Patents Assigned to NTT Mobile Communications Networks, Inc.
  • Patent number: 5909428
    Abstract: A short cell management unit capable of carrying out OAM (operation, administration and maintenance) functions on short cell connection basis (newly defined F7 flow) included in VC (virtual connection) in addition to OAM functions on VC basis (F5 flow) which are defined in a conventional B-ISDN. The F7 flow includes the entire OAM functions such as fault management, performance management, which are included in F4 and F5 flows that carry out the management by causing a standard OAM cell defined in the existing B-ISDN to flow. To implement this, a variable length OAM cell is newly provided as one of the short cells, and a base station and a switching office are newly provided with a short OAM cell/standard OAM cell translator for carrying out mapping between the short OAM cell and the standard OAM cell. Furthermore, a generally used standard OAM processor is used for implementing the management functions (F4 and F5 flow) defined in the standard B-ISDN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1999
    Assignee: NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Yukichi Saito, Motoshi Tamura, Hiroshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 5907585
    Abstract: An automatically gain-controlled analog received signal is AD converted to a digital signal, which is subjected to quadrature demodulation processing through operation. The quadrature demodulation result is subjected to low-pass filter processing through operation, that is, a digital detection is performed by software processing to a variable in each software processing in accordance with changes in the modulation method of the received signal and in the symbol transmission rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Assignee: NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc.
    Inventors: Yasunori Suzuki, Ken Kumagai, Toshio Nojima
  • Patent number: 5903838
    Abstract: A control channel is searched for call waiting in a mobile station where the power supply for a receiving circuit is turned off during a break time of receiving level measurements, wherein in a first control channel selection mode, all the control channels are divided into a plurality of groups, the receiving levels of the control channels are measured group by group intermittently and sequentially. The intermittent measurement of these groups are repeated until a control channel having a receiving level equal to or greater than a first predetermined value is detected. When a receiving level equal to or greater than the first predetermined value is detected, the receiving levels of all the control channels are measured in a second control channel selection mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Yazaki, Kouji Chiba, Norihito Tokuhiro, Shigehide Sawayanagi, Kazufumi Yunoki
  • Patent number: 5898665
    Abstract: A coherent tracking apparatus for a CDMA receiver capable of achieving high accuracy tracking by suppressing noise. It includes a demodulation correlator for detecting correlation between a received spread signal and a demodulation spreading code replica inphase with a received spreading code included in the received spread signal by multiplying them, an absolute coherent detector for demodulating information data through absolute coherent detection of the correlation signal (despread signal) fed from the demodulation correlator, a tracking correlator for detecting correlation by multiplying the received spread signal by a pair of tracking spreading code replicas whose phases are shifted by .+-.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Mamoru Sawahashi, Fumiyuki Adachi
  • Patent number: 5896374
    Abstract: A variable rate transmission method that can vary the transmission rate of data. A transmitting side supplies a transmitted data sequence to an error detecting encoder 105 and a frame memory 103. The frame memory 103 stores data of a variable length to be transmitted in one frame. The error detecting encoder 105 calculates an error detecting code (such as CRC code) for each frame of the transmitted data. A multiplexer 104 adds the calculated error detecting code ahead of the transmitted data to place it at the initial position of the frame, and sequentially outputs the data sequence frame by frame. A receiving side calculates an error detecting code of the data in each transmitted frame in the same manner as the transmitting side, and compares the calculated error detecting code with the error detecting code at the initial position of the frame. The end bit of the frame data is decided as a position at which the two error detecting codes coincide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1999
    Assignee: NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Yukihiko Okumura, Fumiyuki Adachi, Koji Ohno, Akihiro Higashi
  • Patent number: 5886652
    Abstract: For the transmission of variable length coded data blocks, a threshold arithmetic calculation circuit (9) obtains a threshold from an average of the bit lengths of the variable length coded data blocks for each group of such block, and the judgment circuit (10) makes a judgment as to whether or not those variable length coded data blocks have bit lengths exceeding the threshold of the block group to which such data blocks belong. Then, a block divider circuit 11 divides the variable length coded data blocks having bit lengths exceeding the threshold into blocks having small bit lengths. Each block thus obtained is fixedly equalized in bit length to an average length level and transmitted in that condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1999
    Assignee: NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Satoru Adachi, Toshio Miki, Tomoyuki Ohya, Toshiro Kawahara
  • Patent number: 5884169
