Patents by Inventor Thomas HEYN
Thomas HEYN 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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Publication number: 20240107480Abstract: Embodiments provide a user equipment configured to communicate with a base station via a satellite, wherein the user equipment is configured to receive, from the base station via the satellite or from another user equipment via a sidelink, a control information, the control information signaling at least one parameter for parameterizing a non-linear function, the parameterized non-linear function describing a course of a round trip time or delay time between the satellite and one out of the base station or satellite gateway, the satellite and a geographical reference point, a first reference point and a second reference point, the first reference point having a fixed relation to the satellite and the second reference point having a fixed relation to one out of the base station, satellite gateway or user equipment, in dependence on a location of the satellite.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Arman AHMADZADEH, Thomas HEYN, Elke ROTH-MANDUTZ, Alexander HOFMANN
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Patent number: 11849458Abstract: Embodiments provide a transceiver of a wireless communication network, wherein the transceiver is configured to evacuate/empty/puncture/shorten a downlink transmission of a control information to accommodate an uplink transmission of another transmitter within the downlink transmission.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Khaled Shawky Hassan Hussein, Rudraksh Shrivastava, Thomas Heyn
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Publication number: 20230188271Abstract: Embodiments according to the first aspect of the invention comprise a data communication apparatus, e.g. a gNB or a base station, for transmitting unicast data to one or more other data communication apparatuses, e.g. to one or more UEs, and for transmitting shared data, e.g. multicast data or broadcast data, to a plurality of other data communication apparatuses, e.g. to a plurality of UEs, e.g. within a frame comprising a two-dimensional grid of transmission resource element positions. Furthermore, the data communication apparatus is configured to transmit unicast data and shared data using a common transmission resource element, e.g. OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing) subcarrier or e.g. OFDM symbol, time-frequency grid, e.g. using a common subcarrier spacing and/or using a common slot length and/or using a common OFDM symbol length.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2023Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Dietmar LIPKA, Thomas HEYN, Thomas SCHLICHTER, Martin SPEITEL, Matthias FREI
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Publication number: 20230148438Abstract: There are disclosed techniques for puncturing and/or overlaying transmission in case of necessity of on-demand (e.g., urgent) commutations. In particular, transceivers, user equipments, systems, methods and non-transitory storage units are disclosed. For example, there is disclosed a transceiver of a wireless communication network, wherein the transceiver is configured to operate in a puncturing mode by puncturing a downlink, DL, transmission of payload information in a channel originally allocated to the DL transmission of payload information, to obtain, within the originally allocated channel for the DL transmission of payload information, a DL free area for an uplink, UL, transmission of a user equipment, UE, of the wireless communication network.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Khaled Shawky HASSAN HUSSEIN, Rudraksh SHRIVASTAVA, Thomas HEYN, Bernhard NIEMANN, Thomas HAUSTEIN, RAMEZ ASKAR
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Publication number: 20230126160Abstract: Examples refer to communication networks between user equipment, UEs, and a base station BS. Examples refer to communication devices, such as UE(s) and/or BS(s). Full duplexing communications, FDC, may be used to reduce interferences between different UEs.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: Khaled Shawky HASSAN HUSSEIN, Rudraksh SHRIVASTAVA, Thomas HEYN, Bernhard NIEMANN
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Patent number: 11622307Abstract: The invention refers to a wireless communication system including a plurality of base-stations covering different communication areas and a coordinator unit. The coordinator unit compiles an expectation list with at least one base-station serving as a coordinated base-station for a possible handover concerning a user equipment based on information about the user equipment. The coordinator unite provides the at least one base-station of the expectation list with handover information concerning the possible handover. The at least one base-station of the expectation list goes into an attention mode after receiving the handover information from the coordinator unit. The invention also refers to a corresponding method.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Khaled Shawky Hassan Hussein, Thomas Heyn
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Patent number: 11589321Abstract: Embodiments provide a user equipment for a wireless communication system. The user equipment is configured to communicate with at least one other user equipment of the wireless communication system using a sidelink resource pool of the wireless communication system. Further, the user equipment is configured to transmit, responsive to an external emergency situation, an emergency notification signal on a resource of the wireless communication system. Thereby, the user equipment is configured to transmit the emergency notification signal with a transmit power that is greater than a regular transmit power used by the user equipment for transmitting regular signals.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.Inventors: Elke Roth-Mandutz, Khaled Shawky Hassan Hussein, Thomas Heyn, Rohit Datta, Martin Leyh
