Patents by Inventor Yoshikazu Goto

Yoshikazu Goto 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: 8717921
    Abstract: A receiving apparatus (10) provided with: a management unit (13) configured to manage a target error rate Pt in a target number of retransmission Nt; a measurement unit (14) configured to measure the initial transmission rate TPUTinit of the data at a transmitting apparatus (10); and a calculation unit (15) configured to calculate, with respect to an error rate P(n) in a number of retransmission n, the reception rate TPU of data at a receiving apparatus (10) by a Equation (2A). TPUT = TPUT init Nt + Pt + 1 .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Goto, Akihito Hanaki, Yukiko Takagi
  • Patent number: 8665713
    Abstract: In a radio communication system in which a radio terminal 10 transmits, to a base station 100, uplink user data via an enhanced dedicated physical data channel, the base station 100 includes a base station side transmitter unit (scheduling unit 120a) configured to transmit, to the radio terminal 10, transmission rate decrease data for instructing a decrease of the transmission rate assigned to the radio terminal 10, when the uplink user data is not transmitted from the radio terminal 10 to the base station 100 by using the transmission rate assigned to the radio terminal 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Junichiro Kawamoto, Akihito Hanaki, Takahiro Hayashi, Yoshikazu Goto, Yukiko Takagi
  • Patent number: 8600397
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mobile communication system which includes a base station, a mobile station for performing a communication with the base station, and a radio network controller for controlling the communication between the base station and the mobile station. The mobile communication system comprises a controller configured to control a communication state of the communication between the base station and the mobile station according to a congestion state of an uplink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishii, Takahiro Hayashi, Akihito Hanaki, Junichiro Kawamoto, Yoshikazu Goto, Koji Furutani
  • Publication number: 20130223266
    Abstract: When a cell in a first system which follows a transmission loss to control an uplink transmit power neighbors a cell in a second system which follows channel fading to control an uplink transmit power, a quality of an uplink signal in the cell in the first system is maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Goto, Naoto Ookubo
  • Patent number: 8432795
    Abstract: A base station according to the present invention includes: a detecting unit configured to detect a discard of the uplink user data received from a radio terminal; and a scheduling unit configured to transmit an AG or an RG instructing a decrease of an SG assigned to the radio terminal, when the discard of the uplink user data is detected by the detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yukiko Takagi, Akihito Hanaki, Takahiro Hayashi, Junichiro Kawamoto, Yoshikazu Goto
  • Patent number: 8422440
    Abstract: A radio base station according to the present invention includes: a determiner determining a transfer rate of data transferred from the radio network controller to the radio base station, based on a predetermined bandwidth of a wired transmission path, a bandwidth of the wired transmission path not being used, and a bandwidth of the wired transmission path being used by the mobile station; and a notifier notifying the radio network controller of the determined transfer rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Takahiro Hayashi, Akihito Hanaki, Yoshikazu Goto, Yukiko Takagi
  • Patent number: 8417274
    Abstract: A base station includes a scheduling unit 120a and a call admission control unit 120b. The scheduling unit 120a includes a first determination unit 126 to determine whether or not a transmission frequency of transmission rate control data for decreasing transmission rate for uplink data is equal to or higher than a transmission frequency threshold, a second determination unit 127 to determine whether or not a counted number value of rate lowering event occurrences exceeds a counted number threshold, the rate lowering event being an event that decreases transmission rate for uplink data, and a setting unit 128 to set admission permission information to information for limiting an admission of a new call in a case where the transmission frequency is equal to or higher than the predetermined frequency, and where the counted number value of rate lowering event occurrences exceeds the counted number threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Akihito Hanaki, Yoshikazu Goto
  • Patent number: 8379580
    Abstract: A radio terminal 10 transmits, to a base station 100, uplink scheduling information including at least a transmission power ratio (UPH) indicating a ratio of a maximum transmission power to a transmission power of a DPCCH. The base station 100 transmits, to the radio terminal 10, transmission rate decrease data that instructs a decrease of a transmission rate assigned to the radio terminal 10, when the transmission power ratio included in the uplink scheduling information is below a first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Goto, Akihito Hanaki, Takahiro Hayashi, Junichiro Kawamoto, Yukiko Takagi
