Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki URABAYASHI

Hiroyuki URABAYASHI 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: 11910211
    Abstract: A user equipment, method used in a user equipment, and an apparatus for a user equipment include receiving from a first cell operated in a licensed band, configuration information configuring a second cell operated in an unlicensed band, performing a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure on the second cell, counting a number of failures of the LBT procedure on the second cell, and transmitting information based on the number of failures of the LBT procedure on the second cell, to the first cell operated in the licensed band, the information indicating the failure of the LBT procedure on the second cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Naohisa Matsumoto, Kugo Morita, Hiroyuki Adachi, Hiroyuki Urabayashi, Chiharu Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20230397089
    Abstract: User equipment, an apparatus configured to control user equipment, and a method. The method may include receiving by a user equipment from a base station, a synchronization signal and a master information block, the master information block transmitted at a same transmission cycle as a transmission cycle of the synchronization signal. The method may further include receiving by the user equipment from the base station, first information indicating time domain positions at which the synchronization signal and the master information block are to be transmitted. In addition, the method may include receiving by the user equipment from the base station, second information indicating a periodicity of transmission of the synchronization signal and the master information block. The periodicity indicated by the second information may be different from 40 ms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki URABAYASHI, Kugo MORITA
  • Patent number: 11832351
    Abstract: A radio terminal according to one embodiment comprises a controller configured to transmit a physical uplink shared channel to a base station by an interlace mapping using a plurality of resource blocks distributed on a frequency axis while overlapping on a time axis. The controller receives, from the base station, control channel information on a time-frequency resource used for transmitting the physical uplink control channel. The controller stops transmission in a specific resource block corresponding to the time-frequency resource from among the plurality of resource blocks, based on the control channel information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Urabayashi, Mayumi Komura, Chiharu Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11778542
    Abstract: A mobile communication system according to one embodiment comprises: a base station configured to transmit discovery reference signal in an unlicensed spectrum, and a radio terminal configured to receive the discovery reference signal in the unlicensed spectrum. The base station notifies the radio terminal of timing information indicating a timing at which the discovery reference signal is to be transmitted in the unlicensed spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Urabayashi, Kugo Morita
  • Patent number: 11601856
    Abstract: A user equipment, apparatus provided in a user equipment, and method are for receiving a Multicast Broadcast Service, and include receiving a system information block (SIB) from a current serving cell of the user equipment, and performing a cell reselection operation where a cell having a highest ranking determined based on a radio quality and an offset is selected as a serving cell of the user equipment from among a plurality of cells. In the cell reselection operation, a determination is made, based on the SIB, whether to use an infinite offset as the offset to be applied to a cell providing the Multicast Broadcast Service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Fujishiro, Hiroyuki Urabayashi, Hiroyuki Adachi, Henry Chang
  • Patent number: 11503595
    Abstract: A mobile communication method for performing predetermined communication between a base station and a user terminal by using a narrow band including 6 resource blocks comprises: transmitting, from the base station to the user terminal, narrow band allocation information allocating a predetermined number of the narrow bands to the user terminal as allocation information of the narrow band used for the predetermined communication; performing by the user terminal, the predetermined communication by using the predetermined number of narrow bands based on the narrow band allocation information; transmitting, from the base station to the user terminal, an RRC message including information specifying a bandwidth supportable by the user terminal; and changing, by the base station, a number of bits of the narrow band allocation information according to the bandwidth supportable by the user terminal. The predetermined number of narrow bands are provided within a bandwidth supportable by the user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Urabayashi, Chiharu Yamazaki, Hiroyuki Adachi, Amit Kalhan
  • Patent number: 11350460
    Abstract: A communication control method according to one embodiment is used in a mobile communication system. The communication control method comprises a step A of predicting, by a UE, a radio condition within a second period after connection between the UE and a eNB is established, in a first period for which the connection is not established, and a step B of performing, by the UE, a random access procedure for establishing the connection. The step B includes a step of performing notification of information on the predicted radio condition from the UE to the eNB in the random access procedure. The information is used, by the eNB, for controlling communication with the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Fujishiro, Hiroyuki Urabayashi, Hiroyuki Adachi
  • Patent number: 11337138
    Abstract: A radio communication apparatus according to a first embodiment comprises a controller. The controller is configured to specify a first time period in which communication with a network is restricted, and perform control in the first time period to restrict the communication with the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Fujishiro, Hiroyuki Urabayashi
  • Patent number: 11317465
    Abstract: A user equipment, method used in user equipment, and apparatus for controlling a user equipment operate to receiving a connected mode DRX parameter configured by a base station, and transmit to the base station a message including information indicating a connected mode DRX parameter preferred by the user equipment. The connected mode DRX parameter preferred by the user equipment includes at least one of DRX-InactivityTimer, DRX-ShortCycle, and DRX-ShortCycleTimer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Yushi Nagasaka, Masato Fujishiro, Kugo Morita, Hiroyuki Adachi, Fangwei Tong, Shingo Katagiri, Chiharu Yamazaki, Hiroyuki Urabayashi, Naohisa Matsumoto, Katsuhiro Mitsui
  • Patent number: 11310752
    Abstract: A user equipment, an apparatus for controlling user equipment, and a method receive measurement configuration information from a first cell, the measurement configuration information indicating a subcarrier spacing applied to a second cell, and perform measurement on the second cell based on the measurement configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Urabayashi
