Patents by Inventor Kyoji Hirata

Kyoji Hirata 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: 11395106
    Abstract: A multicast control device capable of reducing the distribution time of multicast data is provided. A multicast control device (10) according to the present disclosure includes a determination unit (11) configured to determine whether the number of communication terminals joining a multicast service exceeds a predetermined threshold, and a session control unit (12) configured to start a multicast session for a plurality of communication terminals joining the multicast service when it is determined that the number of communication terminals joining the multicast service exceeds the predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Kamei, Toru Yamada, Kyoji Hirata, Masahiro Serizawa, Satoshi Hasegawa, Masashi Shimoma
  • Patent number: 11350338
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that suppresses a power consumption problem in a relay terminal includes a first controller that controls an IoT device to perform multihop routing via at least one relay on an upload of data from the IoT device to a base station, and a second controller that controls the base station to use, on a down-link from the base station to the IoT device, a route different from a route that uses at least one relay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Kamei, Toru Yamada, Masahiro Serizawa, Kyoji Hirata, Yumiko Okuyama, Satoshi Hasegawa, Masashi Shimoma
  • Patent number: 11310633
    Abstract: A multicast control device capable of reducing the distribution time of multicast data is provided. A multicast control device (10) according to the present disclosure includes a determination unit (11) configured to determine whether the number of communication terminals joining a multicast service exceeds a predetermined threshold, and a session control unit (12) configured to start a multicast session for a plurality of communication terminals joining the multicast service when it is determined that the number of communication terminals joining the multicast service exceeds the predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Kamei, Toru Yamada, Kyoji Hirata, Masahiro Serizawa, Satoshi Hasegawa, Masashi Shimoma
  • Patent number: 11290841
    Abstract: Disclosed is an information processing apparatus for reducing the waste of power consumption in an IoT system, comprising a position information obtainer that periodically obtains position information of a data collection device, and position information of a relay device that relays communication between the data collection device and a base station, and a controller that controls measurement of a signal strength between the data collection device and the relay device, based on the position information of the data collection device and the position information of the relay device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyoji Hirata, Akira Kamei, Yumiko Okuyama, Toru Yamada, Masahiro Serizawa, Masashi Shimoma, Satoshi Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11228975
    Abstract: A service control apparatus (20) according to the present disclosure includes: a communication unit (21) configured to receive a first communication pattern that defines a timing of communication between a service providing apparatus (30) and a communication terminal (10) from the service providing apparatus (30) and a second communication pattern that defines a timing of communication between a service providing apparatus (32) and the communication terminal (10) from the service providing apparatus (32); and a controller (22) configured to determine whether the first communication pattern and the second communication pattern indicate communication timings different from each other. When the first communication pattern and the second communication pattern indicate communication timings different from each other, the communication unit (21) transmits a message to the second service providing apparatus (32) requesting it to change its communication pattern to the first communication pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Yamada, Akira Kamei, Yumiko Okuyama, Kyoji Hirata, Masahiro Serizawa, Satoshi Hasegawa, Masashi Shimoma
  • Patent number: 11129053
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problems of reduction of an operation guaranteed period and an operation failure of an entire system caused by the reduction of the operation guaranteed period or an operation stop of a specific device. The present invention includes a control unit that controls transmission of a triggering message to a terminal based on at least one of an identifier included in the triggering message for triggering the terminal and used to identify the terminal, and an identifier for identifying a group to which the terminal belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Yamada, Kyoji Hirata, Akira Kamei, Masahiro Serizawa, Hotaka Sugano, Satoshi Hasegawa, Masashi Shimoma
  • Patent number: 11122460
    Abstract: An object is to provide a policy control system that can easily change a policy. A policy control system according to the present invention includes a PCRF entity (10) including a policy control unit (11) for determining a policy to be applied to a group including a plurality of wireless terminals according to environmental information changed at a specified timing and a PCEF entity (20) including a policy control execution unit (21) for applying the policy determined by the policy control unit (11) to communication related to the plurality of wireless terminals included in the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyoji Hirata, Toru Yamada, Masahiro Serizawa, Akira Kamei, Yumiko Okuyama, Masashi Shimoma, Satoshi Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11070986
