Patents by Inventor Zhao Ming

Zhao Ming 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: 20080263004
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for helping a user form a structured diagram from an unstructured information source. Starting with one or more key information elements such as some special words, the requests of a customer contained in the information source can be obtained by performing interactive and iterative searching in the unstructured information source such as text, audio, video and etc., the artifacts representing them are drawn in the diagram, and linkages are established between the artifacts and the corresponding contents in the information source. The present invention also proposes that the distribution of established linkages can be used to check whether all the requests in the information source have been extracted in the diagram. Further, various levels of warnings can be shown according to the density of linkage distribution. Therefore the user can draw a structured diagram more conveniently and quickly, and can perform checking and reusing more easily.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2006
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventors: Zhao Ming Qiu, Guo Tong Xie, Dong Liu, Gang Hu
  • Publication number: 20080256121
    Abstract: A system maps a multidimensional model to data warehouse schema. The system includes a multidimensional model editor for defining a multidimensional model based on a conceptual model; a mapping reasoner for generating more simple mappings from basic mappings by reasoning on the conceptual model so as to provide mappings for concerning elements in an ontology path in the multidimensional model; a data warehouse schema analyzer for generating a data structure capable of indicating information of the data warehouse schema by making an analysis on the information of the data warehouse schema; and a mapping composition engine for generating result mappings according to mappings for the concerning elements of the ontology path in the multidimensional model and by searching in the data structure paths corresponding to the concerning elements of the ontology path in the multidimensional model. A method and computer program product are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sheng Ping Liu, Zhao Ming Qiu, Guo Tong Xie, Yang Yang
  • Publication number: 20080250015
    Abstract: A system and method for expanding new sample seeds to automatically expand corpora, in which sample seeds are used to collect corpus is provided. The new sample seeds are generated based on the already existed sample seeds and collected corpora; The corpus expansion strategy is determined based on all the sample seeds having been used and new sample seeds: The new sample seeds are refined based on the corpus expansion strategy, and the refined new sample seeds are used to further collect corpus. The above steps are repeatedly executed until predefined condition is satisfied. According to the invention, corpus may be automatically expanded from the web or other resources with low cost and in convenient way to improve the coverage of corpora.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hong Lei Guo, Li Zhang, Zhao Ming Qiu, Li Qin Shen, Zhi Li Guo
  • Publication number: 20080225127
    Abstract: Provided is a digital image stabilization method. The method includes: extracting characterizing points from a current frame; matching the characterizing points of the current frame with characterizing points of a previous frame; detecting an outlier from the matched characterizing points and removing the outlier; calculating homography using the characterizing points from which the outlier has been removed; and correcting the current frame using the homography.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Inventor: Zhao Ming
  • Publication number: 20070294269
    Abstract: A data analyzing method, apparatus, and a method for supporting data analysis includes creating or storing a semantic entity repository, wherein the semantic entity repository includes a structured entity set of entities and properties thereof, reference ranges describing the possible values of the properties, and the mappings between the entities and properties and a data structure of a data warehouse. When aggregating data, the entities, properties, and/or property values to be analyzed are selected from the semantic entity repository, and how to calculate at least one measure is defined. The data corresponding to the selected entities, properties, and property values are loaded from the data warehouse according to the mappings, and the at least one measure as defined is calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Inventors: Li L. Ma, Yue Pan, Zhao Ming Qiu, Guo Tong Xie, Yang Y. Yang
  • Patent number: 7149681
    Abstract: This invention discloses a computer translation method and system for resoving word ambiguity. During translating a text in a first language, checking whether or not the word to be translated or the sentence containing the word has additional related text that is associated by a linkage. When the meaning of the word can not be uniquely determined in a second language by analyzing the context than the related text is obtained according to the linkage and the word is translated using both the immediate text and the related text. The linkage mechanism is described as a hyperlink in a HTML document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gang Hu, Jian Min Jiang, Zhao Ming Qiu, Donald T. Tang, Li Ping Yang
  • Patent number: 7092364
    Abstract: A system for automatically monitoring provisioning in a DSL network is disclosed. The system is operable to query network elements in the DSL network for information related to the provisioning of DSL services. Thereafter, the system analyzes the information to identify points of delay and/or failure in the provisioning process. If a delay exceeds a threshold value, an administrator is notified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth D. Franklin, Robert J. Bates, Frederick Edwards, Noland Smith, Klaudio Kucelin, Joel E. Cordsmeyer, Noris C. Tsangarides, Angel Rodriguez, Steven Dominie, Jean-Pierre Zaiter, Zhao Ming Li, Michael Hebert
  • Publication number: 20010014902
    Abstract: This invention discloses a computer translation method and system for resoving word ambiguity. During translating a text in a first language, checking whether or not the word to be translated or the sentence containing the word has additional related text that is associated by a linkage. When the meaning of the word can not be uniquely determined in a second language by analyzing the context than the related text is obtained according to the linkage and the word is translated using both the immediate text and the related text. The linkage mechanism is described as a hyperlink in a HTML document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2000
    Publication date: August 16, 2001
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gang Hu, Jian Min Jiang, Zhao Ming Qiu, Donald T. Tang, Li Ping Yang