Patents by Inventor Baicen Hou

Baicen Hou 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: 20210337278
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a playback control method. The method includes: obtaining a control instruction, wherein the control instruction comprises an identifier of a currently played video file, a current playback point, a control target, and a control type; dividing the video file corresponding to the identifier to playback units according to the control target, and obtaining at least one playback unit related to the control target in the video file; determining a playback unit to be controlled in the video file according to the control type and the at least one playback unit related to the control target; and performing a control process on the playback unit to be controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventor: Baicen HOU
  • Patent number: 11153653
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a resource recommendation method, device, apparatus, and computer readable storage medium. The method in the embodiment of the present disclosure allows for acquiring, according to a resource type of a first resource that has been provided to a first user, recommendable content categories corresponding to the resource type and a recommendation weight of each of the content categories, determining, according to the recommendation weight of each of the content categories, a target category to be recommended, and recommending a second resource under the target category to the first user, so that different recommendable content categories flexibly correspond to a different resource type, and recommendation weights are flexibly set for the recommendable content categories corresponding to the different resource type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Inventor: Baicen Hou
  • Publication number: 20190394529
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a resource recommendation method, device, apparatus, and computer readable storage medium. The method in the embodiment of the present disclosure allows for acquiring, according to a resource type of a first resource that has been provided to a first user, recommendable content categories corresponding to the resource type and a recommendation weight of each of the content categories, determining, according to the recommendation weight of each of the content categories, a target category to be recommended, and recommending a second resource under the target category to the first user, so that different recommendable content categories flexibly correspond to a different resource type, and recommendation weights are flexibly set for the recommendable content categories corresponding to the different resource type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventor: Baicen HOU
  • Patent number: 9721454
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for protecting a terminal device and the terminal device thereof. The method includes: obtaining status information of a terminal device plugged with an earphone; determining whether the status information meets a preset condition; and activating an alarm mode of the terminal device when the status information meets the preset condition. According to the present disclosure, given that activating the alarm mode of the terminal device is based on the status information of the terminal device, the alarm mode of the terminal device can be activated based on environment information of the terminal device without a user manually activating the alarm mode of the terminal device, therefore user experience is improved. Moreover, the security of the terminal device is further improved by avoiding an incident of the user forgetting to start the alarm mode, thus further protecting the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: XIAOMI INC.
    Inventors: Baicen Hou, Mingyong Tang, Chengping Hua
  • Publication number: 20150235534
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for protecting a terminal device and the terminal device thereof. The method includes: obtaining status information of a terminal device plugged with an earphone; determining whether the status information meets a preset condition; and activating an alarm mode of the terminal device when the status information meets the preset condition. According to the present disclosure, given that activating the alarm mode of the terminal device is based on the status information of the terminal device, the alarm mode of the terminal device can be activated based on environment information of the terminal device without a user manually activating the alarm mode of the terminal device, therefore user experience is improved. Moreover, the security of the terminal device is further improved by avoiding an incident of the user forgetting to start the alarm mode, thus further protecting the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: Baicen Hou, Mingyong Tang, Chengping Hua