Patents by Inventor Naoto Itaba

Naoto Itaba 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: 11601841
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a radio station and a radio communication method capable of performing efficient control in Dual Connectivity. A radio station (10) includes: a classification unit (11) that classifies, when a data radio bearer is established with a communication terminal through a radio station (20), the data radio bearer into one of a plurality of groups based on a predetermined classification condition; and a transmission unit (12) that transmits, to the radio station (20), an establishment request message requesting establishment of the data radio bearer, and the group into which the data radio bearer is classified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoto Itaba
  • Publication number: 20210377779
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a radio station and a radio communication method capable of performing efficient control in Dual Connectivity. A radio station (10) includes: a classification unit (11) that classifies, when a data radio bearer is established with a communication terminal through a radio station (20), the data radio bearer into one of a plurality of groups based on a predetermined classification condition; and a transmission unit (12) that transmits, to the radio station (20), an establishment request message requesting establishment of the data radio bearer, and the group into which the data radio bearer is classified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Naoto ITABA
  • Patent number: 8825055
    Abstract: Provided is a handover originating base station which transmits data to a handover destination base station, for performing mobile communication terminal handover in a mobile communication system. The handover originating base station is provided with a means for transmitting data whose transmission is not confirmed by a communication terminal, with information which indicates data transmitted just before.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Nagata, Naoto Itaba, Seiji Kondo, Sadafuku Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20130344870
    Abstract: Provided is a handover originating base station which transmits data to a handover destination base station, for performing mobile communication terminal handover in a mobile communication system. The handover originating base station is provided with a means for transmitting data whose transmission is not confirmed by a communication terminal, with information which indicates data transmitted just before.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun NAGATA, Naoto ITABA, Seiji KONDO, Sadafuku HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 8504038
    Abstract: Provided is a handover originating base station which transmits data to a handover destination base station, for performing mobile communication terminal handover in a mobile communication system. The handover originating base station is provided with a means for transmitting data whose transmission is not confirmed by a communication terminal, with information which indicates data transmitted just before.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Nagata, Naoto Itaba, Seiji Kondo, Sadafuku Hayashi
  • Patent number: 7904102
    Abstract: In a mobile communication system, the information on a downlink DCH actually not used is regarded as removable from the construction target of a TFI and a TFCI, so that a discrepancy of the perception regarding the TFI and the TFCI is not occurred between a base station and a UE (User Equipment). An indicator information in terms of an “Unidirectional DCH Indicator” is generated in an Indicator processing portion of a RNC so that the base station can remove the information regarding the downlink DCH actually not used from the construction target of the TFI and the TFCI, and the information, which is included in the NBAP message, is transmitted to the base station from the NBAP message composition portion. When, at the NBAP message analyzing portion of the base station, it is determined that the “Unidirectional DCH Indicator” is included in this message, the information regarding the downlink DCH actually not used in a TFCI construction portion is removed from the construction target of the TFI and the TFCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto Itaba, Yoshimasa Imamura, Mayu Yamada
  • Publication number: 20100255810
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mobile communication system configured such that in transferring a control message not requiring establishment of a connection, the system transfers the control message without establishing a connection. The mobile communication system according to the present invention includes a mobile station, a radio base station, and a higher-order apparatus for the radio base station. When transmitting a control message from the mobile station to the higher-order apparatus, the mobile station transmits information to the higher-order apparatus, indicating whether or not it is necessary to establish an individual connection for the mobile station. The higher-order apparatus receives and uses the information to determine that it is not necessary to establish the individual connection for the mobile station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Inventor: Naoto Itaba
  • Publication number: 20100151861
    Abstract: Provided is a handover originating base station which transmits data to a handover destination base station, for performing mobile communication terminal handover in a mobile communication system. The handover originating base station is provided with a means for transmitting data whose transmission is not confirmed by a communication terminal, with information which indicates data transmitted just before.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Nagata, Naoto Itaba, Seiji Kondo, Sadafuku Hayashi
  • Patent number: 7693524
    Abstract: The radio access network for allowing to construct a system abundant in scalability in a W-CDMA mobile communication system. A RNC in the radio access network is physically separated into a C plane control equipment for controlling signaling and a U plane control equipment for processing user data, where the user data is transferred between a mobile terminal and a host device via only the U plane control equipment and a control signal is terminated by the U plane control equipment and the C plane control equipment. This allows a system abundant in scalability to be constructed, and even in the case of soft handover across the C plane control equipments, also enables the continuous use of the same U plane control equipment, thereby eliminating the conventional connection path for connecting between RNCs and preventing delay due to passing through the RNCs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Sakata, Masahiko Kojima, Naoto Itaba
