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).

  • 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
  • Publication number: 20200344764
    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: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel REIMANN, Guillaume JORNOD, Steffen SCHMITZ
  • Publication number: 20200314728
    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: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel REIMANN, Guillaume JORNOD, Steffen SCHMITZ
  • Publication number: 20200296782
    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: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Guillaume JORNOD, Daniel REIMANN, Steffen SCHMITZ
  • Patent number: 10779239
    Abstract: A method, mobile radio station and computer program to perform a change of the mobile radio device category based on the state of the transportation vehicle. When the transportation vehicle is stopped, a lower mobile radio device category is selected, wherein the downlink and/or uplink data rates are reduced. This protects the battery of the transportation vehicle and improves the resource utilization in the mobile radio system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Andreas Kwoczek, Teodor Buburuzan, Roman Alieiev, Thorsten Hehn, Ernst Zielinski, Steffen Schmitz
  • Publication number: 20200267512
    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: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Andreas PFADLER, Steffen SCHMITZ, Andreas KWOCZEK
  • Publication number: 20200252769
    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: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Roman ALIEIEV, Daniel REIMANN, Teodor BUBURUZAN, Steffen SCHMITZ
  • Publication number: 20200204614
    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: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Steffen SCHMITZ, Jens KAMPERMANN, Karthik SATYANARAYANA, Sebastian Gehrling
  • Patent number: 10652712
    Abstract: A method for organizing the communication between mobile radio network subscriber stations in a mobile radio cell, wherein a mobile radio network management unit, especially the scheduler of a base station, in the mobile radio cell performs the allocation of the radio resources. The mobile radio network management unit defines for the mobile radio cell a number of subradio areas in which a number of mobile radio subscriber stations are allowed to use the same radio resources for direct communication with one another in parallel operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: Thorsten Hehn, Ernst Zielinski, Steffen Schmitz, Andreas Kwoczek, Teodor Buburuzan, Roman Alieiev
  • Publication number: 20190380015
    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: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ahmad El Assaad, Steffen Schmitz
  • Publication number: 20190357051
    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: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ahmad El Assaad, Guillaume Jornod, Steffen Schmitz
  • Patent number: 10271246
    Abstract: A mobile communication handover method which takes into account information about special equipment of the mobile telephone network subscriber station during a handover process for the mobile telephone network subscriber station wherein information about special equipment of the mobile telephone network subscriber station is transmitted from the mobile telephone network subscriber station to a mobile telephone network management unit, which takes the information about the special equipment into account during the handover process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: Thorsten Hehn, Ernst Zielinski, Steffen Schmitz, Andreas Kwoczek, Teodor Buburuzan, Roman Alieiev
  • Publication number: 20190037500
    Abstract: A method, mobile radio station and computer program to perform a change of the mobile radio device category based on the state of the transportation vehicle. When the transportation vehicle is stopped, a lower mobile radio device category is selected, wherein the downlink and/or uplink data rates are reduced. This protects the battery of the transportation vehicle and improves the resource utilization in the mobile radio system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Andreas KWOCZEK, Teodor BUBURUZAN, Roman ALIEIEV, Thorsten HEHN, Ernst ZIELINSKI, Steffen SCHMITZ
  • Patent number: 10194294
    Abstract: A method for collective acquisition of data of road users including the selection of the mobile devices whose data are intended to be acquired and transmitted to the at least one data acquisition computer depending on at least the connection status of the mobile devices in the mobile radio network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Steffen Schmitz, Andreas Kwoczek, Teodor Buburuzan, Thorsten Hehn, Ernst Zielinski, Roman Alieiev
  • Publication number: 20180199349
    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: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Thorsten HEHN, Ernst ZIELINSKI, Steffen SCHMITZ, Andreas KWOCZEK, Teodor BUBURUZAN, Roman ALIEIEV
  • Publication number: 20180192270
    Abstract: A method for collective acquisition of data of road users including the selection of the mobile devices whose data are intended to be acquired and transmitted to the at least one data acquisition computer depending on at least the connection status of the mobile devices in the mobile radio network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Steffen SCHMITZ, Andreas KWOCZEK, Teodor BUBURUZAN, Thorsten HEHN, Ernst ZIELINSKI, Roman ALIEIEV
  • Publication number: 20180184339
    Abstract: A mobile communication handover method which takes into account information about special equipment of the mobile telephone network subscriber station during a handover process for the mobile telephone network subscriber station wherein information about special equipment of the mobile telephone network subscriber station is transmitted from the mobile telephone network subscriber station to a mobile telephone network management unit, which takes the information about the special equipment into account during the handover process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Applicant: VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: Thorsten HEHN, Ernst ZIELINSKI, Steffen SCHMITZ, Andreas KWOCZEK, Teodor BUBURUZAN, Roman ALIEIEV
  • Publication number: 20180184272
    Abstract: A method for organizing the communication between mobile radio network subscriber stations in a mobile radio cell, wherein a mobile radio network management unit, especially the scheduler of a base station, in the mobile radio cell performs the allocation of the radio resources. The mobile radio network management unit defines for the mobile radio cell a number of subradio areas in which a number of mobile radio subscriber stations are allowed to use the same radio resources for direct communication with one another in parallel operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Thorsten HEHN, Ernst ZIELINSKI, Steffen SCHMITZ, Andreas KWOCZEK, Teodor BUBURUZAN, Roman ALIEIEV