Patents by Inventor Sho FURUICHI

Sho FURUICHI 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: 11546776
    Abstract: Provided is a mechanism capable of sharing frequency resources and network resources while balancing each other. Provided is a device including: a determination unit that determines one of a use setting of a frequency resources by a wireless communication device, and a use setting of a network resource by a logical network deployed on a physical network to which the wireless communication device connects, for providing a wireless communication service by the wireless communication device; and a request unit that requests another device to determine a use setting of a resource that is not determined on the basis of a determination result by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sho Furuichi
  • Patent number: 11533631
    Abstract: A communication control apparatus (40) includes: a first determination unit (442) that periodically determines an operation parameter related to radio transmission of each of a single or a plurality of second wireless systems that perform wireless communication by utilizing a radio wave of a frequency band used by a single or a plurality of first wireless systems; a second determination unit (444) that determines, when a radio-wave use request is received from a new second wireless system in a determination period of the operation parameter, whether or not to define the new second wireless system as a system to be forcibly stopped when the first wireless system uses the radio wave; and a notification unit (445) that makes a notification to the new second wireless system regarding a radio-wave use permission before a next determination period of the operation parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sho Furuichi
  • Publication number: 20220400386
    Abstract: A communication control device according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes an acquisition unit, a determination unit, and a decision unit. The acquisition unit acquires a synchronization mode of a time division duplex related to a first wireless system. The determination unit determines whether or not interference occurs in a case where the first wireless system and a second wireless system perform wireless communication by the time division duplex in a shared frequency band The decision unit decides a synchronization mode to be used in the first wireless system on the basis of a result of the determination and a synchronization mode related to the first wireless system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventor: SHO FURUICHI
  • Patent number: 11528632
    Abstract: [Object] To make it possible to perform measurement reporting suitable for an environment in which the on/off state of a cell is switched. [Solution] There is provided a device including: an acquiring unit configured to acquire information indicating that a serving cell is scheduled to be in an off state; and a control unit configured to perform measurement reporting before the serving cell is in the off state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroaki Takano, Atsushi Yoshizawa, Shinichiro Tsuda, Sho Furuichi
  • Publication number: 20220386248
    Abstract: An information processing device (60) includes: an acquisition unit (641) that acquires information regarding each of a plurality of second radio systems that share a radio wave used by a first radio system; a calculation unit (642) that calculates an allocation priority for each of the plurality of second radio systems based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit (641); and an allocation unit (643) that allocates, as an interference amount, a total interference amount allowed by the first radio system to each of the plurality of second radio systems based on the allocation priority calculated by the calculation unit (642).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventor: SHO FURUICHI
  • Publication number: 20220386311
    Abstract: An information processor according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire desire information regarding an area setting of a predetermined service, including at least desired area information, provided using a second radio system that shares all or a part of a frequency band used by a first radio system, a second acquisition unit that acquires area information regarding another service that uses or is allocated to a predetermined frequency band used by the predetermined service, a calculation unit configured to perform calculation regarding inter-area interference from an area specified by the desired area information to an area of the another service; and a generation unit configured to generate permitted area information regarding an area in which the predetermined service is permitted based on a calculation result of the inter-area interference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventor: SHO FURUICHI
  • Patent number: 11516678
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus that acquires information indicating a result of detection of a communication node managed by a second frequency usage control system and notifies the second frequency usage control system of first sharable information generated from first frequency usage information related to a first communication node managed by a first frequency usage control system. The first sharable information being held by a first database included in the first frequency usage control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sho Furuichi
  • Patent number: 11516679
    Abstract: To provide a communication control device capable of appropriately accommodating a surplus interference margin that is not distributed to a communication device depending on a situation. There is provided a communication control device including an acquisition unit that acquires a parameter for calculating a coverage of one or more second wireless systems that share a part or a whole of a frequency allocated to a first wireless system, and a control unit that calculates the coverage of the second wireless system on the basis of the parameter acquired by the acquisition unit and a predetermined reception power reference value, generates information indicating whether or not a partitioned geographical range is included in the coverage, and records a reception power level from the second wireless system in the geographical range in which the information satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sho Furuichi
  • Patent number: 11510049
    Abstract: Proposed is a mechanism capable of secondary usage of narrow-band frequency channels. A control device includes a control unit configured to perform division processing of dividing a first frequency band indicated by a frequency supervising database as a frequency band that can be used by at least one communication node, into a plurality of second frequency bands, on the basis of capability information of the communication node and information indicating a measurement result by the communication node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sho Furuichi
  • Publication number: 20220360997
    Abstract: A communication control device includes an acquisition unit that acquires range information about privacy protection of a first radio system, a determination unit that determines a communication parameter of a second radio system that shares and uses the radio wave used by the first radio system based on a method associated with a range identified based on the range information, and a notification unit that notifies the second radio system of the determined communication parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventor: SHO FURUICHI
  • Patent number: 11477660
