Patents by Inventor Yasunao Katayama
Yasunao Katayama 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).
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Patent number: 8768337Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to the field of base station power control in a mobile network. In various examples, base station power control in a mobile network may be implemented in the form of systems, methods and/or algorithms.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2012Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Nicholas C. M. Fuller, Yasunao Katayama, Arun S. Natarajan
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Patent number: 8768338Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to the field of base station power control in a mobile network. In various examples, base station power control in a mobile network may be implemented in the form of systems, methods and/or algorithms.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2012Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Nicholas C. M. Fuller, Yasunao Katayama, Arun S. Natarajan
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Patent number: 8755760Abstract: A radio receiver including a sampling unit, a provider, an arithmetic operation unit, an estimator, and a converter. The sampling unit samples a baseband signal transmitted from the radio transmitter, at a fractional multiple of a symbol rate, and generates fractional-multiple-sampling data. The provider provides reference data in which the known symbol sequence arranged in a frame by the radio transmitter is interpolated at a rate of the fractional multiple. The arithmetic operation unit performs an arithmetic operation for evaluation data in which the degree of consistency in waveform between the fractional-multiple-sampling data and the reference data is evaluated. The estimator estimates a reference timing from a shift amount at which the evaluation data shows the maximum degree of consistency in waveform. The converter converts the fractional-multiple-sampling data by using the reference timing as a reference thereby recovering the data having the symbol rate.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yasunao Katayama, Daiju Nakano
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Patent number: 8756456Abstract: A method for fast and efficient data downloading in wireless communications. The method includes ways to download file data of a large size from a server (access point) to a user's client (mobile device) at high speed and efficiency by using both mmWave wireless communication and conventional wireless communication (WiFi, 3G, etc.). A server transmits packetized file data to a client. The file data is transmitted as data packets via mmWave. In parallel, the server transmits check packets (roll-call packets) corresponding to the data packets. As a test at the time of establishing links, the latency for each communication line is measured. The receiver side, upon completion of receiving the check packets, checks whether their corresponding mmWave packets have arrived. If any corresponding mmWave packet has not arrived, it is determined that the mmWave packet has been lost and a retransmission request is immediately returned to the server via WiFi.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2012Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yasunao Katayama, Nobuyuki Ohba, Kohji Takano
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Publication number: 20140120904Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to the field of base station power control in a mobile network. In various examples, base station power control in a mobile network may be implemented in the form of systems, methods and/or algorithms.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2012Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Nicholas C. M. Fuller, Yasunao Katayama, Arun S. Natarajan
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Publication number: 20140120903Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to the field of base station power control in a mobile network. In various examples, base station power control in a mobile network may be implemented in the form of systems, methods and/or algorithms.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2012Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Nicholas C. M. Fuller, Yasunao Katayama, Arun S. Natarajan
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Publication number: 20140071785Abstract: A method of monitoring signals is disclosed, wherein a plurality of command signals and address signals are consecutively expressed, as a measurement target. The method includes setting a strobe timing that has a predetermined initial value; calculating an error rate by monitoring the plurality of command signals, in accordance with the strobe timing; monitoring the plurality of address signals, and calculating a burst rate from a difference between the consecutive plurality of address signals, in accordance with the strobe timing; identifying timing where the calculated error rate and calculated burst rate are both optimized; and in the event the timing where both the calculated error rate and calculated burst rate are optimized cannot be identified, altering a predetermined value of the set strobe timing, and repeating the calculating, monitoring, and identifying.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yasunao Katayama, Seiji Munetoh, Nobuyuki Ohba, Tadayuki Okada, Atsuya Okazaki
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Publication number: 20140075250Abstract: A method of monitoring signals is disclosed, wherein a plurality of command signals and address signals are consecutively expressed, as a measurement target. The method includes setting a strobe timing that has a predetermined initial value; calculating an error rate by monitoring the plurality of command signals, in accordance with the strobe timing; monitoring the plurality of address signals, and calculating a burst rate from a difference between the consecutive plurality of address signals, in accordance with the strobe timing; identifying timing where the calculated error rate and calculated burst rate are both optimized; and in the event the timing where both the calculated error rate and calculated burst rate are optimized cannot be identified, altering a predetermined value of the set strobe timing, and repeating the calculating, monitoring, and identifying.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yasunao Katayama, Seiji Munetoh, Nobuyuki Ohba, Tadayuki Okada, Atsuya Okazaki
