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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2012
Applicants:
Naoto Ookubo, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiaki Ofuji, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Naoto Ookubo, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiaki Ofuji, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NTT DOCOMO, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/12 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/0037 (2013.01); H04W 72/1205 (2013.01); H04W 72/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
A base stationincludes a scheduling processing unitconfigured to schedule each of multiple mobile stations to the PDCCH, and a UE-type judgment unitconfigured to judge whether each of the mobile stations is an OLD UE supporting only CFI=1 to 3 or a NEW UE supporting CFI=1 to 4. The scheduling processing unitschedules each of the multiple UEs to the PDCCH by use of any one of CFI=1 to 3 when UEs targeted to be scheduled to the PDCCH include an OLD UE.