Patents by Inventor Ziguang Gao

Ziguang Gao 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: 10764934
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for controlling a terminal device to access a wireless Local Area Network LAN. When a terminal device needs to connect to the wireless LAN, a smart terminal device firstly acquires first access information of the wireless LAN and validates whether the first access information is correct; and when the first access information is correct, the smart terminal device sends the first access information to the terminal device, such that the terminal device utilizes the first access information to access the wireless LAN. The method can ensure the first access information sent to the terminal device is correct, i.e., the terminal device can successfully access the wireless LAN by utilizing the first access information. Thereby, the method can improve the success rate of accessing the wireless LAN by the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Qiao Ren, Enxing Hou, Ziguang Gao
  • Patent number: 10560279
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for controlling for configuring a scenario mode for smart devices. The method include: acquiring a user account bound with a first smart device and a second smart device; identifying a predefined scenario mode template according to device information of the first smart device and the second smart device, wherein the predefined scenario template corresponds to a predefined scenario mode which associates at least one startup condition for the first smart device to trigger the scenario mode with at least one task to be performed by the second smart device when the scenario mode is triggered; bounding the predefined scenario mode template with the user account to enable the predefined scenario mode for the first smart device and the second smart device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: XIAOMI INC.
    Inventors: Qiang Fu, Ziguang Gao, Yang Wang
  • Patent number: 10560491
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for binding a user with a device. The method includes: a terminal sending a binding request to the device in a present local area network. The binding request carries a registered user ID for the user to log into a client program on the terminal. The method further includes: the device determining whether the binding request is sent from the present local area network. When the binding request is sent from the present local area network, the method includes the device sending the binding request to a server for the server to establish a binding relationship between the registered user ID and the device. After the binding relationship is established, the method includes the device receiving a notification message sent by the server for informing that the binding relationship has been established, and the device forwarding the notification message to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Yuanbo Wang, Enxing Hou, Ziguang Gao
  • Patent number: 10498723
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method, apparatus and system for authenticating access of a first device with a first user account to a second device with a device identification bound with a second user account. The method includes acquiring, by the first device, the device identification of the second device to by accessed. Subsequently, the method includes sending the device identification and the first user account to a third-party device. The third-party device receives the device identification and the first user account, sends an authentication request to a login terminal for the second user account when the first user account is different from the second account, receives a permission access response for an access authorization front the login terminal, and sends an access password associated to the first device. Then, the method includes receiving the access password, and accessing the second device using the access password.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Feiyun Li, Ziguang Gao, Qiao Ren
  • Patent number: 10425403
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for accessing a smart camera. The method includes detecting access media for accessing the smart camera. The method also includes generating an access request corresponding to the access media when detecting that the access media is a local area network. The access request carries an access password. The method further includes sending the access request to the smart camera, such that the smart camera allows access after successfully verifying the access password in the access request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Chen, Ziguang Gao, Enxing Hou
  • Patent number: 10374819
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and devices of accessing a wireless network. The method of accessing a wireless network in a first terminal device includes: detecting a target terminal device waiting access a target wireless network after the first terminal device accesses the target wireless network; generating a plurality of multicast addresses according to access information of the target wireless network; and sending a multicast packet to each of the plurality of multicast addresses, wherein the multicast packet is indicative of the access information and is received by the target terminal device so as to access the target wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: XIAOMI INC.
    Inventors: Mingjun Yin, Deguo Meng, Ziguang Gao
  • Patent number: 10291713
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for controlling smart device in a smart home. In the method, a control device receives a control instruction sent by an instruction sending device and including a set of working mode information, the set of working mode information including at least one working mode information of at least one smart device type. The control device sets a working mode of a target smart device connected to the control device via a local area network (LAN) based on the set of working mode information, where the set of working mode information is pre-stored in the instruction sending device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: XIAOMI INC.
    Inventors: Enxing Hou, Hong Chen, Ziguang Gao
  • Patent number: 10264085
    Abstract: A method for presenting push notifications in a terminal device configured with a notification bar may include: determining, when a push notification is received, whether the notification bar contains a target push notification, the target push notification being a previously received message with a message content as same as that of the currently received push notification; updating a push time of the target push notification to the push time of the currently received push notification in response to determining that the notification bar has contained the target push notification; and presenting the updated push time of the target push notification in the notification bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: XIAOMI INC.
    Inventors: Meilan Liu, Ziguang Gao, Enxing Hou
  • Patent number: 10216248
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for controlling power consumption of an electronic device, which belongs to the technical field of smart devices. The method includes determining a type of an operating system of the electronic device, determining a monitoring scheme based on the type of operating system, monitoring in real time whether the operating system currently has a task to perform based on the determined monitoring scheme, and switching the operating system to a reduced power mode from a normal operation mode when the system currently has no task to perform. In the present disclosure, a common power consumption management can be implemented in uniform and brief software architecture. It can facilitate development of a framework, distribution of SDK. Moreover, it can eliminate the need to analyze specific operation characteristics of the devices, independent of the functions of the devices, broadly and flexibly applicable to a variety of devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Deguo Meng, Yanlu Zhang, Ziguang Gao
  • Patent number: 10193875
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for controlling access to a surveillance video are provided. The method includes: acquiring from a user account a view request for viewing a surveillance video file, the view request including authorization information of the user account; performing an identity authentication on the user account according to the authorization information; and allowing a user with the user account to view the surveillance video file when the identity authentication is passed. The present disclosure is used to prohibit freely viewing the surveillance video file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: XIAOMI INC.
