Patents by Inventor Kohei Kiyoshima

Kohei Kiyoshima 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: 11540321
    Abstract: One object is to provide a radio base station and a communication control method that can realize appropriate control on a user device even when a function of an upper layer such as MAC scheduler and a function of a radio physical layer are mounted separately. A communication control method according to the present invention is implemented in a radio base station (200) including a remote device (260) and a central aggregation device (210) and that performs radio communication with a user device (300). The communication control method includes transmitting including the central aggregation device (210) transmitting to the remote device (260) paging information that is information used for performing paging on the user device (300), and performing including the remote device (260) setting a downlink physical channel based on the paging information received from the central aggregation device (210) and performing the paging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kohei Kiyoshima, Naoto Ookubo, Anil Umesh, Tooru Uchino
  • Patent number: 11277866
    Abstract: A communication device used as a first communication device in a wireless communication system including the first communication device, a second communication device communicating with the first communication device, and a user equipment communicating with the first communication device, includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a parameter used for performing a random access procedure from the second communication device; and a control unit configured to transmit, in the case of receiving a random access preamble from the user equipment in a random access channel indicated by the parameter, information indicating that the random access preamble indicated by the parameter is received from the user equipment to the second communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takayuki Isogawa, Naoto Ookubo, Kohei Kiyoshima, Takahiro Takiguchi
  • Patent number: 11202283
    Abstract: A user apparatus configured to perform communication with a base station in a mobile communication system that supports carrier aggregation, including: transmission means configured to transmit, to the base station, the number of layers for each of component carriers that form the carrier aggregation as information of downlink MIMO capability; and reception means configured to receive, from the base station, the number of layers that is used for determining a bit width of a rank indicator for each of the component carriers that form the carrier aggregation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Kohei Kiyoshima, Takahiro Takiguchi, Masaaki Ohtake
  • Patent number: 11102668
    Abstract: Based on an entering condition for reporting reception quality of a cell via Measurement Report, UE (200) transmits to a radio access network the Measurement Report. The UE (200) judges numberOfTriggeringCell that triggers transmission of the measurement report to the radio access network, and transmits the Measurement Report when the number of neighbor cells that fulfill the entering condition is equal to or more than the numberOfTriggeringCell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Kohei Kiyoshima, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Yuta Sagae, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Patent number: 11071131
    Abstract: A base station used as a first base station in a wireless communication system including the first base station, a second base station that communicates with the first base station, and a user equipment that communicates with the first base station includes: a reception unit that receives a parameter used for generating a downlink physical data channel and data to be transmitted toward the user equipment from the second base station; a generating unit that generates the downlink physical data channel by performing processing of Layer 1 on the data using the parameter; and a transmission unit that transmits the generated downlink physical data channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takahiro Takiguchi, Kohei Kiyoshima, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20210204325
    Abstract: One object is to provide a radio base station and a communication control method that can realize appropriate control on a user device even when a function of an upper layer such as MAC scheduler and a function of a radio physical layer are mounted separately. A communication control method according to the present invention is implemented in a radio base station (200) including a remote device (260) and a central aggregation device (210) and that performs radio communication with a user device (300). The communication control method includes transmitting including the central aggregation device (210) transmitting to the remote device (260) paging information that is information used for performing paging on the user device (300), and performing including the remote device (260) setting a downlink physical channel based on the paging information received from the central aggregation device (210) and performing the paging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kohei Kiyoshima, Naoto Ookubo, Anil Umesh, Tooru Uchino
  • Publication number: 20210184792
