Patents by Inventor Hidehiko Oyane

Hidehiko Oyane 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: 9094815
    Abstract: A base station in a mobile communication system transmits and receives wireless signals with a user apparatus in a cell; in the case where the base station is connected to a communication network through a router, obtains an address of the router; periodically receives time information from a time information server through the communication network; stores in a memory unit the router's address and a current time indicated by the time information; and (1) in the case where a current-time-storing-is-stopped period is equal to or greater than a threshold value, or (2) in the case where the current-time-storing-is-stopped period is less than the threshold value and is equal to or greater than another threshold value, and an address just received from the router is different from the address stored in the memory unit, transmits a control signal for stopping the transmission of the wireless signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hosono, Takefumi Yamada, Hidehiko Oyane, Tsutomu Sugaya, Yasuhiro Kawabe, Masayuki Matsubara
  • Patent number: 9019907
    Abstract: A radio base station BTS includes an estimation unit 13 configured to estimate a time when a buffer of a scheduled mobile station UE becomes empty based on a remaining amount of data in the buffer of the mobile station UE, the remaining amount reported by the mobile station, and a sending unit 15 configured to send the mobile station UE a Zero Grant instructing to stop transmission of a data signal via an E-DPDCH based on the estimated time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tatsuro Yajima, Akihito Hanaki, Hidehiko Oyane
  • Patent number: 8817633
    Abstract: A terminal switching method for switching terminals, in a communication system in which HARQ processing is performed, to which a base station grants a transmission permission, from a terminal A to a terminal B includes notifying the terminal B of aborting of the transmission permission, setting a time point at which an HARQ process whose state of the HARQ processing is a retransmission waiting state with the terminal A is performed as a virtual starting point, setting a retransmission waiting window having a predetermined window length with the virtual starting point being regarded as its starting point, and notifying the terminal B of the transmission permission when there is no HARQ process having the retransmission waiting state with the terminal A, wherein the virtual starting point setting and the window setting are repeated until there is no HARQ process having the retransmission waiting state with the terminal A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Fukui, Tetsuya Mishuku, Tatsuro Yajima, Hidehiko Oyane
  • Patent number: 8792928
    Abstract: A radio base station includes: a table storage unit storing a table in which an E-TFCI indicating a transport format combination indicator of the physical data channel to be transmitted by a mobile station is associated with ?ed that is used to determine a SG and is an offset value of transmission power of the physical data channel to be transmitted by the mobile station; a parameter selector selecting the ?ed associated with the E-TFCI from the table; and a communication controller determining a SG based on the ?ed thus selected and an E-TFCI associated with the selected ?ed, and controlling transmission power of the mobile station by using the SG thus determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsuro Yajima, Hidehiko Oyane, Akihito Hanaki, Daisuke Tanigawa
  • Patent number: 8792442
    Abstract: A mobile communication method includes step for transmitting a first scheduling grant information to a first mobile station UE scheduled in a current scheduling assignment slot, and transmitting a second scheduling grant information to a second mobile station UE to be scheduled in a next TTI by the radio base station Node B at a time of switching between mobile stations UE to be scheduled, the first scheduling grant information instructing to stop transmission of a MAC-e PDU in a next transmission time interval, the first scheduling grant information corresponding to a minimum size of the MAC-e PDU which can contain only one MAC-d PDU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsuro Yajima, Akihito Hanaki, Hidehiko Oyane
  • Patent number: 8755327
    Abstract: A radio base station 10 according to the present invention includes a reference channel power setting unit 11 configured to change a transmission power of a reference channel, an associated channel power setting unit 12 configured to set a relative power offset of an associated channel by using a value relative to the reference channel, a power parameter holding unit 13 configured to hold power parameters set by the reference channel power setting unit 11 and associated channel power setting unit 12, a power parameter adjustment unit configured to adjust the relative power offset of the associated channel in a case where the transmission power of the reference channel is changed, and a transmitter 15 configured to transmit a signal of each channel on the basis of information in the power parameter holding unit 15, wherein the power parameter adjustment unit 14 maintains the transmission power of the associated channel unchanged even though the transmission power of the reference channel is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroki Zukawa, Hidehiko Oyane
  • Publication number: 20140148121
