Patents by Inventor Thomas Wirth

Thomas Wirth 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: 11627557
    Abstract: Communication devices are provided that facilitate receiving information units and providing feedback to other communication devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Baris Göktepe, Thomas Fehrenbach, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Schierl, Robin Thomas, Thomas Wirth
  • Publication number: 20230100086
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for preparing glucopyranosyl-substituted benzyl-benzene derivatives of general formula III, wherein R1, R2 and R? are defined according to claim 1; and the use of such processes in the synthesis of SGLT2 inhibitors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas WIRTH, Alexander BERG, Bernd MEYNHARDT, Dirk WEBER
  • Publication number: 20230092324
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network, is connectable to two or more of a plurality of network slices of the wireless communication network, wherein a slice specific random-access channel, RACH, resource configuration is associated with one or more of the plurality of slices. The UE is configured or pre-configured with slice specific RACH resource configurations for some or all of the plurality of slices. Responsive to a RACH event, the UE is to determine a slice that triggered and/or that is associated with the RACH event, and select the slice specific RACH resource configuration associated with the determined slice to be used for performing a RACH procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Eiko SEIDEL, Sarun SELVANESAN, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE
  • Publication number: 20230079377
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication system, is to process a transmission received at the UE (PDSCH or PSSCH) or to be prepared by the UE (PUSCH) within a first processing time. Responsive to one or more criteria, the UE is to switch from the first processing time to a second processing time to be used to process a transmission received at the UE or to be transmitted from the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Nithin SRINIVASAN, Baris GOEKTEPE, Jasmina MCMENAMY, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE
  • Publication number: 20230084999
    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 is to communicate with one or more further UEs using a sidelink, SL. The UE is to operate in a Discontinuous Reception, DRX, mode. When being out-of-coverage, the UE is to obtain one or more resources available for a transmission from an assistance information message, AIM, received from one or more of the further UEs during an ON duration of one or more DRX cycles, and/or from an assistance information message, AIM, received from one or more of the further UEs during a listening duration, and/or by carrying out sensing in a set of sidelink resources or in a sidelink resource pool of the wireless communication system during an ON duration of one or more DRX cycles, and/or by carrying out sensing in a set of sidelink resources or in a sidelink resource pool of the wireless communication system during a listening duration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Sarun SELVANESAN, Baris GOEKTEPE, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE
  • Publication number: 20230081131
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication system is described. The wireless communication system included a plurality of user devices, UEs. The UE is to communicate with one or more further UEs using a sidelink interface, SL, like a PC5 interface. The UE is to send to the further UE one or more reports or assistance information messages, AIMs, to provide the further UE with one or more of the following: resource allocation related assistance information, link related assistance information, distance related assistance information, geographical area related assistance information, group related assistance information, relay related assistance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Sarun SELVANESAN, Baris GOEKTEPE, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE
  • Publication number: 20230082507
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication system is described. The UE is to communicate with the wireless communication system via at least one relay UE, the UE and the relay UE communicating over a sidelink interface. When communicating with the wireless communication system via the relay UE, e.g., when starting and/or during a communication, the UE is to establish a network control layer in its protocol stack, and the network control layer is to provide some control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Jasmina MCMENAMY, Roya EBRAHIM REZAGAH, Nithin SRINIVASAN, Baris GÖKTEPE, Sarun SELVANESAN, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE
  • Patent number: 11601845
    Abstract: A user equipment for a mobile communication network is provided. The mobile communication network has a radio access network including a plurality of cells and being configured to serve the user equipment within a cell. To receive a data packet from the radio access network, the user equipment is configured to receive a plurality of different versions of the data packet transmitted by the radio access network to the user equipment in parallel via different physical resources. To provide a data packet to the radio access network, the user equipment is configured to provide a plurality of different versions of the data packet and to transmit the plurality of different versions of the data packet to the radio access network in parallel via different physical resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Wirth, Thomas Schierl, Cornelius Hellge, Eiko Seidel
  • Publication number: 20230062804
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication system is described. The wireless communication system has a plurality of user devices, UEs. The UE communicates with one or more further UEs using a sidelink, SL. To operate in a Discontinuous Reception, DRX, mode, the UE receives a DRX configuration from one of a plurality of DRX configuration sources. The plurality of DRX configuration sources are ranked such that each of the DRX configuration sources has a rank different from the remaining DRX configuration sources, and the UE is to select the DRX configuration from the DRX configuration source having the highest rank among the available DRX configuration sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Sarun SELVANESAN, Baris GOEKTEPE, Roya EBRAHIM REZAGAH, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE
  • Patent number: 11596025
    Abstract: A user device UE for a wireless communication with a plurality of wireless network elements includes a plurality of antennas. The plurality of antennas are configured to form a plurality of spatial or directional beams. The user device is configured to provide simultaneously a plurality of independent wireless communication links using the plurality of spatial or directional beams, wherein the user device is configured to provide a first wireless communication link with a first wireless network element using a first spatial or directional beam and to provide a second wireless communication link with a second wireless network element using a second antenna beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Haustein, Thomas Wirth, Lars Thiele, Martin Kurras, Marcus Grossmann, Marco Breiling, Junyoung Nam
