Patents by Inventor Nishiki Mizusawa

Nishiki Mizusawa 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: 9313036
    Abstract: A communication fee prediction device including: a communication unit; a network load information management unit that collects and retains network load information of each base station through the communication unit; a user behavior history management unit that collects and retains positional information of a data communication terminal; and a fee prediction unit that estimates a later movement path of a data communication terminal, estimates a network load state when a data communication terminal passes through a base station on the estimated movement path, and predicts a communication fee according to a network load state of a base station that a data communication terminal is currently position registering and a communication fee according to a network load state of a base station on the estimated movement path, wherein a data communication terminal is notified of the current communication fee and the predicted value of a communication fee through the communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nishiki Mizusawa
  • Publication number: 20160095119
    Abstract: [Object] To utilize the extension band in the band-filling efficiently. [Solution] There is provided a communication control apparatus including: a communication control unit that controls radio communication performed by one or more terminal apparatuses on a component carrier having a basic bandwidth in a resource block unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventor: Nishiki MIZUSAWA
  • Publication number: 20160095118
    Abstract: [Object] To utilize the extension band in the band-filling efficiently. [Solution] There is provided a communication control apparatus including: a communication control unit that controls radio communication performed by one or more terminal apparatuses on a component carrier having a basic bandwidth. The communication control unit sets an extension band to be added to the component carrier only to an excess frequency band either on an upper side or a lower side of the component carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventor: Nishiki MIZUSAWA
  • Patent number: 9294336
    Abstract: Provided is a router including a network interface that communicates with a network, a first communication interface that communicates with a mobile communication interface of a wireless communication device through a mobile communication control station, a second communication interface that communicates with a wireless LAN interface of the wireless communication device through a wireless LAN control station, and a conversion unit that converts an origin address of one of data to the network received from the mobile communication interface and data to the network received from the wireless LAN interface into an origin address of another one of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Nishiki Mizusawa, Kotaro Takagi
  • Publication number: 20160080135
    Abstract: Provided is a communication control device that controls radio communication conducted by one or more terminal devices according to a time-division duplex (TDD) scheme, the communication control device including a configuration section that configures, for each frame that includes a plurality of subframes, a link direction configuration expressing a link direction per subframe, and a control section that signals the link direction configuration configured by the configuration section to each terminal device. The configuration section configures a first link direction configuration for a first terminal group, and configures a second link direction configuration for a second terminal group, and the control section signals the first link direction configuration to a terminal device belonging to the first terminal group on a first cycle, and signals the second link direction configuration to a terminal device belonging to the second terminal group on a second cycle that is shorter than the first cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takano, Nishiki Mizusawa
  • Publication number: 20160081105
    Abstract: [Object] To utilize the extension band in the band-filling efficiently. [Solution] There is provided a communication control apparatus including: a communication control unit that controls radio communication performed by terminal apparatuses on a component carrier having a basic bandwidth, and sets at least one extension band to be added to the component carrier to at least a part of an excess frequency band. The terminal apparatuses include a first group of terminal apparatuses that support radio communication on the extension band, and a second group of terminal apparatuses that do not support the radio communication on the extension band. The communication control unit transmits resource assignment information that is not changed depending on whether or not the extension band is set, for the second group of terminal apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventor: Nishiki MIZUSAWA
  • Publication number: 20160044696
    Abstract: Provided is a communication control device that controls radio communication conducted by a terminal device according to a time-division duplex (TDD) scheme on a radio communication network, the communication control device including a configuration section that configures, for each frame that includes a plurality of subframes, a link direction configuration expressing a link direction per subframe for the radio communication. The configuration section configures a timing of control signaling in a second link direction which is associated with data transmission in a first link direction in the radio communication, and which is opposite to the first link direction, independently of the configured link direction configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nishiki MIZUSAWA
  • Publication number: 20150358143
    Abstract: Provided is a communication control device configured to control radio communication in accordance with a time division duplex (TDD) method, the communication control device including: a setting unit configured to set a link direction configuration indicating a link direction of each subframe, with respect to each frame including a plurality of subframes; and a control unit configured to control processes of automatic repeat request with respect to a terminal device that performs radio communication. The control unit controls the processes to make a number of the processes equal to or smaller than a maximum number according to setting of the link direction configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: NISHIKI MIZUSAWA
  • Patent number: 9154999
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes: a communication control unit performing a connection rights reservation request for wirelessly connecting to a predetermined network in a specific region in a specific time band; and a control unit performing control for setting the connection rights based on the setting information according to the reservation request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Takamura, Shinichiro Tsuda, Nishiki Mizusawa
  • Patent number: 9107177
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless base station including a power measurement unit for measuring a power of a reference signal for synchronization at a downlink adjacent frequency; a base station type acquisition unit for acquiring a type of a base station that transmits the signal at the downlink adjacent frequency; and a power setting unit for setting a maximum transmission power based on a measurement value of the power measured by the power measurement unit and the type of the base station acquired by the base station type acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Nishiki Mizusawa
