a service identification report indicative of the association to the component.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2012Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Gunnar Heikkilä, András Rácz, András Veres
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Publication number: 20180091386Abstract: A method and a scoring node for estimating a user's Quality of Experience, QoE, when a service is delivered in a media stream to the user by means of a communication network. Quality-related parameters pertaining to the service delivery are extracted, and an individual opinion score is determined for each of a set of quality models by applying each respective quality model in the set on the quality-related parameters. An aggregated opinion score is then determined as a weighted average of the individual opinion scores. The aggregated opinion score can then be used as an estimation of the user's QoE for the service delivery, e.g. when evaluating the service and/or the communication network.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2016Publication date: March 29, 2018Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Tomas LUNDBERG, Jing FU, Gunnar HEIKKILÄ, Junaid SHAIKH
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Patent number: 9848374Abstract: Network services exchange data packets with mobile terminals wirelessly connected to a network. The network receives reports from a subset of the mobile terminals. The reports indicate network services used by the reporting mobile terminals. Various corresponding methods include the network associating one or more first data packets with one of the network services based on the reports. The first data packets originate from, or are addressed to, the reporting mobile terminals. The network derives or adapts, based on data included in the first data packets, one or more rules for identifying the network service based on data included in second data packets. The second data packets are different from the first data packets.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2013Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Gunnar Heikkilä, András Rácz, András Veres
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Patent number: 9743306Abstract: The invention relates to a method for performance reporting in a wireless network, wherein at least one terminal is associated to a terminal report server by means of information in the terminal. Prior to initiating the performance report, information on operator identity is retrieved. The operator identity is combined with information identifying the associated terminal report server to compile a fully qualified domain name. Connectivity information to the terminal server report is requested and received from a domain name server, whereupon a performance report session to the terminal report server is initiated using the received connectivity information. The invention also relates to a terminal wherein the inventive method is applied.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2011Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)Inventors: Fredrik Gunnarsson, Gunnar Heikkilä, David Lindegren, Johan Moe, Andras Valkó, András Veres
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Patent number: 9554251Abstract: A user terminal (100) for a cellular communications system, equipped with means (115, 130, 105) for making and receiving transmissions in the cellular communications system. The user terminal (100) is equipped with a motion sensor (135) for sensing movements of the user terminal (100), and the user terminal (100) is also equipped with a reporting function (140) for reporting movements sensed by the motion sensor (135) to another party in the cellular communications system if said movements exceed a predefined threshold in duration and/or in magnitude. In embodiments, the reporting function (140) is arranged to include one or more of the direction, duration or magnitude of said movements in its reporting.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2012Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSONInventor: Gunnar Heikkilä
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Patent number: 9461891Abstract: A method (300) for executing an application on a user terminal in a cellular communications system, comprising measuring (305) the service quality available to the application in the cellular communications system and sending information (310) on the measured service quality to a node in the cellular communications system. If the service quality is degraded (315) to be below a predefined threshold, an analysis is performed of why the service quality is below said threshold and the results of said analysis is transmitted (325) to a node in the cellular communications system, the results comprising (330) one or more reasons for the degradation of the service quality as well as information (335) grading the impact of said reasons on the degradation of the service quality.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2012Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSONInventor: Gunnar Heikkilä
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Publication number: 20160198394Abstract: Techniques for maintaining rules for identifying network services are presented. The network services exchange data packets with mobile terminals wirelessly connected to a network. The network receives reports from a subset of the mobile terminals. The reports indicate network services used by the reporting mobile terminals. Various corresponding methods including the network associating one or more first data packets with one of the network services based on the reports. The first data packets originate from, or are addressed to, the reporting mobile terminals. The network derives or adapts, based on data included in the first data packets, one or more rules for identifying the network service based on data included in second data packets. The second data packets are different from the first data packets.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2013Publication date: July 7, 2016Inventors: Gunnar HEIKKILÄ, András RÁCZ, András VERES
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Patent number: 9363684Abstract: A method of determining loss of IP packets that are transported over a network (102), where each IP packet comprises a number of data packets. The method comprises: i) extracting (501) a first data packet from a first IP packet (41), ii) extracting (502) a second data packet from a second IP packet, iii) retrieving (503, 504) a first sequence number from a first data packet and a second sequence number from a second data packet, where each of the sequence numbers is indicative of a sequence of data packets and has a value belonging to a set of a number of unique values, iv) calculating (505) a difference (?cc) between the sequence numbers, and v) determining (506) a number (k) of lost IP packets, as a function of the difference (?cc) between the sequence numbers. Related computer readable medium and customer equipment are also described.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2011Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Jorgen Gustafsson, Gunnar Heikkila, Tomas Lundberg
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Publication number: 20150350938Abstract: A technique that assists in identifying services for monitoring data traffic in a communication network is provided. The communication network includes a terminal configured to transceive data traffic and a component configured to measure data traffic. As to a method aspect of the technique, the terminal associates one or more communication services that are executed or executable at the terminal with one or more communication endpoints. The terminal further sends a service identification report indicative of the association to the component.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2012Publication date: December 3, 2015Inventors: Gunnar HEIKKILÄ, András RÁCZ, András VERES
