Patents by Inventor Mark Beckmann

Mark Beckmann 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: 10388249
    Abstract: In a method and devices, data for the display of an application on a screen is provided. In addition, information with regard to a degree of distraction of the application, e.g., information regarding user-interface elements, and/or information regarding a degree of distraction of a driver of a vehicle (110) is provided. As a function of this information and a driving situation of the vehicle, it is decided whether the application will be displayed on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventor: Mark Beckmann
  • Patent number: 10346689
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for connecting a mobile camera device to a vehicle-mounted display apparatus, wherein the mobile camera device is controlled both by the driver operating the mobile camera device as well as by additional information regarding the state of the vehicle, wherein the additional information is provided by vehicle sensors. The information from the driver and the vehicle is processed by an application program on the mobile camera device and the mobile camera device is controlled. The mobile camera device can display images and/or videos and process the images and/or videos by way of the application program. The information to be processed can be displayed on the display of the vehicle-mounted display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: Stephan Max, Stefan Brosig, Reiner Katzwinkel, Volkmar Tanneberger, Mark Beckmann, Stefan Kollmorgen, Stefan Bosse, Thomas Grummel, Andreas Titze
  • Publication number: 20180114503
    Abstract: In a method and devices, data for the display of an application on a screen is provided. In addition, information with regard to a degree of distraction of the application, e.g., information regarding user-interface elements, and/or information regarding a degree of distraction of a driver of a vehicle (110) is provided. As a function of this information and a driving situation of the vehicle, it is decided whether the application will be displayed on the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventor: Mark Beckmann
  • Patent number: 9881583
    Abstract: In a method and devices, data for the display of an application on a screen is provided. In addition, information with regard to a degree of distraction of the application, e.g., information regarding user-interface elements, and/or information regarding a degree of distraction of a driver of a vehicle (110) is provided. As a function of this information and a driving situation of the vehicle, it is decided whether the application will be displayed on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventor: Mark Beckmann
  • Patent number: 9674314
    Abstract: A method of operating a mobile wireless network is described to ensure proper function of protocol entities during the transmission of data units between two wireless stations of the mobile wireless network. In this case, user data is assembled by a first convergence protocol layer of the first wireless station into at least one first data unit, particularly a packet data unit, before transmission to a second convergence protocol layer of a second wireless station, particularly on the same protocol level, with the user data being supplied to the first convergence protocol layer by at least one user in a network layer. At least one protocol entity of the first convergence protocol layer is configured as a function of a configuration request received by the second wireless station, in order to form the at least one first data unit from the data received from the at least one user and to transmit it through a carrier to a link control layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: IPCom GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Martin Hans, Mark Beckmann
  • Patent number: 9537947
    Abstract: A method for operating an Internet-Protocol-based functional system in a vehicle with at least two system units separatably connected to one another in which a local IP address is respectively allocated to a first system unit and to a second system unit and data are transmitted between the first system unit and the second system unit with a reproduction rule for the purpose of carrying out a first function, wherein one of the system units acts as a transmitting system unit and the other system unit acts as a receiving system unit. The data are evaluated in the receiving system unit with the reproduction rule, the reproduction rule is used to refer to a memory location of a memory associated with the execution program code for the first function, and the first function is carried out via the receiving system unit using the data in the reproduction rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: Mark Beckmann, Lars Scholz
  • Patent number: 9509808
    Abstract: A method of operating a mobile wireless network is described to ensure proper function of protocol entities during the transmission of data units between two wireless stations of the mobile wireless network. In this case, user data is assembled by a first convergence protocol layer of the first wireless station into at least one first data unit, particularly a packet data unit, before transmission to a second convergence protocol layer of a second wireless station, particularly on the same protocol level, with the user data being supplied to the first convergence protocol layer by at least one user in a network layer. At least one protocol entity of the first convergence protocol layer is configured as a function of a configuration request received by the second wireless station, in order to form the at least one first data unit from the data received from the at least one user and to transmit it through a carrier to a link control layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: IPCom GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Martin Hans, Mark Beckmann
