Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090161600 | Wireless slave unit - In a network area of a wireless network managed by a wireless master device, a wireless slave device performs wireless network communication with another wireless slave device connected by wire to a terminal, and wired network communication with a terminal connected by wire to the wireless slave device. The wireless slave device includes a wireless reception unit ( | 06-25-2009 |
20090168707 | RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE, BAND SETTING SYSTEM - An object of the present invention is to provide a wireless communication device that can receive a content by securing a band as much as possible, if a predetermined band is required to be secured when the content is received by wire. The wireless communication device judges whether or not the predetermined band necessary for receiving the content can be secured with a wireless master device. When it is judged that the predetermined band cannot be secured in the judgment, the wireless communication device switches a connection destination from the wireless master device to which the wireless communication device has been connected to a different wireless master device that can secure a predetermined receiving electric field strength. | 07-02-2009 |
20090190553 | RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, RADIO TERMINAL, BASE STATION, AND BASE STATION SEARCH METHOD - A wireless communication system includes a wireless terminal and a plurality of base stations that can communicate with each other via a predetermined communication path that is different from the wireless communication path to the wireless terminal. The wireless terminal transmits a request signal to one of the base stations to request a response signal from another base station. The one base station transfers the received request signal to the other base station via the predetermined communication path. Upon reception of the request signal transferred from the one base station, the second base station transmits a response signal to the wireless terminal via the predetermined channel. The wireless terminal receives the response signal transmitted from the second base station via the predetermined channel. | 07-30-2009 |
20090238108 | RELAY DEVICE - A relay device receives transfer data from a transfer-source terminal and transfers the received transfer data to a transfer-destination terminal via relaying performed by another relay device. When the transfer data is received, the relay device establishes direct communication with the other relay device if information regarding the other relay device is attached to the received transfer data. If information regarding the other relay device is not attached, the relay device attaches information regarding itself to the transfer data and transfers the resulting transfer data to a wireless control station. | 09-24-2009 |
20090238196 | NETWORK SYSTEM AND RELAY DEVICE - when a network system of the present invention performs a bandwidth-guaranteed communication, a terminal device collects information on one or more relay devices on a path to another terminal device via a bandwidth request packet transmitted to the another terminal. When the bandwidth cannot be allocated, a detour path is searched according to the collected relay device information so as to perform the bandwidth-guaranteed communication via the detour path. | 09-24-2009 |
20100157819 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION METHOD, SYSTEM LSI, AND PROGRAM - One transmission rate of a physical layer (PHY rate) is selected from among a plurality of PHY rates of a protocol stack by calculating one or more effective values of transmission rates of an upper layer of the protocol stack with respect to one or more PHY rates of the plurality of PHY rates respectively, and making a comparison with use of the calculated one or more effective values. Each of the one or more effective values is calculated based on (i) an ideal value of corresponding one of the transmission rates and (ii) a retransmission ratio via the physical layer that corresponds to a reception power value detected in the reception apparatus. | 06-24-2010 |
20100183087 | RECEPTION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND ADAPTIVE TRANSMISSION RATE CONTROL METHOD - In a receiver | 07-22-2010 |
20100232415 | CONTROL DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD, USING THE SAME - A terminal device ( | 09-16-2010 |
20110007901 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A communication device ( | 01-13-2011 |
20110086661 | BASE STATION AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A base station includes: an estimation section estimating transmission condition of each of frequency channels used for communication; a reception section receiving a data signal from each communication terminal through any of the frequency channels; a measurement section measuring received signal power of the received data signal for each frequency channel; a determination section determining, for each frequency channel, whether the received data signal is demodulated errorlessly; and a control section assigning frequency channels estimated as being in good transmission condition by the estimation section, to communication terminals the data signals of which are determined as not being errorlessly demodulated by the determination section, such that a frequency channel in a better transmission condition is assigned preferentially to a communication terminal having larger received signal power detected by the detection section, and transmitting retransmission request signals requesting the communication terminals to retransmit the data signals using the assigned frequency channels. | 04-14-2011 |
20110205920 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A communication device according to the present invention includes: a receiving unit which receives a block transmitted by a communication device; a photocurrent measuring unit which measures a reception quality of the received block; a PHY rate determining unit which determines, based on the reception quality, a PHY rate that is used by the communication device for transmitting a next block; a block size control unit which determines, based on the measured reception quality, a block size; and a transmission unit which transmits feedback information including the determined PHY rate and the determined block size to the communication device, and the block size control unit determines the block size to be a value smaller than a maximum value of a block size that can be transmitted by the communication device, when a value indicating the reception quality of the block is within a predetermined range including a PHY rate threshold. | 08-25-2011 |
20110261764 | CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - In a wireless communication system according to the present invention: a control device and a communication terminal communicate in an active period. The control device: generates a first beacon packet including one or more candidate channels; transmits the first beacon packet at the beginning of the active period; determines whether or not a use channel is to be changed based on a communication state, and generates a second beacon packet including information of a determination result; transmits the second beacon packet at the end of the active period; and, when it is determined that the use channel is to be changed, changes the use channel after the active period ends and before a next active period starts. The communication terminal: receives the first and second beacon packets; and, based on the second beacon packet, changes the use channel after the active period ends and before a next active period starts. | 10-27-2011 |
