Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Fujio Watanabe

54Patents
17h-index
52Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 25, 1996 → May 2, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6285662A Apparatus, and associated method for selecting a size of a contention window for a packet of data system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 109 Expired
US7769397B2 Method and apparatus for dormant mode support with paging Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 104 Active
US6834192B1 Method, and associated apparatus, for effectuating handover of communications in a bluetooth, or other, radio communication system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 102 Expired
US7161914B2 Context aware application level triggering mechanism for pre-authentication, service adaptation, pre-caching and handover in a heterogeneous network environment Electricity 100 Expired
US7072657B2 Method and associated apparatus for pre-authentication, preestablished virtual private network in heterogeneous access networks Electricity 62 Expired
US7447148B2 Method for supporting scalable and reliable multicast in TDMA/TDD systems using feedback suppression techniques Electricity 47 Expired
US6681256B1 Method for dynamically selecting allocation of random access channels in a communication system Electricity 46 Expired
US6317854A Apparatus, and associated method, for selecting retransmission of packet data Electricity 42 Expired
US6731939B1 Apparatus, and associated method, for allocating channels in a radio communication system Electricity 33 Expired
US8527213B2 Monitoring wellness using a wireless handheld device Physics 31 Active
US8504035B2 System and method for population tracking, counting, and movement estimation using mobile operational data and/or geographic information in mobile network Electricity 30 Active
US7656831B2 Method and apparatus for power saving in beacon generation of wireless networks in ad hoc mode Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 29 Active
US7417971B2 Method and apparatus for dormant mode support with paging Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 27 Expired
US7366524B2 Using subnet relations for paging, authentication, association and to activate network interfaces in heterogeneous access networks Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 26 Expired
US8054798B2 Proxy active scan for wireless networks Electricity 21 Active
US7031709B2 Method and associated apparatus for increment accuracy of geographical foreign agent topology relation in heterogeneous access networks Electricity 18 Expired
US7321587B2 Handover resource optimization Electricity 17 Expired
US7907582B2 Method and apparatus for access point selection in wireless LAN Electricity 15 Active
US7020440B2 Method and apparatus for an SIP based paging scheme Electricity 15 Expired
US6944457B2 Communication system, a communication device and a method for performing communication Electricity 13 Expired
US8218420B2 Non-cyclic evolving-type user resource structure for OFDMA based system with null guard tones Electricity 12 Active
US8131291B2 Fast active scanning wireless network apparatus and method Electricity 11 Expired
US8155013B2 Synchronized multi-link transmission in an ARQ-enabled multi-hop wireless network Electricity 10 Active
US8280387B2 Femtocell channel assignment and power control for improved femtocell coverage and efficient cell search Electricity 10 Active
US7995462B2 Method for supporting scalable and reliable multicast in TDMA/TDD systems using feedback suppression techniques Electricity 9 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.