    Abstract: There is provided a wireless device including an acquisition unit (110) that acquires a distribution amount of an interference margin to a second wireless system that shares a part or a whole of a frequency allocated to a first wireless system, from a device that manages one or more of the second wireless systems, and a control unit (120) that determines, from the interference margin, a distribution amount of the interference margin to a terminal that performs wireless communication with the wireless device in the second wireless system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sho Furuichi
  • Patent number: 11451969
    Abstract: Provided is a communication control device for managing secondary use of wireless resources. The communication control device includes an acquisition section that acquires, from the second wireless system, desired communication parameter information regarding secondary use, a setting section that sets a tentative communication parameter for the second wireless system on the basis of the desired communication parameter information, a determination section that determines, by using a protection criterion for the first wireless system, whether or not the tentative communication parameter set by the setting section satisfies a prescribed requirement regarding the first wireless system, and a reporting section that, in a case where the determination section determines that the prescribed requirement is satisfied, reports a permission communication parameter based on the tentative communication parameter to the second wireless system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sho Furuichi
  • Publication number: 20220295481
    Abstract: A communication control device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires information regarding one or more communication devices; a determination unit that determines a medium reservation scheme for the one or more communication devices to share a predetermined channel based on the acquired information; and a notification unit that notifies the communication device of the determined medium reservation scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventor: SHO FURUICHI
  • Publication number: 20220264312
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires capability information regarding beamforming of a second radio system that wishes to use one or more spectrum resources included in part or all of a frequency band used by a first radio system; a first specifying unit that specifies a plurality of interference calculation points for interference calculation regarding the first radio system; a second specifying unit that specifies one or a plurality of interference calculation points to be subjected to the interference calculation from among the plurality of interference calculation points based on the capability information; and a calculation unit that performs the interference calculation based on the specified one or the plurality of interference calculation points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventor: SHO FURUICHI
  • Patent number: 11412389
    Abstract: A communication control device including: a management unit configured to manage one or more first wireless communication devices; and an information exchange unit configured to exchange, with another communication control device that manages one or more second wireless communication devices, information related to frequency sharing by the second wireless communication devices. The information related to frequency sharing includes information related to a frequency band in which high-priority access can be made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sho Furuichi
  • Patent number: 11394503
    Abstract: A communication control device, a communication control method, and a program which can reduce interference caused among different radio systems. The communication control device includes: a communication unit configured to communicate with an apparatus belonging to a first radio network; and a control unit configured to control whether or not a radio communication apparatus belonging to the first radio network performs frequency hopping based on information of a second radio network different from the first radio network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Kimura, Ryo Sawai, Sho Furuichi
  • Patent number: 11388658
    Abstract: A device including a measurement unit configured to perform measurement of each of one or more frequency bands that are a part of a plurality of frequency bands that are not used by a terminal device. The measurement unit does not perform measurement of each of the remaining frequency bands among the plurality of frequency bands or performs measurement of each of the remaining frequency bands at a frequency lower than a frequency of the measurements of each of the one or more frequency bands, which makes it possible to improve measurement performed by a terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroaki Takano, Sho Furuichi
  • Patent number: 11388611
    Abstract: A communication control apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires information on a plurality of second wireless systems that perform wireless communication by utilizing a radio wave of a frequency band used by a first wireless system, a first determination unit that determines, based on the information on the second wireless systems, an operation parameter regarding radio transmission of each of the second wireless systems so as to satisfy a protection standard regarding interference of the radio wave of the first wireless system, a calculation unit that calculates a residual interference quantity that is allowed to be additionally allocated to the second wireless systems based on the operation parameter determined by the first determination unit and the protection standard of the first wireless system, a classification unit that classifies the second wireless systems into a single or a plurality of sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sho Furuichi
  • Patent number: 11363537
    Abstract: [Object] To achieve both prevention of harmful interference and promptness of power allocation under conditions in which multiple secondary systems may be managed. [Solution] Provided is a communication control apparatus including: a calculation unit configured to calculate a transmit power to be allocated, including a nominal transmit power and a margin for interference avoidance, for one or more secondary systems that secondarily use frequency channels protected for a primary system; and a determination unit configured to determine a variation in a number of secondary systems, and cause the calculation unit to adjust the margin for interference avoidance on a basis of the determined variation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho Furuichi, Ryo Sawai, Ryota Kimura, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Takashi Usui
  • Patent number: 11363610
    Abstract: A communication control device is provided. The communication control device includes a controller that sets an acceptable interference amount of a primary system that is acceptable by a secondary system that secondarily uses a radio wave in a predetermined frequency band allocated to the primary system. In the setting of the acceptable interference amount, the controller sets a first margin to be allocated to the secondary system that is operating, a second margin that absorbs a change in the first margin that has been caused by a change in the total number of secondary systems, and a third margin to be commonly set between the communication control device and another communication control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sho Furuichi