Patents by Inventor Xiehao Bao

Xiehao Bao 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: 10764418
    Abstract: A method and device for application switching, and a medium are provided. The method includes: identifying an incoming call number to obtain a number type of the incoming call number; during the call, determining an application to be used according to the number type; displaying on a display interface prompt information of application switching; and when detecting a switching confirmation operation, displaying a main page of the application on the display interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiankai Zhao, Xiehao Bao, Wankun Yang
  • Patent number: 10334097
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for disabling an alarm in a device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: when a powering-off event for the device is detected, determining whether a condition for disabling a preset alarm in the device is satisfied; and when the condition for disabling the preset alarm in the device is satisfied, disabling the preset alarm in the device to prevent the preset alarm from being activated when the device is in a powered-off state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenyan Wang, Zhenhai Zhao, Xiehao Bao
  • Patent number: 10154128
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for interpreting a phone number in the field of information technology. The method includes: determining whether contact information of a phone number is stored in an address book if receiving a call; searching a message with content containing the phone number when it is determined that the contact information of the phone number is not stored in the address book; obtaining predetermined type information from the content of the message, in which the predetermined type information at least includes name information; and displaying the name information as the contact information of the phone number on a display interface of the call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuo Wang, Xiehao Bao, Wankun Yang
  • Publication number: 20180341532
    Abstract: A method, a terminal, and computer-readable storage medium are provided for collecting information resources in the field of Internet technologies. The method includes: monitoring events in all applications running on an operating system in a mobile device; acquiring key information of information resources to be collected when a collect event occurred on a display page of any application has been monitored, wherein the display page is configured to display the information resources to be collected and the key information is configured to uniquely identify the information resources to be collected; and storing the key information of the information resources to be collected in a centralized favorites directory, wherein the centralized favorites directory is configured to display key information of collected information resources which come from at least one application on an interface specified in the operating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Applicant: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiehao BAO, Kun NIU, Bo LIU
  • Patent number: 10123196
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for alarm triggering. The method includes: receiving a trigger instruction on a verification interface; determining whether the received trigger instruction is a predetermined alarm triggering instruction, the predetermined alarm triggering instruction corresponding to at least one contact person; entering an alarm triggering mode if the received trigger instruction is determined to be the predetermined alarm triggering instruction; and sending alarm information to a terminal of the at least one contact, the alarm information indicating that a user is in danger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Xiehao Bao, Xiaoping Zhao, Shiding Qiu
  • Patent number: 10083346
    Abstract: A method for providing a contact card is provided. The method includes: acquiring a contact card of a contact person and acquiring contact information stored in a user terminal, the contact card including a first photo, and the contact information including a second photo; determining whether the first photo matches the second photo; and providing the contact card of the contact person to the user terminal, if the first photo matches the second photo.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Xiehao Bao, Shiding Qiu, Kun Niu
  • Publication number: 20180227411
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for disabling an alarm in a device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: when a powering-off event for the device is detected, determining whether a condition for disabling a preset alarm in the device is satisfied; and when the condition for disabling the preset alarm in the device is satisfied, disabling the preset alarm in the device to prevent the preset alarm from being activated when the device is in a powered-off state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Wenyan WANG, Zhenhai ZHAO, Xiehao BAO
  • Patent number: 10021543
    Abstract: A Short Message Service (SMS) reading method and device are provided. The SMS reading method includes receiving a reading request for reading an SMS from a third party application, and when the SMS is determined to be an SMS including predetermined information, the predetermined information in the SMS may be hidden according to a security process for hiding the predetermined information. The processed SMS may be fed back to the third party application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Xiehao Bao, Jianchun Zhang, Jiankai Zhao
  • Publication number: 20170371526
    Abstract: A method and device for application switching, and a medium are provided. The method includes: identifying an incoming call number to obtain a number type of the incoming call number; during the call, determining an application to be used according to the number type; displaying on a display interface prompt information of application switching; and when detecting a switching confirmation operation, displaying a main page of the application on the display interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Jiankai ZHAO, Xiehao BAO, Wankun YANG
  • Publication number: 20170289326
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for interpreting a phone number in the field of information technology. The method includes: determining whether contact information of a phone number is stored in an address book if receiving a call; searching a message with content containing the phone number when it is determined that the contact information of the phone number is not stored in the address book; obtaining predetermined type information from the content of the message, in which the predetermined type information at least includes name information; and displaying the name information as the contact information of the phone number on a display interface of the call.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuo WANG, Xiehao BAO, Wankun YANG
