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).
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Patent number: 11923881Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: 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
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Patent number: 11909519Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 6, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: 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
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Patent number: 11881889Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 20, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignees: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V., DIEHL METERING GMBHInventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Johannes Wechsler, Jakob Kneissl, Raimund Meyer, Frank Obernosterer, Thomas Kauppert, Hristo Petkov
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Patent number: 11817897Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 2, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignees: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V., FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN-NUERNBERGInventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Frank Obernosterer, Raimund Meyer, Johannes Wechsler, Jakob Kneißl, Dominik Soller, Jörg Robert
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Patent number: 11792853Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 17, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Johannes Wechsler, Jakob Kneissl, Stefan Ereth, Dominik Soller
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Patent number: 11742893Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 11, 2019Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: 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
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Patent number: 11700032Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: 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
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Patent number: 11683677Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 3, 2019Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Michael Schlicht, Jakob Kneißl, Frank Nachtrab, Johannes Wechsler, Dominik Soller
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Patent number: 11671140Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 24, 2019Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Stefan Ereth, Jakob Kneissl, Johannes Wechsler
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Patent number: 11611369Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 13, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR F RDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.Inventors: Eberhard Gamm, Gerd Kilian, Jakob Kneißl, Josef Bernhard, Markus Siebenhaar
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Patent number: 11588580Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR F RDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Sally Nafie, Jörg Robert, Jakob Kneißl
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Publication number: 20220417953Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Hristo Petkov, Raphael Mzyk, Thomas Kauppert, Klaus Gottschalk, Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Jakob Kneissl, Johannes Wechsler, Raimund Meyer, Dominik Soller, Michael Schlicht, Frank Obernosterer
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Patent number: 11516703Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-NuernbergInventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Joerg Robert, Jakob Kneissl, Johannes Wechsler, Stefan Ereth
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Publication number: 20220345177Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Gerd KILIAN, Josef BERNHARD, Johannes WECHSLER, Jakob KNEISSL, Raimund MEYER, Frank OBERNOSTERER
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Patent number: 11483015Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 20, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Jakob Kneissl, Eberhard Gamm, Josef Bernhard, Robert Koch, Martin Kohlmann
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Patent number: 11483028Abstract: Embodiments provide a transfer method for wirelessly transferring data in a communication system (e.g. a sensor network or telemetry system). The data includes core data and extension data, wherein the core data is encoded and distributed in an interleaved manner to a plurality of core sub-data packets, wherein the extension data is encoded and distributed in an interleaved manner to a plurality of extension sub-data packets, wherein at least a part of the core data contained in the core sub-data packets is needed for receiving the extension data or extension data packets.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignees: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V., FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN-NUERNBERGInventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Jörg Robert, Jakob Kneißl, Johannes Wechsler
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Patent number: 11456808Abstract: A data receiver receives at least one signal from a data transmitter and determines therefrom at least one environment parameter of the data transmitter or of an environment of the data transmitter. The data receiver is configured to identify an operational state of the data transmitter or of a component of the data transmitter by comparing the at least one environment parameter so received or an environment parameter profile determined on the basis of the at least one environment parameter, with an environment parameter reference profile which describes an expected environment parameter or an expected environment parameter profile in the environment of the data transmitter.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Diehl Metering GmbHInventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Thomas Kauppert, Hristo Petkov, Johannes Wechsler, Jakob Kneissl, Raphael Mzyk, Dominik Soller, Rafael Psiuk
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Patent number: 11368186Abstract: The invention refers to a transmitter that emits data in the form of a group of at least two partial telegrams that together include the data and that are shorter than an individual telegram comprising the data. The transmitter emits the group of partial telegrams according to a hopping pattern that refers to times and/or transmission frequencies of the emission of the individual partial telegrams. Furthermore, the transmitter emits the group of partial telegrams several times and at least twice. Furthermore, the invention relates to a receiver and corresponding methods.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Wolfram Strauss, Jakob Kneissl, Johannes Wechsler
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Patent number: 11336426Abstract: A data transmitter for transmitting data to a data receiver is provided, wherein individual communication information is known to the data transmitter and the data receiver, the data transmitter being configured to generate an individual synchronization sequence while using the individual communication information.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Raimund Meyer, Dominik Soller, Jakob Kneissl, Johannes Wechsler, Frank Obernosterer
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Publication number: 20220149989Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2021Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventors: Gerd KILIAN, Sally NAFIE, Jörg ROBERT, Jakob KNEIßL