Patents by Inventor Ryoko Matsuo

Ryoko Matsuo 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).

  • Publication number: 20140073247
    Abstract: A mobile wireless device has a first communication unit configured to perform proximity wireless communication with a communication device, a certification unit configured to perform a certification process between the mobile wireless device and the communication device via the proximity wireless communication using the first communication unit, a second communication unit configured to perform proximity wireless communication with an extra mobile wireless device, and an operation controller configured to control the extra mobile wireless device via the proximity wireless communication using the second communication unit, after the certification process is normally completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Koji AKITA, Ariyuki KISHIMOTO, Shinichi WARAGAI, Ryoko MATSUO, Takayoshi ITO, Makoto KAMOI, Masashi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20140062657
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, when a control unit is notified of information in at least one second signal received by one of first and second wireless communication units after the control unit provides the second wireless communication unit with a command to transmit a first signal containing first address information and before a waiting time elapses and when the at least one second signal contains second address information assigned to an authentication apparatus having received the first signal, then the control unit provides the first wireless communication unit with a command to transmit a third signal for a connection request with the second address information set in a destination address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tomoko ADACHI, Seiichiro HORIKAWA, Koji AKITA, Ryoko MATSUO
  • Publication number: 20140010174
    Abstract: Methods for coordinating power usage and link adaptation in wireless communications are described. Terminals and/or access points (APs) may attempt to modify terminals' transmit power in relation to a desired communication data transfer rate. Link adoption may also be used in conjunction with the described methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicants: Telcordia Technologies Inc., Toshiba America Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryoko MATSUO, Shuichi OBAYASHI, Toshikazu KODAMA, David Famolari
  • Publication number: 20130326593
    Abstract: A wireless device has a first information acquisition part to acquire first information when the wireless device passes through a first gate, a second information generator to generate second information necessary to acquire data, by using the first information, and a data acquisition part to acquire the data transmitted from a data providing apparatus through wireless communication, by using the second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Inventors: Koji AKITA, Takanobu ISHIBASHI, Takayoshi ITO, Seiichiro HORIKAWA, Ryoko MATSUO
  • Publication number: 20130321126
    Abstract: A wireless device has a first information acquisition part to acquire first information when a first gate is passed through, a second information generator to generate second information by using the first information, a third information acquisition part to acquire third information by a wireless communication using the second information and invalidate the third information after a predetermined time period is elapsed since the third information is acquired, and a service executing part to execute a service by using the third information. An area capable of acquiring the third information by the third information acquisition part is broader than an area capable of acquiring the first information by the first information acquisition part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Inventors: Koji AKITA, Ryoko MATSUO, Seiichiro HORIKAWA, Takayoshi ITO, Kengo IWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20130294373
    Abstract: One of a plurality of radio terminals that transmit radio signals to a radio base station under a space multiplexing scheme, including a receiving unit that receives an access right request signal with respect to the radio base station from an other radio terminal, a prevention unit that prevents transmission of radio signals when receiving radio signals directed to an other radio terminal, a cancellation unit that cancels the prevention of transmission when receiving an access right assignment signal during the prevention of transmission and a transmitting unit that transmits a data signal to the radio base station according to the assignment signal, wherein radio signals are transmitted to the radio base station simultaneously with the other radio terminals and under the space multiplexing scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: Ryoko Matsuo, Tatsuma Hirano, Toshihisa Nabetani, Tomoko Adachi, Kiyoshi Toshimitsu
  • Patent number: 8554237
    Abstract: The present application discloses, inter alia, a system for improving the aggregate throughput of a wireless local area network which includes: at least one access point that is equipped with at least one transceiver configured to simultaneously transmit and receive at multiple frequencies using multiple channels; and the access point being configured to acquire channel conditions of users and to pool sets of users on the channels based on the channel conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignees: Toshiba America Research, Inc., Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kamesh Medepalli, David Famolari, Praveen Gopalakrishnan, Toshikazu Kodama, Ryoko Matsuo, Shunichi Obayashi, Faramak Vakil
  • Patent number: 8542604
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes a transmitter and a receiver, and determines a modulation and error correction coding scheme used by the transmitter. The apparatus estimates a degree of channel variation, transmits, by the transmitter, a first frame for requesting response information necessary to select the modulation and error correction coding scheme, measures a response time between a instant when the transmitter transmits the first frame and a instant when the receiver receives a second frame including the response information, determines a threshold value of the response time for determining reliability of the response information, based on the degree of channel variation, and determines the modulation and error correction coding scheme selected based on the response information included in the second frame received by the receiver in the response time shorter than the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Toshihisa Nabetani, Ryoko Matsuo
  • Publication number: 20130230040
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless communication apparatus includes a first processor, a second processor and a controller. The first processor generates one or more first frames and one or more second frames. The second processor transmits the first frames and the second frames, and receives a first acknowledgement and a second acknowledgement. The controller retains a first interval relating to a time interval between the first transmission request and the second transmission request and a second interval relating to a time interval between a first and a second time points, and controls transmission of frames to be transmitted based on the first and the second intervals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tomoko ADACHI, Tomoya TANDAI, Takeshi TOMIZAWA, Ryoko MATSUO
  • Publication number: 20130223250
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless communication apparatus is provided with first and second determination units. The first unit determines based on a first carrier sense threshold whether busy state or not and specifies a first time when busy state is determined with the first threshold, and determines based on a second carrier sense threshold smaller than the first threshold whether busy state or not and specifies a second time when busy state is determined. The second unit determines, if at least busy state is determined based on the second threshold and the second time precedes a reference time equal to or earlier than the first time, to perform processing for avoiding interference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Ryoko MATSUO, Tomoya TANDAI, Takeshi TOMIZAWA, Tomoko ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20130210367
