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US 12,395,280 · App. 17/088,524 · Granted Aug 19, 2025

Base station device, terminal device, and communication method

Inventors: Yoshiaki Ohta (Yokohama, JP); Yoshihiro Kawasaki (Kawasaki, JP); Takayoshi Ode (Yokohama, JP); Michiharu Nakamura (Yokosuka, JP)
Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
H04L1/1835H04L1/1635H04W28/0273H04W72/23H04W72/51
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Patent No.
US 12,395,280
App. No.
17/088,524
Granted
Aug 19, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A base station device that communicates with a terminal device in a wireless manner, the base station device includes, a controller configured to determine an accumulation number which is a number of reception confirmation packets that are able to be accumulated in the terminal device and correspond to packets received from the base station device, in accordance with an amount of data transmitted by the terminal device, and a transmitter configured to transmit a control signal including the determined accumulation number to the terminal device.

Claims (27)

1. A base station device that communicates with a terminal device in a wireless manner, the base station device comprising:

a receiver configured to receive data from the terminal device;

a controller configured to determine an accumulation number which is a number of reception confirmation packets that are able to be accumulated in the terminal device, in accordance with an amount of data received from the terminal device, the reception confirmation packets are responses to packets that are transmitted from the base station device to the terminal device, the reception confirmation packets being transmitted from the terminal device to the base station device; and

a transmitter configured to transmit a control signal including the determined accumulation number to the terminal device, wherein

the data is different from the reception confirmation packets, and

the controller is further configured to control to cause the terminal device to discard prior to transmission, a reception confirmation packet which is included in the reception confirmation packets and exceeds the accumulation number by the transmitting of the control signal via the transmitter.

2. The base station device according to claim 1 , wherein

the controller configured to determine the accumulation number for each of a plurality of the terminal devices in a case where the number of terminal devices is plural, and

the transmitter is configured to transmit the control signal for each of the plurality of terminal devices.

3. The base station device according to claim 1 , further comprising

an allocator configured to allocate wireless resources to the terminal device, wherein

the terminal device transmits the number of reception confirmation packets corresponding to the amount of wireless resources allocated to the base station device, among the reception confirmation packets corresponding to the accumulation number, to the base station device.

4. The base station device according to claim 1 , wherein

the controller is further configured to control to cause the terminal device to discard a second reception confirmation packet which is included in the reception confirmation packets when a first reception confirmation packet included in the reception confirmation packets is transmitted by the terminal device.

5. A terminal device that communicates with a base station device configured to receive data from the terminal device in a wireless manner, the terminal device comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit the data to the base station device;

a receiver configured to receive a control signal including an accumulation number which is a number of reception confirmation packets that are able to be accumulated, the accumulation number being determined by the base station device in accordance with an amount of data transmitted by the terminal device, the reception confirmation packets are responses to packets that are transmitted from the base station device to the terminal device, the reception confirmation packets being transmitted from the terminal device to the base station device; and

a transmission controller configured to:

accumulate the reception confirmation packets corresponding to the accumulation number included in the received control signal, and

discard prior to transmission, the reception confirmation packets which are included in the confirmation packets and exceed the accumulation number, wherein

the data is different from the reception confirmation packets.

6. A communication method in a base station device that communicates with a terminal device in a wireless manner, the communication method comprising:

receiving data from the terminal device;

determining an accumulation number which is a number of reception confirmation packets that are able to be accumulated in the terminal device, in accordance with an amount of data received from the terminal device, the reception confirmation packets are responses to packets that are transmitted from the base station device to the terminal device, the reception confirmation packets being transmitted from the terminal device to the base station device; and

transmitting a control signal including the determined accumulation number to the terminal device, wherein

the data is different from the reception confirmation packets; and

the communication method further comprising controlling to cause the terminal device to discard prior to transmission, a reception confirmation packet which is included in the reception confirmation packets and is exceed the accumulation number by the transmitting of the control signal.

Assignments (3)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE THE APPLICATION NUMBER 19345640 TO CHANGE IT TO 19346640 AND TO CORRECT THE APPLICATION 19317078 TO CHANGE IT TO 19319078. PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 73477 FRAME 351. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Jan 20, 2026
From: FUJITSU LIMITED
To: 1FINITY INC.
Reel/Frame 075265/0471 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 3, 2025
From: FUJITSU LIMITED
To: 1FINITY INC.
Reel/Frame 073477/0351 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 3, 2020
From: OHTA, YOSHIAKI; KAWASAKI, YOSHIHIRO; ODE, TAKAYOSHI; NAKAMURA, MICHIHARU
To: FUJITSU LIMITED
Reel/Frame 054262/0732 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2018018615 · May 14, 2018
Related Publication 20210058200A1 · Feb 25, 2021
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