Patents by Inventor Yuta Sagae

Yuta Sagae 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: 20150372777
    Abstract: A user apparatus in a radio communication system including a plurality of base stations, including a reception unit that receives, from a connecting base station, control information to be used for reducing a signal of a control channel, that causes interference, sent from an interference base station for the user apparatus, and an interference reducing unit that reduces the signal of the control channel that causes the interference by using the control information to obtain a desired signal sent from the connecting base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yousuke Sano, Yusuke Ohwatari, Satoshi Nagata, Yuta Sagae, Kazuaki Takeda
  • Publication number: 20150373684
    Abstract: Techniques for assigning uplink dedicated resources in inter-site or inter-eNB carrier aggregation promptly are disclosed. One aspect of the present invention relates to a base station including a transmission and reception unit configured to use radio resources to communicate with a user equipment and a resource management unit configured to manage the radio resources, wherein the resource management unit comprises a pooling information storage unit configured to store pooling information indicative of radio resources reserved for the base station by a non-anchor base station in inter-eNB carrier aggregation, and the resource management unit autonomously assigns the radio resources indicated in the pooling information to the user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Hideaki Takahashi, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Yuta Sagae
  • Publication number: 20150373586
    Abstract: Some techniques for promptly assigning uplink dedicated resources in inter-site or inter-eNB carrier aggregation are disclosed. One aspect of the present invention relates to a user equipment including a transmission and reception unit configured to use radio resources to communicate with multiple base stations, a resource management unit configured to manage the radio resources and a cell type determination unit configured to determine a type of a cell providing the radio resources, wherein when the resource management unit detects occurrence of a release trigger for assigned uplink dedicated resources, the cell type determination unit determines a type of a cell providing the uplink dedicated resources and retains or releases the uplink dedicated resources depending on the determined cell type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Hideaki Takahashi, Wuri Andarmawanti Hapsari, Yuta Sagae
  • Publication number: 20150351104
    Abstract: In one aspect of the present invention, a mobile station includes a receiver type control signal reception unit configured to receive a receiver type control signal indicating whether to allow an operation of a receiver in association with at least one receiver type; and a receiver configuration unit configured to configure the operation of the receiver based on the received receiver type control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuta Sagae, Satoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20150350882
    Abstract: “Inter-site CA” using CCs under different radio base stations eNB in an asynchronous state can be performed appropriately. A mobile station UE of the present invention comprises a transmission unit 12 configured to transmit “UE Capability Information” to a radio base station eNB, the “UE Capability Information” indicating whether the mobile station UE is capable of performing “Inter-site CA” using CCs under different radio base stations eNB in the asynchronous state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Yuta Sagae
  • Publication number: 20150341131
    Abstract: A user apparatus, in a radio communication system including a plurality of base stations, including a reception unit configured to receive, from a connecting base station, control information to be used for reducing an interference signal sent from an interference base station for the user apparatus; and an interference reducing unit configured to reduce the interference signal by using the control information to obtain a desired signal sent from the connecting base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yousuke SANO, Yusuke OHWATARI, Satoshi NAGATA, Yuta SAGAE, Yukihiko OKUMURA
  • Publication number: 20150334603
    Abstract: An objective is to enable a radio base station eNB to recognize a time point when a transition of an Scell to an active state is completed. A mobile station UE according to the invention includes a transmission unit 14 configured to, when an activation command for a deactive Scell is received, start reporting of CSI in the Scell to the radio base station eNB at predetermined timing before transition of an Scell to an active state is completed. The transmission unit 14 reports CSI to the radio base station eNB at predetermined intervals even during a time period from the time point when the CSI reporting is started to a time point when the transition of the Scell to the active state is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Yuta Sagae
  • Publication number: 20150334699
    Abstract: A user apparatus in a mobile communication system in which carrier aggregation is performed using a plurality of cells, including: a control unit configured to determine whether a physical uplink shared channel is set in the user apparatus at a transmission timing of uplink control information, and to determine to transmit the uplink control information by using the physical uplink shared channel when the physical uplink shared channel is set; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the uplink control information to a radio base station using the physical uplink shared channel, wherein the control unit determines, when a physical uplink shared channel is set in a first cell in the plurality of cells, to transmit the uplink control information by using the physical uplink shared channel, and the control unit determines, when no physical uplink shared channel is set in the first cell, to transmit the uplink control information by using a physical uplink shared channel in a second cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Hideaki Takahashi, Yuta Sagae, Kazuaki Takeda
  • Publication number: 20150327230
    Abstract: In order to control feedback control information in uplink transmission appropriately even when using carrier aggregation in HetNet, the present invention provides a user terminal that is able to communicate with a plurality of radio base stations having overlapping coverage areas by using carrier aggregation, the user terminal comprising: a reception section that receives downlink shared channel signals using component carriers of a primary cell and a secondary cell; a generating section that generates transmission acknowledgement signals in response to the downlink shared channel signals; and an allocating section that allocates the transmission acknowledgement signals to predetermined uplink control channel resources, wherein the allocating section allocates the transmission acknowledgement signals to either or both of uplink control channel resources of the primary cell and uplink control channel resources of the secondary cell in accordance with contents of the transmission acknowledgement signals and/or
