Patents by Inventor Fangming LIU

Fangming LIU 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: 11563689
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a container-based network function virtualization (NFV) platform, comprising at least one master node and at least one slave node, the master node is configured to, based on interference awareness, assign container-based network functions (NFs) in a master-slave-model-based, distributed computing system that has at least two slave nodes to each said slave node in a manner that relations among characteristics of the to-be-assigned NFs, info of load flows of the to-be-assigned NFs, communication overheads between the individual slave nodes, processing performance inside individual slave nodes, and load statuses inside individual said slave nodes are measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Fangming Liu, Hai Jin, Miao Li
  • Publication number: 20210250299
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a container-based network function virtualization (NFV) platform, comprising at least one master node and at least one slave node, the master node is configured to, based on interference awareness, assign container-based network functions (NFs) in a master-slave-model-based, distributed computing system that has at least two slave nodes to each said slave node in a manner that relations among characteristics of the to-be-assigned NFs, info of load flows of the to-be-assigned NFs, communication overheads between the individual slave nodes, processing performance inside individual slave nodes, and load statuses inside individual said slave nodes are measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Fangming LIU, Hai JIN, Miao LI
  • Patent number: 10678584
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an FPGA-based method and system for network function accelerating. The method comprises: building a network function accelerating system that includes a physical machine and an accelerator card connected through a PCIe channel, wherein the physical machine includes a processor and the accelerator card includes an FPGA, in which the accelerator card serves to provide network function accelerating for the processor; the processor being configured to: when it requires the accelerator card to provide network function accelerating, check whether there is any required accelerator module present in the FPGA, and if yes, acquire an accelerating function ID corresponding to the required accelerator module, and if not, select at least one partial reconfigurable region in the FPGA and configure it into the required accelerator module and generate a corresponding accelerating function ID; and/or sending an accelerating request to the FPGA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Fangming Liu, Hai Jin, Xiaoyao Li
  • Publication number: 20200117852
    Abstract: A method for tracking in Office file conversion and modification processes, including the following steps: S1: generating a piece of customized data containing a unique ID; S2: when an Office file is being generated or is generated, using a custom XML mechanism for Office files to save the customized data in the XML format into the Office file; S3: keeping the unique ID unchanged when the Office file is modified; S4: when the Office file is converted into a target file of a target format, if the target format supports the saving of the customized data, then transferring the customized data into the target file, thus allowing a user to manage the target file on the basis of the customized data; S5: when the Office file acquired in step S2 is updated and a new Office file is generated again, keeping the unique ID unchanged in the new Office file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventor: Fangming Liu
  • Patent number: 10552761
    Abstract: Technologies for performing non-intrusive fine-grained power monitoring of a datacenter are provided. Hardware component state information for servers in the datacenter is collected, along with aggregate power consumption measurements for the datacenter. The servers are grouped into multiple virtual homogenous server clusters (VHCs) based on characteristics of the servers. A power model is constructed comprising multiple power mapping functions associated with the multiple VHCs. Component state information of a particular server can then be analyzed, along with a corresponding aggregate power consumption measurement, using the constructed power model to determine an approximate power consumption of the particular server. The approximate power consumption of the server can then be displayed and/or provided to one or more power management applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: UVic Industry Partnerships Inc.
    Inventors: Guoming Tang, Kui Wu, Fangming Liu
  • Publication number: 20200034391
    Abstract: In a trusted document updating method, a globally-unique document identifier and an access address of a corresponding cloud server are set in each managed document. Characteristic data of a version that is not modified and characteristic data of a new version are submitted to a cloud server. Version characteristic update information is recorded. The cloud server and a tree-shaped data structure are accessed. The cloud server removes a leaf node a corresponding author of which is not a neighbor in the tree-shaped data structure. All leaf nodes in a subtree using current document eigenvalue as a root are added into a list of “a latest edition of a current version.” Data of a corresponding version is downloaded from the cloud server according to a version selected by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2017
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Kai Jing, Fangming Liu
  • Publication number: 20190213029
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an FPGA-based method and system for network function accelerating. The method comprises: building a network function accelerating system that includes a physical machine and an accelerator card connected through a PCIe channel, wherein the physical machine includes a processor and the accelerator card includes an FPGA, in which the accelerator card serves to provide network function accelerating for the processor; the processor being configured to: when it requires the accelerator card to provide network function accelerating, check whether there is any required accelerator module present in the FPGA, and if yes, acquire an accelerating function ID corresponding to the required accelerator module, and if not, select at least one partial reconfigurable region in the FPGA and configure it into the required accelerator module and generate a corresponding accelerating function ID; and/or sending an accelerating request to the FPGA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Fangming LIU, Hai JIN, Xiaoyao LI
  • Patent number: 10084255
    Abstract: An interconnection system includes a first board group, a second board group orthogonal to the first board group, and a center backplane arranged between the first board group and the second board group. The first board group includes a number of first boards parallel to each other and the second board group includes a number of second boards parallel to each other. Right angle male connectors re arranged on each of the first boards and right angle female connectors are arranged on each of the second boards. The right angle male connectors and the right angle female connectors directly cooperate and are connected in one-to-one correspondence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Baoqi Wang, Guodong Zhang, Fangming Liu
  • Publication number: 20170322241
    Abstract: Technologies for performing non-intrusive fine-grained power monitoring of a datacenter are provided. Hardware component state information for servers in the datacenter is collected, along with aggregate power consumption measurements for the datacenter. The servers are grouped into multiple virtual homogenous server clusters (VHCs) based on characteristics of the servers. A power model is constructed comprising multiple power mapping functions associated with the multiple VHCs. Component state information of a particular server can then be analyzed, along with a corresponding aggregate power consumption measurement, using the constructed power model to determine an approximate power consumption of the particular server. The approximate power consumption of the server can then be displayed and/or provided to one or more power management applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: UVic Industry Partnerships Inc.
