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).

  • Patent number: 12089290
    Abstract: A radio communication method of connecting a base station with a plurality of terminal stations, the base station including a plurality of radio communication units compatible with a predetermined communication standard, the method including collecting additional-line information including information regarding whether each terminal station is compatible with additional communication standard; collecting request information including a request in the predetermined communication standard of each terminal station; collecting identifier information that identifies each terminal station; calculating, based on the additional-line information, the request information and the identifier information that are collected, a setting policy including a setting for each radio communication unit, and a switching policy of setting a condition for switching the plurality of radio communication units; and setting, for each radio communication unit, the terminal station to be connected based on the setting policy and the switch
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Tomoki Murakami, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 12082120
    Abstract: A communication control method for controlling transmission powers transmitted by a plurality of base stations in a coverage area, the coverage area being covered by the plurality of base stations includes setting a transmission power of each base station to a maximum, calculating, for each base station, a percentage of an individual coverage area with respect to the coverage area when the transmission power of each base station is set to the maximum, the individual coverage area serving as a range in which each base station individually accommodates a terminal station, reducing, when a maximum value of the calculated percentages deviates from an average value by a predetermined value or greater, the transmission power of any of the plurality of base stations with the maximum percentage value, newly calculating, for each base station, a percentage of the individual coverage area with respect to the coverage area, and continuing the control until the maximum value of the calculated percentages deviates from th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 12074655
    Abstract: A wireless communication characteristic evaluation method for calculating a wireless communication characteristic of a wireless communication system in which a plurality of wireless communication terminals perform communication by transmitting or exchanging signals includes: an RSSI measurement step of measuring an RSSI measurement used for calculation of the wireless communication characteristic; and a calculation step of calculating the wireless communication characteristic based on the RSSI measurement and correction data of the RSSI measurement according to specifications of the wireless communication terminals or a correction calculation model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoko Shinohara, Toshiro Nakahira, Yasuhiko Inoue, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 12074654
    Abstract: A method includes collecting, as environment information, a radio environment represented by a signal received at a plurality of radio communication units from another base station, each of the plurality of radio communication units being switchable between a normal mode in which the radio communication unit performs radio communication as a base station and a subordinate mode in which the radio communication unit performs radio communication as a virtual terminal station, calculating test conduct information for each base station based on base station performance information representing a performance of each base station and the environment information, and conducting an operation test of each base station by, based on the test conduct information, setting any of the radio communication units to the normal mode, switching the radio communication units of the other base station to the subordinate mode, and performing radio communication with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Tomoki Murakami, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 12075257
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system including an intermediate processing device which performs processing between a plurality of base stations to which terminal stations are connectable and a base station control device which controls each of the base stations, the intermediate processing device includes an information collection unit configured to collect wireless environment information which includes information regarding the terminal stations connected to the base stations and which indicates wireless environments around the base stations and the terminal stations, from each of the base stations, a first conversion unit configured to convert the wireless environment information collected by the information collection unit into first information which is equally processable by the base station control device without distinction for each of the base stations, a transmission unit configured to transmit the first information to the base station control device, a reception unit configured to receive a parameter
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirantha Abeysekera, Toshiro Nakahira, Shoko Shinohara, Koichi Ishihara, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 12074640
    Abstract: An object is to provide a terminal device, a communication method, and a communication system which are capable of acquiring accurate optical ID information regardless of the position of the terminal device and the light receiving angle. The terminal device, the communication method, and the communication system according to the present invention each sets a threshold value for the illuminance of a received optical signal by using a moving average method, a weighted moving average method, or an exponential moving average, so that the optical signal can be binarized with a threshold value according to a change in the position of the terminal device, the light receiving angle, or the like. Information from other sensors may be used to set the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Shiina, Tomohiro Taniguchi, Kazutaka Hara, Shinya Tamaki, Tomoki Murakami, Toshiro Nakahira
  • Patent number: 12063065
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a terminal device, a communication method, and a communication system which are capable of reducing the error rate even if the transmitting side and the receiving side are asynchronous. The terminal device, communication method, and communication system according to the present invention sample an optical signal more finely than a 0/1 bit pattern in optical ID estimation processing for determining which of 1/0 the data acquired by an optical sensor is, and perform a majority decision using a plurality of sampling values in a decision processing window. Thus, even if the correct sampling value fails to be obtained, the correct bit value can be derived from other samplings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Shiina, Tomohiro Taniguchi, Kazutaka Hara, Shinya Tamaki, Tomoki Murakami, Toshiro Nakahira
  • Patent number: 12063067
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to inform a user of a safe evacuation guidance route in real time using smart lightings without deploying dedicated evacuation guidance facilities. The present disclosure is a wireless communication system including: one or more wireless base stations that wirelessly communicate with a terminal; a plurality of optical base stations that transmit an optical signal to the terminal; and a base station control device that controls the optical signal transmitted by the optical base stations, wherein the base station control device collects environment information around the optical base stations, detects a disaster around the optical base stations using the collected environment information, and when detecting a disaster, causes the optical base station installed at a position close to a disaster occurrence location and the optical base station installed at a position far from the disaster occurrence location to output light of different colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Shiina, Tomohiro Taniguchi, Kazutaka Hara, Shinya Tamaki, Tomoki Murakami, Toshiro Nakahira
  • Patent number: 12063066
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to make already installed smart lightings available as optical base stations as they are without modifying them, and perform connection/authentication control for RF communication using an optical signal sent out from the optical base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Shiina, Tomohiro Taniguchi, Kazutaka Hara, Shinya Tamaki, Tomoki Murakami, Toshiro Nakahira
  • Patent number: 12063643
