Patents by Inventor Kenichiro Aoyagi

Kenichiro Aoyagi 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: 20140376435
    Abstract: A user equipment is capable of executing plural applications in parallel. The user equipment obtains, for each application, packet statistics information relating to packets that each of the plural applications transceives, for reporting to a base station. The base station, based on the packet statistics information received from the user equipment, calculates a state transition parameter for use in controlling the state transition of the user equipment and the base station. The base station executes state transition control based on the calculated state transition parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yasufumi Morioka, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Anil Umesh, Kenichiro Aoyagi, Hideaki Takahashi, Sadayuki Abeta, Junichiro Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 8897789
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step of a radio network controller of a first communication scheme transmitting an instruction signal to a mobile station UE in a case where a radio access capability of the mobile station UE is contained in the received connection setup request signal, the instruction signal instructing the mobile station UE to make an attempt to set up a connection in a cell of a second communication scheme, and a step of the mobile station UE setting up the connection in the cell of the second communication scheme in response to the received instruction signal, wherein in the mobile station UE transmits a connection setup request signal not containing the radio access capability of the mobile station UE, in a case where the mobile station UE detects the predetermined trigger but the attempt to setup the connection in the cell of the second communication scheme has been made a predetermined number of times or more within a predetermined period of ti
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Aoyagi, Masafumi Masuda
  • Patent number: 8897738
    Abstract: A mobile communication system in which a home cell limits access from a first mobile station, and when the first mobile station communicating via a macro cell using the same frequency as the home cell enters a predetermined area near the home cell, the first mobile station is caused to perform handover to a different-frequency macro cell selected from among macro cells covering the predetermined area and using frequencies different from that used in the home cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Aoyagi, Takaaki Sato
  • Patent number: 8885566
    Abstract: A controller in a mobile communication system includes a management unit (151) configured to manage a resource usage condition in the mobile communication system and a determination unit (152) configured to determine a timer value for determining a frequency of transmitting a state transition request signal for causing a user equipment to transition to a power saving state after completion of communication of a data signal depending on the resource usage condition, and the timer value determined by the determination unit (152) is broadcast to the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Aoyagi, Yasuhiro Kawabe, Hideyuki Matsutani, Yuichiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20140328239
    Abstract: A radio base station apparatus includes an information retrieval unit configured to retrieve information of the radio base station apparatus or information of a device that is connected to the radio base station apparatus, a timer value determination unit configured to determine, based on the retrieved information, a timer value representing a time period from termination of data communication with a mobile station until causing the mobile station to transition to an idle state; and an idle transition controller configured to cause the mobile station to transition to the idle state, based on the determined timer value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takahiro Takiguchi, Kohei Kiyoshima, Naoto Ookubo, Kenichiro Aoyagi, Anil Umesh, Tooru Uchino
  • Patent number: 8880079
    Abstract: The disclosed mobile communication method is a mobile communication method in a mobile communication system, wherein at least a part of a macro-cell (#A), with which first broadcast information is transmitted at a first frequency, and a femto cell (#a), in which second broadcast information is transmitted at a second frequency, overlap geographically. The method has step in which a wireless base station (#a) for a femto cell that manages the femto cell (#a) detects the first broadcast information, step in which the wireless base station (#a) for a femto cell transmits guiding broadcast information at a first frequency in response to detection of the first broadcast information, and step (C) in which a mobile station (UE #1) that is communicating in the macro-cell (#A) performs handover to the femto cell (#a) when the guiding broadcast information is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: NTT Docomo, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenichiro Aoyagi
  • Publication number: 20140315554
    Abstract: Access control is appropriately performed in a case where a radio base station eNB is connected to multiple PLMNs. A mobile station MTC-UE of the invention includes a determination unit 12 configured to determine existence of access control on the basis of EAB parameters included in broadcast information transmitted by the radio base station eNB. When EAB parameters for an R-PLMN to be applied to the R-PLMN are set in an SIB 2 in addition to EAB parameters for a P-PLMN to be applied to the P-PLMN, the determination unit 12 determines the existence of the access control for the R-PLMN on the basis of the EAB parameters for the R-PLMN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Hideaki Takahashi, Kenichiro Aoyagi
  • Patent number: 8868084
    Abstract: UE10 includes a detection unit 12 configured to detect a specific cell provided to the first communication system and a control unit 13 configured to start measurement of the second cell or cell reselection from the first cell to the second cell in response to detection of the specific cell. The specific cell has a service area having the same range as a service area of the second cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Aoyagi, Masafumi Masuda
  • Patent number: 8855652
    Abstract: A mobile communication system 100 is configured to determine whether to or not to measure a reception quality of a signal broadcasted from the specific cell, based on at least one piece of information of a moving speed of the mobile communication terminal 10, location information of the mobile communication terminal 10, and a usage state of the specific cell. The mobile communication terminal 10 is configured to measure the reception quality of the signal broadcasted from the specific cell when it is determined that the reception quality of a signal broadcasted from the specific cell has to be measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenichiro Aoyagi
  • Patent number: 8849287
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes step A of notifying, by a radio base station NodeB01, a radio network controller RNC01 of location information of the radio base station NodeB (location code: bbb), step B of notifying, by the radio network controller RNC01, an exchange station MSC/SGSN of the location information of the radio base station NodeB (location code: bbb) when a mobile station UE starts communication via the radio base station NodeB and the radio network controller RNC01, and step C of controlling each session of the communication by the exchange station MSC/SGSN based on the location information of the radio base station NodeB (location code: bbb).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Masafumi Masuda, Takeshi Okamoto, Hiroyuki Hosono, Kenichiro Aoyagi
  • Publication number: 20140248914
