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Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.


Location: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP
No. of patents: 27

NumberTitleIssue Date
8170542Mobile communication system for notifying subscriber identity identity code notification apparatus
A mobile communication system is provided such that multiple identity codes assigned to a terminal device are displayed on the terminal device, whereby such multiple identity codes are selectively and arbitrarily used without a specific provision, and an identity co...
05/01/2012
8149798Base station apparatus and radio communication parameter setting method
To automatically set up temporarily the parameters required for radio communication, based on the parameters acquired from another base station apparatus existing in the neighborhood. A pair of base station identifier and down scrambling code reported from a base st...
04/03/2012
8144677Wireless communication device and wireless communication method
An object of the present invention is to realize a distributed autonomous transmission scheduling by using a terminal without the need to observe packets in relation to communication of other wireless terminals in a cell, such as VoIP, in which a plurality of wirele...
03/27/2012
8131289Mobile communication terminal and mobile communication control method
A mobile communication terminal holds a frequency cancellation list that is information related to cells that cannot be connected, and controls execution/non-execution (frequency cancellation) of the cell search according to the content of the cancellation list. In ...
03/06/2012
8121621Position estimation system
A position of a mobile communication terminal in an environment where the terminal cannot communicate with a GPS is defined more narrowly than a sector area of a base station in which the mobile communication terminal is located so that the position of the mobile co...
02/21/2012
8099102Call admission control device and call admission control method
A call admission control device efficiently controls admission of a new call. In a scheduling operation, a congestion state in a cell is estimated based on the number or ratio of the mobile stations whose average transmission data rates have been initialized, and ca...
01/17/2012
8077794Reception device, communication control method in mobile communication system
A reception device for use in a mobile communication system having a mobile station and a radio base station to which transmission diversity for transmitting transmission signals using a plurality of antennas is applied in a downlink to the mobile station, is disclo...
12/13/2011
8055260Mobile communication system, local subscriber information management device, and communication information management method
The unnecessarily increase of the information amount of subscriber information retained by a local subscriber information management device is prevented even if the number of subscribers increases, so that the limit of the number of subscribers is extended to suppor...
11/08/2011
8050702Mobile station and transmission power control method in mobile station
To provide a mobile station and a transmission power control method in the mobile station, which are capable of improving the power saving characteristic associated with the transmission power control in the mobile station under a condition in which the transmit div...
11/01/2011
8050667Virtual terminal server, mobile communication terminal, communication control system, and communication control method
In order to provide a new service even to a conventional mobile communication terminal without installing a new function when starting a new mobile communication service, a mobile communication terminal includes a virtual terminal server that controls the communicat...
11/01/2011
8045963Communication message storing and delivering device, mobile communication terminal device, and communication message storing and delivering method
Irrespective of the current situation of a recipient, a message storing service can be actively used by an originator's will, and the recipient can know without a delay that a message addressed to the recipient has been stored. A service for message originator can b...
10/25/2011
7996238Power transmitting device, power receiving device, authentication/billing proxy device, electrical charging system, power transmitting method, power receiving method and electrical charging method
An electrical charging system and method is disclosed. A power transmitting device is configured to charge a power source of a portable electronic device in non-contact processing including a predetermined power providing policy including at least one of a fee setti...
08/09/2011
7570950Mobile communication system, mobile station and diversity handover branch control method
A branch candidate selecting method by a mobile station and a diversity handover control method on a network side in DHO performance are provided which consider a maximum cable branch number and maximum radio branch number of the mobile station, when the mobile stat...
08/04/2009
7443907Base station apparatus of mobile communication system
A base station including a transmitting and receiving amplifier for amplifying CDMA signals exchanged with a mobile station; a radio stage connected to the transmitting and receiving amplifier for carrying out D/A conversion of a transmitted signal that undergoes ba...
10/28/2008
7437152Control method of searching neighboring cells, mobile station, and mobile, communication system
A control method of searching for a neighboring cell of a mobile station communicating with a base-station is provided in a direct sequence CDMA mobile communication system which transmits information by carrying out double modulation using a first spreading code gr...
10/14/2008
7403777Mobile communication system, mobile station and diversity handover branch control method
A branch candidate selecting method by a mobile station and a diversity handover control method on a network side in DHO performance are provided which consider a maximum cable branch number and maximum radio branch number of the mobile station, when the mobile stat...
07/22/2008
7349697Mobile communication system, mobile terminal, subscriber information management apparatus, mobile network system, location area information registration method and call control method
A mobile terminal can be loaded with a plurality of subscriber identity module cards at the same time, and register the condition to a mobile communication network. The mobile terminal comprises detects a loading of a recording medium (such as an IC card like the SI...
03/25/2008
7346042Information distributing method, information distributing system, information distributing server, mobile communication network system and communication service providing method
An information distributing method etc. are provided. An information providing server comprises a first transmission device for transmitting image data to a communication terminal, a first conversion device for converting attached information attached to the image d...
03/18/2008
7333529Apparatus and method for measurement of communication quality in CDMA system
In order to perform synchronization detection with high speed, high precision and high reliability and to measure communication quality (propagation characteristics) at high precision and high efficiency, a mobile station (202) includes synchronization detect...
02/19/2008
7330723Communication performance calculation method and communication performance calculation apparatus in mobile communication system, and blocking probability calculation method and blocking probability calculation apparatus in communication system, and recording medium
A subdivision data holding unit holds data of transmission power Pi and traffic intensity Ai of each subdivision. A propagation associated data holding unit holds data used for calculating received power, such as the height above the ground of antennas of the base s...
02/12/2008
7305247Cell control method and cell system
The present invention allows the cell shape of any base station in operation to be changed, thereby enabling services to be provided according to the needs. A mobile terminal attempts to synchronize with a perch channel to thereby check whether or not it can receive...
12/04/2007
7301991Fading frequency decision device and method
Fading frequency decision device and method are provided. An inner product value of pilot symbols which are time multiplexed in a control channel which is parallel multiplexed with a data channel, an inner product value of pilot symbols in a channel in which data sy...
11/27/2007
7289809Mobile communication system, mobile station and diversity handover branch control method
A branch candidate selecting method by a mobile station and a diversity handover control method on a network side in DHO performance are provided which consider a maximum cable branch number and maximum radio branch number of the mobile station, when the mobile stat...
10/30/2007
7260107PPP data conversion apparatus and method
A data conversion apparatus etc. which inhibits octet/bit insertion to reduce a data transmission amount and improve a throughput in a section not requiring octet/bit insertion during communication based on PPP is provided. Further, a communication apparatus which r...
08/21/2007
7224676Mobile station, base station and communication method
A mobile station receives a signal based on a TDD method by receiving a signal based on a FDD method to acquire information of the signal based on the TDD method in a mobile communication system. For instance, the mobile station receives a signal based on a CDMA-FDD...
05/29/2007
7218617Transmission method of downlink pilot channel in CDMA mobile communication system, and CDMA mobile communication system
A pilot channel transmission method is provided of transmitting a pilot channel through a downlink from a base station in a CDMA mobile communication system including base stations. Each base station is installed in one of a plurality of cells, uses a same frequency...
05/15/2007
7200633Information delivery system and information delivery method
An information delivery system and information delivery method can provide information delivery services that utilize network resources efficiently. A push server 3 transmits data associated with summary content 15 (summary of detailed content 23
04/03/2007
 
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