Patents by Inventor Sadayuki Abeta

Sadayuki Abeta 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: 20140113582
    Abstract: A communication device includes a network side communication unit that receives emergency information from an information broadcasting node; and a UE side communication unit that communicates a communication signal with user equipment (UE) through a radio base station. The UE side communication unit broadcasts a Secondary Notification signal including the emergency information, subsequent to broadcasting a Primary Notification signal providing notice of broadcasting of the emergency information, and individually transmitting a command signal for transition of an RRC protocol state or switching to another cell to the UE. The transition of the RRC protocol state is from a state where reception of the emergency information is disabled to a state where reception of the emergency information is enabled, and the other cell is such that the UE can receive the Secondary Notification signal, irrespective of the RRC protocol state of the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Aoyagi, Sadayuki Abeta, Yasuyuki Watanabe, Hideyuki Matsutani
  • Patent number: 8705420
    Abstract: A mobile station (UE) according to the present invention includes: a CP length determiner unit (15) configured to determine a length of a CP to be inserted in an uplink signal; and a CP adder unit (14) configured to generate the uplink signal by adding a CP to any one of an inputted signal modulated by DFT-Spread OFDM (Single Carrier FDMA) scheme and an inputted signal modulated OFDM scheme, the CP having the length determined by the CP length determiner unit (15), wherein the cyclic prefix length determiner unit (15) is configured to be capable of setting the length of the CP to be inserted in the uplink signal independently of a length of a CP inserted in a downlink signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Sadayuki Abeta, Hiroyuki Ishii, Yoshihisa Kishiyama
  • Patent number: 8630244
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a channel structuring method that includes a step of providing time frames segmented at a predetermined interval in communication channels of n subcarriers, a step of selecting a predetermined number of subcarriers from n subcarriers and a step of inserting a common control channel signal and a common pilot signal periodically into each of the time frames of the selected subcarriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Atarashi, Sadayuki Abeta, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8565761
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes steps of: performing, at a mobile station (UE) having established a first connection in a first cell, a cell selection process when detecting failure in the first connection; transmitting, from the mobile station (UE) to a second cell selected by the cell selection process, a connection re-establishment request signal; determining, at the radio base station managing the second cell, whether or not to have stored context information of the mobile station (UE) having transmitted the connection re-establishment request signal; acquiring, at the radio base station managing the second cell, the context information of the mobile station from a radio base station managing the first cell, when the radio base station managing the second cell determines that it does not store the context information of the mobile station (UE).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Mikio Iwamura, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Publication number: 20130244681
    Abstract: A base station that performs radio communication with a mobile station includes an index calculation unit that calculates an index representing interference in a frequency band, wherein the frequency band is to be utilized by a different base station; a frequency band selection unit that selects the frequency band based on the index calculated by the index calculation unit, wherein, in the frequency band, the interference is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold value; and a communication unit that performs the radio communication with the mobile station in the frequency band selected by the frequency band selection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Naoto Ookubo, Kohei Kiyoshima, Hiroyuki Ishii, Sadayuki Abeta, Takeshi Okamoto
  • Patent number: 8537666
    Abstract: A mobile station performing a voice communication by using a radio resource, including a determination unit configured to determine whether an inputted packet is in a talk-spurt state or in a silent state; a message generating unit configured to generate a resource release request, when the determination unit determines that the inputted packet is in the silent state; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the resource release request to a radio base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi Harada, Minami Ishii, Sadayuki Abeta, Anil Umesh
  • Patent number: 8514740
    Abstract: In a mobile communication system according to the present invention, a radio base station (eNB) is configured to transmit broadcast information including a parameter to which a frequency bandwidth used in the mobile communication system is set; a mobile station (UE#1) is configured to determine, when a predetermined value is set to the parameter included in the received broadcast information, that a first frequency bandwidth is the frequency bandwidth used in the mobile communication system; and a mobile station (UE#2) is configured to determine, when the predetermined value is set to the parameter included in the received broadcast information, that a second frequency bandwidth different from the first frequency bandwidth is the frequency bandwidth used in the mobile communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Mikio Iwamura, Hiroyuki Ishii, Minami Ishii, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Patent number: 8498270
    Abstract: A disclosed mobile station includes a wireless channel quality measuring unit configured to measure wireless channel quality; a wireless channel quality determining unit configured to determine to report the wireless channel quality to a base station if the wireless channel quality is greater than a threshold; and a transmission unit configured to report the wireless channel quality to the base station based on the determination result of the wireless channel quality determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Mikio Iwamura, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Patent number: 8400962
    Abstract: A transmitter apparatus includes an MAC-PDU generator section configured to generate an MAC-PDU by multiplexing information elements in an MAC layer and a first data unit transmitter section configured to transmit the generated MAC-PDU. Each of the information elements is any of an MAC-SDU received from an RLC layer, an MAC control block and Padding. The MAC-PDU generator section is configured to add an MAC header to the first data unit. The MAC header includes a C/T identifying a type of each of the information elements multiplexed into the MAC-PDU and an LI indicating a size of each of the information elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi Harada, Minami Ishii, Sadayuki Abeta, Anil Umesh
  • Patent number: 8391146
    Abstract: A disclosed base station includes a transmission-rate determining unit for determining a transmission rate of a control channel for transmitting an upper-layer control signal, and a transmitter for allocating a predetermined bandwidth to the control channel for transmitting the upper-layer control signal according to the determined transmission rate, and transmitting the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Sadayuki Abeta, Motohiro Tanno, Nobuhiko Miki, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8385273
    Abstract: A base station according to the present invention includes: a scheduling unit configured to perform a persistent scheduling for transmitting data at a predetermined timing; and a scheduling information generating unit configured to generate scheduling information and to notify the scheduling information to a predetermined mobile station, when the persistent scheduling is performed. The scheduling information includes resource assignment information that indicates a radio resource assigned to the predetermined mobile station at the predetermined timing in the persistent scheduling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: NTT Docomo, Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi Harada, Anil Umesh, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Patent number: 8345706
    Abstract: A base station (eNodeB) performing a radio communication with a user equipment (UE) includes: a transmission format determining unit (16) configured to determine a transmission format of a downlink data channel not to be associated by a control channel, based on a downlink reception signal quality measured by the user equipment; a notification unit (18) configured to notify, to the user equipment, the transmission format determined by the transmission format determining unit; a transmission power controlling unit (19) configured to control a transmission power of the downlink data channel; and a transmitting unit (18) configured to transmit downlink data to the user equipment via the downlink data channel, by using the transmission format determined by the transmission format determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi Harada, Minami Ishii, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Patent number: 8340028
    Abstract: A mobile station includes: means that performs discontinuous reception only for a signaling control channel, means that determines presence or absence of traffic data addressed to the own mobile station, and means that, when it is determined that there is traffic data addressed to the own mobile station, receives corresponding shared data channel. A radio access network apparatus includes: means that determines a discontinuous reception state, means that determines a discontinuous reception channel, means that reports the determined discontinuous reception channel to the mobile station, and means that, when transmission data arises, transmits a control signal using the determined discontinuous reception channel and that transmits traffic data using a corresponding shared data channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: NTT Docomo, Inc.
