Patents by Inventor Akihito Hanaki

Akihito Hanaki 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: 8005037
    Abstract: A communication control method for a mobile communication system having a plurality of mobile stations, a radio base station, and a radio control station comprises a measurement step, an evaluation step, and a control step. In the measurement step, a plurality of congestion parameters related to factors generating congestion is measured in a mobile communication system. In the evaluation step, the radio control station evaluates a congestion degree corresponding to each of the plurality of congestion parameters. In the control step, a communication setting between the radio base station and at least one of the plurality of mobile stations is controlled in accordance with a control instruction transmitted from the radio control station to the radio base station when at least one of the plurality of congestion degrees is a prescribed level or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishii, Takahiro Hayashi, Akihito Hanaki, Junichiro Kawamoto, Yoshikazu Goto, Koji Furutani
  • Patent number: 7990859
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a packet transmission control device which controls transmission of packets to a plurality of mobile stations. A scheduling unit of the packet transmission control device according to the present invention is configured to schedule the packets to each of the plurality of mobile stations, based on an average transmission rate, a minimum guaranteed transmission rate, a scheduling frequency and capability information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishii, Yoshimasa Imamura, Akihito Hanaki, Takehiro Nakamura, Shinya Tanaka, Masafumi Usuda
  • Publication number: 20110134892
    Abstract: A radio base station of the present invention is provided with an index setting unit configured to set an index to a radio resource in a frequency domain, a resource allocation class determining unit is configured to determine a resource allocation class of a radio communication terminal from among resource allocation classes which are classified according to radio resource allocation patterns fixedly allocated at a fixed time interval T0, based on user information of the radio communication terminal, and a resource allocation unit configured to allocate a vacant radio resource within the fixed time interval T0 to the radio communication terminal in order starting with a radio resource having an index value predetermined for the resource allocation class.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Masashige Shirakabe, Takahiro Asai, Akihito Hanaki, Yoshiaki Ofuji
  • Patent number: 7937087
    Abstract: A radio communication system includes: a serving cell (for example, cell A functional unit 120) configured to transmit, to a radio terminal 10, an AG for directly specifying an uplink user data transmission rate and an RG for relatively specifying the uplink user data transmission rate; and a non-serving cell (for example, cell B functional unit 130) configured to transmit the RG to the radio terminal without transmitting the AG. The non-serving cell includes an instruction unit 132 configured to instruct the serving cell to decrease the uplink user data transmission rate, when a reception power of uplink user data received from the radio terminal 10 exceeds a predetermined interference threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Goto, Akihito Hanaki, Takahiro Hayashi, Junichiro Kawamoto, Yukiko Takagi
  • Patent number: 7937111
    Abstract: A wireless base station apparatus (100) used in a wireless communications system includes a statistical processing unit (140) that performs statistical processing on downlink radio quality information reported from a wireless communications terminal device; a radio quality information offsetting unit (160) that adjusts the statistically processed downlink radio quality information based on a downlink transmission confirmation (ACK/NACK/DTX) message transmitted from the wireless communications terminal device and a required downlink quality; a transport format determination unit (170) that determines a downlink transport format based on the statistically processed radio quality information or the offset-adjusted radio quality information; and a transmitting unit (111) that transmits a downlink channel with the determined downlink transport format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishii, Masafumi Usuda, Yoshimasa Imamura, Akihito Hanaki
  • Patent number: 7899459
    Abstract: In a communication system which transmits a packet to a plurality of mobile stations classified into a plurality of priority classes, call admission control is realized with a priority class taken into account. When a new mobile station is starting communications, the number of mobile stations which belong to a plurality of priority classes is calculated by a mobile station number acquisition unit. A weight coefficient setting unit sets a weight coefficient for each of the plurality of priority classes. A first threshold value setting unit and a second threshold value setting unit set a threshold value for each of the plurality of priority classes. A first call number judgment unit and a second call number judgment unit control admission of a call by a new mobile station based on the number of mobile stations belonging to the plurality of priority classes, the weight coefficient for each of the plurality of priority classes, and the threshold value of each of the plurality of priority classes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishii, Akihito Hanaki