  • Patent number: 9354838
    Abstract: A method for projecting a user interface of an application program provided for a screen of a mobile device is provided onto a screen of an infotainment system arranged in a vehicle. The user interface can be displayed in a manner suitable for the driver of the vehicle if the screen size of the infotainment system is determined in the infotainment system. The screen size is transferred to the mobile device via a data interface, the user interface size of the application program running in the mobile device in the unit of the comparable size is determined in the mobile device. The screen size of the infotainment system is compared with the user interface size of the application program and a decision is made on the basis of the comparison, which image data is transferred from the mobile device to the infotainment system via the data interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesesllschaft
    Inventors: Dennis Fernahl, Mark Beckmann, Christopher Seubert, Volker Remuss
  • Patent number: 9348555
    Abstract: In-vehicle access of mobile device functions is provided wherein a vehicle is coupled to the mobile device, and obtains a list of apps installed thereon. A user manipulates vehicle controls to operate a select app and the vehicle modifies its display based on the app.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignees: VOLKSWAGEN AG, AUDI AG
    Inventors: Lars Scholz, Mark Beckmann, Patrick Bartsch
  • Publication number: 20160125250
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for connecting a mobile camera device to a vehicle-mounted display apparatus, wherein the mobile camera device is controlled both by the driver operating the mobile camera device as well as by additional information regarding the state of the vehicle, wherein the additional information is provided by vehicle sensors. The information from the driver and the vehicle is processed by an application program on the mobile camera device and the mobile camera device is controlled. The mobile camera device can display images and/or videos and process the images and/or videos by way of the application program. The information to be processed can be displayed on the display of the vehicle-mounted display apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Stephan MAX, Stefan BROSIG, Reiner KATZWINKEL, Volkmar TANNEBERGER, Mark BECKMANN, Stefan KOLLMORGEN, Stefan BOSSE, Thomas GRUMMEL, Andreas TITZE
  • Patent number: 9246739
    Abstract: A telecommunication system for bidirectional data transmission of a data set between a data transmission device and a data reception device via at least one packet-oriented network device, which includes encapsulation of the data set to enable a connection-oriented data transmission of the data set; connection-oriented transmission of the encapsulated data set by means of at least one mobile telephone from the data transmission device to a base station of a mobile telephone network; evaluation of the data encapsulation protocol in the base station for an unpacking of the data set to enable a packet-oriented data transmission of the data set; and packet-oriented transmission of the data set from the base station to the data reception device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: IPCOM GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Martin Hans, Frank Kowalewski, Josef Laumen, Gunnar Schmidt, Siegfried Baer, Mark Beckmann
  • Publication number: 20150365505
    Abstract: A method of operating a mobile wireless network is described to ensure proper function of protocol entities during the transmission of data units between two wireless stations of the mobile wireless network. In this case, user data is assembled by a first convergence protocol layer of the first wireless station into at least one first data unit, particularly a packet data unit, before transmission to a second convergence protocol layer of a second wireless station, particularly on the same protocol level, with the user data being supplied to the first convergence protocol layer by at least one user in a network layer. At least one protocol entity of the first convergence protocol layer is configured as a function of a configuration request received by the second wireless station, in order to form the at least one first data unit from the data received from the at least one user and to transmit it through a carrier to a link control layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Martin Hans, Mark Beckmann
  • Patent number: 9078221
    Abstract: In a method for adapting uplink signaling during multicasting, the user devices of a multicast group receive a multicast message from a network control unit via a radio channel (PMcCH) in a downlink connection. The radio channel is adapted with respect to its power by transmitting information in an uplink connection via a corresponding radio channel (UL-DPCCH). The radio channel (UL-DPCCH) is power-controlled via at least one associated common radio channel (DL-PMcCH) that is associated with one or more of the user devices by transmitting corresponding information in the downlink direction from the network control unit to the user devices. The information is then processed by the receiving user devices to adapt the power of the respective associated radio channels (UL-DPCCH) in the uplink direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Mark Beckmann, Hyung-Nam Choi, Michael Eckert, Thomas Gottschalk, Martin Hans, Norbert Schwagmann
  • Patent number: 9072023
