Patents by Inventor Volker Aue

Volker Aue 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: 9706525
    Abstract: According to an aspect of this disclosure, a radio communication device is provided including a first transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Cellular Wide Area radio communication technology; a second transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Short Range radio communication technology; a first processor configured to control the first transceiver to receive and transmit data packets in accordance with a first data transmission frame; a second processor configured to control the second transceiver to receive and transmit data packets in accordance with a second data transmission frame; wherein the first processor is further configured to control the first transceiver such that the first transceiver does not transmit a data packet during at least a time period provided for a first transmission of a respective data packet transmitted by the second transceiver in accordance with the second data transmission frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: INTEL DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Bruno Jechoux, Francois Deparis, Matthias Hofmann, Volker Aue
  • Patent number: 9693312
    Abstract: A communication terminal is described comprising a transceiver configured to communicate using carrier aggregation according to a first carrier aggregation setting, a detector configured to detect a need for the communication terminal to reduce its power consumption and a controller configured to initiate a switch from the first carrier aggregation setting to a second carrier aggregation setting with reduced power consumption compared to the first carrier aggregation setting if the detector has detected a need for the communication terminal to reduce its power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sabine Roessel, Ralph Hasholzner, Sangeetha Bangolae, Youn Hyoung Heo, Volker Aue
  • Publication number: 20170156154
    Abstract: A radio communication device is described having a first transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Cellular Wide Area radio communication technology; a second transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Short Range radio communication technology or a Metropolitan Area System radio communication technology; a first processor configured to control the first transceiver to transmit signals during a transmitting period, the transmitting period comprising a first time period, during which signals are transmitted, and a second time period, during which no signals are transmitted; and a second processor configured to control the second transceiver to transmit signals taking into account the transmitting period of the first transceiver such that the second transceiver transmits signals at least partially during the second time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: Francois Deparis, Bruno Jechoux, Matthias Hofmann, Volker Aue
  • Patent number: 9661609
    Abstract: According to an aspect of this disclosure, a radio communication device is provided including a first transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Cellular Wide Area radio communication technology; a second transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Short Range radio communication technology; a first processor configured to control the first transceiver to receive and transmit data packets in accordance with a first data transmission frame; a second processor configured to control the second transceiver to receive and transmit data packets in accordance with a second data transmission frame; wherein the first processor is further configured to control the first transceiver such that the first transceiver does not transmit a data packet during at least a time period provided for a first transmission of a respective data packet transmitted by the second transceiver in accordance with the second data transmission frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: INTEL DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Bruno Jechoux, Francois Deparis, Matthias Hofmann, Volker Aue
  • Publication number: 20170111918
    Abstract: According to an aspect of this disclosure, a radio communication device is provided comprising a first transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Cellular Wide Area radio communication technology; a second transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Short Range radio communication technology or a Metropolitan Area System radio communication technology; a first processor configured to control the first transceiver; and a second processor configured to control the second transceiver wherein the first processor is configured to control the first transceiver to transmit signals in accordance with a predefined transmitting schedule, wherein the first processor is further configured to control the first transceiver to omit transmitting signals within at least one of a time period and a frequency band provided for signal transmission of the first transceiver in accordance with the predefined transmitting schedule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Bruno Jechoux, Francois Deparis, Matthias Hofmann, Volker Aue
  • Publication number: 20170105186
    Abstract: According to an aspect of this disclosure, a radio communication device is provided including: a first transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Cellular Wide Area radio communication technology; a second transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Short Range radio communication technology or a Metropolitan Area System radio communication technology; a processor configured to at least partially synchronize the receiving or transmitting of signals of the first transceiver with the receiving or transmitting of signals of the second transceiver such that at least one of at least a part of the receiving and a part of the transmitting of signals of the first transceiver and of the second transceiver is carried out at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Bernd Schmandt, Bruno Jechoux, Matthias Hofmann, Francois Deparis, Volker AUE
  • Publication number: 20170085005
