Patents by Inventor Joerg Robert

Joerg Robert 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: 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: 12002368
    Abstract: A host aircraft includes a flight data system, the latter including a mobile device, central data server, and transceiver. The mobile device has a processor, memory programmed with a method embodied as computer-readable instructions, and a radio frequency (RF) communications circuit, GPS receiver, and sensor suite. The sensor suite collects raw flight data. Execution of the instructions by the processor causes the mobile device to process the raw flight data into synthesized data, and filter out human-induced motion of the mobile device from the synthesized data using a filtering model, and thereby generate time-stamped filtered flight data. The central data server is in wireless communication with the RF communications circuit, and receives the time-stamped filtered flight data therefrom. The transceiver, which is communicatively coupled to the central data server, disseminates the time-stamped filtered flight data to a user located remotely from the host aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Millie Irene Sterling, André Brodbeck Dugas, Joerg Robert Oliver Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11955015
    Abstract: A flight data aggregation system for a plurality of aircraft includes one or more portable electronic devices in electronic communication with one or more central computers. The one or more portable electronic devices each monitor flight data from a corresponding aircraft. The one or more portable electronic devices analyze the flight data in real-time to determine an insight event indicating an incident of significance is presently occurring upon the corresponding aircraft. Each central computer includes one or more processors and a memory coupled to the one or more processors. The central computers are caused to receive the flight data collected during the insight event from an individual portable electronic device. The central computers determine overall flight data patterns based on the flight data collected during the insight event received from the individual portable electronic device and historical data stored in the one or more databases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: André Dugas, Joerg Robert Oliver Schmidt, Millie Irene Sterling
  • Patent number: 11843458
    Abstract: A control device for use in a broadcast system includes a broadcast controller that controls a broadcast transmitter of the broadcast system that broadcasts broadcast signals in a coverage area for reception by terminals including a broadcast receiver and a broadband receiver, and a broadband controller that controls a broadband server of a broadband system that provides redundancy data to terminals within the coverage area. The broadband controller is configured to control the provision of redundancy data by the broadband server for use by one or more terminals which use the redundancy data together with broadcast signals received via said broadcast system for recovering content received within the broadcast signals and/or provided via the broadband system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Junge Qi, Joerg Robert, Jan Zoellner, Lothar Stadelmeier, Nabil Loghin
  • Publication number: 20230020614
    Abstract: A flight data aggregation system for a plurality of aircraft includes one or more portable electronic devices in electronic communication with one or more central computers. The one or more portable electronic devices each monitor flight data from a corresponding aircraft. The one or more portable electronic devices analyze the flight data in real-time to determine an insight event indicating an incident of significance is presently occurring upon the corresponding aircraft. Each central computer includes one or more processors and a memory coupled to the one or more processors. The central computers are caused to receive the flight data collected during the insight event from an individual portable electronic device. The central computers determine overall flight data patterns based on the flight data collected during the insight event received from the individual portable electronic device and historical data stored in the one or more databases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: André Dugas, Joerg Robert Oliver Schmidt, Millie Irene Sterling
  • 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: 20220366795
    Abstract: A host aircraft includes a flight data system, the latter including a mobile device, central data server, and transceiver. The mobile device has a processor, memory programmed with a method embodied as computer-readable instructions, and a radio frequency (RF) communications circuit, GPS receiver, and sensor suite. The sensor suite collects raw flight data. Execution of the instructions by the processor causes the mobile device to process the raw flight data into synthesized data, and filter out human-induced motion of the mobile device from the synthesized data using a filtering model, and thereby generate time-stamped filtered flight data. The central data server is in wireless communication with the RF communications circuit, and receives the time-stamped filtered flight data therefrom. The transceiver, which is communicatively coupled to the central data server, disseminates the time-stamped filtered flight data to a user located remotely from the host aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Millie Irene Sterling, André Brodbeck Dugas, Joerg Robert Oliver Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11315432
