Patents Assigned to NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
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Patent number: 11979913Abstract: There is provided a user equipment, the user equipment including: a reception unit that receives configuration information in which a reference signal and a synchronous signal block are associated with each other from a base station; a control unit that selects a specific reference signal from a plurality of reference signals to be monitored in a random access procedure; and a transmission unit that transmits a random access signal to the base station using a resource corresponding to the specific reference signal, wherein the reception unit assumes based on the configuration information that there is a quasi co-location relation between the synchronous signal block corresponding to the specific reference signal and a signal to be monitored in a predetermined search space, and monitors the signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2018Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventor: Tomoya Ohara
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Patent number: 11979745Abstract: A user equipment includes a receiving unit configured to receive, from a base station apparatus, information for requesting a report of a User Equipment (UE) capability, a control unit configured to generate the report including a supported UE capability, and a transmitting unit configured to, in a case where an Access Stratum (AS) security with the base station apparatus is activated, transmit the report to the base station apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Tooru Uchino
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Patent number: 11979874Abstract: A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a control section that determines, in a case where a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) spans two durations across a boundary in a time domain, a configuration of a phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) during each of the two durations, and a transmitting section that transmits the PUSCH. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, even in a case where a signal/channel is transmitted over a plurality of slots, a reference signal can be appropriately transmitted.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Shohei Yoshioka, Yuki Takahashi, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang
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Patent number: 11979875Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a transmitting unit that transmits, to a base station, a schedule request (SR); and a receiving unit that receives, from the base station, an uplink grant indicating scheduling information for transmitting uplink data, wherein the transmitting unit transmits, to the base station, the uplink data by employing the scheduling information. In other aspects, a base station and a system are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Qin Mu, Liu Liu, Naoto Okubo, Wei Xu, Yong Li, Wenbo Wang
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Patent number: 11979351Abstract: A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a control section that calculates a pathloss based on a reference signal of a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state of a specific downlink resource in a case where a pathloss reference signal and spatial relation information are not configured for specific uplink transmission; and a transmitting section that performs the specific uplink transmission using transmission power based on the pathloss. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a reference signal for at least one of QCL and pathloss calculation for uplink transmission can be appropriately determined.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata
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Patent number: 11978349Abstract: A setting unit sets the operating mode of an aerial vehicle to a first operating mode that transmits, data generated by a host aerial vehicle and data received from another aerial vehicle to a processing device, or a second operating mode that transmits data generated by a host aerial vehicle to another aerial vehicle. At this time, setting unit sets the operating modes of each of a plurality of aerial vehicles using a setting method corresponding to the attributes of an airspace in which aerial vehicle flies, from among a plurality of setting methods that set the operating mode of aerial vehicle. The attributes of an airspace include attributes determined in accordance with a degree of importance pertaining to the process of transmitting data from aerial vehicle to a server device and/or attributes determined in accordance with the extent to which processes are distributed among a plurality of aerial vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Kaori Niihata, Tadao Takami, Koji Ishii, Hiroshi Kawakami, Yuichiro Segawa, Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Publication number: 20240146593Abstract: A terminal comprising: a control unit that applies a target subcarrier spacing lower than a specified subcarrier spacing, in a target frequency band that includes at least a portion of a specified frequency range in which the specified subcarrier spacing is defined as a minimum subcarrier spacing or a frequency band lower than the specified frequency range, wherein a frequency use efficiency of the target subcarrier spacing is higher than the frequency use efficiency of the specified subcarrier spacing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2021Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Shinya Kumagai, Naoya Shibaike, Satoshi Nagata
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Publication number: 20240147463Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives information related to configuration of transmission of a plurality of physical uplink shared channels (PUSCHs) based on one piece of downlink control information (DCI), and a control section that determines, out of a plurality of reference signal indices, one or more reference signal indices used for at least one of spatial relations and pathloss reference signals (PL-RSs) for the plurality of PUSCHs. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, it is possible to appropriately control PUSCH repetition transmission even when multiple TRPs are applied.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2021Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicants: NTT DOCOMO, INC., NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata
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Publication number: 20240147543Abstract: A terminal receives a message including a reconfiguration instruction of the secondary cell group. When the secondary cell group is in an inactive state and the secondary cell is added or changed, the terminal stops the random access procedure for a prescribed time even if the secondary cell is reconfigured based on the reconfiguration instruction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2021Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventor: Tianyang Min
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Publication number: 20240147330Abstract: A terminal 200 includes a receiving unit 220 that receives a plurality of pieces of configuration information of transition destination cells from a gNB 100A by a conditional cell transition in the gNB 100A in which the terminal 200 resides, and a control unit 250 that performs a transition to a transition destination cell based on configuration information of the transition destination cell, without receiving a transition command. When the receiving unit 220 receives modification information indicating whether there is a modification to the configuration information of the transition destination cell, the control unit 250 modifies the configuration information of the transition destination cell based on the modification information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2020Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventor: Tianyang Min
