Patents by Inventor Deguo Meng
Deguo Meng 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).
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Patent number: 10645001Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information transmission device and apparatus, a device and a storage medium. The method includes receiving a message from a source terminal device, the message including message data and a target terminal device identification; determining whether the target terminal device identification exists in a transmission list, the transmission list including identifications of terminal devices accessing an access point device, and the access point device being an access point device corresponding to the source terminal device; and sending the message data to the target terminal device if the target terminal device identification exists in the transmission list.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2016Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.Inventors: Yi Ding, Deguo Meng, Enxing Hou
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Patent number: 10613848Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for refreshing firmware. The method can include detecting, by an electronic device in a starting stage that starts up the electronic device, another device in connection with the electronic device and that the other device requires no additional software driver. The method can further include writing a software for firmware updating from the other device into the electronic device to update a firmware on the electronic device, and executing the updated firmware when the electronic device enters a normal operation stage after a restart.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2016Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.Inventors: Deguo Meng, Yue Liang, Enxing Hou
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Patent number: 10528434Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method, a device and a terminal for restoring a firmware program, which pertains to the technical field of electronic devices. The method may be applied in a terminal having an activated first storage region storing a firmware program most recently executed by the terminal and an inactivated second storage region storing a back-up firmware program. The method may include: receiving a signal to restore a firmware program in the terminal; in response to the receiving of the signal to restore the firmware program, deactivating the first storage region and activating the second storage region; and loading in the terminal the back-up firmware program stored in the activated second storage region. The disclosure may solve a problem in the related art that a firmware program can be restored only by using a flash tool, and it may achieve an effect of restoring a firmware program with the use of a single key, and thus facilitate simpler operation of the terminal by the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2016Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: XIAOMI INC.Inventors: Deguo Meng, Yue Liang, Enxing Hou
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Patent number: 10485034Abstract: A method for accessing a wireless network includes accessing a target router according to first access information, so as to access a part of one or more servers. The method also includes sending device verification information to the part of one or more servers; and receiving second access information, wherein the second access information is sent by the target router when the device verification information passes a verification performed by the part of one or more servers. The method further includes accessing the target router according to the second access information, so as to access all of the one or more servers.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2016Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.Inventors: Hong Chen, Deguo Meng, Enxing Hou
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Patent number: 10462829Abstract: A method for accessing a wireless access point is provided. The method includes: receiving access information of the wireless access point broadcasted by a preset device, the access information including a Basic Service Set Identifier (BSSID) and an access password of the wireless access point, and the preset device having successfully accessed the wireless access point; unicasting device discovery information according to the BSSID, the device discovery information including the BSSID; receiving feedback information sent by the wireless access point, the feedback information including a Service Set Identifier (SSID) of the wireless access point; and accessing the wireless access point according to the SSID in the feedback information and the access password.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2016Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.Inventors: Deguo Meng, Yi Ding, Enxing Hou
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Patent number: 10374819Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and devices of accessing a wireless network. The method of accessing a wireless network in a first terminal device includes: detecting a target terminal device waiting access a target wireless network after the first terminal device accesses the target wireless network; generating a plurality of multicast addresses according to access information of the target wireless network; and sending a multicast packet to each of the plurality of multicast addresses, wherein the multicast packet is indicative of the access information and is received by the target terminal device so as to access the target wireless network.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2015Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: XIAOMI INC.Inventors: Mingjun Yin, Deguo Meng, Ziguang Gao
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Patent number: 10324707Abstract: A method for upgrading a ZigBee device, includes: downloading, when firmware of the ZigBee device needs to be upgraded, a latest version of the firmware from a server; pushing the latest version of the firmware to the ZigBee device; and issuing a firmware upgrade instruction to the ZigBee device after the latest version of the firmware is pushed to the ZigBee device successfully, to trigger the firmware of the ZigBee device to be upgraded based on the latest version of the firmware.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2017Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.Inventors: Benchang Su, Deguo Meng, Enxing Hou
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Patent number: 10318408Abstract: A method for processing data, includes: acquiring data packets having respective serial numbers and transmitted between a first microcontroller unit (MCU) and a second MCU of a smart device, the second MCU being provided in a Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) module of the smart device; and processing and displaying the acquired data packets based on the respective serial numbers so as to debug the second MCU.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2017Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., LtdInventors: Qimin Sun, Enxing Hou, Deguo Meng
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Patent number: 10216248Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for controlling power consumption of an electronic device, which belongs to the technical field of smart devices. The method includes determining a type of an operating system of the electronic device, determining a monitoring scheme based on the type of operating system, monitoring in real time whether the operating system currently has a task to perform based on the determined monitoring scheme, and switching the operating system to a reduced power mode from a normal operation mode when the system currently has no task to perform. In the present disclosure, a common power consumption management can be implemented in uniform and brief software architecture. It can facilitate development of a framework, distribution of SDK. Moreover, it can eliminate the need to analyze specific operation characteristics of the devices, independent of the functions of the devices, broadly and flexibly applicable to a variety of devices.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2016Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.Inventors: Deguo Meng, Yanlu Zhang, Ziguang Gao
