Patents by Inventor Katsutoshi Nishida

Katsutoshi Nishida 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: 20130217393
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of: transmitting an “Extended Service Request” from a mobile station UE in Idle mode to a mobility management node MME via a radio base station eNodeB; transmitting an “Initial UE Context Setup Request” from the mobile station UE to the radio base station eNodeB, the “Initial UE Context Setup Request containing priority call information; and preferentially allocating resources to the E-RAB for the mobile station UE by the radio base station eNodeB based on the priority call information contained in the received “Initial UE Context Setup Request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Nishida, Shimpei Kawakatsu, Kenichi Katayama, Kenichiro Aoyagi
  • Publication number: 20130208659
    Abstract: The characteristic of a mobile communication system according to the present invention is that the mobile communication system includes the steps of: causing an MME in a visitor network of UE#1 to acquire SRVCC capability of the UE#1 and to notify an HSS of the SRVCC capability of the UE#1 in an attach process or location registration process of the UE#1; and causing an ATCF, which controls an ATGW, to acquire the SRVCC capability of the UE#1, in a registration process of the UE#1 with IMS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Katsutoshi Nishida
  • Publication number: 20130188603
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the invention comprises the steps of: causing MSC server/CS-MGW to transmit a path switching signal and activate a timer; causing UE#2 to switch a transmission destination of a voice communication data signal addressed to UE#1 from S/P-GW to the MSC server/CS-MGW; causing the MSC server/CS-MGW transmits a path restoration instruction signal if not detecting that handover of the UE#1 from E-UTRAN to UTRAN/GERAN is completed before the timer expires; and causing the UE#2 switches a transmission destination of the voice communication data signal addressed to the UE#1 from the MSC server/CS-MGW to the S/P-GW in response to the path restoration instruction signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicants: NEC CORPORATION, NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Nishida, Toshiyuki Tamura
  • Publication number: 20130184004
    Abstract: The present invention allows eNB information to be easily acquired from an eNB (20), which has been newly installed or whose setting contents have been changed. A mobile communication method of the present invention is a mobile communication method for an E-SMLC (40) provided with a storage section that stores eNB information indicating setting contents of the eNB information to perform positioning processing for a user terminal located in a cell formed by the eNB (20) based on the eNB information stored in the storage section, the method including a step of the E-SMLC (40) acquiring eNB information sent from an eNB (20), which has been newly installed or whose setting contents have been changed, and a step of the E-SMLC (40) updating the radio base station information stored in the storage section so as to reflect the acquired eNB information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Nishida, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Minami Ishii, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8489116
    Abstract: To eliminate the problems when a handover by a mobile station UE over a radio base station eNodeB is performed during a positioning process of the mobile station UE. A mobile management node MME according to the present invention is configured to transmit a transfer signal “S1-AP Downlink NAS Transport” including an LPP signal received from a positioning calculation node E-SMLC and the identification information of the E-SMLC to a radio base station eNodeB, and when a transmission failure reason included in a transmission failure notification signal “S1-AP NON DELIVERY INDICATION” received from the radio base station eNodeB indicates a positioning failure, the mobile management node MME transmits the transmission failure reason and the LPP signal included in the transmission failure notification signal “S1-AP NON DELIVERY INDICATION” to the positioning calculation node E-SMLC identified by the identification information of the E-SMLC included in the transmission failure notification signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Nishida, Zhen Miao, Minami Ishii, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari
  • Publication number: 20130170438
    Abstract: A paging method of the present invention is a paging method for paging a UE (10) in an idle state when a P-GW (20) receives a packet for the UE (10) and includes the steps of: in a S-GW (30), setting reception type information of the packet received by the P-GW (20) in “Downlink Data Notification” and sending the “Downlink Data Notification” to an MME (40) and an SGSN (60), and in the MME (40) and SGSN (60), determining whether or not to page the UE (10) based on the reception type information included in the “Downlink Data Notification” from the S-GW (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Nishida, Keisuke Suzuki, Shimpei Kawakatsu
