Patents by Inventor Akito Fukui

Akito Fukui 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).

  • Publication number: 20150039495
    Abstract: A storage battery control method used by a control device controlling a storage battery prepared for a plurality of consumers, and involves detecting an amount of power used by each of the consumers per unit time, making a judgement regarding whether or not the amount of power used by one or more of the consumers exceeds a threshold determined in advance, and when the judgement finds that the amount of power used by the consumers exceeds the threshold, supplying electric power from the storage battery to a distribution system to which the one or more consumers belong.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Akito Fukui, Hideaki Kongouji, Haruyuki Ishio
  • Patent number: 8855606
    Abstract: Disclosed are a base station device and a call connection method for reducing a call connection delay. According to the device and method; in ST301, a terminal acquires an identifier managed in a base station; in ST302, radio resource information required for a service desired by the terminal is decided; in ST303, by using the identifier acquired in ST301, the terminal transmits a request for establishing RRC connection to the base station. In ST304, according to the radio resource information received from the terminal, the base station decides the radio resource to be set for the terminal before authentication by an upper layer node, and the base station extracts information destined to the upper layer node. In ST305, the information destined to the upper layer node is transmitted to the upper layer node. In ST306, the setting contents of the radio resource decided in ST304 are transmitted to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Takahisa Aoyama, Akito Fukui
  • Patent number: 8830961
    Abstract: A mobile wireless system includes a first gateway (L-PGW), a second gateway (PGW), a first access point (HeNB) capable of establishing a communication path simultaneously with the first and second gateways, and a second access point (eNB) capable of establishing a communication path only with the PGW. When a mobile terminal connected to the HeNB and communicating with a communication destination node using a first path through the L-PGW switches a connection destination to the eNB, the HeNB establishes a second path through the HeNB and the PGW, while maintaining the first path. The HeNB transmits data, which has been transmitted to the HeNB along the first path, to the eNB along the second path, until the UE is connected to the eNB, and a third path to the communication destination node through the PGW is established. Accordingly, an interruption time of data reception involved in handover is shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Takako Hori, Takeshi Kanazawa, Akito Fukui
  • Patent number: 8700046
    Abstract: A mobile communication system wherein the upstream radio channel interference of a macrocell connection terminal with a femtocell base station can be reduced while the consumption of radio resources caused by increase in signaling is being suppressed. The macrocell connection terminal (401) performs, based on an instruction from a macrocell base station (402), an upstream channel transmission and further reports a peripheral-femtocell detection result obtained by a measuring unit to the macrocell base station. The macrocell base station (402) instructs the terminal to perform a peripheral-femtocell detection. The identifier of the terminal and the peripheral-femtocell detection result obtained by the terminal are transmitted to a network management apparatus (404).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Ebiko, Akito Fukui, Toyoki Ue
  • Publication number: 20140051395
    Abstract: Disclosed are a base station device and a call connection method for reducing a call connection delay. According to the device and method; in ST301, a terminal acquires an identifier managed in a base station; in ST302, radio resource information required for a service desired by the terminal is decided; in ST303, by using the identifier acquired in ST301, the terminal transmits a request for establishing RRC connection to the base station. In ST304, according to the radio resource information received from the terminal, the base station decides the radio resource to be set for the terminal before authentication by an upper layer node, and the base station extracts information destined to the upper layer node. In ST305, the information destined to the upper layer node is transmitted to the upper layer node. In ST306, the setting contents of the radio resource decided in ST304 are transmitted to the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takahisa Aoyama, Akito Fukui
  • Patent number: 8594633
    Abstract: Disclosed are a base station device and a call connection method for reducing a call connection delay. According to the device and method; in ST301, a terminal acquires an identifier managed in a base station; in ST302, radio resource information required for a service desired by the terminal is decided; in ST303, by using the identifier acquired in ST301, the terminal transmits a request for establishing RRC connection to the base station. In ST304, according to the radio resource information received from the terminal, the base station decides the radio resource to be set for the terminal before authentication by an upper layer node, and the base station extracts information destined to the upper layer node. In ST305, the information destined to the upper layer node is transmitted to the upper layer node. In ST306, the setting contents of the radio resource decided in ST304 are transmitted to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takahisa Aoyama, Akito Fukui
  • Patent number: 8582573
