Patents by Inventor Shoko Shinohara

Shoko Shinohara 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: 20230137745
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a wireless base station that performs wireless communication with a wireless terminal; and a wireless communication control station that is communicably connected to the wireless base station. The wireless communication control station includes a determination unit that determines a requirement that is prioritized among multiple types of requirements in wireless communication, a setting unit that sets the information indicating the parameter to be used for communication control by the wireless base station, and a transmission unit that transmits the information set by the setting unit to the wireless base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Shoko SHINOHARA, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230121752
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system including a plurality of base stations to which terminal stations are connectable, and a monitoring station which monitors each of the base stations, the monitoring station includes an information collection unit configured to collect wireless environment information including a plurality of information items indicating wireless environments around the base stations and the terminal stations, from each of the base stations, a defect detection unit configured to detect whether or not one or more defects occur based on a combination of the information items, and a defect determination unit configured to determine estimated occurrence probabilities of the defects detected by the defect detection unit based on a combination of the information items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Shoko SHINOHARA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230113366
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system including a plurality of base stations to which terminal stations are connectable, and a base station control device which controls each of the base stations, the base station control device includes an information collection unit configured to collect wireless environment information indicating wireless environments around the base stations and the terminal stations from each of the base stations, and a policy calculation unit configured to calculate policy for connecting the base stations and the terminal stations based on the wireless environment information collected by the information collection unit, each of the base stations includes a reception unit configured to receive the policy calculated by the policy calculation unit, a transition destination calculation unit configured to calculate a transition destination to which a terminal station left unaccommodated is to be connected based on the policy received by the reception unit, and a transmission unit configured to
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Shoko SHINOHARA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230080036
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication system in which, based on a random access scheme, a transmission opportunity (TXOP) acquired by a wireless access point is granted to a wireless station when performing uplink data transmission from the wireless station to the wireless access point and the TXOP acquired by the wireless station is granted to the wireless access point when performing downlink data transmission from the wireless access point to the wireless station, the system includes a scheduling unit for TXOP granting determining one or more wireless stations having a quality of an uplink data transmission lower than a prescribed value as TXOP responders to which the wireless access point grants the TXOP, and determining one or more wireless stations having a quality of a downlink data transmission lower than the prescribed value as TXOP holders which grant the TXOP to the wireless access point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riichi KUDO, Hirantha Sithira ABEYSEKERA, Munehiro MATSUI, Shoko SHINOHARA, Yasushi TAKATORI, Takeo ICHIKAWA, Masato MIZOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230061186
    Abstract: A base station (10) according to an embodiment includes a data processing unit (101) and a wireless signal processing unit (103). The data processing unit (101) generates a MAC frame. The MAC frame includes input data and an identification bit (CB). The identification bit (CB) indicates that data is extended broadcast data. The wireless signal processing unit (103) converts the MAC frame into a wireless signal to distribute the wireless signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiko INOUE, Shoko SHINOHARA, Akira KISHIDA, Kengo NAGATA, Yusuke ASAI, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230031578
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus (14) according to an embodiment includes a data processing unit (105) and a wireless communication unit (104). The data processing unit (105) converts input data. The wireless communication unit (104) receives the data converted by the data processing unit (105) and wirelessly transmits the input data to an access point. The data processing unit (105) converts, when a remaining amount input from a battery (12) is in a first state, the input data with a first setting and outputs the converted data to the wireless communication unit (104). The data processing unit (105) converts, when the remaining amount of the battery (12) is in a second state different from the first state, the input data with a second setting and outputs the converted data to the wireless communication unit (104). A capacity per unit time of the data after conversion is different between the first setting and the second setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Yasuhiko INOUE, Shoko SHINOHARA, Kengo NAGATA, Yusuke ASAI, Akira KISHIDA, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230035101
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system including a plurality of base stations to which terminal stations are connectable, and a monitoring station which monitors each of the base stations, the monitoring station includes an information collection unit configured to collect wireless environment information including a plurality of information items indicating wireless environments around the base stations and the terminal stations, from each of the base stations, a point calculation unit configured to calculate a total point of points to be respectively provided to a plurality of defect items determined in advance in a case where a determination condition determined in advance for each of the information items is satisfied, and a defect detection unit configured to detect whether or not a defect listed as one or more of the defect items occurs based on the total point calculated by the point calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Shoko SHINOHARA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230034313
