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).

  • Publication number: 20210392601
    Abstract: A terminal includes: a reception section that receives adjustment information for adjusting a communication timing based on a reference time; and a control section that controls a granularity of adjusting the communication timing according to a size of the adjustment information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Tooru Uchino, Hideaki Takahashi, Lihui Wang, Shaozhen Guo, Xiaolin Hou
  • Patent number: 11196531
    Abstract: The present invention is designed so that multiple UL signals of varying RATs are transmitted properly in non-stand-alone radio communication systems. A user terminal has a transmission section that transmits a first uplink (UL) signal of a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second UL signal of a second RAT, at different times, and a control section that controls switching between a first time, which is used to transmit the first UL signal using a first UL carrier of the first RAT, and a second time, which is used to transmit the second UL signal using a second UL carrier of the second RAT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Kazuki Takeda, Tooru Uchino, Satoshi Nagata
  • Patent number: 11184123
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed that includes a receiver that receives a downlink (DL) signal transmitted from each of a plurality of component carriers (CC) in dual connectivity and a processor that makes measurement of the DL signal based on a measurement requirement. The terminal further includes a first measurement requirement of a first secondary CC to which listening before transmission is applied is different from a second measurement requirement of a second secondary CC to which the listening before transmission is not applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Harada, Kazuki Takeda, Kazuaki Takeda, Tooru Uchino, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20210360728
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed for performing communication in dual connectivity, the terminal comprising a transmitter that performs a first communication with a first base station and performs a second communication with a second base station; and a processor that starts or restarts a data inactivity timer when data reception occurs at a first MAC (Media Access Control) entity associated with the first communication, and starts or restarts the data inactivity timer when data reception occurs at a second MAC entity associated with the second communication. In other aspects, a radio communication system and a communication method are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Ryusuke Matsukawa, Hideaki Takahashi, Tooru Uchino, Tianyang Min
  • Patent number: 11178689
    Abstract: A user apparatus that communicates with a base station apparatus is provided. The user apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive, from the base station apparatus, an indication for an individual random access preamble, information indicating correspondence to non-contention based random access procedure, and a random access response; a transmission unit configured to transmit the individual random access preamble to the base station apparatus; and a control unit configured to, in response to receiving the random access response to the individual random access preamble, the random access response being transmitted from the base station apparatus, determine whether the random access procedure has been successfully completed based on the information indicating correspondence to the non-contention based random access procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Tooru Uchino, Naoto Ookubo, Ryusuke Matsukawa
  • Publication number: 20210345276
    Abstract: A base station includes a receiving unit that receives, from an external system, a reference time of the external system; a control unit that generates, based on the reference time of the external system, association information for a user equipment to calculate the reference time of the external system to which the user equipment belongs; and a transmitting unit that transmits the association information to the user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Tianyang Min, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20210345173
    Abstract: A user equipment includes a reception unit configured to receive an instruction for packet duplication from a base station apparatus; a control unit configured to determine, based on the instruction for packet duplication, a primary RLC (Radio Link Control) and a plurality of secondary RLCs to be used with respect to packet duplication; and a communication unit configured to apply packet duplication to all or a part of the determined primary RLC and plurality of secondary RLCs and perform communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Tianyang Min, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20210345271
    Abstract: A user equipment includes a control unit configured to determine, based on a difference between a first timing advance value of a first cell group in dual connectivity and a second timing advance value of a second cell group in the dual connectivity, a transmission timing for the first cell group and a transmission timing for the second cell group, and a transmitting unit configured to perform transmission in the first cell group based on the determined transmission timing for the first cell group, and perform transmission in the second cell group based on the determined transmission timing for the second cell group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takuma Takada, Tooru Uchino, Hiroki Harada
  • Publication number: 20210345278
    Abstract: Provided is a terminal that includes a reception section which receives adjustment information for adjusting a communication timing that is based on a reference point in time, and a control section which determines a specific timing for receiving the adjustment information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Tooru Uchino, Hideaki Takahashi, Lihui Wang, Shaozhen Guo, Xiaolin Hou
  • Publication number: 20210336744
