Patents by Inventor Torsten WILDSCHEK

Torsten WILDSCHEK 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: 20250203633
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for transmitting a feedback during wireless communication. A first apparatus (90) comprises means (910) for performing: receiving a transmission; transmitting a first feedback in response to the transmission. The first apparatus uses a plurality of resource blocks to form an interlace for the first feedback. The plurality of resource blocks comprises a first resource block, and at least one second resource block. A second resource block in the at least one second resource block is configured to be reusable for the first feedback, and a second feedback transmitted by a second apparatus. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, an improved manner for transmitting a feedback during wireless communication may be provided. Resource blocks may be reusable for more than one feedback from more than one apparatus. Thus, the number of required RBs to enable interlace/feedback may be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Laura LUQUE SANCHEZ, Ling YU, Renato Barbosa ABREU, Timo Erkki LUNTTILA, Yong LIU, Nuno Manuel Kiilerich PRATAS, Naizheng ZHENG, Torsten WILDSCHEK, Vinh Van PHAN, Jianguo LIU
  • Publication number: 20250185030
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to resource selection for sidelink communication. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a first transmitting device determines information of a first resource to be used by a receiving device for transmission of a first feedback to the first transmitting device, and transmits the information of the first resource to a second transmitting device. The second transmitting device determines a third resource reserved for a second data transmission from the second transmitting device to the receiving device such that a fourth resource associated with the third resource does not conflict with the first resource. In this way, resource selection for sidelink communication with sidelink beam management may be enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Inventors: Yong LIU, Daniel MEDINA, Renato Barbosa ABREU, Nuno Manuel KIILERICH PRATAS, Thomas Haaning JACOBSEN, Torsten WILDSCHEK
  • Publication number: 20250185028
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to mechanisms for identifying and overcoming overlaps in LTE-V2X and NR-V2X sidelink resources for sidelink communications. In example embodiments, a user equipment performs sensing of reserved resources in both a first sidelink radio access technology resource pool and a second sidelink radio access technology resource pool. Based on the sensing, forming at least one candidate resource set identifying all resources that are free to be used by the first radio access technology resource pool, based on the indication that these are not being used for transmission by at least one other user equipment of the first sidelink radio access technology resource pool and identifying for each of the resources in the at least one candidate resource set corresponding resources to be used for a physical sidelink feedback channel of the first sidelink radio access technology resource pool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Inventors: Nuno Manuel KIILERICH PRATAS, Daniel MEDINA, Torsten WILDSCHEK, Vinh VAN PHAN, Faranaz SABOURI-SICHANI, Ling YU, Jari Olavi LINDHOLM
  • Patent number: 12323934
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for a second user equipment, that causes the apparatus to perform: determining whether a synchronization signal has been received during a first set of synchronization resources; and when it is determined the synchronization signal was received, determining that the apparatus is allowed to use communication resources during a second set of synchronization resources for a first sidelink communication; and when it is determined the synchronization was not received, abstaining from using the communication resources during the second set of synchronization resources for a first sidelink communication; and monitoring the second set of synchronization resources for a synchronization signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas, Ling Yu, Torsten Wildschek, Renato Barbosa Abreu, Timo Erkki Lunttila, Laura Luque Sanchez, Vinh Van Phan, Yong Liu, Jianguo Liu, Naizheng Zheng
  • Publication number: 20250159722
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, apparatuses, and computer readable medium of enhancement on sidelink in unlicensed band. The method comprises: transmitting, at a first device and to a second device, a target transmission via a sidelink channel occupied by applying a contention window of a first contention window size, CWS; receiving, from the second device, a non-acknowledgement feedback for the target transmission; and determining a second CWS to be used for the contention window based on acknowledgement feedbacks and non-acknowledgement feedbacks associated with a plurality of transmissions preceding the target transmission. In this way, both of intra-SL system collisions and inter-system collisions are taken into consideration when a sidelink UE adjusts the CWS. As such, the sidelink UE can determine the CWS not only based on detection of sidelink transmission failure, but also on the evaluation of ACK/NACK feedbacks for various sidelink transmissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Inventors: Torsten WILDSCHEK, Ling YU, Nuno Manuel KIILERICH PRATAS, Vinh VAN PHAN, Yong LIU, Tao TAO, Naizheng ZHENG
  • Publication number: 20250126629
    Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a solution of transmitting sidelink (SL) feedback information on non-contiguous resource sets. In this solution, in accordance with a determination that a plurality of feedback transmission occasions for sidelink transmissions are mapped on non-contiguous resource sets, an apparatus determines a group of contiguous resource sets mapped with a subset of the plurality of feedback transmission occasions; and transmits feedback information on the group of contiguous resource sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Renato Barbosa ABREU, Jian Guo LIU, Yong LIU, Thomas Haaning JACOBSEN, Nuno Manuel KIILERICH PRATAS, Torsten WILDSCHEK, Akshay JAISWAL
  • Publication number: 20250119865