  • Patent number: 7653680
    Abstract: A mobile communication system capable of efficiently updating software in a group of target terminals only when the software needs to be rewritten. When there is a mobile terminal (UE#1, UE#2) that needs the update of the software version, the server transmit an OTASP request that contains terminal type and software version information to GGSN. The OTASP request is forwarded via the GGSN, SGSN, and RNC to the mobile terminal (UE#1, UE#2). The mobile terminal (UE#1, UE#2) compares its type and software version with those contained in the paging channel, and if they match, transmits an RRC connection request to the RNC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto Itaba, Toshiyuki Tamura, Masayuki Sakata
  • Publication number: 20070015540
    Abstract: The radio access network for allowing to construct a system abundant in scalability in a W-CDMA mobile communication system. A RNC in the radio access network is physically separated into a C plane control equipment for controlling signaling and a U plane control equipment for processing user data, where the user data is transferred between a mobile terminal and a host device via only the U plane control equipment and a control signal is terminated by the U plane control equipment and the C plane control equipment. This allows a system abundant in scalability to be constructed, and even in the case of soft handover across the C plane control equipments, also enables the continuous use of the same U plane control equipment, thereby eliminating the conventional connection path for connecting between RNCs and preventing delay due to passing through the RNCs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Publication date: January 18, 2007
    Inventors: Masayuki Sakata, Masahiko Kojima, Naoto Itaba
  • Patent number: 7164917
    Abstract: The radio access network for allowing to construct a system abundant in scalability in a W-CDMA mobile communication system. A RNC in the radio access network is physically separated into a C plane control equipment for controlling signaling and a U plane control equipment for processing user data, where the user data is transferred between a mobile terminal and a host device via only the U plane control equipment and a control signal is terminated by the U plane control equipment and the C plane control equipment. This allows a system abundant in scalability to be constructed, and even in the case of soft handover across the C plane control equipments, also enables the continuous use of the same U plane control equipment, thereby eliminating the conventional connection path for connecting between RNCs and preventing delay due to passing through the RNCs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Sakata, Masahiko Kojima, Naoto Itaba
  • Publication number: 20060264206
    Abstract: A mobile communication system capable of efficiently updating software in a group of target terminals only when the software needs to be rewritten. When there is a mobile terminal (UE#1, UE#2) that needs the update of the software version, the server transmit an OTASP request that contains terminal type and software version information to GGSN. The OTASP request is forwarded via the GGSN, SGSN, and RNC to the mobile terminal (UE#1, UE#2). The mobile terminal (UE#1, UE#2) compares its type and software version with those contained in the paging channel, and if they match, transmits an RRC connection request to the RNC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2004
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoto Itaba, Toshiyuki Tamura, Masayuki Sakata
  • Publication number: 20060182059
    Abstract: Transport bearers are set in advance before the occurrence of call setting and information necessary for specifying transport bearers is stored in each of the transport bearer management units of a Node B and an RNC. When setting a call, the use of transport bearers that have been set in advance shortens the procedure for setting the transport bearer. As a result, the time required from the origination of call by a UE to the actual reception of the service can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2006
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Inventor: Naoto Itaba
  • Publication number: 20050181818
    Abstract: In a mobile communication system, the information on a downlink DCH actually not used is regarded as removable from the construction target of a TFI and a TFCI, so that a discrepancy of the perception regarding the TFI and the TFCI is not occurred between a base station and a UE (User Equipment). An indicator information in terms of an “Unidirectional DCH Indicator” is generated in an Indicator processing portion of a RNC so that the base station can remove the information regarding the downlink DCH actually not used from the construction target of the TFI and the TFCI, and the information, which is included in the NBAP message, is transmitted to the base station from the NBAP message composition portion. When, at the NBAP message analyzing portion of the base station, it is determined that the “Unidirectional DCH Indicator” is included in this message, the information regarding the downlink DCH actually not used in a TFCI construction portion is removed from the construction target of the TFI and the TFCI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2004
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Applicants: NEC Corporation, NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Naoto Itaba, Yoshimasa Imamura, Mayu Yamada
  • Publication number: 20030224826
    Abstract: The radio access network for allowing to construct a system abundant in scalability in a W-CDMA mobile communication system. A RNC in the radio access network is physically separated into a C plane control equipment for controlling signaling and a U plane control equipment for processing user data, where the user data is transferred between a mobile terminal and a host device via only the U plane control equipment and a control signal is terminated by the U plane control equipment and the C plane control equipment. This allows a system abundant in scalability to be constructed, and even in the case of soft handover across the C plane control equipments, also enables the continuous use of the same U plane control equipment, thereby eliminating the conventional connection path for connecting between RNCs and preventing delay due to passing through the RNCs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2003
    Publication date: December 4, 2003
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Sakata, Masahiko Kojima, Naoto Itaba