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Publication number: 20240147388Abstract: A communication device has: a receiving unit configured to receive information from another communication device; a control unit configured to determine transmission power based on the information; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit a signal, by applying the transmission power to the signal, in autonomously selected resources, to the another communication device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2021Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Shinya Kumagai, Shohei Yoshioka, Masaya Okamura, Mayuko Okano, Satoshi Nagata
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Publication number: 20240147429Abstract: A communication device includes: a receiving unit configured to receive a preamble in resources that are selected autonomously by another communication device; and a control unit configured to acquire, based on the preamble, information for receiving a control signal from the another communication device, and, in this communication device, the receiving unit receives the control signal from the another communication device based on the information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2021Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yuki Takahashi, Shinya Kumagai, Shohei Yoshioka, Masaya Okamura, Mayuko Okano, Satoshi Nagata
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Publication number: 20240147442Abstract: A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a receiving section that receives, in a first band, information related to a second band; and a control section that simultaneously uses a first signal in the first band and a second signal in the second band for at least one of synchronization, measurement, channel estimation, position estimation, and reference signal transmission. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, it is possible to appropriately use resources according to capability.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2021Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Shinya Kumagai, Takuma Nakamura, Tomoya Ohara, Daisuke Kurita, Satoshi Nagata
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Patent number: 11974229Abstract: A user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a control section that, in a case where a plurality of Transmission/Reception Points (TRPs) are configured, determines transmit power of uplink transmission based on a cumulative value of Transmit Power Control (TPC) commands calculated per TRP; and a transmitting section that performs the uplink transmission by using the transmit power. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, it is possible to perform appropriate transmit power control even in a case where multiple TRPs are used.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata
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Patent number: 11971977Abstract: A service providing apparatus includes a first management unit that manages items of device identification information for identifying devices used by users and items of character identification information for identifying characters of the devices, in such a manner that the items of device identification information are associated with the items of character identification information; a second management unit that manages, for each of the users, one or more items of service identification information for identifying services corresponding to an item of character identification information; and a service providing unit that provides, using an item of service identification information, a service in accordance with a character of a device to a user who uses the device.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventor: Yoshikazu Akinaga
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Patent number: 11974267Abstract: A user equipment includes a transmitter that performs a groupcast transmission to a group including a plurality of units of user equipment; a receiver that receives a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) response to the groupcast transmission; and a controller that performs retransmission control for the groupcast based on received power that is measured on a channel for receiving the HARQ response.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Shohei Yoshioka, Satoshi Nagata, Huan Wang
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Patent number: 11974279Abstract: A user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a receiving section that receives information related to a timing being used as a reference of a start symbol of an uplink shared channel or a downlink shared channel in a given transmission occasion; and a control section that determines a time domain resource over one or more slots allocated to the uplink shared channel or the downlink shared channel, based on the start symbol determined with the timing being used as the reference and a number of consecutive symbols from the start symbol.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang
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Patent number: 11974220Abstract: A network node is a first network node in a VPLMN (Visited Public land mobile network), the network node including a receiving unit configured to receive information relating to network selection, from a second network node in an HPLMN (Home Public land mobile network); a transmitting unit configured to transmit the information relating to network selection, to a user equipment; and a control unit configured to transmit, to the second network node, a response indicating that the user equipment was unable to receive the information relating to network selection, when a response, with respect to the information relating to network selection transmitted to the user equipment, is not received from the user equipment.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Hiroshi Ishikawa, Shinya Takeda, Maoki Hikosaka, Atsushi Minokuchi, Kenichiro Aoyagi, Ban Al-Bakri
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Patent number: 11974340Abstract: UE (200) executes dual connectivity in which it simultaneously connects to a radio base station and other radio base station. The UE (200) includes a transmitting unit (210) that transmits to the radio base station and the other radio base station uplink transmission related information indicating an uplink transmission state, and a control unit (230) that controls transmission or stop of transmission of the uplink transmission related information of a predetermined type.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Hideaki Takahashi, Akihito Hanaki
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Patent number: 11973716Abstract: A terminal is disclosed that includes a processor that, in case where frequency division duplex (FDD) is applied, controls a transmission of an uplink (UL) signal, in FDD, at a same timing as a UL transmission timing that is applied in time division duplex (TDD). The terminal also includes a receiver that receives a downlink control information (DCI), and a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduled by the DCI. The terminal also includes a transmitter that transmits a HARQ-ACK in response to the PDSCH. The reception of the DCI and the transmission of the HARQ-ACK are allowed within one slot. In other aspects, a radio communication method, a base station, and a system are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Hiroki Harada, Satoshi Nagata