Patents by Inventor Cheng Tian

Cheng Tian 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: 12049196
    Abstract: A multifunctional car-top trunk, relating to the technical field of car-top trunk, includes an upper cover, a lower cover, and a connector configured for connecting the upper cover and the lower cover, the multifunctional car-top trunk further includes a water storage structure in the lower cover, the water storage structure includes a water storage container in the lower cover and pipes, the water storage container is connected with two pipe sockets configured to be detachably connected to the pipes, and the pipes are connected with a water pump, the car-top trunk further includes a battery pack in the lower cover, the upper cover and/or the lower cover are/is provided with a lighting strip, and the lighting strip is connected to the battery pack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: WUXI TIAN CHUANG JIA CHENG CULTURAL AND CREATIVE LTD.
    Inventor: Cheng Tian
  • Publication number: 20240246261
    Abstract: A method with which mechanical properties of the interface of the fiber reinforced thermoplastic resin matrix composite material can be improved by conducting grafting on surfaces of materials. A carbon fiber (CF) and a polymethyl methacrylate resin (PMMA) are subjected to interface modification treatment to introduce active carboxyl groups to the surfaces of the materials. Then, hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI) is used as a coupling layer for connecting the carboxyl groups on the surfaces of the carbon fiber and on the surfaces of the polymethyl methacrylate resin to form a “molecular bridge”. Accordingly, the interface binding force between the resin and the fiber is improved by chemical grafting. A modified carbon fiber reinforced polymethyl methacrylate composite material sample (CF/PMMA) is prepared by a thin film lamination method, and the composite material sample prepared is subjected to a microscopic verification testing of the validity of the method provided in the present disclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Sen LIANG, Fengquan WANG, Cheng TIAN, Long WU
  • Publication number: 20240247938
    Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for load balancing for map application route selection and output. A user may utilize a device application to map or route between two or more endpoints, such as geo-locations entered or detected by the device. During calculation of a travel route between the endpoints, real-time data, user preferences, and requesting entities may provide criteria data that may cause determination of a particular travel route, where the travel route may be longer than a most efficient route but within a pre-defined variable time or distance allotment and match the criteria data. Use of the route may accrue a form of compensation for the user. The user may view an application interface displaying the route, which may further include one or more executable processes to cause recalculation of the route. Recalculation of the route may require the user to provide credits or compensation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Charles Todasco, Gautam Madaan, Timothy Resudek, Braden Christopher Ericson, Cheng Tian, Jiri Medlen
  • Publication number: 20240166139
    Abstract: A multifunctional car-top trunk, relating to the technical field of car-top trunk, includes an upper cover, a lower cover, and a connector configured for connecting the upper cover and the lower cover, the multifunctional car-top trunk further includes a water storage structure in the lower cover, the water storage structure includes a water storage container in the lower cover and pipes, the water storage container is connected with two pipe sockets configured to be detachably connected to the pipes, and the pipes are connected with a water pump, the car-top trunk further includes a battery pack in the lower cover, the upper cover and/or the lower cover are/is provided with a lighting strip, and the lighting strip is connected to the battery pack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventor: Cheng TIAN
  • Patent number: 11966245
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a voltage reference source circuit for generating a reference voltage, the voltage reference source circuit comprises a starting circuit, a current generating circuit, and an output voltage reference circuit electrically connected in sequence. The starting circuit provides a starting voltage for the voltage reference source circuit to prevent the voltage reference source circuit from operating in zero state area. The current generating circuit generates a working current for the output voltage reference circuit; and the output voltage reference circuit is used to realize the reference voltage output with zero temperature coefficient according to the working current output by the current generating circuit. A low power consumption power supply system is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: FocalTech Electronics (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhen-Juan Cheng, Jing-Kai Zhang, Jin-Cheng Tian, Xin-Xi Jiang
  • Patent number: 11936601
    Abstract: A messaging system receives a message including a recipient ID and a message body, the message body containing one or more customizable fields. The messaging system receives a user preference model based on the recipient ID. The user preference model identifies message elements and content preferred by the recipient of the message. Based on the user preference model, the messaging system modifies the customizable fields in the message body, generating a modified message. The modified message is transmitted to a client device associated with the recipient ID for presentation to the recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: WhatsApp LLC
    Inventor: Cheng Tian
  • Patent number: 11913799
    Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for load balancing for map application route selection and output. A user may utilize a device application to map or route between two or more endpoints, such as geo-locations entered or detected by the device. During calculation of a travel route between the endpoints, real-time data, user preferences, and requesting entities may provide criteria data that may cause determination of a particular travel route, where the travel route may be longer than a most efficient route but within a pre-defined variable time or distance allotment and match the criteria data. Use of the route may accrue a form of compensation for the user. The user may view an application interface displaying the route, which may further include one or more executable processes to cause recalculation of the route. Recalculation of the route may require the user to provide credits or compensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: PayPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Charles Todasco, Gautam Madaan, Timothy Resudek, Braden Christopher Ericson, Cheng Tian, Jiri Medlen
