Patents by Inventor Andrew A. CHENG

Andrew A. CHENG 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: 11968055
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for assigning participants to rooms within a virtual conferencing system. The program and method provide for accessing, in association with a virtual space comprising plural rooms for virtual conferencing between plural participants, room occupancy preferences for occupying the plural rooms; accessing metadata associated with one or more participants of the plural participants; assigning, based on the room occupancy preferences and the metadata, the plural participants to one or more rooms of the plural rooms; and providing, based on the assigning, for virtual conferencing between the plural participants within the one or more rooms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Cheng-min Lin, Walton Lin
  • Publication number: 20240128346
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure is provided that includes a pFET located in a pFET device region, the pFET includes a first functional gate structure and a plurality of pFET semiconductor channel material nanosheets, and an nFET located in the nFET device region, the nFET includes a second functional gate structure and a plurality of pFET semiconductor channel material nanosheets. The pFET semiconductor channel material nanosheets can be staggered relative to, or vertically aligned in a horizontal direction with, the nFET semiconductor channel material nanosheets. When staggered, a bottom dielectric isolation structure can be located in both the device regions, and the second functional gate structures has a bottommost surface that extends beneath a topmost surface of the bottom dielectric isolation structure. When horizontally aligned, a vertical dielectric pillar is located between the two device regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Julien Frougier, Andrew M. Greene, Shogo Mochizuki, Ruilong Xie, Liqiao Qin, Gen Tsutsui, Nicolas Jean Loubet, Min Gyu Sung, Chanro Park, Kangguo Cheng, Heng Wu
  • Publication number: 20240113213
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including a channel region of stacked semiconductor layers arranged in at least one cluster, wherein each cluster includes a pair of the semiconductor sheets with a dielectric material present therebetween. The semiconductor device further includes a gate structure encapsulating the channel region of stacked semiconductor sheets arranged in clusters. Source and drain regions are present on opposing sides of the channel region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Julien Frougier, Ruilong Xie, Kangguo Cheng, Andrew M. Greene, Sung Dae Suk
  • Publication number: 20240100018
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods of identifying a compound for treating or preventing an infection with an infectious microbe, such as a coronavirus, in a subject in need thereof. Also disclosed herein are compounds and compositions identified by said methods, and methods of use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Mark E. SCHURDAK, Andreas VOGT, Andrew Michael STERN, Douglass Lansing TAYLOR, Fangyuan CHEN, Fen PEI, Hongying CHENG, Ivet BAHAR, Qingya SHI, Moshe ARDITI
  • Publication number: 20240103708
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing bot participants for virtual conferencing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew Cheng-min Lin, Walton Lin
  • Publication number: 20240104143
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to store cluster information in a distributed datastore are disclosed. An example apparatus includes memory; programmable circuitry; and first instructions to cause the programmable circuitry to: obtain second instructions to create a cluster of first hosts; determine second hosts of the cluster of the first hosts to implement a distributed datastore in the cluster; and cause transmission of third instructions to store cluster information corresponding to the cluster of the first hosts in datastores of the second hosts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Brian Masao Oki, Chaitanya Bandi, Subhankar Biswas, Austin Kramer, Leonid Livshin, Alkesh Shah, Pradyumna Agrawal, Cheng Cheng, Andrew Stone
  • Publication number: 20240106875
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for dynamically assigning participant video feeds within a virtual conferencing system. The program and method provide, in association with designing a virtual space for virtual conferencing, an interface for configuring a set of rooms, each room being associated with a different number of participant video elements assignable to respective participant video feeds; receive, via the interface, an indication of user input for setting properties for the set of rooms; determine, in association with virtual conferencing, a first number of participants for a room; select a first room corresponding to the first number of participants; provide display of the first room; and assign, for each of the first number of participants, a participant video feed corresponding to the participant with a respective participant video element in the first room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Emily Cho, Andrew Cheng-min Lin
  • Patent number: 11943072
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing a room preview within a virtual conferencing system. The program and method provide for virtual conferencing between plural participants within a first room of plural rooms, the plural rooms being included within a virtual space for virtual conferencing; and for each of the plural participants, provide a first audio channel associated with audio output of the first room, provide display of a room preview element within the first room, the room preview element corresponding to a live preview of a second room of the plural rooms, and provide a second audio channel associated with audio output of the second room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Cheng-Min Lin, Walton Lin
  • Publication number: 20240094861
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for configuring a three-dimensional (3D) model within a virtual conferencing system. The program and method provide, in association with designing a room for virtual conferencing, an interface for configuring a 3D model; receiving, via the interface, an indication of user input for setting properties for the 3D model, the properties specifying image data for projecting onto the 3D model; and in association with virtual conferencing, providing display of the room based on the properties for the 3D model, and causing the image data to be projected onto the 3D model within the room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: William Chou, Andrew Cheng-min Lin
  • Patent number: 11931512
    Abstract: A patient interface including a positioning and stabilizing structure that is configured to maintain a first seal-forming structure and a second seal-forming structure in a therapeutically effective position. The positioning and stabilizing structure comprises a frame coupled to the plenum chamber. The frame includes a central portion coupled to the plenum chamber outside of the cavity. The frame also includes a pair of arms that extend away from the central portion in a posterior direction past the second seal-forming structure. The pair of arms are more flexible than the central portion. The positioning and stabilizing structure also includes headgear straps coupled to the frame, which configured to provide a tensile force to the first seal-forming structure and to the second seal-forming structure into the patient's face via the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: ResMed Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Matthew Eves, Andrew James Bate, Sebastien Deubel, Paul Derrick Watson, Matthew Robin Wells, Beng Hai Tan, Chee Keong Ong, Marvin Sugi Hartono, Han Cheng Lin
