Patents by Inventor Volker Braun
Volker Braun 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).
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Patent number: 11956771Abstract: Inter-alia, a method is disclosed comprising: receiving data transmissions indicative of data to be transmitted via the wireless communication network; obtaining physical channel information indicative of one or more parameters representing channel information and/or quality information associated with at least one physical channel that can be used for transmitting the data transmissions to one or more mobile devices of the wireless communication network; scheduling the data transmissions based at least partially on the physical channel information, wherein a tentative scheduling grant is determined for at least a part of the data transmissions to be encoded tentatively; encoding at least a part of the data transmissions, wherein the encoding is performed and/or controlled in a tentative fashion upon reception of the data transmissions, wherein the data transmissions are encoded based on the tentative scheduling grant; and outputting the encoded data transmissions upon completion of the encoding.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2018Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OYInventors: Volker Braun, Bernd Haberland
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Publication number: 20230358852Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for signal multiplexing of data and radar transmissions. For instance, certain embodiments may provide a configurable time and frequency domain comb signal for radar excitation on a spatial beam and/or multiplexing data communications and radar signals in time, frequency, and/or spatial domains (e.g., beams).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2020Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventors: Volker BRAUN, Harish VISWANATHAN, Thorsten WILD
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Patent number: 11774550Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus which use a first automatic gain control unit to receive a first data signal, use a second automatic gain control unit to receive a reflected radar signal, and switches between using the first automatic gain control unit and using the second automatic gain control unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Volker Braun, Shahriar Shahramian, Harish Viswanathan, Thorsten Wild
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Patent number: 11601881Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from appropriate configuration of reception states. For example, certain wireless communication systems, such as new radio, may benefit from control monitoring upon receipt of a discontinuous reception trigger. A method can including receiving, by a user equipment, configuration of a search space set of a downlink control resource set with a first monitoring periodicity. The method can also include receiving a trigger or the user equipment becoming active after a period without physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring. The method can further include, after the receiving of the trigger or the becoming active, modifying a monitoring periodicity of the search space set to a second monitoring periodicity.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2018Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Volker Braun, Esa Tiirola, Karol Schober
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Publication number: 20220286260Abstract: A spreading sequence is determined (S301) based on a candidate of a control channel of a control resource set, the candidate comprising a sequence of control information. The sequence of control information and the determined spreading sequence are multiplied (S303), thereby obtaining a spread series of control information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2019Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Volker BRAUN, Paolo BARACCA
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Patent number: 11405132Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for managing or monitoring of the control channel in new radio (NR) through blind searches are provided. One method may include determining whether a channel estimation limit has been reached for a user equipment. When it is determined that the channel estimation limit has been reached, the method may include selecting blind decoding candidate(s) to be dropped from different control resource set(s) or search space set(s), and removing the selected blind decoding candidate(s) from a set of monitored candidates.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Esa Tiirola, Karol Schober, Volker Braun
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Patent number: 11310756Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from improved signaling. For example, anew radio communication system may benefit from a flexible indication of transmission timing. A method may include determining, at the user equipment, transmission timing based on a first parameter and a second parameter. The first parameter may indicate an offset as a number of slots. The second parameter may indicate an offset as a number of symbols within one of the slots. The method may also include using the transmission timing to at least one of send an uplink transmission or receive a downlink transmission.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2017Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Esa Tapani Tiirola, Sigen Ye, Klaus Ingemann Pedersen, Volker Braun, Juho Mikko Oskari Pirskanen
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Patent number: 11290220Abstract: A method and apparatus for implicitly determining a PUCCH resource. The invention allows for flexible selection of a PUCCH resource in the PUCCH resource subset for configurations of PDCCH resources without collisions through the use of indices for control channel element subsets.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Emad Farag, Volker Braun, Karol Schober
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Publication number: 20220057478Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus which use a first automatic gain control unit to receive a first data signal, use a second automatic gain control unit to receive a reflected radar signal, and switches between using the first automatic gain control unit and using the second automatic gain control unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Inventors: Volker BRAUN, Shahriar SHAHRAMIAN, Harish VISWANATHAN, Thorsten WILD
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Patent number: 11191011Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for managing or monitoring of the control channel in new radio (NR) through blind searches are provided. One method may include configuring, by a network node, multiple search spaces, sets of search spaces, and/or control resource sets, to a user equipment, that results in monitoring occasions where more blind decodings are required than allowed by capability of the user equipment. The method may further include identifying the monitoring occasions for which an allowed number of blind decodings is exceeded, determining a reduced set of blind decodings and/or candidates determined by predefined search space priorities or rules, and transmitting physical downlink control channel(s) to the user equipment given the reduced set.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2017Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Esa Tiirola, Volker Braun, Karol Schober
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Patent number: 11137488Abstract: One radar excitation signal has a first burst duration and a first sampling period. Another radar excitation signal has a second burst duration and a second sampling period. The first sampling period of the first signal is configured for scanning a velocity range and the second sampling period of the second signal is configured for scanning a portion of the velocity range, and the first burst duration is smaller than the second burst duration. The at least two radar excitation signals are embedded into a frame structure for a wireless communications system. At least one radar operation comprising at least one transmission based on the frame structure is performed. In this way the overhead of the radar excitation signals on the air interface of the wireless communications system may be controlled, while supporting a fine velocity resolution and a sufficiently large maximum velocity for a monitored target.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2020Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Volker Braun, Thorsten Wild