  • Publication number: 20220104047
    Abstract: A user equipment, method used in a user equipment, and an apparatus for a user equipment include receiving from a first cell operated in a licensed band, configuration information configuring a second cell operated in an unlicensed band, performing a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure on the second cell, counting a number of failures of the LBT procedure on the second cell, and transmitting information based on the number of failures of the LBT procedure on the second cell, to the first cell operated in the licensed band, the information indicating the failure of the LBT procedure on the second cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Naohisa MATSUMOTO, Kugo MORITA, Hiroyuki ADACHI, Hiroyuki URABAYASHI, Chiharu YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11228927
    Abstract: A user terminal, method used in a user terminal, and an apparatus for a user terminal include receiving from a base station measurement configuration information configuring measurement of a frequency channel in an unlicensed band, measuring signal strength of radio signals transmitted in the frequency channel, determining occupancy situation of the frequency channel based on the measured signal strength and a threshold, and transmitting to the base station a measurement report including information indicating the occupancy situation of the frequency channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Naohisa Matsumoto, Kugo Morita, Hiroyuki Adachi, Hiroyuki Urabayashi, Chiharu Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11201688
    Abstract: A user equipment, method and apparatus receive a PDSCH from a base station and determine a modulation order used in the PDSCH based on whether the PDSCH is transmitted in a second slot out of a first slot and the second slot which configure a subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Fujishiro, Chiharu Yamazaki, Hiroyuki Urabayashi, Noriyoshi Fukuta, Naohisa Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11201763
    Abstract: A communication method according to one embodiment comprises: transmitting, by a base station that manages a Licensed-Assisted Access (LAA) cell, downlink control information (DCI) to a user equipment, the DCI including subframe information and a transmission instruction of a sounding reference signal in the LAA cell, the subframe information indicates a specific subframe in which the user equipment should transmit the sounding reference signal; and transmitting, by the user equipment, the sounding reference signal to the base station in the specific subframe, based on the DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Urabayashi
  • Patent number: 11115980
    Abstract: A base station performs radio communication with a radio terminal using at least one narrow frequency band where the number of resource blocks is limited to a predetermined resource block number. The base station comprises a transmitter configured to transmit, to the radio terminal, configuration information for frequency hopping where the radio communication is performed while switching the narrow frequency band; and a controller configured to allocate, to the radio terminal, a first frequency band of the frequency hopping and a frequency band of a hopping destination. The first frequency band and the frequency band of the hopping destination respectively include the narrow frequency band and fraction resource blocks. The fraction resource blocks are resource blocks, the number of which is smaller than the predetermined resource block number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Urabayashi, Masato Fujishiro, Chiharu Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11089600
    Abstract: A base station (200) according to one embodiment uses a specific frequency band shared by a plurality of operators and/or a plurality of communication systems. The base transmit, to a radio terminal (100-1), interference-related information relating to interference detected by the base station in the specific frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Naohisa Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Urabayashi, Kugo Morita, Masato Fujishiro, Hiroyuki Adachi, Chiharu Yamazaki, Fangwei Tong
  • Publication number: 20210235347
    Abstract: A user equipment, apparatus provided in a user equipment, and method are for receiving a Multicast Broadcast Service, and include receiving a system information block (SIB) from a current serving cell of the user equipment, and performing a cell reselection operation where a cell having a highest ranking determined based on a radio quality and an offset is selected as a serving cell of the user equipment from among a plurality of cells. In the cell reselection operation, a determination is made, based on the SIB, whether to use an infinite offset as the offset to be applied to a cell providing the Multicast Broadcast Service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Masato FUJISHIRO, Hiroyuki URABAYASHI, Hiroyuki ADACHI, Henry CHANG
  • Patent number: 11051209
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to an embodiment includes a step in which a base station configured to perform communication by using a narrow band which is a second bandwidth narrower than a first bandwidth compatible with a first user terminal in one unit time transmits information for allocating a second user terminal an extended band having a third bandwidth wider than the second bandwidth and narrower than the first bandwidth in the one unit time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Urabayashi, Chiharu Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11032030
    Abstract: A user equipment according to an embodiment comprises a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The processor is configured to receive a first control information from a base station, the first control information designating a first time region on which a first Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request-Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) to be transmitted, the first HARQ-ACK corresponding to a first data transmitted on a first Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) in which a transmission time interval is shorten than one subframe, the first time region being shorten than one subframe. The processor is configured to attempt to receive a second data transmitted on a second PDSCH in which a transmission time interval is one subframe. The processor is configured to transmit a second HARQ-ACK corresponding to the second data on the first time region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Urabayashi, Masato Fujishiro
  • Patent number: 11032776
    Abstract: A base station according to one embodiment may comprise a receiver configured to receive first information from a radio terminal, the first information being transmitted based on a measurement result of a reception signal from a neighbouring cell; and a transmitter configured to transmit second information for reducing a transmission power of the radio terminal to the radio terminal when the measurement result of the reception signal from the radio terminal exceeds a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Fangwei Tong, Hiroyuki Urabayashi, Atsuhisa Inakoshi, Chiharu Yamazaki