Patents by Inventor Steffen SCHMITZ

Steffen SCHMITZ 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).

  • Patent number: 11861407
    Abstract: Technologies and techniques for a mobile end device to offload computing from the mobile end device to at least one edge computer and/or at least one cloud computer. Resource information may be obtained from the at least one edge computer and/or at least one cloud computer. Application information may be obtained from at least one system application in the mobile end device, and A computing capacity may be assigned for the at least one system application in the mobile end device to the at least one edge computer and/or the at least one cloud computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Sebastian Gehrling, Steffen Schmitz, Jens Kampermann, Karthik Satyanarayana
  • Patent number: 11751029
    Abstract: A transportation vehicle, an apparatus, a method, and a computer program for a transportation vehicle in a mobile communication system a system. A method for a first transportation vehicle in a mobile communication system for setting up data communication with a second transportation vehicle includes receiving a message from the second transportation vehicle on a first radio frequency, the message having information related to an antenna of the second transportation vehicle; configuring an antenna of the first transportation vehicle based on the information related to the antenna of the second transportation vehicle; and transmitting a data packet to the second transportation vehicle on a second radio frequency using the antenna of the first transportation vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventors: Andreas Pfadler, Steffen Schmitz, Andreas Kwoczek
  • Patent number: 11700514
    Abstract: A method for a wireless communication from a first transportation vehicle to a road infrastructure station including determining the position of the first transportation vehicle, determining the distance of the transportation vehicle to the road infrastructure station, calculating a table containing predicted positions in space and/or time for the first transportation vehicle indicating the respective planned transmission characteristics for the future signal transmissions from the first transportation vehicle to the road infrastructure station at the predicted positions, transmitting the table to the surrounding transportation vehicle or to a network management station, evaluating the table in the surrounding transportation vehicle or the network management station, and adjusting the transmissions from the surrounding mobile station so that interference between the planned signal transmissions of the first transportation vehicle and the surrounding mobile station is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Inventors: Roman Alieiev, Daniel Reimann, Teodor Buburuzan, Steffen Schmitz
  • Patent number: 11457342
    Abstract: A transportation vehicle, a network entity, apparatuses, methods, and computer programs for communicating messages with other transportation vehicles and for adapting a physical layer configuration. The method for a transportation vehicle and for communicating messages with other transportation vehicles in a mobile communication system includes communicating broadcast messages using a first physical layer configuration of the mobile communication system and communicating non-broadcast messages using a second physical layer configuration of the mobile communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Inventors: Ernst Zielinski, Steffen Schmitz
  • Patent number: 11395146
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a method, an apparatus, a vehicle and a computer program for determining information related to an authenticity of a wireless message in a wireless group communication among vehicles of a group of vehicles. The method comprises Receiving the wireless message via an antenna module. The method further comprises Detecting a signal pilot within the wireless message. The method further comprises Determining the information related to the authenticity of the wireless message based on the detected signal pilot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Ahmad El Assaad, Guillaume Jornod, Steffen Schmitz
  • Publication number: 20220150677
    Abstract: A transportation vehicle, an apparatus, a method, and a computer program for a transportation vehicle in a mobile communication system a system. A method for a first transportation vehicle in a mobile communication system for setting up data communication with a second transportation vehicle includes receiving a message from the second transportation vehicle on a first radio frequency, the message having information related to an antenna of the second transportation vehicle; configuring an antenna of the first transportation vehicle based on the information related to the antenna of the second transportation vehicle; and transmitting a data packet to the second transportation vehicle on a second radio frequency using the antenna of the first transportation vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Andreas PFADLER, Steffen SCHMITZ, Andreas KWOCZEK
  • Publication number: 20220140873