  • Patent number: 11775439
    Abstract: A computer system monitors usage of an application on a computing device to identify one or more pre-fetch situations corresponding to a user of the computing device. The computer system determines whether the computing device is in a situation that corresponds to at least one of the identified one or more pre-fetch situations. In response to determining that the computing device is in the situation that corresponds to the at least one of the identified one or more pre-fetch situations, the computer system causes data corresponding to the application to be pre-fetched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Cheng Tian, Braden Christopher Ericson, Titus Woo
  • Patent number: 11727130
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are directed to a method for allowing a user at a first client device to provide access to restricted content on a content provider server to a user at a second client device without providing identifying information of the second client device or the user to the content provider. The content provider receives a request from a messaging app on a first client device for sharing of a content item with a second client device and generates a metadata block comprising at least a link to the content item. The metadata block is sent to the first client device and, in response, a public key of a private/public key pair of the second client device is received from the first client device. A request for the content item, is then received and contains a data item digitally signed using the private key of the private/public key pair of the second client device. The public key is then used to verify the digitally signed data item, thereby confirming the identity of the second client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: WhatsApp LLC
    Inventor: Cheng Tian
  • Publication number: 20230186279
    Abstract: A system includes a service provider device and a point of sale (POS) device. A session between a user device and the POS device is established. An authentication request associated with the user device is provided via a user interface of the POS device. Subsequent to an authentication of information, responsive to the authentication request, the POS device receives funding instrument (FI) proxy information corresponding to FIs, which is unusable to identify the FIs by a merchant. A selectable representation corresponding to the FI proxy information is provided via the user interface. Responsive to receiving an indication of a selected member from the selectable representation, information for the selected member is sent. The service provider device determines that the session corresponds to an account associated with the user device and the merchant, and performs a transaction for the session using a first FI that corresponds to the selected member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Srivathsan Narasimhan, Eric Byungho Min, Michael Charles Todasco, Cheng Tian, Satish Govindarajan
  • Patent number: 11663594
    Abstract: Systems and methods for an account integration system include establishing, by a service provider device, a first session with a service provider account associated with a user. After determining that a second session between a user device and the third party account of the user is active, a first validation is caused to access third party account information associated with the second session. The third party account information and the service provider account information are concurrently displayed by a display interface of the service provider device. A transaction request for a transaction associated with the service provider account and the third party account of the user is received. Information is sent to cause a second validation of the transaction request by a provider of the third party account. In response to the second validation of the transaction request, the requested transaction is processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Srivathsan Narasimhan, Cheng Tian
  • Patent number: 11658829
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are directed to a method for allowing a user at a first client device to provide access to restricted content on a content provider server to a user at a second client device without providing identifying information of the second client device or the user to the content provider. The second client device receives, in a messaging app, a message from the first client device comprising a link to a content item at a content provider and an identifier of a private/public key pair on the second client device. Second client device displays the link in the user interface of the messaging app and receives a user selection of the link. Second client device generates generating a digital signature for the link using the private key of the private/public key pair and sends the link and the digital signature to the content provider. The content item is then received from the content provider and displayed on the second client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: WhatsApp LLC
    Inventor: Cheng Tian
  • Publication number: 20230153808
    Abstract: Expedited virtual currency transactions are provided by identifying a first user primary wallet associated with a virtual currency and including a first user primary wallet private key. First user secondary wallets are created that each include a respective first user secondary wallet private key, and a respective virtual currency transaction is performed using the first user primary wallet private key to transfer predefined amounts of the virtual currency from the first user primary wallet to each of the first user secondary wallets such that first user secondary wallets are provided with different predefined amounts of the virtual currency. Subsequently, an instruction is received to transfer a payment amount to a second user, and the second user is allocated a subset of the first user secondary wallet private keys included in respective first user secondary wallets that are associated with predefined amounts of the virtual currency that equal the payment amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Cheng Tian, Sandy Lynn Godsey