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Publication number: 20150004950Abstract: A user terminal (100) for a cellular communications system, equipped with means (115, 130, 105) for making and receiving transmissions in the cellular communications system. The user terminal (100) is equipped with a motion sensor (135) for sensing movements of the user terminal (100), and the user terminal (100) is also equipped with a reporting function (140) for reporting movements sensed by the motion sensor (135) to another party in the cellular communications system if said movements exceed a predefined threshold in duration and/or in magnitude. In embodiments, the reporting function (140) is arranged to include one or more of the direction, duration or magnitude of said movements in its reporting.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2012Publication date: January 1, 2015Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)Inventor: Gunnar Heikkilä
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Publication number: 20140376396Abstract: A method (300) for executing an application on a user terminal in a cellular communications system, comprising measuring (305) the service quality available to the application in the cellular communications system and sending information (310) on the measured service quality to a node in the cellular communications system. If the service quality is degraded (315) to be below a predefined threshold, an analysis is performed of why the service quality is below said threshold and the results of said analysis is transmitted (325) to a node in the cellular communications system, the results comprising (330) one or more reasons for the degradation of the service quality as well as information (335) grading the impact of said reasons on the degradation of the service quality.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2012Publication date: December 25, 2014Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)Inventor: Gunnar Heikkilä
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Patent number: 8902782Abstract: A method and a device utilizing an algorithm using measurement data derived from parameters related to a video-streaming player and/or parameters related to data transport is disclosed. The data are used as input data in a model designed to generate a value corresponding to the quality of the multimedia sequence, such as for example a MOS score.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2012Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Jörgen Gustafsson, Gunnar Heikkilä, Martin Pettersson, Xiangchun Tan
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Publication number: 20140295864Abstract: The invention relates to a method for performance reporting in a wireless network, wherein at least one terminal is associated to a terminal report server by means of information in the terminal. Prior to initiating the performance report, information on operator identity is retrieved. The operator identity is combined with information identifying the associated terminal report server to compile a fully qualified domain name. Connectivity information to the terminal server report is requested and received from a domain name server, whereupon a performance report session to the terminal report server is initiated using the received connectivity information. The invention also relates to a terminal wherein the inventive method is applied.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2011Publication date: October 2, 2014Inventors: Fredrik Gunnarsson, Gunnar Heikkilä, David Lindegren, Johan Moe, Andras Valkó, András Veres
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Patent number: 8668587Abstract: In a method and a device for determining the perceived quality of service for a wireless gaming service a perceived gaming quality is determined based on measurable game and transport parameters.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2008Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Jorgen Gustafsson, Gunnar Heikkila, Pontus Sandberg
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Publication number: 20130194958Abstract: A method of determining loss of IP packets that are transported over a network (102), where each IP packet comprises a number of data packets. The method comprises: i) extracting (501) a first data packet from a first IP packet (41), ii) extracting (502) a second data packet from a second IP packet, iii) retrieving (503, 504) a first sequence number from a first data packet and a second sequence number from a second data packet, where each of the sequence numbers is indicative of a sequence of data packets and has a value belonging to a set of a number of unique values, iv) calculating (505) a difference (?cc) between the sequence numbers, and v) determining (506) a number (k) of lost IP packets, as a function of the difference (?cc) between the sequence numbers. Related computer readable medium and customer equipment are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2011Publication date: August 1, 2013Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Jorgen Gustafsson, Gunnar Heikkila, Tomas Lundberg
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Patent number: 8339976Abstract: A method and a device utilizing an algorithm using measurement data derived from parameters related to a video-streaming player and/or parameters related to data transport is disclosed. The data are used as input data in a model designed to generate a value corresponding to the quality of the multimedia sequence, such as for example a MOS score.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2006Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Jörgen Gustafsson, Xiangchun Tan, Gunnar Heikkilä, Martin Pettersson
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Publication number: 20100273558Abstract: In a method and a device for determining the perceived quality of service for a wireless gaming service a perceived gaming quality is determined based on measurable game and transport parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2008Publication date: October 28, 2010Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Jorgen Gustafsson, Gunnar Heikkila, Pontus Sandberg
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Publication number: 20100053300Abstract: In a method of quality assessment for a multimedia signal comprising video telephony media in a video telephony system, the multimedia signal is received SIO, a plurality of parameters of said multimedia signal are extracted S20, and an objective quality measure is determined S30 for the video telephony media based on representations of at least two of the extracted parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2007Publication date: March 4, 2010Inventors: Torbjörn Einarsson, Jörgen Gustafsson, Gunnar Heikkilä, Martin Pettersson, Xiangchun Tan
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Publication number: 20100008241Abstract: A method and a device utilizing an algorithm using measurement data derived from parameters related to a video-streaming player and/or parameters related to data transport is disclosed. The data are used as input data in a model designed to generate a value corresponding to the quality of the multimedia sequence, such as for example a MOS score.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2006Publication date: January 14, 2010Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Jörgen Gustafsson, Gunnar Heikkilä, Martin Pettersson, Xiangchun Tan