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a radio apparatus includes: a radio unit; a timer configured to count a first measurement time; a control unit configured to establish a first mode if the first measurement time is shorter than a first time, and establish a second mode if the first measurement time is longer than or equal to the first time; and a power control unit configured to control power to be supplied to the radio unit if the first mode is set and next data is not received even if a second time elapsed, and control power to be supplied to the radio unit if the second mode is set and next data is not received even if a third time elapsed, wherein the radio unit makes a transition to a sleep mode as a result of a power control by the power control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Takeshi Tomizawa, Tomoya Tandai, Ryoko Matsuo
  • Patent number: 8503357
    Abstract: One of a plurality of radio terminals that transmit radio signals to a radio base station under a space multiplexing scheme, including a receiving unit 42 that receives an access right request signal with respect to the radio base station from an other radio terminal, a prevention unit 43 that prevents transmission of radio signals when receiving radio signals directed to an other radio terminal, a cancellation unit 43 that cancels the prevention of transmission when receiving an access right assignment signal during the prevention of transmission and a transmitting unit 41 that transmits a data signal to the radio base station according to the assignment signal, wherein radio signals are transmitted to the radio base station simultaneously with the other radio terminals and under the space multiplexing scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Ryoko Matsuo, Tatsuma Hirano, Toshihisa Nabetani, Tomoko Adachi, Kiyoshi Toshimitsu
  • Patent number: 8483195
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus has a transmission unit that transmits a transmit signal in a condition where either acknowledgement or negative acknowledgement is set therein, a reception unit that receives a response signal in response to the transmission signal, a counter that counts the number of times the reception unit has not received the negative acknowledgment signal in response to the transmission signal in which the negative acknowledgement is set, and a control unit that causes the transmission unit to set the negative acknowledgement if a count value of the counter is less than a predetermined value and, if the count value is equal to or larger than the predetermined value, causes the transmission unit to set the acknowledgement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Ryoko Matsuo, Tomoya Tandai
  • Publication number: 20130155955
    Abstract: There is provided a wireless communication apparatus performing access control which starts transmission after a backoff time passes since an available state of a channel is detected through carrier sense, the backoff time being set based on a random value selected within a contention window width, including: a remaining time calculating unit calculating a remaining time untill a request delay time time-outs after data is generated and a setting unit setting the contention window width according to the remaining time calculated by the remaining time calculating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Toshihisa NABETANI, Ryoko MATSUO, Tomoko ADACHI, Tomoya TANDAI
  • Patent number: 8463308
    Abstract: Methods for coordinating power usage and link adaptation in wireless communications are described. Terminals and/or access points (APs) may attempt to modify terminals' transmit power in relation to a desired communication data transfer rate. Link adoption may also be used in conjunction with the described methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignees: Toshiba America Research, Inc., Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryoko Matsuo, Shuichi Obayashi, Toshikazu Kodama, David Famolari
  • Patent number: 8391351
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus generates aggregated frame including frames and having frame length, transmits aggregated frame at transmission rate of transmission rates, stores, in memory, for each of transmission rates, threshold frame length defined between first frame length range and second frame length range, if frame length is within second frame length range not more than threshold frame length, throughput increase rate not less than predetermined threshold value being obtained by increasing frame length, selects, by comparing threshold frame length at transmission rate with frame length, at least one of (a) another transmission rate of transmission rates and (b) new frame length of aggregated frame, sets transmission rate to selected another transmission rate if another transmission rate is selected, and sets frame length to new frame length if new frame length is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Ryoko Matsuo, Toshihisa Nabetani
  • Publication number: 20130051318
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless communication apparatus in a first wireless system is provided with first, second and third units, and a controller. The first unit transmits frames over a frequency channel using a short or long IFS as compared with a specific one used in a second wireless system with a communication range wider than the first wireless system. The second unit receives frames over the channel. The third unit determines an error characteristic in the received frames and/or a busy status of the channel. The controller controls at least either one of whether to change the frequency channel or not, and whether to change a duration of an interframe space or not.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Ryoko MATSUO, Tomoko Adachi, Tomoya Tandai, Takeshi Tomizawa
  • Publication number: 20130051335
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wireless communication apparatus includes a storage, a selection unit, a processing unit. The storage stores a first set and a second set, including first frame spaces of one or more types and the second set including second frame spaces of the one or more types, each of the second frame spaces that are identical in type to the first frame spaces being not less than the first frame spaces, and a second frame space of any one of the types being longer than a first frame space of the any one of the types. The selection unit selects either the first set or the second set. The processing unit communicates with a first apparatus, by using either the first frame spaces or the second frame spaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tomoko ADACHI, Ryoko Matsuo, Tomoya Tandai, Takeshi Tomizawa
  • Patent number: 8385937
    Abstract: A system and method for equalizing traffic between antenna beams is described. Aspects of the system and method may vary the beam widths to attempt to equalize traffic based on non-real-time communications and/or non-real-time communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignees: Toshiba America Research Inc., Telcordia Inc.
    Inventors: Faramak Vakil, David Famolari, Kamesh Medepalli, Prathima Agrawal, Toshikazu Kodama, Shuichi Obayashi, Ryoko Matsuo
  • Publication number: 20130028154
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a wireless apparatus including: a reception unit which receives a data signal having a header field and a data field, the header field including a reply request which specifies either an acknowledgement or a negative acknowledgement; a decision unit which decides a reception result indicating whether the header field and the data field have been received successfully or unsuccessfully; and a transmission unit which transmits the acknowledgement or the negative acknowledgement in accordance with the reply request and the reception result of the data field when the header field has been received successfully, and transmits the negative acknowledgement when the header field has been received unsuccessfully.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Inventors: Ryoko Matsuo, Tomoya Tandai, Takeshi Tomizawa