Patents by Inventor Narumi Umeda
Narumi Umeda 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).
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Patent number: 8977272Abstract: A mobile communication system includes a first radio control device that manages a first cell, a second radio control device that manages a second cell, and a third radio control device. The second cell is set as a handover destination cell of the first cell. The third radio control device manages the second cell as a redundant configuration of the second radio control device. The third radio control device notifies the first radio control device of the third radio control device managing the second cell as the redundant configuration of the second radio control device. The first radio control device sets so that the third radio control device manages the second cell as the redundant configuration of the second radio control device.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2012Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Hiroto Tooyama, Kouji Makino, Yoshifumi Morihiro, Narumi Umeda, Masato Hiraki, Shinsuke Sawamukai
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Publication number: 20130344922Abstract: Provided is a network device capable of achieving low power consumption of a call control card and suppressing a failure of the call control card. A network device 20 includes a selection unit 23 that selects a call control card, for which a power supply is to be disconnected, from a plurality of call control cards, and a power saving control unit 24 that disconnects the power supply of the call control card selected by the selection unit 23. The power saving control unit 24 reduces a margin set in a call control cards not selected by the selection unit 23 in response to the disconnection of the power supply of the call control card selected by the selection unit 23 to thereby increase the number of operational connection calls set in the call control card not selected by the selection unit 23.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2012Publication date: December 26, 2013Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Hiroto Tooyama, Narumi Umeda, Yoshifumi Morihiro, Masato Hiraki
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Publication number: 20130337816Abstract: A mobile communication system includes a first radio control device that manages a first cell, a second radio control device that manages a second cell, and a third radio control device. The second cell is set as a handover destination cell of the first cell. The third radio control device manages the second cell as a redundant configuration of the second radio control device. The third radio control device notifies the first radio control device of the third radio control device managing the second cell as the redundant configuration of the second radio control device. The first radio control device sets so that the third radio control device manages the second cell as the redundant configuration of the second radio control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2012Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INCInventors: Hiroto Tooyama, Kouji Makino, Yoshifumi Morihiro, Narumi Umeda, Masato Hiraki, Shinsuke Sawamukai
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Patent number: 8359046Abstract: A controller apparatus, when it receives packets addressed to a mobile terminal, implements paging control in which it transmits a paging notification packet to a paging area of the mobile terminal, so as to obtain location information on the mobile terminal and to determine a forwarding destination of the packets. The controller apparatus includes a paging area forming unit having a plurality of algorithms for forming the paging area. The paging area forming unit is configured to form the paging area of the mobile terminal by an algorithm specified by the mobile terminal.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2004Date of Patent: January 22, 2013Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Masahiro Inoue, Ichiro Okajima, Narumi Umeda
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Patent number: 8229418Abstract: A wireless control apparatus is disclosed that forms and controls an area of a base station according to an antenna pattern. The wireless control apparatus includes an area formation information gathering part that gathers area formation information pertaining to area formation of a neighboring base station; and an antenna pattern control part that controls and directs at least one of a main lobe, a side lobe, and a null point between the main lobe and the side lobe of the antenna pattern based on the area formation information to reduce frequency interference between a current cell formed by a current base station and a neighboring cell formed by the neighboring base station.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2006Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Shinichi Mori, Narumi Umeda, Takatoshi Sugiyama
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Patent number: 8111652Abstract: A base station comprises a packet classification unit configured to classify packets received/transmitted from/to a plurality of mobile stations into a quantitative guarantee type packet having a request value for communication quality or a relative guarantee type packet not having the request value, and a transmission order controller configured to control a transmission order of the packets for every classified quantitative guarantee type packet and every classified relative guarantee type packet.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2003Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Daisuke Kitazawa, Lan Chen, Hidetoshi Kayama, Narumi Umeda
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Publication number: 20110317604Abstract: A network apparatus having a plurality of call control cards, comprising: a selection unit configured to select at least one call control card from among the plurality of call control cards, when the number of connected calls controlled by the whole of the plurality of call control cards is less than a first threshold value; and a power saving control unit configured to cause the call control card selected by the selection unit to shift to a cutoff ready state in which allocation of a new call is restricted.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2011Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Hiroto Tooyama, Yoshifumi Morihiro, Shinsuke Sawamukai, Naoto Shimada, Narumi Umeda