  • Patent number: 11935930
    Abstract: Embodiments herein describe FETs with channels that form wrap-around contacts (a female portion of a female/male connection) with metal contacts (a male portion of the female/male connection) in order to connect the channels to the drain and source regions. In one embodiment, a first conductive contact is formed underneath a dummy channel. In addition an encapsulation material wraps around the first conductive contact. The dummy channel and the encapsulation material can then be removed and replaced by the material of the channel which, as a result, include a female portion that wraps around the first conductive contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Julien Frougier, Ruilong Xie, Kangguo Cheng, Chanro Park, Andrew Gaul
  • Publication number: 20240080215
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for presenting an overview of participant reactions to a virtual conference. The program and method provide for a virtual conference between plural participants; provide, for each of the plural participants, display of reaction buttons which are selectable by the participant to indicate different reactions to the virtual conference; receive indication of selections of the reaction buttons by one or more of the plural participants; store an indication of the selections over time in association with recording the virtual conference; generate a graphical overview of reactions to the virtual conference based on the stored indication of the selections; and provide, for a first participant of the plural participants, display of the graphical overview.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew Cheng-min Lin, Walton Lin
  • Publication number: 20240073371
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for virtual participant interaction for a hybrid event. The program and method provide an interface for designing a hybrid event between in-person and virtual participants, the interface for setting first properties of a physical space device present in a physical space, and setting second properties of a virtual room for the virtual participants; receive an indication of first user input setting the first and second properties; and in association with conferencing, configure the physical space device based on the first properties, display the virtual room based on the second properties, the virtual room including a live video feed of the physical space, receive, from a virtual participant device, an indication of second user input for interacting with the physical space device, and provide for interaction the based on the second user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew Cheng-min Lin, Walton Lin
  • Publication number: 20240069857
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for presenting change of presence sounds within a virtual working environment. The program and method provide for receiving, from a first client device of a first participant of a group of participants within a virtual working environment, interaction data relating to the first participant being present at the first client device, the group of participants having been selected from among plural participants of the virtual working environment; determining a change in presence of the first participant with respect to the first client device; generating, in response to the determining, a sound corresponding to the change in presence; and providing the generated sound to one or more second client devices of respective one or more second participants of the group of participants, for presentation on the one or more second client devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Brandon Francis, Andrew Cheng-min Lin, Walton Lin
  • Publication number: 20240069687
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for presenting participant reactions within a virtual working environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Brandon Francis, Andrew Cheng-min Lin, Walton Lin
  • Publication number: 20240073370
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for presenting a time-limited video feed within a virtual working environment. The program and method provide, within a virtual working environment for plural participants, display of an interface element which is user-selectable to capture video for sending to a group of participants within the virtual working environment, the group of participants having been selected from among the plural participants; receive, based on user selection of the interface element by a first participant in the group of participants, a time-limited video feed from a client device of the first participant; and provide, in response to the receiving and for each participant in the group of participants, display of the time-limited video feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Brandon Francis, Andrew Cheng-min Lin, Walton Lin
  • Publication number: 20240073372
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for in-person participant interaction for a hybrid event. The program and method provide an interface for designing a hybrid event between in-person and virtual participants, the interface for setting first properties of a physical space device present in a physical space, and setting second properties of a virtual room for the virtual participants; receive an indication of first user input setting the first and second properties; and in association with conferencing, configure the physical space device based on the first properties, display the virtual room based on the second properties, the virtual room including a live video feed of the physical space, receive, via a sidecar application accessible by the in-person participants, an indication of second user input for interacting with the physical space device, and provide for interaction based on the second user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew Cheng-min Lin, Walton Lin
  • Publication number: 20240073364
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for recreating keyboard and mouse sounds within a virtual working environment. The program and method provide for receiving, from a first client device of a first participant of a group of participants within a virtual working environment, a timing of keyboard and mouse input detected at the client device, the group of participants having been selected from among plural participants of the virtual working environment; generating, in response to the receiving, keyboard and mouse sounds that correspond to the timing of the keyboard and mouse input; and providing the generated keyboard and mouse sounds to one or more second client devices of respective one or more second participants of the group of participants, for presentation on the one or more second client devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Brandon Francis, Andrew Cheng-min Lin, Walton Lin
  • Publication number: 20240073050
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for presenting captured screen content within a virtual conferencing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventor: Andrew Cheng-min Lin
  • Publication number: 20240069708
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing a collaborative interface element within a virtual conferencing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventor: Andrew Cheng-min Lin