Patents by Inventor Shuang Liang

Shuang Liang has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • METHODS AND SYSTEM FOR OFFLOADING DATA TRAFFIC
    Publication number: 20210029586
    Abstract: A method for offloading data traffic involves: receiving, from a first computing device carrying out an anchor session management function, a request to insert an intermediate session management function in a signaling path, wherein the request includes a data network access identifier of a data network to which the data traffic is to be offloaded; using the data network access identifier, selecting a second computing device to carry out an intermediate session management function; and transmitting a message to the second computing device to create a context for the wireless communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Jinguo ZHU, Shuang LIANG
  • Heteroaromatic compounds as BTK inhibitors
    Patent number: 10875852
    Abstract: The present invention encompasses compounds of the formula (I) wherein the groups A, Cy, X1 and Y are defined herein, which are suitable for the treatment of diseases related to BTK, process of making, pharmaceutical preparations which contain compounds and their methods of use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH
    Inventors: Joerg Bentzien, Angela Kay Berry, Todd Bosanac, Michael Jason Burke, Darren Todd Disalvo, Joshua Courtney Horan, Shuang Liang, Can Mao, Wang Mao, Yue Shen, Fariba Soleymanzadeh, Renee M. Zindell
  • METHODS AND COMPUTING DEVICE FOR SPLITTING TRAFFIC ACROSS MULTIPLE ACCESSES
    Publication number: 20200359274
    Abstract: A wireless communication method is provided to comprise: receiving, by a first computing device, a notification that a wireless communication device that has previously established a protocol data unit session via a first network access has registered for a second network access; and establishing, by the first computing device, one or more quality of service (QoS) flows for the protocol data unit session for the wireless communication device over the second network access by transmitting, to a second computing device, a message that includes information to associate the one or more quality of service (QoS) flows with the second network access, and wherein the first computing device is configured to carry out a session management function and the second computing device is configured to carry out an access and mobility management function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Jinguo ZHU, Xingyue ZHOU, Fei LU, Shuang LIANG
  • Efficient method and system for automatically generating data points in a SCADA system
    Patent number: 10761509
    Abstract: Method and system for automatically generating data points in a data management system. A control strategy and variables used in the control strategy can be configured, wherein the control strategy governs a data management system associated with a controller. The control strategy and the variables can be downloaded to the controller after configuring the control strategy and variables. The control strategy is then run on the controller and published to the data management system before, during, or after downloading of the control strategy. All available variables in the controller are then automatically listed so as to generate data points that can be downloaded and updated through a communication channel between the data management system and the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne Wang, Danhua Zhang, Shuang Liang, Wenjing Zhang, Stewart Peake
  • Method for conducting interaction on information in environment of small evolved node B, evolved node B, and mobility management entity
    Patent number: 10757745
    Abstract: A method for information interaction under small cell deployment, includes: a mobility management entity re-selecting a serving gateway for a user equipment; the mobility management entity sending an evolved radio access bearer (ERAB) modification message to a master evolved node B to which the user equipment accesses, wherein the ERAB modification message carries new ERAB transport information. The embodiments of the present document further disclose an evolved node B working as a master evolve node B under small cell deployment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yin Gao, Shuang Liang, Feng He
  • Path switching method and apparatus based on user text information
    Patent number: 10701613
    Abstract: Disclosed is a path switching method and apparatus based on user text information, including that: (401) when a UE is switched into an inactive state on a source random access network (RAN) node and paging of the UE is initiated by the source RAN node, a target RAN node receives a resume request message sent by the UE, and sends a user text obtain request message to the source RAN node; (402) the target RAN node receives a user text obtain response message sent by the source RAN node, where the user text obtain response message carries user text information on the source RAN node; (403) after a data transmission channel is established between the source RAN node and the target RAN node according to information carried in the user text obtain request message, the target RAN node receives data cached locally and forwarded by the source RAN node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yin Gao, Shuang Liang, He Huang
  • Method for establishing transmission channel, MME, network element device, system and storage medium
    Patent number: 10674546