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Publication number: 20140067742Abstract: A plurality of chips arranged in a certain layout so as to face free space, and one or more optical elements are included. In the case where signal traffic for electrical communication with a given chip exceeds or is expected to exceed a certain threshold, a plurality of chips involved in communication routing of the excess signal traffic are identified, part of related signal traffic that crosses the plurality of identified chips is converted from an electric signal into an optical signal to re-route the excess signal traffic, and paths of the related signal traffic are dynamically adapted from fixed wired paths between the plurality of chips to optical communication paths formed in the free space.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yasunao Katayama, Daiju Nakano, Toshiyuki Yamane
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Publication number: 20140067741Abstract: A plurality of chips arranged in a certain layout so as to face free space, and one or more optical elements are included. In the case where signal traffic for electrical communication with a given chip exceeds or is expected to exceed a certain threshold, a plurality of chips involved in communication routing of the excess signal traffic are identified, part of related signal traffic that crosses the plurality of identified chips is converted from an electric signal into an optical signal to re-route the excess signal traffic, and paths of the related signal traffic are dynamically adapted from fixed wired paths between the plurality of chips to optical communication paths formed in the free space.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yasunao Katayama, Daiju Nakano, Toshiyuki Yamane
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Patent number: 8644667Abstract: A backplane, a method for making a backplane, and optical communication apparatuses. The backplane includes: a plurality of optical elements each selected from the group consisting of: (i) optical fibers, (ii) optical waveguides, and (iii) a combination thereof, where the plurality of optical elements have the same length, where the plurality of optical elements form at least one bundle, where the elements are bundled at both ends of the at least one bundle such that end portion lengths of the plurality of optical elements differ from each other, thus forming a broadcast-star topology, and where the plurality of optical elements is connected such that communication distance between at least two blades that can be inserted into the back plane is constant.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2011Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yasunao Katayama, Seiji Munetoh, Atsuya Okazaki
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Publication number: 20140003485Abstract: Received data oversampled twice is polyphased by the receiver, feedback is applied using an adaptive algorithm, and the filter coefficients (tap coefficient sequence) of a compensation filter are simultaneously shifted when the data shifts. The sampling frequency and the phase offset can be compensated for on the fly using a filter combining a tapped filter whose initial value is a correlation value obtained from the preamble and header of a received signal, and a wavefront aligner. In this configuration, a resampling filter circuit, an equalization filter circuit and a decimation filter circuit are realized in a single compensation filter circuit, which is much smaller than the prior art circuits in terms of size.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2012Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunao Katayama, Yasuteru Kohda, Daiju Nakano
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Patent number: 8578239Abstract: One or more embodiments provide a decoding technique (and its approximate decoding technique) enabling a stable operation even if a noise variance is low at the implementation with a fixed-point arithmetic operation having a finite dynamic range. A technique is provided for causing a computer to perform calculation using a sum-product decoding method (belief propagation method) with respect to LDPC or turbo codes. For calculating an update equation of a log extrinsic value ratio from an input, a (separated) correction term is prepared obtained by variable transformation (scale transformation) of the update equation so that the update equation is represented by a sum (combination) of a plurality of terms by transformation of the equation and a communication channel noise variance is a term separated from other terms constituting a sum of a plurality of terms as a term to be a factor (scale factor) by which a log is multiplied.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2010Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yasunao Katayama, Toshiyuki Yamane
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Publication number: 20130242976Abstract: A system including multiple nodes performing radio communication, wherein each node stores routing information, uses it to determine a transmission path, and performs cut-through transmission by transmitting and receiving packets to and from a node on the determined path through transmission and reception radio waves given a directivity by controlling their phases. In the system, time synchronization and transmission and reception of packet communication records are performed during a certain time period by carrying out the cut-through transmission while controlling phases of the radio waves so that all of the nodes form one or more closed loops. The node transmits and receives packets in accordance with routing information and a time frame assigned to each of the nodes as a time when each node is allowed to transmit and receive a packet, updates the routing information, and shares it with each node.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yasunao Katayama, Yasushi Negishi, Atsuya Okazaki