    Abstract: A transportation vehicle, an apparatus, a method, and a computer program for a transportation vehicle in a mobile communication system. The method for a first transportation vehicle in a mobile communication system for controlling a radio link to a second transportation vehicle includes setting up a radio link to the second transportation vehicle, determining information related to relative movement between an antenna of the first transportation vehicle and an antenna of the second transportation vehicle based on sensor data of the first transportation vehicle, and adjusting a beam pattern of the antenna of the first transportation vehicle based on the information related to relative movement to control the radio link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Andreas PFADLER, Steffen SCHMITZ, Andreas KWOCZEK
  • Patent number: 11290853
    Abstract: A system, a transportation vehicle, apparatuses, methods, and computer programs for user equipment (UE) and a base station in a mobile communication system. The method for user equipment in the mobile communication system includes determining a coverage situation of the mobile communication system, forming a group of multiple UEs, and communicating a unicast message to multiple UEs of the group of UEs based on the coverage situation of the mobile communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Inventors: Andreas Pfadler, Steffen Schmitz, Andreas Kwoczek
  • Patent number: 11272422
    Abstract: A transportation vehicle, a system, apparatuses, methods, and computer programs for user equipment of a mobile communication system. The method for a first user equipment (user equipment) of a mobile communication system includes determining a lack of coverage of the mobile communication system; determining two or more relay candidates, a relay candidate being a user equipment capable of providing network access for the first user equipment via direct communication; and selecting a second user equipment for network access from the two or more relay candidates based on a common route section of the first and second user equipments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Inventors: Daniel Reimann, Guillaume Jornod, Steffen Schmitz
  • Publication number: 20220050725
    Abstract: Technologies and techniques for a mobile end device to offload computing from the mobile end device to at least one edge computer and/or at least one cloud computer. Resource information may be obtained from the at least one edge computer and/or at least one cloud computer. Application information may be obtained from at least one system application in the mobile end device, and A computing capacity may be assigned for the at least one system application in the mobile end device to the at least one edge computer and/or the at least one cloud computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Sebastian Gehrling, Steffen Schmitz, Jens Kampermann, Karthik Satyanarayana
  • Patent number: 11252737
    Abstract: An apparatus, a method and a computer program for determining one or more radio resources to be used for performing a wireless communication over a sidelink of a mobile communication system. The method includes estimating a level of interference, selecting a way to determine the one or more radio resources based on the level of interference, and determining the one or more radio resources to be used for performing a wireless communication over the sidelink of the mobile communication system based on the selected method or mechanism. The way to determine the one or more radio resources based on the level of interference is selected from among elements of the group of using pre-defined radio resources, the group using a decentralized coordination of radio resources, and the group using a base station-based assignment of radio resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Inventors: Daniel Reimann, Guillaume Jornod, Steffen Schmitz
  • Patent number: 11166329
    Abstract: A transportation vehicle, a system, apparatuses, methods, and a computer programs for user equipment and a network component of a mobile communication system. The method for a first user equipment (UE) of a first mobile communication system operated by a first operator includes transmitting information related to a subsequent direct communication with second user equipment to a network component of the first mobile communication system. The second UE is assigned to a second mobile communication system operated by a second operator. The method also includes receiving information related to a coordinating network component from the first network component. The coordinating network component is a network component of the first or the second mobile communication system. The method also includes receiving information related to radio resources to use for the communication with the second UE from the coordinating network component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Inventors: Guillaume Jornod, Daniel Reimann, Steffen Schmitz
  • Patent number: 11140660
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program for determining one or more radio resources to be used for performing a wireless communication over a sidelink of a mobile communication system. The method includes determining whether a transportation vehicle executing the method is in coverage or out of coverage of a base station of the mobile communication system, selecting one or more methods or mechanisms for improving a transmission reliability of the wireless communication over the sidelink from a group of methods or mechanisms for improving the transmission reliability in response to the transportation vehicle being out of coverage, and determining the one or more radio resources to be used for performing the wireless communication over the sidelink of the mobile communication system using the selected method or mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Inventors: Daniel Reimann, Guillaume Jornod, Steffen Schmitz
  • Publication number: 20210250740
