Patents by Inventor Chen Zhou

Chen Zhou 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: 20190340229
    Abstract: At least one XML document to be validated is parsed, and XML data in the at least one XML document is represented as data objects in at least one data object model in a memory. At least one rule document is parsed and a rule object model that includes rule objects is created in the memory. At least part of the data objects are extracted from the at least one data object model and at least part of rule objects are extracted from the rule object model. Partial validation is performed in a corresponding execution context that validates the extracted at least part of the data objects based upon the extracted at least part of the rule objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Timothy J. Baldwin, Duncan G. Clark, Xin Peng Liu, Xi Ning Wang, Liang Xue, Yu Chen Zhou
  • Patent number: 10445328
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for ranking search results and generating a presentation. In some implementations, a search system generates a presentation based on a search query. In some implementations, a search system ranks search results based on data stored in a knowledge graph. In some implementations, a search system identifies a modifying concept such as a superlative in a received search query, and determines ranking properties based on the modifying concept.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Chen Zhou, Chen Ding, David Francois Huynh, JinYu Lou, Yanlai Huang, Hongda Shen, Guanghua Li, Yiming Li, Yangyang Chai
  • Publication number: 20190304436
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for adaptively selecting an acoustic feature extractor in an Artificial Intelligence system is provided. The present invention may include acquiring a frame of an acoustic signal. The present invention may include checking a status of a flag to be used to indicate a proper acoustic feature extractor to be selected. The present invention may include processing the frame of the acoustic signal by the selected acoustic feature extractor indicated by the checked status. The present invention may include determining, based on data generated in the processing of the frame of the acoustic signal, an actual status of the frame of the acoustic signal. The present invention may include updating the status of the flag according to the actual status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Xiao Xing Liang, Ning Zhang, Yu Ling Zheng, Yu Chen Zhou
  • Publication number: 20190293189
    Abstract: A stop valve (100) comprises a magnetic yoke (101), a solenoid coil (102), a compression spring (107) and an armature (105) on which an elastic membrane (106) is arranged. The membrane (106) can be sealingly pressed onto at least one fluid connection (108, 109). Furthermore, the compression spring (107) is positioned in such a way as to surround the edge of the lateral surface of the armature (105), and the solenoid coil (102) is positioned in such a way as to be enclosed by the compression spring (107). A method for detecting leaks and/or identifying variations in metered amounts is carried out in an SCR system comprising the stop valve (100) and involves opening the stop valve (100). A pressurized line is then filled with reducing agent and the stop valve (100) is closed. A pressure is subsequently reduced upstream of the stop valve (100) by shutting off a pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Okke Venekamp, Chen Zhou
  • Publication number: 20190272273
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for graph-based searching for one or more data streams is disclosed. A computer-implemented method comprises extracting a plurality of tuples from one or more data streams. The method further comprises generating a graph for the plurality of tuples in which a node represents a tuple of the plurality of tuples and an edge represents a correlation between the node and another node, and the edge is generated based at least partly on one or more predetermined queries for the one or more data streams. The method further comprises traversing the graph based on the one or more predetermined queries. Accordingly, embodiments of the present disclosure can improve the search speed by use of the graph-based searching for one or more data streams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Xiao Xing Liang, Cheng Luo, Wayne B. Riley, Shaw-Ben Shi, Meng Hong Tsai, Qingyan Wang, Yu Ling Zheng, Yu Chen Zhou
  • Patent number: 10372809
    Abstract: At least one XML document to be validated is parsed, and XML data in the at least one XML document is represented as data objects in at least one data object model in a memory. At least one rule document is parsed and a rule object model that includes rule objects is created in the memory. At least part of the data objects are extracted from the at least one data object model and at least part of rule objects are extracted from the rule object model. Partial validation is performed in a corresponding execution context that validates the extracted at least part of the data objects based upon the extracted at least part of the rule objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Timothy J. Baldwin, Duncan G. Clark, Xin Peng Liu, Xi Ning Wang, Liang Xue, Yu Chen Zhou
  • Publication number: 20190221254
