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: 20150188675
    Abstract: There is provided a wireless communication system which can improve throughputs in wireless communication by effectively using frequency resources. In the wireless communication system including a plurality of wireless communication stations which may operate as wireless communication terminals or wireless base stations, the wireless communication station includes an access right acquisition means of acquiring an access right upon generating transmitting data; a determination means of determining whether or not different data destined to a plurality of wireless communication stations can be transmitted on different channels according to OFDMA; and a data transmitting means of transmitting data to the receivable wireless communication stations using OFDMA when the determination means determines that different data destined to a plurality of wireless communication stations can be transmitted on different channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicants: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirantha Sithira Abeysekera, Yasuhiko Inoue, Yusuke Asai, Shoko Shinohara, Takeo Ichikawa, Masato Mizoguchi
  • Publication number: 20150172012
    Abstract: In order to provide a wireless communication system capable of improving the throughput of wireless communication by effectively using frequency resources, in a wireless communication system in which a first wireless access point which communicates with one or more wireless stations within a first cell by orthogonal frequency-division multiple access and a second wireless access point which is capable of performing carrier sensing with the first wireless access point and communicates with one or more wireless stations within a second cell by the orthogonal frequency-division multiple access operate in cooperation with each other, the first wireless access point includes a transmission opportunity acquiring unit which acquires a transmission opportunity when data to be transmitted is generated; and a transmitting unit of permission for use which transmits permission for use of channels which are not scheduled to use within the first cell, to the second wireless access point in a period in which the transmissio
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirantha Sithira Abeysekera, Yasuhiko Inoue, Yusuke Asai, Shoko Shinohara, Takeo Ichikawa, Masato Mizoguchi