Patents by Inventor Thomas Fehrenbach

Thomas Fehrenbach 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: 20230345515
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network, is described. The wireless communication network includes a plurality of user devices, UEs. The UE is to communicate with one or more network entities of the wireless communication network, like a base station or another UE. Responsive to a trigger for a transmission, the UE is to obtain resources for the transmission. The UE is to receive from one or more further UEs one or more reports or assistance information messages, AIMs, the report or AIM including resource allocation related assistance information. Dependent on a type of resource allocation related assistance information contained in the received report or AIM and/or dependent on a certain criterium, the UE is to decide how to use the received report or AIM for obtaining resources for the transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Sarun SELVANESAN, Baris GÖKTEPE, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE
  • Publication number: 20230345564
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network is described that acts as a relaying entity so as to provide functionality to support connectivity between one or more transmitting entities and one or more receiving entities of the wireless communication network. The UE is to sets up one or more logical channels and/or one or more data bearers for a transmission of data from the UE to the one or more receiving entities based on the origin of the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Nithin SRINIVASAN, Baris GÖKTEPE, Roya EBRAHIM REZAGAH, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL
  • Publication number: 20230337188
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication system is described. The wireless communication system including a plurality of user devices, UEs. Responsive to a trigger for a transmission, the UE obtains a candidate resource set for the transmission by selecting resources for the transmission within a selection window following the trigger. The UE selects the resources by taking into consideration sensing results obtained by the UE during a sensing window preceding the trigger, and the sensing results indicate whether certain resources are available or unavailable for the transmission. The UE receives from one or more further UEs one or more reports or assistance information messages, AIMS, including resource allocation related assistance information, and considers a received report or AIM for selecting resources for the transmission when one or more predefined conditions are met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Sarun Selvanesan, Baris Göktepe, Thomas Fehrenbach, Thomas Wirth, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Schierl
  • Publication number: 20230319850
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network is described that communicates with one or more network entities of the wireless communication network, like a base station or another UE. The UE receives from a network entity a transmission, the transmission including a control region, like a Physical Sidelink Control Channel, PSCCH, and a data region, like a Physical Sidelink Shared Channel, PSSCH. The transmission includes a first control message, like a 1st-stage SCI, in the control region, and a second control message, like a 2nd-stage SCI, in the data region. The second control message includes control data and occupies some or all of the resources allocated in the data region of the transmission, or is associated with control data included in at least a part of the data region of the transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Sarun SELVANESAN, Baris GÖKTEPE, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE
  • Patent number: 11770216
    Abstract: A user equipment, UE, for a wireless communication network including one or more base stations, performs a transmission to a base station using a grant-free, GF, transmission scheme. The transmission being performed in accordance with a GF transmission configuration. The UE receives from the base station a certain signaling. The certain signaling indicates that the base station failed to identify the UE from the transmission. Responsive to the certain signaling from the base station, the UE retransmits the transmission in accordance with a GF retransmission configuration. The GF retransmission configuration is different from the GF transmission configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Zoran Utkovski, Baris Göktepe, Johannes Dommel, Thomas Fehrenbach, Lars Thiele, Cornelius Hellge, Martin Kasparick, Thomas Schierl, Stephan Blankenstein, Thomas Wirth
  • Patent number: 11770208
    Abstract: An apparatus for a wireless communication system is configured to be connected to at least one user device, UE, of the wireless communication system via a sidelink for a sidelink communication with the at least one UE. For a unicast transmission to the UE, the apparatus is configured to transmit a sidelink frame having a certain frame duration, a first part of the sidelink frame including a control signaling, the control signaling indicating to the UE whether a feedback is to be returned to the apparatus, the feedback indicating a successful reception of data at the UE and/or a sidelink channel condition. In case the feedback from the UE is desired, the apparatus is configured to transmit in the first part of the frame, using the control signaling, the indication that the feedback is to be provided by the UE such that a duration of the control signaling is shorter, by a remaining duration, than the frame duration, and receive from the UE, during the remaining duration, the feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Fehrenbach, Baris Goektepe, Thomas Wirth, Cornelius Hellge, Sarun Selvanesan, Robin Thomas, Thomas Schierl
  • Patent number: 11764938
    Abstract: A user equipment is configured to operate in a wireless communications network being operated in a TDD scheme, the TDD scheme including a plurality of TDD-frames, each TDD-frame including a guard period arranged between a downlink symbol and an uplink symbol of the TDD-frame. The user equipment is configured to receive a first number of symbols during the guard period or is configured to transmit the uplink symbol and to transmit a second number of symbols previous to transmitting the uplink symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Fehrenbach, Lars Thiele, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Wirth
  • Publication number: 20230284267
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network is described. A set of resources is provided for a communication in the wireless communication network. The UE is to operate, e.g., carry out sensing, only on one or more subsets of frequency resources of the set of resources, wherein a number of frequency resources of the subset of frequency resources is less than a total number of frequency resources of the set of resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Sarun SELVANESAN, Baris GÖKTEPE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE
  • Publication number: 20230283409
    Abstract: A receiver is described which receives data from a transmitter. The data is included in a data block which includes at least one code block, and the code block has a plurality of parts. A first part of the code block is used for estimating a decodability of the code block at the receiver. The first part of the code block is arranged in the data block ahead of the remaining one or more parts of the code block. The receiver estimates, prior to receiving the entire data block, the decodability of the code block using the first part of the code block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Baris GÖKTEPE, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas SCHIERL, Thomas WIRTH, Marco BREILING
  • Patent number: 11751106