    Abstract: A modular antenna system and a method for signal processing using the modular antenna system are provided to overcome the missing scalability of conventional antenna arrays and improve the overall antenna array performance as well as facilitate individually replacing defective or not reliably operating radio-units or radio-subunits in modular antenna array systems and provide a calibration procedure which can be adapted to a scalable antenna array. The modular antenna system includes a base station, and at least one radio-unit comprising at least two radio-subunits. Each radio-subunit includes a radio-module and an antenna-module. The radio-module includes a digital signal-processing unit, at least a transceiver, a front-end and a power amplifier. The radio-subunits provide an identical architecture and are modularly connected together via a connector interface and each radio-subunit has an own IQ-input and an own IQ-output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: AIRRAYS GMBH
    Inventors: Volker AUE, Michael GRIEGER, Albrecht FEHSKE
  • Publication number: 20160380421
    Abstract: An end closure for a cable is indicated, that in a core has at least two electrical cable wires for the transmission of electrical energy and having at least one optical transmission element and its core is surrounded by a reinforcement composed of metal wires. The metal wires of the reinforcement on the end of the cables are distanced a predetermined length and the end of the core of the cable is surrounded by a tension proof pipe that is connected tension proof with the remaining reinforcement. On the end of the electrical cable wires, to directly connect electrical couplings, the electrically suitable connection set is mounted, which at least partially protrudes out of the pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Volker Aue, Eduard Schramm, Michael Sturmer
  • Patent number: 9525240
    Abstract: An arrangement for contacting an electrical screen includes an armature that has at least two ring shaped contact elements, a first contact element, and a second contact element which, in the assembly position, are connected to each other by a screw connection. The first contact element has a conical outer surface which widens toward the end of the high voltage cable and surrounds the cable strand of the high voltage cable. The second contact element is attached to parts of the screw connection and has a conical inner surface which also widens toward the end of the high voltage cable and which extends in the assembly position parallel to the outer surface of the first contact element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventor: Volker Aue
  • Patent number: 9516698
    Abstract: According to an aspect of this disclosure, a radio communication device is provided including: a first transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Cellular Wide Area radio communication technology; a second transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Short Range radio communication technology or a Metropolitan Area System radio communication technology; a processor configured to at least partially synchronize the receiving or transmitting of signals of the first transceiver with the receiving or transmitting of signals of the second transceiver such that at least one of at least a part of the receiving and a part of the transmitting of signals of the first transceiver and of the second transceiver is carried out at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Schmandt, Bruno Jechoux, Matthias Hofmann, Francois Deparis, Volker Aue
  • Publication number: 20160352002
    Abstract: An antenna system includes a base station, a plurality of antenna elements combined to an antenna, wherein the plurality of antenna elements of an individual antenna is connected to an antenna element mapper each connected to the base station via an antenna port. Also provided is a method for providing antenna elements of an antenna system with antenna signals wherein an antenna signal is distributed to multiple antenna elements and weighted with antenna element specific parameters. A configuration that can individually control more antenna elements than the number of antenna ports is provided by arranging the antenna elements in an antenna element array wherein all antenna elements are controlled individually; storing antenna port specific beam forming vectors in the antenna array; and every antenna element of the antenna element array is individually controlled by an antenna element specific vector element of the beam forming vectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: AIRRAYS GMBH
    Inventor: Volker AUE
  • Patent number: 9497797
    Abstract: A radio communication device is described having a first transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Cellular Wide Area radio communication technology; a second transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Short Range radio communication technology or a Metropolitan Area System radio communication technology; a first processor configured to control the first transceiver to transmit signals during a transmitting period, the transmitting period comprising a first time period, during which signals are transmitted, and a second time period, during which no signals are transmitted; and a second processor configured to control the second transceiver to transmit signals taking into account the transmitting period of the first transceiver such that the second transceiver transmits signals at least partially during the second time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: INTEL DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Francois Deparis, Bruno Jechoux, Matthias Hofmann, Volker Aue
  • Publication number: 20160127998
    Abstract: A communication terminal is described comprising a transceiver configured to communicate using carrier aggregation according to a first carrier aggregation setting, a detector configured to detect a need for the communication terminal to reduce its power consumption and a controller configured to initiate a switch from the first carrier aggregation setting to a second carrier aggregation setting with reduced power consumption compared to the first carrier aggregation setting if the detector has detected a need for the communication terminal to reduce its power consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: SABINE ROESSEL, RALPH HASHOLZNER, SANGEETHA BANGOLAE, YOUN HYOUNG HEO, VOLKER AUE
