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US 10,555,272 · App. 14/394,743 · Granted Feb 4, 2020

Mobile station for notifying timing adjustment capabilities

Inventors: Tooru Uchino (Tokyo, JP); Hideaki Takahashi (Tokyo, JP); Yuta Sagae (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04W56/0045H04W76/15
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Patent No.
US 10,555,272
App. No.
14/394,743
Granted
Feb 4, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A mobile station UE according to the present invention includes: a managing unit 11 configured to manage one or multiple TAGs each including any of a Pcell and an Scell; an adjusting unit 12 configured to adjust the transmission timings of uplink signals in any of the Pcell and the Scell belonging to the same TAG such that the transmission timings will be the same; and a transmitting unit 13 configured to notify a radio base station eNB of the supportable number of TAGs.

Claims (7)

1. A mobile station, comprising:

a processor; and a transmitter, wherein:

the mobile station is used in a mobile communication system configured to be capable of performing inter-band carrier aggregation by using a primary cell and a secondary cell;

the mobile communication system has one or a plurality of timing adjustment groups each including any of a primary cell and a secondary cell;

the processor adjusts transmission timings of uplink signals in any of the primary cell and the secondary cell belonging to the same timing adjustment group such that the transmission timings becomes the same; and

the transmitter notifies a radio base station of a supportable number of timing adjustment groups that the mobile station can support,

wherein the transmitter notifies the supportable number of timing adjustment groups for each band combination in the inter-band carrier aggregation.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 16, 2014
From: UCHINO, TOORU; TAKAHASHI, HIDEAKI; SAGAE, YUTA
To: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Reel/Frame 033960/0874 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2012-096793 · Apr 20, 2012 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20150103741A1 · Apr 16, 2015