    Abstract: A method includes setting an output of each memory cell in an array of memory cells to a same first value, decreasing power to the array of memory cells and then increasing power to the array of memory cells. Memory cells in the array of memory cells with outputs that switched to a second value different from the first value are then identified in response to decreasing and then increasing the power. A set of memory cells is then selected from the identified memory cells to use in hardware security.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Muqing Liu, Chen Zhou, Keshab K. Parhi, Hyung-il Kim
  • Patent number: 10325588
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for adaptively selecting an acoustic feature extractor in an Artificial Intelligence system is provided. The present invention may include acquiring a frame of an acoustic signal. The present invention may include checking a status of a flag to be used to indicate a proper acoustic feature extractor to be selected. The present invention may include processing the frame of the acoustic signal by the selected acoustic feature extractor indicated by the checked status. The present invention may include determining, based on data generated in the processing of the frame of the acoustic signal, an actual status of the frame of the acoustic signal. The present invention may include updating the status of the flag according to the actual status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Xiao Xing Liang, Ning Zhang, Yu Ling Zheng, Yu Chen Zhou
  • Publication number: 20190170047
    Abstract: Disclosed is a stop valve (100) comprising a magnetic yoke (101), a solenoid coil (102), a compression spring (107) and an armature (105) on which an elastic membrane (106) is arranged. The membrane (106) can be sealingly pressed onto at least one fluid connection (108, 109). The stop valve (100) further comprises a guide (111) and a guide pin (110) that is connected to the armature (105). Finally, the compression spring (107) is positioned in such a way as to surround the solenoid coil (102). Also disclosed is a method for detecting leaks and/or identifying variations in metered amounts. Said method, which is carried on in an SCR system comprising the stop valve (100), involves opening the stop valve (100), whereupon a pressurized line is filled with a reducing agent and the stop valve (100) is closed. A pressure is subsequently lowered upstream of the stop valve (100) by shutting off a pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Okke VENEKAMP, Chen ZHOU, Simon Michael HEITZER
  • Publication number: 20190163555
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer product for anomaly detection in a sensor network. The method comprises: receiving measurements from a plurality of sensors in the sensor network. The method further comprises performing a graph Fourier transform on the measurements to obtain a spectrum. The graph Fourier transform is defined by a graph structure generated from the plurality of sensors. The method further comprises generating an anomaly alert in response to high frequency components of the spectrum exceeding a first threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Yu Ling ZHENG, Xiao Xing LIANG, Yu Chen ZHOU, Ning ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20190138955
    Abstract: A method for enforcing a number of context model based policies with forward chaining comprising applying a policy set including a plurality of policies to an instantiated context model which includes a set of referenced instance documents in XML format, determining whether the instantiated context model should be updated, if the instantiated context model should be updated, executing an updating operation, re-generating a new instantiated context model according to the updated instance documents and the instantiated context model, and applying the policy set to the new instantiated context model, and wherein the policies include a condition part and an action part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Xin Peng Liu, Xi Ning Wang, Liang Xue, Ke Xin Zhou, Yu Chen Zhou
  • Publication number: 20190130933
    Abstract: A computer implemented method, computer system and computer program product are provided for acoustic event detection in polyphonic acoustic data, according to the method, polyphonic acoustic data is inputted by one or more processing units into a trained neural network trained by labeled monophonic acoustic data, a first output from a hidden layer of the trained neural network is obtained by one or more processing units, and at least one acoustic classification of the polyphonic acoustic data is determined by one or more processing units based on the first output and a feature dictionary learnt from the trained neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Xiao Xing Liang, Ning Zhang, Yu Ling Zheng, Yu Chen Zhou
  • Publication number: 20190120926
    Abstract: Facilitation of determination of detailed location of a source signal is provided. In one embodiment, a device comprises a memory that stores computer executable components; and a processor that executes computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise: a low-resolution computation logic component that implements a coarse algorithm and determines an approximate direction of arrival (DOA) of a source signal of an input signal, wherein the coarse algorithm uses both a coarse spatial grid and input data received from the input signal to determine the approximate DOA; and an error estimation logic component that estimates an estimation error of the coarse algorithm, and wherein the error estimation logic component uses the estimation error and the approximate DOA to determine a spatial interval range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Yi Ge, Jing Chang Huang, Xiao Xing Liang, Zhao Tai Pan, Wen Meng Xiong, Yu Ling Zheng, Yu Chen Zhou
