Patents by Inventor Sadayuki Abeta

Sadayuki Abeta 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).

  • Patent number: 11490389
    Abstract: A user equipment in a radio communication system including the user equipment and a base station, the user equipment including: a transmission unit that transmits a first maximum bandwidth, which is a maximum bandwidth available to the user equipment for communication, to the base station; and a reception unit that receives, from the base station, a center frequency or frequencies on both ends of a band having a bandwidth, which is equal to or less than the first maximum bandwidth, within a band having a second maximum bandwidth that is a maximum bandwidth available to the base station for communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Kunihiko Teshima, Hiromasa Umeda, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Patent number: 11265956
    Abstract: Provided are a radio communication system and user device that enable smooth interworking in a radio resource control (RRC) layer in the case of implementing interworking between systems by LTE assisted 5G, 5G assisted LTE, or the like. The radio communication system includes an eNB 100 conforming to LTE and a 5G-BS 200 conforming to 5G. The eNB 100 includes an RRC function unit 110 that performs control based on LTE-RRC, which is an RRC protocol in LTE. The 5G-BS 200 includes an RRC function unit 210 that performs control based on 5G-RRC, which is the RRC protocol in 5G. The RRC function unit 210 has at least a function not specified in LTE-RRC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Ryusuke Matsukawa, Hideaki Takahashi, Anil Umesh, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Publication number: 20220061115
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a radio communication system and a user device capable of performing appropriate measurement report operations, even during dual connectivity (DC) of LTE (eNB) and NR (gNB). The eNB (100A) includes a first RRC controlling unit that performs control in RRC layer and a first measurement controlling unit that controls reception quality measurement of a target cell performed by the user device. The gNB (100B) includes a second RRC controlling unit that performs control in the RRC layer and a second measurement controlling unit that controls reception quality measurement of a target cell performed by the user device. The first measurement controlling unit shares information on the number of carriers to be measured with the second measurement controlling unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Patent number: 11206571
    Abstract: A base station is provided. The base station includes a first reception unit configured to receive, from a user apparatus included in a mobile communication system including the base station, another base station communicating with the base station, and the user apparatus communicating with the base station, first data including quality information used for scheduling controlling performed by the other base station, and second data different from the first data. The base station also includes a transmission unit configured to transmit the first data to the other base station by giving higher priority to the first data than to the second data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Anil Umesh, Hideaki Takahashi, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Publication number: 20210377933
    Abstract: A user equipment in a radio communication system including the user equipment and a base station, the user equipment including: a transmission unit that transmits a first maximum bandwidth, which is a maximum bandwidth available to the user equipment for communication, to the base station; and a reception unit that receives, from the base station, a center frequency or frequencies on both ends of a band having a bandwidth, which is equal to or less than the first maximum bandwidth, within a band having a second maximum bandwidth that is a maximum bandwidth available to the base station for communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Kunihiko Teshima, Hiromasa Umeda, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Patent number: 11102668
    Abstract: Based on an entering condition for reporting reception quality of a cell via Measurement Report, UE (200) transmits to a radio access network the Measurement Report. The UE (200) judges numberOfTriggeringCell that triggers transmission of the measurement report to the radio access network, and transmits the Measurement Report when the number of neighbor cells that fulfill the entering condition is equal to or more than the numberOfTriggeringCell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Kohei Kiyoshima, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Yuta Sagae, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Patent number: 10938505
    Abstract: A user terminal includes a receiver that receives a downlink shared channel and a processor that obtains a transport block size (TBS) used for the downlink shared channel based on: a TBS index value that is associated with a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) index value used for the downlink shared channel; and a number of resource blocks (RBs) that are allocated to the downlink shared channel. When the downlink shared channel is transmitted by a predetermined transmission scheme and the MCS index value is a predetermined value, the processor modifies the TBS index value associated with the predetermined value and obtains the TBS based on the modified TBS index value and the number of RBs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Kohei Kiyoshima, Hideaki Takahashi, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Patent number: 10880777
    Abstract: A technique of promptly implementing appropriate flow control in distributed transmission is provided. An aspect of the present invention relates to a base station serving as a distribution source base station in distributed transmission in which transmission target packets are divided and transmitted from a plurality of base stations to a user equipment, wherein the base station includes a feedback information acquiring unit that acquires radio environment information of a distribution destination base station in the distributed transmission; and a communication control unit that controls the distributed transmission according to the radio environment information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Anil Umesh, Kazuki Takeda, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Patent number: 10805055
    Abstract: A system for supporting smooth mobility of a mobile terminal apparatus between a plurality of local areas that are arranged in a wide area is disclosed. The system includes a wide area base station apparatus that covers a wide area, a local area base station apparatus that covers a local area arranged in the wide area, and a mobile terminal apparatus that can communicate with the wide area base station apparatus and the local area base station apparatus, and is configured to scramble a data signal and a reference signal by a scrambling sequence that is common between a plurality of local areas in communication between the local area base station apparatus and the mobile terminal apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kazuaki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Takehiro Nakamura, Hideaki Takahashi, Sadayuki Abeta, Hiroyuki Ishii
  • Patent number: 10764956
    Abstract: There is provided user equipment for communicating with a first base station and a second base station, the user equipment including a receiver that receives, form the first base station or the second base station with which an RRC connection is established, a first message indicating to establish a split bearer between the first base station and the second base station; and a communicator that establishes the split bearer between the first base station and the second base station that are reported by the first message, wherein, in the split bearer, a process of a PDCP layer is performed by one of the first base station and the second base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Tooru Uchino, Hideaki Takahashi, Anil Umesh, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Patent number: 10623987
