Patents by Inventor Ralf Becker

Ralf Becker 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).

  • Publication number: 20110307348
    Abstract: A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a number range, a number range profile, a payment card payment authorisation, and/or a product template template business object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Inventors: Kritesh Vasing, Jyotsna Sharma, Ashwin Reddy Yeddula, Andreas Huppert, Axel Kuehl, Michael Seubert, Mohit V. Gadkari, Muttanna Sarashetti, Dagmar Schultze, Horst Schaude, Martin Haerterich, Ralf Becker, Ingo Bruss, Jesse Seldess, Tanjana Preiser-Funke
  • Publication number: 20110286333
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling feedback of mobile terminals receiving via an air interface of a mobile communication system a multicast or broadcast service transmitted or forwarded by a feedback control entity and to a mobile terminal, the feedback control entity using this method. Further, a system comprising a feedback control entity and a mobile terminal receiving a multicast or broadcast service is provided. To enable configurable and adaptive feedback for multicast or broadcast services provided via an air interface maintaining the end-to-end session concept the invention suggests selecting a subset of the mobile terminals of the mobile communication system and which receive the multicast or broadcast service for providing feedback to a feedback control entity. In one embodiment of the invention the terminals may decide whether to provide feedback based on a probabilistic experiment performed based on parameters determined and provided by the feedback control entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jose REY, Ivica Rimac, Rolf Hakenberg, Ralf Becker
  • Patent number: 8014813
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling feedback of mobile terminals receiving via an air interface of a mobile communication system a multicast or broadcast service transmitted or forwarded by a feedback control entity and to a mobile terminal, the feedback control entity using this method. Further, a system comprising a feedback control entity and a mobile terminal receiving a multicast or broadcast service is provided. To enable configurable and adaptive feedback for multicast or broadcast services provided via an air interface maintaining the end-to-end session concept the invention suggests selecting a subset of the mobile terminals of the mobile communication system and which receive the multicast or broadcast service for providing feedback to a feedback control entity. In one embodiment of the invention the terminals may decide whether to provide feedback based on a probabilistic experiment performed based on parameters determined and provided by the feedback control entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Jose Rey, Ivica Rimac, Rolf Hakenberg, Ralf Becker
  • Patent number: 8011708
    Abstract: The invention relates to a robot gripper having a fixing flange for detachably attaching it to a robot manipulator arm, and at least one actuator element which is supported in a frame, that actuates at least two gripper jaws indirectly or directly kinematically via at least one articulated unit. At least the fixing flange, the frame and the actuator element are manufactured integrally using a generative manufacturing method, and the actuator element is in the form of a bellows, enclosed an internal volume, which can be filled with a medium via at least one opening, and is capable of expanding, when filled with a medium, along a linear axis predetermined by the bellows design of the actuator element and of contracting, when the volume is emptied, in the opposite direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.
    Inventors: Ralf Becker, Andrzej Grzesiak
  • Publication number: 20110122631
    Abstract: A reflector luminaire with a light-emitting means and a reflector, which reflects light from the light-emitting means which is incident on said reflector in a predetermined emission direction and which has a rim (2) which points towards the emission direction makes it possible to perform particular lighting tasks, for example the uniform illumination of a rectangular illumination area by virtue of the fact that the reflector comprises a plurality of differently designed segments (7), which are calculated individually with respect to the light-emitting means for defined illumination of a predetermined area, and by the fact that the segments (7) are joined to one another by transition sections (8), by means of which the predetermined reflecting total surface area of the segments (7) is reduced by less than ΒΌ.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: Auer Lighting GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Becker, Harry Wagener, Marc C. Hubner
  • Publication number: 20110106744
    Abstract: A content recommendation device and a content recommendation method that recommend appropriate content with appropriate timing are provided. The content recommendation device (300) is a content recommendation device (300) which recommends content to a user as recommended content, and which includes a recommended content determining unit (330) which determines second content as the recommended content, the second content being related to first content that is at least partially viewed by the user and a recommendation timing determining unit (350) which determines a recommendation timing for presenting information of the recommended content, based on a chronological relationship between the recommended content and third content which is related to the recommended content and is currently available or will be available for viewing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Ralf Becker, Jose Luis Rey, Martin Schlockermann, Toshihisa Nakano, Toru Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 7899391
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method providing a multicast or broadcast service to (the user of) a mobile terminal via a radio access network of a mobile communication system. The multicast or broadcast service is associated to a plurality of bearers for providing the multicast or broadcast service: Further, the invention relates to a mobile terminal for providing a multicast or broadcast service to a user, and to a network entity for providing a multicast or broadcast service to a mobile terminal via a radio access network of a mobile communication system. To enable the correct reception of the broadcast or multicast service at the mobile terminal, the invention proposes to provide the mobile terminal with information on the individual (layered/alternative/complementary) bearers' relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Ralf Becker
  • Publication number: 20100322128