  • Publication number: 20130148594
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of : causing an MME#1 after restart not only to transmit “Paging” to a UE but also to transmit “Delete Session Request” containing IMSI of the UE and “Cause=MME restart” to an S-GW#1, when receiving “Downlink Data Notification” containing the IMSI of the UE from the S-GW#1; causing the S-GW#1 not only to release a bearer for the UE but also to transmit the “Delete Session Request” containing the “Cause=MME restart” to the P-GW#1, upon receipt of the “Delete Session Request”; and causing the P-GW#1 to release the bearer for the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Nishida, Keisuke Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8462801
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step A of releasing, by a gateway device S-GW, a first GBR bearer for a mobile station UE and transmitting “Downlink Data Notification” to a packet exchanger SGSN if a fault of a radio network controller RNC is detected in the state in which a second GBR bearer for the mobile station UE is set, a step B of transmitting, by the packet exchanger SGSN, “Paging” to the mobile station UE, and a step C of starting, by the packet exchanger SGSN, a procedure for releasing the second GBR bearer when no response to the “Paging” is received from the mobile station UE in a predetermined period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Nishida, Keisuke Suzuki, Shin Naraha
  • Publication number: 20130142120
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of: causing an MME to restart with a bearer for a UE established between an S-GW and a P-GW; causing a P/S-CSCF to transmit a terminating signal addressed to the UE to the S-GW via the P-GW; causing the S-GW to notify the P/S-CSCF via the P-GW that the MME has restarted; causing the P/S-CSCF to hold the terminating signal addressed to the UE; and causing the P/S-CSCF to transmit the terminating signal addressed to the UE to the S-GW via the P-GW after the UE is registered with an IMS again.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Nishida, Keisuke Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20130143559
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step A in which an SGSN/MME determines whether to allow a UE to turn into an always-on state in which a bearer for a UE is always established in a core network when “Attach Request” or “RA Update Request/TA Update Request” is received from the UE, and a step B in which the SGSN/MME transmits always-on information indicating the determination result to the UE by using “Attach Accept” or “RA Update Accept/TA Update Accept”.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Nishida, Itsuma Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20130115957
    Abstract: To enable a UE (10) of an idle state to establish “E-RAB” for CS fallback processing while considering a multi-level priority set on a call reception signal of a circuit switching scheme, a method has the steps of in an MME (90) of an LTE scheme, setting a priority to establish “E-RAB” based on “eMLPP Priority” included in “Paging Request” from an MSC/VLR (40), in the MME (90,) sending “S1AP: Initial Context Setup” including the set priority, requesting to switch a communication scheme of the UE (10) from the LTE scheme to a UTRAN/GERAN scheme, to an eNodeB (60), in the eNodeB (60), establishing the “E-RAB” by the priority included in the “S1AP: Initial Context Setup”, and switching the communication scheme of the UE (10) from the LTE scheme to the UTRAN/GERAN scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Nishida, Shimpei Kawakatsu
  • Publication number: 20130102315
    Abstract: A mobile communication system according to the present invention is configured to be capable of switching a mobile station UE from a first communication state performing first AV communication via E-UTRAN to a second communication state performing second AV communication via UTRAN/GERAN, by performing a SRVCC procedure, codec information to be used in the second AV communication is exchanged between the mobile station UE and a MSC server/MGW in the first communication state before the SRVCC procedure is started, and the mobile station UE is configured to, in the SRVCC procedure, send the MSC server/MGW a command to switch to the exchanged codec information “Pseudo 3G H324M negotiation”.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takashi Koshimizu, Katsutoshi Nishida, Mitsuru Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8428035
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of: transmitting an “Extended Service Request” from a mobile station UE in Idle mode to a mobility management node MME via a radio base station eNodeB; transmitting an “Initial UE Context Setup Request” from the mobile station UE to the radio base station eNodeB, the “Initial UE Context Setup Request containing priority call information; and preferentially allocating resources to the E-RAB for the mobile station UE by the radio base station eNodeB based on the priority call information contained in the received “Initial UE Context Setup Request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Nishida, Shimpei Kawakatsu, Kenichi Katayama, Kenichiro Aoyagi