    Abstract: This invention provides a communication processing system that appropriately manages total power consumption in a cell managed by a base station. The communication processing system includes a communication terminal, a base station, a plurality of relay stations that relay communication between the communication terminal and the base station, first measurers in the plurality of relay stations that measure strengths of first signals received from the base station, a second measurer in the communication terminal that measures strengths of second signals received from the plurality of relay stations, and selects a communication path with a smallest difference between strengths of a first signal a second signal in a plurality of communication paths on which the base station, the plurality of relay stations and the communication terminal are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Kamei, Yumiko Okuyama, Toru Yamada, Kyoji Hirata, Masahiro Serizawa, Masashi Shimoma, Satoshi Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11006368
    Abstract: This invention provides a communication processing system that reduces the power consumption of a remote UE associated with measurement of a strength of a received signal. The communication processing system includes a communication terminal, a base station, relay stations that relay communication between the communication terminal and the base station, a measurer that measures, in the communication terminal, a strength of a signal received from one of the relay stations, and a controller that controls to reselect another of the relay stations if the measured strength of the received signal is smaller than a first threshold, and reduce a count of measuring the strength of the received signal by the measurer if the measured strength of the received signal is larger than the second threshold which is larger than the first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Kamei, Yumiko Okuyama, Toru Yamada, Kyoji Hirata, Masahiro Serizawa, Masashi Shimoma, Satoshi Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 10985836
    Abstract: This invention provides a communication processing system that stably efficiently uses a resource in a cell managed by a base station. The communication processing system includes a communication terminal, a base station, a plurality of relay stations that relay communication between the communication terminal and the base station, a measurer in the communication terminal that measures strengths of received signals from the plurality of relay stations, and a selector in the base station that selects a relay station that connects the base station and the communication terminal, based on a comparison result of at least one capability of capabilities had by each of the plurality of relay stations, when there exist a plurality of relay stations whose strengths of received signals are more than a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Kamei, Toru Yamada, Kyoji Hirata, Yumiko Okuyama, Masahiro Serizawa, Masashi Shimoma, Satoshi Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20210051447
    Abstract: A multicast control device capable of reducing the distribution time of multicast data is provided. A multicast control device (10) according to the present disclosure includes a determination unit (11) configured to determine whether the number of communication terminals joining a multicast service exceeds a predetermined threshold, and a session control unit (12) configured to start a multicast session for a plurality of communication terminals joining the multicast service when it is determined that the number of communication terminals joining the multicast service exceeds the predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira KAMEI, Torn YAMADA, Kyoji HIRATA, Masahiro SERIZAWA, Satoshi HASEGAWA, Masashi SHIMOMA
  • Publication number: 20210021967
    Abstract: A multicast control device capable of reducing the distribution time of multicast data is provided. A multicast control device (10) according to the present disclosure includes a determination unit (11) configured to determine whether the number of communication terminals joining a multicast service exceeds a predetermined threshold, and a session control unit (12) configured to start a multicast session for a plurality of communication terminals joining the multicast service when it is determined that the number of communication terminals joining the multicast service exceeds the predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira KAMEI, Toru YAMADA, Kyoji HIRATA, Masahiro SERIZAWA, Satoshi HASEGAWA, Masashi SHIMOMA
  • Publication number: 20200413229
    Abstract: A multicast control device capable of reducing the processing load of a core network device that occurs when a large number of communication devices use a multicast service is provided. A multicast control device (10) according to the present disclosure includes a communication unit (13) configured to receive a joining request message from a communication terminal to join a multicast service, a determination unit (11) configured to determine whether the number of communication terminals already joining the multicast service reaches a predetermined threshold, and a management unit (12) configured to reject joining of the communication terminal having sent the joining request message to the multicast service when it is determined that the number of communication terminals already joining the multicast service reaches the predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira KAMEI, Torn YAMADA, Kyoji HIRATA, Masahiro SERIZAWA, Satoshi HASEGAWA, Masashi SHIMOMA
  • Patent number: 10873890
    Abstract: The present disclosure aims to provide a base station, a radio relay station, a communication method, and a program capable of preventing communication from being unavailable when the base station is brought into a high load condition. A base station (10) configured to communicate with a communication terminal (30) through a radio relay station (20), the base station (10) including: a control unit (11) configured to detect whether the own apparatus is in an overload condition exceeding a predetermined load; and a communication unit (12) configured to transmit, in order to cause the radio relay station (20) to connect to another base station that is not in an overload condition, information about the other base station to the radio relay station (20) when the control unit (11) detects that the own apparatus is in an overload condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Kamei, Toru Yamada, Masahiro Serizawa, Kyoji Hirata, Yumiko Okuyama, Masashi Shimoma, Satoshi Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 10873874
    Abstract: The present disclosure aims to provide a base station, a radio relay station, a communication method, and a program capable of preventing communication from being unavailable when the base station is brought into a high load condition. A base station (10) configured to communicate with a communication terminal (30) through a radio relay station (20), the base station (10) including: a control unit (11) configured to detect whether the own apparatus is in an overload condition exceeding a predetermined load; and a communication unit (12) configured to transmit, in order to cause the radio relay station (20) to connect to another base station that is not in an overload condition, information about the other base station to the radio relay station (20) when the control unit (11) detects that the own apparatus is in an overload condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Kamei, Toru Yamada, Kyoji Hirata, Masahiro Serizawa, Yumiko Okuyama, Masashi Shimoma, Satoshi Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 10841785
    Abstract: The present disclosure aims to provide a core node capable of reducing the number of messages or an amount of data to be transmitted to the core node. A core node (10) according to the present disclosure includes: a congestion state detector (11) configured to detect a congestion state of an own apparatus; a communication unit (13) configured to receive a NAS request message that has specified an APN from a radio terminal (20); and a controller (12) configured to determine that processing regarding the NAS request message will not be executed while the congestion state of the own apparatus is being detected. The communication unit (13) transmits a reject message including a plurality of APNs that can be specified by the radio terminal (20) to the radio terminal (20) when it is determined in the controller (12) that the processing regarding the NAS request message will not be executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Yamada, Yumiko Okuyama, Masashi Shimoma, Akira Kamei, Masahiro Serizawa, Kyoji Hirata, Satoshi Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20200305021
    Abstract: An object is to provide a policy control system that can easily change a policy. A policy control system according to the present invention includes a PCRF entity (10) including a policy control unit (11) for determining a policy to be applied to a group including a plurality of wireless terminals according to environmental information changed at a specified timing and a PCEF entity (20) including a policy control execution unit (21) for applying the policy determined by the policy control unit (11) to communication related to the plurality of wireless terminals included in the group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyoji HIRATA, Toru YAMADA, Masahiro SERIZAWA, Akira KAMEI, Yumiko OKUYAMA, Masashi SHIMOMA, Satoshi HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200288350
    Abstract: A service control apparatus (20) according to the present disclosure includes: a communication unit (21) configured to receive, from each of service providing apparatuses (30, 32, 34), a communication pattern that defines a timing of communication between each of the service providing apparatuses and a communication terminal (10); and a controller (22) configured to predict a load of a network that performs data transmission between the communication terminal (10) and each of the service providing apparatuses based on the plurality of communication patterns. When it is predicted in the controller (22) that the load of the network will become higher than a predetermined threshold, the communication unit (21) transmits a message for prompting the communication pattern to change to at least one of the plurality of service providing apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Toru YAMADA, Akira KAMEI, Yumiko OKUYAMA, Kyoji HIRATA, Masahiro SERIZAWA, Satoshi HASEGAWA, Masashi SHIMOMA
  • Publication number: 20200275374
    Abstract: A service control apparatus (20) according to the present disclosure includes: a communication unit (21) configured to receive, from a service providing apparatus (30), downlink data destined for a communication terminal (10), and information about a maximum allowable delay time of the downlink data; and a control unit (22) configured to determine whether the maximum allowable delay time expires by a communication enabled timing at which the communication terminal (10) in a power saving state can next perform communication, in which when the maximum allowable delay time expires by the communication enabled timing, the communication unit (21) transmits, to the service providing apparatus (30), information indicating that the downlink data cannot be transmitted to the communication terminal (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira KAMEI, Toru YAMADA, Yumiko OKUYAMA, Kyoji HIRATA, Masahiro SERIZAWA, Satoshi HASEGAWA, Masashi SHIMOMA
  • Patent number: 10757603
    Abstract: To avoid congestion and an overload at the time of data transmission from an IoT device to a wireless network, at least one gateway apparatus is controlled to execute a gateway function at a first timing at a first position, collect data from a plurality of devices present near the first position, and transmit aggregated data to a base station, and to execute the gateway function at a second timing different from the first timing at a second position different from the first position, collect data from a plurality of devices present near the second position, and transmit aggregated data to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Kamei, Toru Yamada, Masahiro Serizawa, Kyoji Hirata, Yumiko Okuyama, Satoshi Hasegawa, Masashi Shimoma