    Inventors: Guoming Tang, Kui Wu, Fangming Liu
  • Patent number: 9798925
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for identifying PDF document. wherein, it comprises the following steps: S1: analyzing the path objects in the PDF document, and identifying the forms in PDF document; S2: analyzing the text objects outside the form regions in the PDF document, and recognizing the text contents in the PDF document; S3: writing the identified results into a temporary file, or writing them into the PDF document as an attachment. The method for identifying PDF document provided by the present invention could identify the tables, the paragraphs, titles, the tabulations and so on in the PDF document, thereby, the PDF document can be edited with the paragraph as a unit, and be tagged conveniently to confirm the reading order, so as to facilitate the reading of people with visual impairment; in the same time, it also can derive document in other forms according to the identified results, which thereby greatly facilitates users to read and edit the PDF document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Fujian Foxit Software Development Joint Stock Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fangming Liu, Xiaolong Fan
  • Publication number: 20170093065
    Abstract: An interconnection system includes a first board group, a second board group orthogonal to the first board group, and a center backplane arranged between the first board group and the second board group. The first board group includes a number of first boards parallel to each other and the second board group includes a number of second boards parallel to each other. Curved male connectors re arranged on each of the first boards and curved female connectors are arranged on each of the second boards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Baoqi Wang, Guodong Zhang, Fangming Liu
  • Patent number: 9532471
    Abstract: An interconnection system includes a first board group, a second board group orthogonal to the first board group, and a center backplane arranged between the first board group and the second board group. The first board group includes a number of first boards parallel to each other and the second board group includes a number of second boards parallel to each other. Curved male connectors re arranged on each of the first boards and curved female connectors are arranged on each of the second boards. The curved male connectors and the curved female connectors directly cooperate and are connected in one-to-one correspondence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Baoqi Wang, Guodong Zhang, Fangming Liu
  • Publication number: 20160364497
    Abstract: A method and device for increasing the online browsing and loading speed of a PDF document, comprising: acquiring attribute information of a PDF document from a remote server, and determining whether the PDF document is a nonlinear document; if yes, then acquiring cross reference table data from the remote server, determining position and size of the page tree of the PDF document according to the cross reference table data, and acquiring the page tree from the remote server; presenting the obtained page tree to a user, analyzing the page data of the page tree, extracting, from the page tree, the position and size of the page object specified by the user, and acquiring corresponding page object data from the remote server; acquiring, from the remote server, resource object data and page content stream data; and acquiring the page selected by the user, and presenting the page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Yuwqian Xiong, Fangming Liu
  • Patent number: 9059551
    Abstract: A backplane apparatus, including a first backplane structure and a second backplane structure, where the first backplane structure is configured to transmit power and low-speed signals, and the second backplane structure is configured to transmit high-speed signals, low-speed signals, or optical signals. The first backplane structure includes a first backplane, multiple first connectors, and a connected space, where the first connectors are arranged on the first backplane and boards are electrically connected to the first backplane. The second backplane structure includes multiple second backplanes and multiple second connectors, where the second connectors are arranged on the second backplanes, the second backplanes are installed on the first backplane, and the second connectors are electrically connected to boards by crossing the connected space or via the first connectors. The present invention also discloses a communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fangming Liu, Guodong Zhang, Sang Liu
  • Publication number: 20150049451
    Abstract: An interconnection system includes a first board group, a second board group orthogonal to the first board group, and a center backplane arranged between the first board group and the second board group. The first board group includes a number of first boards parallel to each other and the second board group includes a number of second boards parallel to each other. Curved male connectors re arranged on each of the first boards and curved female connectors are arranged on each of the second boards. The curved male connectors and the curved female connectors directly cooperate and are connected in one-to-one correspondence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventors: Baoqi Wang, Guodong Zhang, Fangming Liu
  • Publication number: 20140187062
    Abstract: A backplane apparatus, including a first backplane structure and a second backplane structure, where the first backplane structure is configured to transmit power and low-speed signals, and the second backplane structure is configured to transmit high-speed signals, low-speed signals, or optical signals. The first backplane structure includes a first backplane, multiple first connectors, and a connected space, where the first connectors are arranged on the first backplane and boards are electrically connected to the first backplane. The second backplane structure includes multiple second backplanes and multiple second connectors, where the second connectors are arranged on the second backplanes, the second backplanes are installed on the first backplane, and the second connectors are electrically connected to boards by crossing the connected space or via the first connectors. The present invention also discloses a communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fangming LIU, Guodong Zhang, Sang Liu