  • Publication number: 20130070655
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of: sending “INVITE” from a UE#1 to a P-CSCF/VATF in a visited network of the UE#1; sending “INVITE” from the P-CSCF/VATF to an IMS; and allocating, by the P-CSCF/VATF, an MGW#1 to the path for voice communications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Nishida, Toshiyuki Tamura
  • Publication number: 20130058278
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step in which the gateway apparatus P-GW transmits “Proxy Binding Acknowledgement containing “O Flag setting information” indicating whether or not a DNSv6 address is allocated to the mobile station UE to the gateway apparatus S-GW in response to the reception of the “Proxy Binding Update”, and a step in which the gateway apparatus S-GW instructs the mobile station UE that there is no need to acquire a DNSv6 address using a DHCP request signal with “O Flag” in RA when the received “O Flag setting information” indicates that a DNSv6 address is allocated to the mobile station UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Nishida, Koichiro Kunitomo, Taro Ishikawa, Aki Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20130039301
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of: transmitting an “Extended Service Request” from a mobile station UE in Idle mode to a mobility management node MME via a radio base station eNodeB; transmitting an “Initial UE Context Setup Request” from the mobile station UE to the radio base station eNodeB, the “Initial UE Context Setup Request containing priority call information; and preferentially allocating resources to the E-RAB for the mobile station UE by the radio base station eNodeB based on the priority call information contained in the received “Initial UE Context Setup Request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Nishida, Shimpei Kawakatsu, Kenichi Katayama, Kenichiro Aoyagi
  • Publication number: 20130040645
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of: transmitting an “Extended Service Request” from a mobile station UE in Idle mode to a mobility management node MME via a radio base station eNodeB; transmitting an “Initial UE Context Setup Request” from the mobile station UE to the radio base station eNodeB, the “Initial UE Context Setup Request containing priority call information; and preferentially allocating resources to the E-RAB for the mobile station UE by the radio base station eNodeB based on the priority call information contained in the received “Initial UE Context Setup Request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Nishida, Shimpei Kawakatsu, Kenichi Katayama, Kenichiro Aoyagi
  • Publication number: 20130012243
    Abstract: The present invention provides the steps of: at a priority control node (PCRF), when reception of an invite signal including priority call information is notified from a call control node (P-CSCF), determining whether it is required to change the ARP of a call control signal bearer for sending the invite signal from a gateway (P-GW) to a mobile terminal (UE) to a higher ARP than the priority set in the call control signal bearer; when change of the ARP is determined to be required, changing the ARP of the call control signal bearer to a higher ARP than the ARP set in the call control signal bearer; and performing a paging for the mobile terminal (UE) according to the priority of the call control signal bearer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Nishida, Keisuke Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8345598
    Abstract: A mobility management method includes: notifying, at a mobile terminal, an edge node of a terminal function indicating that the mobile terminal has a Mobile IP client function; instructing, at the edge node, the mobile terminal to perform an operation for mobility management by using not an MIP function but an IP function when the edge node has a PMIP client function; performing, at the mobile terminal, the operation for mobility management by using the IP function in response to the instruction from the edge node; and performing, the edge node, the operation for mobility management by using the PMIP client function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Akimichi Tanabe, Masami Yabusaki, Katsutoshi Nishida
  • Patent number: 8315590
    Abstract: An emergency information reporting method, wherein a broadcast equipment (CBC) transmits an emergency information reporting message including a distribution area and emergency information to a switching center (MME) corresponding to the distribution area, the switching center (MME) generates an emergency information reporting message including cell identification information and transmits the message to a wireless base station (eNB) which manages the cell corresponding to the distribution area included in the received emergency information reporting message, and the wireless base station (eNB) broadcasts the emergency information included in the received emergency information reporting message to the cell corresponding to the cell identification information included in the emergency information reporting message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Katsutoshi Nishida, Itsuma Tanaka