Patents by Inventor Yongfeng Xia

Yongfeng Xia 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).

  • Publication number: 20160147200
    Abstract: A method and a device for setting up a task are disclosed herein, which belong to the field of computer technologies. The method for setting up a task includes: acquiring an operation history of a user for operating a household appliance; detecting whether a habitual task exists according to the operation history, wherein the habitual task is a task corresponding to an operation which has been received at a fixed time for more than a predetermined number of times; and if the habitual task exists, setting up a habitual task item corresponding to the fixed time, wherein the habitual task item is a task item for the household appliance to run the habitual task at the fixed time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Bin Zhang, Jun Su, Yongfeng Xia, Yunlin Hu, Yang Wang, Hao Chen
  • Publication number: 20160146769
    Abstract: A method for a device to acquire air quality, includes: controlling a fan to rotate; measuring air quality by an air-quality detector; and generating air-quality information according to a measurement result of the air-quality detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Bin Zhang, Jun Su, Yongfeng Xia, Yunlin Hu, Yang Wang, Hao Chen
  • Publication number: 20160135133
    Abstract: A method and a device are provided for adjusting signal strength of a router. In the method: the device monitors a number of terminals wirelessly connected to the router during a preset time period. The device determines a signal-strength level of the router according to the number of the terminals wirelessly connected to the router during the preset time period. The device adjusts the signal strength transmitted by the router according to the signal-strength level. Through the present disclosure, a router may automatically control the signal strength transmitted by itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Jialin FAN, Heng Qu, Yongfeng Xia, Qiuzhi Huang
  • Publication number: 20160121255
    Abstract: A method for controlling purification of air, includes: acquiring a target quality of air to be purified; determining a current quality of the air to be purified, and determining a workload for an air purifier according to the target quality and the current quality; calculating a purification duration for the air purifier to complete the workload according to a purification efficiency of the air purifier; and starting the air purifier, and displaying in real time a remaining time to complete the workload according to the purification duration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Bin ZHANG, Jun SU, Yongfeng XIA, Yunlin HU, Yang WANG, Hao CHEN
  • Publication number: 20160110181
    Abstract: A method for upgrading a first router apparatus of at least two router apparatuses communicating with a terminal and a server includes detecting whether an application in the first router apparatus needs to be upgraded and, if the application needs to be upgraded, acquiring an upgrade file from the server through a communication link between a second router apparatus of the at least two router apparatuses and the server. The method further includes sending the upgrade file to the first router apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Jialin FAN, Yongfeng XIA, Tiejun LIU
  • Publication number: 20160112498
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for acquiring user information in a terminal device for acquiring user information and a terminal device thereof, and a method for acquiring user information in a server and a server thereof. The method includes: receiving acquisition information uploaded by a first wearable device bound. Herein the acquisition information comprises an identifier for identifying a second wearable device detected by the first wearable device; uploading the acquisition information to a server; receiving the user information pushed by the server. Herein the user information is obtained by the server according to the identifier and is associated with the acquisition information; and performing a processing operation according to the user information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Pengfei Zhang, Heng Qu, Yongfeng Xia, Yidong Wang
  • Publication number: 20160062760
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for complying a router management application with a router firmware. The method includes: obtaining a current version of the router management application and a current version of the router firmware, in which a router is managed by the router management application; determining an object to be upgraded and an object not to be upgraded from the router management application and the router firmware according to the current version of the router management application and the current version of the router firmware, if the router management application is not compatible with the router firmware; obtaining a target version of the object to be upgraded, in which the target version is compatible with the object not to be upgraded; and upgrading the object to be upgraded according to the target version.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Pengfei Zhang, Yong Chen, Yongfeng Xia, Heng Qu, Yidong Wang
  • Publication number: 20160055735
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a temperature prompting method and device. The method includes: acquiring a current temperature in a target container; acquiring a distance of the target container to a target terminal, which is linked to the target container; determining, according to the current temperature, a first time duration to be elapsed when a temperature in the target container changes to a predetermined target temperature; determining, according to the distance of the target container to the target terminal, a second time duration to be elapsed when the target terminal moves to a location where the target container stands; and triggering a prompt signal if the first time duration is less than or equal to the second time duration. According to the present disclosure, temperature control flexibility may be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Pengfei Zhang, Yongfeng Xia, Heng Qu, Yidong Wang
  • Publication number: 20160021771
    Abstract: A main body of a wearable device, includes: a front case; a bottom case joined with the front case to form a waterproof cavity; and electronic components disposed in the cavity, the electronic components including a printed circuit board (PCB) having a wireless data transceiving assembly, wherein the bottom case includes two charging contacts formed on an outer side of the bottom case and electrically coupled to the electronic components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Yi ZHANG, Yongfeng XIA, Ningning LI, Tao WANG, Lian ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20160019858
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for displaying health data collected by a wearable device. The method may include acts performed by the wearable device: collecting health data of a user; establishing a wireless connection with a home media playing device; and sending the health data to the home media playing device through the wireless connection for display. The wearable device includes: a data collection module, a connection establishing module and a data sending module. By collecting health data of a user, establishing a wireless connection with a home media playing device, sending the health data to the home media playing device through the wireless connection, and displaying the health data by the home media playing device, the user operation is simplified, and the utilization efficiency is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicant: XIAOMI INC.
    Inventors: Chuan WANG, Yongfeng XIA, Pengfei ZHANG, Heng QU
  • Publication number: 20150288764
    Abstract: A method for controlling smart terminals includes identifying a surrounding one of the smart terminals currently near a local terminal, and when the surrounding smart terminal is located in a predetermined safe region, performing at least one of sending a parameter control instruction to the surrounding smart terminal, sending the parameter control instruction to a predetermined one of the smart terminals, or changing a parameter setting of the local terminal according to a predetermined parameter setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Pengfei ZHANG, Yongfeng XIA, Jialin FAN, Yong CHEN, Heng QU
  • Publication number: 20150268648
    Abstract: A method and a terminal device for controlling a smart home appliance are provided in the present disclosure. The method includes: obtaining a current operation instruction; determining whether there is a preset combination instruction corresponding to the current operation instruction; sending at least two operation instructions in the preset combination instruction to a corresponding smart home appliance if there is the preset combination instruction and the preset combination instruction is selected; sending the current operation instruction to the corresponding smart home appliance if there is no preset combination instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Pengfei Zhang, Yongfeng Xia, Yong Chen, Xu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20150117255
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for automatically setting network connection parameters in a networking device, comprising: accessing a network; acquiring all network connection manners supported by the network; selecting a network connection manner to be used from the acquired network connection manners; and automatically setting network connection parameters for the selected network connection manner. Accordingly, the efficiency of setting network connection parameters may be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Pengfei Zhang, Heng Qu, Yidong Wang, Yongfeng Xia
  • Publication number: 20150089600
    Abstract: A method for controlling access to a router is provided. The method includes: transmitting a first connection request for establishing a connection using a visitor identity to a router, wherein the first connection request comprises a user identification of a first terminal device; receiving indication information which is transmitted from a second terminal device, the indication information indicating that access to the router is permitted; and transmitting a second connection request for establishing a connection to the router, wherein the second connection request comprises the received indication information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Jialin Fan, Heng Qu, Guizhen Yang, Yongfeng Xia