    Abstract: A method for positioning in a sidelink communication. The method includes detecting, by an anchor component, a presence of at least one user equipment; and activating, by the anchor component, a transmission of a positioning reference signal to the user equipment responsive to the detected presence of the at least one user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taylan SAHIN, Torsten WILDSCHEK, John KENNEY, Takayuki SHIMIZU, Ling YU, Mikko SAILY
  • Publication number: 20250113328
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sidelink (SL) positioning measurement based on a plurality of measurement samples. In particular, a location server requests a receiving (RX) device to report SL positioning measurement that has been made from a plurality of measurement samples. The RX UE requests a transmitting (TX) UE to transmit a plurality of SL positioning reference signals (PRSs) through a plurality of SL PRS resources so that the RX UE can obtain multiple SL positioning measurement samples. In this way, it can improve SL positioning performance. The solution allows for high accuracy measurements and hence enables high accuracy SL positioning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Hyun-Su CHA, Torsten WILDSCHEK, Gilsoo LEE
  • Publication number: 20250113316
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for a second user equipment, that causes the apparatus to perform: determining whether a synchronization signal has been received during a first set of synchronization resources; and when it is determined the synchronization signal was received, determining that the apparatus is allowed to use communication resources during a second set of synchronization resources for a first sidelink communication; and when it is determined the synchronization was not received, abstaining from using the communication resources during the second set of synchronization resources for a first sidelink communication; and monitoring the second set of synchronization resources for a synchronization signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Nuno Manuel KIILERICH PRATAS, Ling YU, Torsten WILDSCHEK, Renato Barbosa ABREU, Timo Erkki LUNTTILA, Laura Luque SANCHEZ, Vinh VAN PHAN, Yong LIU, Jianguo LIU, Naizheng ZHENG
  • Publication number: 20250097964
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an apparatus configured to: select (500) a first slot and a second slot for sidelink transmissions via a first radio access technology, wherein the first slot and the second slot overlap with a subframe for sidelink transmissions via a second radio access technology, wherein the first slot and the second slot are associated with at least one transmission requirement; generate (502) a first transport block associated with at least one first transport block requirement and a second transport block associated with at least one second transport block requirement; determine (504) to transmit at least one of the first transport block or the second transport block over at least the first slot based on the at least one transmission requirement, the at least one first transport block requirement and the at least one second transport block requirement; and transmit (506) at least one of the first transport block or the second transport block over at least the first slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Vinh VAN PHAN, Thomas Haaning JACOBSEN, Torsten WILDSCHEK, Ling YU, Jakob Lindbjerg BUTHLER
  • Publication number: 20250055579
    Abstract: An apparatus configured to: determine a reserved resource for a first transmission and a received signal strength associated with the reserved resource; determine, from a set of candidate resources for a second transmission, a candidate resource, wherein the candidate resource at least partially overlaps in time with the reserved resource, wherein the candidate resource does not overlap in frequency with the reserved resource; determine a relative location, in frequency, of the candidate resource with respect to at least one of: the reserved resource, a first carrier frequency associated with the first transmission, or a second carrier frequency associated with the second transmission; and exclude the candidate resource from the set of candidate resources in response to the received signal strength, associated with the reserved resource, being above a resource exclusion threshold, wherein the resource exclusion threshold is based, at least partially, on the relative location of the candidate resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Daniel MEDINA, Prajwal KESHAVAMURTHY, Ali KARIMIDEHKORDI, Paolo BARACCA, Diomidis MICHALOPOULOS, Torsten WILDSCHEK
  • Publication number: 20250056570
    Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a solution of transmitting sidelink (SL) feedback information on non-contiguous resource sets. In this solution, in accordance with a determination that a plurality of feedback transmission occasions for sidelink transmissions are mapped on non-contiguous resource sets, an apparatus determines a group of contiguous resource sets mapped with a subset of the plurality of feedback transmission occasions; and transmits feedback information on the group of contiguous resource sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Renato Barbosa ABREU, Jian Guo LIU, Yong LIU, Thomas Haaning JACOBSEN, Nuno Manuel KIILERICH PRATAS, Torsten WILDSCHEK, Akshay JAISWAL
  • Publication number: 20250055625
    Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to transmission of control information associated with sidelink positioning reference signal. In an example method, a first terminal device in a radio access network comprises at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code; the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the first terminal device to: transmit, to a second terminal device in the radio access network, control information associated with a sidelink (SL) positioning reference signal (PRS) during a SL positioning session for positioning of the second terminal device, using a resource for the control information in a Physical Sidelink Feedback Channel (PSFCH) symbol or in at least one symbol dedicated for the control information. In this way, the first terminal device can efficiently transmit control information to the second terminal device with backward compatibility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Taylan SAHIN, Torsten WILDSCHEK, Diomidis MICHALOPOULOS, Yong LIU, Mikko SÄILY, Berthold PANZNER, Dileep KUMAR