    Abstract: A device is disclosed that is used as a first device in a radio communication system including the first device, a second device communicating with the first device, and a user equipment communicating with the first device. The device includes a processor being configured to acquire from the second device, a plurality of parameters used for an initial cell setting, the plurality of parameters including at least one of: information indicating a center frequency, a bandwidth and a duplex mode of a cell, a physical cell ID, information related to a master information block (MIB) for the initial cell setting, information related to a system information block (SIB) for the initial cell setting, and maximum transmission power. Additionally, the first device is a remote radio unit and the second device is a central unit. Further, the first device performs a predetermined layer function. In another aspect, a method is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Naoto Ookubo, Tooru Uchino, Anil Umesh
  • Publication number: 20210298116
    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: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Teruaki Toeda, Tooru Uchino, Kenji Kai
  • Patent number: 11129197
    Abstract: A user apparatus and a control information detection method executed by a user apparatus are disclosed. The user apparatus includes a memory that stores a preamble and identification information of the user apparatus; a processor that detects control information, addressed to the user apparatus, by monitoring a candidate area of a common candidate area where a plurality of user apparatuses commonly perform monitoring and an individual candidate area for the user apparatus; and a transmitter that transmits the preamble to a base station. The processor monitors, during a period when the user apparatus monitors a random access response, the individual candidate area using the identification information of the user apparatus to detect control information that is scrambled by the base station using the identification information of the user apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Kazuki Takeda, Lan Chen, Huiling Jiang, Liu Liu
  • Patent number: 11121830
    Abstract: Provided is a communication system that can sustain a reduction in delay in FFT/IFFT processing by code blocking user data, even in a case where the functions of upper layers such as a MAC scheduler and the function of the radio physical layer are implemented separately. In a radio base station (communication system) including a central aggregation device 210 and a remote device 220, the central aggregation device 210 transmits code blocks in a number necessary for generating an OFDM symbol as a piece of data to the remote device 220, the code blocks being produced by dividing user data into units of encoding processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Naoto Ookubo, Anil Umesh
  • Publication number: 20210266849
    Abstract: UE (100) sets a single transmission timing in simultaneous communication performed between a user equipment (100) and a plurality of radio base stations (200a, 200b). The UE (100) transmits an uplink signal to the plurality of radio base stations (200a, 200b) by using the single transmission timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11096168
    Abstract: A terminal is disclosed that includes a receiving section that receives downlink control information (DCI) and a control section that assumes that scheduling of 1 ms Transmission Time Interval (TTI) length in a first CC is performed based on DCI that is received in 1 ms TTI length of a second CC that is different from the first CC and is not performed based on DCI that is received in TTI length shorter than 1 ms of a third CC that is different from the first CC. In other aspects, a radio communication method for a terminal and a radio base station are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Tooru Uchino, Kazuaki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Hiroki Harada
  • Patent number: 11088802
    Abstract: Provided is a base station used as a first base station in a radio communication system including the first base station, a second base station communicating with the first base station, and a user equipment communicating with the first base station. The base station includes: an acquiring unit that acquires a plurality of parameters used for an initial cell setting; and a setting unit that performs a cell setting using the acquired plurality of parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Naoto Ookubo, Tooru Uchino, Anil Umesh
  • Patent number: 11089569
    Abstract: User equipment of a radio communication system including a base station that performs communication using a maximum bandwidth which is a largest bandwidth available for communication and the user equipment in which a largest bandwidth available for communication is equal to or less than the maximum bandwidth, the user equipment including a receiver unit configured to receive a radio signal transmitted from the base station; and an acquisition unit configured to acquire a radio resource of a master information block corresponding to a synchronization signal, a radio resource of a system information block, and a radio resource of a paging channel, wherein the receiver unit monitors the radio resource of the synchronization signal, the radio resource of the master information block, the radio resource of the system information block, or the radio resource of the paging channel, when the user equipment is in an RRC idle mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Hideaki Takahashi, Tooru Uchino, Anil Umesh
  • Publication number: 20210243809
    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: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11082834
    Abstract: A user apparatus includes an information storage unit configured to store band combination information indicating a combination of bands that can be used in carrier aggregation in the user apparatus, and a notification control unit configured to explicitly or implicitly add, to the band combination information, capability information indicating whether the user apparatus is able to set a primary cell by using a band of a first duplex mode in the carrier aggregation, and to notify a base station of the band combination information to which the capability information is added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Kazuki Takeda, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20210235527
    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: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Hideaki Takahashi, Akihito Hanaki