Patents by Inventor Walter Nitzold

Walter Nitzold 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).

  • Method for reduced resource usage in system synchronization, data delivery and asynchronous real-time access mobile communications systems with multiple low complexity terminals
    Patent number: 9313758
    Abstract: A radio communication method and a corresponding system are described. Time frequency resources are divided into a grid of resources. For communicating with a plurality of non-synchronized terminals the timing offset of each terminal is measured and a joint message is asynchronously transmitted to a subset of terminals, wherein the subset comprises at least two terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Vodafone Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Krone, Gerhard Fettweis, Walter Nitzold
  • Coordinated integration of secondary wireless communication terminals into a primary wireless communication network
    Patent number: 8774161
    Abstract: A communication method for a mobile communication system is described. Available radio resources, i.e. an available frequency band, are divided into a plurality of comparatively small radio resource units. The mobile communication system uses a first communication protocol for communicating with mobile stations compatible with the mobile communication system. For communicating with an autonomous terminal at least one radio resource unit is allocated, in which a second communication protocol incompatible with the first communication protocol is used for communicating with the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Vodafone Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Fettweis, Peter Rost, Walter Nitzold
  • METHOD FOR MINIMIZING COLLISIONS OF MESSAGES RESPONSIVE TO MULTI- OR BROADCAST MESSAGES IN A RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20130064163
    Abstract: A radio communication system comprises an access station that is adapted and configured to transmit a rateless encoded multicast message to a plurality of radio terminals. Each of the radio terminals transmits a reply message to the access station upon successful reception of the multicast message, wherein the transmit resources are selected from a predefined set of agreed transmit resources, where the selection is influenced by certain characteristics of the reception of the multicast message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: VODAFONE HOLDING GMBH
    Inventors: Gerhard Fettweis, Walter Nitzold, Stefan Krone, Trevor Gill
  • METHOD FOR REDUCED RESOURCE USAGE IN SYSTEM SYNCHRONIZATION, DATA DELIVERY AND ASYNCHRONOUS REAL-TIME ACCESS MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS WITH MULTIPLE LOW COMPLEXITY TERMINALS
    Publication number: 20130034037
    Abstract: A radio communication method and a corresponding system are described. Time frequency resources are divided into a grid of resources. For communicating with a plurality of non-synchronized terminals the timing offset of each terminal is measured and a joint message is asynchronously transmitted to a subset of terminals, wherein the subset comprises at least two terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: VODAFONE HOLDING GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Krone, Gerhard Fettweis, Walter Nitzold
  • COORDINATED INTEGRATION OF SECONDARY WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINALS INTO A PRIMARY WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK
    Publication number: 20120002644
    Abstract: A communication method for a mobile communication system is described. Available radio resources, i.e. an available frequency band, are divided into a plurality of comparatively small radio resource units. The mobile communication system uses a first communication protocol for communicating with mobile stations compatible with the mobile communication system. For communicating with an autonomous terminal at least one radio resource unit is allocated, in which a second communication protocol incompatible with the first communication protocol is used for communicating with the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: Vodafone Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Fettweis, Peter Rost, Walter Nitzold