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).

  • Patent number: 8355723
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes step of causing a mobile station 300 standing by in a cell under a control of a radio base station 202 to send identification information of the mobile station and special identification information; step of, upon receipt of the special identification information, determining whether or not the mobile station 300 has access permission to a radio base station 200 based on the received identification information of the mobile station 300 and identification information of a second radio base station; and step of, when it is determined that the mobile station 300 has access authorization to the radio base station 200, instructing the mobile station 300 to change a radio communication parameter used by the mobile station 300.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hosono, Akira Ishii, Masafumi Masuda, Kenichiro Aoyagi, Yasuhiro Kawabe
  • Publication number: 20120322409
    Abstract: A mobile communication system 100 includes a specific cell configured to allow a specific user to be provided with a service and to allow a non-specific user other than the specific user to be provided with a limited service. The mobile communication system 100 includes a management unit 23 configured to manage a presence state of the non-specific user in the specific cell in addition to a presence state of the specific user in the specific cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO,. INC
    Inventors: Kenichiro Aoyagi, Yasuhiro Kawabe, Hideyuki Matsutani, Yuichiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20120315909
    Abstract: A network apparatus 20 includes a determination unit 23 configured to determine whether or not to transmit a connection instruction message instructing a UE 10 to connect with a second communication system to the UE 10. The determination unit 23 determines that a second communication instruction message is to be transmitted to the UE 10 when an elapsed time period after transmission of a first connection instruction message to the UE 10 exceeds a predetermined time period, and determines that the second connection instruction message is not to be transmitted to the UE 10 when the elapsed time period does not exceed the predetermined time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Nakamura, Yasuhiro Kawabe, Hideyuki Matsutani, Kenichiro Aoyagi
  • Publication number: 20120315870
    Abstract: A mobile communication system 100 has a specific cell configured to use a user line. The mobile communication system 100 includes a line determination unit 22 configured to determine whether or not a communication call uses the user line, by using a line identifier configured to identify a user installed a radio base station managing the specific cell, and a calculation unit 24 configured to calculate a reduction fee to be discounted from a usage fee for the communication call using the user line for the user installed a radio base station managing the specific cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Kenichiro Aoyagi
  • Publication number: 20120309396
    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: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Aoyagi, Masafumi Masuda
  • Publication number: 20120309385
    Abstract: A network apparatus 20 includes a management unit 22 configured to manage each of a plurality of second cells provided in the second communication system and a priority level in association with each other, the priority level weighted depending on whether a connection to each of the plurality of second cells has succeeded or failed, and a selection unit 23 configured to select a connection destination cell with which the mobile communication terminal is to be connected among the plurality of second cells based on the priority level associated with each of the plurality of second cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Nakamura, Kenichiro Aoyagi, Yasuhiro Kawabe, Hideyuki Matsutani
  • Publication number: 20120282940
    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: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hosono, Kenichiro Aoyagi
  • Patent number: 8301143
    Abstract: A mobile station according to the present invention includes: a dedicated signaling reception unit (12) configured to receive a dedicated signaling including a priority for a frequency or a group of frequencies of each radio access network; and a camp-on processing unit (13) configured to select a camp-on cell based on the priority or a radio quality in each cell, wherein when a predetermined flag is set to the dedicated signaling received by the dedicated signaling reception unit (12), the camp-on processing unit (13) is configured to select the camp-on cell based on the radio quality in each cell, from a plurality of cells that use a different frequency but reside within an identical radio access network, and to select the camp-on cell based on the priority included in the dedicated signaling, from a plurality of cells within a different radio access network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Mikio Iwamura, Hiroyuki Ishii, Kenichiro Aoyagi, Hiroaki Yamagishi, Naoto Okubo
  • Publication number: 20120263146
    Abstract: The first communication system is configured to determine whether or not to provide information that instructs the UE 10 to connect to the second communication system, based on a subscriber identifier allocated to the UE 10. The subscriber identifier is configured to identify whether or not the UE 10 is allowed to utilize the second communication system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Aoyagi, Yuichiro Nakamura, Yasuhiro Kawabe, Hideyuki Matsutani
  • Publication number: 20120264475
    Abstract: A mobile communication system 100 is configured to determine whether o 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: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO ,INC.
