Patents by Inventor Mikio Iwamura

Mikio Iwamura 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: 9258825
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to transmit and receive CSI-RSs adequately even when the number of CSI-RSs increase following the increase of antennas. The present invention provides a base station apparatus (20) that transmits CSI-RSs to a mobile terminal apparatus (10A) which is capable of receiving CSI-RSs for channel state measurement from a plurality of antennas, and to a mobile terminal apparatus (10B) which is capable of receiving CSI-RSs from a smaller number of antennas than the mobile terminal apparatus, and this base station apparatus has a CSI-RS allocation section (211) which allocates CSI-RSs for the number of antennas which the mobile terminal apparatus (10A) supports, to radio resources, and a transmitting/receiving section which reports, to the mobile terminal apparatus (10A), the resources where the CSI-RSs are allocated, and which, upon reporting the resources where CSI-RSs are allocated, to the mobile terminal apparatus (10B), reports part of the resources as resources to be muted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tetsushi Abe, Satoshi Nagata, Mikio Iwamura
  • Patent number: 9253708
    Abstract: To reduce interference to an own receiver of a relay node due to concurrent transmission/reception processing in a Un radio bearer and in a Uu radio bearer when the relay node RN is handed over from a radio base station DeNB#1 to a radio base station DeNB#2. A mobile communication method includes a process A, in the handover procedure, of notifying the radio base station DeNB#2, by the relay node RN, of “Un subframe pattern #1” indicating a pattern of a Un subframe #1 and “RN subframe config req” indicating whether it is necessary to set a Un subframe #2 in a radio bearer #2 between the radio base station DeNB#2 and the relay node RN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Mikio Iwamura
  • Patent number: 9253437
    Abstract: To provide a scheme for deciding a switching method for the video call when an UE#1 in video call with an UE#2 is caused to perform handover from an E-UTRAN to a UTRAN/GERAN. A mobile communication method according to the present invention is summarized by including the steps of: deciding the switching method for the video call, when a video bearer and a voice bearer which configure a path for the video call are set, by an IMS; and maintaining information on the decided switching method and association information with which information on the video bearer is in association with information on the voice bearer, by a mobile communication network and an eNB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Katsutoshi Nishida, Takashi Koshimizu, Hideaki Takahashi, Mikio Iwamura
  • Patent number: 9220056
    Abstract: When a network is in a state of requiring any sort of access barring, determining whether a special type access class is included as an access class to which an own device belongs, determining appropriateness of an access by referring to, from barring information, a first barring information for designating whether a mobile device belonging to each access class is subject to access barring when having determined that the special type access class is included, and determining the appropriateness of an access by referring to, from the barring information, second barring information indicating a value serving as a reference for determining the appropriateness of an access according to a relationship between a numerical value generated by each mobile device and the reference indicated by the second barring information when having determined that the special type access class is included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Mikio Iwamura, Minami Ishii, Mutsumi Ishimoto
  • Patent number: 9215629
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes: a step of a mobile switching center MME managing access information that defines accessible CSG-ID of a mobile station UE; a step of the mobile switching center MME accommodating a combination of eNB-IDs and CSG-IDs of a radio base station HeNB2 from a gateway device HeNB-GW; and a step of the mobile switching center MME determining whether the mobile station UE is accessible to the radio base station HeNB2 based on identification information of the mobile station UE and eNB-ID of the radio base station HeNB2 included in “HO Required” received from the radio base station eNB, which are included in the handover request signal, with reference to the access information and the combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Hideaki Takahashi, Anil Umesh, Mikio Iwamura, Minami Ishii, Takeshi Okamoto
  • Patent number: 9198171