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kohei Kiyoshima, Tooru Uchino, Yuta Sagae, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20150312922
    Abstract: A user equipment has a transmission and reception unit configured to transmit and receive a radio channel to/from a base station via multiple cells configured by carrier aggregation, a simultaneous transmission availability determination unit configured to, in response to an occurrence of an event to transmit an uplink control channel in the multiple cells simultaneously, determine whether the uplink control channel can be simultaneously transmitted in the multiple cells, and a transmission control unit configured to, if the uplink control channel can be simultaneously transmitted in the multiple cells, instruct the transmission and reception unit to transmit the uplink control channel in the multiple cells simultaneously, and if the uplink control channel cannot be simultaneously transmitted in the multiple cells, control transmission of the uplink control channel in accordance with a transmission priority.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Hideaki Takahashi, Yuta Sagae, Kazuaki Takeda
  • Publication number: 20150304927
    Abstract: Appropriate “idle mode cell reselection” is achieved by changing a threshold used to perform “idle mode cell reselection” between a case of performing RSRQ measurement in six resource blocks and a case of performing “Wideband RSRQ measurement.” A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step of causing a radio base station eNB or a radio network controller RNC to broadcast not only existing parameters used to perform cell reselection processing based on a result of the RSRQ measurement in six resource blocks, but also wideband parameters used to perform “idle mode cell reselection” based on a measurement result of “Wideband RSRQ measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Yuta Sagae, Hiroshi Chin
  • Publication number: 20150304915
    Abstract: A mobile station for communication using carrier aggregation includes a secondary cell state management unit configured to manage whether a state of a secondary cell is an activation state or a deactivation state; and a transmission control unit configured to stop transmission of uplink control information on a physical uplink control channel in a first secondary cell, when the state of the first secondary cell managed by the secondary cell state management unit is the deactivation state at a timing of transmission of the physical uplink control channel in the first secondary cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Hideaki Takahashi, Yuta Sagae, Kazuaki Takeda
  • Patent number: 9166763
    Abstract: A duplexer D1 or D2 to be used is appropriately selected from multiple duplexers D1 and D2. A mobile communication method of the invention is a mobile communication method for a mobile communication system 1 operated in a band F1. The method includes: a step A of causing a radio base station eNB in the mobile communication system 1 to notify a mobile station UE of information concerning a system X operated in a band 2 adjacent to the band F1 and information concerning a system Y operated in a band 3 adjacent to the band 1; and a step B of causing the mobile station UE to select a duplexer D1 (or D2) to be used from multiple duplexers D1 and D2 on the basis of the information concerning the system X and the information concerning the system Y.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuta Sagae, Hiromasa Umeda
  • Publication number: 20150296464
    Abstract: One objective of the present invention is to determine an allowed range of transmission power in relaxation of the transmission power of a user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuta Sagae, Hiromasa Umeda
  • Publication number: 20150296487
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to provide a radio communication system, a user terminal and a radio communication method that make it possible to monitor communication quality adequately even when a new radio resource structure is employed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Takeda, Tooru Uchino, Yuta Sagae, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20150289218
    Abstract: Appropriate CC-to-TAG mapping is configured when “UL CA” is performed. A mobile station UE of the invention includes: a management unit 11 configured to manage one or more TAGS; an adjustment unit 12 configured to make adjustment to synchronize transmission timings of uplink signals within CCs which belong to the same TAG; and a transmission unit 13 configured to notify a radio base station eNB of a combination of supported bands, supported CCs, and settable TAGS, and the bands and the CCs grouped in the TAGs included in the combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Hideaki Takahashi, Yuta Sagae
  • Publication number: 20150264679
    Abstract: In CA performed using multiple cells supporting PUCCH, which downlink cell feedback information is to be transmitted through which uplink cell PUCCH is determined. A mobile station UE according to the invention includes a management unit 21 configured to manage a downlink cell and an uplink cell in association with each other and a transmission unit 23 configured to transmit feedback information for a signal, which is transmitted through the downlink cell, through PUCCH for the uplink cell associated with the downlink cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Yuta Sagae, Kohei Kiyoshima, Kazuaki Takeda
  • Publication number: 20150250004
    Abstract: An objective is to enable communications properly using an Scell even in a case where a radio base station which transmits “Activate command” and a radio base station which manages an Scell are different when “Inter-site CA” is performed. A radio base station eNB #1 according to the invention includes a transmission unit 12 configured to transmit an “Activate command” which is a command to activate a cell # B to a mobile station UE and thereafter notify a radio base station eNB #10 that the cell # B is activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Hideaki Takahashi, Yuta Sagae, Kazuaki Takeda
  • Publication number: 20150195829
    Abstract: To prevent the occurrence of interference in the uplink when carrying out “Time-Switched UL CA”. A mobile station UE according to the present invention includes a UL transmission processing unit 11 configured to transmit uplink information at TTI# n+4 corresponding to TTI#n, using a CC allocated over a PDCCH to the mobile station UE at TTI# n by the radio base station eNB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: Tooru Uchino, Hideaki Takahashi, Yuta Sagae
  • Patent number: 9078261
    Abstract: The present invention notifies of an EARFCN in an equivalent band by means of an SIB 5 while minimizing the increase in overhead. A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes: a step in which a radio base station eNB in a cell #1 notifies, by means of the SIB 5, of a band #2 and an equivalent band #21 that can be supported in a cell #2 adjacent to the cell #1; and a step in which a mobile station UE assumes that access in the cell #2 is prohibited when having determined that the mobile station does not support the band #2 and the equivalent band #21.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Yuta Sagae