  • Publication number: 20150215962
    Abstract: Provided is a communication control apparatus including a communication unit configured to receive, from a base station of a first radio communication system, grant information that specifies a resource for secondary use within a frequency resource assigned to the first radio communication system operated with a frequency division duplex scheme, and a communication control unit configured to operate a second radio communication system with a time division duplex scheme on the resource for secondary use during a period that is associated with the grant information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Nishiki Mizusawa
  • Publication number: 20150189652
    Abstract: Provided is a communication control apparatus including a communication unit configured to receive, from a base station of a radio communication system, grant information that specifies a resource for relay within a frequency resource assigned to a radio communication system operated with a frequency division duplex scheme, the resource for relay being granted to be used for relay of traffic, and a relay control unit configured to relay the traffic with a time division duplex scheme on the resource for relay during a period that is associated with the grant information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Nishiki Mizusawa
  • Publication number: 20150156006
    Abstract: Provided is a communication control device that controls radio communication conducted by one or more terminal devices according to a time-division duplex (TDD) scheme, the communication control device including a configuration section that configures, for each frame that includes a plurality of subframes, a link direction configuration expressing a link direction per subframe, and a control section that signals the link direction configuration configured by the configuration section to each terminal device. The configuration section configures a first link direction configuration for a first terminal group, and configures a second link direction configuration for a second terminal group, and the control section signals the first link direction configuration to a terminal device belonging to the first terminal group on a first cycle, and signals the second link direction configuration to a terminal device belonging to the second terminal group on a second cycle that is shorter than the first cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takano, Nishiki Mizusawa
  • Publication number: 20150117348
    Abstract: There is provided a communication control device including a radio communication unit which communicates with one or more terminal devices in a cell over a channel in which a link direction is allowed to be dynamically set for each sub-frame which is a unit of time in radio communication, and a control unit which controls allocation of communication resources to the terminal device based on the setting of the link direction of the channel and a location of the terminal device in the cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takano, Nishiki Mizusawa
  • Patent number: 8934367
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal apparatus including a first communication unit that performs communication according to a first wireless communication scheme using frequency division duplex; a second communication unit that performs communication according to a second wireless communication scheme different from the first wireless communication scheme; a detecting unit that detects deterioration of reception quality of the first communication unit due to generation of the communication by the first communication unit and the communication by the second communication unit at the same timing; and a reporting unit that reports the deterioration of the reception quality to a communication control apparatus scheduling the communication by the first communication unit, when the deterioration of the reception quality is detected by the detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Nishiki Mizusawa, Atsushi Yoshizawa
  • Publication number: 20150003236
    Abstract: An information processing device may include a control unit to control display of information of a base station of a first wireless communication method existing around a predictive migration path by using position information of the information processing device, the information processing device using a second wireless communication method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Shinichiro Tsuda, Nishiki Mizusawa, Takashi Usui, Kazuhisa Takamura
  • Publication number: 20140307598
    Abstract: Provided is a communication control device that controls radio communication conducted by a terminal device according to a time-division duplex (TDD) scheme on a radio communication network, the communication control device including a configuration section that configures, for each frame that includes a plurality of subframes, a link direction configuration expressing a link direction per subframe for the radio communication. The configuration section configures a timing of control signaling in a second link direction which is associated with data transmission in a first link direction in the radio communication, and which is opposite to the first link direction, independently of the configured link direction configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nishiki Mizusawa
  • Publication number: 20140302867
    Abstract: Provided is a radio base station including a terminal detection unit that detects an uplink signal of a first terminal serviced by another base station, a storage unit that stores an allocation priority of a radio resource for a predetermined period, and a resource allocation unit that allocates a radio resource to a second terminal serviced by the radio base station, using the allocation priority of the radio resource stored in the storage unit. When the terminal detection unit detects the uplink signal of the first terminal, the resource allocation unit preferentially allocates a radio resource of an uplink of a high allocation priority to the second terminal while lowering an allocation priority of a radio resource estimated to be used next for the uplink by the first terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Nishiki Mizusawa
  • Patent number: 8843113
    Abstract: There is provided a wireless communication device including a transmission control unit configured to transmit an establishment request for establishment of connection right for wireless connection with a predetermined network, to an information processing device performing a control for establishment of the connection right, wirelessly; and a control unit configured to perform a control for the establishment of the connection right, based on establishment information transmitted from the information processing unit, on the condition that the establishment request has been authenticated by a first authentication device performing a first authentication process related to the wireless communication device, and the establishment request has been authenticated by a second authentication device performing a second authentication process related to the establishment of the connection right.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Takamura, Shinichiro Tsuda, Nishiki Mizusawa
  • Patent number: 8804673
    Abstract: There is provided a radio communication device including a communication unit that communicates with a base station by using a given radio multiplexing architecture, a storage unit that stores time slot information, and a control unit that controls the communication unit to communicate with the base station by using the given radio multiplexing architecture in a time slot indicated by the time slot information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Nishiki Mizusawa