Patents by Inventor Yasufumi Morioka

Yasufumi Morioka 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: 11044754
    Abstract: A wireless user equipment performing wireless communication in a primary and a secondary frequency bands, a first wireless access point AP performing the wireless communication in the primary frequency band, and a second wireless base transceiver station BTS performing the wireless communication in the secondary frequency band are included. The AP and the BTS are connected to each other through a network. A UD report transfer unit transfers a UD report including information relating to transmission-waiting user data destined for a receiving node. The receiving node includes a transmission opportunity control unit which sets a fixed transmission prohibition time in a channel in the primary frequency band for a wireless communication device in a vicinity, obtains a transmission opportunity, grants the transmission opportunity to the transmitting node, and causes the user data to be transmitted from the transmitting node according to the transferred UD report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riichi Kudo, Hirantha Sithira Abeysekera, Yasushi Takatori, Takeo Ichikawa, Masato Mizoguchi, Yasufumi Morioka, Hiroto Yasuda, Akira Yamada, Yoshifumi Morihiro, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Patent number: 10342061
    Abstract: A radio communication system is disclosed that includes at least one user equipment and multiple base stations including a first base station configured to execute radio resource control of the user equipment through a control path and a second base station configured not to execute radio resource control of the user equipment. The system includes multiple gateways, including a first gateway connected with the first base station and a second gateway connected with the second base station, and a switching station that controls the establishment of user paths among nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Jinho Kim, Hiroto Yasuda, Yasufumi Morioka, Hideaki Takahashi, Junichiro Hagiwara, Hiroyuki Ishii
  • Publication number: 20180199393
    Abstract: A radio communication system is disclosed that includes at least one user equipment and multiple base stations including a first base station configured to execute radio resource control of the user equipment through a control path and a second base station configured not to execute radio resource control of the user equipment. The system includes multiple gateways, including a first gateway connected with the first base station and a second gateway connected with the second base station, and a switching station that controls the establishment of user paths among nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Jinho Kim, Hiroto Yasuda, Yasufumi Morioka, Hideaki Takahashi, Junichiro Hagiwara, Hiroyuki Ishii
  • Patent number: 9955513
    Abstract: A radio communication system includes at least one user equipment, a first base station, a second base station, a first gateway, a second gateway, and a switching station. The switching station decides whether or not a gateway through which communication executed by the user equipment should be routed is the second gateway. In a case in which it is decided that the gateway through which communication executed by the user equipment should be routed is the second gateway, the switching station executes control for establishing a first user path for uplink and a second user path that is a radio path. The second base station executes control for establishing a first user path for downlink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Jinho Kim, Hiroto Yasuda, Yasufumi Morioka, Hideaki Takahashi, Junichiro Hagiwara, Hiroyuki Ishii
  • Publication number: 20180035467
    Abstract: A wireless user equipment performing wireless communication in a primary and a secondary frequency bands, a first wireless access point AP performing the wireless communication in the primary frequency band, and a second wireless base transceiver station BTS performing the wireless communication in the secondary frequency band are included. The AP and the BTS are connected to each other through a network. A UD report transfer unit transfers a UD report including information relating to transmission-waiting user data destined for a receiving node. The receiving node includes a transmission opportunity control unit which sets a fixed transmission prohibition time in a channel in the primary frequency band for a wireless communication device in a vicinity, obtains a transmission opportunity, grants the transmission opportunity to the transmitting node, and causes the user data to be transmitted from the transmitting node according to the transferred UD report.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riichi KUDO, Hirantha Sithira ABEYSEKERA, Yasushi TAKATORI, Takeo ICHIKAWA, Masato MIZOGUCHI, Yasufumi MORIOKA, Hiroto YASUDA, Akira YAMADA, Yoshifumi MORIHIRO, Yukihiko OKUMURA
  • Patent number: 9843966
    Abstract: A radio communication system includes a user device, a first base station, a second base station, a switching center, and a gateway device. In a handover operation performed in a situation in which a user-plane path has been established through the first base station, the first base station transmits, to the user device, a radio connection reconfiguration message commanding that a radio bearer be established between the second base station and the user device and receives a radio connection reconfiguration complete message transmitted from the user device. The first base station transmits, to the switching center, a path switching request message requesting that the established user-plane path be changed so as to pass through the second base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroto Yasuda, Yasufumi Morioka, Jinho Kim, Hideaki Takahashi, Junichiro Hagiwara, Hiroyuki Ishii
  • Patent number: 9801012
