Patents by Inventor Marios Kountouris

Marios Kountouris 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: 11736161
    Abstract: A network entity comprises a plurality of antenna elements arranged in one or more two dimensional (2D) arrays having one or more columns and rows. The network entity configured to determine at least one set of one or more precoding vectors related to the plurality of antenna elements, wherein each set of precoding vectors is associated with a different Kronecker product tradeoff parameter L?1; and transmit, at least one set of a plurality of Cell Specific Reference Signals (CRS) to be used to estimate channel state information (CSI) based on the at least one set of precoding vectors and/or at least one Kronecker product tradeoff parameter L.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nassar Ksairi, Marios Kountouris
  • Publication number: 20220200673
    Abstract: A network entity comprises a plurality of antenna elements arranged in one or more two dimensional (2D) arrays having one or more columns and rows. The network entity configured to determine at least one set of one or more precoding vectors related to the plurality of antenna elements, wherein each set of precoding vectors is associated with a different Kronecker product tradeoff parameter L?1; and transmit, at least one set of a plurality of Cell Specific Reference Signals (CRS) to be used to estimate channel state information (CSI) based on the at least one set of precoding vectors and/or at least one Kronecker product tradeoff parameter L.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Nassar Ksairi, Marios Kountouris
  • Publication number: 20210119679
    Abstract: The application relates to a user equipment for wireless communications with a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) base station over a wireless communications channel. The user equipment comprises a communications interface configured to receive a current pilot signal over the wireless communications channel from the base station, and at least one processor configured to determine a current channel state information (CSI) based on the current pilot signal and to determine a CSI reliability measure value based on the current CSI and one or several previous CSI, where the at least one processor is configured to determine the previous CSI based on previous pilot signals, i.e. previously received pilot signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Nassar KSAIRI, Marios KOUNTOURIS, Jesus ARNAU YANEZ
  • Patent number: 10340984
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for controlling energy transmission from a transmitter to at least one device, in particular network device, the system comprising: a controller which is configured to receive feedback information on energy transmission and/or on data transmission from the device and/or another device; and a mapper which is configured to allocate the device to an energy transfer resource based on the feedback information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Beatrice Tomasi, Marco Maso, Marios Kountouris, Moez Draief
  • Publication number: 20180198488
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for controlling energy transmission from a transmitter to at least one device, in particular network device, the system comprising: a controller which is configured to receive feedback information on energy transmission and/or on data transmission from the device and/or another device; and a mapper which is configured to allocate the device to an energy transfer resource based on the feedback information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Beatrice TOMASI, Marco MASO, Marios KOUNTOURIS, Moez DRAIEF
  • Patent number: 9906321
    Abstract: A method is implemented by a cellular telecommunications network. The method includes: returning indicators from first and second terminals to the network, including, for the respective terminal, an indicator of a maximum reception rate without interference canceling in the presence of an interfering signal, and, for the first terminal, both an indicator of the maximum reception rate with interference canceling in the presence of the interfering signal, and an indicator of the maximum reception rate of the interfering signal; the network determining whether to activate interference canceling by the first terminal and determining respective data rates to be allocated to the first and second terminals as a function of the returned indicators; the network notifying the first terminal whether to activate interference canceling and modifying the first and second terminals of the allocated data rates; the network signaling to the first terminal the data rate allocated to the second terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: ORANGE
    Inventors: Eric Hardouin, Daniel Jaramillo Remirez, Marios Kountouris
  • Publication number: 20160197694
    Abstract: A method is implemented by a cellular telecommunications network. The method includes: returning indicators from first and second terminals to the network, including, for the respective terminal, an indicator of a maximum reception rate without interference canceling in the presence of an interfering signal, and, for the first terminal, both an indicator of the maximum reception rate with interference canceling in the presence of the interfering signal, and an indicator of the maximum reception rate of the interfering signal; the network determining whether to activate interference canceling by the first terminal and determining respective data rates to be allocated to the first and second terminals as a function of the returned indicators; the network notifying the first terminal whether to activate interference canceling and modifying the first and second terminals of the allocated data rates; the network signaling to the first terminal the data rate allocated to the second terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Eric Hardouin, Daniel Jaramillo Remirez, Marios Kountouris
  • Publication number: 20100284294
    Abstract: The invention relates to a communication by return pathway from a terminal to a transmitter for reducing in particular interference between beams from the transmitter. A telecommunication system comprises a transmitter designed to render simultaneously active a first number of beams, as resources for a plurality of user terminals. Within the sense of the invention, each terminal calculates, while taking account of interference noise, at least one second preferred number of beams to be rendered simultaneously active by the transmitter, and sends to the transmitter, through the return pathway, an indication of this second preferred number, among information about the quality of reception. The transmitter can then adjust the first number of beams to be rendered active, as a function of the returns from the terminals, for a next burst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: France Telecom
    Inventors: Thomas Salzer, Marios Kountouris
  • Patent number: 7778147
    Abstract: A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication system. A transmitter that includes a plurality of transmit antennas selects one of a spatial multiplexing scheme and a spatial diversity scheme, processes a signal in the selected transmission scheme, and transmits the signal through the plurality of transmit antennas. A receiver that includes a plurality of receive antennas processes a signal in a reception scheme mapped to a transmission scheme of the transmitter. The transmission schemes include a transmission scheme for maximizing diversity gain and a transmission scheme for maximizing spectral efficiency. The MIMO communication system using an adaptive transmission mode switching technique performs switching between MIMO transmission modes using spatial selectivity of a channel, thereby obtaining maximum gain in a signal to noise ratio (SNR) and spectral efficiency according to channel state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Antonio Forenza, Robert W. Heath, Hyoung-Woon Park, Ho Yang, Ho-Jin Kim, Marios Kountouris, Pandharipande Ashish
  • Publication number: 20090219865
    Abstract: The invention relates to an information encoding method for the backward channel of a base station (BS) of a mobile radio system. The base station (BS) comprises M resources and periodically emits (t), toward user terminals (UT), pilot signals enabling, via the latter, the measurement of quality of transmission of resources values (I). The storage (A) of at least one quality of reception of resources value ensues and the transformation (B) of each quality of reception of resources value (II) ensues by quantization into a quantized index value representative of the quality of reception value and constitutive of a metrix relative to each resource. The invention is for use in SDMA and/or OFDMA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: France Telecom
    Inventors: Thomas Salzer, Marios Kountouris
  • Publication number: 20060083195
    Abstract: A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication system. A transmitter that includes a plurality of transmit antennas selects one of a spatial multiplexing scheme and a spatial diversity scheme, processes a signal in the selected transmission scheme, and transmits the signal through the plurality of transmit antennas. A receiver that includes a plurality of receive antennas processes a signal in a reception scheme mapped to a transmission scheme of the transmitter. The transmission schemes include a transmission scheme for maximizing diversity gain and a transmission scheme for maximizing spectral efficiency. The MIMO communication system using an adaptive transmission mode switching technique performs switching between MIMO transmission modes using spatial selectivity of a channel, thereby obtaining maximum gain in a signal to noise ratio (SNR) and spectral efficiency according to channel state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2005
    Publication date: April 20, 2006
    Applicants: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
    Inventors: Antonio Forenza, Robert Heath, Hyoung-Woon Park, Ho Yang, Ho-Jin Kim, Marios Kountouris, Pandharipande Ashish