    Abstract: A transportation vehicle, a network entity, apparatuses, methods, and computer programs for communicating messages with other transportation vehicles and for adapting a physical layer configuration. The method for a transportation vehicle and for communicating messages with other transportation vehicles in a mobile communication system includes communicating broadcast messages using a first physical layer configuration of the mobile communication system and communicating non-broadcast messages using a second physical layer configuration of the mobile communication system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Ernst ZIELINSKI, Steffen SCHMITZ
  • Publication number: 20210242895
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and computer programs for a mobile transceiver and for a network entity, a mobile transceiver, a network entity and a system, an apparatus, a method, and a computer program for a mobile transceiver. The method for a mobile transceiver to communicate in a mobile communication system includes providing information on a field of application of the mobile transceiver to the mobile communication system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Steffen SCHMITZ, Jörg PLECHINGER
  • Patent number: 11044590
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a vehicle, an apparatus, a method and a computer program for communicating in multiple mobile communication systems. An apparatus for a vehicle communicating in multiple mobile communication systems comprises one or more interfaces configured to communicate in the mobile communication systems using an adaptive antenna. The apparatus comprises a control module configured to control the one or more interfaces. The control module is further configured to determine a setting for the adaptive antenna to obtain spatially separated signals using the same time and frequency resources, and to detect different messages from the spatially separated signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Ahmad El Assaad, Steffen Schmitz
  • Publication number: 20210152313
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods and computer programs for a first and a second mobile transceiver to obtain a physical data channel configuration for direct communication. An apparatus for a first mobile transceiver of a mobile communication system includes one or more interfaces to communicate with a second mobile transceiver of the mobile communication system and a control module to control the one or more interfaces. The control module estimates a radio channel between the first mobile transceiver and the second mobile transceiver, establishes a control channel between the first mobile transceiver and the second mobile transceiver, determines a physical layer data channel configuration for data communication between the first mobile transceiver and the second mobile transceiver, and provides the information on the physical data channel configuration to the second mobile transceiver using the control channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Ahmad EL ASSAAD, Steffen SCHMITZ
  • Patent number: 11012502
    Abstract: A method for operating an edge cloud computer when providing a computing power to at least one terminal, in particular, a transportation vehicle including detecting resource information at the edge cloud computer, transmitting resource information to the at least one terminal, and providing at least one portion of a computing capacity of the edge cloud computer to the at least one terminal depending on the resource information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Inventors: Steffen Schmitz, Jens Kampermann, Karthik Satyanarayana, Sebastian Gehrling
  • Patent number: 10925071
    Abstract: A method for adjusting the interference level for a wireless communication from a first mobile station to a second mobile station including detecting an interference level at a transmitting station and providing for elevation of the direction of beam for the signal transmissions from the first mobile station to the second mobile station relative to an angle between the ground plane and the current direction of beam for the transmissions from the first mobile station to the second mobile station. Such lifting up of the beam avoids interference at the place of a third mobile station located at the direction of signal transmission but with further distance, since the signal strength then vanishes relatively quickly if the beam is lifted up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Inventors: Thorsten Hehn, Ernst Zielinski, Steffen Schmitz, Andreas Kwoczek, Teodor Buburuzan, Roman Alieiev
  • Publication number: 20200359360
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program for determining one or more radio resources to be used for performing a wireless communication over a sidelink of a mobile communication system. The method includes determining whether a transportation vehicle executing the method is in coverage or out of coverage of a base station of the mobile communication system, selecting one or more methods or mechanisms for improving a transmission reliability of the wireless communication over the sidelink from a group of methods or mechanisms for improving the transmission reliability in response to the transportation vehicle being out of coverage, and determining the one or more radio resources to be used for performing the wireless communication over the sidelink of the mobile communication system using the selected method or mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel REIMANN, Guillaume JORNOD, Steffen SCHMITZ