Patents by Inventor Tooru Uchino

Tooru Uchino 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: 11979745
    Abstract: A user equipment includes a receiving unit configured to receive, from a base station apparatus, information for requesting a report of a User Equipment (UE) capability, a control unit configured to generate the report including a supported UE capability, and a transmitting unit configured to, in a case where an Access Stratum (AS) security with the base station apparatus is activated, transmit the report to the base station apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Tooru Uchino
  • Patent number: 11974340
    Abstract: UE (200) executes dual connectivity in which it simultaneously connects to a radio base station and other radio base station. The UE (200) includes a transmitting unit (210) that transmits to the radio base station and the other radio base station uplink transmission related information indicating an uplink transmission state, and a control unit (230) that controls transmission or stop of transmission of the uplink transmission related information of a predetermined type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Hideaki Takahashi, Akihito Hanaki
  • Patent number: 11963251
    Abstract: A network node that is a second network node connected to a user device and a first network node includes: a control unit that acquires information regarding a layer which is terminated at the user device and the second network node; and a transmission unit that transmits the information regarding the layer to the first network node. The layer is not terminated at the user device and the first network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Teruaki Toeda, Anil Umesh
  • Patent number: 11937335
    Abstract: An user equipment in a wireless communication system including a base station and the user equipment is configured to include: a reception unit configured to receive information for setting a value of a predetermined timer from the base station; and a transmission unit configured to transmit an uplink data in a case where the predetermined timer is not activated, wherein the transmission unit activates the predetermined timer in a case where that the value of the predetermined timer is set from the base station and information indicating that there is no uplink data to be transmitted is transmitted to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Tooru Uchino, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari
  • Patent number: 11895523
    Abstract: A user apparatus includes a communication unit configured to communicate with a first base station apparatus and a second base station apparatus, wherein the first base station apparatus is a master node in a New Radio (NR) radio communication system and the second base station apparatus is a secondary node in the NR radio communication system; a reception unit configured to receive from the first base station apparatus an instruction to measure a system frame number and frame timing difference (SFTD) representing a system frame number and frame timing difference between cells; a control unit configured to measure SFTD between a cell of the first base station apparatus and a cell of the second base station apparatus based on the instruction to measure SFTD; and a transmission unit configured to transmit to the first base station apparatus a measurement result including the measured SFTD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Tianyang Min, Tooru Uchino
  • Patent number: 11870536
    Abstract: A terminal (200) configures PCell and SCell simultaneously. The terminal (200) includes a receiving unit (220) that receives a reference signal for use in a detection of a beam failure in the SCell, and a controller (270) that performs at least one of the detection of the beam failure and a beam failure recovery request based on a reception quality of the reference signal. The controller (270) performs at least one of the detection of the beam failure and the beam failure recovery request when a predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Yuki Matsumura, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11864237
    Abstract: A terminal includes a receiver configured to receive a Timing Advance command; and a controller configured to control a timer related to uplink time alignment, wherein, in response to receiving the Timing Advance command by the receiver, the controller starts the timer, and wherein, upon receiving, by the receiver, a contention resolution message, the controller stops the timer after a time period from the reception of the contention resolution message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11856616
    Abstract: A UE (200) performs a random access procedure with a gNB (100). The UE (200) transmits to a network via a radio base station at least one of a synchronization signal block used for performing the random access procedure, a reception quality in the synchronization signal block, a group of random access preambles, and number of times for which power ramping was performed in the random access procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Teruaki Toeda, Tooru Uchino
  • Patent number: 11825538
    Abstract: In a radio communication system, a split bearer that passes from a core network to a secondary cell group and branches from gNB 100B included in the secondary cell group to eNB 100A included in a master cell group is set, and data is transmitted to a user equipment via thus set split bearer. The gNB 100B transmits, to the eNB 100A, Use of SCG Radio Resource that indicates whether to configure a split bearer that uses a radio resource between the user equipment and the gNB 100B. The eNB 100A sets the split bearer based on the received Use of SCG Radio Resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Teruaki Toeda, Anil Umesh, Hideaki Takahashi, Tooru Uchino, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari
  • Patent number: 11758545
    Abstract: In one aspect of the present invention, a first base station for communicating with user equipment together with a second base station according to dual connectivity includes a data storage unit configured to store data to be transmitted from the first base station to the user equipment; a reception unit configured to receive from the second base station information indicating whether data to be transmitted from the second base station to the user equipment exist; and a state control unit configured to, when information indicating that data to be transmitted from the second base station to the user equipment exist is received, prevent the user equipment from releasing a radio resource or transitioning to a discontinuous reception state, even if the amount of to-be-transmitted data stored in the data storage unit is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Teruaki Toeda, Anil Umesh, Tooru Uchino, Akihito Hanaki, Hiroshi Ou