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Patent number: 10123208Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for controlling access to the Internet. The method includes: determining whether a smart device is able to support a Low Density Parity Check Code (LDPC) coding-decoding scheme, broadcasting information about a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) to the smart device through a LDPC coding-decoding scheme if it is determined that the smart device is able to support the LDPC coding-decoding scheme, detecting whether the terminal tries to communicate with a router through a LDPC coding-decoding scheme when accessing a WLAN is requested if the smart device is not able to support the LDPC coding-decoding scheme, in response to detection that the terminal would communicate with a router through a LDPC coding-decoding scheme: establishing connection with the router, and notifying the router to broadcast information about the WLAN through a non-LDPC coding-decoding scheme.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2015Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.Inventors: Deguo Meng, Jia Liu, Enxing Hou
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Patent number: 10104599Abstract: A server includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor. The processor is configured to receive a device identification of a smart device and a user identification of a user owning the smart device from the smart device; determine whether there is a temporary binding relation between the device identification and the user identification according to a preconfigured temporary binding relation, the preconfigured temporary binding relation being configured after the server detects a designated operation on a device transaction page; and when there is a temporary binding relation between the device identification and the user identification, bind the device identification and the user identification.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.Inventors: Enxing Hou, Deguo Meng, Benchang Su
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Patent number: 10088889Abstract: A method and a device are provided for waking up a MCU. The method includes: determining whether a second MCU is in a deep sleep state, when a first MCU triggers a communication event of transmitting data to the second MCU; and when the second MCU is in the deep sleep state, sending an interrupt wakeup signal to the second MCU via a wakeup pin connected between the first MCU and the second MCU, so as to wake up the second MCU.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.Inventors: Deguo Meng, Yi Ding, Enxing Hou
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Patent number: 10031575Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a device for waking up a microcontroller unit (MCU) chip, which belongs to an intelligent device technology field. The method includes: receiving a wireless message sent from other intelligent device when a Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) chip is under a low power consumption mode, in which the wireless message is dedicated to the low power consumption mode, determining whether the wireless message is a specified wakeup message, and if it is determined that the wireless message is the specified wakeup message, sending an interrupt wakeup signal to the MCU chip via a wakeup pin connected between the Wi-Fi chip and the MCU chip, so as to wake up the MCU chip. The MCU chip and the Wi-Fi chip are integrated in the same Wi-Fi module.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2016Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.Inventors: Deguo Meng, Xin Liu, Enxing Hou
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Patent number: 10015245Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for grouping a smart device in a smart home system. The method includes: determining a preset target group corresponding to the smart device according to historic operation information of the smart device; and grouping the smart device according to the preset target group. Thus, the preset target group corresponding to the smart device is determined according to historic operation information of the smart device. As such, the preset target group of the smart device is automatically determined, and the smart device is grouped according to the preset group.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2016Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.Inventors: Enxing Hou, Deguo Meng, Changbing Chen
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Patent number: 9967099Abstract: A method for providing information includes acquiring modified access authentication information after detecting that access authentication information for accessing a gateway device is modified, determining a device to be notified corresponding to the modified access authentication information, and providing the modified access authentication information to the device to be notified.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2016Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.Inventors: Enxing Hou, Deguo Meng, Ziguang Gao
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Patent number: 9940829Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods, apparatus, and devices for binding a remote control to a remotely controllable device.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2017Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yanlu Zhang, Deguo Meng, Enxing Hou
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Patent number: 9940828Abstract: A home appliance control method and device are provided. The method includes: receiving operation mode information from a home appliance, wherein the operation mode information indicates a current operation mode of the home appliance; and sending the operation mode information to another home appliance to cause said another home appliance to operate in the indicated operation mode. Accordingly, a wearable device can receive from a home appliance operation mode information, and then send the same to another home appliance to cause said another home appliance to operate in the operation mode of the home appliance.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2016Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: XIAOMI INC.Inventors: Enxing Hou, Deguo Meng, Lijun Hei
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Patent number: 9894596Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for controlling access of a smart device, which belongs to the field of wireless communication. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device, whether the smart device is able to support a Low Density Parity Check Code (LDPC) coding-decoding scheme, broadcasting, by the terminal device, information about a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) to the smart device through a LDPC coding-decoding scheme if it is determined that the smart device is able to support the LDPC coding-decoding scheme, detecting whether the terminal device would communicate with a router through a LDPC coding-decoding scheme when accessing a WLAN if it is determined that the smart device is not able to support the LDPC coding-decoding scheme, ceasing establishing connection with the router, and broadcasting information about the WLAN through a non-LDPC coding-decoding scheme. The information about the WLAN is used for the smart device to access the WLAN via the router.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.Inventors: Deguo Meng, Xin Liu, Enxing Hou
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Patent number: 9886264Abstract: A method for upgrading firmware in a device, includes: when firmware of a first chip in the device needs to be upgraded, identifying a first partition of a flash memory in a second chip in the device, the first partition being a backup partition for downloading firmware of the second chip; downloading new firmware of the first chip to the first partition of the flash memory in the second chip; and copying the new firmware of the first chip from the first partition of the flash memory in the second chip to an effective region in the first chip.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2015Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.Inventors: Deguo Meng, Xin Liu, Enxing Hou
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Publication number: 20180025229Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a storage medium are provided for image outputting. The method may include: acquiring data frames collected by a target camera; acquiring a target image based on the data frames; and controlling a target terminal to output an alert message which at least includes the target image. When an emergency situation occurs in a user's home, the user can be notified of the emergency situation at once, thereby increasing the effective utilization of the smart camera device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2017Publication date: January 25, 2018Applicant: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yi DING, Deguo MENG, Enxing HOU