    Inventors: Minami Ishii, Yasuhiro Kato, Sadayuki Abeta, Takehiro Nakamura, Takashi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8331967
    Abstract: One feature of the present invention relates to a base station for operating multiple cells each having a predefined bandwidth, including: a redirected cell determination unit configured to determine, in response to receipt of mobile station capability information indicative of at least one of a bandwidth and a frequency band that a mobile station residing in a coverage area of the base station is capable of handling, at least one of a redirected cell and a cell layer for the mobile station associated with the mobile station capability information as redirected cell information for redirecting the mobile station; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the redirected cell information to the mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Mikio Iwamura, Minami Ishii, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Publication number: 20120307648
    Abstract: A user device includes a RI generating unit that generates a rank indicator based on a channel condition of a downlink, and a transmitting unit that transmits an uplink signal including the rank indicator to a base station. When the rank indicator is reported to the base station prior to category information of the user device being reported, the RI generating unit generates the rank indicator of a number of bits that has already been known to the user device and the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Naoto Okubo, Tetsushi Abe, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Patent number: 8315318
    Abstract: An OFDM signal receiving apparatus (30) includes a receiver section (31) configured to perform receiving processing on a received OFDM signal, for each OFDM symbol duration period; a plurality of deinterleaving sections (341 . . . 34n) each configured to perform deinterleaving processing on data acquired through the receiving processing, in a unit of an interleaving block; and a plurality of decoder sections (361 . . . 36n) each configured to perform decoding processing on data outputted from a corresponding one of the plurality of deinterleaving sections (341 . . . 34n). The interleaving block is a part of a transmission time interval block including data to be transmitted in a transmission time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Miki, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Patent number: 8311553
    Abstract: One feature of the present invention relates to a base station for operating multiple cells each having a predefined bandwidth, including: a load measurement unit configured to measure traffic status in each of the cells; a redirected cell determination unit configured to determine either a redirected cell or a cell layer as redirected cell information for redirecting a mobile station based on the traffic status, the redirected cell and the cell layer to which the mobile station is to be redirected; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the redirected cell information to the mobile station in a paging channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: NTT Docomo, Inc.
    Inventors: Mikio Iwamura, Minami Ishii, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Patent number: 8310984
    Abstract: A disclosed control apparatus performs packet communications with a mobile station and divides a coverage area into plural sectors so as to control the communications. The control apparatus comprises a transmission allocation portion that selects at least two transmission sectors to perform transmission to the mobile station in accordance with reception quality imparted from the mobile station so as to perform a transmission allocation for the mobile station; and a transmission portion that uses an identical scramble code for sector identification so as to perform transmission to the mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: NTT Docomo, Inc.
    Inventors: Akihito Morimoto, Kenichi Higuchi, Sadayuki Abeta, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8295232
    Abstract: A base station (100) includes: a scheduling unit (106) configured to use, for a particular radio bearer, any one of a persistent scheduling in which data addressed to a mobile station (200) is transmitted at a predetermined timing, and a non-persistent scheduling in which a transmission opportunity is assigned to data addressed to a mobile station having a favorable reception condition; a control information generating unit (110) configured to generate control information to be used in the persistent scheduling; a control information notifying unit (112) configured to notify, to the mobile station, the control information; and a switching notifying unit (112) configured to notify, to the mobile station (200), that a scheduling to be used for the particular bearer should be switched from the non-persistent scheduling to the persistent scheduling, wherein the scheduling unit (106) is configured to switch the scheduling to be used for the particular radio bearer, from the non-persistent scheduling to the persist
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi Harada, Minami Ishii, Sadayuki Abeta
  • Publication number: 20120257493
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes an error detection unit conducting error detection on N packet data units received in N transmission processes; a first transmission unit transmitting an affirmative response signal or a first retransmission request signal depending on a result of the error detection; a storage unit storing an affirmatively responding packet for forwarding to an upper layer; a second transmission unit, if affirmatively responding packets are not consecutive, determining whether a missing packet must be retransmitted and transmitting a second retransmission request signal; and a forwarding unit reordering the packet data units and forwarding the packets in the storage unit to the upper layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Anil Umesh, Atsushi Harada, Sadayuki Abeta