Patents by Inventor Takehiro Nakamura

Takehiro Nakamura 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: 7940770
    Abstract: An acquiring unit (60) of a reception device acquires, from a transmission device, a notification of re-establishment of data in a lower layer. A notifying/instructing unit (70) of the reception device notifies, to the transmission device, a sequence number in a higher layer of data which is desired to be received. An RLC processing unit (40) of the transmission device acquires, from the reception device, a sequence number in a higher layer of data which is desired to be received; and performs the re-establishment from the data having the sequence number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Sung Uk Moon, Minami Ishii, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7941168
    Abstract: A mobile communication system is configured to control a transmission rate of user data to be transmitted from a mobile station to a radio base station via an uplink transmission rate allocation shared physical control channel, and to transmit user data from the radio base station to the mobile station via a downlink shared physical data channel. Transmission frame timing of the uplink transmission rate allocation shared physical control channel is synchronized with transmission frame timing of the downlink shared physical data channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Anil Umesh, Masafumi Usuda, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110092204
    Abstract: A cell selection method includes steps of: (A) determining, at a mobile station (UE), whether or not a first CSG cell satisfies a predetermined condition, when using a first macro cell as a camped cell; and (B) changing, at the mobile station (UE), the camped cell from the first macro cell to a first CSG cell, when determined that the first CSG cell satisfies the predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Mikio Iwamura, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110081909
    Abstract: A cell selection method includes steps of: (A) determining, at a mobile station (UE), whether or not a first CSG cell satisfies a predetermined condition, when using a first macro cell as a camped cell; and (B) changing, at the mobile station (UE), the camped cell from the first macro cell to a first CSG cell, when determined that the first CSG cell satisfies the predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Mikio Iwamura, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110077009
    Abstract: A cell selection method includes steps of: (A) determining, at a mobile station (UE), whether or not a first CSG cell satisfies a predetermined condition, when using a first macro cell as a camped cell; and (B) changing, at the mobile station (UE), the camped cell from the first macro cell to a first CSG cell, when determined that the first CSG cell satisfies the predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Mikio Iwamura, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110077045
    Abstract: A cell selection method includes steps of: (A) determining, at a mobile station (UE), whether or not a first CSG cell satisfies a predetermined condition, when using a first macro cell as a camped cell; and (B) changing, at the mobile station (UE), the camped cell from the first macro cell to a first CSG cell, when determined that the first CSG cell satisfies the predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Mikio Iwamura, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7903630
    Abstract: A base station used in a packet transmission system in which shared user data to be selectively received by a user are transmitted using a shared data channel from one or more base stations to one or more mobile stations is provided. The base station includes means configured to provide user control data associated with transmission of the shared user data; means configured to provide notification data that include notification information used to select the shared user data and group identification information for specifying the notification information; and means configured to generate an associated control channel that is associated with the shared data channel and includes the user control data and the notification data, the associated control channel and the shared data channel being transmitted from the base station to the mobile station. The generated associated control channel is transmitted from the base station to the mobile stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Masayuki Motegi, Yasuhiro Kato, Minami Ishii, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7890110
    Abstract: A radio network controller comprises a cell selector configured to select a cell to use by a mobile station after data reception, and a mobile station controller configured to control the mobile station to communicate by radio using the cell selected by the cell selector after the data reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Sung Uk Moon, Minami Ishii, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7885652
    Abstract: A mobile station includes; a retransmission control section configured to perform retransmission control of user data in a physical layer and a MAC sublayer with one or more radio base stations; and a threshold setting section configured to set a threshold used for determining presence or absence of an acknowledgement signal of the user data, according to the number of the radio base stations to which the mobile station connects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Anil Umesh, Masafumi Usuda, Hiroyuki Ishii, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7885617
    Abstract: A base station (10) according to the present invention includes: a plurality of amplifiers (15a, 15b) configured to amplify radio frequency signals; a plurality of antennas (16a, 16b) configured to transmit the RF signals amplified by the plurality of amplifiers (15a, 15b); a judging unit (123) configured to judge whether or not to transmit the RF signals by applying a transmission diversity using the plurality of antennas (16a, 16b); and a baseband signal processor unit (12) configured to generate baseband signals having an identical symbol pattern and an identical amplitude, as baseband signals that are bases of the RF signals to be transmitted from the plurality of antennas (16a, 16b), when the judging unit (123) determines not to apply the transmission diversity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Masafumi Usuda, Hiroyuki Ishii, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110026486
