Patents by Inventor Gunnar Schmidt

Gunnar Schmidt 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: 20110320064
    Abstract: A sensor apparatus includes a housing with a security device, a secure first computation device, a second computation device (AC) and a sensor element. The sensor apparatus detects a temperature in the housing, to activate the first computation device only when the detected temperature is in a predefined temperature range, to determine a session key by the first computation device and to store the session key in a second memory of the second computation device, to deactivate the first computation device after the session key has been stored, to determine data on the basis of a sensor signal detected using the sensor element and to encrypt and/or sign the data by the second computation device on the basis of the session key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Horst Plankenhorn, Gunnar Schmidt
  • Patent number: 8078213
    Abstract: A slave station and a method of regulating the transmission power a master station are described, which permit an estimate of the signal/interference ratio in a transmission system without sending a pilot sequence, the transmission power being regulated as a function of an estimate of the signal/interference ratio. In a transmission system, in particular a CDMA transmission system, useful signals assigned to different communicating subscribers are separated by orthogonal codes. A useful signal assigned to one communicating subscriber is derived by using one of the codes from a signal received at least in the slave station from the master station and is compared as a reference signal with the received signal to estimate the signal/interference ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: IPCOM GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Martin Hans, Frank Kowalewski, Josef Laumen, Gunnar Schmidt, Siegfried Baer, Mark Beckmann
  • Patent number: 8067845
    Abstract: A method for the operation of a wind energy plant with a rotor, which transfers a driving moment to a generator via a drive train, wherein the generator provides a pre-settable generator moment acting opposite to the driving moment and is connectable to a grid, characterised in that after a sudden voltage change in the grid, the generator moment is controlled depending from the phase position of a torsional vibration of the drive train.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Nordex Energy GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Thulke, Gunnar Schmidt, Thomas Frese, Eberhard Voss
  • Patent number: 8068939
    Abstract: A method for the operation of a wind energy plant, with an operation management, which can preset a desired value for an electric variable of the wind energy plant to be generated; a wind measurement device, which can capture the wind direction and the wind velocity, and a control unit, on which the measured values for the wind velocity and the wind direction are present, and in which a maximum value for the turbulence intensity is filed, the following procedural steps proceed in the method: from a turbulence intensity depending on the wind direction, the control unit determines one or more sectors of critical wind directions, in which the turbulence intensity exceeds the maximum value for the turbulence intensity, the control unit generates a control signal for the operation management, in order to reduce the desired value of the electric variable to be generated when the measured wind direction is in a sector of the critical wind directions, and a determined characteristic value exceeds a predetermined maxi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Nordex Energy GmbH
    Inventor: Gunnar Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20110248686
    Abstract: A method for the operation of a wind energy plant with a rotor, which transfers a driving moment to a generator via a drive train, wherein the generator provides a pre-settable generator moment acting opposite to the driving moment and is connectable to a grid, characterised in that after a sudden voltage change in the grid, the generator moment is controlled depending from the phase position of a torsional vibration of the drive train.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: Nordex Energy GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Thulke, Gunnar Schmidt, Thomas Frese, Eberhard Voss
  • Publication number: 20110208387
    Abstract: An on-board unit, which is in the form of a tachograph, and includes at least one position-finding device and/or at least one radio communication device which can be coupled to the on-board unit for the purpose of use by the on-board unit or are included by the latter. The on-board unit has at least one function of at least one of the following vehicle devices, and the on-board unit is designed to replace the respective vehicle device in terms the at least one function which is one of a toll collection device, an event data capture device, an emergency call device, a transport monitoring device, a vehicle course monitoring device, and a fleet management device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Bosch, Dirk Gandras, Gunnar Schmidt
  • 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: 20110137517
    Abstract: A method and system for indicating a discrepancy between driving data captured using a tachograph and at least one prescribed rule by an indicator appliance independent of the tachograph. The indicator appliance is connected to a tachograph data memory that has the driving data. By virtue of detachable electromechanical coupling of the indicator appliance to the tachograph data memory that is automatically followed by at least one driving data volume element being loaded into an appliance data memory of the indicator appliance and automatically compared with at least one rule. The presence of a discrepancy between the loaded driving data volume element and the rule prompts the presence of the discrepancy to be transmitted to a user of the indicator appliance as a violation report.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Gunnar SCHMIDT, Edmund Mattes, Michael Gut
  • 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: 20100191413
    Abstract: System and method for detecting and storing at least speed as an information relevant for resignation for a tachograph system. to provide a tamperproof tachograph system offering a high degree of security. An arithmetic unit detects signals for determining the speed from at least two independent sensors and compares them with each other and stores a sensor-related error message if the signals deviate significantly from each other. The signals of at least three independent sensors are compared with each other in the arithmetic unit and are checked for their plausibility by excluding any signals that significantly deviate from a plurality of signals and determining the speed of the vehicle to be stored only using one or more of those signals that deviate from each other only within defined limits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Gerd Fritsch, Gunnar Schmidt
  • 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
  • Patent number: 7664482
    Abstract: A method is provided for the accounting of data transmission costs in a mobile radio network, in particular text and/or image data with or without sound, such that data which is or will be transmitted is assigned at least one cost signal for the costs of sending one or more replies relating to the transmitted data, and that this or these cost signal(s) are transmitted to the recipient(s) of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Josef Laumen, Andreas Schmidt, Gunnar Schmidt
  • 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: 20100004813
    Abstract: A system and method for transmitting data via a transmission path between a tachograph arranged in a vehicle, and a data processing device which is remote from the vehicle. To improve data protection, the transmission takes place via a first path section of the transmission path, which path section is arranged between the tachograph and a communication controller arranged in the vehicle, and a second wireless path section of the transmission path, which path section is arranged between the communication controller and the data processing device. The tachograph in response to an encryption request signal sent from the data processing device to the tachograph encrypts data sent from the tachograph to the data processing device. The data is transmitted in encrypted form from the tachograph to the data processing device both via the first path section and via the second path section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2007
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Lindinger, Gunnar Schmidt, Denis Smolin
  • Publication number: 20090327760
    Abstract: A tachograph includes at least one chip card reading unit and, at least one chip card with secure memory. Secured data transmission can be fed to the at least one chip card reading unit. On the at least one chip card, at least one user-defined piece of identification information is securely stored which is independent of a specified piece of identification information for a specified operation of the tachograph. The tachograph is constructed so as to authenticate the at least one chip card in accordance with the at least one piece of user-defined identification information, and to read data securely from the at least one chip card and/or to store data securely on the at least one chip card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Lindinger, Gunnar Schmidt