Patents by Inventor Lauri Johannes Eerolainen

Lauri Johannes Eerolainen 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: 9374200
    Abstract: A radio device/user equipment determines that a later received grant of bundled uplink resources collides with an earlier received grant of bundled uplink resources. The earlier received grant has associated with it an active re-transmission process. In response to that collision determination, at least a re-transmission (HARQ) buffer associated with the earlier received grant is flushed. In one embodiment all HARQ buffers are flushed; in another the HARQ buffer associated with the earlier received grant is flushed while the one associated with the later received grant is not. Several ways are described to determine whether there is a collision: whether the later received grant aligns with a boundary of the resources granted by the earlier received grant, and whether there is an actual collision among the different HARQ processes. Calculating HARQ process numbers is also described where an offset is used to account for the grants allocating bundled TTIs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kalle Petteri Kela, Lauri Johannes Eerolainen
  • Publication number: 20150103749
    Abstract: A radio device/user equipment determines that a later received grant of bundled uplink resources collides with an earlier received grant of bundled uplink resources. The earlier received grant has associated with it an active re-transmission process. In response to that collision determination, at least a re-transmission (HARQ) buffer associated with the earlier received grant is flushed. In one embodiment all HARQ buffers are flushed; in another the HARQ buffer associated with the earlier received grant is flushed while the one associated with the later received grant is not. Several ways are described to determine whether there is a collision: whether the later received grant aligns with a boundary of the resources granted by the earlier received grant, and whether there is an actual collision among the different HARQ processes. Calculating HARQ process numbers is also described where an offset is used to account for the grants allocating bundled TTIs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Kalle Petteri KELA, Lauri Johannes EEROLAINEN
  • Patent number: 8948772
    Abstract: An example apparatus is provided that may provide for transmission of a first scheduling request and increment an alert counter upon transmitting the request. The apparatus may then determine if uplink resources have been received and, if not, provide for transmission of a second scheduling request. The apparatus may increment the alert counter in response to transmitting the second scheduling request. The apparatus may also provide for transmission of an indication that the alert counter has reached an alert counter threshold, in response to which, the apparatus may receive dummy uplink resources that may cause the alert counter to reset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Lauri Johannes Eerolainen, Kalle Petteri Kela
  • Publication number: 20120295652
    Abstract: An example apparatus is provided that may provide for transmission of a first scheduling request and increment an alert counter upon transmitting the request. The apparatus may then determine if uplink resources have been received and, if not, provide for transmission of a second scheduling request. The apparatus may increment the alert counter in response to transmitting the second scheduling request. The apparatus may also provide for transmission of an indication that the alert counter has reached an alert counter threshold, in response to which, the apparatus may receive dummy uplink resources that may cause the alert counter to reset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: NOKIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lauri Johannes Eerolainen, Kalle Petteri Kela
  • Publication number: 20100248717
    Abstract: An approach is provided for performing a cell search procedure. System information that specifies a list of cell identifiers of a wireless network is generated for transmission to a terminal. The list of cell identifiers is used for performing a cell search procedure within the wireless network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: NOKIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Lauri Johannes Eerolainen
  • Publication number: 20100195525
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are apparatus, method, and computer program product whereby user equipment (10) sends a serving base station an identification of at least one other base station (6A). The user equipment receives an indication from the serving base station that the serving base station does have or does not have an interface with the other base stations detected (6B). If the indication indicates that the serving base station does have an interface with a particular other base station, the user equipment populates one of a neighbor list or a candidate list with the identification of the particular—other base station (5B). If the indication indicates that the serving base station does not have an interface with a particular other base station, the user equipment populates a barred list with the identification of the particular other base station (5C).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Lauri Johannes Eerolainen