    Abstract: Provided are a wireless communication base station device and a wireless communication method by which overhead is reduced in MBMS of LTE. An MBMS SIB creating section (106) creates an MCCH as an MBMS SIB of notification information, and an MBMS SB creating section (104) creates an MBMS SB, including scheduling information of the MBMS SIB. An MIB creating section (103) creates an MIB, including scheduling information of the MBMS SB, and a transmitting section (107) transmits the created MBMS SIB, MBMS SB AND MIB to a terminal by following the scheduling made by a scheduling section (101).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takahisa Aoyama, Akito Fukui
  • Patent number: 8548524
    Abstract: It is possible to provide a radio communication terminal device, a radio communication base station device, and a radio communication method capable of rapidly completing a handover even during DRX/DTX. In the devices and the method, a terminal (100) transmits a quality measurement result to a base station (150) at an Active interval. Here, the terminal (100) sets the DRX/DTX interval to a short interval since performance of a handover is predicted. The base station (150) which has received the quality measurement result transmitted from the terminal (100) recognizes that the terminal has set the DRX/DTX interval to a short interval and transmits a handover instruction to the terminal (100) at the Active interval, considering the shortened DRX/DTX interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takahisa Aoyama, Akito Fukui, Dragan Petrovic
  • Patent number: 8504072
    Abstract: A radio communication terminal, a radio communication base station device, and radio communication method enabling lightening the paging load in a mobile communication system including macro cells and femto cells. A reception level measuring section (144) of a UE (104) measures the reception level of a femto cell. If a judging section (146) judges that the measured reception level is over a level which is the sum of a threshold and an offset value, the judging section (146) requests an MME (101) to change a multi TA registration to a single TA registration and carries out a change to one tracking area registration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Ishii, Takeshi Kanazawa, Akito Fukui
  • Patent number: 8472377
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for distributing control signaling for session control of a multicast or broadcast service within a mobile communication network. Furthermore the invention also provides a base station, mobile terminal and communication system to perform the proposed method. In order to reduce the number of signaling connections for the service, the invention proposes to avoid the initial distribution of session control signaling in the entire mobile communications network or service area. Rather than providing service related control signaling connections upon session start, the control signaling connections are set up in response to service requests of the mobile terminals requesting the service. According to one further aspect, the mobile terminals send the service requests based on service announcements available at the mobile terminals, i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Ralf Becker, Osvaldo Gonsa, Akito Fukui, Takeshi Kanazawa
  • Patent number: 8396477
    Abstract: Disclosed are a radio communication base station device and a radio communication method which can reduce the interruption time of a service being received by UE while suppressing a resource consumption amount in an SFN area when the UE performs a handover from the SFN area to a non-SNF area. An MBMS reception request identification unit (127) judges an RRC message inputted from the UE (100). If an MBMS reception request is contained, an MBMS reception request is transmitted to an MBMS reception request storage unit (124). Moreover, when the RRC message from the UE (100) contains an adjacent cell reception quality measurement result, a handover decision unit (126) judges whether to perform a handover to the adjacent cell. The MBMS reception request storage unit (124) stores the MBMS reception request outputted from the MBMS reception request identification unit (127).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Kanazawa, Akito Fukui
  • Patent number: 8391840
    Abstract: Disclosed are a base station device and a call connection method for reducing a call connection delay. According to the device and the method; in ST301, a terminal acquires an identifier managed in a base station (100); in ST302, radio resource information required for a service desired by the terminal is decided; in ST303, by using the identifier acquired in ST301, the terminal transmits a request for establishing RRC connection to the base station (100). In ST304, according to the radio resource information received from the terminal, the base station (100) decides the radio resource to be set for the terminal before authentication by an upper layer node, and the base station (100) extracts information destined to the upper layer node. In ST305, the information destined to the upper layer node is transmitted to the upper layer node. In ST306, the setting contents of the radio resource decided in ST304 are transmitted to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takahisa Aoyama, Akito Fukui
  • Publication number: 20130039343
    Abstract: A mobile wireless system includes a first gateway (L-PGW), a second gateway (PGW), a first access point (HeNB) capable of establishing a communication path simultaneously with the first and second gateways, and a second access point (eNB) capable of establishing a communication path only with the PGW. When a mobile terminal connected to the HeNB and communicating with a communication destination node using a first path through the L-PGW switches a connection destination to the eNB, the HeNB establishes a second path through the HeNB and the PGW, while maintaining the first path. The HeNB transmits data, which has been transmitted to the HeNB along the first path, to the eNB along the second path, until the UE is connected to the eNB, and a third path to the communication destination node through the PGW is established. Accordingly, an interruption time of data reception involved in handover is shortened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takako Hori, Takeshi Kanazawa, Akito Fukui
  • Patent number: 8374152
