Patents by Inventor Stefan ERETH
Stefan ERETH 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: 11881637Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an antenna arrangement including a magnetic antenna and a tuning element. The magnetic antenna includes a loop interrupted one or several times and a tuning element for tuning the magnetic antenna. The tuning element is configured to provide a tuning signal (e.g., control signal) for tuning the magnetic antenna, and to control the tuning element with the tuning signal to tune the magnetic antenna.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Tobias Dräger, Christopher Laske, Ralph Oppelt, Michael Kamper, Felix Auer, Stefan Ereth, Gerald Ulbricht
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Patent number: 11792853Abstract: Embodiments provide a base station of an uncoordinated wireless communication system, wherein the communication system is configured to communicate in a radio band used by a plurality of communication systems, wherein the base station is configured to receive an uplink transmission from an end point of the wireless communication system, wherein the base station is configured to transmit, in response to the reception of the uplink transmission, a downlink transmission to the end point in a downlink transmission window, wherein the downlink transmission window is synchronized in time to the uplink transmission, wherein the base station is configured, in case of an expected collision of the downlink transmission with another transmission, to reposition the downlink transmission in time and/or frequency within the downlink transmission window, in order to avoid a collision of the downlink transmission with the other transmission.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Johannes Wechsler, Jakob Kneissl, Stefan Ereth, Dominik Soller
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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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Patent number: 11671140Abstract: Embodiments provide a transmission method for wireless transmission of data within a communication system. The method includes a step of transmitting the data in a manner that is time-synchronized with a reference signal while using a frequency hopping pattern and/or time hopping pattern.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2019Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Stefan Ereth, Jakob Kneissl, Johannes Wechsler
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Patent number: 11516703Abstract: Embodiments provide a transfer method for transferring data of variable length using a fixedly specified number of sub-data packets to which the data of variable length is distributed.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-NuernbergInventors: Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Joerg Robert, Jakob Kneissl, Johannes Wechsler, Stefan Ereth
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Publication number: 20220069866Abstract: A participant of a communication system includes a microcontroller and a configuration interface, wherein the configuration interface includes an electromagnetic resonant circuit directly connected to the microcontroller, configured to detect and/or to generate a magnetic signal including data to be transmitted to and/or from the participant, wherein the microcontroller is connected to at least one tuning element for tuning the electromagnetic resonant circuit, wherein the microcontroller is configured to switch at least one pin of the microcontroller, with which the at least one tuning element is connected, to one of several different operating modes in order to tune the electromagnetic resonant circuit, wherein the electromagnetic resonant circuit is connected in series between a first pin of the microcontroller and a reference potential terminal, wherein the at least one tuning element is connected between the first pin and at least one second pin of the microcontroller, wherein the microcontroller is confType: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventors: Gerd KILIAN, Alexej JARRESCH, Martin KOHLMANN, Stefan ERETH, Ferdinand KEMETH, Robert KOCH
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Publication number: 20220022205Abstract: What is describes is a participant of a communication system, the participant being configured to transmit data using a first radio network and a second radio network in a frequency band, the participant being configured to transmit data in the first radio network according to a first time and/or frequency hopping pattern in a first frequency range of the frequency band, the participant being configured to transmit data in the second radio network according to a second time and/or frequency hopping pattern in a second frequency range of the frequency band, wherein the first time and/or frequency hopping pattern and the second time and/or frequency hopping pattern are different, wherein the first frequency range and the second frequency range overlap at least partially.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2021Publication date: January 20, 2022Inventors: Gerd KILIAN, Josef BERNHARD, Dominik SOLLER, Günter ROHMER, Frank NACHTRAB, Jakob KNEIßL, Stefan ERETH, Michael SCHLICHT
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Publication number: 20220013910Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an antenna arrangement including a magnetic antenna and a tuning element. The magnetic antenna includes a loop interrupted one or several times and a tuning element for tuning the magnetic antenna. The tuning element is configured to provide a tuning signal (e.g., control signal) for tuning the magnetic antenna, and to control the tuning element with the tuning signal to tune the magnetic antenna.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2021Publication date: January 13, 2022Inventors: Gerd KILIAN, Josef BERNHARD, Tobias DRÄGER, Christopher LASKE, Ralph OPPELT, Michael KAMPER, Felix AUER, Stefan ERETH, Gerald ULBRICHT
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Publication number: 20210385768Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a participant of a communication system, wherein the communication system communicates wirelessly in a frequency used by a plurality of communication systems, wherein the participant is configured to transmit data uncoordinatedly with respect to other participants and/or a base station of the communication system, wherein the participant is configured to receive a synchronization data packet of a point-to-multipoint data transfer of the base station of the communication system, wherein the synchronization data packet is transferred in a frequency range of the frequency band of the communication system that is specified or known to the participant, wherein the participant is configured to receive, on the basis of the synchronization data packet, a payload data packet of the point-to-multipoint data transfer that is referenced in time and/or frequency to the synchronization data packet.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Inventors: Gerd KILIAN, Josef BERNHARD, Thomas KAUPPERT, Hristo PETKOV, Klaus GOTTSCHALK, Johannes WECHSLER, Jakob KNEIßL, Dominik SOLLER, Stefan ERETH
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Patent number: 11190627Abstract: A transmitter is configured to operate in a mobile communication system according to a mobile communication standard (e.g., 3GPP), wherein resources of the communication system are divided into resources elements. The transmitter is also configured to transmit an additional telegram by separating the telegram into a plurality of data packets, each of the data packets being shorter than the telegram, and transmitting each of the data packets respectively in one of the resource elements.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 'Inventors: Albert Heuberger, Marco Breiling, Jörg Robert, Jakob Kneissl, Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Johannes Wechsler, Stefan Ereth