  • Patent number: 8369380
    Abstract: A transmitter includes: spread code multiplying means that multiplies a symbol indicating a reference signal by spread code to generate a chip sequence after spreading; chip pattern generation means that generates a chip pattern by performing chip repetition a predetermined repetition number of times on the chip sequence after spreading; and multiplying means that multiplies a signal having the chip pattern by a phase specific to the transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: NTT Docomo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Atarashi, Teruo Kawamura, Yoshikazu Goto, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8340019
    Abstract: A base station includes: a determination unit that determines whether or not a total of an initial transmission rate and assigned transmission rates exceeds a maximum receiving transmission rate when the base station receives a communication start request from a radio terminal; a selecting unit that selects a decrease target terminal when the total of the initial transmission rate and the assigned transmission rates exceeds the maximum receiving transmission rate; and a transmitting unit that transmits transmission rate decrease data to the decrease target terminal, and the base station causes the total of the initial transmission rate and the assigned transmission rates to be equal to or less than the maximum receiving transmission rate by transmitting the transmission rate decrease data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yukiko Takagi, Akihito Hanaki, Takahiro Hayashi, Junichiro Kawamoto, Yoshikazu Goto
  • Patent number: 8260309
    Abstract: A transmission rate control method according to the present invention includes: determining, at the radio base station NodeB, a maximum granted value that can be notified to the mobile station UE, in accordance with a throughput at which the uplink user data transmitted from the mobile station UE to the radio base station NodeB is successfully received at a point of time; calculating, at the radio base station NodeB, as an allowable value to be notified to the mobile station UE, a granted value not more than the maximum granted value; notifying, from the radio base station NodeB to the mobile station UE, the granted value calculated at the radio base station NodeB, by using a transmission rate control channel; and transmitting, from the mobile station UE, the uplink user data, at the transmission rate corresponding to the granted value notified from the radio base station NodeB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Goto, Akihito Hanaki, Takahiro Hayashi, Junichiro Kawamoto, Yukiko Takagi
  • Patent number: 8249633
    Abstract: A base station 100 includes: a specifying unit 125 configured to specify a decrease target TTI that indicates the TTI in which a sum of already assigned transmission rates is larger than an allowable receiving transmission rate; a selecting unit 126 configured to select, as a decrease target radio terminal, the radio terminal to which the TTI in the decrease TTI is assigned; and a scheduling unit 120a configured to transmit, to the decrease target radio terminal, transmission rate decrease data that is the transmission rate control data (AG or RG) for instructing a decrease of the transmission rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Junichiro Kawamoto, Akihito Hanaki, Takahiro Hayashi, Yoshikazu Goto, Yukiko Takagi
  • Patent number: 8185125
    Abstract: A transmission rate control method according to the present invention includes: selecting, at the radio base station NodeB, increase-allowed mobile stations whose uplink user data transmission rate can be increased at a predetermined TTI; equally dividing, at the radio base station NodeB, an available radio resource at the predetermined TTI, based on the number of increase-allowed mobile stations or the number of E-AGCHs that can be transmitted in the cell; and adding, at the radio base station NodeB, the radio resource equally divided by a radio resource allocating unit 13A, to each radio resources allocated to each mobile stations to which a transmission rate control channel (E-AGCH) can be transmitted and is one of the increase-allowed mobile stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Goto, Akihito Hanaki, Takahiro Hayashi, Junichiro Kawamoto, Yukiko Takagi
  • Patent number: 8185126
    Abstract: A communication control method includes the step of restricting the number of communication channels used dedicatedly by each of mobile stations or a resource of communication channels used dedicatedly by each of the mobile stations when both communication channel shared by the mobile stations and communication channels used dedicatedly by each of the mobile stations are simultaneously used in a mobile communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Goto, Hiroyuki Ishii, Takahiro Hayashi, Akihito Hanaki, Junichiro Kawamoto, Koji Furutani