    Abstract: To further notify the amount of data retained in the transmission buffer used in a communication among a plurality of MOBILE STATIONs to a RADIO BASE STATION, the mobile communication method according to the present invention includes: transmitting, with a MOBILE STATION (UE#1), a BSR (#1) indicating the amount of data retained in a transmission buffer corresponding to a logical channel in a Uu interface to a RADIO BASE STATION (eNB); transmitting, with a MOBILE STATION (UE1), a BSR (#2) indicating the amount of data retained in a transmission buffer corresponding to a logical channel in a Ud interface to the RADIO BASE STATION (eNB); and distinguishing, with the RADIO BASE STATION (eNB), the BSR (#1) from the BSR (#2) based on predetermined information included in the received BSR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Mikio Iwamura, Tooru Uchino
  • Patent number: 9191820
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of: causing an switch MME to perform CSFB-related processing for a mobile station UE when receiving “Extended Service Request” during call restriction and judging that the mobile station UE supports the barring scheme for CSFB on the basis of CSFB restriction capability information; and causing the switch MME to send the mobile station UE “Service Reject” when receiving “Extended Service Request” during the call restriction and judging that the mobile station UE does not support the barring scheme for CSFB on the basis of the CSFB restriction capability information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Itsuma Tanaka, Keisuke Suzuki, Mikio Iwamura, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Masashi Kanauchi
  • Patent number: 9184831
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention comprising a step A in which, when a predetermined trigger is detected, the radio base station DeNB notifies the relay node RN of a transmission timing of an MBSFN subframe by a signal for changing the configuration of an RRC connection that is set between the radio base station DeNB and the relay node RN, a step B in which the radio base station DeNB performs scheduling such that a downlink signal is transmitted to the relay node RN at the transmission timing of the MBSFN subframe, and a step C in which the relay node RN performs scheduling such that a downlink signal is transmitted at a timing other than the transmission timing of the MBSFN subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Anil Umesh, Mikio Iwamura, Minami Ishii
  • Patent number: 9155016
    Abstract: A base station is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Shogo Yabuki, Kazunori Obata, Seigo Harano, Tadashi Uchiyama, Mikio Iwamura
  • Patent number: 9148887
    Abstract: The radio quality among a plurality of mobile stations is measured. A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of: transmitting, by a radio base station eNB, a setting signal #1 regarding an RS#1 to a mobile station UE#1 through a Uu interface; transmitting, by the radio base station eNB, a setting signal #2 regarding an RS#2 to a mobile station UE#2 through the Uu interface; transmitting, by the mobile station UE#1, the RS#1 to the mobile station UE#2 through a Ud interface based on the setting signal #1; and transmitting, by the mobile station UE#2, the RS#2 to the mobile station UE#1 through the Ud interface based on the setting signal #2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Mikio Iwamura, Anil Umesh
  • Patent number: 9137722
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Aoyagi, Mikio Iwamura, Kazunori Obata, Tadashi Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 9131409
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of: (A) transmitting, from a mobile station (UE) to a radio base station (eNB), a “Measurement Report” including a measurement result of a “MeasObject”, when the mobile station (UE) links and manages a “MeasID”, the “MeasObject”, and a “ReportConfig”, and when the mobile station (UE) determines that the “ReportConfig” is satisfied; and (B) determining, at the mobile station (UE), whether or not to release the “MeasID” according to a type of a carrier designated by the “MeasObject”, when a change has occurred in a combination of the primary carrier and the secondary carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Mikio Iwamura, Anil Umesh
  • Patent number: 9131436
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile communication method, in which in direct communication between a mobile station UE#1 and a mobile station UE#2, synchronization between the mobile station UE#1 and the mobile station UE#2 is appropriately established. A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step of transmitting, by the mobile station UE#2, “Timing information #1” indicating deviation of a reception timing of “Ud preamble #1” from a desired timing to a radio base station eNB on the basis of a received “Ud preamble #1”, and a step of transmitting, by the radio base station eNB, a “Ud TA command #1” for adjusting a transmission timing of a data signal in the third radio link to the mobile station UE#1 on the basis of received “Timing information #1”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Mikio Iwamura, Tooru Uchino
  • Patent number: 9125095
