Patents by Inventor Daisuke Murayama

Daisuke Murayama 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: 12689990
    Abstract: A base station control system includes a first base station of which a disposition position is not determined, and a base station control device including a memory and a processor configured to: divide an existing second base station and terminals connected to the second base station into clusters through clustering; determine a position corresponding to a cluster not including the second base station among the plurality of clusters as a disposition position of the first base station; calculate the number of first terminals connected to the first base station and the number of second terminals connected to the second base station for each of a plurality of transmission powers of the first base station in a case where the first base station is disposed at the position; and select a transmission power of the first base station based on the number of first terminals and the number of second terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2026
    Assignee: NTT, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Motoharu Sasaki, Daisuke Murayama, Shota Nakayama, Takatsune Moriyama, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 12684367
    Abstract: A base station deployment position selection method executed by a computer includes calculating, in an area where a first base station to which a plurality of terminals are connected is deployed, for each of a plurality of candidates for a deployment position of a second base station, in a case where the second base station is deployed at the deployment position being a candidate, a number of first terminals connected to the first base station and a number of second terminals connected to the second base station; and selecting one candidate from the plurality of candidates based on the number of first terminals and the number of second terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: NTT, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Motoharu Sasaki, Daisuke Murayama, Shota Nakayama, Takatsune Moriyama, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 12672099
    Abstract: A control apparatus for controlling a position and a direction of a base station, and a position of a specific terminal that wirelessly communicates with the base station in conjunction with each other, the control apparatus including: a shield detection information acquisition unit which acquires information obtained by detecting the shield; a specific terminal position candidate calculating unit which calculates a position candidate of the specific terminal on the basis of information obtained by detecting the shield; a line-of-sight determination unit which determines whether there is line-of-sight of the specific terminal from the base station for each of the position candidates of the specific terminal; and a base station movement control parameter calculating unit which determines a position of the specific terminal on the basis of a result of determination of the presence or absence of the line-of-sight and calculates a parameter indicating a position and a direction of the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2026
    Assignee: NTT, Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke Murayama, Shota Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20260181421
    Abstract: A radio area design support apparatus includes a reception power calculation unit that calculates, for each of a plurality of layouts having different numbers of base stations from each other with respect to arrangement of base stations regarding wireless communication, reception power of a case where a base station is arranged according to the layout at one or more points, a wireless parameter calculation unit that calculates, for each of the layouts, a wireless parameter to be set for the base station related to the layout based on a predetermined condition, a throughput calculation unit that calculates, for each of the layouts, an estimation value of throughput at the one or more points based on the reception power and the wireless parameter, and an evaluation unit that evaluates superiority or inferiority of the plurality of layouts based on at least one of the number of base stations or the estimation value, thereby enabling radio area design in consideration of communication quality or cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: June 25, 2026
    Inventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Daisuke MURAYAMA, So TAKATANI, Takatsune MORIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20260181402
    Abstract: A radio zone design support apparatus includes: a first correction unit configured to correct a target value of quality information of wireless communication at one or more points on the basis of first quality information regarding wireless communication in an existing wireless system at the one or more points; and a calculation unit configured to calculate base station arrangement information regarding a new wireless system on the basis of the corrected target value, thereby supporting reduction of an increase in wireless network establishment cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: June 25, 2026
    Inventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Daisuke MURAYAMA, So TAKATANI, Takatsune MORIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20260107154
    Abstract: A wireless communication system is a wireless communication system including a base station that transmits and receives a signal to and from a terminal, and a relay station that relays a signal between the base station and the terminal, in which the base station includes a scheduling function unit that determines a schedule of transmission and reception of signals to and from a plurality of terminals 20, and transmits schedule information indicating the determined schedule to the relay station, and the relay station includes a schedule information acquisition unit that acquires the schedule information from the base station, and a beam control unit that specifies a terminal being a transmission destination based on the schedule information, and controls a beam used for relay for each terminal specified as a transmission destination based on a beam number specified for each terminal in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 16, 2026
    Applicant: NTT, Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke MURAYAMA, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, So TAKATANI
  • Patent number: 12587930
    Abstract: A communication system includes a terminal configured to wirelessly communicate with a base station and a control device. The terminal includes a transmission unit that transmits location information of the terminal. The control device includes a processor; and a memory that includes instructions, which when executed, cause the processor to execute the following steps: setting an area around a dead zone as a preliminary dead area, acquiring location information of the terminal, and determining whether the terminal is in the preliminary dead area by comparing the location information of the terminal with the preliminary dead area and performing control for switching a connection destination of the terminal when the determining determines that the terminal is in the preliminary dead area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2026
    Assignee: NTT, Inc.
