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: 20220077966
    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: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Baris GÖKTEPE, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas SCHIERL, Thomas WIRTH, Marco BREILING
  • Publication number: 20220061090
    Abstract: An apparatus, for wideband communication with one or more transceivers in a wireless communication system using one or more subbands of a predefined wideband, is configured to perform initial Listen-Before-Talk, LBT, for each subband of the predefined wideband so as to determine from the predefined wideband one or more non-occupied subbands on which the wideband communication is allowed during a certain transmission time, and during the certain transmission time, transmit to and/or receive from the transceiver using the non-occupied subbands. During the certain transmission time and in case the initial LBT indicted that one or more of the subbands are occupied, the apparatus is configured to perform a further LBT for the one or more occupied subbands so as to determine one or more of the initially occupied subbands being no longer occupied, and transmit to and/or receive from the transceiver using, in addition to the initially non-occupied subbands, the one or more no longer occupied subbands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GOEKTEPE, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Khaled Shawky HASSAN HUSSEIN, Martin LEYH, Thomas HEYN, Bernhard NIEMANN, Julian POPP
  • Publication number: 20220046517
    Abstract: A wireless communication system, including: a plurality of time variant transmission points for communicating with a user device, UE, wherein the UE is in a tracking region, wherein the UE is configured to receive and store a list including identifiers, IDs, of time variant transmission points for the tracking region, and wherein the list includes IDs of time variant transmission points which are available or visible for the UE in the one tracking region at different times or time periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Thi Uyen Ly DANG, Thomas HEYN, Alexander HOFMANN, Elke ROTH-MANDUTZ, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Leszek RASCHKOWSKI
  • Patent number: 11239986
    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: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Fehrenbach, Lars Thiele, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Wirth
  • Publication number: 20220030554
    Abstract: A transceiver configured for communicating in a wireless communication network being operated so as to schedule communication in a communication channel being organized in a plurality of resources; is configured for performing long-term sensing an utilization of the channel by decoding a data traffic; for estimating a usability of resources of the channel for an own transmission based on the decoding; and for scheduling the own transmission based on the usability of the resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GÖKTEPE, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Sarun SELVANESAN, Roya EBRAHIM REZAGAH
  • Publication number: 20220022204
    Abstract: A transceiver is configured for communicating in a wireless communication network being operated so as to schedule communication in a plurality of transmission time intervals, each transmission time interval including a plurality of resource elements arranged in a time-frequency grid. Each transmission time interval includes a control section and a data section. The transceiver is configured for transmitting, using a resource in the control section, the resource in the control section containing a reservation information indicating that the transceiver reserves a specific resource in a future transmission time interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GOEKTEPE, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Sarun SELVANESAN
  • Patent number: 11223467
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with different novel concepts for reducing latency in data transmission. These concepts may be exploited by a transceiver configured to perform wireless data communication with a third party device by aggregating time division duplex carriers having different temporal distribution of uplink times and downlink times. These concepts may further be exploited by an apparatus configured to perform data transmission or reception via allocations of transmission resources of aggregated carriers in units of transmission time intervals into which the aggregated carriers are subdivided, wherein the aggregated carriers are temporally subdivided into the transmission time intervals in a temporal grid, respectively, wherein the aggregated carriers' grids are temporally mutually offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Fehrenbach, Dennis Wieruch, Bernd Holfeld, Thomas Wirth, Cornelius Hellge, Lars Thiele, Thomas Haustein
  • Publication number: 20210400708
    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 (TT's). 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: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Bernd HOLFELD, Dennis WIERUCH, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Cornelius HELLGE, Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Thomas SCHIERL
  • Publication number: 20210376962
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication system is described. The wireless communication system includes a plurality of user devices, UEs. The UE communicates with one or more transmitting UEs using a sidelink, supports a certain number of HARQ processes, and buffers one or more transmissions for each HARQ process. During a unicast communication with a transmitting UE using the sidelink, the UE receives from the transmitting UE a transmission during a transmission time interval, the transmission associated to control data, e.g. SCI, including a HARQ process ID, buffers the received transmission for the HARQ process, and combines the buffered transmissions prior to decoding. In case a successfully identified transmission is not buffered, the UE indicates to the transmitting UE that the transmission is not buffered at the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Robin THOMAS, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GÖKTEPE, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Sarun SELVANESAN, Roya EBRAHIM REZAGAH
  • Publication number: 20210345300
    Abstract: A transceiver for a wireless communication system is described. The wireless communication system provides resources to be allocated for respective transmissions in the wireless communication system. The resources include one or more bandwidth parts, BWPs, a BWP having a certain numerology and including a plurality of subcarriers in the frequency domain. At least one of the BWPs includes a plurality of resource sets for a sidelink communication, the plurality of resource sets including at least a first resource set and a second resource set, the first resource set being associated with a first criterium, the second resource set being associated with a second criterium, and the first criterium and the second criterium being different. The transceiver is configured to use resources from one or more of the plurality of resource sets within the one BWP for a communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Sarun SELVANESAN, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Roya EBRAHIM REZAGAH, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Robin THOMAS, Baris GÖKTEPE
  • Publication number: 20210345072
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a plurality of user devices, UEs, and at least one logical group defined in accordance with one or more logical group criteria. The logical group includes a plurality of member UEs to be connected via sidelink for sidelink communication with each other, and all member UEs of the logical group have assigned the same destination identification, ID, the destination ID being unique for the logical group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Sarun SELVANESAN, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Roya EBRAHIM REZAGAH, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Robin THOMAS, Baris GÖKTEPE, Eiko SEIDEL
  • Publication number: 20210336728
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes one or more base stations, and a plurality of UEs for a sidelink communication using sidelink resources. The UEs includes a transmitting UE and a receiving UE using a subset of the sidelink resources of the wireless communication system. The receiving UE sends over the sidelink a sidelink feedback to the transmitting UE. The sidelink feedback indicates for a data transmission a successful or non-successful reception at the receiving UE. The transmitting UE reports the sidelink feedback to a base station. The base station provides to the transmitting UE, responsive to the sidelink feedback, sidelink resources for a possible retransmission of a data packet over the sidelink to the receiving UE. The reporting of the sidelink feedback to the base station by the transmitting UE is activated or deactivated responsive to one or more conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Sarun SELVANESAN, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Roya EBRAHIM REZAGAH, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Robin THOMAS, Baris GÖKTEPE
  • Publication number: 20210337509
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a plurality of user devices, UEs, configured for a sidelink communication using resources from a set of sidelink resources of the wireless communication system. The plurality of UEs includes at least one transmitting UE and at least one receiving UE, the transmitting UE and the receiving UE configured to use at least a subset of the sidelink resources of the wireless communication system for the sidelink communication. The wireless communication system is configured to allow a data duplication on the sidelink, wherein the data duplication on the sidelink is activated or triggered dependent on one or more of a sidelink quality of the sidelink between the transmitting UE and the receiving UE, and/or an occupancy of the sidelink resources, and/or data received by a network element/network function, and/or the application service running on one of the UEs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Sarun SELVANESAN, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Roya EBRAHIM REZAGAH, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Robin THOMAS, Baris GÖKTEPE, Eiko SEIDEL
  • Publication number: 20210306806
    Abstract: A wireless communication system, including: a plurality of time variant transmission points for communicating with a user device, UE, wherein the UE is in a tracking region, wherein the UE is configured to receive and store a list including identifiers, IDs, of time variant transmission points for the tracking region, and wherein the list includes IDs of time variant transmission points which are available or visible for the UE in the one tracking region at different times or time periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Thi Uyen Ly DANG, Thomas HEYN, Alexander HOFMANN, Leszek RASCHKOWSKI, Tugce ERKILIC CIVELEK, Roya EBRAHIM REZAGAH, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas WIRTH, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas SCHIERL
  • Publication number: 20210306089
    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: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GOEKTEPE, Thomas WIRTH, Cornelius HELLGE, Sarun SELVANESAN, Robin THOMAS, Thomas SCHIERL
  • Patent number: 11122611
    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 (TT's). 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: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    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: 20210282121
    Abstract: An apparatus for a wireless communication system includes a plurality of base stations and a plurality of UEs. The apparatus is to be connected to a base station for a communication with the base station, and one or more UEs via a sidelink for a sidelink communication. The apparatus and the one or more UEs form a group of user devices. The apparatus is to request from a base station, directly or indirectly, resources for a sidelink communication with the one or more UEs of the group, and is to obtain from the base station, directly or indirectly, information about at least one set of resources to be used for the sidelink communication within the group. Each of the sets of resources is only or exclusively used within the group, and the group members include the apparatus and the one or more UEs of the group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Sarun SELVANESAN, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Cornelius HELLGE, Roya EBRAHIM REZAGAH, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Robin THOMAS, Baris GÖKTEPE
  • Publication number: 20210250781
    Abstract: A wireless communication system including: at least a first terrestrial or non-terrestrial base station, the first base station configured to generate one or more beams for covering at least a first beam coverage area; wherein the first base station is configured to broadcast at least to the first beam coverage area a list of tracking area IDs including a first tracking area ID belonging to a first tracking region and a second tracking area ID belonging to a second tracking region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Thi Uyen Ly DANG, Thomas HEYN, Alexander HOFMANN, Leszek RASCHKOWSKI, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Stephan JAECKEL
  • Patent number: 11089630
    Abstract: A base station is configured to control a wireless communications network cell of a wireless communications network. The base station is configured to establish a connection to a first user equipment and to a second user equipment using a random access process. For establishing the connection to the first user equipment, the base station is configured to use a sequence of a first random access preamble, the sequence having a first length. For establishing the connection of the second user equipment, the base station is configured to use a sequence of a second random access preamble, the sequence having a second length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Martin Kasparick, Renato Luis Garrido Cavalcante, Dennis Wieruch, Josef Bernhard, Gerd Kilian, Benjamin Sackenreuter, Bernd Holfeld, Thomas Fehrenbach
  • Publication number: 20210243762
    Abstract: In the field of wireless communication systems or networks, the design of resource pools as they may be used in sidelink communications among users of the wireless communication system, for example in V2X applications, is described. In particular, an improved resource pool design, for example for resource pools to be used in sidelink communications in V2X services in view of the advantages defined by the NR 5G standard, is presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Sarun SELVANESAN, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Cornelius HELLGE, Roya EBRAHIM REZAGAH, Robin THOMAS, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Eiko SEIDEL