    Abstract: An object is to realize appropriate HARQ retransmission of the downlink signals even when the function of the upper layer such as the MAC scheduler and the function of the radio physical layer are mounted separately. A radio base station (200) includes a central aggregation device (210) and a remote device (220), and performs radio communication with a user device (300). The remote device (220) includes a receiving unit (223) that receives from the user device (300) a reception response signal that notifies whether a downlink signal is successfully received or not; a generating unit (224) that generates, based on the reception response signal, delivery confirmation information necessary for the central aggregation device (210) to perform retransmission control of the downlink signal; and a transmitting unit (225) that transmits to the central aggregation device (210) the delivery confirmation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Naoto Ookubo, Kohei Kiyoshima, Anil Umesh, Tooru Uchino, Kazuki Takeda
  • Patent number: 10938505
    Abstract: A user terminal includes a receiver that receives a downlink shared channel and a processor that obtains a transport block size (TBS) used for the downlink shared channel based on: a TBS index value that is associated with a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) index value used for the downlink shared channel; and a number of resource blocks (RBs) that are allocated to the downlink shared channel. When the downlink shared channel is transmitted by a predetermined transmission scheme and the MCS index value is a predetermined value, the processor modifies the TBS index value associated with the predetermined value and obtains the TBS based on the modified TBS index value and the number of RBs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Kohei Kiyoshima, Hideaki Takahashi, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Patent number: 10892855
    Abstract: There is provided a terminal for communicating with a base station apparatus, the terminal including a receiver that receives, from the base station apparatus, instruction information for performing an operation of an error correction process to be executed between the base station apparatus and the terminal, the instruction information including at least one of a process number of a process to be used for the error correction process, a time from receiving a signal until transmitting a reception response, and a timer value indicating a time from receiving the signal until receiving a retransmitted signal; and a processor that executes the error correction process based on the instruction information received by the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Kazuki Takeda, Kohei Kiyoshima
  • Publication number: 20200322992
    Abstract: A communication device used as a first communication device in a wireless communication system including the first communication device, a second communication device communicating with the first communication device, and a user equipment communicating with the first communication device, includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a parameter used for performing a random access procedure from the second communication device; and a control unit configured to transmit, in the case of receiving a random access preamble from the user equipment in a random access channel indicated by the parameter, information indicating that the random access preamble indicated by the parameter is received from the user equipment to the second communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takayuki Isogawa, Naoto Ookubo, Kohei Kiyoshima, Takahiro Takiguchi
  • Patent number: 10785755
    Abstract: There is provided user equipment of a radio communication system provided with a base station and the user equipment, the user equipment including a reporting unit that reports, to the base station, a band combination supported by the user equipment, a MIMO layer number, and a modulation scheme, and a UE category supported by the user equipment; and a receiver that receives, upon detecting that a maximum bit rate that is achievable by carrier aggregation performed with the band combination supported by the user equipment, the MIMO layer number, and the modulation scheme exceeds a maximum bit rate to be supported by the UE category supported by the user equipment, data from the base station with a bit rate that is less than or equal to the maximum bit rate to be supported by the user equipment under the UE category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Tooru Uchino, Kohei Kiyoshima
  • Patent number: 10757705
    Abstract: A mobile station which configures a plurality of component carriers to communicate with a base station is discloses herein including a reception unit configured to receive from the base station a gap pattern according to which a portion of an inter-frequency measurement duration is used for data communication and a communication control unit configured to control communication according to the gap pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Chin, Hideaki Takahashi, Kengo Yagyu, Kohei Kiyoshima
  • Publication number: 20200015107
    Abstract: Based on an entering condition for reporting reception quality of a cell via Measurement Report, UE (200) transmits to a radio access network the Measurement Report. The UE (200) judges numberOfTriggeringCell that triggers transmission of the measurement report to the radio access network, and transmits the Measurement Report when the number of neighbor cells that fulfill the entering condition is equal to or more than the numberOfTriggeringCell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Kohei Kiyoshima, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Yuta Sagae, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Publication number: 20190357071