    Abstract: A base station in a mobile communication system transmits and receives wireless signals with a user apparatus in a cell; in the case where the base station is connected to a communication network through a router, obtains an address of the router; periodically receives time information from a time information server through the communication network; stores in a memory unit the router's address and a current time indicated by the time information; and (1) in the case where a current-time-storing-is-stopped period is equal to or greater than a threshold value, or (2) in the case where the current-time-storing-is-stopped period is less than the threshold value and is equal to or greater than another threshold value, and an address just received from the router is different from the address stored in the memory unit, transmits a control signal for stopping the transmission of the wireless signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hosono, Takefumi Yamada, Hidehiko Oyane, Tsutomu Sugaya, Yasuhiro Kawabe, Masayuki Matsubara
  • Patent number: 8670767
    Abstract: The present invention provides a radio base station apparatus that is capable of freely expanding an area, improving the degree of freedom in designing of the area significantly and reducing the equipment investment. The radio base station apparatus includes: a plurality of transmission/reception units which are remotely installed in a service area and to which necessary numbers of carriers and sectors are assigned in accordance with the respective installation areas; a modulation/demodulation unit which can set/modify the soft handover enabled range and modulates/demodulates a signal transmitted/received to/from the transmission reception units; and a selector switch which is connected to the transmission/reception units remotely installed in the service area via cables so as to select connections between the modulation/demodulation unit and the transmission/reception units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidehiko Oyane, Daisuke Tanigawa, Akihiro Hikuma
  • Patent number: 8571569
    Abstract: To provide a base transceiver station and channel rate control method for enabling the base transceiver station to execute stable processing in a radio communication system compliant with an HSDPA communication scheme, a base transceiver station 5 compliant with high speed downlink packet access is comprised of a Uu rate calculating section 16 that obtains radio quality between a radio access network 2 and a mobile terminal 6, a Ui rate calculating section 15 that obtains channel quality between the station 5 and a radio network controller 4, a CPU utilization measurement function section 17 that measures the CPU utilization of the station 5, and a CA calculating section 14 that calculates a permissible data amount using the radio quality, channel quality and CPU utilization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Takayuki Watanabe, Hidehiko Oyane
  • Patent number: 8532579
    Abstract: A radio equipment in a radio base station is configured to measure received signal strength of an uplink signal transmitted by a mobile station and includes a TRX function unit configured to transmit IQ data and control information to a radio equipment controller by using a frame including an IQ data region for mapping the IQ data and a control region for mapping the control information, the IQ data being obtained by subjecting the uplink signal to demodulation processing (orthogonal demodulation processing), and the TRX function unit is configured to map information indicating the received signal strength (RSSI) measured by the measurement unit to a fixed region in the control region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke Tanigawa, Hidehiko Oyane
  • Patent number: 8514702
    Abstract: A radio base station wherein, when a radio equipment control detects an uplink communication failure on a physical circuit, a downlink communication processing unit is configured to transmit a downlink IQ data for all combinations of antennae and carriers to a radio equipment with all values of the downlink IQ data set to “0,” and a downlink radio equipment is configured to stop a transmission of a downlink signal of all the carriers through all the antenna when the downlink IQ data whose values are all “0” is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke Tanigawa, Hidehiko Oyane
  • Patent number: 8412219
    Abstract: A base station includes a scheduling unit and a call reception control unit. The call reception control unit includes a managing unit that updates total resource usage amount based on total resource allocation amount and manages the total resource usage amount, and a decision unit that adds an initial radio resource to be allocated to a new call to the total resource usage amount and decides whether the new call can be accepted. The managing unit updates the total resource usage amount by subtracting a radio resource in response to the release of an existing call that radio resource allocation being not controlled at each transmission time interval. The managing unit manages the total resource usage amount without subtracting a radio resource in response to the release of an existing call that radio resource allocation being controlled at each transmission time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Akihito Hanaki, Hidehiko Oyane, Akihiro Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 8401486
    Abstract: Wireless base station equipment including a plurality of amplifiers and modulation and demodulation equipment having a monitoring control link with each of the plurality of amplifiers. The modulation and demodulation equipment terminates communications with the plurality of amplifiers and performs a monitoring control of each of the plurality of amplifiers. Each of the of amplifiers includes a plurality of cards as respective functional sections and a transmission and reception-integrated section that collects transmission and reception signals input to and output from each of the plurality of cards and terminates communication with the modulation and demodulation equipment. The modulation and demodulation equipment obtains, from a transmission and reception-integrated section of a corresponding amplifier via a monitoring control link with the corresponding amplifier, information related to the corresponding amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke Tanigawa, Hidehiko Oyane
