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: 10917858
    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: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho Furuichi, Ryo Sawai, Ryota Kimura, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Takashi Usui
  • Publication number: 20210037392
    Abstract: A communication control device includes a control unit configured to set an acceptable interference amount that is acceptable for a secondary system using a radio wave in a predetermined frequency band allocated to a primary system, with respect to the primary system. The control unit accommodates at least a part of a second margin to a different communication control device on the basis of information on a desired interference acceptable amount received from the different communication control device, the second margin being generated at the time of setting the acceptable interference amount and obtained by subtracting a first margin that is allocated to a secondary system managed by the subject device from a total interference margin that is set in the subject device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Sho FURUICHI
  • Patent number: 10911497
    Abstract: [Object] To be able to perform management involved with wireless communication without routing via a base station. [Solution] Provided is an apparatus including: a generation unit configured to generate information related to data wirelessly transmitted or received without being routed via a base station; and a control unit configured to control transmission of the information to a node which is not involved in the transmission or reception of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Kimura, Ryo Sawai, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Sho Furuichi
  • Publication number: 20210022011
    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: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Sho FURUICHI
  • Patent number: 10887844
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a communication control device capable of appropriately counting the number of secondary systems even in a case in which operation frequency bands of primary and secondary system are different. [Solution] Provided is a communication control device including an interference source calculation unit configured to calculate an actual number of interference sources for a first wireless system, using information regarding interference imposed on the first wireless system from a second wireless system using a second frequency band at least partially overlapping a first frequency band used by the first wireless system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sho Furuichi
  • Patent number: 10880772
    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: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hiroaki Takano, Atsushi Yoshizawa, Shinichiro Tsuda, Sho Furuichi
  • Patent number: 10873861
    Abstract: A communication control device including a management unit configured to manage one or more first wireless communication device, 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: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sho Furuichi
  • Patent number: 10863446
    Abstract: Provided is a communication control device including a height difference calculation unit that calculates a difference between an altitude of a reference point for calculating interference power including information regarding a height in a first wireless system and an altitude of one wireless communication device in a second wireless system including a plurality of wireless communication devices sharing a frequency allocated to the first wireless system. The communication control device further includes a power calculation unit that determines maximum allowable transmission power of the second wireless system so that an aggregate interference level due to communication of an interference source that can occur at the reference point satisfies an allowable interference level of the first wireless system, using one or more of the wireless communication devices for which the difference is less than a predetermined value as the interference source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sho Furuichi
  • Patent number: 10849129
    Abstract: A communication control apparatus including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire channel-related information related to a channel state of a terminal apparatus located within a cell, and position-related information related to a position of the terminal apparatus; and a generation unit configured to generate statistical information related to the channel state according to the position in the cell on the basis of the channel-related information and the position-related information. The statistical information is information used for assignment of a wireless resource in the cell. The apparatus can reduce the amount of the control information transmitted/received within the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Uchiyama, Ryota Kimura, Ryo Sawai, Sho Furuichi
  • Patent number: 10834722
    Abstract: There is provided a communication control device including an acquiring section that acquires first position related information relating to positions of one or more wireless communication devices among a plurality of access points that perform transmission of signals to a target device in parallel using an identical frequency resource and second position related information relating to a position of the target device, an estimating section that estimates a distance between the target device and each of the one or more wireless communication devices during the transmission on the basis of the first position related information and the second position related information, and a deciding section that decides transmission timing of each of the plurality of access points for the transmission on the basis of information that includes information on the estimated distance and relates to a distance between the target device and each of the plurality of access points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho Furuichi, Ryo Sawai, Ryota Kimura, Hiromasa Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 10833778
    Abstract: A communication control device that acquires first interference information indicating a first interference from communication involving a communication node that is not controlled by the communication control device and second interference information indicating a second interference from communication involving another communication node that is controlled by the communication control device. The communication control device classifies the communication nodes into groups related to a decision of a radio resource that is available for use by a communication node based on the first interference information and the second interference information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho Furuichi, Ryo Sawai, Ryota Kimura, Hiromasa Uchiyama
  • Publication number: 20200351882
    Abstract: [Problem] To implement RAN sharing as well as frequency sharing in a more preferred form. [Solution] A management device includes an obtaining unit that obtains, from a communication control device, first-type identification information which is specific to each communication device that performs wireless communication with one or more terminal devices, and second-type identification information which is specific to a user who is the target for allocation of a frequency band that is available for secondary use in the wireless communication; a generating unit that generates third-type identification information which is specific to the combination of the obtained first-type identification information and the obtained second-type identification information and which is meant for allocating the frequency band to at least either the communication device or the user; and a notifying unit that notifies the communication control device about the generated third-type identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Sho FURUICHI
  • Publication number: 20200344766
    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: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Sho FURUICHI
  • Patent number: 10813087
    Abstract: To enable management related to transmission and reception of data to be performed while reducing the load on the core network. Provided is an apparatus including: an acquiring unit configured to acquire data destined for a second terminal device which is transmitted from a first terminal device to a base station of a cellular system; and a control unit configured to control transmission of the data in a manner that the data is transferred from the first terminal device to the second terminal device without going through a gateway configured to perform data transfer in the cellular system. The control unit controls transmission of information related to the data to the gateway or a specific node, and the specific node is a node configured to receive, from the gateway, information related to another data transferred via the gateway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Kimura, Ryo Sawai, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Sho Furuichi
  • Publication number: 20200314769
    Abstract: A mechanism which enables management of frequency resources while suppressing a calculation amount under mm environment where location information of a communication device changes. A management server including: a creating unit to create list information; an acquiring unit to acquire a step size relating to transmission power setting of the communication device; a re-creation judging unit to judge whether or not to re-create the list information based on first location information when the list information has been created last time, second location information to be judged and the step size; and a notification unit to notify the communication device which uses the list information, of the re-created list information in a case where it is judged to re-create the list information and the list information created last time in a case where it is judged not to re-create the list information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sho Furuichi
  • Patent number: 10772080
    Abstract: A wireless communication device, a wireless communication method, and a program capable of contributing to improvement of wireless communication technology related to IDMA. The wireless communication device includes: a wireless communication unit that performs wireless communication using interleave division multiple access (IDMA) with another wireless communication device; and a controller that controls an interleave length in an interleave process for IDMA by the wireless communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Kimura, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Sho Furuichi, Ryo Sawai
  • Patent number: 10750517
    Abstract: A communication control device including an acquisition unit configured to acquire quality-related information regarding quality of a backhaul line to be used for providing control-related information regarding control in a control scheme of radio communication to a communication node to which the control scheme is applied, and a control unit configured to control the application of the control scheme to the communication node based on the quality-related information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Kimura, Ryo Sawai, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Sho Furuichi
  • Publication number: 20200245325
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a communication control device, a wireless communication device, a method and a program which are capable of realizing coexistence control using information relating to a duplex mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Sho Furuichi
  • Publication number: 20200228963
    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: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventor: SHO FURUICHI
  • Publication number: 20200205064
    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: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromasa UCHIYAMA, Hiroaki TAKANO, Sho FURUICHI