    Inventor: Kenichiro Aoyagi
  • Publication number: 20120252456
    Abstract: A mobile communication terminal 10 is configured to transmit a control signal indicating a request for cell reselection to the second communication system to the first communication system before a communication resource of the second communication system is reserved while the mobile communication terminal was located in the first communication system. The first communication system releases a communication resource of the first communication system in response to the control signal indicating the request for cell reselection to the second communication system even before the communication resource of the second communication system is reserved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Aoyagi, Mikio Iwamura
  • Publication number: 20120208585
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes step A of instructing, by a radio access network apparatus of a first communication scheme, a mobile station having first radio connection established with the radio access network apparatus of the first communication scheme to switch to a mobile communication system of a second communication scheme, and step B of notifying the mobile station of a priority by the mobile communication system of the second communication scheme using a predetermined signal after the mobile station establishes second radio connection with a radio access network apparatus of the second communication scheme, the priority used to determine a communication system for camping-on by the mobile station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Aoyagi, Yasuhiro Kawabe, Hideyuki Matsutani, Yuichiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20120208544
    Abstract: The access type setting apparatus 1 according to the present invention includes a calculation unit 12 configured to calculate an amount of interference from the femtocell #a to the macrocell #11 and a determination unit 13 configured to determine the access type (Close/Hybrid/Open) to be set in the radio base station HeNB#a/HNB#a configured to manage the femtocell #a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Aoyagi, Takeshi Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20120207091
    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: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Aoyagi, Yasuhiro Kawabe, Yuichiro Nakamura, Hideyuki Matsutani
  • Publication number: 20120028641
    Abstract: A mobile station according to the present invention includes: a dedicated signaling reception unit (12) configured to receive a dedicated signaling including a priority for a frequency or a group of frequencies of each radio access network; and a camp-on processing unit (13) configured to select a camp-on cell based on the priority or a radio quality in each cell, wherein when a predetermined flag is set to the dedicated signaling received by the dedicated signaling reception unit (12), the camp-on processing unit (13) is configured to select the camp-on cell based on the radio quality in each cell, from a plurality of cells that use a different frequency but reside within an identical radio access network, and to select the camp-on cell based on the priority included in the dedicated signaling, from a plurality of cells within a different radio access network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Mikio Iwamura, Hiroyuki Ishii, Kenichiro Aoyagi, Hiroaki Yamagishi, Naoto Okubo
  • Publication number: 20120026875
    Abstract: A mobile communication method of the present invention includes step A of measuring an amount of traffic for a mobile station UE in a connection state A which is a state where the mobile station UE is connected to an access point APN#1 of an operator network via a radio base station BTS and a core network device CN, and step B of switching the connection state of the mobile station UE from the connection state A or B to a connection state C which is a state where the mobile station UE is connected to an access point APN#2 of Internet via the radio base station BTS while bypassing the connection network device CN if it is determined the measured amount of traffic satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuji Narumi, Kenichiro Aoyagi
  • Publication number: 20110319087
    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: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2009
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Masafumi Masuda, Takeshi Okamoto, Hiroyuki Hosono, Kenichiro Aoyagi
  • Publication number: 20110312325
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile communication method including: a step that femtocell radio base station (20) transmits broadcast information including a permitted state mode and identification information on the femtocell #A to a mobile station UE#1 in the femtocell #A, a step that the mobile station UE#1 shifts a state mode of the mobile station UE#1 to the permitted state mode when the state mode of the mobile station UE#1 and the permitted state mode included in the broadcast information are different from each other; a step that the mobile station UE#1 transmits a request for registration to the femtocell #A when the identification information on the femtocell #A included in the broadcast information is not included in an access permission list managed by the mobile station UE#1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Kenichiro Aoyagi
  • Publication number: 20110294535
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step of determining whether or not a predetermined condition is satisfied in accordance with a connection request signal transmitted by a mobile station UE in a first connection state which is a state where the mobile station UE is connected to an access point APN#1 of a first network via a radio base station BTS and a core network device CN, and a step of switching the connection state of the mobile station UE from the first connection state to a second connection state in a case where the predetermined condition is determined to be satisfied, the second connection state being a state where the mobile station is connected to an access point APNĀ„#2 of a second network not via the core network device CN but via the radio base station BTS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Aoyagi, Masafumi Masuda, Takaaki Sato
  • Publication number: 20110287800
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step of a mobile station UE transmitting a connection setup request signal containing a radio access capability of the mobile station eNB to a radio network controller RNC of a UMTS scheme, upon detecting a predetermined trigger while camping on in a cell of the first communication scheme, a step of the radio network controller RNC of the UMTS scheme transmitting an instruction signal for instructing setup of a connection in a cell of an LTE scheme to the mobile station UE, in a case where the radio access capability of the mobile station UE is contained in the received connection setup request signal, and a step of the mobile station UE setting up the connection in the cell of the LTE scheme in response to the received instruction signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Aoyagi, Masafumi Masuda, Mikio Iwamura