    Inventors: Shota Nakayama, Daisuke Murayama, Kenichi Kawamura, Takatsune Moriyama
  • Patent number: 12580698
    Abstract: To properly consider the QCL assumption about SSBs in an NR-U carrier, a user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure is characterized by having a receiving section that receives a Synchronization Signal Block (SSB), and a control section which acquires an effective SSB index based on a demodulation reference signal (DeModulation Reference Signal (DMRS)) of a broadcast channel (Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH)) included in the SSB, and from a payload of the PBCH, acquires at least one of information on the number of effective SSB indexes to be transmitted and a start location index of an SSB burst including the SSB within a Discovery Reference Signal (DRS) transmission window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Daisuke Murayama
  • Publication number: 20260040142
    Abstract: In order to suppress degradation of communication quality due to radio interference or the like, or occurrence of extra operating power consumption or the like of a wireless base station when the number of the wireless terminals in the wireless area is smaller than expected, a radio communication system includes a plurality of wireless base stations installed in a wireless area, and includes: a calculation unit configured to calculate an operating state pattern of the plurality of wireless base stations according to a state of a wireless terminal in the wireless area; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a state of the wireless terminal in the wireless area; and a control unit configured to control, on the basis of the operating state pattern, an operating state of the plurality of wireless base stations according to the state of the wireless terminal acquired by the acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Publication date: February 5, 2026
    Applicant: NTT, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Daisuke MURAYAMA, So TAKATANI, Takatsune MORIYAMA
  • Patent number: 12543050
    Abstract: Provided is a control apparatus in a wireless communication system including the control apparatus and a movable base station, the control apparatus including: an information acquisition unit that acquires shield sensing information; a shield map generation unit that generates a shield map on the basis of the shield sensing information; a communication quality calculation unit that calculates an estimated received power in each coverage area element or each terminal for each position and direction of an antenna of the movable base station on the basis of the shield map, calculates an estimated communication quality in each coverage area element or each terminal on the basis of the estimated received power, and calculates an index value for controlling the movable base station on the basis of the estimated communication quality; and a base station control unit that controls the position and direction of the antenna of the movable base station so that the index value is maximized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2026
    Assignee: NTT, Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke Murayama, Shota Nakayama, Takatsune Moriyama
  • Publication number: 20260006529
    Abstract: A wireless communication system including a relay station apparatus capable of relaying wireless communication between one or more base station apparatuses and a terminal apparatus using a plurality of systems, and a control apparatus, the relay station apparatus acquires the quality between the terminal apparatus and each base station apparatus for which the relay station apparatus performs relaying, and the relay station apparatus for each system, and notifies the control apparatus of the acquired quality, and the control apparatus determines a data transmission method for each of a communication path between each base station apparatus and the relay station apparatus and a communication path between the relay station apparatus and the terminal apparatus on the basis of the quality and the priority of the terminal apparatus, and notifies the relay station apparatus of the determined data transmission method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 1, 2026
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke MURAYAMA, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, So TAKATANI
  • Publication number: 20250386324
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication system including: one or more mobile wireless station devices that communicate with one or more terminal devices; and a control device, in which the control device calculates, on the basis of a position of each of the terminal devices, a plurality of movement destination position candidates of each of the mobile wireless station devices of which communication with the terminal device satisfies a required quality, and from among a plurality of the movement destination position candidates, selects, as a movement destination position for movement control, a movement destination position candidate having a minimum sum of movement costs for movement from a home position to a movement destination for the mobile wireless station device or a movement destination position candidate for which a maximum value of a movement cost for movement from the home position to the movement destination becomes minimum for one or more mobile wireless station devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2022
    Publication date: December 18, 2025
    Inventors: Daisuke MURAYAMA, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, So TAKATANI
  • Publication number: 20250386323
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication system including: one or more mobile wireless station devices that communicate with one or more terminal devices; and a control device, in which the control device calculates, on the basis of a prediction value of a position of each of the terminal devices, a movement destination position candidate of each of the mobile wireless station devices of which communication with the terminal device satisfies a required quality for each of a plurality of movements, and selects, as a combination of movement destination positions for movement control, a combination that minimizes a sum of movement costs for the plurality of movements from an original position of each of the mobile wireless station devices from among a plurality of the combinations of the movement destination position candidates in the plurality of movements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2022
    Publication date: December 18, 2025
    Inventors: Daisuke MURAYAMA, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, So TAKATANI
  • Publication number: 20250380207