  • Publication number: 20190121895
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for graph-based searching for one or more data streams is disclosed. A computer-implemented method comprises extracting a plurality of tuples from one or more data streams. The method further comprises generating a graph for the plurality of tuples in which a node represents a tuple of the plurality of tuples and an edge represents a correlation between the node and another node, and the edge is generated based at least partly on one or more predetermined queries for the one or more data streams. The method further comprises traversing the graph based on the one or more predetermined queries. Accordingly, embodiments of the present disclosure can improve the search speed by use of the graph-based searching for one or more data streams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Xiao Xing Liang, Cheng Luo, Wayne B. Riley, Shaw-Ben Shi, Meng Hong Tsai, Qingyan Wang, Yu Ling Zheng, Yu Chen Zhou
  • Publication number: 20190096389
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a new approach used for adaptively selecting an acoustic feature extractor used in an Artificial Intelligence system. The method comprises: acquiring a frame of acoustic signal; checking a status of a flag to be used to indicate a proper acoustic feature extractor to be selected, the first status of the flag indicates a low-cost feature extractor associated with quasi-stationary acoustic signal, the second status of the flag indicates a high-cost feature extractor associated with non-stationary acoustic signal; processing the frame of acoustic signal by the selected acoustic feature extractor indicated by the checked status; determining, based on data generated in the processing of the frame of acoustic signal, an actual status of the frame of acoustic signal; and updating the status of the flag according to the actual status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Xiao Xing Liang, Ning Zhang, Yu Ling Zheng, Yu Chen Zhou
  • Patent number: 10235423
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for ranking search results. A search system may determine several metrics based on search results. The search system may determine weights for the metrics, wherein the weights are based in part on the type of entity included in the search. The search system may determine a score by combining the metrics and the weights. The search system may rank search results based on the score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Hongda Shen, David Francois Huynh, Grace Chung, Chen Zhou, Yanlai Huang, Guanghua Li
  • Patent number: 10223650
    Abstract: A method for enforcing a number of context model based policies with forward chaining comprising applying a policy set including a plurality of policies to an instantiated context model which includes a set of referenced instance documents in XML format, determining whether the instantiated context model should be updated, if the instantiated context model should be updated, executing an updating operation, re-generating a new instantiated context model according to the updated instance documents and the instantiated context model, and applying the policy set to the new instantiated context model, and wherein the policies include a condition part and an action part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xin Peng Liu, Xi Ning Wang, Liang Xue, Ke Xin Zhou, Yu Chen Zhou
  • Publication number: 20190036429
    Abstract: Methods of manufacturing electrically conductive copper components for electric devices and method of joining electrically conductive copper components are provided. Each of the electrically conductive copper components are manufactured to include a preexisting coating of joining material located on or adjacent to a joining surface thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Hongliang Wang, Chen Zhou, Xingcheng Xiao
  • Publication number: 20180322990
    Abstract: Interstitially modified compounds of rare earth element-containing, iron-rich compounds may be synthesized with a ThMn12 tetragonal crystal structure such that the compounds have useful permanent magnet properties. It is difficult to consolidate particles of the compounds into a bulk shape without altering the composition and magnetic properties of the metastable material. A combination of thermal analysis and crystal structure analysis of each compound may be used to establish heating and consolidation parameters for sintering of the particles into useful magnet shapes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Chen Zhou, Frederick E. Pinkerton
  • Patent number: 10111359
    Abstract: A server rack configured to provide electrical connections with data storage modules upon contact includes a shell and a slide rail module slidably installed on the shell. The shell includes a power supply module. The slide rail module itself is electrically conductive and provided with a cable at each end. The cables are connected with the power supply module and the data storage module, and the data storage module is electrically connected with the power supply module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: HONGFUJIN PRECISION ELECTRONICS (TIANJIN) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hai-Chen Zhou, Guang-Yi Zhang, Jia-Qi Fu