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile communication method including: a step in which a first radio base station S-eNB transmits a handover instruction which instructs a mobile station UE performing communication via a first cell under control of a first radio base station SeNB, so as to perform a handover to a second cell under control of a second radio base station TeNB; a step in which the mobile station UE performs a handover from the first cell to the second cell in accordance with the handover instruction; a step in which the mobile station UE acquires a global cell ID which can uniquely identify a second cell in at least one mobile communication system; and a step in which the mobile station UE reports a global cell ID which can uniquely identify the acquired second cell, to a position information management server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Minami Ishii, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110021199
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps: transmitting, from an exchange (MME) to a first radio base station (eNB), a location information reporting instruction which provides an instruction to report location information on a mobile station (UE); reporting, the first radio base station (eNB) to the exchange (MME), the location information on the mobile station (UE), in accordance with the location information reporting instruction; transmitting, the location information reporting instruction to a second radio base station (eNB), in a handover procedure of the mobile station (UE) from the first radio base station (eNB) to the second radio base station (eNB); and reporting, from the second radio base station (eNB) to the exchange (MME), the location information on the mobile station (UE), in accordance with the location information reporting instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Minami Ishii, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110019642
    Abstract: A radio base station (200A) according to the present invention includes: a radio related information retainer unit (206) configured to retain radio related information on connection between a mobile station (100) and the radio base station (200A); a handover request signal generator/transmitter unit (208) configured to transmit a handover request signal including the radio related information retained by the radio related information retainer unit (206) to a connection target radio base station (200B) ; and a handover command signal generator/transmitter unit (202) configured to transmit, to the mobile station, a handover command signal for notifying difference information between the radio related information retained by the radio related information retainer unit (206) and radio related information set by the connection target radio base station (200B) based on a handover request acknowledgment signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Minami Ishii, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7873381
    Abstract: A radio communication control system (10) which controls a transmission power of a shared control channel for transmitting a control signal to a plurality of mobile stations, includes: a new transmission power setting section (13) configured to set a new transmission power of the shared control channel by adding an offset to a transmission power of a dedicated channel to be transmitted dedicatedly to each of the plurality of mobile stations; wherein the offset is set in accordance with a propagation environment of a radio communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishii, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110007708
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of: (A) calculating, at the radio base station (eNB1), an estimated neighbor radio base station parameter, on a basis of load information acquired from a neighbor radio base station (eNB2), the estimated neighbor radio base station parameter being supposed to be used in the neighbor radio base station (eNB2); and (B) notifying, from the radio base station to (eNB1) the neighbor radio base station (eNB2), the estimated neighbor radio base station parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2009
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Mikio Iwamura, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110002318
    Abstract: It is an objective of the present invention to efficiently use an uplink radio resource, when transmitting user data based on an uplink high efficient transmission method. A mobile station according to the present invention includes a transmission section configured to transmit high efficient uplink data channel frames for transmitting user data based on the uplink high efficient transmission method, so that transmission timings of the high efficient uplink data channel frames are synchronized among mobile stations located in a single area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Anil UMESH, Masafumi USUDA, Takehiro NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 7864755
    Abstract: A mobile node in a packet communication system including a node, a link and a base station that complies with an Edge Mobility scheme is disclosed. The mobile node includes: a route information reporting unit configured to report route information that is information of a route to the own mobile node; a route information registering unit configured to obtain route information to at least one of the base station and a default router, and register the route information in a route control table; a storing unit configured to store the route control table; and a packet transmission unit configured to transmit a packet based on the route information stored in the route control table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Masayuki Motegi, Yasuhiro Kato, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20100331034
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes: notifying, from a network node (200, 300) to a mobile station (100), a communication service provided by a target radio access technology in which the mobile station (100) is to be in idle mode; storing, at the mobile station (100), the communication service notified by the network node (200, 300); and starting, at the mobile station (100), a connection procedure on the basis of the stored communication service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Minami Ishii, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7860503
    Abstract: A radio network controller includes a selection decision unit for deciding whether or not the selection of cells to be used by mobile stations after data reception is to be performed, and a mobile station controller for instructing the mobile stations to select cells to use after the data reception according to a result of a decision by the selection decision unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Sung Uk Moon, Minami Ishii, Takehiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7853283
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a transmission power control method which controls a transmission power of uplink user data for transmitting an uplink user data from a mobile station to a radio base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Masafumi Usuda, Anil Umesh, Takehiro Nakamura