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Patent number: 11533157Abstract: Examples refer to communication networks between user equipment, UEs, and a base station BS. Examples refer to communication devices, such as UE(s) and/or BS(s). Full duplexing communications, FDC, may be used to reduce interferences between different UEs.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2019Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.Inventors: Khaled Shawky Hassan Hussein, Rudraksh Shrivastava, Thomas Heyn, Bernhard Niemann
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Publication number: 20220263630Abstract: A user device for a wireless communication system is served by a base station and uses one or more frequency bands for a communication with one or more entities in the wireless communication system. The frequency bands include CORESETs, each including one or more search spaces carrying control information for the UE. The UE groups some or all of the CORESETs into respective CORESET groups, or some or all of the search spaces into respective search space groups. A CORESET group includes some or all CORESETs within a certain time window, and a search space group includes some or all search spaces within the certain time window. The grouping is responsive to one or more group IDs the UE is configured with, each group ID pointing to or indicating a CORESET group or a search space group, and/or determining CORESETs or search spaces to be within the same time window.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GÖKTEPE, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Khaled Shawky HASSAN HUSSEIN, Martin LEYH, Thomas HEYN, Bernhard NIEMANN, Julian POPP, Nithin SRINIVASAN
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Patent number: 11411637Abstract: System including a gateway, a non-terrestrial node, a terrestrial node and at least a user equipment and a HARQ controller, the gateway being configured to forward a data packet, the data packet to be transmitted to the user equipment, to the non-terrestrial node, the non-terrestrial node being configured to forward the received data packet to the user equipment using a signal, the user equipment being configured to analyze the received data packet regarding a transmission error and/or to analyze the signal from the non-terrestrial node regarding a signal quality and to generate a negative acknowledgment command or an acknowledgement command dependent on the transmission error or to generate another signal indicating the reception signal quality dependent on the reception signal quality, the user equipment being configured to transmit the acknowledgement command and the non-acknowledgement command or the other signal to the terrestrial node communicating with the non-terrestrial node.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Khaled Shawky Hassan Hussein, Christian Rohde, Thomas Heyn
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Patent number: 11363545Abstract: A wireless communication system has at least one user-side-device and a base-station. The at least one user-side-device and the base-station are configured to communicate with each other via a satellite applying a timing-advance-value (TA) for synchronizing an uplink of the communication. The base-station is configured to provide the at least one user-side-device with a satellite-connecting-signal concerning an uplink towards the satellite, the satellite-connecting-signal providing configuration information in order to establish and adjust the uplink to the satellite. The at least one user-side-device is configured to perform an adjustment of the timing-advance-value for a pre-compensation of at least one synchronization offset of an uplink in case the at least one user-side-device receives the satellite-connecting-signal, the satellite-connecting-signal including a granting-signal indicating the user-side-device the allowance to adjust the timing-advance-value.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Thomas Heyn, Rohit Datta, Christian Rohde, Elke Roth-Mandutz
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Publication number: 20220182879Abstract: An apparatus for a wireless communication system uses a plurality of frequency bands for a communication with one or more network entities. The apparatus receives a transport block, TB, which is split into a plurality of code block groups, CBGs, comprising one or more code blocks, CBs, confined to one of the plurality of frequency bands. The apparatus provides or predicts a feedback for each CBG indicating one or more of a successful receipt, a non-successful receipt, no need for redundancy and a need for some redundancy. The apparatus compresses the feedbacks for each CBG into a compressed feedback based on an interference pattern on one or more of the frequency bands which is detectable at the apparatus and the transmitter or the one or more network entities, e.g. Listen-before-Talk, LBT, failure, and to transmit to the one or more of the network entities the compressed feedback.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2022Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GÖKTEPE, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Khaled Shawky HASSAN HUSSEIN, Martin LEYH, Thomas HEYN, Bernhard NIEMANN, Julian POPP, Nithin SRINIVASAN