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for establishing a transmission channel, a Mobility Management Entity (MME), a network element device and a system for establishing a transmission channel. The method includes: obtaining, by a Mobility Management Entity (MME), an identifier of a Service Capability Exposure Function (SCEF) entity; and initiating establishment of a non-Internet Protocol (IP) data transmission channel with the SCEF entity based on the identifier of the SCEF entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Fei Lu, Jinguo Zhu, Shuang Liang
  • Method and system for data consistency verification in a storage system
    Patent number: 10664442
    Abstract: According to some embodiment, a storage system provides metadata containers and an object storage that includes one or more objects. Each of the objects includes one or more data segments of a file object and each of the metadata containers includes one or more fingerprints for identifying the data segments in the object. The system loads some of the objects into a memory device of the storage system. For each of the loaded objects, the system traverses some of the metadata containers and performs a lookup operation to determine whether each data segment in the object is identified by a fingerprint from the traversed metadata containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Shuang Liang, Pragyashree Gogoi
  • Dynamically redistribute cache space based on time savings
    Patent number: 10635594
    Abstract: One embodiment is related to a method for redistributing cache space, comprising: determining utility values associated with all of a plurality of clients, each client being associated with a respective utility value, the utility value being indicative of an efficiency of cache space usage of the associated client; and redistributing cache space among the plurality of clients based on the utility values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Grant Wallace, Philip Shilane, Shuang Liang
  • Policy control method, apparatus and system
    Patent number: 10630495
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a policy control method, apparatus and system. The method includes: receiving a first message indicating a resource allocation result and determining, according to a first instance identifier in the first message, a corresponding second instance identifier, where the first instance identifier corresponds to a policy rule instance for executing resource allocation and the second instance identifier corresponds to a media component instance or a media sub-component instance for making the policy rule instance; and sending a second message indicating the resource allocation result to an application function (AF) entity, where the second message carries the second instance identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiaoyun Zhou, Shuang Liang
  • Dynamically redistribute cache space with min-max technique
    Patent number: 10592420
    Abstract: One embodiment is related to a method for redistributing cache space, comprising: determining a request by a first client of a plurality of clients for additional cache space, each of the plurality of clients being associated with a guaranteed minimum amount (MIN) and a maximum amount (MAX) of cache space; and fulfilling or denying the request based on an amount of cache space the first client currently occupies, an amount of cache space requested by the first client, and the MIN and the MAX cache space associated with the first client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Shuang Liang, Philip Shilane, Grant Wallace
  • BASE STATION HANDOVER METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20200008109
    Abstract: Provided are a method for base station handover, a system, and a computer storage medium, the method comprising a first access and mobility management function (AMF) receives handover request information sent by a first base station, the handover request information serving to request handover of a UE from the first base station to a second base station; when the UE does not need to carry out cross-AMF handover, the first AMF sends a handover preparation request to the second base station requesting target resources for the UE; in a cross-AMF handover process, the AMF of the UE changes from a first AMF to a second AMF; when a UE needs to carry out a cross-AMF handover process, the first AMF sends handover request information to a second AMF, and the second AMF sends a handover preparation request to the second base station requesting target resources for the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: ZHENDONG LI, JINGUO ZHU, SHUANG LIANG, XIAOYUN ZHOU
  • Method for parallel file system upgrade in virtual storage environment
    Patent number: 10503703
    Abstract: A method for upgrading a file system in a data storage environment is provided. A storage system identifies a set of boundaries of one or more sets of hard disks based on a first block management data structure (BMDS), where the first BMDS includes information describing a storage volume representing the one or more sets of hard disks. For each identified boundary, the storage system identifies a data block range of a set of data blocks, where the data block range includes metadata of one set of hard disks that is stored on the set of data blocks. Further, the storage system concurrently generates a plurality of second BMDSs, each of the second BMDS corresponding to one of the sets of hard disks, including simultaneously retrieving metadata of the sets of hard disks, where the second BMDSs are constructed based on the retrieved metadata, representing an upgraded file system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Jayasekhar Konduru, Shuang Liang, Mahesh Kamat, Akshay Narayan Muramatti, Arun Keshavamurthy
  • Method for efficient load balancing in virtual storage systems
    Patent number: 10459633