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Patent number: 8036204Abstract: In a packet communications system, a control apparatus implements routing control of a received packet directed for the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes a plurality of network interface cards; a communication manager configured to select at least one network interface card among from the plurality of network interface cards, in accordance with information regarding the network interface card; and an upper layer manager configured to receive the packet transmitted from the control apparatus, with using a selected network interface card.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2009Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Masahiro Inoue, Ichiro Okajima, Narumi Umeda
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Patent number: 8023493Abstract: In a packet communications system, a control apparatus implements routing control of a received packet directed for the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes a plurality of network interface cards; a communication manager configured to select at least one network interface card among from the plurality of network interface cards, in accordance with information regarding the network interface card; and an upper layer manager configured to receive the packet transmitted from the control apparatus, with using a selected network interface card.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2010Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Masahiro Inoue, Ichiro Okajima, Narumi Umeda
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Patent number: 8018915Abstract: In a packet communications system, a control apparatus implements routing control of a received packet directed for the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes a plurality of network interface cards; a communication manager configured to select at least one network interface card among from the plurality of network interface cards, in accordance with information regarding the network interface card; and an upper layer manager configured to receive the packet transmitted from the control apparatus, with using a selected network interface card.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2004Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Masahiro Inoue, Ichiro Okajima, Narumi Umeda
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Patent number: 7970349Abstract: The present invention improves a system capacity and satisfaction rate with a quality of service in packet communications performed through a radio link established between a transmitting station and a receiving station by dynamically limiting transmission power of packets in the transmitting station and keeping an increase of an interference level in the receiving station, which belongs to another cell, within a TPC margin. The present invention includes a resource allocator 115 configured to set transmission power of packets in a next step period, by use of transmission power of packets in a preceding step period (slot) and an interference level of the receiving station.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2008Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Lan Chen, Daisuke Kitazawa, Hidetoshi Kayama, Narumi Umeda
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Patent number: 7821982Abstract: A base station includes a channel quality detecting unit that detects channel quality between the base station and a mobile station, a buffered data amount monitoring unit, and a modulation and coding set determination unit. The modulation and coding set determination unit determines a modulation and coding set, as a downlink modulation scheme for packet communications, such that a prescribed communication condition corresponding to the channel quality is satisfied, and that padding added to the data buffered in a transmission buffer for subsequent transmission to the mobile station becomes the minimum.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2003Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Lan Chen, Hidetoshi Kayama, Narumi Umeda
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Publication number: 20100265859Abstract: In a packet communications system, a control apparatus implements routing control of a received packet directed for the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes a plurality of network interface cards; a communication manager configured to select at least one network interface card among from the plurality of network interface cards, in accordance with information regarding the network interface card; and an upper layer manager configured to receive the packet transmitted from the control apparatus, with using a selected network interface card.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2010Publication date: October 21, 2010Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Masahiro INOUE, Ichiro Okajima, Narumi Umeda
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Patent number: 7813329Abstract: A base station and a scrambling code setting method of automatically setting up a scrambling code, the base station including a scrambling code setting unit for setting up a base station identifier and a provisional downlink scrambling code that is provisionally assigned; and a transmitting unit for spectrum-spreading the base station identifier by the provisional scrambling code, and for transmitting the base station identifier; wherein the scrambling code setting unit assigns a lasting downlink scrambling code based on a report concerning reception of the base station identifier.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2005Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Shinichi Mori, Ichiro Okajima, Narumi Umeda
