Patents by Inventor Aki Ohashi

Aki Ohashi 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).

  • Publication number: 20180213400
    Abstract: A SIP control apparatus is provided. The SIP control apparatus is connected to a management apparatus controlling call processing policy in an IP network, and controls a voice call made by a user apparatus. The SIP control apparatus includes a determination unit configured to, in the case where a call connection request is received from the user apparatus, determine whether authentication of the user apparatus has been completed by querying the management apparatus; and a call processing unit configured to, in the case where it is determined that the authentication of the user apparatus has been completed, perform call connection processing without authenticating the user apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Motohiro Abe, Aki Ohashi, Mana Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20170311151
    Abstract: A Home Subscriber Server (HSS) determines whether roaming of voice communication via an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is supported in the Visited Public Land Mobile Network (VPLMN) or not, and transmits to a mobility management entity (MME) a signal that includes a ‘voice supported’ or ‘voice not supported’ indicator that indicates whether the roaming is supported or not. The MME receives the indicator from the HSS, and transmits to a User Equipment (UE) an ‘Attach Accept’ as a response to an ‘Attach Request’ for the VPLMN. The MME then transmits to the UE, based on the indicator received from the HSS, the ‘Attach Accept’ that includes an indicator that indicates whether the roaming is supported or not.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Aki Ohashi, Zhen Miao, Tomonori Kagi, Motohiro Abe, Tetsuya Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20170272926
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a mobile communication system, a communication control device, a mobility management entity, and a mobile communication method which can avoid a failure in making an emergency call via an IMS when a mobile station connects to a VPLMN. An HSS 100 judges whether or not an emergency call origination via an IMS 500 is supported in the VPLMN, and transmits a signal including an indicator, EM supported or EM not supported, which indicates whether or not the emergency call origination is supported, to an MME 300. The MME 300 receives the indicator from the HSS 100 and transmits, to the UE 20, Attach Accept responding to Attach Request to the VPLMN from a UE 20. Based on the indicator received from the HSS 100, the MME 300 transmits, to the UE 20, Attach Accept including the indicator which indicates whether or not the emergency call is supported.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Aki Ohashi, Zhen Miao, Tomonori Kagi, Motohiro Abe, Mana Kaneko
  • Patent number: 9596342
    Abstract: A mobile station and a mobile communication method are provided, which are, if being able to output a local ringing tone and a NW-provided ringing tone, capable of continuing a ringing tone outputted before a transition from LTE to 3G by aSRVCC even after the transition is made. A UE (100A) executes continuation processing (aSRVCC) of a 3G voice communication service if the mobile station makes a transition of the connection destination from LTE to 3G during an alert period when the other party in the voice communication service is being alerted. Further, the UE (100A) outputs a NW-provided ringing tone without outputting a local ringing tone based on data stored in the mobile station after making a transition to a second radio access system if aSRVCC is executed during a period when the NW-provided ringing tone is being outputted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO INC
    Inventors: Itsuma Tanaka, Aki Ohashi, Hiromi Himeno, Hideyuki Sakuramoto
  • Patent number: 9497679
    Abstract: A mobile station and a mobile communication method are provided, which are capable of continuing output of an announcement sound even if a transition is made from LTE to 3G by SRVCC when the announcement sound is being received from a network side in response to a call request to a call-terminating terminal. A UE 100A executes continuation processing (SRVCC) of a 3G voice communication service if the mobile station makes a transition of a connection destination from LTE to 3G. Further, the UE 100A receives the announcement sound via LTE or 3G, and outputs the announcement sound after requesting alerting of the other party and before starting the alerting of the other party. The UE 100A outputs the announcement sound even after making a transition to 3G if the continuation processing of the voice communication service is executed during a period when the announcement sound is being outputted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Itsuma Tanaka, Aki Ohashi, Hiromi Himeno, Hideyuki Sakuramoto
  • Publication number: 20150229758
    Abstract: A mobile station and a mobile communication method are provided, which are, if being able to output a local ringing tone and a NW-provided ringing tone, capable of continuing a ringing tone outputted before a transition from LTE to 3G by aSRVCC even after the transition is made. A UE (100A) executes continuation processing (aSRVCC) of a 3G voice communication service if the mobile station makes a transition of the connection destination from LTE to 3G during an alert period when the other party in the voice communication service is being alerted. Further, the UE (100A) outputs a NW-provided ringing tone without outputting a local ringing tone based on data stored in the mobile station after making a transition to a second radio access system if aSRVCC is executed during a period when the NW-provided ringing tone is being outputted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Itsuma Tanaka, Aki Ohashi, Hiromi Himeno, Hideyuki Sakuramoto
  • Publication number: 20150223130
    Abstract: A mobile station and a mobile communication method are provided, which are capable of continuing output of an announcement sound even if a transition is made from LTE to 3G by SRVCC when the announcement sound is being received from a network side in response to a call request to a call-terminating terminal. A UE 100A executes continuation processing (SRVCC) of a 3G voice communication service if the mobile station makes a transition of a connection destination from LTE to 3G. Further, the UE 100A receives the announcement sound via LTE or 3G, and outputs the announcement sound after requesting alerting of the other party and before starting the alerting of the other party. The UE 100A outputs the announcement sound even after making a transition to 3G if the continuation processing of the voice communication service is executed during a period when the announcement sound is being outputted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Itsuma Tanaka, Aki Ohashi, Hiromi Himeno, Hideyuki Sakuramoto