    Abstract: A user apparatus is provided. The user apparatus is included in a mobile communication system including a first base station, a second base station communicating with the first base station, and the user apparatus communicating with the first base station. The user apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain from the second base station instruction information indicating an error correction processing operation performed between the first base station and the user apparatus; and a communication unit configured to communicate with the first base station by performing the error correction processing based on the instruction information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Hideaki Takahashi, Anil Umesh, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Publication number: 20200015107
    Abstract: Based on an entering condition for reporting reception quality of a cell via Measurement Report, UE (200) transmits to a radio access network the Measurement Report. The UE (200) judges numberOfTriggeringCell that triggers transmission of the measurement report to the radio access network, and transmits the Measurement Report when the number of neighbor cells that fulfill the entering condition is equal to or more than the numberOfTriggeringCell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Kohei Kiyoshima, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Yuta Sagae, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Publication number: 20190289669
    Abstract: A technology for realizing an efficient parallelization process in PDCP/RLC layers is provided. According to an embodiment of the invention, a radio communication apparatus includes: a PDCP processing unit configured to perform a process in a PDCP layer; an RLC processing unit configured to perform a process in an RLC layer; and a MAC processing unit configured to perform a process in a MAC layer. The RLC processing unit includes a plurality of RLC entities and the MAC processing unit includes a single MAC entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Tooru Uchino, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Anil Umesh, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Publication number: 20190239117
    Abstract: A base station is provided. The base station includes a first reception unit configured to receive, from a user apparatus included in a mobile communication system including the base station, another base station communicating with the base station, and the user apparatus communicating with the base station, first data including quality information used for scheduling controlling performed by the other base station, and second data different from the first data. The base station also includes a transmission unit configured to transmit the first data to the other base station by giving higher priority to the first data than to the second data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Anil Umesh, Hideaki Takahashi, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Publication number: 20190230546
    Abstract: A user equipment in a wireless communication system that includes a base station and the user equipment, the user equipment includes: a reception unit that receives allocations of radio resources to be used for transmitting uplink reference signals from the base station; a measurement unit that measures reception quality of downlink signals transmitted from the base station; and a transmission unit that starts transmitting uplink reference signals using the radio resources allocated from the base station when the reception quality measured by the measurement unit satisfies a predetermined condition and stops transmission of uplink reference signals when the reception quality measured by the measurement unit does not satisfy the predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Tooru Uchino, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Anil Umesh, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Publication number: 20190124553
    Abstract: A technique of promptly implementing appropriate flow control in distributed transmission is provided. An aspect of the present invention relates to a base station serving as a distribution source base station in distributed transmission in which transmission target packets are divided and transmitted from a plurality of base stations to a user equipment, wherein the base station includes a feedback information acquiring unit that acquires radio environment information of a distribution destination base station in the distributed transmission; and a communication control unit that controls the distributed transmission according to the radio environment information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Anil Umesh, Kazuki Takeda, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Publication number: 20190124604
    Abstract: A user equipment in a mobile communication system including a base station and the user equipment, including: a receiving unit that receives a predetermined signaling value which is a signaling value other than a default signaling value and a maximum transmission power value associated with the predetermined signaling value from the base station; and a transmission power control unit that controls transmission power by applying the maximum transmission power value corresponding to the predetermined signaling value when the user equipment supports the predetermined signaling value, wherein the predetermined signaling value is a value which is predetermined as a value common to all bands used in the mobile communication system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Kunihiko Teshima, Hiromasa Umeda, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Publication number: 20190124716
    Abstract: Provided are a radio communication system and user device that enable smooth interworking in a radio resource control (RRC) layer in the case of implementing interworking between systems by LTE assisted 5G, 5G assisted LTE, or the like. The radio communication system includes an eNB 100 conforming to LTE and a 5G-BS 200 conforming to 5G. The eNB 100 includes an RRC function unit 110 that performs control based on LTE-RRC, which is an RRC protocol in LTE. The 5G-BS 200 includes an RRC function unit 210 that performs control based on 5G-RRC, which is the RRC protocol in 5G. The RRC function unit 210 has at least a function not specified in LTE-RRC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Ryusuke Matsukawa, Hideaki Takahashi, Anil Umesh, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Publication number: 20190116629
    Abstract: There is provided user equipment for communicating with a first base station and a second base station, the user equipment including a receiver that receives, form the first base station or the second base station with which an RRC connection is established, a first message indicating to establish a split bearer between the first base station and the second base station; and a communicator that establishes the split bearer between the first base station and the second base station that are reported by the first message, wherein, in the split bearer, a process of a PDCP layer is performed by one of the first base station and the second base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Tooru Uchino, Hideaki Takahashi, Anil Umesh, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Patent number: 10230430
    Abstract: An adequate transmission rate is guaranteed in a case where “Inter-node UP aggregation” is being performed. In a mobile station according to the present invention, each of MAC layer functions includes a cost management unit configured to manage a cost of an LCH involved in “Inter-node UP aggregation”, a priority management unit configured to manage a priority of the LCH, and a bearer management unit configured to allocate transmission resources to data for the LCH based on the priority and the cost of the LCH. The cost management unit is configured to update the cost of the LCH managed by the cost management unit itself, based on a PBR value informed by a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Sadayuki Abeta, Hideaki Takahashi, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari