Patents by Inventor Masafumi Usuda

Masafumi Usuda 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: 7853283
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a transmission power control method which controls a transmission power of uplink user data for transmitting an uplink user data from a mobile station to a radio base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Masafumi Usuda, Anil Umesh, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20100284475
    Abstract: The present invention provides a transmission rate control method for controlling the transmission rate of uplink user data, including the step of; a radio network controller notifies to a radio base station and a mobile station an effective period of an absolute transmission rate control channel, when a call is established or when a serving cell is changed; a radio base station determines whether or not to transmit the absolute transmission rate control channel to each of mobile stations which is performing a communication with the radio base station; and each of the mobile stations determines the transmission rate of the uplink user data, based on a maximum allowable transmission rate mapped to the absolute transmission rate control channel notified by the radio base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Masafumi USUDA, Anil UMESH, Takehiro NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 7817597
    Abstract: A transmission rate control method for controlling transmission rate of layer-2 control information, including: notifying, at a radio network controller, a correspondence of a transmission data block size of the layer-2 control information to a transmission power ratio between an enhanced dedicated physical data channel and a dedicated physical control channel on the layer-2 control information, to a mobile station; determining, at the mobile station, a transmission power ratio of the layer-2 control information to be transmitted based on the correspondence; and transmitting, at the mobile station, the layer-2 control information using the determined transmission power ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Masafumi Usuda, Anil Umesh, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7817598
    Abstract: A transmission rate control method for controlling a transmission rate of uplink user data, includes: notifying, at a radio network controller, to a radio base station and a mobile station, an effective period to an Absolute Grant Channel which includes an absolute value for the transmission rate of the uplink user data, transmitting, at the radio network controller, the Absolute Grant Channel per Radio Network Temporary Identity based on the notified effective period; and determining, at the mobile station, the transmission rate of the uplink user data based on the notified effective period, when receiving the Absolute Grant Channel per Radio Network Temporary Identity from the radio base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Masafumi Usuda, Anil Umesh, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7813705
    Abstract: A transmission rate control method for controlling transmission rate of uplink user data, including: notifying, at a radio network controller, a first correspondence of a transmission data block size of the uplink user data to a transmission wave amplitude ratio between an enhanced dedicated physical data channel and a dedicated physical control channel for the uplink user data, to a mobile station; generating, at the mobile station, a second correspondence of a transmission data block size of the uplink user data to a transmission power ratio between an enhanced dedicated physical data channel and a dedicated physical control channel for the uplink user data based on the notified first correspondence; notifying, at a radio base station, the transmission power ratio to the mobile station; and determining, at the mobile station, a transmission data block size of the uplink user data based on the notified transmission power ratio and the second correspondence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Masafumi Usuda, Anil Umesh, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7813754
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a transmission rate control method of controlling a transmission rate of uplink user data to be transmitted from a mobile station to a radio base station. The method includes: starting to transmit at the mobile station, the uplink user data at an initial transmission rate which is informed from a network or an initial transmission rate which has been already informed from the network; and increasing at the mobile station the transmission rate of the uplink user data, up to a predetermined transmission rate, on a basis of a increase rule of the transmission rate which is beforehand determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Masafumi Usuda, Anil Umesh, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20100222094
    Abstract: The radio network controller 30 includes a block error detection unit 31 configured to receive a data block from the base station 20 and to detect a block error, and a target SIR calculation unit 32 configured to calculate a target SIR based on the detected block error rate. The target calculation unit 32 sets the first time section, which indicates a time section from a detection of the block error to the notification of the target SIR is to the base station 20 when the block error is detected, shorter than a second time section, which indicates a time section from the detection of the block error to the notification of the target SIR to the base station 20 when the block error is not detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2007
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo Inc.
    Inventors: Masafumi Usuda, Anil Umesh, Hidehiro Ando, Takuya Sato, Shinichi Sasaki, Kouji Makino
  • Patent number: 7783320
    Abstract: A radio base station notifies a maximum allowable transmission rate of uplink user data to a mobile station by using a common transmission rate control channel. The mobile station increases the transmission rate of uplink user data up to the maximum allowable transmission rate by a predetermined step. When a predetermined condition is satisfied, the mobile station requests the radio base station to transmit a dedicated transmission rate control channel. The mobile station determines the transmission rate of uplink user data based on the dedicated transmission rate control channel transmitted from the radio base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Masafumi Usuda, Anil Umesh, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7756020
    Abstract: A radio resource control method in a mobile communication system for determining a transmission rate of user data transmitted by a mobile station via an uplink based on a maximum allowable transmission rate, include: notifying, at a radio network controller, an averaging period or a forgetting factor to a radio base station; calculating, at the radio base station, an averaging value of the maximum allowable transmission rates or an averaging value of parameters relating to the maximum allowable transmission rate, based on the averaging period or the forgetting factor; signaling, at the radio base station, the calculated averaging value to the radio network controller; and controlling, at the radio network controller, a radio resource in the radio base station, based on the signaled averaging value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Masafumi Usuda, Anil Umesh
  • Publication number: 20100099453