    Inventors: Wei Wang, Bo Zhang, Ziguang Gao, Mingjun Yin
  • Publication number: 20180316516
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for controlling for configuring a scenario mode for smart devices. The method include: acquiring a user account bound with a first smart device and a second smart device; identifying a predefined scenario mode template according to device information of the first smart device and the second smart device, wherein the predefined scenario template corresponds to a predefined scenario mode which associates at least one startup condition for the first smart device to trigger the scenario mode with at least one task to be performed by the second smart device when the scenario mode is triggered; bounding the predefined scenario mode template with the user account to enable the predefined scenario mode for the first smart device and the second smart device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Qiang FU, Ziguang GAO, Yang WANG
  • Patent number: 10085050
    Abstract: A method for adjusting video quality based on a network environment is provided. The method includes receiving a target frame serial number of a lost video frame from a terminal device, and using a time when the target frame serial number is received as a timestamp of the target frame serial number; determining a number of target frame serial numbers corresponding to timestamps within a predefined time period; decreasing a designated image quality parameter according to a predefined configuration when the number of target frame serial numbers is greater than a first threshold; and increasing the designated image quality parameter according to the predefined configuration when the number of target frame serial numbers is less than a second threshold. The first threshold is greater than the second threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Feiyun Li, Ziguang Gao, Ming Zhao
  • Patent number: 10057077
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a server for controlling smart devices based on a predefined scenario mode. The method include: acquiring a status parameter collected by at least one first smart device bound to a user account; determining, according to the status parameter, whether to trigger a predefined scenario mode, the predefined scenario mode representing an operation mode for controlling actions of at least one second smart device bound to the user account according to the status parameter collected by the at least one first smart device; and sending a control instruction to the at least one second smart device, if it is determined to trigger the predefined scenario mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: XIAOMI INC.
    Inventors: Qiang Fu, Ziguang Gao, Yang Wang
  • Patent number: 10020943
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for binding a device and a terminal. In the method, the terminal acquires a binding password from a smart home device in a local area network. The terminal transmits a binding request for binding with the smart home device to the server, where the binding request includes a binding password and a user login Identifier (ID). A binding relationship between the user login ID and the smart home device is established by the server when the binding password in the binding request matches with a binding password stored in a server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Yuanbo Wang, Enxing Hou, Ziguang Gao
  • Patent number: 9998297
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for controlling a smart home device to upload data and a method and an apparatus for acquiring data uploaded by a smart home device are provided. The method includes: acquiring operation status data of the smart home device; and according to binding relationships of the smart home device with application servers, sending the operation status data to all bound application servers; wherein the smart home device is bound to at least two application servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanlu Zhang, Ziguang Gao, Enxing Hou
  • Patent number: 9996065
    Abstract: A method for controlling an appliance is provided. The method includes: receiving a notification message from a control device, wherein the notification message includes address information regarding the control device; receiving quality data of a target object from an appliance configured to process the target object, wherein the quality data of the target object is obtained by measuring quality of the target object by the appliance; and sending an appliance control prompt to the control device according to the address information when determining that the quality data of the target object does not reach a threshold, wherein the appliance control prompt is configured to prompt a user of the control device to start the appliance for processing the target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Yun Yang, Qiao Ren, Ziguang Gao
  • Patent number: 9991975
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for triggering a specified operation, and belongs to the field of smart home technologies. The method includes obtaining a wireless signal received by a receiving device and sent by a specified signal source, determining whether a disturbance occurs in the first wireless signal, obtaining a signal quality characteristic of the wireless signal if it is determined that a disturbance occurs in the wireless signal; determining whether the signal quality characteristic matches with predetermined characteristic sample; and triggering the intelligent device to perform the specified operation if the signal quality characteristic matches with the predetermined characteristic sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Hong Chen, Ziguang Gao, Enxing Hou
  • Patent number: 9967811
    Abstract: Methods and devices are provided for displaying a WIFI list. In the method, the device obtains WIFI types supported by a WIFI smart device. The device classifies WIFI networks to be accessed by the WIFI smart device into at least an accessible group and an inaccessible group according to the WIFI types supported by the WIFI smart device. The device then displays in the WIFI list the WIFI networks classified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Qiao Ren, Enxing Hou, Ziguang Gao
  • Patent number: 9967099
    Abstract: A method for providing information includes acquiring modified access authentication information after detecting that access authentication information for accessing a gateway device is modified, determining a device to be notified corresponding to the modified access authentication information, and providing the modified access authentication information to the device to be notified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Enxing Hou, Deguo Meng, Ziguang Gao
  • Patent number: 9934673
    Abstract: Methods and systems for alerting a wearer of a wearable device of an abnormality are disclosed. The abnormality is detected by a smart device. The smart device then communicates the abnormality to a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal causes the wearable device to detect a current activity status and/or a current environment setting of the wearer of the wearable device. The mobile terminal then determines and communicates to the wearable device a type of warning operation based on the current activity status and environment setting of the wearer. The wearable device then performs the type of warning operation for alerting the wearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Enxing Hou, Long Dai, Ziguang Gao