  • Patent number: 8179850
    Abstract: A mobile communication system is configured as a mobile station in a first communication state shifts to a second communication state when at least one high speed uplink packet communication compliant radio link is established by the mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Junichiro Kawamoto, Akihito Hanaki, Takahiro Hayashi, Yoshikazu Goto, Yukiko Takagi
  • Patent number: 8169929
    Abstract: A mobile communication method includes: causing a cell under control of a radio base station to determine an initial granted value when an uplink user data transmission channel is set up between a mobile station and the cell under the control of the radio base station; causing a radio network controller to notify the mobile station of the initial granted value determined by the cell under the control of the radio base station; and causing the mobile station to transmit uplink user data via the uplink user data transmission channel at a transmission rate corresponding to the initial granted value after the uplink user data transmission channel is set up, and the cell under the control of the radio base station sets the initial granted value to be equal to the granted value used in transmitting only a single data unit on the uplink user data transmission channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Goto, Akihito Hanaki, Takahiro Hayashi, Junichiro Kawamoto, Yukiko Takagi
  • Patent number: 8155654
    Abstract: A transmission rate control method including: notifying, from the mobile station UE to the radio base station NodeB, a data amount in a transmission buffer of the mobile station UE; determining, at the radio base station NodeB, a maximum allowable value that can be notified to the mobile station UE, in accordance with the data amount in the transmission buffer; calculating, at the radio base station NodeB, as a granted value to be notified to the mobile station UE, a value that does not exceed the maximum allowable value, notifying, from the radio base station Node B to the mobile station UE, the granted value calculated at the radio base station UE, by using a transmission rate control channel; and transmitting, at the mobile station UE, the uplink user data, at a transmission rate corresponding to the granted value notified from the radio base station NodeB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Goto, Akihito Hanaki, Takahiro Hayashi, Junichiro Kawamoto, Yukiko Takagi
  • Patent number: 8150444
    Abstract: A mobile communication method includes: (A) assigning, at a radio network controller, a channelization code and a transmission timing for the mobile station on the basis of a status of use of a channelization code and a transmission timing in a sector other than a specific sector when the mobile station sets a radio link with the radio base station in the specific sector; and (B) notifying, from the radio base station, the mobile station of the transmission power control information via the transmission power control channel using the channelization code and the transmission timing assigned at the radio network controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Junichiro Kawamoto, Akihito Hanaki, Takahiro Hayashi, Yoshikazu Goto, Yukiko Takagi
  • Patent number: 8144656
    Abstract: The radio base station includes: a step of making a comparison between transmission format identification information received from the mobile station and transmission format identification information based on a data amount calculated in a step of calculating the data amount of uplink user data; and a step of retransmitting a calculated scheduling grant if the radio base station determines, based on the comparison result in the step of the comparison, that a data amount indicated by the transmission format identification information received from the mobile station is larger than the data amount calculated in the aforementioned step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Takahiro Hayashi, Akihito Hanaki, Junichiro Kawamoto, Yoshikazu Goto, Yukiko Takagi
  • Patent number: 8139534
    Abstract: A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes: controlling, at the radio base station NodeB, the transmission power in the DPCCH by use of an inner loop transmission power control based on a target SIR; transmitting, at the mobile station UE, the uplink packet, at the transmission power in the E-DPDCH, the transmission power being determined based on the SG and the transmission power in the DPCCH; and determining, at the radio base station NodeB, the target SIR, by use of an outer loop transmission power control based on a HARQ transmission number and a reception result of an uplink packet transmission of the HARQ transmission number, the HARQ transmission number indicating what number transmission in the HARQ retransmission control is the uplink packet transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Goto, Akihito Hanaki, Takahiro Hayashi, Junichiro Kawamoto, Yukiko Takagi