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Publication number: 20220158777Abstract: The embodiments herein relate to a method performed by UE, a UE, a network node or gNB and a method performed by the gNB for handling retransmissions in a wireless telecommunications system and resolving misalignment between the UE and the gNB. According to exemplary embodiments, there is provided a retransmission counter placed or implemented at the UE and/or the gNB which is configured to count every failing data packet (i.e., the receiver(s)/transmitters is/are informed via the NACK messages or the NACK timers). There is also provided a retransmission assignment indicator message configured to include, fully or partially: the content of said counter and the content or the structure of the CGB (Code Block Group), e.g., either all CBGs are retransmission versions or part of the CGBs are retransmission versions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Baris Göktepe, Martin Leyh, Thomas Fehrenbach, Thomas Heyn, Bernard Niemann, Julian Popp, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Schierl, Khaled Hassan
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Publication number: 20220150968Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication system is served by a base station and uses one or more frequency bands for a communication with one or more entities, e.g., other UE(s) or other gNB(s), in the wireless communication system. Some or all of the plurality of frequency bands are unlicensed frequency bands on which a communication is allowed for a certain transmission time (COT) responsive to a successful channel access procedure e.g. Listen-Before-Talk, LBT. The UE is configured, e.g., using an RRC signaling, with one or more configured grant, CG, configurations so as to allow the UE to perform one or more CG transmissions. Responsive to detecting a COT and a potential collision of a CG transmission with the COT, e.g. the COT of another entity, e.g., other UE(s) or other gNB(s), in the wireless communication system, the UE deactivates or backs off the CG transmission.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2022Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GOEKTEPE, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Khaled Shawky HASSAN, Martin LEYH, Thomas HEYN, Bernhard NIEMANN, Julian POPP, Nithin SRINIVASAN
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Publication number: 20220061090Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GOEKTEPE, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Khaled Shawky HASSAN HUSSEIN, Martin LEYH, Thomas HEYN, Bernhard NIEMANN, Julian POPP
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Publication number: 20220046517Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Inventors: Thi Uyen Ly DANG, Thomas HEYN, Alexander HOFMANN, Elke ROTH-MANDUTZ, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Leszek RASCHKOWSKI
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Publication number: 20210306806Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Thi Uyen Ly DANG, Thomas HEYN, Alexander HOFMANN, Leszek RASCHKOWSKI, Tugce ERKILIC CIVELEK, Roya EBRAHIM REZAGAH, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas WIRTH, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas SCHIERL
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Publication number: 20210258100Abstract: There are disclosed techniques for puncturing and/or overlaying transmission in case of necessity of on-demand (e.g., urgent) commutations. In particular, transceivers, user equipments, systems, methods and non-transitory storage units are disclosed. For example, there is disclosed a transceiver of a wireless communication network, wherein the transceiver is configured to operate in a puncturing mode by puncturing a downlink, DL, transmission of payload information in a channel originally allocated to the DL transmission of payload information, to obtain, within the originally allocated channel for the DL transmission of payload information, a DL free area for an uplink, UL, transmission of a user equipment, UE, of the wireless communication network.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2021Publication date: August 19, 2021Inventors: Khaled Shawky HASSAN HUSSEIN, Rudraksh SHRIVASTAVA, Thomas HEYN, Bernhard NIEMANN, Thomas HAUSTEIN, RAMEZ ASKAR
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Publication number: 20210250781Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2021Publication date: August 12, 2021Inventors: Thi Uyen Ly DANG, Thomas HEYN, Alexander HOFMANN, Leszek RASCHKOWSKI, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Stephan JAECKEL
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Publication number: 20210204268Abstract: A method for centralized managing side link resources within a communication group, the communication group has a first mobile transceiver as group head and at least a second mobile transceiver as group member, wherein the first mobile transceiver is configured to distribute resources within the communication group, the method having: exchanging resource control information between the first and the second mobile transceiver, wherein the resource control information has at least an information regarding a timeslot and/or frequency slot of the resources and/or an information regarding a second portion of the resources so as to allocated the second portion to the second mobile transceiver.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2021Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Khaled Shawky HASSAN HUSSEIN, Elke ROTH-MANDUTZ, Shubhangi BHADAURIA, Thomas HEYN, Martin LEYH