  • Publication number: 20130058278
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step in which the gateway apparatus P-GW transmits “Proxy Binding Acknowledgement containing “O Flag setting information” indicating whether or not a DNSv6 address is allocated to the mobile station UE to the gateway apparatus S-GW in response to the reception of the “Proxy Binding Update”, and a step in which the gateway apparatus S-GW instructs the mobile station UE that there is no need to acquire a DNSv6 address using a DHCP request signal with “O Flag” in RA when the received “O Flag setting information” indicates that a DNSv6 address is allocated to the mobile station UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Nishida, Koichiro Kunitomo, Taro Ishikawa, Aki Ohashi
  • Patent number: 8391205
    Abstract: When a browser is started up by a user, a packet call establishment request unit of a cellular phone requests the start of processing for establishing a packet call, and a communication control unit executes a packet all establishment processing. A mobile communication network sends a packet call establishment response message to the cellular phone, then sends packet data. A packet date storage unit of the cellular phone stores the packet data in a memory when packet data is received before the packet call establishment response message. If the packet call establishment response message is received thereafter, the packet data storage unit reads the packet data from the memory, and deletes the packet data from the memory. The packet processing execution unit displays a screen corresponding to the packet data on the display. Thereby, instances when packet data is discarded is decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenji Tsuruta, Aki Ohashi, Hiromi Himeno, Masashi Kanauchi, Kei Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20120020290
    Abstract: A mobile station (UE) according to the present invention includes: an emergency call originating process unit configured to originate an emergency call via a cell under the control of a UMTS-scheme network having a circuit switching network, when an emergency call originating trigger is detected while camping on a cell under the control of an LTE-scheme network that is a packet switching dedicated network, and when it is determined that camping on the cell under the control of the UMTS-scheme network is possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Masashi Kanauchi, Aki Ohashi, Keisuke Suzuki, Itsuma Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20100297931
    Abstract: A transmission server includes an emergency information generator configured to generate emergency information indicating at least occurrence of emergency, an incoming operation identifier generator configured to generate an incoming operation identifier indicating at least an incoming operation for the broadcast message, and a communication unit configured to transmit the broadcast message including the emergency information and the incoming operation identifier. A mobile terminal includes a communication unit configured to receive the broadcast message, and a notification unit configured to execute the incoming operation for the broadcast message in accordance with the incoming operation indicated by the incoming operation identifier generator. The broadcast message in the radio network includes at least a message field and a specific type field. The emergency information is included in the message field, and the incoming operation identifier is included in the specific type field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Ueno, Takashi Kokubo, Eisuke Endoh, Hideyuki Sakuramoto, Aki Ohashi
  • Patent number: 7809402
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to improve the convenience for users by enabling messages during call out from the user of the communication terminal on the outgoing side to the user of a communication terminal on the incoming side, which are transmitted from the communication terminal on the outgoing side, to be checked by the user of the communication terminal on the outgoing side when calling out. The outgoing terminal 10a includes a display device 11, a call connection establishment unit 12 that transmits call out signals for calling out to the incoming terminal 10b, a transmitted information setting and adding unit 13 that adds display information that is displayed in the incoming terminal 10b to the call out signal, and a display control unit 14 that displays on the display device 11 the display information added to the call out signal when the call out signal is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyoko Masuda, Aki Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20090196220
    Abstract: When a browser is started up by a user, a packet call establishment request unit of a cellular phone requests the start of processing for establishing a packet call, and a communication control unit executes a packet all establishment processing. A mobile communication network sends a packet call establishment response message to the cellular phone, then sends packet data. A packet date storage unit of the cellular phone stores the packet data in a memory when packet data is received before the packet call establishment response message. If the packet call establishment response message is received thereafter, the packet data storage unit reads the packet data from the memory, and deletes the packet data from the memory. The packet processing execution unit displays a screen corresponding to the packet data on the display. Thereby, instances when packet data is discarded is decreased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2006
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenji Tsuruta, Aki Ohashi, Hiromi Himeno, Masashi Kanauchi, Kei Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20080014993
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to improve the convenience for users by enabling messages during call out from the user of the communication terminal on the outgoing side to the user of a communication terminal on the incoming side, which are transmitted from the communication terminal on the outgoing side, to be checked by the user of the communication terminal on the outgoing side when calling out. The outgoing terminal 10a includes a display device 11, a call connection establishment unit 12 that transmits call out signals for calling out to the incoming terminal 10b, a transmitted information setting and adding unit 13 that adds display information that is displayed in the incoming terminal 10b to the call out signal, and a display control unit 14 that displays on the display device 11 the display information added to the call out signal when the call out signal is transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyoko Masuda, Aki Ohashi