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for causing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to perform a contingency landing procedure. The apparatus includes memory and processing circuitry configured to cause the apparatus to at least determine candidate safe landing zones (SLZs) within an estimated current range of the UAV. Trajectories are generated for landing the UAV in respective ones of the candidate SLZs. Risk values are calculated that quantify third-party risk associated with operation of the UAV along respective ones of the trajectories to the respective ones of the candidate SLZs. A flight termination risk value is calculated that quantifies third-party risk associated with immediately landing the UAV at the current position. The lowest of the risk values is compared with the flight termination risk value, and a sequence is executed to operate the UAV along the trajectory to the selected one of the candidate SLZs, or immediately land the UAV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Joerg Robert Oliver Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11201692
    Abstract: A receiver for receiving data in a broadcast system includes a broadcast receiver that receives, via the broadcast system, a receiver input data stream including plural channel symbols represented by constellation points in a constellation diagram. A demodulator demodulates the channel symbols into codewords and a decoder decodes the codewords into output data words. A broadband receiver obtains redundancy data via a broadband system, the redundancy data for a channel symbol including one or more least robust bits of the channel symbol or a constellation subset identifier indicating a subset of constellation points including the constellation point representing the channel symbol. The demodulator and/or the decoder is configured to use the redundancy data to demodulate the respective channel symbol and to decode the respective codeword, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Junge Qi, Joerg Robert, Jan Zoellner
  • Patent number: 11070247
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a transmission method of wireless transmission of data within a communication system (e.g. a sensor network or telemetry system). The system includes a step of transmitting the data while using at least two time hopping patterns and/or frequency hopping patterns, a second pattern of the at least two patterns being a time- and/or frequency-shifted version of a first pattern of the at least two patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Joerg Robert, Jakob Kneissl, Johannes Wechsler
  • Patent number: 11050590
    Abstract: A data receiver configured to receive a signal having at least two partial data packets, the data receiver being configured to estimate a state of a transmission channel, to obtain first channel state information, to demodulate a first set of received symbols from different data packets, to obtain a first set of received encoded bits, wherein the data receiver is configured to decode the first set of received encoded bits to determine, a first set of estimated encoded bits which corresponds more likely to a first set of transmitted encoded bits than the received encoded bits, and to map the first set of estimated bits to estimated transmission symbols using a mapping rule matching a transmitter-side mapping rule to obtain a first set of estimated transmission symbols, and to determine second channel state information using the first set of estimated transmission symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg
    Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Jakob Kneissl, Frank Obernosterer, Raimund Meyer, Eberhard Gamm, Joerg Robert, Johannes Wechsler, Josef Bernhard, Michael Schlicht
  • Publication number: 20210112485
    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: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Frank OBERNOSTERER, Raimund MEYER, Gerd KILIAN, Josef BERNHARD, Johannes WECHSLER, Jakob KNEISSL, Michael SCHLICHT, Joerg ROBERT
  • Patent number: 10979125
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus and method, respectively, mapping payload data of mapping input data streams onto a mapping output data stream having a channel bandwidth for transmission in a multi-carrier broadcast system. To enable selection of robustness for transmission of data, the apparatus includes a frame forming mechanism mapping data blocks of at least two mapping input data streams onto frames of the mapping output data stream covering the channel bandwidth, each frame including a payload portion, the payload portion including plural data symbols and being segmented into data segments each covering a bandwidth portion of the channel bandwidth. The frame forming mechanism is configured to map the data blocks of the at least two mapping input data streams onto data symbols of the payload portion and includes a MIMO mode selector selecting a MIMO mode of the data blocks per data segment and/or per mapping input data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Lothar Stadelmeier, Nabil Sven Loghin, Joerg Robert, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri
  • Publication number: 20210083906
    Abstract: A data receiver configured to receive a signal having at least two partial data packets, the data receiver being configured to estimate a state of a transmission channel, to obtain first channel state information, to demodulate a first set of received symbols from different data packets, to obtain a first set of received encoded bits, wherein the data receiver is configured to decode the first set of received encoded bits to determine, a first set of estimated encoded bits which corresponds more likely to a first set of transmitted encoded bits than the received encoded bits, and to map the first set of estimated bits to estimated transmission symbols using a mapping rule matching a transmitter-side mapping rule to obtain a first set of estimated transmission symbols, and to determine second channel state information using the first set of estimated transmission symbols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Gerd KILIAN, Jakob KNEISSL, Frank OBERNOSTERER, Raimund MEYER, Eberhard GAMM, Joerg ROBERT, Johannes WECHSLER, Josef BERNHARD, Michael SCHLICHT
  • Patent number: 10951370