    Abstract: One aspect of the invention relates to ensuring service continuity of a multicast service received from an access node assigned to a first and a second pool area simultaneously. Another aspect of the invention relates to the establishment of a user plane between a user plane entity and different access nodes assigned to different pool areas simultaneously for multicast or broadcast services. To ensure service continuity of the multicast service, it is proposed that the MME serving the mobile terminal registers at the UPE providing the multicast user plane to the access node irrespective of the UPE being assigned to the same pool area/tracking area as the MME. To facilitate efficient resource utilization in the distribution of service data to access nodes located in a overlapping region of pool areas, the invention further suggests proactive and reactive schemes for ensuring the selection of a common UPE for overlapping pool areas thereby ignoring consider pool area boundaries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ralf Becker, Osvaldo Gonsa
  • Publication number: 20100302988
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method providing a multicast or broadcast service to (the user of) a mobile terminal via a radio access network of a mobile communication system. The multicast or broadcast service is associated to a plurality of bearers for providing the multicast or broadcast service: Further, the invention relates to a mobile terminal for providing a multicast or broadcast service to a user, and to a network entity for providing a multicast or broadcast service to a mobile terminal via a radio access network of a mobile communication system. To enable the correct reception of the broadcast or multicast service at the mobile terminal, the invention proposes to provide the mobile terminal with information on the individual (layered/alternative/complementary) bearers' relationships.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ralf Becker
  • Publication number: 20100265867
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for distributing control signaling for session control of a multicast or broadcast service within a mobile communication network. Furthermore the invention also provides a base station, mobile terminal and communication system to perform the proposed method. In order to reduce the number of signaling connections for the service, the invention proposes to avoid the initial distribution of session control signaling in the entire mobile communications network or service area. Rather than providing service related control signaling connections upon session start, the control signaling connections are set up in response to service requests of the mobile terminals requesting the service. According to one further aspect, the mobile terminals send the service requests based on service announcements available at the mobile terminals, i.e.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Ralf Becker, Osvaldo Gonsa, Akito Fukui, Takeshi Kanazawa
  • Patent number: 7801480
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method providing a multicast or broadcast service to (the user of) a mobile terminal via a radio access network of a mobile communication system. The multicast or broadcast service is associated to a plurality of bearers for providing the multicast or broadcast service: Further, the invention relates to a mobile terminal for providing a multicast or broadcast service to a user, and to a network entity for providing a multicast or broadcast service to a mobile terminal via a radio access network of a mobile communication system. To enable the correct reception of the broadcast or multicast service at the mobile terminal, the invention proposes to provide the mobile terminal with information on the individual (layered/alternative/complementary) bearers' relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Ralf Becker
  • Patent number: 7729054
    Abstract: The optical diffuser has a transparent base body with a base body surface, which is divided into facets. Each facet has an elevation or a depression correlated or associated with a second curved surface. Respective facets have correspondingly different geometrical shapes. In some embodiments the respective apexes (S) of the elevations or depressions are arranged along a spiral, especially an Archimedean spiral. In other embodiments the apexes (S) are defined by coordinates (xs?, ys?) derived by rotation of coordinates (xp, yp) of all points (P), which are defined by an arrangement of facets with regular hexagonal edge contours, about a center (0, 0) through a twist angle (?). Alternatively the apexes (S) are defined by coordinates (xs?, ys?) derived from coordinates (xp, yp) of all points (P), which are defined by the arrangement of facets with regular hexagonal edge contours, by random variations with the help of a Monte Carlo method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Ralf Becker, Ruediger Kittelmann, Eberhard Kurek, Harry Wagener, Ulrich Zirfas
  • Publication number: 20100128649
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for continuing the provision of a multicast service to a mobile node, which moved to a network area, in which the multicast service is provided at a different data rate than before. A content synchronization entity is introduced into the mobile communications system for deciding whether to establish an additional multicast session to be provided to the mobile node via an additional data channel, in order to allow a seamless multicast service provision. The content synchronization entity may base its decision on various parameters and algorithms, such as the progress of the session provision in the source network at the time the mobile node performs the handover. Subsequent mobile nodes that enter the same network area may reuse the previously established additional data channel and receive the additional multicast session, since the additional data channel may be established as a multicast radio bearer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osvaldo Gonsa, Ralf Becker, Rolf Hakenberg
  • Publication number: 20100082497
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including systems and computer program products, for a services architecture design that provides enterprise services having foundation layer functionality at the level of an enterprise application. The design includes a set of service operations, process components, and optionally deployment units. Suitable business objects are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: SAP AG
    Inventors: Thomas Biesemann, Dieter Krisch, Volker Schott, Michael Meyringer, Otfried Von Geisau, Martin Haerterich, Ralf Becker, Ingo Bruss, Horst Schaude, Silke Storch, Klaus Bahr, Volker Faisst, Ralph Moessner, Vsevolod Barabanov, Andreas Kasparek, Jens Griessmann, Hendrik Geipel, Frank Lindqvist, Oliver Grande, Ute Dittmann, Ricardo Padilha, Martin Walla, Joachim Puteick, Daniel Zimmermann, Thomas Schneider, Tilmann Haeberle, Gerald Krause, Karl-Peter Nos, Peter Schwarze, Daniel Maring, Yongbin He, Martina Lahr, Ingo Pfitzner, Shadab Shafiq, Christian Haas, Olaf Schulte, Christoph Lehner, Dietmar Storz, Joachim Barnbeck, Bernhard May, Andrea Sudbrack, Michael Wachter, Thomas Kretz, Monika Kaiser, Andreas Steiner, Gurmeet Singh Dhingra, Andreas Huppert, Ashwin Reddy Yeddula, Keshav B. Desal, Tobias Traxel, Kranthi Kumar Muppala, Muttanna Sarashetti, Kritesh Vasing, Kai-Uwe Pielka, Raja Krishnamoorthy, Jyotsna Sharma, Mohit V. Gadkari, Mukesh Kumar, Toralf Grossmann, Andreas Neumann, Fabian Guenther, Jens Ruths, Matthias Richter, Walter Koller, Philipp Suenderhauf
