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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:
Feb. 16, 2016

Filed:

Jan. 05, 2012
Applicants:

Satoshi Nagata, Tokyo, JP;

Tetsushi Abe, Tokyo, JP;

Nobuhiko Miki, Tokyo, JP;

Yuuya Saitou, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Satoshi Nagata, Tokyo, JP;

Tetsushi Abe, Tokyo, JP;

Nobuhiko Miki, Tokyo, JP;

Yuuya Saitou, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

NTT DOCOMO, INC., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 72/08 (2009.01); H04W 16/28 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 16/32 (2009.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/082 (2013.01); H04W 16/28 (2013.01); H04W 16/32 (2013.01); H04W 72/046 (2013.01); H04W 84/045 (2013.01); Y02B 60/50 (2013.01);
Abstract

To effectively improve the reception quality in a pico-base station, while preventing throughput of a macro-base station from significantly deteriorating, a macro-base station (M-BS) is provided with a beam generating section () that generates a directional beam to a macro-UE using antenna weights based on a beampattern assigned to the macro-UE existing in a macro-cell having a first coverage area, and a coordination section () that determines a beam pattern so that a beam pattern to the macro-UE existing in the macro-cell is a beam pattern that suppresses interference power to a pico-UE existing in a pico-cell, in assigning the beam pattern to the macro-UE existing in the macro-cell during a transmission period assigned to a pico-base station (P-BS) locally forming the pico-cell in the macro-cell.


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