Patents by Inventor Tomoya OHARA

Tomoya OHARA 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: 20230199651
    Abstract: A terminal includes a receiving unit configured to receive a signal in a physical layer from a base station, the signal including information related to monitoring of a control channel. The terminal includes a control unit configured to monitor the control channel transmitted from the base station. The control unit configures a period in which the control channel is not monitored, based on the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Tomoya Ohara
  • Publication number: 20230129299
    Abstract: A terminal includes a control unit that selects a transmission occasion to transmit a random access preamble and that configures a frequency bandwidth used for transmission or reception by the terminal by using a start position of a frequency bandwidth of the selected transmission occasion or a center position of the frequency bandwidth of the selected transmission occasion as a reference, so that the random access preamble is to be transmitted in the frequency bandwidth of the transmission occasion; and a transmission unit that transmits the random access preamble based on the frequency bandwidth configured by the control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoya Ohara, Daiki Takeda, Shinya Kumagai
  • Publication number: 20230123822
    Abstract: A terminal includes a receiver that receives information related to a reference signal, and a controller that uses the reference signal in a radio resource control (RRC) idle state or in an RRC inactive state, based on the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Tomoya Ohara
  • Publication number: 20230104916
    Abstract: A terminal including: a reception unit configured to receive configuration information for use in a random access procedure from a base station apparatus; and a transmission unit configured to transmit information indicating an attribute of the terminal to the base station apparatus in the random access procedure based on the configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoya Ohara, Daiki Takeda, Shinya Kumagai
  • Publication number: 20230094704
    Abstract: A terminal includes a control unit configured to identify a first transmission occasion to transmit a message used in a two-step random access procedure via a physical random access channel and a second transmission occasion to transmit the message via a physical uplink shared channel, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the message using the first transmission occasion and the second transmission occasion, wherein the control unit is configured to change a method of identifying the second transmission occasion when the first transmission occasion is invalidated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Tomoya Ohara
  • Publication number: 20230071903
    Abstract: A terminal includes a receiving unit configured to receive a parameter related to a DRX (Discontinuous reception) from a base station, and a control unit configured to control an operation of the DRX for each of a plurality of component carriers, based on the parameter and a subcarrier spacing applied to the component carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Tomoya Ohara
  • Publication number: 20230072931
    Abstract: A terminal includes a receiving unit that receives, from a base station, a parameter for a random access procedure; a control unit that determines a time domain location of the PUSCH slot based on a time domain location of a Physical Random Access Channel (RACH) slot, subcarrier spacing of the RACH slot, subcarrier spacing of a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) slot, and the parameter; and a transmitting unit that transmits, at the determined time domain location, the PUSCH to the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Tomoya Ohara
  • Patent number: 11601979
    Abstract: A user apparatus in a radio communication system including a base station and the user apparatus, including: a transmission unit configured to transmit a preamble to the base station; and a reception unit configured to monitor a response for the preamble within a predetermined time window by using predetermined identification information, wherein the reception unit calculates the predetermined identification information using a system frame number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Tomoya Ohara
  • Patent number: 11570817
    Abstract: A user equipment for communicating with a base station apparatus is disclosed, the user equipment including a receiver that receives information related to random access; a processor that identifies, based on the information related to the random access, a first preamble format, a second preamble format, and random access channel resources; a transmitter that transmits a random access preamble using the random access channel resources, wherein the transmitter transmits the random access preamble using a last resource in a time domain of the random access channel resources and the second preamble format, and the transmitter transmits the random access preamble using a resource other than the last resource in the time domain and the first preamble format. In other aspects, a base station apparatus and a communication method are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoya Ohara, Hiroki Harada
  • Patent number: 11570762
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed that includes a transmitter that performs uplink transmission; and a processor that adjusts timing of the uplink transmission with respect to a downlink reception timing, wherein, when a band of a cell in which uplink transmission is performed is not a predetermined band, the processor adjusts the timing by using a same offset value when a duplex mode of the band of the cell is frequency division duplex (FDD) and when the duplex mode of the band of the cell is time division duplex (TDD). In other aspects, a base station and an uplink transmission timing adjustment method executed by the terminal are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Tomoya Ohara
  • Publication number: 20230023821
    Abstract: A terminal includes a reception unit that receives configuration information in a high frequency band higher than or equal to a frequency band of a frequency range 2 (FR2), the FR2 being in a range including a frequency range 1 (FR1) that is a low frequency band and the FR2 that is a high frequency band in a new radio (NR) system; and a control unit that configures at least one of a format of a random access preamble, a sequence of the random access preamble, or a subcarrier spacing applied to a channel on which the random access preamble is to be transmitted, wherein the at least one of the format, the sequence, or the subcarrier spacing is associated with an index included in the configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Tomoya Ohara, Satoshi Nagata, Jing Wang
  • Patent number: 11564222
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed including a processor that adjusts an uplink transmission timing based on granularity relative to a largest subcarrier spacing among subcarrier spacings of a plurality of uplink bandwidth parts in a same timing advance group and based on a timing advance command; and a transmitter that performs uplink transmission according to the uplink transmission timing. In other aspects, a transmission method performed by a terminal is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Hideaki Takahashi, Kazuki Takeda, Tomoya Ohara, Hiroki Harada
  • Publication number: 20220417869
    Abstract: A terminal including: a transmission unit that transmits a first message and a second message used in a 2-step random access procedure, the first message being transmitted via a physical random access channel and the second message transmitted via a physical uplink shared channel; and a control unit that determines a power control to be applied to the first message and the second message, according to a control based on a prioritization rule of power allocation applied to the first message or the second message, wherein the transmission unit retransmits the first message and the second message by applying the determined power control to the first message and the second message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Tomoya Ohara
  • Publication number: 20220408489
    Abstract: A terminal including a reception unit that receives configuration information in a high frequency band higher than or equal to a frequency band of a frequency range 2 (FR2), the FR2 being in a range including a frequency range 1 (FR1) that is a low frequency band and the FR2 that is a high frequency band in a new radio (NR) system; and a control unit that configures at least one of a format of a random access preamble, a sequence of the random access preamble, a subcarrier spacing applied to a channel on which the random access preamble is to be transmitted, or a subcarrier spacing applied to an uplink shared channel, based on the configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Tomoya Ohara, Satoshi Nagata, Jing Wang
  • Publication number: 20220393844
    Abstract: A terminal includes a communication unit configured to perform communication by using carrier aggregation in a primary cell or a primary secondary cell and a secondary cell, and a control unit configured to perform a change of an operation related to the secondary cell when a change of a communication state occurs in the primary cell, the primary secondary cell, or the secondary cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Tomoya Ohara
  • Publication number: 20220394773
    Abstract: A terminal includes a control unit that selects a set of configuration information related to a physical uplink shared channel transmission for a MessageA (MsgA PUSCH) in a two step random access procedure based on configuration information of an active uplink Bandwidth Part (BWP); and a transmitting unit that performs the MsgA PUSCH transmission by using the set of the configuration information selected by the control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Tomoya Ohara
  • Publication number: 20220394772
    Abstract: A terminal includes a control unit that performs at least one of the following in a case where a 2-step Random Access Channel (RACH) configuration is to be configured for a Bandwidth Part (BWP) reusing a RACH configuration parameter configured for another uplink BWP as a 2-step RACH configuration parameter, newly configuring the 2-step RACH configuration parameter, or configuring a default parameter as the 2-step RACH configuration parameter; and a transmitting unit that transmits a MessageA in the 2-step RACH by using the 2-step RACH configuration parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Tomoya Ohara
  • Patent number: 11516753
    Abstract: User equipment includes a transmission unit that performs uplink transmissions to a base station apparatus via a plurality of uplink carriers; and a control unit that changes a transmission power value of a random access channel to be transmitted with one or more of the plurality of uplink carriers when priority levels are assigned to the respective uplink transmissions on the plurality of uplink carriers; wherein, when the transmission unit fails to transmit a random access preamble with the transmission power value of the random access channel that is changed by the control unit and the transmission unit retransmits a random access preamble, the control unit changes transmission power control of the random access preamble to be transmitted from normal transmission power control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Tomoya Ohara
  • Publication number: 20220376878
    Abstract: In a case of using a different frequency band that is different from a frequency band including one or a plurality of frequency ranges, a terminal applies initial access configurations including a format of an initial access signal, the format being different from that for the frequency band. The terminal transmits the initial access signal via an initial access channel set based on the applied initial access configurations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kurita, Hiroki Harada, Tomoya Ohara, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20220369389
    Abstract: In a case of using a different frequency band that is different from a frequency band including one or a plurality of frequency ranges, a terminal sets an initial access channel configured with a smaller number of resource blocks than in a case of using the frequency band. The terminal transmits an initial access signal via the set initial access channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kurita, Hiroki Harada, Tomoya Ohara, Satoshi Nagata