  • Patent number: 8385892
    Abstract: A radio base station 200 includes a call process controller 105 and a baseband processor 109. The call process controller 105 notifies the baseband processor 109 of an offset of the baseband resource when accepting the priority call. The baseband processor 109 changes the baseband resource to be allocated to the normal call in a predetermined cycle and applies a resource use restriction based on the offset notified from the call process controller 105, the resource use restriction restricting the baseband resource to be allocated to the normal call within a range defined by subtracting the offset from a total baseband resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidehiko Oyane, Daisuke Tanigawa, Tatsuro Yajima
  • Publication number: 20130005318
    Abstract: In a BRE300, an RF interface for transmitting and receiving an RF signal is used for communication with a MDE 200 and a digital signal interface for transmitting and receiving a digital signal in accordance with CPRI is used for communication with BDE 300. The BRE 300 includes a monitoring signal interface configured to notify the MDE 200 of a monitoring signal indicating a state of the radio unit 50. The signal transmitted and received through the monitoring signal interface is a ground signal and is of type different from types of signals transmitted and received by the RF interface and the digital signal interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Masayuki Motegi, Yoshitsugu Shimazu, Hidehiko Oyane, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20120307713
    Abstract: A relay device 100 includes a first connecting unit configured to be connected to a REC21 via a logical link 11h, a second connecting unit configured to be connected to a REC22 via a logical link L12h, a radio equipment device connecting unit configured to be connected to RE30 via a logical link L21h. Further, the relay device 100 includes a data migrating unit configured to migrate the data between the logical link L11h and the logical link 12h and between the logical link L12h and the logical link L21h. The logical link L21h is shared by the data which is transmitted and received by the REC 21, 22, and the data migrating unit migrates the data according to a predetermined standardized interface specification (CPRI).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takayuki Watanabe, Yoshitsugu Shimazu, Hidehiko Oyane, Daisuke Tanigawa
  • Patent number: 8271041
    Abstract: The radio base station includes a monitoring controller for determining whether to switch between BB cards; and a baseband signal processor for transmitting a suspension request to suspend the transmission of the user data when it is determined that the BB cards are switched, and performing the handover of a processing between the BB cards based on the transmission of the suspension request. The baseband signal processor transmits a capacity allocation or a zero grant requesting to set the transmission rate of the user data to zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke Tanigawa, Hidehiko Oyane, Akihito Hanaki, Tatsuro Yajima
  • Patent number: 8224386
    Abstract: Radio base station equipment is connected to radio transmitting/receiving equipment provided in sectors (S), into which a communication area is divided, by an optical fiber (30), and performs radio communication with mobile terminals located in the respective sectors (S) via the radio transmitting/receiving equipment wherein a delay processing section delays a signal for each sector (S) according to a delay correction value obtained by subtracting a delay amount in each sector (S) from a maximum delay amount of a delay amount measured for each sector (S) and a baseband processing section obtains the signal from each sector (S) delayed by the delay processing section by setting a reception window at a position corresponding to the maximum delay amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hidehiko Oyane, Daisuke Tanigawa
  • Publication number: 20120155409
    Abstract: A radio base station 10 according to the present invention includes a reference channel power setting unit 11 configured to change a transmission power of a reference channel, an associated channel power setting unit 12 configured to set a relative power offset of an associated channel by using a value relative to the reference channel, a power parameter holding unit 13 configured to hold power parameters set by the reference channel power setting unit 11 and associated channel power setting unit 12, a power parameter adjustment unit configured to adjust the relative power offset of the associated channel in a case where the transmission power of the reference channel is changed, and a transmitter 15 configured to transmit a signal of each channel on the basis of information in the power parameter holding unit 15, wherein the power parameter adjustment unit 14 maintains the transmission power of the associated channel unchanged even though the transmission power of the reference channel is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Zukawa, Hidehiko Oyane
  • Publication number: 20120157142
    Abstract: A radio base station NodeB according to the present invention is configured, in EUL communication in “Time and Rate” system, to determine an SG to be notified to the mobile station scheduled in a next scheduling slot, based on maximum allowable reception power in the radio base station NodeB at a time of determining the SG to be notified to the mobile station scheduled in the next scheduling slot, and based on a DPCCH SIR target corresponding to respective SGs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tatsuro Yajima, Akihito Hanaki, Hidehiko Oyane