    Abstract: A data storage device includes virtual storage devices, hosted by physical storage devices, and a processor. The processor obtains a data storage request, divides a file specified by the data storage request into blocks, and stores the blocks in the virtual storage devices based on an input output (IO) limitation of the virtual storage devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Jayasekhar Konduru, Shuang Liang, Yiqiang Ding, Shyam Burkule
  • Object storage in stripe file systems
    Patent number: 10409693
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for storing backup data includes receiving, by a computing system, data associated with a file to be backed up; performing, by the computing system, de-duplication on the file to remove duplicated data and to generate unique backup data; receiving, by the computing system, a file handle based on opening a block-based storage file; storing, by the computing system, a metadata container in the block-based storage file stripe aligned; and storing, by the computing system, a data container in the block-based storage file stripe aligned, wherein the metadata container and the data container are associated with a set of objects, and wherein the data container includes the unique backup data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Shuang Liang, Bhimsen Bhanjois
  • D2D mode B discovery security method, terminal and system, and storage medium
    Patent number: 10405363
    Abstract: A security method for D2D mode B discovery is disclosed in the embodiments of the present disclosure, in four processes of the D2D mode B discovery service, integrity protection is performed, by adding corresponding parameters, on a discovery response message of a passive terminal, a discovery response message of an active terminal, a query request message sent by the active terminal to the passive terminal, a query response message sent by the passive terminal to the active terminal, and the matching report message of the active terminal. A security system, terminal for D2D mode B discovery and a storage medium are further disclosed in the embodiments of the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jin Peng, Shilin You, Shuang Liang, Zhaoji Lin
  • PATH SWITCHING METHOD AND APPARATUS BASED ON USER TEXT INFORMATION
    Publication number: 20190246330
    Abstract: Disclosed is a path switching method and apparatus based on user text information, including that: (401) when a UE is switched into an inactive state on a source random access network (RAN) node and paging of the UE is initiated by the source RAN node, a target RAN node receives a resume request message sent by the UE, and sends a user text obtain request message to the source RAN node; (402) the target RAN node receives a user text obtain response message sent by the source RAN node, where the user text obtain response message carries user text information on the source RAN node; (403) after a data transmission channel is established between the source RAN node and the target RAN node according to information carried in the user text obtain request message, the target RAN node receives data cached locally and forwarded by the source RAN node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yin GAO, Shuang LIANG, He HUANG
  • POLICY CONTROL METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20190238350
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a policy control method, apparatus and system. The method includes: receiving a first message indicating a resource allocation result and determining, according to a first instance identifier in the first message, a corresponding second instance identifier, where the first instance identifier corresponds to a policy rule instance for executing resource allocation and the second instance identifier corresponds to a media component instance or a media sub-component instance for making the policy rule instance; and sending a second message indicating the resource allocation result to an application function (AF) entity, where the second message carries the second instance identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiaoyun ZHOU, Shuang LIANG
  • MANAGING LIFESPAN OF A FLASH MEMORY
    Publication number: 20190212921
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing content in a flash memory and to managing a lifespan of the flash memory. The lifespan is managed by throttling writes when usage exceeds certain quotas. The throttling may be performed in a cooperative manner such that the clients writing to the flash memory can implement their own throttling. The quotas are not rigid and allow flexibility to certain situations. When excessive quota is used, future quotas can be managed to bring the overall usage into an expected range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Shuang Liang, Philip N. Shilane, Grant R. Wallace
  • Method, system and connection device for implementing local gateway service
    Patent number: 10341843
    Abstract: The present document provides a method, a device and a system for implementing a local gateway service. Wherein the method includes: adding, by a first connection device, a second connection device for a terminal (300); interacting collocated local gateway address information between the first connection device and the second connection device (301); and reporting, by the first connection device, determined collocated local gateway address information to a core network, and using, by the core network, the collocated local gateway address information to perform the local gateway service (302). Through the technical solution provided by the embodiment of the present document, the core network obtains the collocated local gateway address information, and the local gateway service is implemented aiming at a dual-connection service scenario.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Yin Gao, Shuang Liang, Feng He