Patents Assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Limited
  • Patent number: 12124724
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a memory migration method, an apparatus, and a computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventor: Dianchen Tian
  • Patent number: 12117916
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, a device, and a storage medium for displaying application performance management information are provided. The method includes: separately obtaining first and second performance status information of services provided by a first application and a second application; determining first and second display specifications of respective graphics corresponding to the first and second performance status information, to enable a ratio of the first display specification to the second display specification to be not greater than a preset value; and displaying the respective graphics corresponding to the first and second performance status information according to the determined first and second display specifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Yi Yang, Yao Cheng, Jun Feng, Tong Xu
  • Patent number: 12113991
    Abstract: A video data processing method includes receiving a bitstream; decoding an index associated with a coding unit based on the bitstream, the index indicating a selection mode among at least four selection modes; determining whether a plurality of top neighboring samples and a plurality of left neighboring samples are available; determining four samples based on the index; determining two parameters based on the four samples; determining predicted samples of the coding unit based on the two parameters; and decoding the coding unit based on the predicted samples; wherein determining the four samples based on the index further comprises: determining the four samples based on an availability of the plurality of the top neighboring samples and the plurality of the left neighboring samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Xinwei Li, Jie Chen, Ru-Ling Liao, Yan Ye
  • Patent number: 12112723
    Abstract: A method for of encoding an application screen comprises partitioning graphic data into a plurality of graphic layers and classifying each of the plurality of graphic layers as either a screen content (SC) or a non-screen content (non-SC) layer. The method further comprises classifying each of the plurality of graphic layers as either a screen content (SC) or a non-screen content (non-SC) layer. Further, the method comprises rendering and encoding the one or more SC layers using a first codec and the one or more non-SC layers using a second codec.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Tae Meon Bae, Sicheng Li, Yen-kuang Chen, Guanlin Wu, Shaolin Xie, Minghai Qin, Qinggang Zhou
  • Patent number: 12114049
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and an electronic device for providing product object information are disclosed. The method includes: providing an interactive content in a process of playing a live video content associated with a product object, the interactive content being generated according to a material associated with the product object, and the material being used to describe attributes of the product object; and providing a change process of the interactive content according to the material in a process of responding to interactive operation information inputted by a user, to enable a presentation of multiple attributes of the product object. Through the embodiments of the present disclosure, the product object information can be provided to consumers in a more comprehensive and intuitive manner, so as to help the users to make better shopping decisions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Shu Wang, Wenliang Li, Qin Xu, Yishu Liang, Yanan Hao, Yueshan Zhang, Hao Chen, Zhou Yang, Na An, Xiang Duan
  • Patent number: 12108058
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for processing chroma sampled pictures. An exemplary video processing method includes: determining whether a chroma component is included in a sequence of frames; and in response to a determination that the chroma component is included in the sequence, activating a sub-process for processing the sequence, wherein the sub-process comprises one or more of joint coding for chroma residues (JCCR), block differential pulse coded modulation (BDPCM), palette mode, or adaptive color transform (ACT).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Ru-Ling Liao, Jie Chen, Yan Ye, Jiancong Luo
  • Patent number: 12101487
    Abstract: Video encoding and decoding techniques for bi-prediction with weighted averaging are disclosed. According to certain embodiments, a computer-implemented video signaling method includes signaling, by a processor to a video decoder, a bitstream including weight information used for prediction of a coding unit (CU). The weight information indicates: if weighted prediction is enabled for a bi-prediction mode of the CU, disabling weighted averaging for the bi-prediction mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventor: Yan Ye
  • Patent number: 12096006
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for encoding or decoding video. The method includes encoding or decoding, in a plurality of picture parameter sets (PPS) associated with pictures of a coded layer video sequence (CLVS), corresponding first PPS flags indicating whether pictures are allowed to be partitioned into a plurality of tiles or slices. In a first PPS, a corresponding first PPS flag with a first value indicates a first picture of the CLVS is unpartitioned, and in a second PPS, another corresponding first PPS flag with a second value being different from the first value indicates that a second picture of the CLVS is allowed to be partitioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Jie Chen, Yan Ye, Ru-Ling Liao
  • Patent number: 12093708
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for scheduling a virtual machine are disclosed in. The method includes predicting resource data required by a virtual machine in a next time period to obtain a prediction result; obtaining used resource data and available resource data of candidate host machines; adding the prediction result to used resource data of each candidate host machine to obtain a superimposition result of each candidate host machine; and separately comparing the superimposition result of each candidate host machine with available resource data of each host machine, and selecting a target host machine corresponding to the virtual machine from the candidate host machines. The present disclosure solves the technical problem of a large waste of resources caused by the needs of a host machine to reserve resources for respective peaks of each virtual machine in the existing technologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Zhengxiong Tian, Haihong Xu, Bo Zhu, Junjie Cai
  • Patent number: 12093234
    Abstract: A data processing method including: acquiring information of multiple first data blocks of a first level to be merged and information of multiple second data blocks of a second level to be merged, wherein each of the first data blocks of the first level has the same first size, and each of the second data blocks of the second level has the same second size; performing, according to the information of the multiple first data blocks and the information of the multiple second data blocks, data comparison on each of the first data blocks and each of the second data blocks; and performing, according to a comparison result, data compaction on the first level and the second level. The embodiments of the present disclosure effectively reduce system overheads caused by I/O data read and write and data comparison, thereby improving the system throughput.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Gui Huang, Canfang Shang, Dengcheng He