  • Publication number: 20100061308
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and network control node for detecting the point of attachment of mobile terminals moving within a mobile communication network in idle mode, wherein the mobile communication system can be logically divided into plural tracking areas to which the mobile terminals register. Further, the invention relates to a method for enabling management of mobile terminals in idle mode receiving a service within such mobile communication system. Moreover, the invention relates to a method and mobile terminal for updating the mobile terminal's tracking area registration in a mobile communication system being logically divided into plural tracking areas, wherein mobile terminal is in idle mode and is registered to plural tracking areas simultaneously. The invention suggests different mechanism how to detect terminals registering to plural tracking area, how to verify their current location in the network and how to use these information, for example for resource management.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ralf Becker, Osvaldo Gonsa
  • Publication number: 20090303914
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for managing the mobility of a mobile terminal, while receiving a service via an access node of a mobile communication network. The mobile communication network has overlapping pool areas, while the access node is assigned to at least two pool areas simultaneously. After the UE changes to the access node of the overlapping area, it is proposed that the mobility management entity serving the UE arbitrarily selects a prospect user plane entity for transporting service data into the next pool areas, and requests from the service provider information about UPEs handling this service. After the actual attachment to an access node within the new pool area, the handover is finalized by changing the UPE from the old one to the selected UPE in the new pool area. Thereby, the data path from the service provider to the UE is constantly being optimized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2007
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osvaldo Gonsa, Ralf Becker
  • Publication number: 20090213775
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling the transmission of feedback of mobile terminals receiving via an air interface of a mobile communication system a multicast or broadcast service transmitted or forwarded by a feedback control entity and to a mobile terminal, the feedback control entity using this method. Further, a communication system comprising a feedback control entity and a mobile terminal receiving a multicast or broadcast service is provided. To enable configurable and adaptive feedback for multicast or broadcast services provided via an air interface maintaining the end-to-end session concept the invention suggests that a feedback control entity deterministically selects a subset of the mobile terminals of the mobile communication system and which receive the multicast or broadcast service for providing feedback to the feedback control entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2005
    Publication date: August 27, 2009
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jose Luis Rey, Ivica Rimac, Rolf Hakenberg, Ralf Becker, Akito Fukui
  • Publication number: 20090175212
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling feedback of mobile terminals receiving via an air interface of a mobile communication system a multicast or broadcast service transmitted or forwarded by a feedback control entity and to a mobile terminal, the feedback control entity using this method. Further, a system comprising a feedback control entity and a mobile terminal receiving a multicast or broadcast service is provided. To enable configurable and adaptive feedback for multicast or broadcast services provided via an air interface maintaining the end-to-end session concept the invention suggests selecting a subset of the mobile terminals of the mobile communication system and which receive the multicast or broadcast service for providing feedback to a feedback control entity. In one embodiment of the invention the terminals may decide whether to provide feedback based on a probabilistic experiment performed based on parameters determined and provided by the feedback control entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jose REY, Ivica Rimac, Rolf Hakenberg, Ralf Becker
  • Publication number: 20090108605
    Abstract: The invention relates to a robot gripper having a fixing flange for detachably attaching it to a robot manipulator arm, and at least one actuator element which is supported in a frame, that actuates at least two gripper jaws indirectly or directly kinematically via at least one articulated unit. At least the fixing flange, the frame and the actuator element are manufactured integrally using a generative manufacturing method, and the actuator element is in the form of a bellows, enclosed an internal volume, which can be filled with a medium via at least one opening, and is capable of expanding, when filled with a medium, along a linear axis predetermined by the bellows design of the actuator element and of contracting, when the volume is emptied, in the opposite direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2006
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Forderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.V.
    Inventors: Ralf Becker, Andrzej Grzesiak
  • Patent number: 7522935
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling the transmission of feedback of mobile terminals receiving via an air interface of a mobile communication system a multicast or broadcast service transmitted or forwarded by a feedback control entity and to a mobile terminal, the feedback control entity using this method. Further, a communication system comprising a feedback control entity and a mobile terminal receiving a multicast or broadcast service is provided. To enable configurable and adaptive feedback for multicast or broadcast services provided via an air interface maintaining the end-to-end session concept the invention suggests selecting a subset of the mobile terminals of the mobile communication system and which receive the multicast or broadcast service for providing feedback to a feedback control entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Jose Rey, Ivica Rimac, Rolf Hakenberg, Ralf Becker