Patents by Inventor Hideji Wakabayashi

Hideji Wakabayashi 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: 20250039709
    Abstract: A wireless telecommunications apparatus, forming a UE, for use in a wireless telecommunications network comprises communication circuitry configured to transmit wireless signals to or receive wireless signals from a first network node, the first network node being a mobile network node and control circuitry configured to determine whether one or more conditions are satisfied and when the one or more conditions are satisfied, to measure a characteristic of a wireless signal received by the communication circuitry from a second, different, network node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuxin WEI, Vivek SHARMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Yassin Aden AWAD
  • Patent number: 12213215
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a user equipment for a mobile telecommunications system, which has a circuitry configured to communicate with a new radio base station and a LTE base station. The circuitry is further configured to: perform simultaneous uplink communication with the LTE base station and the new radio base station; detect an overheating situation; and transmit capability information in response to detecting the overheating situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignees: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Yuxin Wei, Anders Berggren, Hideji Wakabayashi, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Publication number: 20250031063
    Abstract: A method for operating an infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network is provided. The infrastructure equipment is a non-terrestrial network part of the wireless communications network configured to transmit one or more spot beams to provide a wireless access interface for transmitting signals to and receiving signals representing data from a communications device within a coverage region of a cell or one of the spot beams, the spot beam forming a cell. The method comprises broadcasting system information for receipt by the communications device, the system information including information relating to at least one of a cell or a spot beam of a neighbouring infrastructure equipment and a second spot beam of the infrastructure equipment, wherein the system information is broadcast in accordance with at least one predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuxin WEI, Samuel Asangbeng ATUNGSIRI, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Vivek SHARMA
  • Patent number: 12207272
    Abstract: A method for transmitting data by a communications device to an infrastructure equipment in a cell of a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises receiving an indication of a plurality of configured grants, each of the configured grants allocating a set of communications resources for the transmission of the data by the communications device within one of a plurality of bandwidth parts defining a frequency range within a system bandwidth of the cell, determining that one or more of the plurality of configured grants should be activated and/or determining that one or more of the plurality of configured grants should be deactivated, and transmitting, to the infrastructure equipment, one or both of an activation signal if the communications device determines that one or more configured grants should be activated and a deactivation signal if the communications device determines that one or more configured grants should be deactivated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yassin Aden Awad, Vivek Sharma, Yuxin Wei, Hideji Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 12207103
    Abstract: A communications device is provided. The communications device comprises transceiver circuitry configured to transmit signals and receive signals to and from a wireless communications network, and controller circuitry. The controller circuitry is configured in combination with the transceiver circuitry to transmit to the wireless communications network, whilst operating in an inactive state, one or more signals comprising uplink data using a first of a plurality of beams each for transmission in a different one of a plurality of spatial directions, to detect, whilst operating in the inactive state, that the first beam satisfies a beam failure condition a specified number of consecutive times, and subsequently to determine, whilst operating in the inactive state, that the first beam has failed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yassin Aden Awad, Vivek Sharma, Yuxin Wei, Hideji Wakabayashi
  • Publication number: 20250024344
    Abstract: A method comprising receiving, by a communications device from a wireless communications network, one or more conditions for triggering a handover of the communications device to a target infrastructure equipment and one or more conditions for triggering a handover of the communications device to a target communications device configured to relay signals between the communications device and the wireless communications network. The method comprises evaluating the one or more conditions for triggering the handover to the target infrastructure equipment and the one or more conditions for triggering the handover to the target relay communications device. The method comprises initiating the handover to the target infrastructure equipment or the target relay communications device based on the evaluation of the one or more conditions for triggering the handover to the target infrastructure equipment and the one or more conditions for triggering the handover to the target relay communications device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuxin WEI, Vivek SHARMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Yassin Aden AWAD
  • Patent number: 12200605
    Abstract: A mobile telecommunications system entity for a mobile telecommunications system has at least one entity, which serves at least one user equipment. The mobile telecommunications system entity has circuitry which is configured to transmit scheduling information for on-demand system information, which can be requested by the at least one user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuxin Wei, Brian Alexander Martin, Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Publication number: 20250014136
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally pertains to a communication network node including circuitry configured to: acquire user input which is indicative of at least one service factor indicating user experience; and predict a user experience based on a deterministic model including the at least one service factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Hideji WAKABAYASHI
  • Patent number: 12192958
    Abstract: A method of communicating using a communications device, the method comprises determining a plurality of time periods during which a paging message may be received in a first wireless network, entering a connected mode in a second wireless network, transmitting an assistance information indication in the second wireless network, entering an idle mode in the second wireless network, and while in the idle mode in the second wireless network, receiving in the second wireless network a paging message at a paging time, wherein the assistance information indication is for permitting the second wireless network to determine the paging time for transmitting the paging message such that the communications device is able to receive the paging message at the paging time and is not prevented from receiving a paging message transmitted in the first wireless network during any of the plurality of time periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi, Yuxin Wei, Yassin Aden Awad, Anders Berggren
  • Publication number: 20250008501
    Abstract: A wireless telecommunication system includes base stations for communicating with terminal devices. One or more base stations support a power boost operating mode in which a base station's available transmission power is concentrated in a subset of its available transmission resources to provide enhanced transmission powers as compared to transmission powers on these transmission resources when the base station is not operating in the power boost mode. A base station establishes an extent to which one or more base stations in the wireless telecommunications system support the power boost operating mode conveys an indication of this to a terminal device. The terminal device receives the indication and uses the corresponding 10 information to control its acquisition of a base station of the wireless telecommunication system, for example by taking account of which base stations support power boosting and/or when power boosting is supported during a cell attach procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew William WEBB, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Brian MARTIN