  • Patent number: 7839821
    Abstract: A packet transmission control device and a packet transmission control method for reducing degradation of system throughput due to a wireless mobile station in an abnormal state, in controlling transmission of packets to each of a plurality of wireless terminals. A channel is assigned based on an evaluated value from an evaluation function containing an average transmission rate value for the wireless terminal in its denominator, and if the evaluated value falls in an abnormal value, the average transmission rate value is initialized to reduce the frequency of assigning packets to the wireless terminal if one of multiple wireless terminals transitions to an abnormal state. By initializing the average transmission rate value, a phenomenon that an unnecessarily large number of shared channels are assigned to a wireless mobile station in an abnormal state may be avoided to prevent degradation of overall system throughput.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishii, Akihito Hanaki, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7801550
    Abstract: A base station includes a first selecting unit that selects a reduction target terminal, a first calculating unit that calculates a reduction amount of assigned transmission rate assigned to the reduction target terminal, a second selecting unit that selects an increase target terminal, a second calculating unit that calculates an increase amount of the assigned transmission rate assigned to the increase target terminal, and a transmitting unit that transmits transmission rate control date to a radio terminal. The second selecting unit selects the increase target terminal and the second calculating unit calculates the increase amount when the reduction target terminal is not selected by the first selecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Takahiro Hayashi, Akihito Hanaki, Junichiro Kawamoto, Yoshikazu Goto, Yukiko Takagi
  • Patent number: 7783295
    Abstract: When n mobile stations performing communications using a shared channel and m mobile stations performing communications using a dedicated channel are used in a mixed manner, necessary radio resources to satisfy the transmission data rate aimed by a mobile station performing communications using a shared channel are calculated, the quality of the shared channel is guaranteed, and call admission control of a dedicated channel is performed. An HS terminal allocation power calculation unit calculates necessary transmission power to satisfy the target transmission data rate by n mobile stations based on the radio channel quality and the target transmission data rate of the n mobile stations using a shared channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishii, Akihito Hanaki
  • Patent number: 7760683
    Abstract: Call admission control is performed by considering whether or not a mobile station that has already performed communications and a mobile station that is newly starting communications can attain respective target transmission data rates. A new call admission judgment unit controls admission of a call from a new mobile station based on a packet allocation frequency for satisfying an existing terminal target transmission data rate relating to a plurality of mobile stations and a packet allocation frequency for satisfying a new terminal target transmission data rate relating to a new mobile station. Call admission control can be appropriately performed based on whether or not a target transmission data rate can be satisfied regardless of the cell mode and the way of the occurrence of traffic on a mobile station which has already started communications and a mobile station which is to newly start communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishii, Akihito Hanaki
  • Patent number: 7693539
    Abstract: A mobile communication system comprises: a determination unit configured to determine as to layers of data to be transmitted by base stations to mobile stations for respective radio areas, based on area resource information concerning radio resources for the respective radio areas covered by the base stations; and a radio transmitter configured to transmit the data to the mobile stations according to a determination of the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Mayu Yamada, Takehiro Nakamura, Minami Ishii, Masafumi Usuda, Sung Uk Moon, Akihito Hanaki
  • Patent number: 7680207
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is provide a mobile communication system which can improve a communication quality of the mobile communication system as a whole by changing a transmission method for transmitting common information. Each of the mobile stations 200a to 200l comprises a communication quality measurer 230 configured to measure a communication quality of a signal transmitted from the radio station 100a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Sung Uk Moon, Takehiro Nakamura, Minami Ishii, Masafumi Usuda, Mayu Yamada, Akihito Hanaki
  • Patent number: 7623489
    Abstract: A packet transmission control apparatus is configured to perform transmission control of packets to a plurality of mobile stations. The packet transmission control apparatus includes an acquirer configured to acquire a scheduling frequency which shows a frequency of scheduling of packets to each mobile station in a predetermined period, and a scheduler configured to control scheduling of packets to each mobile station in accordance with an acquired scheduling frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishii, Takehiro Nakamura, Akihito Hanaki, Yoshimasa Imamura, Shinya Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20090274108