    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, the control device includes means for determining an operation mode 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 operation modes, and the wireless stations each include means for setting the operation modes in the plurality of wireless modules and changing connection of connection destination wireless stations according to the operation modes of the wireless modules, the wireless stations being notified
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Hirantha Abeysekera, Tomoki Murakami, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 12047796
    Abstract: A wireless communication system includes a plurality of wireless base stations and a measurement station, each wireless base station including a wireless communication unit, a wireless information collection unit, and a measurement result collection unit, the measurement station being configured to control the plurality of wireless base stations, wherein the measurement station generates a measurement condition based on wireless environment information collected by the wireless information collection unit of each wireless base station and notifies each wireless base station of a measurement control signal corresponding to the measurement condition, each wireless base station sends traffic addressed to a subordinate wireless terminal station or broadcast traffic at the same time in accordance with the notified measurement control signal, a measurement result collection unit of a wireless base station that is a measurement target measures wireless communication performance and notifies the measurement station o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Tomoki Murakami, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 12041462
    Abstract: There are provided a step 1 of, at a measurement point where a throughput of a wireless communication terminal under a new communication standard is to be acquired, measuring or calculating a wireless communication characteristic (throughput) of a wireless communication terminal under a current communication standard; a step 2 of acquiring parameters of a physical layer and a MAC layer at the time of measuring or calculating the wireless communication characteristic of the wireless communication terminal under the current communication standard; and a step 3 of, with the wireless communication characteristic (throughput) measured or calculated for the wireless communication terminal under the current communication standard and the parameters of the physical layer and the MAC layer at that time as inputs, calculating a wireless communication characteristic (throughput) corresponding to parameters of the wireless communication terminal under the new communication standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoko Shinohara, Toshiro Nakahira, Yasuhiko Inoue, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 12035336
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system in which a plurality of wireless stations perform transmission on a shared frequency band, the wireless stations each include means for notifying a wireless station control apparatus of capability and environment information that includes information about capability of a local wireless station and information about a surrounding environment, and the wireless station control apparatus includes control means for selecting, based on capability and environment information collected from the wireless station, a frequency band to be used for the wireless station capable of using a plurality of frequency bands in accordance with a predetermined control index and setting the selected frequency band. Based on an area coverage rate of the wireless station as the control index, a frequency band with which an area coverage rate of the wireless station having an area coverage rate of less than or equal to a predetermined threshold is improved is selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirantha Abeysekera, Toshiro Nakahira, Shoko Shinohara, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Patent number: 12022283
    Abstract: An objective is to provide a communication system, a terminal, a communication method, and a program capable of improving the probability of successful authentication regardless of mobility of the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutaka Hara, Tomohiro Taniguchi, Ryota Shiina, Tomoki Murakami, Toshiro Nakahira
  • Publication number: 20240205750
    Abstract: A radio parameter control method is performed by a control device that includes a memory and a processor, for a plurality of base stations constituting a radio network. The method includes: collecting radio environment information in the radio network and communication quality information for each communication area provided by each of the base stations; determining whether to perform radio parameter control based on the communication quality information; calculating a radio parameter for at least one of the base stations based on the radio environment information in a case where it is determined that the radio parameter control is to be performed; and setting the calculated radio parameter in said at least one of the base stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Motoharu SASAKI, Takatsune MORIYAMA, Yasushi TAKATORI
  • Patent number: 12015977
    Abstract: A control station device includes a policy generation unit that calculates a priority order of a plurality of wireless communication systems having different types of systems on a basis of information acquired from a wireless terminal device that selects one wireless communication system from among the plurality of wireless communication systems to perform wireless communication, and generates a selection policy indicating the priority order of the plurality of wireless communication systems, and a policy delivery unit that delivers the selection policy indicating the priority order of the plurality of wireless communication systems to the wireless terminal device. With this configuration, an optimal wireless communication system that maximizes the performance of each wireless terminal device can be selected while reducing the load and calculation time imposed on the control station device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoki Murakami, Toshiro Nakahira, Ryota Shiina, Kazutaka Hara, Tomohiro Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20240187896
    Abstract: A communication control system includes a computer including a memory and a processor configured to acquire information regarding a wireless communication device and environment information that affects wireless communication quality; predict future wireless communication quality based on the information regarding the wireless communication device and the environment information; control, based on the future wireless communication quality, a target device to achieve wireless communication quality depending on a user's purpose, the user using wireless communication; receive a request from another system connected via a network; and execute at least one or more of acquisition of the information and the environment information, prediction of the future wireless communication quality, or control of the target device in combination in response to the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Motoharu SASAKI, Toshiro NAKAHIRA, Takatsune MORIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11991546
    Abstract: A radio base station device includes a plurality of radio units that perform communication with a radio terminal device, a packet data collection unit that collects packet data communicated by the plurality of radio units on the basis of a packet collection policy, a collected packet data analysis unit that performs analysis on packet data on the basis of a packet analysis policy, and transmits analysis result information to the control station device, and an information processing unit that transmits base station performance information and analysis result information to the control station device, and receives a packet collection policy and a packet analysis policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Nakahira, Tomoki Murakami, Hirantha Abeysekera, Koichi Ishihara, Takafumi Hayashi, Yasushi Takatori
  • Publication number: 20240163707
    Abstract: A communication control system includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information related to a wireless communication device and environment information that affects wireless communication quality; a prediction unit configured to predict future wireless communication quality based on the information related to the wireless communication device and the environment information; a control unit configured to control, based on the future wireless communication quality, a target device to achieve wireless communication quality responsive to a purpose of a user using wireless communication; and; and a cooperation unit configured to execute one or a combination of two or more of acquisition of information by the acquisition unit, prediction by the prediction unit, or control by the control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: May 16, 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