  • Patent number: 11595877
    Abstract: A base station for a wireless communication network comprising a plurality of logical radio access networks, wherein the base station is configured to communicate with a plurality of users to be served by the base station for accessing one or more of the logical radio access networks, and the base station is configured to selectively control the physical resources of the wireless communication network assigned to the logical radio access networks and/or to control access of the users or user groups to one or more of the logical radio access networks, wherein, during a first operation mode of the wireless communication network, the base station is configured to allow access of users or user groups of one or more of the logical radio access networks (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Wirth, Thomas Schierl, Lars Thiele, Cornelius Hellge, Eiko Seidel
  • Publication number: 20220408226
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a novel form of communication within a cellular wireless communication network. One aspect of the invention concerns a User Equipment for a cellular network, wherein the UE inter alia includes a first interface for UE-to-Basestation communication configured to communicate with a base station of the cellular network and a second interface for UE-to-UE communication configured to communicate with one or more other UEs of a UE-Group to which the UE belongs. According to the invention the UE is configured to receive via its first interface configuration data for configuring its second interface, and to coordinate, via the second interface, a communication within the UE Group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas WIRTH, Cornelius HELLGE, Robin THOMAS, Thomas SCHIERL, Lars THIELE, Eiko SEIDEL
  • Publication number: 20220393818
    Abstract: A data communication apparatus, for transmitting one or more blocks of data within a frame including a two-dimensional grid of transmission symbol positions is configured to select a group of transmission symbol positions, which is a subset of the two-dimensional grid of transmission symbol positions, for a transmission of a data portion. The data communication apparatus is configured to select one or more reference symbol positions associated to the selected group of transmission symbol positions, out of a plurality of possibilities, based on an information describing a desired relative position of the reference symbol position with respect to the selected group of transmission symbol positions. Other apparatuses also use a flexible selection of transmission symbol positions and a flexible selection of reference symbol positions. A system, methods and computer programs are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas WIRTH, Baris GOEKTEPE, Dennis WIERUCH
  • Publication number: 20220393836
    Abstract: A transceiver including one or more HARQ entities; here, the transceiver is configured to transmit a first data portion by use of a sidelink (to a further transceiver) at a first timeslot and to receive a corresponding feedback portion (indicating the correct or incorrect receipt of the first data portion) at a first subsequent timeslot (one or more timeslots after the first timeslot) within a resource pool using the one or more HARQ entities; the one or more HARQ entities are configured to determine the number of HARQ processes used for a communication with another sidelink transceiver based on transmission parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas WIRTH, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GOEKTEPE, Sarun SELVANESAN, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE
  • Publication number: 20220393812
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a transceiver, wherein the transceiver is configured to transmit or receive data in at least one transmission time interval on certain allocated resource elements of a wireless communication system, wherein the transceiver is configured to at least partially blank a transmission time interval for a data block to be transmitted or received by the transmitter, wherein the transceiver is configured (a) to signal to another transceiver a transmission grant in a blanked part of the at least partially blanked transmission time interval or (b) to at least partially blank the transmission time interval based on a blanking pattern received from another transceiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GOEKTEPE, Thomas HAUSTEIN, Thomas WIRTH, Lars THIELE
  • Publication number: 20220369361
    Abstract: Examples refer to communication networks between user equipments, UEs, with other devices, such as a base station, BS. Examples refer to communication methods, e.g., for uplink, UL. A joint-resource pool (JRP) is defined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Khaled Shawky HASSAN HUSSEIN, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas HAUSTEIN
  • Publication number: 20220369136
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication system is described. The wireless communication system includes one or more base stations. The UE is in an RRC_INACTIVE state or in an RRC_IDLE state and is to monitor one or more paging occasions. The UE is to perform one or more uplink, UL, transmissions to the base station without entering an RRC_CONNECTED state, e.g., using a configured grant, CG, or pre-configured resources. The UE is to monitor one or more paging occasions following the one or more UL transmissions for a message from the base station, the message being associated with feedback information, e.g., HARQ feedback formation, for the one or more UL transmissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Baris GOEKTEPE, Nithin SRINIVASAN, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE
  • Publication number: 20220337990
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication system, is described. The UE is to receive a configuration command, the configuration command to cause the UE to act as a relay UE so as to provide functionality to support connectivity to a destination for one or more remote UEs of the wireless communication system. Responsive to receiving the configuration command, the UE is to accept or reject the configuration command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Roya EBRAHIM REZAGAH, Nithin SRINIVASAN, Baris GÖKTEPE, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL
  • Patent number: 11463224
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a transceiver, wherein the transceiver is configured to transmit or receive data in at least one transmission time interval on certain allocated resource elements of a wireless communication system, wherein the transceiver is configured to at least partially blank a transmission time interval for a data block to be transmitted or received by the transmitter, wherein the transceiver is configured (a) to signal to another transceiver a transmission grant in a blanked part of the at least partially blanked transmission time interval or (b) to at least partially blank the transmission time interval based on a blanking pattern received from another transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Corschune e.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Fehrenbach, Baris Goektepe, Thomas Haustein, Thomas Wirth, Lars Thiele
  • Patent number: 11457440
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Thomas Fehrenbach, Thomas Wirth