  • Patent number: 11616742
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments relate to methods and systems for transferring a user's messaging history from one device to another. A user's primary device, storing the official truth of the user's messaging history, establishes an end-to-end encrypted session with a new device, using a first decryption key during initial session setup. The primary device may conglomerate all or a portion of the messages comprising the user's messaging history into a data blob which is encrypted and sent to a blob store. An E2E encrypted message is sent from the primary device to the new device, via an intermediate server. The E2E encrypted message includes a second key for decrypting the data blob and a pointer to the location of data blob on the blob store. The new device retrieves the data blob from the blob store and decrypts the data blob using the second key to extract plaintext versions of the user's messages and adds the messages to the messaging application on the new device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: WhatsApp LLC
    Inventors: Alfonso Gomez Jordana Manas, Bruno Rafael Penteado Muratore, Cheng Tian, Daniel Lozano Valdes, Maksym Koshtenko, Oleg Sukhodolskii, Robert Mason, Theodore Elliot Yaung
  • Patent number: 11580526
    Abstract: A system includes a service provider device and a point of sale (POS) device. A session between a user device and the POS device is established. An authentication request associated with the user device is provided via a user interface of the POS device. Subsequent to an authentication of information, responsive to the authentication request, the POS device receives funding instrument (FI) proxy information corresponding to FIs, which is unusable to identify the FIs by a merchant. A selectable representation corresponding to the FI proxy information is provided via the user interface. Responsive to receiving an indication of a selected member from the selectable representation, information for the selected member is sent. The service provider device determines that the session corresponds to an account associated with the user device and the merchant, and performs a transaction for the session using a first FI that corresponds to the selected member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Srivathsan Narasimhan, Eric Byungho Min, Michael Charles Todasco, Cheng Tian, Satish Narayan Govindarajan
  • Publication number: 20230009813
    Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for load balancing for map application route selection and output. A user may utilize a device application to map or route between two or more endpoints, such as geo-locations entered or detected by the device. During calculation of a travel route between the endpoints, real-time data, user preferences, and requesting entities may provide criteria data that may cause determination of a particular travel route, where the travel route may be longer than a most efficient route but within a pre-defined variable time or distance allotment and match the criteria data. Use of the route may accrue a form of compensation for the user. The user may view an application interface displaying the route, which may further include one or more executable processes to cause recalculation of the route. Recalculation of the route may require the user to provide credits or compensation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Charles Todasco, Gautam Madaan, Timothy Resudek, Braden Christopher Ericson, Cheng Tian, Jiri Medlen
  • Patent number: 11551207
    Abstract: Expedited virtual currency transactions are provided by identifying a first user primary wallet associated with a virtual currency and including a first user primary wallet private key. First user secondary wallets are created that each include a respective first user secondary wallet private key, and a respective virtual currency transaction is performed using the first user primary wallet private key to transfer predefined amounts of the virtual currency from the first user primary wallet to each of the first user secondary wallets such that first user secondary wallets are provided with different predefined amounts of the virtual currency. Subsequently, an instruction is received to transfer a payment amount to a second user, and the second user is allocated a subset of the first user secondary wallet private keys included in respective first user secondary wallets that are associated with predefined amounts of the virtual currency that equal the payment amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Cheng Tian, Sandy Lynn Godsey
  • Patent number: 11496425
    Abstract: A messaging system receives a message including a recipient ID and a message body, the message body containing one or more customizable fields. The messaging system receives a user preference model based on the recipient ID. The user preference model identifies message elements and content preferred by the recipient of the message. Based on the user preference model, the messaging system modifies the customizable fields in the message body, generating a modified message. The modified message is transmitted to a client device associated with the recipient ID for presentation to the recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: WhatsApp LLC
    Inventor: Cheng Tian
  • Patent number: 11475434
    Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for local digital token transfer during device communication limitations. A first computing device of a first user may include applications and data necessary to generate and/or transmit a data token to a second device to provide particular data to the second device, including a token used for electronic transaction processing. The first device may be unable to communicate with the second device in particular instances, for example, if the first device becomes non-operational due to battery power, location specific requirements, or other operation issue. Thus, the first device may store the token locally or to a nearby associated device, such as a keyfob device or other transceiver. The token may then be available to a third device when the first device is limited from communications, which may be used to communicate the token to the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Charles Todasco, Cheng Tian
  • Patent number: D1014362
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN MAITE TRADE CO., LTD
    Inventors: Cheng Tian, Zaixin Chen