Patents by Inventor Xiang Zhai

Xiang Zhai 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).

  • Patent number: 10458207
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to modeling physical material flow relationships between injector wells and producer wells in a reservoir and to quantifying a level of uncertainty in a connection-based model. In one scenario, a computer system calculates pressure distribution within the reservoir using sensor data. Next, the computer system applies the calculated pressure distribution as an input to a tracer algorithm for an injector well and for a producer well to identify tracer flow values for materials flowing from the injector well to the producer well. The computer system further combines the identified tracer flow values to generate well allocation factors representing relationships in material flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: QRI GROUP, LLC
    Inventors: Sébastien Matringe, Tailai Wen, Xiang Zhai
  • Publication number: 20190303648
    Abstract: In accordance with various embodiments of the disclosed subject matter, a smart surveillance and diagnostics system for oil and gas field surface environment via unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and cloud computing are provided. Methods and systems provide various functionality including performing, by multiple GPUs or HPCs, a fast pair-wise registration process, a mask setting process, a background generation process, a foreground generation process using a parallel computation infrastructure, a deep learning classification process, and performing anomalism detection (including vision, acoustic and gas concentration) and 3D augmented reality and 2D Panorama view reconstruction under a variety of conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Xiang Zhai, Kui Liu, William J. Nash, David Castineira
  • Publication number: 20160350428
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for utilizing user behavior to immediately modify sets of search results so that the most relevant documents are moved to the top. In one embodiment of the invention, behavior data, which can come from virtually any activity, is used to infer the user's intent. The updated inferred implicit user model is then exploited immediately by re-ranking the set of matched documents and advertisements to best reflect the information need of the user. The system updates the user model and immediately re-ranks documents and advertisements at every opportunity in order to constantly provide the most optimal results. In another embodiment, the system determines, based on the similarity of results sets, if the current query belongs in the same information session as one or more previous queries. If so, the current query is expanded with additional keywords in order to improve the targeting of the results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Mark Cramer, Cheng Xiang Zhai, Xuehua Shen, Bin Tan
  • Publication number: 20150032717
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for utilizing user behavior to immediately modify sets of search results so that the most relevant documents are moved to the top. In one embodiment of the invention, behavior data, which can come from virtually any activity, is used to infer the user's intent. The updated inferred implicit user model is then exploited immediately by re-ranking the set of matched documents and advertisements to best reflect the information need of the user. The system updates the user model and immediately re-ranks documents and advertisements at every opportunity in order to constantly provide the most optimal results. In another embodiment, the system determines, based on the similarity of results sets, if the current query belongs in the same information session as one or more previous queries. If so, the current query is expanded with additional keywords in order to improve the targeting of the results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Mark Cramer, Cheng Xiang Zhai, Xuehua Shen, Bin Tan
  • Publication number: 20140229162
    Abstract: A technique may include generating a plurality of segments from sentences in a data set. The technique may further include determining the explanatoriness of each segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, LP.
    Inventors: Hyun Duk Kim, Maria G. Castellanos, Meichun Hsu, Cheng Xiang Zhai
  • Publication number: 20130262455
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for utilizing user behavior to immediately modify sets of search results so that the most relevant documents are moved to the top. In one embodiment of the invention, behavior data, which can come from virtually any activity, is used to infer the user's intent. The updated inferred implicit user model is then exploited immediately by re-ranking the set of matched documents to best reflect the information need of the user. The system updates the user model and immediately re-ranks documents at every opportunity in order to constantly provide the most optimal results. In another embodiment, the system determines, based on the similarity of results sets, if the current query belongs in the same information session as one or more previous queries. If so, the current query is expanded with additional keywords in order to improve the targeting of the results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicants: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Surf Canyon Incorporated
    Inventors: Mark Cramer, Cheng Xiang Zhai, Xuehua Shen, Bin Tan