  • Patent number: 9729775
    Abstract: An auto-focusing method for use in a device, includes: after performing a manual focusing on a target object through receiving a user operation on the target object in a viewfinder of the device, acquiring first spatial data of the target object; when detecting a change of contents of a view in the viewfinder, acquiring position variation data of the target object; acquiring second spatial data of the target object according to the first spatial data and the position variation data; and performing an auto-focusing on the target object according to the second spatial data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Xiehao Bao, Dongya Jiang, Wankun Yang
  • Publication number: 20170086041
    Abstract: A Short Message Service (SMS) reading method and device are provided. The SMS reading method includes receiving a reading request for reading an SMS from a third party application, and when the SMS is determined to be an SMS including predetermined information, the predetermined information in the SMS may be hidden according to a security process for hiding the predetermined information. The processed SMS may be fed back to the third party application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Xiehao Bao, Jianchun Zhang, Jiankai Zhao
  • Patent number: 9565283
    Abstract: A method for processing communication identifications includes obtaining communication records corresponding to a plurality of communication identifications of a current user, determining use frequencies of the communication identifications according to the communication records, and determining one of the communication identifications as a frequently-used communication identification according to the use frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Fei Huang, Xiehao Bao, Kun Niu
  • Publication number: 20160381540
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for alarm triggering. The method includes: receiving a trigger instruction on a verification interface; determining whether the received trigger instruction is a predetermined alarm triggering instruction, the predetermined alarm triggering instruction corresponding to at least one contact person; entering an alarm triggering mode if the received trigger instruction is determined to be the predetermined alarm triggering instruction; and sending alarm information to a terminal of the at least one contact, the alarm information indicating that a user is in danger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Xiehao BAO, Xiaoping Zhao, Shiding Qiu
  • Publication number: 20160350584
    Abstract: A method for providing a contact card is provided. The method includes: acquiring a contact card of a contact person and acquiring contact information stored in a user terminal, the contact card including a first photo, and the contact information including a second photo; determining whether the first photo matches the second photo; and providing the contact card of the contact person to the user terminal, if the first photo matches the second photo.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Xiehao Bao, Shiding Qiu, Kun Niu
  • Publication number: 20160314164
    Abstract: A method for sharing a cloud-based business card includes receiving business card data of a first user from a first terminal device. Herein the business card data carrying a user identifer of the first user. The method further includes performing a search to determine whether a digital business card of the first user has been stored in the cloud server by using the user identifer of the first user; updating the digital business card of the first user according to the business card data of the first user to obtain an updated digital business card of the first user in response to determing that a digital business card of the first user has been stored in the cloud server; and sending the updated digital business card of the first user to a second terminal device which has stored the user identifer of the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Kun Niu, Xiehao Bao, Zhenhai ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20160191783
    Abstract: An auto-focusing method for use in a device, includes: after performing a manual focusing on a target object through receiving a user operation on the target object in a viewfinder of the device, acquiring first spatial data of the target object; when detecting a change of contents of a view in the viewfinder, acquiring position variation data of the target object; acquiring second spatial data of the target object according to the first spatial data and the position variation data; and performing an auto-focusing on the target object according to the second spatial data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Xiehao BAO, Dongya JIANG, Wankun YANG
  • Publication number: 20160124620
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and a device for image deletion. In the method, when displaying an image in a full-screen mode, the device presents a first object on a screen hidden under the displayed image. The device receives a zoom-out operation signal and zooms out the image displayed on the screen, where the zoom-out operation signal may be generated when the screen is touched according to a predetermined track. When the image is zoomed out to be inside the first object and satisfies a deleting condition, the device deletes the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Xiehao BAO, Dongya JIANG, Wankun YANG
  • Publication number: 20160057262
    Abstract: A method for processing communication identifications includes obtaining communication records corresponding to a plurality of communication identifications of a current user, determining use frequencies of the communication identifications according to the communication records, and determining one of the communication identifications as a frequently-used communication identification according to the use frequencies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Fei HUANG, Xiehao BAO, Kun NIU
  • Publication number: 20150350406
    Abstract: A method for calendar reminding includes searching for an associated item corresponding to a calendar reminder item containing an event content. The associated item includes an associated application identification. The method further includes calling an application corresponding to the associated application identification in the associated item. The application is used for accomplishing the event content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Ruixian ZHU, Botian Wang, Xiehao Bao