Patents by Inventor Mark Cudak
Mark Cudak 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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Publication number: 20230421316Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a method comprising performing with a first node beam measurement for downlink beams received with the first node from at least one second node, scheduling with the first node at least one third node for uplink transmission to the first node, determining with the first node one or more of the downlink beams that can be received simultaneously with a beam of the at least one third node based at least partially on the scheduling of the at least one third node and the performing of the beam measurement, and transmitting with the first node results of the performed beam measurement wherein the results comprise an indication of the one or more determined downlink beams that can be received simultaneously with the beam of the at least one third node.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2021Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe LADDU, Kevin WANUGA, Juha Sakari KORHONEN, Mark CUDAK, Ilkka Antero KESKITALO
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Publication number: 20230403662Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer programs for timing enhancement for an integrated access and backhaul node are disclosed. A method includes receiving a control element that is used to determine a timing mode and/or associated timing information for an integrated access and backhaul node; determining the timing mode and/or the associated timing information for the integrated access and backhaul node, based on the control element; and applying the timing mode and/or the associated timing information for a subsequent uplink transmission for the integrated access and backhaul node.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2021Publication date: December 14, 2023Inventors: Kevin Wanuga, Keeth Saliya LADDU JAYASINGHE, Juha Sakari KORHONEN, Ilkka Antero KESKITALO, Mark CUDAK
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Patent number: 11765708Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for GIS-NR beamforming for mmWave. For example, certain embodiments may provide for beam realignment, through which a serving network node may be able to re-position its beam towards a UE without the UE explicitly measuring and signalling to the network node the need for realignment. Instead of performing the traditional UE-based exhaustive beam search, the serving network node may proactively switch the beam in an attempt to track the UE movements. The serving network node may do this by corroborating information from two types of sources: 1) a set of neighbor mobile or fixed network nodes and 2) a geographic information system (GIS).Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Oana-Elena Barbu, Simon Svendsen, Benny Vejlgaard, Mark Cudak
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Patent number: 11653367Abstract: In accordance with example embodiments of the invention there is at least a method and apparatus to perform determining, by a first network device in a communication network, allocation information for an availability of resources in the communication network; and sending, by the network device, to a second network device the allocation information for use in at least one of simultaneous transmission by the second network device to the first network device and a third device or simultaneous reception by the second network device from the first network device and a third device of at least one operation associated with the allocation information for allocation of the resources to the third device in the in the communication network.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Mark Cudak, Kevin Wanuga, Juha Sakari Korhonen, Ilkka Keskitalo, Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe Laddu, Axel Mueller
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Publication number: 20230047193Abstract: According to an example embodiment, an example method may include determining, by a network node in a wireless network, whether a size of a data packet is greater than a threshold size; transmitting, by the network node, the data packet via a frequency interlace if the size of the data packet is less than or equal to the threshold size; transmitting, by the network node, the data packet via contiguous wideband frequency resources if the size of the data packet is greater than the threshold size.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2020Publication date: February 16, 2023Inventors: Arto LEHTI, Kari Pekka PAJUKOSKI, Karri Markus RANTA-AHO, Mark CUDAK, Rapeepat RATASUK, Oskari TERVO
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Patent number: 11582744Abstract: A method for admission control including transmitting a first admission request to a distributed unit of the IAB donor, wherein the first admission request includes information about a resource set to be established for a terminal device; receiving a first admission response from the distributed unit indicating whether one or more resources in the resource set are to be accepted; transmitting a second admission request to each of at least one IAB node including information about the resource set; receiving a second admission response from each of the at least one IAB node indicating whether one or more resources in the resource set are to be accepted; and in response to determining that at least one resource in the resource set is to be accepted, transmitting to an IAB node serving the terminal device a request for establishing a context of the terminal device including information about the resource.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Xiang Xu, Colin Kahn, Mark Cudak, Ayaz Ahmed
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Publication number: 20220394534Abstract: An apparatus and a system comprising at least one power integrator, method performed by an apparatus comprising at least one power integrator and computer program product for causing an apparatus comprising at least one power integrator to perform: receiving a measure of power level of at least one radio beam detected by an antenna array comprising a plurality of antenna elements, accumulating the received measure of power level over a period of time, determining a representative output signal corresponding to the accumulated measure of received power level and providing the representative output signal to a controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2020Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicant: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Benny VEJLGAARD, Mark CUDAK, Frederick VOOK