  • Publication number: 20240430884
    Abstract: A communications device receives a frequency resource indicator to configure a first frequency domain portion of communications resources of a wireless access interface which can be used for communications between the communications device and a wireless network. The frequency resource indicator indicates a configuration of the first frequency domain portion of the communications resources including indicating whether communications resources in the first frequency domain portion should be configured as uplink communications resources reserved for uplink transmissions, as downlink communications resources reserved for downlink transmissions or as flexible communications resources which can be subsequently configured as uplink or downlink communications resources. In response, the communications device configures the first frequency domain portion of the communications resources in accordance with the configuration indicated by the frequency resource indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yassin Aden AWAD, Shin Horng WONG, Yuxin WEI, Vivek SHARMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI
  • Patent number: 12177760
    Abstract: A method of controlling communications within a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises receiving, at a first of the infrastructure equipment acting as a donor node connected to a core network part of a wireless communications network, signals representing data from a second of the infrastructure equipment over a first communications path via one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as relay nodes, receiving, at the first infrastructure equipment, assistance information from at least one of the second infrastructure equipment and the one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as the relay nodes, and determining, by one of the first infrastructure equipment and the one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as the relay nodes in the case that the assistance information satisfies a trigger condition, that the second infrastructure equipment should communicate with the first infrastructure equipment over a second communications path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 12177311
    Abstract: A broker device for an internet-of-things network, the broker device including circuitry having a communication interface, the circuitry being configured to communicate with one or more publisher devices and with a plurality of subscriber devices via the communication interface, wherein the circuitry is further configured to: receive published data from a publisher device of the one or more publisher devices that is registered as a publisher for a data category at the broker device, wherein the published data includes data payload and a data identifier indicating the data category of the data payload; and transmit at least the data payload of the received published data to at least one subscriber device of the plurality of subscriber devices that is registered as a subscriber for the data category at the broker device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideji Wakabayashi, Vivek Sharma, Yassin Aden Awad, Yuxin Wei
  • Patent number: 12177728
    Abstract: A terminal device and a method of operating a terminal device in a wireless communication network. The method comprises establishing, by the terminal device, a first radio connection with a first network access node for transmission of data via a first bearer and a second radio connection with the first network access node for transmission of data via a second bearer. Based on a difference between quality of service for the data transmission via the first bearer and the second bearer, a third radio connection is established between the terminal device and a second network access node for transmission of the data via the first bearer; and the third radio connection is established between the terminal device and the second network access node, a fourth radio connection is established between the terminal device and the second network access node for transmission of the data via the second bearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi, Yuxin Wei, Anders Berggren
  • Publication number: 20240422574
    Abstract: A mobile telecommunications system anchor base station for a mobile telecommunications system is provided. The mobile telecommunications system has at least one anchor cell and at least one slave cell which is associated with the anchor cell. The anchor base station has circuitry which is configured to broadcast slave cell system information being specific for the at least one slave cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuxin WEI, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Shinichiro TSUDA
  • Publication number: 20240422566
    Abstract: [Problem] Provided are a radio unit, a management device, and a communication control method that enable a company such as a microoperator to easily introduce a local network using a mobile communication system such as 5G. [Solution] A radio unit of the present disclosure is a radio unit belonging to a local network domain, and includes a communication processing unit that connects to a first distributed unit and performs first communication between the first distributed unit and a terminal device, and connects to a second distributed unit belonging to a public network domain and performs second communication between the second distributed unit and the terminal device or another terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: SHINICHIRO TSUDA, HIDEJI WAKABAYASHI
  • Patent number: 12170946
    Abstract: A method of controlling communications within a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises communicating, with a first infrastructure equipment acting as a donor node connected to a core network, signals representing data by a second infrastructure equipment over a first communications path via one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as relay nodes, the second infrastructure equipment being a child node and one of the one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as the relay nodes or the donor node being a parent node, the parent node being connected to the child node via a backhaul communications link and configured to allocate uplink communications resources to the child node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi, Yassin Aden Awad
  • Patent number: 12170560
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a network entity for a mobile telecommunications system having circuitry configured to communicate with at least one user equipment, wherein the circuitry is further configured to transmit, to the at least one user equipment, time information for indicating a beam which will cover the at least one user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuxin Wei, Yassin Aden Awad, Vivek Sharma, Samuel Asangbeng Atungsiri, Hideji Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 12170928
    Abstract: The present technique provides a terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications system, the terminal device comprising a receiver, a transmitter and a controller, wherein the controller is configured: to conduct a first measurement of a parameter associated with a radio signal transmitted by infrastructure equipment of the wireless telecommunications network and received by the receiver; to determine whether the measured parameter meets a predetermined criteria; and when the measured parameter is determined to meet the predetermined criteria, to conduct a second measurement of a parameter associated with a radio signal transmitted by infrastructure equipment of the wireless telecommunications network and received by the receiver. The present technique also provides an associated method and circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian Alexander Martin, Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Shinichiro Tsuda, Hideji Wakabayashi
  • Publication number: 20240414791
    Abstract: A wireless telecommunication system comprising a terminal device, a first network access node and a second network access node, wherein the first and second network access nodes are configured to support a dual connectivity mode of operation for the terminal device in which the first network access node acts as a master network access node and the second network access node acts as a secondary network access node and in which the same data are communicated between the terminal device and the first network access node and between the terminal device and the second network access node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Vivek SHARMA, Yassin Aden AWAD, Yuxin WEI, Hideji WAKABAYASHI