  • Publication number: 20240303970
    Abstract: Data processing method and apparatus are disclosed. The method includes: processing input data based on the data processing network, to obtain intermediate data; acquiring a fixed attention feature output by the attention network, which is obtained after training the model with at least an initialized attention feature, respective attention weights included in the initialized attention feature are not all the same; processing the intermediate data based on the data aggregation network and according to the fixed attention feature, to obtain output data. The fixed attention network does not receive any input previously, that is, attention feature output by the attention network is irrelevant to input data. The fixed attention feature can not only allow a more important parameter of the model to play a greater role to improve accuracy of the model and determine importance of the parameter, but also be conducive to further compression of the model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventors: Wenhua CHENG, Niqi LYU, Liang YOU, Xin LONG
  • Patent number: 12079647
    Abstract: An encoding scheduling method, a server, a client, and a system for acquiring a remote desktop are provided. An encoding scheduling method includes: determining, by a server, encoding requirement information of an encoding task according to information reflecting a remote desktop creation requirement; and calling hardware encoding resources according to the encoding requirement information of the encoding task, to implement encoding of the encoding task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Xianghong Jia, Hongbo Min, Xiang Hu
  • Patent number: 12081506
    Abstract: Display methods and devices are disclosed. An exemplary display method may comprise: displaying a session list page, the session list page comprising a session page entry corresponding to a communication session in which a local end user participates; determining a read/unread status of a sent communication message by the local end user in the communication session; and displaying, in a display area of the session page entry corresponding to the communication session, a status identifier corresponding to the read/unread status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventors: Lili Zhang, Zhenhao Wu, Di Zhang, Jiandong Lai, Jiabao Wan
  • Patent number: 12079208
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method, apparatus, and device for data processing. The method comprises: obtaining data of at least two different modalities, the data comprising at least first data and second data, the first data and second stored in respective data sources; determining an overlapping keyword correlating the first data and the second data by analyzing textual descriptions associated with the first data and second data and identifying the overlapping keyword as appearing in a textual description of the first data and in a textual description of the second data; and storing the first data and the second data in an associative manner based on the overlapping keyword, the associative manner generated using the overlapping keyword.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventors: Wei Liu, Yu Wang, Chao Liu, Ying Chi, Xuansong Xie, Xiansheng Hua
  • Patent number: 12072806
    Abstract: A method for performing data compression in a multi-core processor comprises retrieving a chunk of data from a data array of a cache slice, wherein the cache slice is comprised within a cache associated with the multi-core processor, wherein the cache is distributed between a plurality of cache slices, and wherein each core of the multi-core processor can access each of the plurality of cache slices. The method further comprises calculating a bit mask for the chunk of data and, using the bit mask, shifting out elements in the chunk of data corresponding to zero values, wherein zero value elements in the chunk of data are shifted out and non-zero value elements in the chunk of data are retained. Finally, the method comprises writing the bit mask and the non-zero value elements to a memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Xiaowei Wang, Li Zhao
  • Patent number: 12073317
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods and systems for processing a neural network associated with an input matrix having a first number of elements. The method can include: dividing the input matrix into a plurality of vectors, each vector having a second number of elements; grouping the plurality of vectors into a first group of vectors and a second group of vectors; and pruning the first group of vectors and the second group of vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Ao Ren, Tao Zhang, Yuhao Wang, Yuan Xie
  • Patent number: 12075079
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for encoding video. The method includes coding one or more first flags in a sequence parameter set (SPS) of a bitstream, and coding at least one second flag in the SPS if one or more coding modes are enabled for a video sequence associated with the SPS. The one or more first flags indicate whether the one or more coding modes are enabled for the video sequence. The at least one second flag indicates whether a multi-level control is activated for the one or more coding modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Jie Chen, Ru-Ling Liao, Yan Ye, Jiancong Luo
  • Patent number: 12067054
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for characteristic-based video processing include: in response to receiving a region of a picture of a video sequence, determining a characteristic in the region, the region being independent of other regions of the picture for video coding; determining a class associated with the region based on the characteristic, the class being selected from a plurality of classes; and encoding the region using a parameter set associated with the class, the parameter set being selected from a plurality of parameter sets for video coding at different quality levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Shaolin Xie, Minghai Qin, Yen-kuang Chen, Tae Meon Bae, Qinggang Zhou
  • Patent number: 12069271
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for processing video content. The method can include: receiving data representing a first block and a second block in a picture, the data comprising a plurality of chroma samples associated with the first block and a plurality of luma samples associated with the second block; determining an average value of the plurality of luma samples associated with the second block; determining a chroma scaling factor for the first block based on the average value; and processing the plurality of chroma samples associated with the first block using the chroma scaling factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Yan Ye, Jie Chen, Ru-Ling Liao
  • Patent number: 12063372
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for signaling and using a palette mode in video processing. According to certain disclosed embodiments, an exemplary video processing method includes: receiving a first palette entry for palette coding a target coding unit (CU); determining whether the target CU is part of a single-tree slice; determining whether the target CU is coded with separate luma and chroma trees; and in response to the target CU being determined to be part of a single-tree slice and be coded with separate luma and chroma trees, decoding a first component of the target CU based on the first palette entry, and decoding a second component of the target CU based on a default palette entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Mohammed Golam Sarwer, Ru-Ling Liao, Yan Ye, Jiancong Luo, Jie Chen