    Abstract: A radio base station according to the present invention includes: a determiner determining a transfer rate of data transferred from the radio network controller to the radio base station, based on a predetermined bandwidth of a wired transmission path, a bandwidth of the wired transmission path not being used, and a bandwidth of the wired transmission path being used by the mobile station; and a notifier notifying the radio network controller of the determined transfer rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2009
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Inventors: Takahiro HAYASHI, Akihito HANAKI, Yoshikazu GOTO, Yukiko TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20090227256
    Abstract: A mobile communication method includes: causing a cell under control of a radio base station to determine an initial granted value when an uplink user data transmission channel is set up between a mobile station and the cell under the control of the radio base station; causing a radio network controller to notify the mobile station of the initial granted value determined by the cell under the control of the radio base station; and causing the mobile station to transmit uplink user data via the uplink user data transmission channel at a transmission rate corresponding to the initial granted value after the uplink user data transmission channel is set up, and the cell under the control of the radio base station sets the initial granted value to be equal to the granted value used in transmitting only a single data unit on the uplink user data transmission channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu GOTO, Akihito Hanaki, Takahiro Hayashi, Junichiro Kawamoto, Yukiko Takagi
  • Publication number: 20090225656
    Abstract: A base station according to the present invention includes: a detecting unit configured to detect a discard of the uplink user data received from a radio terminal; and a scheduling unit configured to transmit an AG or an RG instructing a decrease of an SG assigned to the radio terminal, when the discard of the uplink user data is detected by the detecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yukiko TAKAGI, Akihito Hanaki, Takahiro Hayashi, Junichiro Kawamoto, Yoshikazu Goto
  • Publication number: 20090225699
    Abstract: A base station includes: a determination unit that determines whether or not a total of an initial transmission rate and assigned transmission rates exceeds a maximum receiving transmission rate when the base station receives a communication start request from a radio terminal; a selecting unit that selects a decrease target terminal when the total of the initial transmission rate and the assigned transmission rates exceeds the maximum receiving transmission rate; and a transmitting unit that transmits transmission rate decrease data to the decrease target terminal, and the base station causes the total of the initial transmission rate and the assigned transmission rates to be equal to or less than the maximum receiving transmission rate by transmitting the transmission rate decrease data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Inventors: Yukiko Takagi, Akihito Hanaki, Takahiro Hayashi, Junichiro Kawamoto, Yoshikazu Goto
  • Publication number: 20090225713
    Abstract: The radio base station includes: a step of making a comparison between transmission format identification information received from the mobile station and transmission format identification information based on a data amount calculated in a step of calculating the data amount of uplink user data; and a step of retransmitting a calculated scheduling grant if the radio base station determines, based on the comparison result in the step of the comparison, that a data amount indicated by the transmission format identification information received from the mobile station is larger than the data amount calculated in the aforementioned step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Takahiro Hayashi, Akihito Hanaki, Junichiro Kawamoto, Yoshikazu Goto, Yukiko Takagi
  • Publication number: 20090225715
    Abstract: A mobile communication system is configured as a mobile station in a first communication state shifts to a second communication state when at least one high speed uplink packet communication compliant radio link is established by the mobile station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Junichiro KAWAMOTO, Akihito HANAKI, Takahiro HAYASHI, Yoshikazu GOTO, Yukiko TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20090225726
    Abstract: A radio base station includes an assignment unit that selects a transmission rate control channel channelization code assigned to a fewest mobile stations, upon receipt of a communication start request from a mobile station, from among a plurality of transmission rate control channel channelization codes specified by a radio network controller and then assigns a selected transmission rate control channel channelization code to the mobile station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Akihito HANAKI, Akihiro FUJIWARA, Takahiro HAYASHI, Yoshikazu GOTO, Yukiko TAKAGI, Junichiro KAWAMOTO