Patents Assigned to Alibaba Group Holdings Limited
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Patent number: 11979819Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a communication method and a communication apparatus. The method incudes acquiring, from a preset public network access channel, unique network identification information of a region where the terminal is located; determining a spectrum standard corresponding to the region where the terminal is located according to the public network access channel and the unique network identification information; and communicating according to the spectrum standard.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventor: Zhen Tao
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Patent number: 11977663Abstract: A processing unit comprising: a processor; and a memory, coupled to the processor and adapted to provide a plurality of enclaves isolated from each other, where the plurality of enclaves include a plurality of application enclaves, each of the application enclaves is used for running a respective application program, and the plurality of enclaves further include at least one of the following: a runtime enclave adapted to provide a storage space required for an invokable program; and a crypto enclave adapted to provide a storage space required for a crypto related program, wherein the runtime enclave and the crypto enclave have read/write permission for the plurality of application enclaves, and each of the application enclaves has no read/write permission for the runtime enclave and the crypto enclave.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventors: Xiaoxia Cui, Xuanle Ren
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Patent number: 11979274Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure can provide network management methods and apparatuses, The method can comprise connecting by a first terminal device to a network through a connection mode; and acquiring management configuration information corresponding to the network system.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventors: Lu Wang, Junjie Cai, Xu Zeng, Liangliang Zhu
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Patent number: 11978105Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure disclose a store system, and a method and an apparatus for processing information of clothing items for try-on. The store system comprises: a first device, deployed in a back warehouse area of a store and configured to obtain corresponding relationship between a user and information of one or more clothing items for try-on; and provide preparation prompt information based on the corresponding relationship to prepare the one or more clothing items for the user; and a fitting room, the fitting room comprising a first door and a second door, the first door configured for the user to enter and exit the fitting room, and the second door configured for delivering the one or more clothing items for try-on corresponding to the user from the back warehouse area to the fitting room.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITEDInventors: Keyang Shi, Ding Sheng, Lin Bin, Jianfeng Guo, Shurong He, Didi Yao, Wei Feng, Weizhi Xie, Wei Zhu, Jianhong Wang, Menglei Jia, Xiaoying Hu
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Patent number: 11968360Abstract: The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for encoding video. The method includes: receiving a video frame for processing; generating one or more coding units of the video frame; and processing one or more coding units using one or more palette predictors having palette entries, wherein each palette entry of the one or more palette predictors has a corresponding reuse flag, and wherein a number of reuse flags for each palette predictor is set to a fixed number for a corresponding coding unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventors: Ru-Ling Liao, Mohammed Golam Sarwer, Yan Ye, Xuan Huang
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Patent number: 11961299Abstract: A method and an apparatus for generating a video fingerprint are disclosed. The method includes: performing shot boundary detection on content of a video; determining a time duration of each shot according to positional points of the shot boundary, and compose the time duration of each shot into a shot boundary time slice sequence; and obtaining video fingerprint information according to the time slice sequence.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventor: Changguo Chen
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Patent number: 11962495Abstract: A system including a transmission terminal, used for transmitting a target data packet obtained by encrypting and encapsulating a data flow; a network controller, deployed in a first Internet network and storing routing information from the transmission terminal to a receiving terminal; and a backbone transmission network device, deployed in a backbone transmission network and used for obtaining the routing information and the target data packet forwarded by the first Internet network and forwarding the target data packet to the receiving terminal based on the routing information. The present disclosure solves the technical problem of low efficiency and high cost of data transmission in the conventional techniques.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventors: Shunmin Zhu, Weiting Huang, Jianyong Chen
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Patent number: 11954105Abstract: Methods and computer systems for storing a query plan in a cache are provided. The method can include: determining a use frequency of the query plan; determining a target storage layer for storing the query plan based on the determined use frequency, wherein the cache includes at least two storage layers and each of the storage layers is associated with a compression level of query plans; processing the query plan according to the compression level of the target storage layer; and storing the processed query plan in the target storage layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventors: Fang Zheng, Zhe Chen, Ruiping Li, Congnan Luo, Yu Dong, Jie Zhang, Li Zhang, Ji Jiannan, Dongcan Cui, Chaoqun Zhan
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Patent number: 11954093Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide devices and methods for performing a top-k function. The device can include: a memory comprising a plurality of register files for storing the data elements, the plurality of register files comprising a parent register file and a first child register file associated with the parent register file, wherein the parent register file is associated with: first interface circuitry configured for reading a first parent data element from the parent register file and receiving a first child data element and a second child data element from the first child register file; and first comparison circuitry configured for updating the parent register file and the first child register file based on the first parent data element, the first child data element, and the second child data element according to a given principle.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventors: Fei Sun, Shuangchen Li, Dimin Niu, Fei Xue, Yuanwei Fang
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Patent number: 11954520Abstract: A micro kernel scheduling method and apparatus are disclosed in embodiments of this disclosure. The method is applied to a software platform and includes: receiving a scheduling instruction for a current micro kernel; and switching the current micro kernel to a target micro kernel. In some embodiments, a micro kernel is switched directly according to a scheduling instruction, and this is completed without any thread of the software platform, which solves the problems in the conventional system of high micro kernel switching cost and poor real-time performance caused by one-to-one correspondence between micro kernels and threads of the software platform.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventors: Xu Zeng, Junjie Cai, Liangliang Zhu