    Abstract: A base station determines a restriction rate for each of plural kinds of restrictions; by using a timing at which a user device in idle mode wakes up in a discontinuous reception cycle, groups the user device into one of a total number of groups and determine a timing for transmitting a paging signal for each of the groups; determines a restriction group number that is less than a sum of all restriction-rate-corresponding group numbers where one of the restriction-rate-corresponding group numbers corresponds to the restriction rate of one of the plural kinds of restrictions, determines the restriction group number of groups as restriction target groups, and changes a group corresponding to the restriction-target groups in each of predefined periods; and transmits the paging signal to the user device that belongs to one of the restriction-target groups, and transmits system information indicating that the plural kinds of restrictions are applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Aoyagi, Mikio Iwamura, Kazunori Obata, Tadashi Uchiyama
  • Publication number: 20140248883
    Abstract: The present invention enables to stop communication in a particular cell without having an impact on a mobile station UE being in a standby state. A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step A in which a radio base station eNB#A leads a mobile station UE being in a standby state in a cell A, which is covered by the radio base station eNB#A, to be in a standby state in a complementing cell (cells B to G) which complements coverage of the cell A, and a step B in which the radio base station eNB#A stops communication in the cell A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Inventors: Kenichiro Aoyagi, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Kohei Kiyoshima
  • Patent number: 8824399
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of: after a mobile station UE having RRC connection with the radio network controller RNC gets out of the coverage of the mobile communication system of WCDMA scheme, performing location registration to the mobile communication system of LTE scheme, issuing a notification to the radio network controller RNC by the exchange apparatus SGSN upon reception of predetermined signal, the notification implying that the mobile station UE performs the location registration to the mobile communication system of LTE scheme; and the radio network controller RNC releasing the resources for RRC connection without transmitting a signal to release the resources to the mobile station UE in response to the notification from the exchange apparatus SGSN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: NTT Docomo, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Aoyagi, Yasuhiro Kawabe, Yuichiro Nakamura, Hideyuki Matsutani
  • Publication number: 20140242996
    Abstract: A radio control apparatus determines a call type of a communication terminal, and transmits a release redirection control signal to the communication terminal. When the call type is a general call, the release redirection signal not including broadcast information is transmitted to the communication terminal. When the call type is an important communication call, the release redirection control signal including the broadcast information is transmitted to the communication terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Nakamura, Kenichiro Aoyagi, Hideyuki Matsutani, Kouichi Morikawa
  • Publication number: 20140226513
    Abstract: In MDT, a radio base station eNB reports, to an operation and maintenance server OAM, location information of a mobile station UE and a QoS measurement result in an exactly associated manner. A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step of reporting, by the mobile station UE, “MDT Measurement” and “Location Information”, to the radio base station eNB, and a step of recording, by the radio base station eNB, the “Location Information” in addition to “DL Throughput” at an “Active Time” and “MDT Measurement” when the “Location Information” is received during the “Active Time”, and reporting the “DL Throughput”, the “MDT Measurement”, and the “Location Information” to the operation and maintenance server OAM.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Kenichiro Aoyagi, Anil Umesh, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8787955
    Abstract: A network device 10 according to the present invention includes a management unit 11 configured to manage a cell-to-be-monitored and a cell-to-be-controlled in association with each other, and an instruction unit 13 configured to give a predetermined instruction to a radio base station which manages the cell-to-be-controlled in association with the cell-to-be-monitored, upon detection of a predetermined trigger in the cell-to-be-monitored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenichiro Aoyagi
  • Patent number: 8755796
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile communication method including: a step in which a first radio base station #a transmits broadcast information containing transmission availability information indicating whether a radio signal can be transmitted; and a step which determines whether the radio signal can be transmitted according to the transmission availability information contained in the broadcast information and access information managed in a mobile station #X. The mobile station #X can transmit the radio signal to the first radio base station #a when an access to the first radio base station #a is permitted in the access information even if transmission of the radio signal to the first radio base station #a is restricted by the transmission availability information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Aoyagi, Masafumi Masuda
  • Patent number: 8750881
    Abstract: A mobile communication method comprises a step of setting a restriction type by the femtocell radio base station #A in response to input of predetermined information to the femtocell radio base station #A, the restriction type indicating restricted processes to be applied to a mobile station UE belonging to the CSG #1 in the femtocell #1; a step B of notifying a mobile station UE in the femtocell #1 of the set restriction type by the femtocell radio base station #1; and a step of detecting processes restricted in the femtocell #1 on the basis of the notified restriction type, in a case where the mobile station UE belongs to the CSG #1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Aoyagi, Yasuhiro Kawabe
  • Patent number: 8744467
    Abstract: A home radio base station according to the present invention includes a receiving unit 11 configured to receive notification information in peripheral cells of the same radio communication scheme as that of the home radio base station, an acquiring unit 12 configured to acquire operational frequencies in the same radio communication scheme as that of the home radio base station, from the received notification information, and a determining unit 13 configured to determine an operational frequency for the home radio base station, from the acquired operational frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hosono, Kenichiro Aoyagi
  • Publication number: 20140148168
    Abstract: A base station includes a system information creating unit that creates first system information for barring communication and second system information for not barring; a timing determination unit that classifies user equipment into groups based on timings of the user equipment being in an idle mode to be activated in every discontinuous reception period, and that determines, for each of the groups, a timing of transmitting a paging signal; and a transmitter that transmits the paging signal to the user equipment of some of the groups, and subsequently the first system information; that switches transmission of the first and second system information, so that a ratio between a number of transmitting the first system information and that of the second system information corresponds to a barring ratio; and that transmits the paging signal to the user equipment of the some of the groups, and subsequently the second system information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Aoyagi, Mikio Iwamura, Kazunori Obata, Tadashi Uchiyama