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Publication number: 20210360339Abstract: Embodiments provide a method for transmitting data between a user terminal and another apparatus. The method has a step of generating a signal for driving an electromagnetic functional unit, the electromagnetic functional unit being an actuator of a loudspeaker of the user terminal or the electromagnetic functional unit being an electromagnetic oscillating circuit connected to the user terminal. Additionally, the method has a step of driving the electromagnetic functional unit by the generated signal to produce, by the electromagnetic functional unit, a magnetic signal which carries first data to be transmitted from the user terminal to the other apparatus. Additionally, the method has a step of detecting another signal output by the other apparatus, the other signal carrying second data to be transmitted from the other apparatus to the user terminal. Thus, the magnetic signal and the other signal differ in the physical signal type.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Inventors: Michael SCHLICHT, Josef BERNHARD, Gerd KILIAN, Dominik SOLLER, Alexej JARRESCH, Stefan ERETH
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Publication number: 20210315013Abstract: Embodiments provide a base station of an uncoordinated wireless communication system, wherein the communication system is configured to communicate in a radio band used by a plurality of communication systems, wherein the base station is configured to receive an uplink transmission from an end point of the wireless communication system, wherein the base station is configured to transmit, in response to the reception of the uplink transmission, a downlink transmission to the end point in a downlink transmission window, wherein the downlink transmission window is synchronized in time to the uplink transmission, wherein the base station is configured, in case of an expected collision of the downlink transmission with another transmission, to reposition the downlink transmission in time and/or frequency within the downlink transmission window, in order to avoid a collision of the downlink transmission with the other transmission.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Gerd KILIAN, Josef BERNHARD, Johannes WECHSLER, Jakob KNEISSL, Stefan ERETH, Dominik SOLLER
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Publication number: 20210250146Abstract: Data transmitter of a digital communication system, wherein the data transmitter is configured to transmit a pilot signal, wherein, for at least one partial transfer duration of a transfer duration of the pilot signal, the pilot signal is precisely at one frequency of a plurality of frequencies of a frequency channel used for data transfer by the data transmitter according to a modulation method, wherein the partial transfer duration corresponds to at least two symbol durations, preferably at least three symbol durations, or particularly preferably at least four symbol durations, of the data transfer of the data transmitter.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2021Publication date: August 12, 2021Inventors: Gerd KILIAN, Josef BERNHARD, Johannes WECHSLER, Jakob KNEIßL, Dominik SOLLER, Stefan ERETH, Thomas KAUPPERT, Hristo PETKOV, Klaus GOTTSCHALK
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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
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Patent number: 10868705Abstract: A transmitter is configured to transmit at least one signal with a pilot sequence having a plurality of pilot symbols, wherein the transmitter has a signal generator, wherein the signal generator provides the pilot sequence, wherein the signal generator provides the pilot sequence such that the pilot sequence has at least two symbol groups each having at least two pilot symbols, and the symbol groups, when evaluating a signal received by a receiver as a result of the transmission of the signal with respect to a phase, the symbol groups generate phase errors that depend on a temporal off-set between a reference point in time of the transmission of the signal by the transmitter and a value assumed and/or estimated for the evaluation for the reference point in time, said phase errors essentially mutually compensating each other across the symbol groups in the evaluation.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-NuernbergInventors: Jakob Kneissl, Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Joerg Robert, Johannes Wechsler, Stefan Ereth, Wolfgang Koch
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Publication number: 20200052952Abstract: A transmitter is configured to transmit at least one signal with a pilot sequence having a plurality of pilot symbols, wherein the transmitter has a signal generator, wherein the signal generator provides the pilot sequence, wherein the signal generator provides the pilot sequence such that the pilot sequence has at least two symbol groups each having at least two pilot symbols, and the symbol groups, when evaluating a signal received by a receiver as a result of the transmission of the signal with respect to a phase, the symbol groups generate phase errors that depend on a temporal off-set between a reference point in time of the transmission of the signal by the transmitter and a value assumed and/or estimated for the evaluation for the reference point in time, said phase errors essentially mutually compensating each other across the symbol groups in the evaluation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2019Publication date: February 13, 2020Inventors: Jakob Kneissl, Gerd Kilian, Josef Bernhard, Joerg Robert, Johannes Wechsler, Stefan Ereth, Wolfgang Koch
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Publication number: 20190253101Abstract: Embodiments provide a transmission method for wireless transmission of data within a communication system. The method includes a step of transmitting the data in a manner that is time-synchronized with a reference signal while using a frequency hopping pattern and/or time hopping pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2019Publication date: August 15, 2019Inventors: Gerd KILIAN, Josef BERNHARD, Stefan ERETH, Jakob KNEISSL, Johannes WECHSLER
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Publication number: 20190246315Abstract: Embodiments provide a transfer method for transferring data of variable length using a fixedly specified number of sub-data packets to which the data of variable length is distributed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2019Publication date: August 8, 2019Inventors: Gerd KILIAN, Josef BERNHARD, Joerg ROBERT, Jakob KNEISSL, Johannes WECHSLER, Stefan ERETH
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Publication number: 20190014198Abstract: A transmitter is configured to operate in a mobile communication system according to a mobile communication standard (e.g., 3GPP), wherein resources of the communication system are divided into resources elements. The transmitter is also configured to transmit an additional telegram by separating the telegram into a plurality of data packets, each of the data packets being shorter than the telegram, and transmitting each of the data packets respectively in one of the resource elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: Albert HEUBERGER, Marco Breiling, Jörg ROBERT, Jakob KNEISSL, Gerd KILIAN, Josef BERNHARD, Johannes WECHSLER, Stefan ERETH