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Publication number: 20220376768Abstract: A method may include determining, by a user equipment, a beam alignment reference value and a beam alignment test value; and determining, by the user equipment, based on the beam alignment reference value and the beam alignment test value, that a user equipment receive beam used by the user equipment is not aligned with a transmit beam of the base station.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2020Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventors: Johannes HARREBEK, Simon SVENDSEN, Benny VEJLGAARD, Claudio ROSA, Mark CUDAK, Frederick VOOK, Nitin MANGALVEDHE, Jun TAN
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Publication number: 20220287123Abstract: A distributed unit, DU, of a radio access node configured to operate in a scenario where the DU is one of multiple DUs serving links to a multi-connected entity, acquires a first DU radio resource configuration for the DU, acquires a first link radio resource configuration corresponding to a first link of a multi-connectivity link of a multi-connected entity, wherein the first link is served by the DU, acquires a multiplexing configuration of the multi-connectivity link, and determines availability of at least one radio resource for the multi-connectivity link based on the first DU radio resource configuration, the first link radio resource configuration, and the multiplexing configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2019Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Esa TIIROLA, Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe LADDU, Mark CUDAK, Ilkka KESKITALO, Juha Sakari KORHONEN
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Patent number: 11363603Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprising: receiving, by a user equipment of a communication network, a request from a network node to use at least two beam configurations of multiple different beam configurations for the user equipment; measuring, by the user equipment, downlink received power on at least one reference signal using the at least two beam configurations; sending, by the user equipment on an uplink, information of at least two downlink received powers and at least one reference signal using the at least two beam configurations; receiving, by the user equipment, signaling from the network node comprising an indication of beam correspondence assessment from the network node; and adjusting, by the user equipment, uplink beam with reference to a downlink beam based on the received indication of beam correspondence assessment.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Johannes Harrebek, Simon Svendsen, Benny Vejlgaard, Claudio Rosa, Mark Cudak, Fred Vook, Nitin Mangalvedhe, Jun Tan
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Publication number: 20220124652Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer programs for timing enhancement for an integrated access and backhaul node are disclosed. A method includes receiving a control element that is used to determine a timing mode and/or associated timing information for an integrated access and backhaul node; determining the timing mode and/or the associated timing information for the integrated access and backhaul node, based on the control element; and applying the timing mode and/or the associated timing information for a subsequent uplink transmission for the integrated access and backhaul node.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2020Publication date: April 21, 2022Inventors: Kevin Wanuga, Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe Laddu, Juha Sakari Korhonen, llkka Keskitalo, Mark Cudak
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Publication number: 20220046638Abstract: In accordance with example embodiments of the invention there is at least a method and apparatus to perform determining, by a first network device in a communication network, allocation information for an availability of resources in the communication network; and sending, by the network device, to a second network device the allocation information for use in at least one of simultaneous transmission by the second network device to the first network device and a third device or simultaneous reception by the second network device from the first network device and a third device of at least one operation associated with the allocation information for allocation of the resources to the third device in the in the communication network.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2020Publication date: February 10, 2022Inventors: Mark Cudak, Kevin Wanuga, Juha Sakari Korhonen, Ilkka Keskitalo, Laddu Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe, Axel Mueller
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Publication number: 20210329629Abstract: A method for admission control including transmitting a first admission request to a distributed unit of the IAB donor, wherein the first admission request includes information about a resource set to be established for a terminal device; receiving a first admission response from the distributed unit indicating whether one or more resources in the resource set are to be accepted; transmitting a second admission request to each of at least one IAB node including information about the resource set; receiving a second admission response from each of the at least one IAB node indicating whether one or more resources in the resource set are to be accepted; and in response to determining that at least one resource in the resource set is to be accepted, transmitting to an IAB node serving the terminal device a request for establishing a context of the terminal device including information about the resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2018Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Xiang XU, Colin KAHN, Mark CUDAK, Ayaz AHMED