    Abstract: A concept for handovers in cellular networks, a concept for improved handling of tracking/paging areas for, for instance, user entities in inactive modes and a concept for enabling intelligent route selection in cellular networks are presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Robin Rajan Thomas, Thomas Wirth, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Fehrenbach, Thomas Schierl, Eiko Seidel, Lars Thiele, Thomas Wiegand
  • Publication number: 20230269051
    Abstract: A receiver, e.g. an IoT device, receives and processes a radio signal. The radio signal has at least a first frequency band and a second frequency band. The first frequency band includes a first signal, the second frequency band includes a second signal, and each of the first signal and the second signal includes a plurality of frames, each frame having a plurality of subframes (M-subframe). One or more of the subframes of the first signal include connecting information allowing a receiver to establish a connection with a wireless communication system. All of the subframes of the second signal are free of any connecting information. The receiver establishes the connection with the wireless communication system using the connecting information, and, after having established the connection with the wireless communication system and responsive to band information indicating the second frequency band, operate in the second frequency band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas WIRTH
  • Publication number: 20230254102
    Abstract: A receiver is configured to receive and process a radio signal. The radio signal includes a first frequency band including a first signal, the first signal including a plurality of TDD-frames. The receiver is configured to evaluate reception of downlink data to obtain evaluation data. The receiver is further configured to transmit the evaluation data in a second frequency band outside of the first frequency band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas WIRTH, Cornelius HELLGE, Baris GOEKTEPE, Lars THIELE
  • Publication number: 20230246762
    Abstract: A receiver receives and processes a data signal having at least one data signal block. The data signal block has a number of symbols in the time domain and a number of sub-carriers in the frequency domain. The data signal block includes a control region to provide control data to the receiver and a payload region to provide payload data to the receiver. Payload data is allocated to the control region of the data signal block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GOEKTEPE, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas SCHIERL, Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Dennis WIERUCH, Bernd HOLFELD, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas HAUSTEIN, Lars THIELE, Martin KURRAS
  • Publication number: 20230247596
    Abstract: Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network is described. The wireless communication network provides a set of resources for a communication, and the UE carries out sensing on one or more subsets of time resources of the set of resources. A number of time resources of the one or more subsets is less than the total number of resources within the set of resources provided by the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Sarun Selvanesan, Baris Göktepe, Thomas Fehrenbach, Thomas Schierl, Cornelius Hellge
  • Patent number: 11711177
    Abstract: A receiver receives a radio signal from a transmitter of a wireless communication system serving a plurality of receivers. The radio signal includes for the plurality of receivers served by the transmitter a plurality of control messages and a redundant control message for at least one of the control messages. The receiver detects a control message from the radio signal, and, responsive to detecting the control message, the receiver detects a signal from another location in the radio signal. The receiver determines the detected control message as a specific control message for the receiver based on the signal detected from the other location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Baris Göktepe, Thomas Fehrenbach, Cornelius Hellge, Robin Thomas, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Schierl
  • Publication number: 20230232376
    Abstract: Communication devices are provided that facilitate receiving information units and providing feedback to other communication devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Baris GÖKTEPE, Thomas Fehrenbach, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Schierl, Robin Thomas
  • Publication number: 20230232382
    Abstract: A wireless communication network, has one or more first user devices, UEs, and one or more second user devices, UEs. The wireless communication network is to configure the first UE with one or more bandwidth parts, BWPs, and with a set of control resource sets, CORESETs, within the BWP in the same slot, and the wireless communication network is to configure the second UE with only a subset from the set of CORESETs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Nithin Srinivasan, Baris Göktepe, Jasmina McMenamy, Sarun Selvanesan, Thomas Fehrenbach, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Schierl, Cornelius Hellge
  • Patent number: 11700619
    Abstract: An apparatus for a wireless communication system is configured to perform semi-persistent scheduling (SPS), wherein a size of an SPS interval is based on one or more transmission time intervals (TTIs). A further apparatus for a wireless communication system is described, wherein the apparatus is configured to perform semi-persistent scheduling, and wherein the apparatus is configured such that the semi-persistent scheduling is controlled via a configuration message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Bernd Holfeld, Dennis Wieruch, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Fehrenbach, Cornelius Hellge, Yago Sánchez De La Fuente, Thomas Schierl
  • Publication number: 20230199753
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a transceiver [e.g., UE] of a wireless communication system, wherein the transceiver is configured to receive a first control message [e.g., in a first slot or subframe, such as slot or subframe n] [e.g., comprising a first control information or control configuration], wherein the transceiver is configured to receive a second control message [e.g., in a second slot or subframe, such as slot or subframe n+koff??] [e.g., comprising a second control information or control configuration], wherein the second control message is linked [e.g., refers] to the first control message by an identifier, ID [e.g., DCI/base grant ID], or indication, wherein one out of the first control message, the first control message and the second control message together, the second control message, grant or assign a resource to the transceiver for a communication of the transceiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Prasanth KARANUKARAN, Julian POPP, Clemens KORN, Josef BERNHARD, Baris GÖKTEPE, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas WIRTH, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas SCHIERL
  • Patent number: 11683128
    Abstract: A receiver is described which receives data from a transmitter. The data is included in a data block which includes at least one code block, and the code block has a plurality of parts. A first part of the code block is used for estimating a decodability of the code block at the receiver. The first part of the code block is arranged in the data block ahead of the remaining one or more parts of the code block. The receiver estimates, prior to receiving the entire data block, the decodability of the code block using the first part of the code block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Baris Göktepe, Thomas Fehrenbach, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Schierl, Thomas Wirth, Marco Breiling