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication system including a plurality of base station devices, in which the base station device includes: a management unit configured to manage information regarding connection with a terminal device by using a blockchain shared by the plurality of base station devices; an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from wireless signals broadcast by other base station devices, information of one or more first base station devices in a vicinity of the base station device among the plurality of base station devices; an extraction unit configured to extract, from ledger information of the blockchain, information of one or more second base station devices, among the plurality of base station devices, from or to which the terminal device is likely to transition to or from the first base station device; and a determination unit configured to acquire connection conditions of the first base station device and the second base station device from the ledger information of the blockchain, and d
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: December 11, 2025
    Inventors: Takeru FUKUSHIMA, Motoharu SASAKI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Daisuke MURAYAMA, Takatsune MORIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20250358660
    Abstract: A wireless communication system that performs connection control using a blockchain includes a base station apparatus and a terminal device that makes a contract for connection to the base station apparatus, in which the base station apparatus calculates a predicted value of communication quality providable to the terminal device on the basis of information obtained by measurement for the terminal device, and presents the predicted value to the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: November 20, 2025
    Inventors: Takeru FUKUSHIMA, Motoharu SASAKI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Daisuke MURAYAMA, Takatsune MORIYAMA
  • Patent number: 12477500
    Abstract: A communication system includes a terminal that communicates with a base station wirelessly; and a control device, in which the terminal includes a transmitter that transmits information on a location of the terminal, and the control device includes a processor; and a memory that includes instructions, which when executed, cause the processor to execute the following steps: acquiring the information on the location of the terminal, predicting a future location of the terminal based on the information on the location of the terminal and determining whether the terminal is to enter a dead zone by comparing the future position with the dead zone, and executing control for switching a connection destination of the terminal when the determining determines that the terminal is to enter the dead zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2025
    Assignee: NTT, Inc.
    Inventors: Shota Nakayama, Daisuke Murayama, Kenichi Kawamura, Takatsune Moriyama
  • Publication number: 20250344268
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system including one or more base station devices, which communicate with one or more terminal devices, and a control apparatus, the control apparatus includes a terminal cluster calculation unit that performs clustering on a plurality of terminal devices and divides the plurality of terminal devices into a plurality of clusters, and a connection control unit that generates a plurality of combination patterns in which the base station device to be a connection destination of the terminal devices is allocated to each cluster, calculates an evaluation index value of each combination pattern, selects a combination pattern having a best evaluation index value, and performs control for connecting the terminal devices to the base station device based on the selected combination pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 6, 2025
    Inventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Daisuke MURAYAMA, Takeru FUKUSHIMA, So TAKATANI, Takatsune MORIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20250317749
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system including one or more base station devices that communicate with one or more terminal devices and a control apparatus, the control apparatus includes: a placement calculation unit that calculates a plurality of placement patterns in which a plurality of base station devices is placed in a target area; and a placement control unit that calculates, for each placement pattern, an evaluation index value based on a communication request of each terminal device, selects a placement pattern having a best evaluation index value, and performs placement control of the base station devices based on the selected placement pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: October 9, 2025
    Inventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Daisuke MURAYAMA, Takeru FUKUSHIMA, So TAKATANI, Takatsune MORIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20250310784
    Abstract: A station placement design device for designing arrangement of a base station and a reflector for constructing a radio area, the station placement design device including a processor that executes arranging terminal positions and candidate positions for an installation position of the base station or the reflector in the radio area; calculating received power between the terminal position and the candidate positions and received power between the candidate positions; selecting a candidate position for the base station from among the candidate positions; selecting, if there is a terminal position that is unable to be accommodated by the candidate position for the base station, a candidate position for the reflector capable of accommodating the terminal position; and determining arrangement of the base station and the reflector in which a cost of the radio area is minimized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 2, 2025
    Inventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Daisuke MURAYAMA, Motoharu SASAKI, So TAKATANI, Takatsune MORIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20250261012
    Abstract: In order to improve utilization efficiency of a wireless base station having high communication quality and smooth a difference in communication quality between wireless terminals, in a wireless communication method, a wireless base station performs setting processing of setting a threshold for determining a congestion degree of the wireless base station on a basis of an actual value of past communication, determination processing of determining a congestion degree of the wireless base station using the threshold, and change processing of changing a connection condition of the wireless base station on a basis of a congestion degree of the wireless base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Inventors: Takeru FUKUSHIMA, Motoharu SASAKI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Daisuke MURAYAMA, Takatsune MORIYAMA