Patents Assigned to NTT Docomo
  • Publication number: 20180176376
    Abstract: A SIP control apparatus is provided. The SIP control apparatus is connected to a management apparatus controlling call processing rules in an IP packet network, and controls an emergency call made by a user apparatus. The SIP control apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to, in the case where an emergency call connection request received from the user apparatus is anonymous, obtain an international mobile subscriber identifier, IMSI, of the user apparatus from the management apparatus; and a selection unit configured to, in the case where the obtaining unit succeeds in obtaining the IMSI of the user apparatus from the management apparatus, select to continue processing the emergency call connection request, and, in the case where the obtaining unit fails to obtain the IMSI of the user apparatus from the management apparatus, select whether to continue or to reject processing the emergency call connection request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Motohiro Abe, Itsuma Tanaka, Shinya Takeda
  • Publication number: 20180176934
    Abstract: A user apparatus is provided. The user apparatus communicates with a base station in a mobile communication system. The mobile communication system supports carrier aggregation which includes multiple cells including a first cell and a second cell which uses a TTI different from a TTI of the first cell. The user apparatus includes a communication unit configured to transmit and receive a signal to and from the base station; and a timer control unit configured to, according to a type of a control operation performed by the communication unit, determine a TTI as a unit time for operating a timer used for the control operation. The communication unit performs the control operation by operating the timer by using as a unit time the TTI determined by the timer control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Kazuki Takeda, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20180176919
    Abstract: A user equipment for communicating with a base station in a radio communication system that supports narrow band communication is disclosed including a receiver that receives, from the base station via a first frequency band, information for identifying a second frequency band. A synchronization signal and broadcast information are transmitted on the first frequency band, and the synchronization signal and the broadcast information are not transmitted on the second frequency band. The user equipment further includes a processor that identifies a center frequency of the second frequency band based on the received information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Hiromasa Umeda, Kazuaki Takeda
  • Patent number: 10003965
    Abstract: An eUICC 100 embedded in an UE 200 authenticates an AUTN transmitted from an HSS 300, and calculates a transfer key TK by using a secret key K. The eUICC 100 acquires a transfer Token by decoding an enc Token by using the transfer key TK, and acquires a new Customer ID by decoding an enc New ID by using the transfer key TK. The eUICC 100 transmits a user auth resp in response to a User auth+transfer Setup Req including the AUTN, the enc Token, and the enc New ID to the HSS 300. The eUICC 100 generates a shared-Secret Key shared between the eUICC 100 and an HSS 400 by using the transfer Token, and executes an attach procedure for the HSS 400 by using the generated shared-Secret Key and the new Customer ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takashi Koshimizu, Hiroshi Aono, Alf Zugenmaier
  • Patent number: 10003992
    Abstract: A method is described for controlling a small cell base station and a user equipment to be served by the small base station in a wireless communication system having a plurality of small cell base stations controlled by a macro base station. The method has, in response to a request from the macro base station to the small cell base station, performing, by the small cell base station, a beacon transmission on one or more resources, in response to a request from the macro base station to the user equipment, performing, by the user equipment, a channel quality measurement on the one or more resources, and reporting the measured channel quality from the user equipment to the macro base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Patrick Agyapong, Emmanuel Ternon, Liang Hu, Katsutoshi Kusume, Mikio Iwamura
  • Patent number: 10004029
    Abstract: A mobile station for receiving broadcast information for restriction control from a base station in a network environment shared by a plurality of operators includes a reception unit configured to receive from the base station the broadcast information including restriction control skip information indicating a type of a call which is not subject to restriction control; and a restriction control determination unit configured to identify restriction control skip information corresponding to an operator with which the mobile station registers from the received broadcast information and determine whether to apply the restriction control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Kenichiro Aoyagi, Shinya Takeda, Yasuharu Konishi
  • Patent number: 10003978
    Abstract: A mobile communication system that includes a first communication system, which features a user terminal that is present in a moving object, a first radio base station that forms a cell in the moving object, and a first core network that is connected with an external network, and a second communication system, which features a radio mobile station that is provided in the moving object, a second radio base station that forms a cell on the path of the movement of the moving object, and a second core network that is connected with the second radio base station. The first radio base station and the radio mobile station are connected via a user-plane interface and a control-plane interface between the radio base stations and the core networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Morihiro, Satoshi Suyama, Jiyun Shen, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Patent number: 10003388
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for internal relative transceiver calibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Ozgun Bursalioglu Yilmaz, Haralabos Papadopoulos, Giuseppe Caire
  • Publication number: 20180167118
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to control the antenna selection in a user terminal adequately even when the user terminal connects with a plurality of radio base stations by employing dual connectivity (DC). A user terminal supports communication which uses dual connectivity with a plurality of radio base stations that each configure a cell group formed with one or more cells, and this user terminal has a transmission section that transmits UL signals to one or a plurality of cell groups, and a control section that controls the antenna selection for transmitting the UL signals, and, when antenna selection for a serving cell (UE transmit antenna selection) is configured, the control section controls the antenna selection expecting that the plurality of cell groups are not configured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Kakishima, Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Tooru Uchino
  • Publication number: 20180167169
    Abstract: A user terminal is disclosed that has a receiver that receives transmission acknowledgment information, in response to an uplink data channel in a narrow band in a system band, via a downlink control channel that is transmitted in a starting subframe of a predetermined cycle and a processor that controls retransmission of the uplink data channel based on the transmission acknowledgment information. Further, a radio base station is disclosed that communicates with a user terminal. The radio base station has a transmitter that transmits transmission acknowledgment information, in response to an uplink data channel in a narrow band in a system band, via a downlink control channel that is transmitted in a starting subframe of a predetermined cycle and a processor that controls transmission of the transmission acknowledgment information. The feedback timing for the transmission acknowledgment information is adjusted based on the starting subframe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Huiling Jiang, Liu Liu, Qin Mu
  • Publication number: 20180167896
    Abstract: A terminal is provided. The terminal communicates with a base station in a mobile communication system which supports carrier aggregation provided by a first cell and a second cell which uses a subframe whose time interval is shorter than a time interval of a subframe of the first cell. The terminal includes a calculation unit configured to calculate reporting information to be reported to the base station based on a specific subframe, of a plurality of subframes of the second cell corresponding to a predetermined subframe of the first cell, shared by the base station and the terminal; and a reporting unit configured to report the reporting information calculated by the calculation unit to the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Kunihiko Teshima, Kazuki Takeda, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20180167999
    Abstract: A base station includes a transceiver and a processor. The processor is configured to: in response to receiving a connection request from user equipment, causes a transceiver to transmit a message to a first management apparatus; and in response to receiving a reroute message to indicate a reroute from a first management apparatus to a second management apparatus, causes the transceiver to transmit Non Access Stratum (NAS) information in the reroute message to the second management apparatus. The message includes an identifier of the user equipment assigned by the base station. The base station is configured to perform a connection operation on the user equipment. The identifier of the user equipment assigned by the base station is configured in the reroute message without provision of an identifier of the user equipment assigned by the first management apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Yasuhiro Kawabe, Masaaki Ohtake
  • Publication number: 20180167888
    Abstract: A user device includes a receiver configured to receive information indicating a ratio between a downlink data signal transmission power for an OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) symbol in which a CRS (cell-specific reference signal) is not arranged and a downlink data signal transmission power for an OFDM symbol in which a CRS is arranged; and a controller configured to calculate a downlink data signal transmission power based on the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yusuke Ohwatari, Kazuaki Takeda, Yousuke Sano, Yukihiko Okumura
  • Publication number: 20180167823