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Publication number: 20210258061Abstract: A method may include determining an uplink loss metric for an uplink communication path from a user equipment to a base station in a wireless network based at least on an uplink transmit beam for the user equipment and an uplink receive beam for the base station; determining a downlink loss metric for the downlink communication path from the base station to the user equipment based at least on a downlink transmit beam for the base station and a downlink receive beam for the user equipment; and determining, based on the uplink loss metric and the downlink loss metric, an uplink/downlink beam correspondence misalignment for the user equipment that indicates that the uplink transmit beam for the user equipment is misaligned with the downlink receive beam for the user equipment. For example, see FIGS. 5-6.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2020Publication date: August 19, 2021Inventors: Johannes Harrebek, Claudio Rosa, Benny Vejlgaard, Mark Cudak, Nitin Mangalvedhe, Jun Tan, Frederick Vook, Simon Svendsen
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Publication number: 20210243744Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for GIS-NR beamforming for mmWave. For example, certain embodiments may provide for beam realignment, through which a serving network node may be able to re-position its beam towards a UE without the UE explicitly measuring and signalling to the network node the need for realignment. Instead of performing the traditional UE-based exhaustive beam search, the serving network node may proactively switch the beam in an attempt to track the UE movements. The serving network node may do this by corroborating information from two types of sources: 1) a set of neighbor mobile or fixed network nodes and 2) a geographic information system (GIS).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Inventors: Oana-Elena BARBU, Simon SVENDSEN, Benny VEJLGAARD, Mark CUDAK
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Publication number: 20210127379Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprising: receiving, by a user equipment of a communication network, a request from a network node to use at least two beam configurations of multiple different beam configurations for the user equipment; measuring, by the user equipment, downlink received power on at least one reference signal using the at least two beam configurations; sending, by the user equipment on an uplink, information of at least two downlink received powers and at least one reference signal using the at least two beam configurations; receiving, by the user equipment, signaling from the network node comprising an indication of beam correspondence assessment from the network node; and adjusting, by the user equipment, uplink beam with reference to a downlink beam based on the received indication of beam correspondence assessment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2020Publication date: April 29, 2021Inventors: Johannes HARREBEK, Simon SVENDSEN, Benny VEJLGAARD, Claudio ROSA, Mark CUDAK, Fred VOOK, Nitin MANGALVEDHE, Jun TAN
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Patent number: 10986552Abstract: To establish a multi-AP RRC connection with a user device UD the UD in the coverage area of multiple APs selects suitable ones as cluster set candidates and reports this list to a temporary serving AP the UD chooses. The multi-AP connection itself is setup by the cluster set manager CSM. The CSM collects information from each AP about control channels and load in order to choose which APs will be in the cluster, which will be the serving AP, and to setup the multi-AP connection with the UD. Multiple message exchanges are described for this purpose. Once the multi-AP connection is established, if the UD's connection with the serving AP fails the UD can handover to another AP of the cluster set without having to re-establish a new RRC connection. This is particularly useful for networks subject to severe shadowing effects such as mmWave 5G.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2016Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Anup Talukdar, Mark Cudak, Ahmad Awada
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Patent number: 10966141Abstract: The exemplary embodiments of the invention provide at least a method and an apparatus to determine a beacon signal for a network node, where the network node is configured to connect with a cluster of access points in a wireless communication network, and where the beacon signal identifies the cluster; and send the beacon signal towards the wireless communication network. Further, the exemplary embodiments of the invention provide at least a method and an apparatus to determine a dominant access point of a cluster of access points based on signaling from at least one access point associated with the cluster of access points; and in response to the determining, direct communications towards the dominant access point of the cluster of access points.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2013Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OyInventors: Mark Cudak, Amitabha Ghosh, Thomas Kovarik, Rapeepat Ratasuk, Alan Rottinghaus, Timothy Thomas, Frederick Vook
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Patent number: 10959170Abstract: A method including determining a plurality of access points (APs) to be used in an access point cluster set (CS) for a user device (UD); and for at least one of the plurality of access points (APs), assigning an access point availability state from a plurality of possible access point availability states, where the plurality of possible access point availability states includes a suspended state.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2015Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Anup Talukdar, Mark Cudak, Ahmad Awada, Andreas Maeder
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Patent number: 10911280Abstract: A method is provided including determining, for each of a plurality of user equipments, a null cyclic prefix length for communication in a wireless network using null cyclic prefix single-carrier modulation; and communicating with at least one of the user equipments based at least partially on the determined null cyclic prefix length of the at least one user equipment.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2017Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Timothy Thomas, Frederick Vook, Mark Cudak