US 11,737,056 B2
Communication device and communication method
Yuichi Morioka, Tokyo (JP); and Yusuke Tanaka, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Sony Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 16/973,389
Filed by Sony Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Jun. 3, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/021904
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 8, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/239932, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 19, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-114253 (JP), filed on Jun. 15, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0250907 A1, Aug. 12, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 72/02 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 8/24 (2009.01); H04W 72/0453 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/02 (2013.01) [H04W 8/24 (2013.01); H04W 72/0413 (2013.01); H04W 72/0453 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A communication device including a base station, the communication device comprising:
control circuitry configured to determine whether an existing standard-compliant terminal is connected to another base station in a usage frequency band that is a frequency band to be used by the base station on a basis of existing standard-compliant terminal connection information that indicates whether the existing standard-compliant terminal is connected to the other base station in a predetermined frequency band and that is received from the other base station, wherein the existing standard-compliant terminal connection information received from the other base station includes an identification of the predetermined frequency band and an indication of whether the existing standard-compliant terminal is connected to the other base station in the predetermined frequency band.