Patents by Inventor Jakob KNEIßL

Jakob KNEIßL 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: 12225520
    Abstract: What is describes is a participant of a communication system, the participant being configured to transmit data using a first radio network and a second radio network in a frequency band, the participant being configured to transmit data in the first radio network according to a first time and/or frequency hopping pattern in a first frequency range of the frequency band, the participant being configured to transmit data in the second radio network according to a second time and/or frequency hopping pattern in a second frequency range of the frequency band, wherein the first time and/or frequency hopping pattern and the second time and/or frequency hopping pattern are different, wherein the first frequency range and the second frequency range overlap at least partially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Dominik Soller, Günter Rohmer, Frank Nachtrab, Jakob Kneißl, Stefan Ereth, Michael Schlicht
  • Patent number: 12166583
    Abstract: The innovation relates to technologies by which the signal characteristics and, hence, environmental conditions of a transmitter can be concealed. In one aspect, a data transmitter comprises a transmitter and a changer, wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit a signal, wherein at least one signal parameter of the signal depends on at least one environmental parameter in an environment of the data transmitter, wherein the changer is configured to change the at least one signal parameter of the signal or a parameter on which the at least one signal parameter of the signal depends, in order to conceal the at least one environmental parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Diehl Metering GmbH
    Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Thomas Kauppert, Hristo Petkov, Johannes Wechsler, Jakob Kneissl, Raphael Mzyk, Klaus Gottschalk, Dominik Soller, Michael Schlicht
  • Patent number: 12114274
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a participant of a communication system, wherein the communication system communicates wirelessly in a frequency used by a plurality of communication systems, wherein the participant is configured to transmit data uncoordinatedly with respect to other participants and/or a base station of the communication system, wherein the participant is configured to receive a synchronization data packet of a point-to-multipoint data transfer of the base station of the communication system, wherein the synchronization data packet is transferred in a frequency range of the frequency band of the communication system that is specified or known to the participant, wherein the participant is configured to receive, on the basis of the synchronization data packet, a payload data packet of the point-to-multipoint data transfer that is referenced in time and/or frequency to the synchronization data packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignees: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V., DIEHL METERING GMBH
    Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Thomas Kauppert, Hristo Petkov, Klaus Gottschalk, Johannes Wechsler, Jakob Kneißl, Dominik Soller, Stefan Ereth
  • Patent number: 12082222
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a participant of a communication system, wherein the communication system communicates wirelessly in a frequency used by a plurality of communication systems, wherein the participant is configured to transmit data uncoordinatedly with respect to other participants and/or a base station of the communication system, wherein the participant is configured to receive, temporally synchronized to a transmitted uplink data transfer to the base station of the communication system, a downlink data transfer from the base station, wherein the downlink data transfer includes signaling information, wherein the participant is configured to receive a point-to-multipoint data transfer from the base station on the basis of the signaling information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e. V., Diehl Metering GmbH
    Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Thomas Kauppert, Hristo Petkov, Johannes Wechsler, Jakob Kneissl, Raphael Mzyk, Klaus Gottschalk, Dominik Soller, Michael Schlicht
  • Patent number: 12035224
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a controller for a participant of a communication system wirelessly communicates in a frequency band used for communication by a plurality of communication systems, wherein the controller is configured to identify a network-specific channel access pattern, wherein the network-specific channel access pattern indicates a frequency hop-based and/or time hop-based occupancy of resources of the frequency band that is usable for the communication of the communication system, wherein the controller is configured to identify a relative channel access pattern, wherein the relative channel access pattern indicates, from the usable frequency hop-based and/or time hop-based occupancy of resources of the network-specific channel access pattern, an occupancy of resources that is to be used for the transfer of data of the participant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg
    Inventors: Frank Obernosterer, Raimund Meyer, Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Johannes Wechsler, Jakob Kneissl, Michael Schlicht, Joerg Robert
  • Patent number: 11923881
