Patents by Inventor Raimund Meyer
Raimund Meyer 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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Patent number: 12563584Abstract: A subscriber in a communication system is configured to transmit data to a base station of the communication system. The subscriber is configured to take a quality criterion of at least one previous transmission between the subscriber and the base station as a basis for transmitting the data in a first frequency range or in a second frequency range being different from each other, and/or in a first time interval or in a second time interval being different from each other. A base station, a method for receiving data and a computer program product are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2022Date of Patent: February 24, 2026Assignee: Diehl Metering GmbHInventors: Hristo Petkov, Raphael Mzyk, Thomas Kauppert, Klaus Gottschalk, Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Jakob Kneissl, Johannes Wechsler, Raimund Meyer, Dominik Soller, Michael Schlicht, Frank Obernosterer
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Publication number: 20260031852Abstract: Embodiments provide a terminal point of the wireless communication system, wherein the terminal point is configured to operate in a first mode and in a second mode, wherein the terminal point is configured to receive a signal, wherein the signal comprises information on a first channel access pattern for the first mode, wherein the terminal point is configured to determine the first channel access pattern for the first mode based on the information on the first channel access pattern, wherein the terminal point is configured to determine a second channel access pattern for the second mode based on the information on the first channel access pattern, wherein the terminal point is configured to transmit and/or receive data in the second mode by using the second channel access pattern, wherein the first channel access pattern for the first mode allows data transmission with a first latency, wherein the second channel access pattern for the second mode allows data transmission with a second latency, wherein the sType: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2025Publication date: January 29, 2026Inventors: Gerd KILIAN, Josef BERNHARD, Jakob KNEISSL, Karol BIEG, Dominik SOLLER, Clemens NEUMUELLER, Stefan ERETH, Maximilian BURGER, Raimund MEYER, Frank OBERNOSTERER, Michael SCHLICHT
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Publication number: 20250176008Abstract: A subscriber in a communication system is configured to transmit data to a base station of the communication system. The subscriber is configured to take a quality criterion of at least one previous transmission between the subscriber and the base station as a basis for transmitting the data in a first frequency range or in a second frequency range being different from each other, and/or in a first time interval or in a second time interval being different from each other. A base station, a method for receiving data and a computer program product are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2025Publication date: May 29, 2025Inventors: Hristo Petkov, Raphael Mzyk, Thomas Kauppert, Klaus Gottschalk, Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Jakob Kneissl, Johannes Wechsler, Raimund Meyer, Dominik Soller, Michael Schlicht, Frank Obernosterer
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Patent number: 12035224Abstract: Embodiments provide a controller for a participant of a communication system wirelessly communicates in a frequency band used for communication by a plurality of communication systems, wherein the controller is configured to identify a network-specific channel access pattern, wherein the network-specific channel access pattern indicates a frequency hop-based and/or time hop-based occupancy of resources of the frequency band that is usable for the communication of the communication system, wherein the controller is configured to identify a relative channel access pattern, wherein the relative channel access pattern indicates, from the usable frequency hop-based and/or time hop-based occupancy of resources of the network-specific channel access pattern, an occupancy of resources that is to be used for the transfer of data of the participant.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-NuernbergInventors: Frank Obernosterer, Raimund Meyer, Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Johannes Wechsler, Jakob Kneissl, Michael Schlicht, Joerg Robert
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Patent number: 11923881Abstract: A data receiver is configured to receive a signal, the signal comprising interferences of an interference-infested transmission channel, the data receiver being configured to form a histogram of receive information of a signal portion of the received signal and to determine mean receive information and/or a noise measure from the histogram.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Karol Bieg, Eberhard Gamm, Clemens Korn, Jakob Kneissl, Frank Obernosterer, Raimund Meyer
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Patent number: 11909519Abstract: Embodiments provide transfer methods. The method includes a step of transferring data of a first class from a data transmitter to a data receiver, wherein the data of the first class is transferred divided onto a first plurality of sub-data packets using a first hopping pattern. Furthermore, the method includes a step of transferring data of a second class from the data transmitter or a different data transmitter to the data receiver, wherein the data of the second class is transferred divided onto a second plurality of sub-data packets using a second hopping pattern, wherein transmission pauses between sub-data packets transferred according to the first hopping pattern are smaller than transmission pauses between sub-data packets transferred according to the second hopping pattern.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Guenter Rohmer, Maximilian Roth, Frank Nachtrab, Jakob Kneissl, Johannes Wechsler, Michael Schlicht, Raimund Meyer, Frank Obernosterer