    Abstract: User data is transmitted between a mobile station (10) and a first base station (25), the user data being combined into data units, in particular packet data units, before being transmitted. For transmission of data units, transmission-specific information describing an instantaneous state of the transmission is stored in the mobile station (10) as well as in a first network unit (50) at a higher level than the first base station (25). With the relocation of the mobile station (10) from the first base station (25) to a second base station (30) having a second higher-level network unit (55), the transmission-specific information stored in the first higher-level network unit (50) is transmitted to the second higher-level network unit (55) to continue the transmission after the relocation essentially directly from its latest state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: IPCOM GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Martin Hans, Mark Beckmann
  • Publication number: 20150156305
    Abstract: A transceiver, comprising an interface for receiving at least one message, a display unit provided to assume at least one switched-on operating state and at least one switched-off operating state, a message indicator indicating a receipt of a message by a unit of a signal, independent of the operating state of the display unit, wherein the message is associated with at least one message parameter, and a unit for evaluating the message parameter with the signal provided as a function of evaluation of the message parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Martin HANS, Frank KOWALEWSKI, Josef LAUMEN, Gunnar SCHMIDT, Joachim STEIGER, Siegfried BAER, Mark BECKMANN, Thomas GOTTSCHALK
  • Patent number: 8977240
    Abstract: A method for controlling and evaluating message traffic of a communication unit uses a first network unit within a mobile radio system for forwarding all the messages of the message traffic. The first network unit decides, using one or more useful information items of the communication unit, whether one or more messages are forwarded to a second network unit for processing or whether they are blocked. The first network unit is also used to determine, using one or more useful information items of the communication unit, whether the respective message of the message traffic is logged by the first network unit in a logfile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Mark Beckmann, Michael Eckert, Martin Hans
  • Publication number: 20150002370
    Abstract: A method for projecting a user interface of an application program provided for a screen of a mobile device is provided onto a screen of an infotainment system arranged in a vehicle. The user interface can be displayed in a manner suitable for the driver of the vehicle if the screen size of the infotainment system is determined in the infotainment system. The screen size is transferred to the mobile device via a data interface, the user interface size of the application program running in the mobile device in the unit of the comparable size is determined in the mobile device. The screen size of the infotainment system is compared with the user interface size of the application program and a decision is made on the basis of the comparison, which image data is transferred from the mobile device to the infotainment system via the data interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Dennis FERNAHL, Mark BECKMANN, Christopher SEUBERT, Volker REMUSS
  • Patent number: 8923821
    Abstract: A transceiver, comprising an interface for receiving at least one message, a display unit provided to assume at least one switched-on operating state and at least one switched-off operating state, a message indicator indicating a receipt of a message by a unit of a signal, independent of the operating state of the display unit, wherein the message is associated with at least one message parameter, and a unit for evaluating the message parameter with the signal provided as a function of evaluation of the message parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: IPCOM GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Martin Hans, Frank Kowalewski, Josef Laumen, Gunnar Schmidt, Joachim Steiger, Siegfried Baer, Mark Beckmann, Thomas Gottschalk
  • Publication number: 20140341075
    Abstract: A method of operating a mobile wireless network is described to ensure proper function of protocol entities during the transmission of data units between two wireless stations of the mobile wireless network. In this case, user data is assembled by a first convergence protocol layer of the first wireless station into at least one first data unit, particularly a packet data unit, before transmission to a second convergence protocol layer of a second wireless station, particularly on the same protocol level, with the user data being supplied to the first convergence protocol layer by at least one user in a network layer. At least one protocol entity of the first convergence protocol layer is configured as a function of a configuration request received by the second wireless station, in order to form the at least one first data unit from the data received from the at least one user and to transmit it through a carrier to a link control layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventors: Martin Hans, Mark Beckmann
  • Publication number: 20140334342
    Abstract: A method for operating an Internet-Protocol-based functional system in a vehicle with at least two system units separatably connected to one another in which a local IP address is respectively allocated to a first system unit and to a second system unit and data are transmitted between the first system unit and the second system unit with a reproduction rule for the purpose of carrying out a first function, wherein one of the system units acts as a transmitting system unit and the other system unit acts as a receiving system unit. The data are evaluated in the receiving system unit with the reproduction rule, the reproduction rule is used to refer to a memory location of a memory associated with the execution program code for the first function, and the first function is carried out via the receiving system unit using the data in the reproduction rule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Mark Beckmann, Lars Scholz