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Publication number: 20100254263Abstract: In packet communications between a mobile terminal and a base station, the mobile terminal checks a priority level of a traffic and judges a type of the traffic, and transmits a reservation signal for a transmission request to the base station when the type of the traffic is a high priority level or realtime type, and does not transmits it when the type of the traffic is a low priority level or non-realtime type, while the base station determines a resource amount to be reserved for packet transmission according to a resource utilization state and the reservation signal for the traffic of the high priority level or realtime type, or an average transmission interval or transmission rate for the traffic of the low priority level or non-realtime type according to margins in remaining resources, and notifies the resource amount or the average transmission interval or transmission rate to the mobile terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2010Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Lan Chen, Hidetoshi Kayama, Narumi Umeda
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Patent number: 7801482Abstract: The present invention improves a system capacity and satisfaction rate with a quality of service in packet communications performed through a radio link established between a transmitting station and a receiving station by dynamically limiting transmission power of packets in the transmitting station and keeping an increase of an interference level in the receiving station, which belongs to another cell, within a TPC margin. The present invention includes a resource allocator 115 configured to set transmission power of packets in a next step period, by use of transmission power of packets in a preceding step period (slot) and an interference level of the receiving station.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2008Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Lan Chen, Daisuke Kitazawa, Hidetoshi Kayama, Narumi Umeda
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Patent number: 7801070Abstract: A mobile communication system comprises a plurality of transfer devices configured to transfer packets to a visited position of a mobile terminal, a plurality of connection management devices arranged in a network and configured to connect to the mobile terminal, and a mobile terminal including a detection unit configured to detect the transfer device, and a communication unit configured to connect to the connection management device, and transmit/receive packets to/from the transfer device detected by the detection unit via the connection management device.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2003Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Koji Omae, Ryoichi Kobayashi, Hideaki Takahashi, Takehiro Ikeda, Masahiro Inoue, Ichiro Okajima, Narumi Umeda
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Patent number: 7774004Abstract: A network system implements paging control in which the control apparatus, upon receiving a packet destined for a mobile terminal, transmits a paging notification packet to a paging area of the mobile terminal, so as to obtain location information of the mobile terminal and to determine a transfer destination of a received packet. The control apparatus is configured to transmit the paging notification packet to a plurality of router devices included in the paging area. Each of the plurality of router devices is configured to transmit a received paging notification packet to a plurality of access points by multicasting. Each of the plurality of access points is configured to transmit a received paging notification packet to the mobile terminal through a link connection by multicasting, when it is judged that an IP address in the paging notification packet is a predetermined IP address.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2004Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Masahiro Inoue, Ichiro Okajima, Narumi Umeda
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Patent number: 7760680Abstract: In packet communications between a mobile terminal and a base station, the mobile terminal checks a priority level of a traffic and judges a type of the traffic, and transmits a reservation signal for a transmission request to the base station when the type of the traffic is a high priority level or realtime type, and does not transmits it when the type of the traffic is a low priority level or non-realtime type, while the base station determines a resource amount to be reserved for packet transmission according to a resource utilization state and the reservation signal for the traffic of the high priority level or realtime type, or an average transmission interval or transmission rate for the traffic of the low priority level or non-realtime type according to margins in remaining resources, and notifies the resource amount or the average transmission interval or transmission rate to the mobile terminal.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2002Date of Patent: July 20, 2010Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Lan Chen, Hidetoshi Kayama, Narumi Umeda
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Patent number: RE43593Abstract: A base station includes: an acquisition unit for acquiring a quantity of stored packets from a mobile station, the quantity of stored packets being stored in a buffer for storing the packets transmitted by the mobile station; a radio resource controller for allocating priority radio resources preferentially usable by the mobile station to a radio channel for the mobile station, and for allocating usable radio resources allowed to be used by the mobile station from the priority radio resources to the mobile station by use of the quantity of stored packets acquired by the acquisition unit; and a result notification unit for reporting a result of the allocation by the radio resource controller to the mobile station.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2010Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Hidetoshi Kayama, Lan Chen, Narumi Umeda