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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2017
Applicant:
Ntt Docomo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NTT DOCOMO, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/029 (2018.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01); H04W 72/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/029 (2018.02); H04W 4/40 (2018.02); H04W 72/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
A server device for determining, on the basis of a communication cost in a communication area in which at least one terminal is communicatable and the position of the at least one terminal, a first terminal to which uplink data is to be transmitted in a first communication area, in which the communication cost is less than a threshold, transmitting to the first terminal an indication for uplink data transmission in the first communication area, and receiving uplink data from the first terminal.