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system including an intermediate processing device which performs processing between a plurality of base stations to which terminal stations are connectable and a base station control device which controls each of the base stations, the intermediate processing device includes an information collection unit configured to collect wireless environment information which includes information regarding the terminal stations connected to the base stations and which indicates wireless environments around the base stations and the terminal stations, from each of the base stations, a first conversion unit configured to convert the wireless environment information collected by the information collection unit into first information which is equally processable by the base station control device without distinction for each of the base stations, a transmission unit configured to transmit the first information to the base station control device, a reception unit configured to receive a parameter
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Shoko SHINOHARA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20230035896
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system including a plurality of base stations to which terminal stations are connectable and a base station control device which controls each of the base stations, the base station control device includes an information collection unit configured to collect wireless environment information indicating wireless environments around the base stations and the terminal stations from each of the base stations, a parameter calculation unit configured to calculate a parameter for correcting radio wave interference relationship among the base stations based on the wireless environment information collected by the information collection unit and priority set in advance for each of the base stations, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the parameter calculated by the parameter calculation unit to each of the base stations, and each of the base stations includes a reception unit configured to receive the parameter transmitted by the transmission unit, and a setting unit configured t
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Shoko SHINOHARA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Patent number: 11523439
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication system in which, based on a random access scheme, a transmission opportunity (TXOP) acquired by a wireless access point is granted to a wireless station when performing uplink data transmission from the wireless station to the wireless access point and the TXOP acquired by the wireless station is granted to the wireless access point when performing downlink data transmission from the wireless access point to the wireless station, the system includes a scheduling unit for TXOP granting determining one or more wireless stations having a quality of an uplink data transmission lower than a prescribed value as TXOP responders to which the wireless access point grants the TXOP, and determining one or more wireless stations having a quality of a downlink data transmission lower than the prescribed value as TXOP holders which grant the TXOP to the wireless access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riichi Kudo, Hirantha Sithira Abeysekera, Munehiro Matsui, Shoko Shinohara, Yasushi Takatori, Takeo Ichikawa, Masato Mizoguchi
  • Publication number: 20220386378
    Abstract: A format that includes a BSSID of a transmitting station within a preamble of the frame is an HE format, and a format that does not include a BSSID within the preamble but includes a BSSID in a MAC header is a Non-HE format; and a wireless station in the BSS includes a control part which checks a format of a frame received at a predetermined receiver sensitivity or above, and continues demodulation of the received frame if the format is HE format and the BSSID in the received frame is consistent with its own BSS, and stops the demodulation of the received frame if the HE format and the BSSID in the received frame is not consistent with its own BSS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoko SHINOHARA, Yasuhiko INOUE, Junichi IWATANI, Masato MIZOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11432327
    Abstract: A format that includes a BSSID of a transmitting station within a preamble of the frame is an HE format, and a format that does not include a BSSID within the preamble but includes a BSSID in a MAC header is a Non-HE format; and a wireless station in the BSS includes a control part which checks a format of a frame received at a predetermined receiver sensitivity or above, and continues demodulation of the received frame if the format is HE format and the BSSID in the received frame is consistent with its own BSS, and stops the demodulation of the received frame if the HE format and the BSSID in the received frame is not consistent with its own BSS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoko Shinohara, Yasuhiko Inoue, Junichi Iwatani, Masato Mizoguchi
  • Publication number: 20220225137
    Abstract: A wireless communication characteristics evaluation method for evaluating wireless communication characteristics of a wireless communication system where a plurality of wireless communication terminals perform communication by transmitting or exchanging signals, the wireless communication characteristics evaluation method including: a step 1 of acquiring power and a band of an interference signal; a step 2 of calculating an interference band rate showing a rate of the band of the interference signal that overlaps with a band of a desired signal; a step 3 of calculating an interference power rate from interference power and the interference band rate and furthermore, calculating steady noise power from the interference power and the interference power rate; a step 4 of determining a real SINR from received power of the desired signal and the steady noise power; and a step 5 of determining wireless communication characteristics of the desired signal from the real SINR.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoko SHINOHARA, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Yasuhiko INOUE, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Takafumi HAYASHI, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20220217504
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a plurality of transmission devices configured to receive broadcast/multicast data transmitted from a broadcast/multicast data transmission device, convert the broadcast/multicast data into wireless frames, and broadcast/multicast the wireless frames to a plurality of reception devices, and the plurality of reception devices configured to receive the wireless frames broadcasted/multicasted from the plurality of transmission devices and acquire the broadcast/multicast data, and each of the plurality of transmission devices includes a broadcast/multicast transmission unit configured to generate the same wireless frame from the broadcast/multicast data and broadcast/multicast the generated wireless frame at the same transmission timing using the same MCS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiko INOUE, Shoko SHINOHARA, Takafumi HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220216930