    Abstract: A cell selection system selects a cell to be used for communications by a mobile terminal in a network having a cell of a mobile phone network and WLAN cells included in the cell. Broadcast information including cell selection information is transmitted in the cell of the mobile phone network. This cell selection information has cell change judgment parameters whose patterns are less than the WLAN cells. The mobile terminal reads the cell selection information from the broadcast information of the mobile phone network, determines a parameter to be used for the judgment on cell selection of a WLAN cell, and judges whether the cell can be changed or not. The cell reselection system restricts the amount of data in the broadcast information even with an increase in the number of WLAN cells included in the cell of the mobile phone network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takahisa Aoyama, Jun Hirano, Takashi Aramaki, Akito Fukui
  • Publication number: 20120314645
    Abstract: Provided are a wireless communication base station device and a wireless communication method by which overhead is reduced in MBMS of LTE. An MBMS SIB creating section (106) creates an MCCH as an MBMS SIB of notification information, and an MBMS SB creating section (104) creates an MBMS SB, including scheduling information of the MBMS SIB. An MIB creating section (103) creates an MIB, including scheduling information of the MBMS SB, and a transmitting section (107) transmits the created MBMS SIB, MBMS SB AND MIB to a terminal by following the scheduling made by a scheduling section (101).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahisa AOYAMA, Akito FUKUI
  • Patent number: 8270332
    Abstract: Provided are a wireless communication base station device and a wireless communication method by which overhead is reduced in MBMS of LTE. An MBMS SIB creating section (106) creates an MCCH as an MBMS SIB of notification information, and an MBMS SB creating section (104) creates an MBMS SB, including scheduling information of the MBMS SIB. An MIB creating section (103) creates an MIB, including scheduling information of the MBMS SB, and a transmitting section (107) transmits the created MBMS SIB, MBMS SB AND MIB to a terminal by following the scheduling made by a scheduling section (101).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takahisa Aoyama, Akito Fukui
  • Publication number: 20120135743
    Abstract: A mobile communication system wherein the upstream radio channel interference of a macrocell connection terminal with a femtocell base station can be reduced while the consumption of radio resources caused by increase in signaling is being suppressed. The macrocell connection terminal (401) performs, based on an instruction from a macrocell base station (402), an upstream channel transmission and further reports a peripheral-femtocell detection result obtained by a measuring unit to the macrocell base station. The macrocell base station (402) instructs the terminal to perform a peripheral-femtocell detection. The identifier of the terminal and the peripheral-femtocell detection result obtained by the terminal are transmitted to a network management apparatus (404).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Ebiko, Akito Fukui, Toyoki Ue
  • Publication number: 20120100896
    Abstract: It is possible to provide a radio communication terminal device, a radio communication base station device, and a radio communication method capable of rapidly completing a handover even during DRX/DTX. In the devices and the method, a terminal (100) transmits a quality measurement result to a base station (150) at an Active interval. Here, the terminal (100) sets the DRX/DTX interval to a short interval since performance of a handover is predicted. The base station (150) which has received the quality measurement result transmitted from the terminal (100) recognizes that the terminal has set the DRX/DTX interval to a short interval and transmits a handover instruction to the terminal (100) at the Active interval, considering the shortened DRX/DTX interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahisa AOYAMA, Akito Fukui, Dragan Petrovic
  • Patent number: 8121634
    Abstract: It is possible to provide a radio communication terminal device, a radio communication base station device, and a radio communication method capable of rapidly completing a handover even during DRX/DTX. In the devices and the method, a terminal (100) transmits a quality measurement result to a base station (150) at an Active interval. Here, the terminal (100) sets the DRX/DTX interval to a short interval since performance of a handover is predicted. The base station (150) which has received the quality measurement result transmitted from the terminal (100) recognizes that the terminal has set the DRX/DTX interval to a short interval and transmits a handover instruction to the terminal (100) at the Active interval, considering the shortened DRX/DTX interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takahisa Aoyama, Akito Fukui, Dragan Petrovic
  • Patent number: 8023470
    Abstract: A wireless communication method and a wireless communication system wherein any communication interruption caused by changing RRB arrangement information can be avoided. In ST301, Node B (100) transmits informative information including the RRB arrangement information and RRB arrangement version. In ST302, UE (200) holds the RRB arrangement information and RRB arrangement version included in the informative information received from Node B (100). In ST303, UE (200) creates CQI information including both a CQI report value, which is calculated by use of the held RRB arrangement information, and the held RRB arrangement version. In ST304, UE (200) transmits the CQI information to Node B (100). In ST305, Node B (100) performs a scheduling based on the RRB arrangement information determined from the RRB arrangement version included in the received CQI information. In ST306, Node B (100) transmits the scheduling information to UE (200).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takahisa Aoyama, Akihiko Nishio, Akito Fukui