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Patent number: 8514987Abstract: A method and circuitry for detecting a frequency offset (?) between data at a transmission symbol rate (fTx) transmitted from a transmitter and a reception sampling frequency (fRx) operating in a receiver on the basis of hard decision based on a binary number in the receiver. The receiver uses a converter to make binary hard decisions performs n times oversampling, then obtains a symbol decision value, calculates a timing correlation value for each plurality of partition phases, and calculates a cumulative timing correlation value for a specific period or number of additions. The receiver determines whether its sampling frequency is higher or lower than a correct symbol rate, appropriately shifts a sampling position, and makes reception while maintaining the correct sampling position thereby enables data deviation caused by a frequency offset to be compensated on the fly.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2010Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yasunao Katayama, Daiju Nakano
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Patent number: 8442028Abstract: A system including multiple nodes performing radio communication, wherein each node stores routing information, uses it to determine a transmission path, and performs cut-through transmission by transmitting and receiving packets to and from a node on the determined path through transmission and reception radio waves given a directivity by controlling their phases. In the system, time synchronization and transmission and reception of packet communication records are performed during a certain time period by carrying out the cut-through transmission while controlling phases of the radio waves so that all of the nodes form one or more closed loops. The node transmits and receives packets in accordance with routing information and a time frame assigned to each of the nodes as a time when each node is allowed to transmit and receive a packet, updates the routing information, and shares it with each node.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2010Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yasunao Katayama, Yasushi Negishi, Atsuya Okazaki
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Patent number: 8391815Abstract: A radio receiver including a sampling unit, a provider, an arithmetic operation unit, an estimator, and a converter. The sampling unit samples a baseband signal transmitted from the radio transmitter, at a fractional multiple of a symbol rate, and generates fractional-multiple-sampling data. The provider provides reference data in which the known symbol sequence arranged in a frame by the radio transmitter is interpolated at a rate of the fractional multiple. The arithmetic operation unit performs an arithmetic operation for evaluation data in which the degree of consistency in waveform between the fractional-multiple-sampling data and the reference data is evaluated. The estimator estimates a reference timing from a shift amount at which the evaluation data shows the maximum degree of consistency in waveform. The converter converts the fractional-multiple-sampling data by using the reference timing as a reference thereby recovering the data having the symbol rate.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2010Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yasunao Katayama, Daiju Nakano
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Patent number: 8379708Abstract: A method and circuit that gives a sequence pattern that represents directions of positive and negative transitions of the phase that continue over a predetermined number from a certain reference symbol to an adjoining next reference symbol; finds (heuristically) one or more interpolate symbols that meet conditions (such as standards for power spectra) of a predetermined frequency spectrum, i.e., band, and a predetermined (range of) amplitude with reference to the given sequence pattern; and stores the found sequence pattern and a phase value and an amplitude value corresponding to the found one or more interpolate symbols in a memory as a lookup table against the prepared memory area.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2010Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yasunao Katayama, Daiju Nakano, Kohji Takano
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Publication number: 20130010902Abstract: A radio receiver including a sampling unit, a provider, an arithmetic operation unit, an estimator, and a converter. The sampling unit samples a baseband signal transmitted from the radio transmitter, at a fractional multiple of a symbol rate, and generates fractional-multiple-sampling data. The provider provides reference data in which the known symbol sequence arranged in a frame by the radio transmitter is interpolated at a rate of the fractional multiple. The arithmetic operation unit performs an arithmetic operation for evaluation data in which the degree of consistency in waveform between the fractional-multiple-sampling data and the reference data is evaluated. The estimator estimates a reference timing from a shift amount at which the evaluation data shows the maximum degree of consistency in waveform. The converter converts the fractional-multiple-sampling data by using the reference timing as a reference thereby recovering the data having the symbol rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2012Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Yasunao Katayama, Daiju Nakano
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Patent number: 8346080Abstract: A system and method for handling accesses by nodes connected to a ring network, using time division multiplexing (TDM). The system includes: nodes capable of receiving only an optical signal of a wavelength or positional space allocated to the node, and of transmitting optical signals of wavelengths allocated to other nodes; and a ring network that performs TDM transmission of optical signals. The ring network has slots for transmitting optical signals of individual wavelengths. Information indicates whether an optical signal to be transmitted exists in each of the slots. Nodes include means for updating the information indicating that the optical signal exists and determining means for updating the information and determining, on the basis of the information, whether to transmit the optical signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yasunao Katayama, Atsuya Okazaki