Patents by Inventor Akihito Okura

Akihito Okura 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: 7756137
    Abstract: A QoS controller, in an IP network having one or more routers, is disclosed. The controller includes a storing unit configured to assign a first bit area and a second bit area within a field in an IP header of an IP packet. The storing unit stores first bits for controlling the routers into the first bit area and second bits for routing at the routers into the second bit area. A reporting unit is configured to report to the routers the first bits and the second bits stored by the storing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Akihito Okura, Ken Igarashi
  • Patent number: 7684801
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to avoid packet loss and implement a seamless handover by minimizing the handover latency when a handover is implemented by a multihomed moving network (MN) or a mobile host (MH). The present invention is a mobile communication system that is constituted comprising an MN, a plurality of AI each constituting an interface for the connection to a core network at the MN, and a control device (MMF), wherein the MMF dynamically changes the AI adopted as the connection interface when a predetermined condition is satisfied on the basis of the connection status to the core network at each AI or the prediction information for a subsequent handover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Suzuki, Hiroshi Kawakami, Akihito Okura, Masami Yabusaki
  • Publication number: 20080051089
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to avoid packet loss and implement a seamless handover by minimizing the handover latency when a handover is implemented by a multihomed moving network (MN) or a mobile host (MH). The present invention is a mobile communication system that is constituted comprising an MN, a plurality of AI each constituting an interface for the connection to a core network at the MN, and a control device (MMF), wherein the MMF dynamically changes the AI adopted as the connection interface when a predetermined condition is satisfied on the basis of the connection status to the core network at each AI or the prediction information for a subsequent handover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc
    Inventors: Toshihiro SUZUKI, Hiroshi Kawakami, Akihito Okura, Masami Yabusaki
  • Publication number: 20050007949
    Abstract: When it is determined in a simplex method whether or not the existing path realized by routers R1 to R7 configuring a network can support the requested traffic, the optimal traffic distribution can be obtained although a prepared path group has a bottleneck link and has no sufficient band in a prepared path, etc. When there is no optimal solution in the simplex method, a bottleneck link is found, a bypass is added, and the simplex method is further applied. Thus, it can be determined whether or not the requested traffic can be accommodated by the current path. When it cannot be accommodated, only a necessary path can be added, and the optimal traffic distribution can be performed by setting the objective function based on the network cost such as the consumption of network resources, a delay, the number of hops, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2004
    Publication date: January 13, 2005
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, INC.
    Inventor: Akihito Okura
  • Publication number: 20040190527
    Abstract: A QoS controller, in an IP network having one or more routers, is disclosed. The controller includes a storing unit configured to assign a first bit area and a second bit area within a field in an IP header of an IP packet. The storing unit stores first bits for controlling the routers into the first bit area and second bits for routing at the routers into the second bit area. A reporting unit is configured to report to the routers the first bits and the second bits stored by the storing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2004
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Akihito Okura, Ken Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20040082329
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to avoid packet loss and implement a seamless handover by minimizing the handover latency when a handover is implemented by a multihomed moving network (MN) or a mobile host (MH). The present invention is a mobile communication system that is constituted comprising an MN, a plurality of AI each constituting an interface for the connection to a core network at the MN, and a control device (MMF), wherein the MMF dynamically changes the AI adopted as the connection interface when a predetermined condition is satisfied on the basis of the connection status to the core network at each AI or the prediction information for a subsequent handover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Publication date: April 29, 2004
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Suzuki, Hiroshi Kawakami, Akihito Okura, Masami Yabusaki