    Abstract: An apparatus and a corresponding method for mapping payload data of mapping input data streams onto a mapping output data stream having a channel bandwidth for transmission in a multi-carrier broadcast system includes first and second frame forming mechanisms. The first frame forming mechanism is adapted to form first frames having a first frame structure and the second frame forming mechanism is adapted to form second frames having a second frame structure. Preferably, in a second frame structure the data blocks of a particular mapping input data stream are spread in time and frequency over various data symbols and various data segments of the second frames to provide high robustness against disturbances. The payload portion of the second frame is preferably segmented into various data segments enabling use of a narrow-band receiver, even if both the first and second frames cover the same total channel bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Lothar Stadelmeier, Joerg Robert, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Nabil Loghin
  • Publication number: 20210012666
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for causing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to perform a contingency landing procedure. The apparatus includes memory and processing circuitry configured to cause the apparatus to at least determine candidate safe landing zones (SLZs) within an estimated current range of the UAV. Trajectories are generated for landing the UAV in respective ones of the candidate SLZs. Risk values are calculated that quantify third-party risk associated with operation of the UAV along respective ones of the trajectories to the respective ones of the candidate SLZs. A flight termination risk value is calculated that quantifies third-party risk associated with immediately landing the UAV at the current position. The lowest of the risk values is compared with the flight termination risk value, and a sequence is executed to operate the UAV along the trajectory to the selected one of the candidate SLZs, or immediately land the UAV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventor: Joerg Robert Oliver Schmidt
  • Patent number: 10868705
    Abstract: A transmitter is configured to transmit at least one signal with a pilot sequence having a plurality of pilot symbols, wherein the transmitter has a signal generator, wherein the signal generator provides the pilot sequence, wherein the signal generator provides the pilot sequence such that the pilot sequence has at least two symbol groups each having at least two pilot symbols, and the symbol groups, when evaluating a signal received by a receiver as a result of the transmission of the signal with respect to a phase, the symbol groups generate phase errors that depend on a temporal off-set between a reference point in time of the transmission of the signal by the transmitter and a value assumed and/or estimated for the evaluation for the reference point in time, said phase errors essentially mutually compensating each other across the symbol groups in the evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg
    Inventors: Jakob Kneissl, Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Joerg Robert, Johannes Wechsler, Stefan Ereth, Wolfgang Koch
  • Patent number: 10855494
    Abstract: A transmitter is configured to transmit signals each having a pilot sequence including a plurality of pilot sequence symbols, wherein the transmitter includes a signal generator, wherein the signal generator is configured to provide the pilot sequence starting from a base sequence which includes a plurality of base sequence symbols, wherein the signal generator provides the pilot sequence symbols starting from the base sequence symbol successively repeated R?1 times, and wherein R is a natural number greater than or equal to two, wherein the base sequence is configured such that a correlation of the pilot sequence with a transmission signal formed from the pilot sequence has a main maximum which is as narrow as possible and/or secondary maximums which are as small as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Jakob Kneissl, Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Joerg Robert, Johannes Wechsler, Dominik Soller, Wolfgang Koch
  • Patent number: 10778372
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a corresponding method for mapping error correction code encoded time-domain data of at least two mapping input data streams (S1, S2, . . . , Sn) onto a time-domain mapping output data stream (Q) having a frame structure, comprising a data input (102) for receiving said at least two mapping input data streams (S1, S2, . . . , Sn) each being segmented into data blocks (D1, D2, . . . , DN) carrying error correction code encoded data, a data mapper (104) for mapping the data blocks (D1, D2, . . . , DN) of said at least two mapping input data streams (S1, S2, . . . , Sn) onto frames of said mapping output data stream (Q), each frame comprising a number of frame intervals (F1, F2, . . . , FM), wherein the data mapper (104) is adapted for mapping the data blocks (D1, D2, . . . , DN) onto said frame intervals such that each frame interval (F1, F2, . . . , FM) carries sequentially arranged data blocks (D1, D2, . . .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Nabil Loghin, Lothar Stadelmeier, Joerg Robert
  • Publication number: 20200052952
    Abstract: A transmitter is configured to transmit at least one signal with a pilot sequence having a plurality of pilot symbols, wherein the transmitter has a signal generator, wherein the signal generator provides the pilot sequence, wherein the signal generator provides the pilot sequence such that the pilot sequence has at least two symbol groups each having at least two pilot symbols, and the symbol groups, when evaluating a signal received by a receiver as a result of the transmission of the signal with respect to a phase, the symbol groups generate phase errors that depend on a temporal off-set between a reference point in time of the transmission of the signal by the transmitter and a value assumed and/or estimated for the evaluation for the reference point in time, said phase errors essentially mutually compensating each other across the symbol groups in the evaluation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Jakob Kneissl, Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Joerg Robert, Johannes Wechsler, Stefan Ereth, Wolfgang Koch