    Abstract: A transmission power control method for controlling a transmission power of an E-HICH for uplink user data transmitted from a cell controlled by a radio base station to a mobile station, includes: notifying, from a radio network controller to at least one radio base station controlling a first cell and a second cell, offsets between the transmission power of the E-HICH and a transmission power of a DPCH, when a mobile station is performing a soft-handover with the first and second cell; determining, at the first cell, a transmission power of a first E-HICH based on a notified offset, and transmitting the first E-HICH to the mobile station using the determined transmission power; and determining, at the second cell, transmission power of a second E-HICH based on a notified offset, and transmitting the second E-HICH to the mobile station using the determined transmission power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2009
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Masafumi USUDA, Anil UMESH
  • Publication number: 20100093357
    Abstract: A transmission power control method for controlling a transmission power of an E-RGCH for uplink user data transmitted from a cell controlled by a radio base station to a mobile station, includes: notifying, from a radio network controller to at least one radio base station controlling a first cell and a second cell, offsets between the transmission power of the E-RGCH and a transmission power of a DPCH, when a mobile station is performing a soft-handover with the first and second cell; determining, at the first cell, a transmission power of a first E-RGCH based on a notified offset, and transmitting the first E-RGCH to the mobile station using the determined transmission power; and determining, at the second cell, transmission power of a second E-RGCH based on a notified offset, and transmitting the second E-RGCH to the mobile station using the determined transmission power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Masafumi USUDA, Anil UMESH
  • Patent number: 7697483
    Abstract: A transmission method according to the present invention includes: concatenating CRC masking data and receiver identification information for identifying the receiver; generating CRC check bits by performing a CRC encoding processing against non-CRC masking data; masking the CRC check bits by the concatenated receiver identification information and CRC masking data; concatenating the masking result and the non-CRC masking data; generating a transmission signal by performing an FEC encoding processing against the concatenated masking result and the non-CRC masking data, which are added; and transmitting the transmission signal to the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Masafumi Usuda, Anil Umesh, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7697937
    Abstract: A transmission rate control method for controlling a transmission rate of data transmitted from a mobile station to a radio base station via an uplink, includes: receiving, at the mobile station, an Absolute Rate Grant Channel which indicates an absolute value of the transmission rate from the radio base station; and ignoring, at the mobile station, a Relative Rate Grant Channel which indicates a relative value of the transmission rate until each HARQ process has been performed once, after receiving the Absolute Rate Grant Channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Masafumi Usuda, Anil Umesh
  • Patent number: 7693539
    Abstract: A mobile communication system comprises: a determination unit configured to determine as to layers of data to be transmitted by base stations to mobile stations for respective radio areas, based on area resource information concerning radio resources for the respective radio areas covered by the base stations; and a radio transmitter configured to transmit the data to the mobile stations according to a determination of the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Mayu Yamada, Takehiro Nakamura, Minami Ishii, Masafumi Usuda, Sung Uk Moon, Akihito Hanaki
  • Patent number: 7693537
    Abstract: A transmission rate control method for controlling a transmission rate of a channel to which the transmission rate control method is applied, include: notifying, at a radio network controller, at a timing of a call setup or the like, a primary allowable transmission rate of the channel to which the transmission rate control method is applied; starting, at a mobile station, after the call setup, transmission at a transmission rate below the primary allowable transmission rate, when data to be transmitted is generated; and controlling, at the mobile station, the transmission rate of the channel to which the transmission rate control method is applied, based on an Absolute Grant Channel transmitted from a radio base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Masafumi Usuda, Anil Umesh, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7693170
    Abstract: A transmission rate control method, includes: transmitting, at a radio base station, a relative rate grant channel which includes a command for controlling a transmission rate in uplink to a mobile station; and determining, at the mobile station, that the relative rate grant channel which includes a HOLD command for instructing to maintain the transmission rate is received at the mobile station, when data to be transmitted becomes empty in a transmission buffer and a receive signal in the relative rate grant channel is detected as “0” or “+1”, and maintaining the transmission rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Masafumi Usuda, Anil Umesh, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7689241
    Abstract: A transmission power control method for controlling a transmission power of an E-RGCH for uplink user data transmitted from a cell controlled by a radio base station to a mobile station, includes: notifying, from a radio network controller to at least one radio base station controlling a first cell and a second cell, offsets between the transmission power of the E-RGCH and a transmission power of a DPCH, when a mobile station is performing a soft-handover with the first and second cell; determining, at the first cell, a transmission power of a first E-RGCH based on a notified offset, and transmitting the first E-RGCH to the mobile station using the determined transmission power; and determining, at the second cell, transmission power of a second E-RGCH based on a notified offset, and transmitting the second E-RGCH to the mobile station using the determined transmission power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Masafumi Usuda, Anil Umesh
  • Patent number: 7680072
    Abstract: A radio communications system of this invention is configured to control transmission power of a shared control channel for transmitting control signals to a plurality of mobile stations. The radio communications system has a transmission power controller configured to control the transmission power of the shared control channel, in accordance with transmission power of a dedicated channel accompanying the shared control channel, and communication quality of the shared control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishii, Masafumi Usuda, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7680207
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is provide a mobile communication system which can improve a communication quality of the mobile communication system as a whole by changing a transmission method for transmitting common information. Each of the mobile stations 200a to 200l comprises a communication quality measurer 230 configured to measure a communication quality of a signal transmitted from the radio station 100a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Sung Uk Moon, Takehiro Nakamura, Minami Ishii, Masafumi Usuda, Mayu Yamada, Akihito Hanaki
  • Publication number: 20100048214
    Abstract: A radio network controller includes: a determination unit configured to determine a transmit diversity method to be used to transmit a signal from a base station to a mobile station, in accordance with a soft handover status of the mobile station; and an instruction/notification unit configured to instruct the transmit diversity method to the base station, in accordance with the determination result by the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2005
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Masafumi Usuda, Takehiro Nakamura, Hidehiro Ando, Takuya Sato, Hiroyuki Ishii