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Patent number: 11881889Abstract: Embodiments provide a method for generating a hopping pattern for transmitting a plurality of sub-data packets in a communication system. The method has a step of deriving a hopping pattern from a binary sequence, wherein an autocorrelation function of the binary sequence has autocorrelation side maximums with a predetermined maximum value. The method further has a step of determining a maximum sub-data packet length for the plurality of sub-data packets in dependence on a total emission duration of the plurality of sub-data packets indicated by the hopping pattern, and a minimum value of a difference sequence of a sorted difference number series derived from the binary sequence.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignees: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V., DIEHL METERING GMBHInventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Johannes Wechsler, Jakob Kneissl, Raimund Meyer, Frank Obernosterer, Thomas Kauppert, Hristo Petkov
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Patent number: 11817897Abstract: Embodiments provide a terminal point of a communication system, wherein a control signal is emitted in the communication system for coordinating the participants of the communication system, wherein the control signal is transferred distributed in correspondence with a frequency hop-based occupancy of resources of the frequency band, indicated by a control signal hopping pattern, wherein the terminal point has a receiver, wherein a receive bandwidth of the receiver is smaller at least by the factor 3 than a bandwidth of the frequency hop-based occupancy of resources of the frequency band, indicated by the control signal hopping pattern, wherein the terminal point is configured to receive a reference signal, the reference signal having information on the control signal, wherein the terminal point is configured to receive the control signal based on the information on the control signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignees: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V., FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN-NUERNBERGInventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Frank Obernosterer, Raimund Meyer, Johannes Wechsler, Jakob Kneißl, Dominik Soller, Jörg Robert
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Patent number: 11742893Abstract: In embodiments, instead of a uniform (global) hopping pattern that is used equally by all data transmitters and data receivers of a communication system, data transmitters and the data receiver use an individual hopping pattern for the communication. This individual hopping pattern may depend on an operation and is therefore only used by the data transmitter and the data receiver themselves or by a small group of data transmitters and/or data receivers, which may significantly increase the interference immunity.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2019Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG, E.V.Inventors: Johannes Wechsler, Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Dominik Soller, Jakob Kneissl, Alexej Jarresch, Raimund Meyer, Frank Obernosterer
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Patent number: 11700032Abstract: Proposed is a controller for a participant of a communication system, wherein the communication system wirelessly communicates in a frequency band that is used for communication by a plurality of communication systems, wherein the controller is configured to identify a channel access pattern, wherein the channel access pattern indicates a frequency hop-based and/or time hop-based occupancy of the frequency band that is usable for the communication of the communication system, wherein the controller is configured to identify the channel access pattern as a function of individual information of the communication system and as a function of a state of a numerical sequence generator for generating a numerical sequence or a number of a numerical sequence.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.Inventors: Frank Obernosterer, Raimund Meyer, Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Johannes Wechsler, Jakob Kneißl, Stefan Ereth, Jörg Robert
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Publication number: 20220417953Abstract: A subscriber in a communication system is configured to transmit data to a base station of the communication system. The subscriber is configured to take a quality criterion of at least one previous transmission between the subscriber and the base station as a basis for transmitting the data in a first frequency range or in a second frequency range being different from each other, and/or in a first time interval or in a second time interval being different from each other. A base station, a method for receiving data and a computer program product are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Hristo Petkov, Raphael Mzyk, Thomas Kauppert, Klaus Gottschalk, Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Jakob Kneissl, Johannes Wechsler, Raimund Meyer, Dominik Soller, Michael Schlicht, Frank Obernosterer
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Publication number: 20220345177Abstract: Embodiments provide a method for generating a hopping pattern for transmitting a plurality of sub-data packets in a communication system. The method has a step of deriving a hopping pattern from a binary sequence, wherein an autocorrelation function of the binary sequence has autocorrelation side maximums with a predetermined maximum value. The method further has a step of determining a maximum sub-data packet length for the plurality of sub-data packets in dependence on a total emission duration of the plurality of sub-data packets indicated by the hopping pattern, and a minimum value of a difference sequence of a sorted difference number series derived from the binary sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Gerd KILIAN, Josef BERNHARD, Johannes WECHSLER, Jakob KNEISSL, Raimund MEYER, Frank OBERNOSTERER
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Patent number: 11336426Abstract: A data transmitter for transmitting data to a data receiver is provided, wherein individual communication information is known to the data transmitter and the data receiver, the data transmitter being configured to generate an individual synchronization sequence while using the individual communication information.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Raimund Meyer, Dominik Soller, Jakob Kneissl, Johannes Wechsler, Frank Obernosterer
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Patent number: 11258477Abstract: In embodiments, data transmitters and data receivers use, in a first mode, a first hopping pattern and a second hopping pattern for a repeated transfer of data, and, in a second mode, a third hopping pattern for the single transfer of data, wherein the hopping patterns of the first mode and the second mode are different so that a collision probability in the repeated transmission of data by a further data transmitter in a respectively different mode may be decreased and the transmission reliability may therefore be increased.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Jakob Kneissl, Josef Bernhard, Gerd Kilian, Johannes Wechsler, Raimund Meyer, Frank Obernosterer
