Patents by Inventor Ulrich Seifert

Ulrich Seifert 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: 9648495
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a verification request to an identification module contained in a communication terminal device, comprising the following steps: (i) a request that was sent by an application of the communication terminal device instructing that the verification request should be transmitted to the identification module is received in a transmission means that is arranged physically separate from the communication terminal device, (ii) the verification request is transmitted by the transmission means to the identification module of the communication terminal device, (iii) a verification response to the verification request ascertained in the identification module is received in the transmission means, and (iv) a notification about the received verification response is transmitted by the transmission means to the application of the communication terminal devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Vodafone Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten Nozulak, Ulrich Seifert
  • Patent number: 9513622
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the automatic configuration and/or equipment of a vehicle cabin (1), more particularly of an aircraft, wherein the cabin (1) is subdivided into a plurality of zones (A, B, C, D, E) and the method furthermore comprises the following steps: —selection of a plurality of individual modules (11a, 11b, 11c) from a pool of individual modules, —automatic connection of the selected individual modules (11a, 11b, 11c) to form a desired module package (10a), —automatic calculation of a desired module package configuration value, —automatic comparison of the desired module package configuration value with predefined module package configuration values which respectively correspond to a technically prevalidated module package, —automatic selection of the module package (10b) whose module package configuration value deviates the least from the desired module package configuration value, —arrangement of the selected module package (10b) in a zone (A, B, C, D, E) of the cabin (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Inventors: Tobias Schmidt-Schäffer, Benjamin Becker, Ulrich Seifert
  • Patent number: 9261874
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the automatic configuration and/or equipment of a vehicle cabin, more particularly of an aircraft, wherein the cabin (1) is subdivided into a plurality of zones (A, B, C, D, E) and wherein at least one parameter zone (A, C, E) and one dynamic zone (B, D) are provided, comprising the following steps: —selection of one or more individual modules from a pool of individual modules, —automatic arrangement of the at least one selected individual module in the parameter zone in accordance with at least one predetermined individual module parameter for the complete configuration of the meter zone, —selection of one or more individual components from a pool of individual components, —automatic calculation of an individual component configuration of the dynamic zone in accordance with the arrangement of the individual modules in the parameter zone and automatic arrangement of individual components in the dynamic zone in accordance with the calculated individual component configurat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Tobias Schmidt-Schäffer, Benjamin Becker, Ulrich Seifert
  • Patent number: 8686210
    Abstract: A process for obtaining gaseous hydrocarbons from a starting material which contains oxygen-containing hydrocarbons. The process includes providing the starting material and contacting the starting material with a porous catalyst at a temperature of 300-850° C. in the absence of oxygen in a converting reactor so as to form a hydrocarbon-containing product gas mixture in which a proportion by weight of gaseous hydrocarbons is greater than a proportion by weight of liquid hydrocarbons in the gas mixture. Additionally, the process includes collecting a hydrocarbon-containing product gas stream of the hydrocarbon-containing product gas mixture and introducing the product gas stream into a separation apparatus in which product fractionation is carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.
    Inventors: Volker Heil, Wolfgang Urban, Axel Kraft, Christoph Unger, Karl Meller, Joachim Danzig, Ulrich Seifert, Anna Fastabend, Silvana Rossow, Andreas Menne
  • Publication number: 20140052992
    Abstract: The subject innovation relates to a method with which a response to a request—said response having been ascertained by means of a communication terminal device can be securely transmitted to a data means, whereby the communication terminal device makes a selection from a plurality of response options. A specific key is associated with each of the response options, and the keys, which are in encrypted form, are received, together with the request, in the communication terminal device and they are decrypted in a means of the communication terminal device. On the basis of the selection made, the means ascertains the key that is associated with the selected response option, and the ascertained key is sent in a response message to the data means. The subject innovation also relates to a communication terminal device that is suitable for carrying out the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: Vodafone Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten Nozulak, Ulrich Seifert, Cedric Rigal
  • Publication number: 20140040988
    Abstract: The technique described herein relates to a method for transmitting data to an identification module in a mobile terminal device that can be connected to a mobile telecommunications network, making use of an OTA server that has a database with security information for a plurality of identification modules and that also has a first interface for transmitting secured information, especially OTA messages, to the identification modules. The data is secured in the OTA server by security information stored in the database, and the secured data is transferred via a second interface of the OTA server to a data center that is connected to the OTA server. The data is transmitted to the identification module by the data center. Moreover, the technique described herein also relates to a system for carrying out the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: VODAFONE HOLDING GMBH