    Abstract: User device and a radio communication method are provided which are capable of achieving further battery saving even in a state where connection on an RRC layer is established. UE 200 sends a radio access network a measurement report which contains a reception quality of at least one of a serving cell and a neighboring cell. The UE 200 sets the UE 200 to a DRX state in an RRC_Connected state where connection on a radio resource control layer is established. When the UE 200 is set to the DRX state, the UE 200 cancels processing P1 including the transmission of the measurement report.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Hideaki Takahashi, Tooru Uchino, Kohei Kiyoshima
  • Publication number: 20190159051
    Abstract: There is provided a base station of a radio communication system supporting carrier aggregation, the base station including a generator configured to generate configuration information indicating whether measurement requirements on reception quality are allowed to be relaxed with respect to a frequency of a predetermined secondary cell or with respect to the predetermined secondary cell, among a plurality of secondary cells, and a transmitter configured to transmit the configuration information to a user apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Kunihiko Teshima, Kohei Kiyoshima, Kengo Yagyu
  • Publication number: 20190110305
    Abstract: A communication control method according to the present invention is implemented in a radio base station (200) including a remote device (260) and a central aggregation device (210) and that performs radio communication with a user device (300). The communication method includes acquiring including the remote device (260) acquiring via a predetermined uplink channel downlink quality information indicating radio communication quality in downlink acquired by the user device (300); transmitting including the remote device (260) transmitting to the central aggregation device (210) a quality data series containing one or more pieces of the downlink quality information acquired at the acquiring; and performing including the central aggregation device (210) performing assignment of a radio resource to the user device (300) based on the quality data series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Naoto Ookubo, Kohei Kiyoshima, Anil Umesh, Tooru Uchino, Kazuki Takeda
  • Publication number: 20190053221
    Abstract: There is provided user equipment of a radio communication system provided with a base station and the user equipment, the user equipment including a reporting unit that reports, to the base station, a band combination supported by the user equipment, a MIMO layer number, and a modulation scheme, and a UE category supported by the user equipment; and a receiver that receives, upon detecting that a maximum bit rate that is achievable by carrier aggregation performed with the band combination supported by the user equipment, the MIMO layer number, and the modulation scheme exceeds a maximum bit rate to be supported by the UE category supported by the user equipment, data from the base station with a bit rate that is less than or equal to the maximum bit rate to be supported by the user equipment under the UE category.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Tooru Uchino, Kohei Kiyoshima
  • Publication number: 20190037572
    Abstract: A mobile station which configures a plurality of component carriers to communicate with a base station is discloses herein including a reception unit configured to receive from the base station a gap pattern according to which a portion of an inter-frequency measurement duration is used for data communication and a communication control unit configured to control communication according to the gap pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Chin, Hideaki Takahashi, Kengo Yagyu, Kohei Kiyoshima
  • Publication number: 20180343633
    Abstract: A base station used as a first base station in a radio communication system including the first base station, a second base station communicating via the first base station with a user device, and the user device communicating with the first base station. The base station includes a first receiver that receives an uplink signal transmitted from the user device; a measurer that measures a timing difference between a timing of receiving the uplink signal and a predetermined reference timing retained by the base station; and a first transmitter that transmits, to the user device, a command that is generated based on the timing difference and used to control a transmission timing at which the user device transmits the uplink signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru UCHINO, Anil UMESH, Kohei KIYOSHIMA, Sadayuki ABETA
  • Publication number: 20180323931
    Abstract: A base station according to an embodiment is provided. The base station communicates with a user apparatus in an LTE-supported wireless communication system. The base station includes a generation unit configured to generate a signal in which a UE specific reference signal is mapped according to a first pattern in which, in a range of resource elements enclosed by a segment in the time direction indicated by a predetermined subframe in which a synchronization signal is mapped and by a segment in the frequency direction in which the synchronization signal is mapped, a UE specific reference signal is mapped onto a resource element other than a resource element onto which the synchronization signal is mapped; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the generated signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kohei Kiyoshima, Naoto Ookubo, Sadayuki Abeta, Satoshi Nagata, Hiroki Harada