    Abstract: A radio communication system includes: a visit information storage unit that stores plural visit information elements each indicating information on a visit to a cell visited by a user equipment; an event detector that detects an event that occurs in the user equipment; a cell identifier detector that detects a cell identifier that indicates a cell visited by the user equipment; and a location characteristic determiner that determines a location characteristic of the cell indicated by the cell identifier based on one or more visit information elements corresponding to the cell. The location to characteristic determiner determines the location characteristic of a cell visited by the user equipment when the event detector detects a no-cell-change event other than a cell-change event that indicates a change in the cell identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yasufumi Morioka, Kouki Hayashi, Masanori Ishida, Yoshifumi Morihiro
  • Patent number: 9794778
    Abstract: An objective is to prohibit retransmission of “UE assistance information”. A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of: transmitting “UE assistance information” to a radio base station (eNB) by a mobile station (UE), the “UE assistance information” prompting the radio base station (eNB) to change a parameter for the mobile station UE used in the radio base station; notifying, by the radio base station (eNB), the mobile station (UE) of a transmission-prohibited period of the “UE assistance information”; and stopping, by the mobile station (UE), retransmission of the “UE assistance information” on the basis of the transmission-prohibited period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yasufumi Morioka, Tooru Uchino, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Atsushi Ueki, Kenichiro Aoyagi, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9775180
    Abstract: The radio communication system has a user equipment, a first base station, a second base station, a serving gateway, and a switching station. The first base station has a control-plane path set to the switching station. The second base station has no control-plane path to the switching station. A path setting determiner determines whether to set a user-plane path, based on measurement information reported from the user equipment. A base station determiner determines, based on identification information obtained by the user equipment, whether a base station to which the user-plane path is to be set is the second base station, the base station corresponding to the obtained identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yasufumi Morioka, Hiroto Yasuda, Jinho Kim, Hideaki Takahashi, Junichiro Hagiwara, Hiroyuki Ishii
  • Patent number: 9775052
    Abstract: A superordinate base station, a subordinate base station with control functionality that is more limited than the control functionality of the superordinate base station, a user device that can communicate by radio with the superordinate base station and with the subordinate base station, a switching center, and a gateway device are provided. The superordinate base station has interfaces for control-plane communication and a transceiving unit that performs transceiving with the subordinate base station through an X3 interface. The subordinate base station has an interface for user-plane communication and an X3 interface for communication with the superordinate base station. Operations of the subordinate base station are controlled by control messages transmitted from the superordinate base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yasufumi Morioka, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Patent number: 9736750
    Abstract: A radio communication system includes: a visit information storage unit that stores plural visit information elements each indicating information on a visit to a cell visited by a user equipment; a cell visit detector that detects that the user equipment that was visiting a first cell starts a visit to a second cell differing from the first cell; a ping-ponging state determiner that determines whether a ping-ponging state has occurred, in which state start and ending of a visit to the second cell is repeated, wherein the determination is made based on a visit information element on a visit to the second cell visited by the user equipment; and a calculator that calculates a visit time length of the visit to the second cell in accordance with the determination by the ping-ponging state determiner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yasufumi Morioka, Kouki Hayashi, Yoshifumi Morihiro
  • Patent number: 9736632
    Abstract: A user apparatus includes processing modules that execute processing using basic area information, and an area information supply module that supplies basic area information to the processing modules. The area information supply module includes an event detection unit that detects an event, an area information acquisition unit that acquires basic area information in accordance with an event being detected, and an area information notification unit that notifies the processing modules of the basic area information. The area information acquisition unit acquires detailed area information in accordance with a request signal being received. The area information notification unit notifies a processing module of the detailed area information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yasufumi Morioka, Kouki Hayashi, Masanori Ishida, Yoshifumi Morihiro
  • Patent number: 9596627
    Abstract: In a mobile communication method of the invention, when communication of a mobile station (UE) in a “RRC_Connected state” in a cell (#1) under the control of a radio base station (eNB#1) is performed through an EPS bearer formed of a U-plane bearer between the mobile station (UE) and the radio base station (eNB#1) and an S1-U bearer between the radio base station (eNB#1) and a gateway device (S-GW), and if the radio base station (eNB#1) detects that a cell (#10) is located around the mobile station (UE), the radio base station (eNB#1) sends the mobile station (UE) “RRC Connection Reconfiguration” which contains information correlating identification information on the EPS bearer with identification information on the cell (#10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Yasufumi Morioka, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9532389
    Abstract: A radio base station provides user equipments with system information regarding a radio base station that does not broadcast the system information. The radio base station wirelessly communicating with user equipments does not have a function to broadcast system information including information necessary for user equipments to connect with the radio base station to user equipments. The radio base station transmits the system information to a neighboring radio base station in order to assist the user equipments to connect with the radio base station. The neighboring radio base station transmits the system information to the user equipments having connected with the neighboring radio base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Yasufumi Morioka
  • Publication number: 20160174026
    Abstract: A radio communication system includes: a visit information storage unit that stores plural visit information elements each indicating information on a visit to a cell visited by a user equipment; an event detector that detects an event that occurs in the user equipment; a cell identifier detector that detects a cell identifier that indicates a cell visited by the user equipment; and a location characteristic determiner that determines a location characteristic of the cell indicated by the cell identifier based on one or more visit information elements corresponding to the cell. The location to characteristic determiner determines the location characteristic of a cell visited by the user equipment when the event detector detects a no-cell-change event other than a cell-change event that indicates a change in the cell identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yasufumi Morioka, Kouki Hayashi, Masanori Ishida, Yoshifumi Morihiro
  • Publication number: 20160157052
    Abstract: A user apparatus includes processing modules that execute processing using basic area information, and an area information supply module that supplies basic area information to the processing modules. The area information supply module includes an event detection unit that detects an event, an area information acquisition unit that acquires basic area information in accordance with an event being detected, and an area information notification unit that notifies the processing modules of the basic area information. The area information acquisition unit acquires detailed area information in accordance with a request signal being received. The area information notification unit notifies a processing module of the detailed area information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yasufumi Morioka, Kouki Hayashi, Massanori Ishida, Yoshifumi Morihiro
  • Publication number: 20160142870
    Abstract: A radio communication system has a base station that forms a cell identified by a cell identifier, a geographic information storage unit that stores a geographic information element indicating a geographic characteristic of a location at which a cell is formed, a cell visit detector that detects that a user equipment that was visiting a first cell and starts to visit a second cell differing from the first cell, a cell information obtainer that obtains a second cell identifier corresponding to the second cell when the cell visit detector detects the visit to the second cell, and a geographic information identifier that retrieves, based on the second cell identifier, a geographic information element of the second cell that corresponds to the second cell identifier from the geographic information storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yasufumi Morioka, Kouki Hayashi, Yoshifumi Morihiro
  • Patent number: 9344922
    Abstract: A radio communication system has a user equipment, a first base station, a second base station, and a gateway device. The first base station is capable of executing radio resource control of the user equipment, whereas the second base station does not execute radio resource control of the user equipment. The first base station, based on a measurement report message, determines whether a user-plane path is to be established between the first base station and the second base station. In a case in which it is determined that a user-plane path is to be established, the first base station establishes a user-plane path between the first base station and the second base station. Also, the first base station controls the user equipment to establish a user-plane path between the user equipment and the second base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Jinho Kim, Hiroto Yasuda, Yasufumi Morioka, Hideaki Takahashi, Junichiro Hagiwara, Hiroyuki Ishii
  • Publication number: 20160127974
    Abstract: A radio communication system includes: a visit information storage unit that stores plural visit information elements each indicating information on a visit to a cell visited by a user equipment; a cell visit detector that detects that the user equipment that was visiting a first cell starts a visit to a second cell differing from the first cell; a ping-ponging state determiner that determines whether a ping-ponging state has occurred, in which state start and ending of a visit to the second cell is repeated, wherein the determination is made based on a visit information element on a visit to the second cell visited by the user equipment; and a calculator that calculates a visit time length of the visit to the second cell in accordance with the determination by the ping-ponging state determiner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yasufumi Morioka, Kouki Hayashi, Yoshifumi Morihiro
  • Publication number: 20150358832
    Abstract: A superordinate base station, a subordinate base station with control functionality that is more limited than the control functionality of the superordinate base station, a user device that can communicate by radio with the superordinate base station and with the subordinate base station, a switching center, and a gateway device are provided. The superordinate base station has interfaces for control-plane communication and a transceiving unit that performs transceiving with the subordinate base station through an X3 interface. The subordinate base station has an interface for user-plane communication and an X3 interface for communication with the superordinate base station. Operations of the subordinate base station are controlled by control messages transmitted from the superordinate base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yasufumi MORIOKA, Yukihiko OKUMURA