    Abstract: A user apparatus that communicates with a base station in a mobile communication system that supports uplink carrier aggregation, including: determination means configured to determine, based on assignment information, of an uplink transmission resource, received from the base station, whether a serving cell corresponding to the uplink transmission resource is a cell that uses a licensed spectrum or not; and transmission means configured, if the serving cell is determined to be a cell that uses the licensed spectrum by the determination means, to transmit a MAC control element to the base station by the serving cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Kazuki Takeda, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20180167943
    Abstract: A user equipment that includes a transmission and reception unit configured to transmit and receive a radio signal to and from a base station and a capability information indication unit configured to transmit capability information to the base station. The capability information indicates carrier aggregation (CA) capable carrier combinations as well as bandwidths of the respective carriers. The capability information indication unit indicates that all carrier combinations indicated in the capability information are CA capable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki TAKAHASHI, Hiromasa UMEDA
  • Publication number: 20180167989
    Abstract: A user device for a radio communication system supporting Device-to-Device (D2D) communication is disclosed. The user device includes a transmitter that transmits a D2D signal by mapping a reference signal to a physical channel according to a first mapping configuration or according to a second mapping configuration. The reference signal is mapped to more symbols in the second mapping configuration than in the first mapping configuration. When transmitting the D2D signal by applying the second mapping configuration to a Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH), the transmitter of the user device generates parameters for generating the reference signal to be mapped to the PSSCH based on information included in a Physical Sidelink Control Channel (PSSCH).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shimpei Yasukawa, Satoshi Nagata, Qun Zhao
  • Patent number: 9999031
    Abstract: To further notify the amount of data retained in the transmission buffer used in a communication among a plurality of MOBILE STATIONs to a RADIO BASE STATION, the mobile communication method according to the present invention includes: transmitting, with a MOBILE STATION (UE#1), a BSR (#1) indicating the amount of data retained in a transmission buffer corresponding to a logical channel in a Uu interface to a RADIO BASE STATION (eNB); transmitting, with a MOBILE STATION (UE1), a BSR (#2) indicating the amount of data retained in a transmission buffer corresponding to a logical channel in a Ud interface to the RADIO BASE STATION (eNB); and distinguishing, with the RADIO BASE STATION (eNB), the BSR (#1) from the BSR (#2) based on predetermined information included in the received BSR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Mikio Iwamura, Tooru Uchino
  • Patent number: 9999006
    Abstract: A user apparatus in a mobile communication system includes a first and second base station that perform communication with the user apparatus by inter-base station carrier aggregation. The user apparatus receives, from the first base station, a first detection parameter on uplink transmission power reporting set for a first cell group that is a cell group of the first base station. The user apparatus also receives a second detection parameter on uplink transmission power reporting set for a second cell group that is a cell group of the second base station. The user apparatus reports uplink transmission power information to one of or both of the first and second base station when detecting a report trigger of the uplink transmission power information in a cell group of the first and second cell group by a detection parameter of the first and second detection parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Kazuki Takeda, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20180160375
    Abstract: A user terminal is disclosed that connects with a plurality of radio base stations and the decrease of uplink throughput is reduced. A user terminal connects with a plurality of radio base stations including a first radio base station and a second radio base station, and this user terminal has a transmission section that transmits uplink signals to each radio base station, a receiving section that receives terminal-specific information with respect to the first radio base station, related to the maximum transmission power of the uplink signals, and a maximum transmission power setting section that sets the maximum transmission power for the first radio base station based on the terminal-specific information with respect to the first radio base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Kunihiko Teshima, Tooru Uchino, Kei Andou
  • Publication number: 20180159215
    Abstract: A multi-band array antenna comprises m first antenna elements operating in p frequency bands; n second antenna elements operating in q frequency bands; a Wilkinson power distributor; one or more filters; and one or more matching circuits. Here, m and n are positive integers satisfying m+n?3 and any of m=n+1, n=m+1 and m=n; and p and q are positive integers satisfying p?1, q?2 and q>p. The m first antenna elements and the n second antenna elements are alternately arranged. The matching circuit performs impedance matching between the filter and the Wilkinson power distributor in a frequency band attenuated by the filter. A series-connection circuit portion is configured so that a branch portion of the power distributor becomes an open end in the attenuation frequency band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yasunori SUZUKI, Makoto SUMI, Takashi HOSOZAWA