    Abstract: A data receiver is configured to receive a signal, the signal comprising interferences of an interference-infested transmission channel, the data receiver being configured to form a histogram of receive information of a signal portion of the received signal and to determine mean receive information and/or a noise measure from the histogram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Karol Bieg, Eberhard Gamm, Clemens Korn, Jakob Kneissl, Frank Obernosterer, Raimund Meyer
  • Patent number: 11909519
    Abstract: Embodiments provide transfer methods. The method includes a step of transferring data of a first class from a data transmitter to a data receiver, wherein the data of the first class is transferred divided onto a first plurality of sub-data packets using a first hopping pattern. Furthermore, the method includes a step of transferring data of a second class from the data transmitter or a different data transmitter to the data receiver, wherein the data of the second class is transferred divided onto a second plurality of sub-data packets using a second hopping pattern, wherein transmission pauses between sub-data packets transferred according to the first hopping pattern are smaller than transmission pauses between sub-data packets transferred according to the second hopping pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Guenter Rohmer, Maximilian Roth, Frank Nachtrab, Jakob Kneissl, Johannes Wechsler, Michael Schlicht, Raimund Meyer, Frank Obernosterer
  • Patent number: 11881889
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a method for generating a hopping pattern for transmitting a plurality of sub-data packets in a communication system. The method has a step of deriving a hopping pattern from a binary sequence, wherein an autocorrelation function of the binary sequence has autocorrelation side maximums with a predetermined maximum value. The method further has a step of determining a maximum sub-data packet length for the plurality of sub-data packets in dependence on a total emission duration of the plurality of sub-data packets indicated by the hopping pattern, and a minimum value of a difference sequence of a sorted difference number series derived from the binary sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignees: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V., DIEHL METERING GMBH
    Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Johannes Wechsler, Jakob Kneissl, Raimund Meyer, Frank Obernosterer, Thomas Kauppert, Hristo Petkov
  • Patent number: 11817897
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a terminal point of a communication system, wherein a control signal is emitted in the communication system for coordinating the participants of the communication system, wherein the control signal is transferred distributed in correspondence with a frequency hop-based occupancy of resources of the frequency band, indicated by a control signal hopping pattern, wherein the terminal point has a receiver, wherein a receive bandwidth of the receiver is smaller at least by the factor 3 than a bandwidth of the frequency hop-based occupancy of resources of the frequency band, indicated by the control signal hopping pattern, wherein the terminal point is configured to receive a reference signal, the reference signal having information on the control signal, wherein the terminal point is configured to receive the control signal based on the information on the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignees: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V., FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN-NUERNBERG
    Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Frank Obernosterer, Raimund Meyer, Johannes Wechsler, Jakob Kneißl, Dominik Soller, Jörg Robert
  • Patent number: 11792853
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a base station of an uncoordinated wireless communication system, wherein the communication system is configured to communicate in a radio band used by a plurality of communication systems, wherein the base station is configured to receive an uplink transmission from an end point of the wireless communication system, wherein the base station is configured to transmit, in response to the reception of the uplink transmission, a downlink transmission to the end point in a downlink transmission window, wherein the downlink transmission window is synchronized in time to the uplink transmission, wherein the base station is configured, in case of an expected collision of the downlink transmission with another transmission, to reposition the downlink transmission in time and/or frequency within the downlink transmission window, in order to avoid a collision of the downlink transmission with the other transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Johannes Wechsler, Jakob Kneissl, Stefan Ereth, Dominik Soller
  • Patent number: 11742893
    Abstract: In embodiments, instead of a uniform (global) hopping pattern that is used equally by all data transmitters and data receivers of a communication system, data transmitters and the data receiver use an individual hopping pattern for the communication. This individual hopping pattern may depend on an operation and is therefore only used by the data transmitter and the data receiver themselves or by a small group of data transmitters and/or data receivers, which may significantly increase the interference immunity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG, E.V.