    Abstract: A scheme for enabling a roaming call termination connection for a mobile subscriber between mobile communication networks adopting different roaming number allocation schemes is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Assignee: NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Uchiyama, Hiroshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 5884165
    Abstract: In a mobile communication system, a data communication fixed station 3 and a voice communication fixed station 4 control a common service area, the connection between a mobile station 5 and the data communication fixed station 3 can be quickened. The data communication fixed station 3 notifies, sequentially, the voice communication fixed station 4 of channel informations (e.g., usable channels, traffic quantity). The voice communication fixed station 4 receives the channel information via a broadcast channel for voice communication, and broadcasts the channel information to the mobile stations. When the mobile station 5 is to execute packet communication with an ISDN 1 via the data communication fixed station 3, the mobile station 5 selects an appropriate channel among the channels broadcasted thereto, and notifies the data communication fixed station 3 of the selected channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Assignee: NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Noriko Uchida, Akihiro Maebara, Katsumi Kobayashi, Koji Yamamoto, Syoichi Hirata, Kazuo Sugiyama, Masumi Sotoyama, Koji Sasada
  • Patent number: 5878350
    Abstract: A scheme for controlling transmission powers during a soft handover in a CDMA mobile communication system, in which the receiving quality can always satisfy the reference quality even when a relationship between the receiving qualities at the base stations is reversed within the selective combination interval. In this transmission power control scheme, one radio channel among a plurality of radio channels is selected as a reference radio channel at the prescribed selective combination interval, and then a transmission power control is carried out at a prescribed transmission power control interval so that a receiving quality of the reference radio channel satisfies a prescribed reference quality, while not switching the reference radio channel within the prescribed selective combination interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignee: NTT Mobile Communication Network Inc.
    Inventors: Takehiro Nakamura, Kouji Ohno, Etsuhiro Nakano
  • Patent number: 5877660
    Abstract: Input is applied to a two-partition circuit that substantially equally distributes input power into two partitions having a phase difference of 90.degree., and the thus-distributed output is applied to a first driver that generates circularly polarized wave. The two outputs of the second driver, in which the circularly polarized waves generated from the first driver are coupled, are combined in a combining circuit. The end portion of the opening of the sealed case incorporating the first driver fits together with the end portion of the opening of the sealed case incorporating the second driver such that the two sealed cases together with the first and second drivers may rotate relative to each other around their cylindrical axis. The phase difference between the input of the two-partition circuit and the output of the combining circuit changes according to the relative angle of rotation around the cylindrical axis between first and second drivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignees: Nihon Dengyo Kosaku Co., Ltd., NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshio Ebine, Masahiro Karikomi, Tohru Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 5873028
    Abstract: A transmission power control scheme for a mobile communication system for suppressing the transmission power to an absolutely necessary minimum level, and increasing the subscriber capacity by reducing an amount of interference. In this scheme, at a time of controlling a transmission power of each radio channel at one of the base station and the mobile station so as to make a difference between a target CIR and a reception CIR of each radio channel at another one of the base station and the mobile station smaller, the target CIR for all radio channels at that another one of the base station and the mobile station are set independently, and/or the target CIR for each radio channel is changed at that another one of the base station and the mobile station, according to a channel quality of each radio channel at either one of the base station and the mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Assignee: NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc.
    Inventors: Etsuhiro Nakano, Narumi Umeda, Tomohiro Dohi
  • Patent number: 5872546
    Abstract: In a broadband antenna using a semicircular conductor disc, a semicircular cutout is formed in the semicircular radiator concentrically therewith. Alternatively, a semicircular arcwise radiating conductor with a semicircular cutout defined concentrically therewith is bent into a cylindrical shape to form a radiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Assignee: NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc.
    Inventors: Taisuke Ihara, Koichi Tsunekawa, Makoto Kijima
  • Patent number: 5873047
    Abstract: A method for setting up perch channels in a mobile communication by a cellular system, capable of setting up a perch channel and a perch channel list for surrounding base stations at each newly provided base station autonomously. At the newly provided base station, reception levels of signals transmitted by mobile stations to surrounding base stations are measured by scanning uplink control channels corresponding to perch channels, and a perch channel of the newly provided base station and a perch channel list to be signaled by the newly provided base station are autonomously set according to the measured reception levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Assignee: NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc.