  • Patent number: 9311203
    Abstract: The invention relates to a circuit arrangement and to a method for testing same. A circuit arrangement is provided that includes a plurality of functional units which are coupled by at least one streaming data bus. Each of the functional units includes a plurality of hardware modules and a switch matrix. At least one of the streaming data busses is provided with a data width of at least that of the widest hardware module of any of the functional units of the circuit arrangement. The switch matrices are configurable to establish a streaming data path between and through the plurality of functional units which is used as a test link for any of the hardware modules of the circuit arrangement. The invention provides for non-intrusive real-time tracing in SoCs with a minimum of additional hardware resources and at low cost in terms of die size and power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Lars Melzer, Volker Aue
  • Publication number: 20150255899
    Abstract: A method for the tension proof closing of the end of an energy cable in which an energy cable is used whose center axis containing the electrical transmission elements is surrounded by a tension proof reinforcement of metal wires. Initially, the reinforcement at the end of the energy cable is removed over a predetermined length. Subsequently, a pipe piece of metal, which tightly surrounds the end of the remaining reinforcement, is placed onto the end of the remaining reinforcement. Finally, a cup shaped tubular elongated sleeve of metal is pushed onto the end of the energy cable and is connected in a tension proof manner to the pipe piece which has, at its free end facing away from the pipe piece, a device suitable for mounting a tension element. In addition, a device manufactured by the method is proposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Volker Aue, Eduard Schramm
  • Publication number: 20150140864
    Abstract: An arrangement for contacting an electrical screen includes an armature that has at least two ring shaped contact elements, a first contact element, and a second contact element which, in the assembly position, are connected to each other by a screw connection. The first contact element has a conical outer surface which widens toward the end of the high voltage cable and surrounds the cable strand of the high voltage cable. The second contact element is attached to parts of the screw connection and has a conical inner surface which also widens toward the end of the high voltage cable and which extends in the assembly position parallel to the outer surface of the first contact element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventor: Volker Aue
  • Patent number: 8824531
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a system for estimating a symbol time error in a broadband transmission system, comprising: determination a time error signal of an output-signal of a discrete Fourier-transformation block (5) in a data symbol stream on the basis of intersymbol correlation using a predetermined period in each received symbol, selecting as a predetermined period last samples of a useful data part of an actual symbol and a preceding symbol after the discrete Fourier-transformation, determining the time error value (?) based on the intersymbol interference of the selected samples of the actual symbol and the preceding symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: NXP, B.V.
    Inventor: Volker Aue
  • Patent number: 8781034
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for communication in a mobile device. First and second OFDM symbols containing first and second received cell-specific reference subcarriers, respectively, are received. First and second received cell-specific reference subcarriers of the first and second OFDM symbols are extracted. A pair of received subcarriers is generated by computing the scalar product of the first received cell-specific reference subcarrier and the conjugate of the second received cell-specific reference subcarrier. A reference sequence is provided, that contains pairs of reference subcarriers for multiple, possible combinations of cell-IDs. The pair of received subcarriers is correlated with each pair of reference subcarriers of the reference sequence to generate cell-specific correlation values associated with each cell-ID of a plurality of cell-specific correlation values. The cell-ID of the strongest cell is determined by searching for the highest correlation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Tianyan Pu, Volker Aue
  • Patent number: 8769165
    Abstract: A data transfer method is provided which includes: sending a stream of data elements from a source to a sink (controlled by a common clock); simultaneously with the sending of the data element stream, sending a first binary signal to the sink, where the first binary signal is low if a data element is to be ignored by the sink, and is otherwise high; simultaneously with the sending of data element stream, sending a second binary signal from the sink to the source, where the second binary signal is low if the data element is not accepted by the sink, and is otherwise high; and simultaneously with the sending of the data element stream, sending a third binary signal to the sink, where the third binary signal marks a beginning and an end of a logical group of data elements within the data element stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications Technology Dresden GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Aue, Lars Melzer
  • Patent number: 8744374
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for uplink data transmission in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) compliant communication system use beam-forming in the uplink to increase the range of LTE compliant wireless communication terminals. Methods are provided for steering the beam in an optimal direction towards the base station, both for time division duplex (TDD) and frequency division duplex (FDD) communication schemes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications Technology Dresden GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Aue, Thomas Fliess