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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2013

Filed:

Jul. 02, 2008
Applicants:

Yuki Inoue, Yokohama, JP;

Keizo Cho, Yokohama, JP;

Inventors:

Yuki Inoue, Yokohama, JP;

Keizo Cho, Yokohama, JP;

Assignee:

NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A disclosed base station apparatus for a mobile communication system includes a collection unit collecting measured data from one or more user equipment terminals with respect to each direction of arrival, the measured data including at least quality information of a downlink signal, a conversion unit converting the measured data into an evaluation value in accordance with a predetermined evaluation function, a deriving unit deriving a weight update amount determining directivity based on an angular distribution of the plural evaluation values, and a transmission unit transmitting a downlink signal weighted based on the weight update amount.


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