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Publication number: 20210286064Abstract: One radar excitation signal has a first burst duration and a first sampling period. Another radar excitation signal has a second burst duration and a second sampling period. The first sampling period of the first signal is configured for scanning a velocity range and the second sampling period of the second signal is configured for scanning a portion of the velocity range, and the first burst duration is smaller than the second burst duration. The at least two radar excitation signals are embedded into a frame structure for a wireless communications system. At least one radar operation comprising at least one transmission based on the frame structure is performed. In this way the overhead of the radar excitation signals on the air interface of the wireless communications system may be controlled, while supporting a fine velocity resolution and a sufficiently large maximum velocity for a monitored target.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2020Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Volker BRAUN, Thorsten WILD
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Publication number: 20210227559Abstract: Inter-alia, a method is disclosed comprising: receiving data transmissions indicative of data to be transmitted via the wireless communication network; obtaining physical channel information indicative of one or more parameters representing channel information and/or quality information associated with at least one physical channel that can be used for transmitting the data transmissions to one or more mobile devices of the wireless communication network; scheduling the data transmissions based at least partially on the physical channel information, wherein a tentative scheduling grant is determined for at least a part of the data transmissions to be encoded tentatively; encoding at least a part of the data transmissions, wherein the encoding is performed and/or controlled in a tentative fashion upon reception of the data transmissions, wherein the data transmissions are encoded based on the tentative scheduling grant; and outputting the encoded data transmissions upon completion of the encoding.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2018Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: Volker BRAUN, Bernd HABERLAND
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Patent number: 11064404Abstract: A method of wireless data transmission at a first radio access point, including detecting a degradation of a first radio link established for a first frequency band between the first radio access point and a user equipment, and sending, addressed to a network entity, information to trigger a handover or handover decision of the wireless data transmission from the first radio link of the first radio access point operating in the first frequency band to a second radio link of a second radio access point operating in the first frequency band depending on the result of the detection.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2017Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Hardy Halbauer, Anton Ambrosy, Danish Aziz, Hajo-Erich Bakker, Volker Braun, Jens Gebert
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Publication number: 20210184813Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from allocation of candidates for a channel. For example, some new radio communication systems may benefit from hashing for allocation of control channel candidates. A method can include applying a hashing function for associating a plurality of decoding candidates of a search space set with subsets of control channel elements of a control resource set, and using the decoding candidate for scheduling of a user equipment in a control channel, wherein the hashing function is non-uniform in a pseudo-random manner and with one candidate per subband. The method can also include scheduling the user equipment based on the applied hashing function.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2018Publication date: June 17, 2021Inventors: Volker BRAUN, Esa TIIROLA, Karol SCHOBER, Klaus HUGL
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Publication number: 20200367160Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from appropriate configuration of reception states. For example, certain wireless communication systems, such as new radio, may benefit from control monitoring upon receipt of a discontinuous reception trigger. A method can including receiving, by a user equipment, configuration of a search space set of a downlink control resource set with a first monitoring periodicity. The method can also include receiving a trigger or the user equipment becoming active after a period without physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring. The method can further include, after the receiving of the trigger or the becoming active, modifying a monitoring periodicity of the search space set to a second monitoring periodicity.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2018Publication date: November 19, 2020Inventors: Volker BRAUN, Esa TIIROLA, Karol SCHOBER
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Publication number: 20200053677Abstract: Various communication systems may benefit from improved signaling. For example, anew radio communication system may benefit from a flexible indication of transmission timing. A method may include determining, at the user equipment, transmission timing based on a first parameter and a second parameter. The first parameter may indicate an offset as a number of slots. The second parameter may indicate an offset as a number of symbols within one of the slots. The method may also include using the transmission timing to at least one of send an uplink transmission or receive a downlink transmission.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2017Publication date: February 13, 2020Inventors: Esa Tapani TIIROLA, Sigen YE, Klaus Ingemann PEDERSEN, Volker BRAUN, Juho Mikko Oskari PIRSKANEN
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Publication number: 20190313400Abstract: A method and apparatus for implicitly determining a PUCCH resource. The invention allows for flexible selection of a PUCCH resource in the PUCCH resource subset for configurations of PDCCH resources without collisions through the use of indices for control channel element subsets.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Inventors: Emad Farag, Volker Braun, Karol Schober
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Patent number: 10399570Abstract: An autonomous driving system for a vehicle, including: a computer unit configured to evaluate surroundings-related and vehicle-related data using sensors and performs an autonomous driving operation based on the data, in which a driver command is initiated by an interaction of the driver and is implemented by the autonomous driving system if this is possible following an evaluation of the data. Also described is a related method.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2015Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Volker Braun
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Patent number: 10383020Abstract: A method for interference reduction in a radio communication system is disclosed. The method includes receiving from a mobile station indications of radiation beams that are transmitted by a first base station of the radio communication system and that fulfill or exceed a predefined quality criterion at the mobile station, when the mobile station is attached to the first base station and when the mobile station is located within a first overlapping coverage area of the first base station and of a second base station of the radio communication system, and determining at least one radio resource to be unused or to be transmitted with a limited transmission power by the first base station for at least one of the radiation beams based on the received indications for serving the mobile station or a further mobile station by the second base station with the at least one radio resource.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2013Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Oliver Stanze, Volker Braun, Christian Gerlach, Andreas Weber, Bozo Cesar