20110312278 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND PROGRAM - A mobile communication device ( | 12-22-2011 |
20120019674 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - The communication device can easily serve as an extended user interface such as a remote controller of a target apparatus without causing any complicated operations to a user. The communication device includes the following units. An apparatus information obtainment unit ( | 01-26-2012 |
20120106427 | COMMUNICATION METHOD - Provided is a communication method for improving the communication quality of multicast transmission. A grouping table storage section stores a grouping table in which Ack return order positions indicating priority orders of the reception terminals which each return an Ack, and addresses of the reception terminals are set. An Ack return order position notification frame creation section notifies each reception terminal of a corresponding Ack return order position based on the grouping table. An Ack return permission information determination section refers to the grouping table, determines the number of reception terminal that are to be permitted to return an Ack, and creates Ack return permission information in which information about the reception terminals that are to be permitted to return an Ack is set, based on the determined number of reception terminals. A multicast creation section creates a multicast containing the Ack return permission information and transmission data. | 05-03-2012 |
20120127865 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A terminal ( | 05-24-2012 |
20120147802 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - An energy controller ( | 06-14-2012 |
20120307702 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is a communication apparatus which allows multi-rate control causing less waste of communication band as compared to conventional, the communication apparatus according to the present invention includes: the wireless communication unit for performing wireless communication with the terminal apparatus; a transfer rate setting unit for setting a transfer rate; a beacon generation unit for generating a beacon which is a first control signal; and a control unit for causing the wireless communication unit to wirelessly transmit, for every predetermined period, the beacon, and, to cause the wireless communication unit to wirelessly transmit the beacon, the control unit causes the transfer rate setting unit to set a transfer rate different from the transfer rate previously used for the wireless transmission of the beacon, and causes the wireless communication unit to transmit the beacon to the terminal apparatus. | 12-06-2012 |
20130034039 | CONTROL DEVICE, RELAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - A control device according to the present invention comprises a receiving unit which receives, in the network, a multi-address message transmitted from each of the terminal devices, a determining unit which determines whether or not the received multi-address message is to be translated into a unicast message to be transmitted to a specified terminal device, based on information contained in the multi-address message, the specified terminal device being included in the terminal devices, a translating unit which translates the multi-address message into the unicast message when the determining unit determines that the multi-address message is to be translated, and a transmitting unit which transmits the unicast message to the specified terminal device. | 02-07-2013 |
20130039323 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - The communication terminal includes: a receiving unit and a transmission unit which serve as a communication unit for signal exchange; a beacon processing unit as a first detection unit that detects, for each channel, the number of the other communication terminals performing wireless communication by receiving a terminal number notification signal from a control device; a data processing unit as a second detection unit that counts, for each channel, the number of the other communication terminals found by receiving acknowledgement signals transmitted from the other communication terminals; a channel control unit that selects a frequency channel having a least difference between the number detected by the beacon processing unit and the number counted by the data processing unit, and causes the receiving unit and the transmission unit to perform the signal exchange via the selected frequency channel. | 02-14-2013 |
20130077558 | RELAY DEVICE, RECEIVING DEVICE, TRANSMITTING DEVICE, AND RELAY METHOD - A relay device according to the present invention includes: a receiving unit which receives a frame; a transmitting unit which transmits a frame; a frame determination unit which stores therein the first frame when the frame determination unit determines that the received frame is the first frame; a proxy ACK generation unit which generates a third frame which is a proxy frame of a second frame which is a frame to be transmitted from the receiving device, as a receipt acknowledgement to the first frame; and a communication control unit which: causes the transmitting unit to transmit the third frame; sets an extended active period in the inactive period subsequent to the active period; and transmits the first frame in the extended active period when the receiving unit does not receive the second frame within a predetermined period after reception of the first frame. | 03-28-2013 |
20130170426 | CONTROLLER, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A control point device that reduces delay in a power-saving wireless network includes a normal data generating unit that generates 1 | 07-04-2013 |
20130247117 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A mobile device includes a position sensing unit, a remote control information obtainment unit, and a storage unit. Position information obtained by the position sensing unit is stored in the storage unit in association with remote control information. The mobile device further includes a directional space obtainment unit and an apparatus specification unit. The mobile device recognizes a direction pointed by a user using the mobile device, and enables operation of a terminal apparatus existing in the pointing direction. | 09-19-2013 |
20140105397 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A communication device, which can simplify various setting processes, transmits, to a server via a network, external device information received from an external device by using proximity wireless communication. The communication device includes: an antenna for the proximity wireless communication with the external device; a proximity wireless communication unit communicating with the external device via the antenna to receive the external device information from the external device; an external device storage unit storing the external device information received by the proximity wireless communication unit; a registration information generation unit generating registration information to be registered in a database in the server based on (a) the external device information stored in the external device storage unit and (b) communication device information including communication device identification information for identifying the communication device; and a server communication unit transmitting registration information to the server via the network. | 04-17-2014 |