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Ralf Klotsche

Ralf Klotsche

Stuttgart, Germany

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Biography

Born 1962 near Bielefeld, Germany

Jobs: in Baden-Württemberg, near Stuttgart

1988 – 1989 Consultant at ‘Industrie Konstruktions Service’ working in 3 SMEs plus Alcatel

1990 -> Research engineer at Alcatel-Lucent / Bell Labs; details see ‘Professional activities‘

Education
  • Secondary school: 1972 -1982 Hans Ehrenberg Gymnasium Sennestadt
  • 1983 Physics at University of Bielefel
  • 1984-1988 Electrical engineering with a focus on information technology.
Selected Articles and Publications
  • "Synergy for QoS provisioning resource scheduling algorithms in shared access networks ", 3. ITG-Fachtagung Netze und Anwendungen, 28. Februar und 1. März 2002, Duisburg
  • "A CLEAN SLATE APPROACH FOR THE FUTURE INTERNET: THE GENERIC PATH" BLTJ 2009
  • "Radio Base Stations in the Cloud"  BLTJ June 2013  volume 18
  • Talks, slide shows, and animations for Bell Labs Open Days
  • 2011 "Immersive communication", read out of the Grand Challenge
  • 2012 Media-cloud, handling 10bn servers with 1.5k tables leveraging the small world pheomenon
  • 2013 Media Cloud, spreading out applications  in the cloud using a new theorem in Graph theory: Circluar min cuts'.
Patents

Under construction,

  • Information gathered by queries on public access of the EU and US patent offices
  • There were way more inventions and filing decisions in the time frame from 1988-2013

Patents published between 2001 and March 2014

European Patents including worldwide filings

Publication number, Title

  • WO2014020059 A METHOD, AND A NODE FOR MAKING A NETWORK TOPOLOGY DISCOVERY
  • EP2693690 Verfahren und Knoten zur Netzwerktopologieentdeckung
  • WO2013072137 APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR ROUTING DATA PACKETS
  • EP2592784 Vorrichtung, Verfahren und Computerprogrammprodukt zur Leitweglenkung von Datenpaketen
  • WO2012158265 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAY ZOOM CONTROL USING OBJECT DETECTION
  • EP2506568 Verfahren, System, Vorrichtung, Computerprogramm und Computerprogrammprodukt zur Durchführung einer Videokonferenz
  • WO2011072978 METHOD FOR PROCESSING A PLURALITY OF DATA AND SWITCHING DEVICE FOR SWITCHING COMMUNICATION PACKETS
  • EP2337274 Verfahren zur Verarbeitung einer Vielzahl von Daten und Schaltvorrichtung zur Vermittlung von Kommunikationspaketen
  • WO2010000588 A METHOD IN A PEER FOR AUTHENTICATING THE PEER TO AN AUTHENTICATOR, CORRESPONDING DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT THEREFORE
  • EP2141883 Verfahren in einem Peer zur Authentifizierung des Peer in einem Authentifizierer, entsprechende Vorrichtung und Computerprogrammprodukt dafür
  • WO2009095388 TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICE, PACKET-BASED NETWORK AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TRAFFIC IN A PACKET-BASED NETWORK
  • EP2086186 Verkehrssteuerungsvorrichtung, paketbasiertes Netzwerk und Verfahren zur Verkehrskontrolle in einem paketbasierten Netzwerk
  • EP2333997 Verfahren zur Dispersitätsübertragung einer Information
  • WO2009087049 METHOD FOR PROTECTING A NETWORK CONFIGURATION SET UP BY A SPANNING TREE PROTOCOL
  • EP2079196 Verfahren zum Schutz einer Netzwerkkonfigurationseinstellung anhand eines Spanning-Tree-Protokolls
  • EP2187579 Neu konfigurierbares Kommunikationssystem
  • EP2139176 Verfahren für das Routing eines Pakets zwischen Kommunikationsendpunkten, entsprechende Vorrichtungen und Computerprogrammprodukt dafür
  • WO2007096262 DOPPLER COMPENSATION CONTROL FOR RADIO TRANSMISSION
  • EP1821427 Kompensationsregelung des Dopplereffektes zur Funkübertragung
  • EP1876726 System und Verfahren zur Doppler-Effekt-Minimalisierung in einem Funkübertragungssystem zu einem mobilen Gerät
  • EP1850534 Verfahren zur Durchführung einer Weiterleitung
  • EP1806854 Dopplereffektkompensation zur Funkübertragung
  • EP1667368 Ablaufsteuerung für eine Basisstation in einem Kommunikationsnetz und Verfahren zu deren Betrieb
  • EP1659745 Verfahren zur Planung von Paketen in einem Kommunikationsnetz
  • EP1317101 Verfahren zur Zuweisung von Sendeberechtigungen
  • EP1315339 Verfahren und Steuergerät zur Zuteilung von variablen Zeitschlitzen für eine Datenübertragung in einem paketorientierten Datennetzwerk
  • EP1315340 Verfahren und Steuergerät für ein paketorientiertes Datennetzwerk zur Übertragung von Daten in variablen Zeitschlitzen
  • EP1313284 Router
  • EP1313268 Router

US-Patents:

Publication number, Title

  • 7,944,858 Method for protecting a network configuration set up by a spanning tree protocol
  • 27,907,568 Method of performing a handover
  • 7,653,347 Doppler compensation control for radio transmission
  • 7,515,539 Router which facilitates simplified load balancing
  • 7,492,781 Router with overflow management
  • 7,346,080 Procedure and controller for the allocation of variable time slots for a data transmission in a packet-oriented data network
  • 7,155,533 Procedure and controller for a packet-oriented data network for the transmission of data in variable time slots
Memberships
  • 1988-1990 Product development and consulting with a focus on embedded systems,
  • 1990-1992 Terminal prototypes for BB-ISDN networks as ‘eye-catcher’ for product road-shows and fairies (Geneva ‘91),
  • 1992-1993 Multimedia terminal product development for enterprise markets 3 products in parallel,
  • 1993-1994 Multimedia terminal prototypes for ATM Networks (Geneva ’94),
  • 1994-1997 Special multimedia devices for the government (InfomationsVerbund Bonn Berlin IVBB) to bridge the former and actual location Bonn and Berlin. (prototyping and pilot customer contacts) (Cebit),
  • 1997-1998 Early but feature rich prototype of presence for mobile phone users ‘ Call Fliter’, project management (BD-funded),
  • 1998 Pilot phase of new product line for rail-road department (now Thales) to track public busses. Passenger Information System (a kind of city navigation), Product specification and consulting at customer in Singapore,
  • 1999 ‘On Board Unit’ for busses to provide real-time schedules at bus stops and in the vehicle. (embedded systems product devellopment),
  • 2000 -2002 Development of a TV-cable headend offering triple play (INAII) in a joint venture with Thomson called ‘Nextream’, resource scheduler for DVB and DOCSIS,
  • 2003 – 2004 Multi-standard access gateway, system and network architecture,
  • 2004 - 2006 ‘Next Generation Distributed Access Gateway’ High speed DSL by maintenance free, active, low power components in the access network,
  • 2006 - 2008 EU-project 4WARD, new networks beyond IP,
  • 2008 - 2011 Grand Challenge ‘Immersion@Distance’ Multi media systems beyond video conferencing,
  • 2011 – 2012 Base station virtualization, elaborating functional splits for next generation products,
  • 2012 – 2013 ‘Media Cloud’ bringing media and feature rich applications from OTT into a world spanning cloud,
  • 2014 – Elastic IMS.

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