Patents by Inventor Toshiro NAKAHIRA

Toshiro NAKAHIRA 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: 20240155366
    Abstract: A system according to an embodiment is connected via a network to a communication control system that controls wireless communication quality by acquisition of information, prediction of the wireless communication quality based on the information, and control of wireless equipment based on the prediction. The system is configured to change at least one of a position or an antenna direction of a movable base station, or at least one of a radio wave reflection direction or radio wave reflection power of a reflector in response to a control request from the communication control system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Motoharu SASAKI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Takatsune MORIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240155384
    Abstract: A communication control system includes an acquisition unit that acquires information regarding a wireless communication device and environment information that affects wireless communication quality; a prediction unit that predicts future wireless communication quality on the basis of the information regarding the wireless communication device and the environment information; a control unit that controls, on the basis of the future wireless communication quality, a target device to achieve wireless communication quality depending on a user's purpose, the user using wireless communication; and a cooperation unit that operates the acquisition unit, the prediction unit, and the control unit to operate a cycle including acquisition of information by the acquisition unit, prediction of the future wireless communication quality by the prediction unit, and control of the target device by the control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Motoharu SASAKI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Takatsune MORIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240155431
    Abstract: A communication control system includes a plurality of physical servers. One or more physical servers from among the plurality of physical servers each include a memory; and a processor configured to execute one or more steps of: acquiring information regarding a wireless communication device and environment information that affects wireless communication quality; predicting future wireless communication quality on a basis of the information regarding the wireless communication device and the environment information; controlling, on a basis of the future wireless communication quality, a target device to achieve wireless communication quality depending on a user's purpose, the user using wireless communication; and executing a combination of at least one or more steps of the acquiring, the predicting, or the controlling in response to a request from another system connected via a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Motoharu SASAKI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Takatsune MORIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240129823
    Abstract: A wireless communication system comprising a plurality of base station devices including a first base station device and a second base station device, wherein the first base station device connected with a terminal determines whether to continue connection with the terminal or not on a basis of a communication quality requirement of the terminal and a resource that can be provided to the terminal, and the first base station device transmits a control signal instructing connection with the second base station device to the terminal in a case where the first base station device determines not to continue the connection with the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeru FUKUSHIMA, Motoharu SASAKI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Daisuke MURAYAMA, Takatsune MORIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11956662
    Abstract: A wireless communication system in which wireless stations perform transmission, a plurality of wireless modules that are operated in a shared frequency band being installed in the wireless stations, wherein the wireless stations each include means for notifying a control device of environment information that includes capacity information regarding the wireless station and information regarding a surrounding wireless environment, and setting frequency channels in the plurality of wireless modules, the wireless stations being notified of the frequency channels by the control device, and the control device includes means for calculating a frequency channel of each wireless module of each wireless station based on the environment information collected from each wireless station, following a control guideline that is determined in advance, and notifying the wireless stations of the frequency channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Hirantha Abeysekera, Tomoki Murakami, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Publication number: 20240114350
    Abstract: A base station allocation support apparatus includes a first calculation unit that calculates radio wave propagation attenuation values between a plurality of wireless terminals in a certain area based on position information of each of the plurality of wireless terminals and information indicating a layout of the area, a clustering unit that performs clustering on the plurality of wireless terminals based on the radio wave propagation attenuation values; and a determination unit that determines an arrangement position of a wireless base station with respect to the wireless terminals based on a result of the clustering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Motoharu SASAKI, Takatsune MORIYAMA, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Patent number: 11950115
    Abstract: A measurement station collects radio base station performance information related to a radio communication performance of each radio base station, radio connection information related to a radio communication performance and a communication status of a corresponding radio terminal station, generates a measurement condition and an expected measurement result based on the radio base station performance information and the radio connection information, and notifies a measurement control signal corresponding to the measurement condition to the radio terminal station through the radio base station; the radio terminal station performs a communication setting of an own station based on the notified measurement control signal, and notifies a measurement preparation status to the measurement station; and the measurement station measures the radio communication performance by causing a flow of a measurement traffic to the radio terminal station through the radio base station, acquiring a measurement result, and determi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Tomoki Murakami, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Publication number: 20240107413