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Patent number: 11956463Abstract: A method for performing motion compensation includes: receiving a first wrap-around motion compensation flag associated with one or more pictures and indicating whether horizontal wrap-around motion compensation is enabled for the one or more pictures; and in response to the horizontal wrap-around motion compensation being enabled for the one or more pictures, receiving a parameter associated with a wrap-around motion compensation offset, the wrap-around motion compensation offset being associated with the one or more pictures, wherein a value of the wrap-around motion compensation offset is less than or equal to a difference minus 2, and the difference is obtained by a quotient of a picture width in luma samples divided by a minimum luma coding block size minus a quotient of a luma coding tree block size divided by the minimum luma coding block size.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventors: Jie Chen, Yan Ye, Ru-Ling Liao, Jiancong Luo
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Patent number: 11949681Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for improving user authentication and access control by a network file system service in a multi-tenant public cloud environment by receiving a request for a connection to a file system from a file system client (client), sending an identification request for identification authentication of the client to a control system, receiving a response from the control system, establishing the connection to the file system upon determining that the connection to the file system is allowed based on cloud tenant information associated with the client, receiving an attempt to access the file system from the client by a sub-user, authenticating the sub-user based on the cloud tenant information, issuing a security token including a globally unique sub-user identifier of the sub-user, and using the security token to determine access rights of the sub-user to the file system for a subsequent request.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2018Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventors: Qingda Lu, Junpu Chen, Qinghua Ye, Lei Wang, Zhiyong Lin, Liping Bao, Jiesheng Wu, Li Xu, Xiaohui Pei, Feng Zhang, Leilei Tian
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Patent number: 11947821Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for managing a primary storage unit of an accelerator. The methods include assessing activity of the accelerator; assigning, based on the assessed activity of the accelerator, a lease to a group of one or more pages of data on the primary storage unit, wherein the assigned lease indicates a lease duration; and marking, in response to the expiration of the lease duration indicated by the lease, the group of one or more pages of data as an eviction candidate.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventors: Yongbin Gu, Pengcheng Li, Tao Zhang, Yuan Xie
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Patent number: 11949888Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for processing video content. The method can include: partitioning, along a partitioning edge, a plurality of blocks associated with a picture into a first partition and a second partition; performing inter prediction on the plurality of blocks, to generate a first prediction signal for the first partition and a second prediction signal for the second partition; and blending the first and second prediction signals for edge blocks associated with the partitioning edge.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventors: Ru-Ling Liao, Jie Chen, Yan Ye, Jiancong Luo
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Patent number: 11941802Abstract: The present application discloses a method, device, and system for processing a medical image. The method includes obtaining, by one or more processors, a target image, segmenting, by the one or more processors, a target region image from the target image, wherein the target region image comprises a target object region in the target image, analyzing, by the one or more processors, the target region image based at least in part on a machine learning model, and obtaining by the one or more processors, a recognition result based at least in part on the analysis of the target region image.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventors: Minfeng Xu, Zhe Tang, Shuangrui Liu, Wenchao Guo, Jianqiang Ma
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Patent number: 11940965Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data migration method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving a migration task of migrating data in a first system to a second system; and calling upper-layer interfaces corresponding to the migration task, and calling underlying operation interfaces of the first system and the second system by the upper-layer interfaces through an abstract interface class to migrate the data of the first system to the second system. Bidirectional data transmission and migration can be implemented between any two data ends. Bidirectional data transmission and migration between any data terminals.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventor: Yizhe Chen
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Patent number: 11941753Abstract: This application discloses methods, apparatus, and electronic devices for face pose estimation and three-dimensional face reconstruction. The face pose estimation method comprises: acquiring a two-dimensional face image for processing, constructing a three-dimensional face model corresponding to the two-dimensional face image, and determining a face pose of the two-dimensional face image based on face feature points of the three-dimensional face model and face feature points of the two-dimensional face image. With this approach, the face pose estimation is performed based on the three-dimensional face model corresponding to the two-dimensional face image, instead of only based on a three-dimensional average face model. As a result, a high accuracy pose estimation can be obtained even for a face with large-angle and exaggerated facial expressions. Thus, robustness of the pose estimation can be effectively improved.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITEDInventor: Shiwei Zhou
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Patent number: 11934539Abstract: A method for storing application program information including segmenting the application program information into program sub-information, with an information segmentation algorithm of the application program information having undergone algorithm obfuscation processing; and storing the program sub-information. The present disclosure significantly reduces the possibility of application program information being acquired by hackers and the like, and improves the security of application program information and electronic devices.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventors: Caidi Wu, Dafu Lyu
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Patent number: 11928617Abstract: The present disclosure provides data-driven methods and apparatuses for predicting user inquiries. One exemplary method includes: collecting user behavior data and pre-processing the user behavior data when a user inquiry is received; extracting candidate user behavior data that is contributive to the user inquiry from the pre-processed user behavior data; screening the candidate user behavior data based on a set target behavior data set, and selecting candidate user behavior data that is contained in the target behavior data set; inputting the screened candidate user behavior data into a trained classifier model; and predicting an inquiry category to which the user inquiry belongs. One exemplary apparatus includes a pre-processing module, an extraction module, and a prediction module. The method and the apparatus embodiments of the present disclosure can improve the efficiency and accuracy of the prediction.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventors: Shaofei Xue, Jiaxing Zhang, Hengbin Cui
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Patent number: 11928598Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a system and method for distributed neural network training. The method includes: computing, by a plurality of heterogeneous computation units (HCUs) in a neural network processing system, a first plurality of gradients from a first plurality of samples; aggregating the first plurality of gradients to generate an aggregated gradient; computing, by the plurality of HCUs, a second plurality of gradients from a second plurality of samples; aggregating, at each of the plurality of HCUs, the aggregated gradient with a corresponding gradient of the second plurality of gradients to generate a local gradient update; and updating, at each of the plurality of HCUs, a local copy of a neural network with the local gradient update.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventor: Qinggang Zhou