    Inventors: Thorsten Nozulak, Ulrich Seifert, Elmar Johnen
  • Publication number: 20130337773
    Abstract: A method for transmitting a verification request to an identification module contained in a communication terminal device, comprising the following steps: (i) a request that was sent by an application of the communication terminal device instructing that the verification request should be transmitted to the identification module is received in a transmission means that is arranged physically separate from the communication terminal device, (ii) the verification request is transmitted by the transmission means to the identification module of the communication terminal device, (iii) a verification response to the verification request ascertained in the identification module is received in the transmission means, and (iv) a notification about the received verification response is transmitted by the transmission means to the application of the communication terminal devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: Thorsten Nozulak, Ulrich Seifert
  • Patent number: 8560287
    Abstract: A method and a device for the computer-assisted generation of a construction plan for modular aircraft components on the basis of already validated partial module construction plans for the individual modules wherein at least one element is assigned to a respective partial module construction plan, and in this manner a hierarchy is defined that comprises a higher, module level and a lower, element level, with the method comprising: re-utilizing at least one of the already validated partial module construction plans; depending on user input, re-specifying at the element level one of the at least one element in one of the partial module construction plans to obtain an individualized partial module construction plan; validating, only at the module level, a combination of one of the partial module construction plans with the individualized partial module construction plan; and in the case of successful validation, composing the partial module construction plans of the combination validated in this manner, to obta
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Schmidt-Schäffer, Milton Amador, Ulrich Seifert, Ulf Schiller, Benjamin Becker
  • Publication number: 20130066602
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the automatic configuration and/or equipment of a vehicle cabin (1), more particularly of an aircraft, wherein the cabin (1) is subdivided into a plurality of zones (A, B, C, D, E) and the method furthermore comprises the following steps: selection of a plurality of individual modules (11a, 11b, 11c) from a pool of individual modules, automatic connection of the selected individual modules (11a, 11b, 11c) to form a desired module package (10a), automatic calculation of a desired module package configuration value, automatic comparison of the desired module package configuration value with predefined module package configuration values which respectively correspond to a technically prevalidated module package, automatic selection of the module package (10b) whose module package configuration value deviates the least from the desired module package configuration value, arrangement of the selected module package (10b) in a zone (A, B, C, D, E) of the cabin (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Tobias Schmidt-Schäffer, Benjamin Becker, Ulrich Seifert
  • Publication number: 20130035906
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the automatic configuration and/or equipment of a vehicle cabin, more particularly of an aircraft, wherein the cabin (1) is subdivided into a plurality of zones (A, B, C, D, E) and wherein at least one parameter zone (A, C, E) and one dynamic zone (B, D) are provided, comprising the following steps: —selection of one or more individual modules from a pool of individual modules, —automatic arrangement of the at least one selected individual module in the parameter zone in accordance with at least one predetermined individual module parameter for the complete configuration of the meter zone, —selection of one or more individual components from a pool of individual components, —automatic calculation of an individual component configuration of the dynamic zone in accordance with the arrangement of the individual modules in the parameter zone and automatic arrangement of individual components in the dynamic zone in accordance with the calculated individual component configurat
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Tobias Schmidt-Schäffer, Benjamin Becker, Ulrich Seifert
  • Publication number: 20120173210
    Abstract: A method and a device for the computer-assisted generation of a construction plan for modular aircraft components on the basis of validated partial construction plans for individual modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Tobias Schmidt-Schäffer, Milton Amador, Ulrich Seifert, Ulf Schiller, Benjamin Becker
  • Publication number: 20110237854
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for extracting gaseous hydrocarbons, in particular liquid gas and/or a gas mixture resembling natural gas or one or more components contained in liquid gas or in the gas mixture resembling natural gas. The starting material used contains oxygen-containing hydrocarbons. The method comprises the following steps: providing the starting material—contacting the starting material with a porous catalyst in the absence of oxygen at a temperature of 300-850° C. in a converting reactor, resulting in a hydrocarbon-containing product gas mixture, in which the proportion by weight of the gaseous hydrocarbons is greater than that of the liquid hydrocarbons, —collecting the hydrocarbon-containing product gas stream and supplying the product gas stream to a separating device, where product separation is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.V.
    Inventors: Volker Heil, Wolfgang Urban, Axel Kraft, Christoph Unger, Karl Meller, Joachim Danzig, Ulrich Seifert, Anna Fastabend, Silvana Rossow, Andreas Menne