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Patent number: 11218184Abstract: Embodiments provide a data transmitter configured to divide data onto a plurality of sub-data packets and to transmit the plurality of sub-data packets distributed in correspondence with a time/frequency hopping pattern, wherein there are transmission intermissions where no transmission takes place, between the sub-data packets, the data transmitter being configured to transmit a synchronization sub-data packet on a fixed synchronization frequency channel, wherein the synchronization frequency channel and frequency channels in which the plurality of sub-data packets are transmitted in correspondence with the time/frequency hopping pattern are different.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2020Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Jakob Kneissl, Johannes Wechsler, Frank Obernosterer, Raimund Meyer
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Patent number: 11159201Abstract: Embodiments provide a data transmitter configured to divide data onto a plurality of sub-data packets and to transmit the plurality of sub-data packets distributed in correspondence with a time/frequency hopping pattern, wherein there are transmission intermissions where no transmission takes place, between the sub-data packets, the data transmitter being configured to transmit a synchronization sub-data packet on a fixed synchronization frequency channel, wherein the synchronization frequency channel and frequency channels in which the plurality of sub-data packets are transmitted in correspondence with the time/frequency hopping pattern are different.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2020Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Jakob Kneissl, Johannes Wechsler, Frank Obernosterer, Raimund Meyer
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Patent number: 11050590Abstract: A data receiver configured to receive a signal having at least two partial data packets, the data receiver being configured to estimate a state of a transmission channel, to obtain first channel state information, to demodulate a first set of received symbols from different data packets, to obtain a first set of received encoded bits, wherein the data receiver is configured to decode the first set of received encoded bits to determine, a first set of estimated encoded bits which corresponds more likely to a first set of transmitted encoded bits than the received encoded bits, and to map the first set of estimated bits to estimated transmission symbols using a mapping rule matching a transmitter-side mapping rule to obtain a first set of estimated transmission symbols, and to determine second channel state information using the first set of estimated transmission symbols.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-NuernbergInventors: Gerd Kilian, Jakob Kneissl, Frank Obernosterer, Raimund Meyer, Eberhard Gamm, Joerg Robert, Johannes Wechsler, Josef Bernhard, Michael Schlicht
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Publication number: 20210194538Abstract: Embodiments provide a terminal point of a communication system, wherein a control signal is emitted in the communication system for coordinating the participants of the communication system, wherein the control signal is transferred distributed in correspondence with a frequency hop-based occupancy of resources of the frequency band, indicated by a control signal hopping pattern, wherein the terminal point has a receiver, wherein a receive bandwidth of the receiver is smaller at least by the factor 3 than a bandwidth of the frequency hop-based occupancy of resources of the frequency band, indicated by the control signal hopping pattern, wherein the terminal point is configured to receive a reference signal, the reference signal having information on the control signal, wherein the terminal point is configured to receive the control signal based on the information on the control signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2021Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Gerd KILIAN, Josef BERNHARD, Frank OBERNOSTERER, Raimund MEYER, Johannes WECHSLER, Jakob KNEIßL, Dominik SOLLER, Jörg ROBERT
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Publication number: 20210112485Abstract: Embodiments provide a controller for a participant of a communication system wirelessly communicates in a frequency band used for communication by a plurality of communication systems, wherein the controller is configured to identify a network-specific channel access pattern, wherein the network-specific channel access pattern indicates a frequency hop-based and/or time hop-based occupancy of resources of the frequency band that is usable for the communication of the communication system, wherein the controller is configured to identify a relative channel access pattern, wherein the relative channel access pattern indicates, from the usable frequency hop-based and/or time hop-based occupancy of resources of the network-specific channel access pattern, an occupancy of resources that is to be used for the transfer of data of the participant.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Inventors: Frank OBERNOSTERER, Raimund MEYER, Gerd KILIAN, Josef BERNHARD, Johannes WECHSLER, Jakob KNEISSL, Michael SCHLICHT, Joerg ROBERT
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Publication number: 20210105041Abstract: Proposed is a controller for a participant of a communication system, wherein the communication system wirelessly communicates in a frequency band that is used for communication by a plurality of communication systems, wherein the controller is configured to identify a channel access pattern, wherein the channel access pattern indicates a frequency hop-based and/or time hop-based occupancy of the frequency band that is usable for the communication of the communication system, wherein the controller is configured to identify the channel access pattern as a function of individual information of the communication system and as a function of a state of a numerical sequence generator for generating a numerical sequence or a number of a numerical sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2020Publication date: April 8, 2021Inventors: Frank OBERNOSTERER, Raimund MEYER, Gerd KILIAN, Josef BERNHARD, Johannes WECHSLER, Jakob KNEIßL, Stefan ERETH, Jörg ROBERT