    Abstract: A wireless communication characteristic evaluation method for calculating a wireless communication characteristic of a wireless communication system in which a plurality of wireless communication terminals perform communication by transmitting or exchanging signals includes: an RSSI measurement step of measuring an RSSI measurement used for calculation of the wireless communication characteristic; and a calculation step of calculating the wireless communication characteristic based on the RSSI measurement and correction data of the RSSI measurement according to specifications of the wireless communication terminals or a correction calculation model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoko SHINOHARA, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Yasuhiko INOUE, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Takafumi HAYASHI, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20220217545
    Abstract: A station installation support system for performing a station installation design of a wireless base station satisfying a required performance and a parameter design includes a station installation support device that acquires a station installation calculation condition required to calculate a station installation of the wireless base station, a parameter calculation condition required to calculate a parameter of the wireless base station, a wireless performance evaluation condition required to evaluate a wireless performance, and a station installation evaluation condition required to evaluate the station installation and performs the station installation design and the parameter design, a wireless signal evaluation unit that outputs a wireless signal evaluation result corresponding to wireless signal evaluation information, a station installation calculation unit that outputs a station installation calculation result corresponding to station installation calculation information, a parameter calculation un
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Shoko SHINOHARA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Yasuhiko INOUE, Takafumi HAYASHI, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20220201759
    Abstract: A predetermined STA includes a station information collection unit collecting from the STA itself and other STAs station information used for selection of STAs performing simultaneous transmission and for control of the simultaneous transmission, and a simultaneous-transmission request unit knowing occurrence of a QoS data frame based on the station information and transmitting a request frame requesting the simultaneous transmission to an AP. The AP includes a station information collection unit; a simultaneous-transmission determination unit selecting a combination of the STAs performing the simultaneous transmission based on the station information by reception of the request frame; and a trigger transmission unit transmitting to each of the STAs performing the simultaneous transmission a trigger frame instructing to performs the simultaneous transmission and including information necessary for controlling the simultaneous transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoko SHINOHARA, Yasuhiko INOUE, Akira KISHIDA, Riichi KUDO, Masato MIZOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220174505
    Abstract: There are provided a step 1 of, at a measurement point where a throughput of a wireless communication terminal under a new communication standard is to be acquired, measuring or calculating a wireless communication characteristic (throughput) of a wireless communication terminal under a current communication standard; a step 2 of acquiring parameters of a physical layer and a MAC layer at the time of measuring or calculating the wireless communication characteristic of the wireless communication terminal under the current communication standard; and a step 3 of, with the wireless communication characteristic (throughput) measured or calculated for the wireless communication terminal under the current communication standard and the parameters of the physical layer and the MAC layer at that time as inputs, calculating a wireless communication characteristic (throughput) corresponding to parameters of the wireless communication terminal under the new communication standard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoko SHINOHARA, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Yasuhiko INOUE, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Koichi ISHIHARA, Takafumi HAYASHI, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20220174516
    Abstract: A wireless performance evaluation method for performing wireless performance evaluation of a wireless network including wireless base stations and wireless terminal stations includes: a step 1 of, before performing wireless performance evaluation operation based on wireless performance evaluation information generated from wireless performance evaluation conditions, determining whether an existing wireless performance evaluation result of wireless performance evaluation operation that has been performed is substitutable or not; and a step 2 of, if the existing wireless performance evaluation result is substitutable, skipping arithmetic processing corresponding to the wireless performance evaluation information and substituting the existing wireless performance evaluation result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Shoko SHINOHARA, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Yasuhiko INOUE, Koichi ISHIHARA, Takafumi HAYASHI, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Publication number: 20220159476
    Abstract: A method includes a step 1 of performing processing for determining wireless terminal stations that are inside cover areas of existing wireless base stations, and excluding the existing wireless base stations and the wireless terminal stations inside the cover areas from a wireless base station installation area, a step 2 of performing processing for optimizing, with respect to each first wireless terminal station that is outside the cover areas of the existing wireless base stations and has been left in the processing for excluding in the step 1, a combination of the first wireless terminal station and the closest additional wireless base station from which received power is the largest, and optimizing installation positions of additional wireless base stations, a step 3 of determining, with respect to the combinations of the additional wireless base stations and the first wireless terminal stations that were optimized in the step 2, whether wireless terminal stations are inside or outside cover areas of the
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Hirantha ABEYSEKERA, Shoko SHINOHARA, Yasuhiko INOUE, Koichi ISHIHARA, Takafumi HAYASHI, Daisuke GOTO, Yasushi TAKATORI