    Inventors: Johannes Wechsler, Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Dominik Soller, Jakob Kneissl, Alexej Jarresch, Raimund Meyer, Frank Obernosterer
  • Patent number: 11700032
    Abstract: Proposed is a controller for a participant of a communication system, wherein the communication system wirelessly communicates in a frequency band that is used for communication by a plurality of communication systems, wherein the controller is configured to identify a channel access pattern, wherein the channel access pattern indicates a frequency hop-based and/or time hop-based occupancy of the frequency band that is usable for the communication of the communication system, wherein the controller is configured to identify the channel access pattern as a function of individual information of the communication system and as a function of a state of a numerical sequence generator for generating a numerical sequence or a number of a numerical sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Frank Obernosterer, Raimund Meyer, Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Johannes Wechsler, Jakob Kneißl, Stefan Ereth, Jörg Robert
  • Patent number: 11683677
    Abstract: A transmitter is configured to communicate with a multiplicity of receivers, and is configured to transmit first data, the first data including a non-unique addressing information addressing a subset of the multiplicity of receivers, the subset including at least two receivers, the transmitter further being configured to transmit second data, the second data including a further addressing information or transmitted according to a further addressing information, the addressing information addressing one receiver (or one group of receivers) of the subset of the multiplicity of receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Michael Schlicht, Jakob Kneißl, Frank Nachtrab, Johannes Wechsler, Dominik Soller
  • Patent number: 11671140
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a transmission method for wireless transmission of data within a communication system. The method includes a step of transmitting the data in a manner that is time-synchronized with a reference signal while using a frequency hopping pattern and/or time hopping pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Stefan Ereth, Jakob Kneissl, Johannes Wechsler
  • Patent number: 11611369
    Abstract: A data receiver is configured to receive a signal including a plurality of partial data packets, wherein the plurality of partial data packets each include part of a data packet, wherein the data receiver includes a multi-stage correlator that is configured to perform multi-stage correlation to detect the partial data packets in the received signal, wherein a second correlation stage of the multi-stage correlator operates based on correlation results of a first correlation stage of the multi-stage correlator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR F RDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Eberhard Gamm, Gerd Kilian, Jakob Kneißl, Josef Bernhard, Markus Siebenhaar
  • Patent number: 11588580
    Abstract: Embodiments provide an interleaver for interleaving an LDPC encoded bit sequence, wherein the interleaver includes a segmentation stage configured to segment the LDPC encoded bit sequence into a plurality of chunks including a first chunk and one or more other chunks, a first interleaver stage, configured to interleave the one or more other chunks or a concatenated version thereof, a second interleaver stage, configured to block wise interleave the first chunk and an interleaved bit sequence provided by the first interleaver stage, to obtain an interleaved version of the LDPC encoded bit sequence, wherein the first chunk consists of bits of a first type being, which are error correcting bits or repeat accumulate bits of the LDPC encoded bit sequence, or are represented, in a Tanner graph representation of the LDPC encoded bit sequence, by variable nodes that include non-random connections to at least two error correcting check nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR F RDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Sally Nafie, Jörg Robert, Jakob Kneißl
  • Publication number: 20220417953
    Abstract: A subscriber in a communication system is configured to transmit data to a base station of the communication system. The subscriber is configured to take a quality criterion of at least one previous transmission between the subscriber and the base station as a basis for transmitting the data in a first frequency range or in a second frequency range being different from each other, and/or in a first time interval or in a second time interval being different from each other. A base station, a method for receiving data and a computer program product are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Hristo Petkov, Raphael Mzyk, Thomas Kauppert, Klaus Gottschalk, Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Jakob Kneissl, Johannes Wechsler, Raimund Meyer, Dominik Soller, Michael Schlicht, Frank Obernosterer
  • Patent number: 11516703
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a transfer method for transferring data of variable length using a fixedly specified number of sub-data packets to which the data of variable length is distributed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg
    Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Joerg Robert, Jakob Kneissl, Johannes Wechsler, Stefan Ereth
  • Publication number: 20220345177
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a method for generating a hopping pattern for transmitting a plurality of sub-data packets in a communication system. The method has a step of deriving a hopping pattern from a binary sequence, wherein an autocorrelation function of the binary sequence has autocorrelation side maximums with a predetermined maximum value. The method further has a step of determining a maximum sub-data packet length for the plurality of sub-data packets in dependence on a total emission duration of the plurality of sub-data packets indicated by the hopping pattern, and a minimum value of a difference sequence of a sorted difference number series derived from the binary sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Gerd KILIAN, Josef BERNHARD, Johannes WECHSLER, Jakob KNEISSL, Raimund MEYER, Frank OBERNOSTERER
  • Patent number: 11483015
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a data receiver, wherein the data receiver is configured to receive a broadband signal, wherein the broadband signal includes at least two partial data packets that are distributed in time and/or frequency, wherein the data receiver is configured to perform detection of the at least two partial data packets in the broadband signal and to provide at least one detection parameter for the detected partial data packets, wherein the data receiver is configured to perform decoding of the detected partial data packet by using the at least one detection parameter, wherein the data receiver is configured to perform or process detection and decoding separately from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Jakob Kneissl, Eberhard Gamm, Josef Bernhard, Robert Koch, Martin Kohlmann