    Inventors: Etsuhiro Nakano, Narumi Umeda
  • Patent number: 5870677
    Abstract: A private mobile communication system serves to support communication between mutual portable or mobile radio telephone equipment which are registered in the system, and communication between the portable or mobile radio telephone equipment and a telephone connected to a public network. A portable or mobile radio telephone equipment which is not registered in the system transmits a request for call to the public network through a private control channel controlling section. A radio base station in the system transfers the request for call transmitted through a private channel to a PBX. The PBX serves to support the call to the public network in response to the request for call transmitted through the private channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Assignees: NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc., Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsumi Takahashi, Yoshinori Uchida
  • Patent number: 5867779
    Abstract: The communication terminal (102) is provided with a notice unit (204) for recognizing a state of use of itself and states of use of the data terminals (103.sub.1) through (103.sub.n) and notifying a result of the recognition to the network side, whereas the network system (101) is provided with a storage unit (303) for registering a communication terminal in which the communication terminal (102) and at least one of the data terminal (103.sub.1) through (103.sub.n) became usable and deleting the registration of the communication terminal (102) or a communication terminal in which the data terminals (103.sub.1) through (103.sub.n) became unusable, in accordance with a result of the notice made by the notice unit (204), so that a receiving possible state of the communication terminal (102) is preliminarily registered on the side of the network system (101). Moreover, the receiving standby state is discriminated between a voice-only standby state and a voice and packet simultaneous standby state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1999
    Assignee: NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Akitoshi Miyazaki, Shoichi Hirata, Ichiro Okajima, Noriko Uchida
  • Patent number: 5862487
    Abstract: A mobile communication system is provided in which a base station commands a mobile station (or field monitor) to measure the field strength for a specific channel. The mobile station reports the measured results to the base station. The measured results are used in conjunction with base station identification codes to obtain a single representative value which is used to determine what channels can be selected and used by the system. This enables an existing cellular system to be utilized as a first mobile communication system, and makes it possible to construct a second mobile communication system in the same area as the service area of the first system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1999
    Assignee: NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc
    Inventors: Teruya Fujii, Katsunori Hamada, Masaaki Yoshimi
  • Patent number: 5859907
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an echo canceler for training an echo path estimation without providing a hindrance to a speech. The echo canceler of the present invention includes a pseudo noise generator for generating a certain pseudo noise. This pseudo noise is forcibly supplied to a transmission line for transmitting a far-end talker's voice. Here, in the case where the far-end talker's transmitting speech level is faint or the far-end talker is in a speechless condition, a certain correlation is established between the pseudo noise and a signal of the transmission line for transmitting the near-end talker's voice. Based on such a correlation as just mentioned, a coefficient for generating an echo replica is calculated. Therefore, a training for estimating an echo path is performed based on the pseudo noise and without depending on the far-end talker's voice, thereby enabling to generate an appropriate echo replica.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiro Kawahara, Toshio Miki, Hirohito Suda, Tomoyuki Ohya, Hirofumi Takagi
  • Patent number: 5850393
    Abstract: A transmitter receiver implementing both frequency division duplex and time division duplex in one device in a CDMA mobile communication system. In the FDD mode, data in an interleave memory in an interleaver is read at a predetermined read rate V.sub.R =V.sub.N, where V.sub.N is a normal rate. In the TDD mode, a transmitting carrier frequency is set identical to a receiving carrier frequency, and the read rate V.sub.R of the interleave memory and the write rate V.sub.W of the deinterleave memory are set at V.sub.R =V.sub.W >2V.sub.N. The transfer rate V.sub.T from column to column of the memories are set identical in the FDD mode and the TDD mode. This makes it possible to create a vacant duration while transferring from column to column, and to perform reception or transmission during the vacant duration. The remaining operation of the TDD mode is the same as the operation of the FDD mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1998
    Assignee: NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc.
    Inventor: Fumiyuki Adachi
  • Patent number: 5848096
    Abstract: A communication method and system which can enlarge the communication capacity using a rather simple system. The communication method and system provides different spreading codes to two signal systems at a receiving station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1998
    Assignees: NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc., Yozan Inc.
    Inventors: Guoliang Shou, Changming Zhou, Makoto Yamamoto, Mamoru Sawahashi, Fumiyuki Adachi, Sunao Takatori
  • Patent number: 5844952
    Abstract: In a time diversity receiver, where in time diversity is performed using the detector output, without any use of a receiving level detection circuit, thereby simplifying the receiver circuitry and reducing power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1998
    Assignee: NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc.
    Inventors: Shogo Ito, Yoshiaki Hirai, Toshihiro Nozawa