  • Patent number: 12225554
    Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a solution of transmitting sidelink (SL) feedback information on non-contiguous resource sets. In this solution, in accordance with a determination that a plurality of feedback transmission occasions for sidelink transmissions are mapped on non-contiguous resource sets, an apparatus determines a group of contiguous resource sets mapped with a subset of the plurality of feedback transmission occasions; and transmits feedback information on the group of contiguous resource sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Renato Barbosa Abreu, Jian Guo Liu, Yong Liu, Thomas Haaning Jacobsen, Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas, Torsten Wildschek, Akshay Jaiswal
  • Publication number: 20250047614
    Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a device, method, apparatus and computer readable storage medium for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback for adjustment of contention window size for communication in an unlicensed band. In example embodiments, if it is determined that a failure of transmission in an unlicensed occurs, the device determines a cause of the failure of the transmission is determined based on received information associated with a transmission collision. Then, the device adjusts a size of a contention window for a listen-before-talk procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Ling YU, Torsten WILDSCHEK, Nuno Manuel KIILERICH PRATAS, Vinh VAN PHAN, Yong LIU, Tao TAO, Naizheng ZHENG
  • Publication number: 20250048394
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for sidelink collision avoidance based on sensing, such as PSFCH sensing, are provided. One method may include sensing, by a first UE, a first sidelink feedback transmission from a second UE in a first PSFCH resource, and determining, based on the first PSFCH resource, a first radio resource in which the second UE received a first data transmission from a third UE. The method may also include sensing a second sidelink feedback transmission from the second UE in a second PSFCH resource, determining, based on the second PSFCH resource, a second radio resource in which the second UE received a second data transmission from the third UE, and determining, based on at least one of the determined first radio resource or second radio resource, a third radio resource in which the second UE is expected to receive a third data transmission from the third UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Daniel MEDINA, Nuno Manuel KIILERICH PRATAS, Ling YU, Vinh VAN PHAN, Berthold PANZNER, Torsten WILDSCHEK, Stepan KUCERA, Lianghai JI
  • Publication number: 20250039925
    Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to adjustment of contention window (CW) for listen before talk (LBT). A device determines a target size of a contention window for listen before talk at least in part based on at least one of a first metric and a second metric. The first metric indicates a level of intra-system activity of one of the plurality of systems. The second metric indicates a level of inter-system activity of the plurality of systems. The at least one of first and second metrics are determined by the device based on one or more messages in a set of resources shared by a plurality of systems. This solution enables the device to adjust the LBT by determining the target size of the contention window. By doing so, the device may determine an appropriate size of the contention window even when HARQ feedback is not available. In this way, a system may be able to coexist fairly with other systems in unlicensed spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Nuno Manuel KIILERICH PRATAS, Ling YU, Torsten WILDSCHEK, Vinh VAN PHAN, Yong LIU, Tao TAO, Naizheng ZHENG
  • Publication number: 20250039846
    Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for a first device, comprising: receiving a first radio transmission from a third device; determining, based on the received first radio transmission, at least one radio resource expected to be used for communication by the third device; determining a first direction from which the first radio transmission from the third device is received at the first device; determining a radio resource set based on the determined at least one radio resource and the determined first direction; and selecting one or more radio resources from the determined radio resource set for communication with a second device or transmitting the determined radio resource set to the second device or a network entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Daniel MEDINA, Prajwal KESHAVAMURTHY, Ali KARIMIDEHKORDI, Amir Mehdi AHMADIAN TEHRANI, Alessio MARCONE, Torsten WILDSCHEK
  • Publication number: 20250039851
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: determine a first allocation comprising at least one of: a first time-domain allocation comprising at least one symbol within a slot associated with a first reference signal transmission, or a first frequency-domain allocation comprising at least one subcarrier within a physical resource block associated with the first reference signal transmission, or a first code-domain allocation comprising a sequence associated with the first reference signal transmission, or a first space-domain allocation comprising a beam associated with the first reference signal transmission; and determine a physical sidelink feedback channel transmission resource for a physical sidelink feedback channel transmission in response to the first reference signal transmission at least based on the determined first allocation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Daniel MEDINA, Torsten WILDSCHEK, Faranaz SABOURI-SICHANI, Takayuki SHIMIZU, Claude ARZELIER
  • Publication number: 20250039903
    Abstract: An apparatus including at least one processor; and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: determine a transmit beam or a time-domain resource associated with a sidelink transmission; and determine at least one physical sidelink feedback channel transmission symbol within a slot for a physical sidelink feedback channel transmission in response to the sidelink transmission at least based on the determined transmit beam or time-domain resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Daniel MEDINA, Torsten WILDSCHEK, Sayed Ali MARANDI, Takayuki SHIMIZU, Claude ARZELIER