    Abstract: A method in which a user apparatus including at least operation modes of a connection mode (CONN) and an idle mode (IDLE), includes: a measurement unit that measures radio quality in the idle mode according to measurement target information indicating that the user apparatus is set beforehand to report a measurement value of radio quality to a base station; a storage unit that stores the measurement target information and the measurement value of radio quality measured by the measurement unit; and a transmission unit that transmits, in the connection mode, an indicator indicating that there is the measurement value of radio quality to the base station, and transmits a report signal including the measurement value of radio quality according to a request from the base station, wherein when a predetermined condition for deleting measurement target information (configuration flush condition) is satisfied, the storage unit deletes the measurement target information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Anil Umesh, Mikio Iwamura, Hideaki Takahashii
  • Patent number: 9119104
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile communication method including a step A of transmitting, by a mobile station UE, “Measurement Report” including measurement results of radio qualities of neighboring cells #2 to #4 in a downlink to a radio base station eNB#1 that manages a cell #1 in which the mobile station UE is in communication, a step B of selecting, by the radio base station eNB#1, the cell #2 from among the neighboring cells #2 to #4 on the basis of the “Measurement Report”, and a step C of transmitting, by the radio base station eNB#1, “DL HI indication” indicating an influence of interference on the mobile station UE in a downlink direction being strong to a radio base station eNB#2 that manages the cell #2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Tetsushi Abe, Mikio Iwamura
  • Patent number: 9113378
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a process of transmitting information regarding a PCell#1 and a Scell#1 connected by a mobile station UE in control of a radio base station eNB#2 to a radio base station eNB#3 from the radio base station eNB#2 when the mobile station UE that is performing CA communication executes handover from the control of the radio base station eNB#2 to the control of a radio base station eNB#3 in at least one of an uplink or a downlink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Anil Umesh, Mikio Iwamura
  • Patent number: 9107111
    Abstract: In order to assure reception of broadcast information by a user terminal handed over to a micro base station by CRE (Cell Range Expansion) and to reduce the number of transmission stopped subframes in a macro base station, the present invention provides a notification method for a user terminal to receive modification notification information for notifying modification in system information from the micro base station, the notification method including: the macro base station notifying the micro base station of a subframe pattern including a protection subframe to protect the modification notification information every a plurality of radio frames; and the micro base station notifying the user terminal of identification information of the protection subframe in the subframe pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tetsushi Abe, Mikio Iwamura, Hideaki Takahashi, Hiroyuki Ishii, Satoshi Nagata, Naoto Ookubo, Nobuhiko Miki, Anil Umesh
  • Patent number: 9084182
    Abstract: When a network is in a state of requiring some sort of access barring, a reference value notified to a mobile device is determined to indicate a value in which an access of a certain mobile device is denied while an access of another mobile device is allowed. When an own device has a special type access class, it is determined that an access is allowed The appropriateness of an access is determined according to designation from the network when the own device has the special type access class, and when the own device does not have the special type access class, it is determined that an access is denied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: NIT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Mikio Iwamura, Minami Ishii, Mutsumi Ishimoto
  • Patent number: 9055480
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step A of notifying, by a radio base station eNB, a mobile station UE during communication in a subordinate cell #1 of “CSI-RS/Muting configuration information” indicating a transmission method of CSI-RS; and a step B of performing, by the mobile station UE, a reception process on the basis of the “CSI-RS/Muting configuration information”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Tetsushi Abe, Naoto Ookubo, Mikio Iwamura
  • Patent number: 9042834
    Abstract: A mobile station (UE) according to the present invention is configured to repeatedly transmit a first measurement report including a radio quality of a first cell and to repeatedly transmit a second measurement report including a radio quality of a second cell at the same timings, when the mobile station starts transmitting the first measurement report and thereafter starts transmitting the second measurement report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Mikio Iwamura, Hiroaki Yamagishi, Hiroyuki Ishii, Takeshi Nakamori