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).

  • Patent number: 12273737
    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: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Thi Uyen Ly Dang, Thomas Heyn, Alexander Hofmann, Leszek Raschkowski, Thomas Fehrenbach, Stephan Jaeckel
  • Patent number: 12273805
    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: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Thi Uyen Ly Dang, Thomas Heyn, Alexander Hofmann, Elke Roth-Mandutz, Thomas Fehrenbach, Leszek Raschkowski
  • Publication number: 20250047442
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication system, like a 3rd Generation Partnership Project, 3GPP, system, is disclosed. The UE receives and/or transmits one or more physical channel transmissions. The one or more of the physical channel transmissions are received or transmitted without any associated DeModulation Reference Signal, DMRS, or with a partial or full DMRS muting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Arman AHMADZADEH, Geordie GEORGE, Thomas HEYN, Sutharshun VARATHARAAJAN
  • Publication number: 20250015938
    Abstract: 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 comprise, 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: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Baris Goktepe, Martin Leyh, Thomas Fehrenbach, Thomas Heyn, Bernard Niemann, Julian Popp, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Schierl, Kahled Hassan
  • Patent number: 12185188
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    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: 20240414761
    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: August 12, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas Fehrenbach, Baris Goektepe, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Schierl, Khaled Shawky Hassan Hussein, Martin Leyh, Thomas Heyn, Bernhard Niemann, Julian Popp
  • Patent number: 12149350
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Khaled Shawky Hassan Hussein, Rudraksh Shrivastava, Thomas Heyn, Bernhard Niemann, Thomas Haustein, Ramez Askar
  • Patent number: 12126562
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Fehrenbach, Baris Göktepe, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Schierl, Khaled Shawky Hassan Hussein, Martin Leyh, Thomas Heyn, Bernhard Niemann, Julian Popp, Nithin Srinivasan
  • Patent number: 12113631
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Baris Göktepe, Martin Leyh, Thomas Fehrenbach, Thomas Heyn, Bernard Niemann, Julian Popp, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Schierl, Khaled Hassan
  • Patent number: 12101806
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    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: 20240284396
    Abstract: A network, NW, entity for a wireless communication network is described. The wireless communication network includes one or more non-terrestrial network, NTN, components, like an airborne vehicle or a spaceborne vehicle. The NW entity obtains information for determining a network, NW, generated UE position of a user device, UE, and determines the NW generated UE position solving a linear system or equations and/or using one or more artificial intelligence, AI/machine learning (ML), models using as an input one or some or all of the obtained information and/or verifies the NW generated UE position using one or some or all of the obtained information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Birendra GHIMIRE, Norbert FRANKE, Thomas HEYN
  • Publication number: 20240107480
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Arman AHMADZADEH, Thomas HEYN, Elke ROTH-MANDUTZ, Alexander HOFMANN
  • Patent number: 11849458
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Khaled Shawky Hassan Hussein, Rudraksh Shrivastava, Thomas Heyn
  • Publication number: 20230188271
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Dietmar LIPKA, Thomas HEYN, Thomas SCHLICHTER, Martin SPEITEL, Matthias FREI
  • Publication number: 20230148438
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Khaled Shawky HASSAN HUSSEIN, Rudraksh SHRIVASTAVA, Thomas HEYN, Bernhard NIEMANN, Thomas HAUSTEIN, RAMEZ ASKAR
  • Publication number: 20230126160
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Khaled Shawky HASSAN HUSSEIN, Rudraksh SHRIVASTAVA, Thomas HEYN, Bernhard NIEMANN
  • Patent number: 11622307
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Khaled Shawky Hassan Hussein, Thomas Heyn
  • Patent number: 11589321
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Elke Roth-Mandutz, Khaled Shawky Hassan Hussein, Thomas Heyn, Rohit Datta, Martin Leyh
  • Patent number: 11533157
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Khaled Shawky Hassan Hussein, Rudraksh Shrivastava, Thomas Heyn, Bernhard Niemann
  • Publication number: 20220263630
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GÖKTEPE, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Khaled Shawky HASSAN HUSSEIN, Martin LEYH, Thomas HEYN, Bernhard NIEMANN, Julian POPP, Nithin SRINIVASAN