US 11,729,705 B2
Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method
Yuichi Morioka, Kanagawa (JP); and Ryuichi Hirata, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/871,284.
Application 17/871,284 is a continuation of application No. 17/042,375, granted, now 11,425,629, previously published as PCT/JP2019/011985, filed on Mar. 22, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-073927 (JP), filed on Apr. 6, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0361090 A1, Nov. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 48/10 (2009.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 52/46 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 48/10 (2013.01) [H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04W 52/46 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wireless communication apparatus, comprising:
a communication section configured to transmit, to a wireless terminal station, a broadcast signal that includes network connection information related to a wireless communication system, wherein
the wireless communication system has a plurality of wireless base stations that communicates with one another,
the network connection information includes usage information,
the usage information includes:
information indicative of a status of use of available frequency resources for each sub-channel, and
an occupancy ratio that indicates a ratio for the each sub-channel used, and
the wireless communication apparatus is configured to function as one of the plurality of wireless base stations.