Patents by Inventor Outi Rikola

Outi Rikola 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).

  • Method and apparatus for maintaining desired link quality when no data is transmitted on transport channels having quality targets
    Patent number: 7215929
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mobile station executed method for updating a signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) target during a discontinuous transmission (DTX) period of a downlink transport channel having a network specified quality target value, as is a mobile station (100) that operates in accordance with the method. The method includes measuring a quality, such as the BLER, of another downlink transport channel for which a network (20) has not specified a quality target value; and updating the SIR target in accordance with the measured quality. For a case where the downlink transport channel for which the network has not specified a quality target value is on a power controlled physical channel, updating the SIR target uses the measured quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Outi Rikola, Anna-Mari Seppänen
  • Method and apparatus for maintaining desired link quality when no data is transmitted on transport channels having quality targets
    Publication number: 20040203457
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mobile station executed method for updating a signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) target during a discontinuous transmission (DTX) period of a downlink transport channel having a network specified quality target value, as is a mobile station (100) that operates in accordance with the method. The method includes measuring a quality, such as the BLER, of another downlink transport channel for which a network (20) has not specified a quality target value; and updating the SIR target in accordance with the measured quality. For a case where the downlink transport channel for which the network has not specified a quality target value is on a power controlled physical channel, updating the SIR target uses the measured quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2002
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Applicant: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Outi Rikola, Anna-Mari Seppanen
  • Reception method and receiver using several different transport formats
    Patent number: 6707859
    Abstract: The invention relates to a receiver and a reception method in a data transmission system wherein a signal to be transmitted can comprise information that is transmitted in a frame form by using several different transport formats, in which frames also information on the transport format used is transmitted by means of transport format indicators, and in which system the information to be transmitted is coded by a coding depth depending on the properties of the information to be transmitted, at least some of the coding depths being multiples of a given basic coding depth Tk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Pasi Kinnunen, Sami Salonen, Outi Rikola, Anu Virtanen