    Abstract: A connection destination switching control method executed by a communication apparatus, the connection destination switching control method comprising: a data acquisition step of acquiring observed values of received power of signals transmitted from a base station; a prediction processing step of predicting future received power by using the observed values acquired in the data acquisition step as input data into a prediction model; and a connection destination switching processing step of executing control for handover based on the future received power predicted in the prediction processing step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Motoharu SASAKI, Nobuaki KUNO, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Minoru INOMATA, Wataru YAMADA, Takatsune MORIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11943645
    Abstract: A wireless communication characteristics evaluation method for evaluating wireless communication characteristics of a wireless communication system where a plurality of wireless communication terminals perform communication by transmitting or exchanging signals, the wireless communication characteristics evaluation method including: a step 1 of acquiring power and a band of an interference signal; a step 2 of calculating an interference band rate showing a rate of the band of the interference signal that overlaps with a band of a desired signal; a step 3 of calculating an interference power rate from interference power and the interference band rate and furthermore, calculating steady noise power from the interference power and the interference power rate; a step 4 of determining a real SINR from received power of the desired signal and the steady noise power; and a step 5 of determining wireless communication characteristics of the desired signal from the real SINR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoko Shinohara, Toshiro Nakahira, Yasuhiko Inoue, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 11929781
    Abstract: An objective is to provide a terminal device, a communication method, and a communication system in which the time taken by connection operations/authentication operations does not increase proportionally with the pattern length, even if the transmitting side and the receiving side are not synchronized. A terminal device, a communication method, and a communication system according to the present invention create n pieces of signal information (n-bit patterns) by sequentially shifting each bit of a single piece of received signal information (n-bit pattern) one bit at a time. Through the above, signal information time-shifted by one bit each is obtained. Thus, even if the transmitting side and the receiving side are not synchronized, one of the n pieces of signal information is a signal synchronized with the transmitting side. Thereafter, the signal synchronized with the transmitting side can be detected by a brute-force calculation with the patterns (ID information) in the list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Shiina, Tomohiro Taniguchi, Kazutaka Hara, Shinya Tamaki, Tomoki Murakami, Toshiro Nakahira
  • Patent number: 11917455
    Abstract: The invention of the present application provides a transmission parameter control method in a radio communication system that performs, between a radio base station and a plurality of radio terminal stations, communication of a first method in which reception confirmation is enabled and communication of a second method in which reception confirmation is not possible. The radio base station selects transmission parameters including a transmission rate in the communication of the second method with the radio terminal stations, based on radio communication information in the communication of the first method with the radio terminal stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Tomoki Murakami, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 11917454
    Abstract: A wireless communications method for connecting a base station with each of a plurality of terminal stations, the base station being equipped with a plurality of wireless communications units configured to be able to select a plurality of different transmission rates and connectable with one or more of the terminal stations, includes: a collection step of collecting information about a transmission rate and multicast transmission frequency from each of the terminal stations; a policy calculation step of calculating a setting policy for setting a unicast transmission rate and a multicast transmission rate for each of the wireless communications units and a switching policy for setting a condition for switching that one of the wireless communications units which is to be connected, for each of the terminal stations based on the collected information; and a setting step of setting those of the terminal stations which are to be connected, for each of the wireless communications units based on the calculated setti
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Tomoki Murakami, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Publication number: 20240056831
    Abstract: A control system includes a prediction unit configured to predict future wireless communication quality based on information related to a wireless communication device and environment information that affects the wireless communication quality, in a certain cycle, in which at least one of a target device or a target system is controlled based on the future wireless communication quality, and in which information obtained from at least one of the target device or the target system that is controlled is used for prediction of a next cycle by the prediction unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Motoharu SASAKI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Takatsune MORIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11903025
    Abstract: A wireless communications method for connecting a base station with each of a plurality of terminal stations, the base station being equipped with a plurality of wireless communications units each configured to be able to selectively enable or disable an RTS/CTS function and a NoACK function and connectable with one or more of the terminal stations, includes: a collection step of collecting information as to whether each of the terminal stations is a hidden terminal and information about transmission characteristics of each of the terminal stations; a policy calculation step of calculating a setting policy for enabling or disabling the RTS/CTS function and the NoACK function for each of the wireless communications units and a switching policy for setting a condition for switching that one of the wireless communications units which is to be connected, for each of the terminal stations, based on the collected information; and a setting step of setting those of the terminal stations which are to be connected, fo