  • Patent number: 11743780
    Abstract: A user equipment is disclosed that includes a transmission and reception unit configured to communicate with a master base station and a secondary base station simultaneously in dual connectivity. The user equipment includes a Radio Link Control (RLC) layer processing unit configured to have an RLC layer for the master base station and an RLC layer for the secondary base station and a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) layer processing unit configured to have a PDCP layer transmitting and receiving data to/from the RLC layer for the master base station and the RLC layer for the secondary base station. When a split bearer configured for the secondary base station is deleted, the RLC layer processing unit performs re-establishment on the RLC layer for the secondary base station and releases the split bearer after execution of the re-establishment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Hideaki Takahashi, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari
  • Patent number: 11716709
    Abstract: In one aspect, a user terminal is disclosed including a processor that controls a mapping of a first demodulation reference signal (DMRS), having a fixed location regardless of a symbol duration of an uplink shared channel (PUSCH), controls a mapping of a second DMRS, which is allocated depending on the symbol duration of the PUSCH, and determines a location of the second DMRS if the second DMRS is allocated. The user terminal also includes a transmitter that transmits at least one of the first DMRS and the second DMRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Tooru Uchino, Kazuaki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11706798
    Abstract: A user apparatus receives an instruction to execute a random access procedure from a base station apparatus and includes a reception unit that receives first information specifying an available random access channel from the base station apparatus; a control unit that identifies, on the basis of the first information, a resource of the available random access channel in a time domain or a frequency domain; and a transmission unit that transmits a random access preamble using the identified resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Tomoya Ohara, Hideaki Takahashi, Hiroki Harada
  • Patent number: 11672049
    Abstract: A central unit (210) holds a plurality of parameters for controlling radio communication. A distributed unit (260) also holds a plurality of parameters for controlling the radio communication. A radio base station manages the parameters to be held by the central unit (210) and the distributed unit (260). The radio base station causes a coordination necessary parameter, which is a parameter for which a coordination is necessary between the plurality of the parameters, to be held in only one of the central unit (210) and the distributed unit (260).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Teruaki Toeda, Tooru Uchino, Anil Umesh
  • Patent number: 11627634
    Abstract: When RRC connection release in a radio resource control layer reaches UE (200A), gNB-DU (110) transmits UE CONTEXT RELEASE COMPLETE of the UE (200A) to gNB-CU (120). The gNB-CU (120) releases a context allocated to the UE (200A) based on the UE CONTEXT RELEASE COMPLETE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Teruaki Toeda, Tooru Uchino, Kenji Kai
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11546798
    Abstract: A network node in a wireless communication system comprising a user equipment and a plurality of network nodes, comprises: a reception unit for receiving from another network node or a user equipment a protocol data unit related to packet transmission that has a possibility of a plurality of data lengths with respect to sequence numbers; an acquiring unit for acquiring a sequence number of the protocol data unit related to packet transmission; and a notification unit for carrying out, based on the sequence number as acquired, notification related to packet transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Teruaki Toeda, Tooru Uchino, Hiroshi Ou, Makoto Miyagoshi
  • Patent number: 11540321
    Abstract: One object is to provide a radio base station and a communication control method that can realize appropriate control on a user device even when a function of an upper layer such as MAC scheduler and a function of a radio physical layer are mounted separately. A communication control method according to the present invention is implemented in a radio base station (200) including a remote device (260) and a central aggregation device (210) and that performs radio communication with a user device (300). The communication control method includes transmitting including the central aggregation device (210) transmitting to the remote device (260) paging information that is information used for performing paging on the user device (300), and performing including the remote device (260) setting a downlink physical channel based on the paging information received from the central aggregation device (210) and performing the paging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kohei Kiyoshima, Naoto Ookubo, Anil Umesh, Tooru Uchino
  • Publication number: 20220408322
    Abstract: An SN (100C) includes a transmitting unit (110b) that transmits, to an MN (100A) to which a terminal (200) is connected, a first message including configuration information of a cell formed by the SN (100C), and a control unit (140b) that determines to delete the configuration information of the cell according to a state of the cell. The transmitting unit (110b) transmits, to the MN (100A), a second message instructing deletion of the configuration information of the cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Tianyang Min, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11523454
    Abstract: eNB (100A) notifies gNB (100B) of a setting location that indicates whether to set in the eNB (100A) or the gNB (100B) a PDCP entity that is a packet data convergence protocol layer entity to be used in a split bearer. The gNB (100B) sets a protocol stack to be used in the split bearer based on the setting location of the PDCP entity notified from the eNB (100A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Tooru Uchino, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari