Patents by Inventor Wen Zhao
Wen Zhao 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).
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Publication number: 20210113632Abstract: A new use of Lactobacillus paracasei subsp. paracasei K56 capable of regulating the gastrointestinal flora balance is described. The deposit number of the Lactobacillus paracasei subsp. paracasei is DSM27447. This strain alone has the ability to significantly promote the growth of intestinal Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus, suppress Desulfovibrio and/or Enterobacteria in the intestine, suppress Helicobacter and/or Escherichia-Shigella, and can endure a simulated in vitro gastrointestinal fluid stress environment. Experiments in mice show that this strain has no acute oral toxicity, no antibiotic resistance, and may be safely used in food processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Wei-Hsien Liu, Wei-Lian Hung, Ting Sun, Wen Zhao, Ignatius Man-Yau Szeto
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Publication number: 20210042764Abstract: Provided is a computer-implemented method for authenticating a user. The method includes registering a plurality of user accounts for a plurality of users based at least partially on user information and account data for each user of the plurality of users, the account data for each user including an account identifier associated with a portable payment device, generating an identity score for each user, registering a plurality of provider accounts for a plurality of third-party service providers based at least partially on third-party service provider data, receiving a request to authenticate a user of the plurality of users, receiving user credentials corresponding to a user account of the user, validating the user credentials based at least partially on the identity score of the user, and communicating an authentication response message to the third-party system in response to validating the user credentials.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2019Publication date: February 11, 2021Inventors: Aditi Rungta, Kieu Trinh Nguyen, Wen Zhao Cheng, Xi Li, Xudong Wu
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Publication number: 20210029977Abstract: Compositions, systems and methods of removing ammonia from fish storage systems are presented. A chemical water conditioner comprised of sodium formaldehyde bisulfite, cornstarch, dye and alcohol was found to have a high ammonia removal efficiency in seawater. A combination of this chemical water conditioner with modified chabazite and phosphate buffer exhibited high ammonia removal efficiency in both seawater and freshwater.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2020Publication date: February 4, 2021Inventors: Norma Arcelia Alcantar, Wen Zhao
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Publication number: 20200318988Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods that perform actions including: receiving a user input selecting a current location within a map displayed on a screen of the terminal device; generating a request message indicating a request for a location relationship between the selected current location and a target location, the request message including an identifier of the current location, the target location being a location currently or previously displayed on the map; transmitting the request message to a map server configured to determine a geographical location of the current location and a geographical location of the target location; receiving, from the map server, a location relationship between the current location and the target location, wherein the location relationship is determined based on the geographical location of the current location and the geographical location of the target location; and displaying a graphical indicator representing the location relationship.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Applicant: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventor: Wen ZHAO
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Patent number: 10766790Abstract: An ammonia adsorption product is described which may be used for fresh caught fish and bait. The product may comprise functionalized tectosilicate compound and a buffer. High concentrations of ammonia produced by fish waste can be lethal, even though oxygen availability is rich enough to keep fish breathing. The product is a user-friendly, sustainable, affordable product which is able to extend the life of the fish by safely removing ammonia by an ion-exchange mechanism. This product can convert toxic ammonia into ammonium and uptake ammonium by releasing sodium ions in the water.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2018Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: University of South FloridaInventors: Norma A. Alcantar, Wen Zhao, Sarina Joy Ergas
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Patent number: 10712167Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods that perform actions including: receiving a user input selecting a current location within a map displayed on a screen of the terminal device; generating a request message indicating a request for a location relationship between the selected current location and a target location, the request message including an identifier of the current location, the target location being a location currently or previously displayed on the map; transmitting the request message to a map server configured to determine a geographical location of the current location and a geographical location of the target location; receiving, from the map server, a location relationship between the current location and the target location, wherein the location relationship is determined based on the geographical location of the current location and the geographical location of the target location; and displaying a graphical indicator representing the location relationship.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2019Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventor: Wen Zhao
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Patent number: 10700724Abstract: A method for facilitating in-device coexistence between wireless communication technologies on a wireless communication device is provided. The method can include transmitting data traffic from the wireless communication device via an aggressor wireless communication technology; determining occurrence of an in-device interference condition resulting from transmission of the data traffic via the aggressor wireless communication technology interfering with concurrent data reception by the wireless communication device via a victim wireless communication technology; and reducing a bit rate of the data traffic transmitted via the aggressor wireless communication technology in response to the in-device interference condition.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2019Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Wen Zhao, Paul V. Flynn, William S. Burchill, Vinay R. Majjigi, Xiaowen Wang, Syed A. Mujtaba, Kee-Bong Song
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Patent number: 10697853Abstract: An optical fiber distributed monitoring system and method is provided. The system includes a laser device, an acousto-optic modulator, a phase matching interferometer, a photoelectric detector and a phase demodulation module. After entering the phase matching interferometer, the Rayleigh backscattering light containing parameter information output from the sensing optical fiber enters the two arms of the phase matching interferometer respectively, and the light of the two arms of the phase matching interferometer is phase-modulated by the first modulation wave and the second modulation wave, respectively and then interfere with each other to generate interference light. The photoelectric detector converts a light signal into an electric signal, and the phase demodulation module processes the electric signal based on the Hilbert algorithm to obtain the parameter change of the environment under test.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Laser Institute of Shandong Academy of SciencesInventors: Ying Shang, Chen Wang, Chang Wang, Jiasheng Ni, Chang Li, Bing Cao, Wen'an Zhao, Sheng Huang, Yang Liu, Xiaohui Liu, Yingying Wang
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Patent number: 10652175Abstract: A message sending method includes: displaying chat messages on a chat interface, which is one of a group chat interface and a single chat interface; when detecting a reply operation performed by a user on a first chat message in the chat messages, obtaining content of the first chat message and content of a reply message corresponding to the reply operation; combining the content of the first chat message and the content of the reply message into a second chat message; when the first chat message is on the group chat interface, sending the second chat message to a client corresponding to each chat account that participates in a group chat; and when the first chat message is on the single chat interface, sending the second chat message to a client corresponding to a chat account that posted the first chat message.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Kankan Ji, Chuanchuan Yang, Yankai Peng, Xiaolong Zhang, Wen Zhao, Chen Huang
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Patent number: 10602483Abstract: Embodiments relate to apparatus, systems, and methods for reception of calls on a mobile device that includes Wi-Fi and cellular radios. The mobile device may be configured to establish communication on a Wi-Fi network with a cellular carrier. The mobile device may further be configured to register a first IP address with an IMS server for the Wi-Fi network communication and register a second IP address with the IMS server for the cellular network communication (or register different ports of a single IP address with Wi-Fi and cellular). Upon occurrence of a mobile terminating call from the cellular carrier, the mobile device may receive an incoming call notification on one or both of the Wi-Fi network using the first IP address and the cellular network using the second IP address.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ajoy K. Singh, Paul V. Flynn, Syed Aon Mujtaba, Vinay R. Majjigi, Wen Zhao, Xiaowen Wang
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Patent number: 10579595Abstract: The present application discloses a method and device for scheduling a distributed file system. A specific implementation of the method comprises: creating a new session based on a received session request from a user terminal; sending a first locking request to a manager of the distributed file system, the first locking request used for requesting locking a lease directory; sending a request for creating a new subdirectory in the lease directory to the manager in response to receiving a response of successful locking to the first locking request, the new subdirectory being named using an IP address and a port of the new session; and designating the new session as a primary session in response to receiving a response of successful new creation to the request for creating the new subdirectory.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2017Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Bo Guo, Wen Zhao, Yunqi Hong
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Publication number: 20200056959Abstract: An optical fiber distributed monitoring system and method is provided. The system includes a laser device, an acousto-optic modulator, a phase matching interferometer, a photoelectric detector and a phase demodulation module. After entering the phase matching interferometer, the Rayleigh backscattering light containing parameter information output from the sensing optical fiber enters the two arms of the phase matching interferometer respectively, and the light of the two arms of the phase matching interferometer is phase-modulated by the first modulation wave and the second modulation wave, respectively and then interfere with each other to generate interference light. The photoelectric detector converts a light signal into an electric signal, and the phase demodulation module processes the electric signal based on the Hilbert algorithm to obtain the parameter change of the environment under test.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2018Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Ying Shang, Chen Wang, Chang Wang, Jiasheng Ni, Chang Li, Bing Cao, Wen'an Zhao, Sheng Huang, Yang Liu, Xiaohui Liu, Yingying Wang
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Patent number: 10567186Abstract: A method for receiving feedback on a quality of multicast transmissions in a Wireless Local Access Network (WLAN) including a source electronic device (e.g., an access point) and a plurality of electronic devices is disclosed, according to some embodiments. The method can include (i) transmitting a plurality of multicast packets addressed to a subset of the plurality of electronic devices by the source electronic device; (ii) concurrently polling the subset of the plurality of electronic devices by the source electronic device; and (iii) receiving a plurality of block acknowledgements (BAs) from at least the subset of the plurality of electronic devices by the source electronic device. Each BA may include information on a quality of reception of two or more multicast packets received at an electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2016Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Guoqing Li, Joonsuk Kim, Chiu Ngok E. Wong, Yong Liu, Su Khiong Yong, Christiaan A. Hartman, Syed Aon Mujtaba, Ye Sun, Shu Du, Wen Zhao
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Publication number: 20200010425Abstract: The present invention includes compounds useful as modulators of TRPM8, such as compounds of Formulae (Ia), (Ib) and (Ic), and the subgenus and species thereof; personal products containing those compounds; and the use of those compounds and the personal products, particularly the use of increasing or inducing chemesthetic sensations, such as cooling or cold sensations.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventors: Lyudmyla Chumakova, Andrew Patron, Chad Priest, Donald Karanewsky, Rachel Kimmich, Brant Clayton Boren, Jeffrey Robert Hammaker, Volodymyr Chumakov, Wen Zhao, Alain Noncovich, Jane Ung
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Publication number: 20200004464Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for storing data. A specific implementation of the method for storing data includes: receiving a storage request including to-be-stored data; acquiring, for a to-be-written node in a to-be-written node group, a memory performance information set corresponding to at least one memory included in the to-be-written node, and generating a weight value of the to-be-written node based on the acquired memory performance information set; determining, based on a generated weight value set, a target to-be-written node from the to-be-written node group; and storing the to-be-stored data to the target to-be-written node.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Ping Yang, Wen Zhao
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Patent number: 10448306Abstract: A wireless communication system is presented for robust mobility management in a HetNet communication system. A source cell can prepare a macro cell and a target small cell as handover candidates during handover decision making and/or preparation. The mobile device is informed about the prepared macro cell and target small cell using radio resource control (RRC) messaging. After receiving a handover command or detecting radio frequency (RF) loss, the mobile device can try to connect with the target small cell. If the mobile device is unable to connect to the target small cell, the UE can fall back and connect to the macro cell.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ajoy Singh, Tarik Tabet, Wen Zhao, Aon Mujtaba, Christian W. Mucke
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Publication number: 20190312606Abstract: A method for facilitating in-device coexistence between wireless communication technologies on a wireless communication device is provided. The method can include transmitting data traffic from the wireless communication device via an aggressor wireless communication technology; determining occurrence of an in-device interference condition resulting from transmission of the data traffic via the aggressor wireless communication technology interfering with concurrent data reception by the wireless communication device via a victim wireless communication technology; and reducing a bit rate of the data traffic transmitted via the aggressor wireless communication technology in response to the in-device interference condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Inventors: Wen ZHAO, Paul V. FLYNN, William S. BURCHILL, Vinay R. MAJJIGI, Xiaowen WANG, Syed A. MUJTABA, Kee-Bong SONG
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Patent number: 10421727Abstract: The present invention includes compounds useful as modulators of TRPM8, such as compounds of Formulae (Ia), (Ib) and (Ic), and the subgenus and species thereof; personal products containing those compounds; and the use of those compounds and the personal products, particularly the use of increasing or inducing chemesthetic sensations, such as cooling or cold sensations.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2017Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: FIRMENICH INCORPORATEDInventors: Lyudmyla Chumakova, Andrew Patron, Chad Priest, Donald Karanewsky, Rachel Kimmich, Brant Clayton Boren, Jeffrey Robert Hammaker, Volodymyr Chumakov, Wen Zhao, Alain Noncovich, Jane Ung
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Publication number: 20190271558Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods that perform actions including: receiving a user input selecting a current location within a map displayed on a screen of the terminal device; generating a request message indicating a request for a location relationship between the selected current location and a target location, the request message including an identifier of the current location, the target location being a location currently or previously displayed on the map; transmitting the request message to a map server configured to determine a geographical location of the current location and a geographical location of the target location; receiving, from the map server, a location relationship between the current location and the target location, wherein the location relationship is determined based on the geographical location of the current location and the geographical location of the target location; and displaying a graphical indicator representing the location relationship.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2019Publication date: September 5, 2019Applicant: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventor: Wen ZHAO
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Patent number: 10375620Abstract: A host device may include a first wireless communication circuit, a second wireless communication circuit including a proxy router, and a host processor communicatively coupled to the wireless communication circuits. The host device may receive, via the second wireless communication circuit, an advertisement message from a client device. The advertisement message may include a request for communication of data with a network. The host device may determine at least one of a communication policy preference of the host device and a network connection property of the host device. The proxy router may select the first or the second wireless communication circuit for use by the host device to communicate the data with the network. The host device may provide, via the second wireless communication circuit, a connection request to the client device, and then transfer, using the selected wireless communication circuit, the data between the client device and the network.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2015Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Paul V. Flynn, Wen Zhao, Syed Aon Mujtaba, Sriram Hariharan, Matthew L. Semersky