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Tomoki Murakami, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 11901959
    Abstract: An object is to provide a communication system, a base station, and a communication method that can avoid a state in which an RF wireless communication cannot be started due to the quality of optical wireless communication. In an optical communication system according to the present invention, a base station device repeatedly transmits an authentication information frame addressed to a terminal device at a predetermined cycle by the optical wireless communication, the frame including authentication information for connection to the terminal device by the RF wireless communication. Even if the terminal fails to acquire the authentication information at a certain timing due to the quality of optical wireless communication, the communication system has a mechanism that acquires the same authentication information at regular time intervals, so that terminal authentication processing can be performed at the time when the terminal acquires the authentication information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Taniguchi, Ryota Shiina, Kazutaka Hara, Tomoki Murakami, Toshiro Nakahira
  • Patent number: 11838948
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system wherein wireless terminal stations, each belonging to one of a plurality of wireless base stations, transmit on a shared frequency band, each of the wireless terminal stations includes means for notifying a control device of environmental information that indicates a communication status of the wireless terminal station itself via a wireless base station to which the wireless terminal station belongs, and for setting a transmission power value and a CCA threshold notified by the control device, and the control device includes means for calculating the transmission power value and the carrier sense threshold according to a predetermined control procedure based on the environmental information collected from the wireless terminal station via the wireless base station, and for notifying the wireless terminal station of the transmission power value and the carrier sense threshold via the wireless base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirantha Abeysekera, Toshiro Nakahira, Takafumi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11832112
    Abstract: A wireless base station setting position calculation method includes a step S1 for assuming the setting area to be a rectangle, receiving an input of longitudinal and lateral lengths of a setting area and the number of wireless base stations to be set “s”, and determining one or more candidates of a number of divisions “d” of the setting area according to the number of wireless base stations “s”, a step S2 for representing the number of divisions “d” in a division ratio x:y and selecting, for each number of divisions “d”, according to the longitudinal and lateral lengths of the setting area, a division ratio at which diagonal line lengths of divided areas are minimized, a step S3 for performing, for each number of divisions “d”, adjustment of a division pattern until a difference m between the number of divisions “d” and the number of wireless base stations “s” decreases to 0, a step S4 for calculating, for each number of divisions “d”, a sum of the diagonal line lengths of the divided areas and selecting the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riku Omiya, Toshiro Nakahira, Hirantha Abeysekera, Shoko Shinohara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 11825312
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a method for calculating the installation number and installation positions of wireless base stations in accordance with the positions of wireless terminal stations within an installation area. First, when a predetermined number of wireless base stations are temporarily installed within the installation area, a wireless base station accommodating each wireless terminal station in a communication area is determined and the number of wireless base stations accommodating each wireless terminal station is calculated as a “number of conflicts”. Next, wireless base stations successively accommodating starting with an un-accommodated wireless terminal station of a small number of conflicts are successively selected as objects of installation. Then, the installation number and installation positions of the wireless base stations are calculated, with the temporarily installed wireless base stations other than the wireless base stations serving as the objects of installation being excluded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 11824596
    Abstract: An operation test method of a base station to which a plurality of terminal stations are connectable, the method including switching a specific radio communication unit of a plurality of radio communication units to a subordinate mode and setting another radio communication unit of the plurality of radio communication units to a normal mode, the normal mode being a mode in which each of the plurality of radio communication units performs radio communication as a base station, the subordinate mode being a mode in which each of the plurality of radio communication units performs radio communication as a virtual terminal station, each of the plurality of radio communication units being switchable between the normal mode and the subordinate mode, and conducting an operation test of the base station by performing, based on a test policy that sets the operation test, radio communication between the specific radio communication unit switched to the subordinate mode and the other radio communication unit in the norma
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Tomoki Murakami, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 11818670
    Abstract: A wireless communication system in which wireless stations perform transmission, a plurality of wireless modules that are operated in a shared frequency band being installed in the wireless stations, wherein the wireless stations each include means for notifying a control device of environment information that includes capacity information regarding the wireless station and information regarding a surrounding wireless environment, and setting transmission power values in the plurality of wireless modules, the wireless stations being notified of the transmission power values by the control device, and the control device includes means for calculating a transmission power value of each wireless module of each wireless station based on the environment information collected from each wireless station, following a control guideline that is determined in advance, and notifying the wireless stations of the transmission power values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Hirantha Abeysekera, Tomoki Murakami, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori