Patents by Inventor Hao Zhang

Hao Zhang 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: 8564320
    Abstract: A connection device for connecting charge-coupled device (CCD) modules to test apparatuses to test the CCD modules includes a connection unit and a test unit. The connection unit includes a plurality of connection pins. The unit under test is electrically connected to the connection unit and the test apparatuses. When the connection pins are in contact with the CCD modules, the CCD modules are electrically connected to the test apparatuses through the connection unit and the test unit, such that the test apparatus receives electric signals generated by the CCD modules to enable quality testing of the CCD modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hao Zhang, Hui Li
  • Publication number: 20130270656
    Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to various replacement gate structures for semiconductor devices. One illustrative gate structure disclosed herein includes, among other things, a gate insulation layer and a layer of gate electrode material with a substantially horizontal portion having a first thickness and a substantially vertical portion having a second thickness that is less than the first thickness. Furthermore, the substantially horizontal portion of the layer of gate electrode material is positioned adjacent to a bottom of the replacement gate structure and above at least a portion of the gate insulation layer, and the substantially vertical portion is positioned adjacent to sidewalls of the replacement gate structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
    Inventors: Dina Triyoso, Hao Zhang
  • Patent number: 8549295
    Abstract: Establishing secure, mutually authenticated communication between a trusted network and a perimeter network. Servers on the perimeter network may be securely and automatically configured to communicate with the trusted network. Servers not functioning properly may be stopped from communicating with the other servers. Credential information relating to a perimeter server may be automatically, and regularly, updated without intervention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Hao Zhang, Jeffrey B. Kay, Malcolm E. Pearson, Eric D. Tribble
  • Publication number: 20130238992
    Abstract: In embodiments of content control based on data link context, a portable electronic device (102) detects when communicatively linked to a media rendering device (114) via a data link (122). The portable electronic device (102) can then determine whether the data link (122) was previously utilized to communicatively link the portable electronic device (102) to the media rendering device (114). The portable electronic device (102) can then initiate a media control selection menu (128) for display on the portable electronic device (102) if the data link (122) was not previously utilized. Alternatively, the portable electronic device (102) can initiate a media control interface (126) for display on the portable electronic device (102) if the data link (122) was previously utilized, where the media control interface (126) is implemented for user-selection to control media content (106) that is rendered by the media rendering device (114).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: Motorola Mobility, Inc.
    Inventors: Wen Hao Zhang, Chen Je Huang, Long Ling, Andrew K. Wells
  • Publication number: 20130224927
    Abstract: Methods are provided for fabricating an integrated circuit that includes metal filled narrow openings. In accordance with one embodiment a method includes forming a dummy gate overlying a semiconductor substrate and subsequently removing the dummy gate to form a narrow opening. A layer of high dielectric constant insulator and a layer of work function-determining material are deposited overlying the semiconductor substrate. The layer of work function-determining material is exposed to a nitrogen ambient in a first chamber. A layer of titanium is deposited into the narrow opening in the first chamber in the presence of the nitrogen ambient to cause the first portion of the layer of titanium to be nitrided. The deposition of titanium continues, and the remaining portion of the layer of titanium is deposited as substantially pure titanium. Aluminum is deposited overlying the layer of titanium to fill the narrow opening and to form a gate electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
    Inventors: Sven Schmidbauer, Dina H. Triyoso, Elke Erben, Hao Zhang, Robert Binder
  • Patent number: 8490739
    Abstract: A hydraulic energy recovery and a mechanical drive system in one unit that also provides integral mounting of hydraulic pump/motors for primary drive, secondary drive, and pumps for cooling, lubrication, and low pressure systems along with a mounting position for a power take-off device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Parker-Hannifin Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph A. Kovach, James H. Blalock, Steven C. Rink, Stacy H. Turner, Hao Zhang
  • Publication number: 20130181262
    Abstract: A method includes forming a gate stack over a semiconductor substrate, wherein the gate stack includes a gate dielectric and a gate electrode over the gate dielectric. A portion of the semiconductor substrate adjacent to the gate stack is recessed to form a recess. A semiconductor region is epitaxially grown in the recess. The semiconductor region is implanted with a p-type impurity or an n-type impurity. A dry treatment is performed on the semiconductor region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Che-Cheng Chang, Po-Chi Wu, Chang-Yin Chen, Zhe-Hao Zhang, Yi-Chen Huang
  • Publication number: 20130181998
    Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for para-virtualized GPGPU computation and GDI acceleration. Some embodiments provide a compute shader to a guest application within a para-virtualized environment. A vGPU in a child partition presents compute shader DDIs for performing GPGPU computations to a guest application. A render component in a root partition receives compute shader commands from the vGPU and schedules the commands for execution at the physical GPU. Other embodiments provide GPU-accelerated GDI rendering capabilities to a guest application within a para-virtualized environment. A vGPU in a child partition provides an API for receiving GDI commands, and sends GDI commands and data to a render component in a root partition. The render component schedules the GDI commands on a 3D rendering device. The 3D rendering device executes the GDI commands at the physical GPU using a sharable GDI surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Meher Prasad Malakapalli, Hao Zhang, Lin Tan
  • Publication number: 20130181999
    Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for providing domain, hull, and geometry shaders in a para-virtualized environment. As such, a guest application executing in a child partition is enabled use a programmable GPU pipeline of a physical GPU. A vGPU (executing in the child partition) is presented to the guest application. The vGPU exposes DDIs of a rendering framework. The DDIs enable the guest application to send graphics commands to the vGPU, including commands for utilizing a domain shader, a hull shader, and/or a geometric shader at a physical GPU. A render component (executing within the root partition) receives physical GPU-specific commands from the vGPU, including commands for using the domain shader, the hull shader, and/or the geometric shader. The render component schedules the physical GPU-specific command(s) for execution at the physical GPU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Meher Prasad Malakapalli, Hao Zhang, Lin Tan, Meetesh Barua, Pandele Stanescu, B. Anil Kumar, Eric K. Han, Artem Belkine, Jeroen Dirk Meijer, Winston Matthew Penfold Johnston
  • Patent number: 8479363
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an acoustically coupled device including a stack having a first resonator, a second resonator and a decoupler, the decoupler formed between the first and second resonators, and each resonator having a piezoelectric layer sandwiched between a bottom electrode and a top electrode, includes providing a substrate having a first sacrificial layer formed in or on a selected portion of the substrate, forming the first resonator of a first stack over the sacrificial layer on the selected portion of the substrate and the first resonator of a second stack on the substrate, respectively, such that the first resonators of the first and second stacks are distanced, forming a gap underlying the second stack, performing a measurement on the second stack, trimming the top electrode of the first resonator of the first stack, and forming the second resonator over each of the first and second stacks, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Inventor: Hao Zhang
  • Publication number: 20130168220
    Abstract: A touch device is provided in the present disclosure, wherein the touch device comprises: a protection cover having a sensing area and a peripheral area surrounding the sensing area; a first mask layer disposed in the peripheral area surrounding the sensing area; a second mask layer disposed in the peripheral area surrounding the first mask layer, wherein the area of the second mask layer is bigger than that of the first mask layer; and a sensing electrode layer having a sensing portion located in the sensing area and an extension portion extending from the sensing area to the peripheral area, wherein the extension portion is disposed on the first mask layer. Moreover, a method for manufacturing the touch device described above is also provided in the present disclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventors: Kwan-Sin Ho, Shousheng Yu, Maolin Liao, Hao Zhang
  • Publication number: 20130164881
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a highly efficient organic/inorganic hybrid solar cell using fully aqueous phase-synthesized semiconductor nanocrystals and conducting polymer. The method mainly includes three steps: synthesizing nanocrystals in an aqueous phase, synthesizing a conjugated polymer precursor in an aqueous phase, and producing a device of solar cell. The nanocrystal material required for producing a solar cell by the method is widely available, diversified and size-controlled, and the used conjugated polymer has regulated molecular structure and molecular weight, which contributes to increase the absorption of sunlight. The processing of cell device can be performed at room temperature in air, and has advantages of no pollution, short processing period, and low cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: JILIN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Bai Yang, Weili Yu, Hao Zhang, Junhu Zhang, Haotong Wei, Zhanxi Fan
  • Patent number: 8452331
    Abstract: A method for implementing Mobile Switch Center (MSC) dual homing includes: dividing a first physical MSC Server into a plurality of virtual MSC Servers; establishing a dual homing relation between a first virtual MSC Server of the plurality of virtual MSC Servers and a second physical MSC Server; switching by the first virtual MSC Server from idle state to activate state if determining by the first virtual MSC Server that state switching is needed The scheme may implement the Mobile Switch Center (MSC) dual homing, and improve the reliability of mobile communication network; the implementation is simple and flexible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hao Zhang, Yongli Jia
  • Patent number: 8447976
    Abstract: Business to business secure mail may be provided. Consistent with embodiments of the invention, a protected message may be received. The recipient may request a token from a trust broker, submit the token to an authorization server associated with the sender, receive a user license from the authorization server; and decrypt the protected message using the user license. The protected message may restrict actions that may be taken by the recipient, such as forwarding to other users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Chandresh K. Jain, Mayank Mehta, Frank D. Byrum, Edward Banti, Ayse Yesim Koman, James R. Knibb, Michael A. Nelte, Christopher Barnes, Hao Zhang, Victor Boctor, Tejas D. Patel, Yuhui Zhong, Gregory Kostal, Vladimir Yarmolenko, Pankaj M. Kamat, Amit K. Fulay, Krassimir E. Karamfilov
  • Publication number: 20130121805
    Abstract: A power split transmission includes a rotatable input shaft, a rotatable output shaft, and a planetary gear assembly connected between the input shaft and the output shaft. The transmission also includes a first hydraulic unit operable as a pump or a motor, the first hydraulic unit being coupled to the output shaft via the planetary gear assembly; a second hydraulic unit operable as a pump or a motor, the second hydraulic unit being coupled to the output shaft independently of the planetary gear assembly; and a braking mechanism coupled to the input shaft that is selectively engageable to retard rotation of the input shaft in at least one direction. The braking mechanism enables the power split transmission to use both the first hydraulic unit and the second hydraulic unit to provide enhanced torque at the output shaft without damaging a prime mover coupled to the input shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: PARKER-HANNIFIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Blake A. Carl, Hao Zhang, Richard Kimpel
  • Patent number: 8417949
    Abstract: A protocol for total email and collaborative software (e.g., Exchange-brand server) session security. By way of example, securing the traffic between two servers within the same organization or cross organizations is critical to maintaining privacy of electronic data and communications. For example, securing communications between two Exchange-brand servers is particularly useful for individuals and organizations that routinely send and receive confidential information via electronic mail. It is important for the receiving side (server) to authorize the sending side (client) to send the information; the sending side should authorize the receiving side to receive information to prevent unauthorized information disclosure. The novel system and/or protocol disclosed herein can provide a mutually authenticated, authorized, and encrypted channel between two servers both within the same organization and across disparate organizations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Hao Zhang, Samuel J. Neely, Trevor Freeman
  • Patent number: 8407207
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining a video score for a domain. In one aspect, a method includes determining video resources hosted on devices assigned to a domain, determining a quality metric for the video resources, generating a quality score from the quality metrics for video resources hosted on the domain, generating a quantity score based on counts of video resources hosted on the domain, determining a domain video score from the quality score and the quantity score, and adjusting, based on the domain video score, one or more video search operations on the video resources hosted on the domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Zhihui Chen, Varun Kacholia, Hao Zhang
  • Patent number: 8401029
    Abstract: A method for establishing a bearer for a GSM network is disclosed in embodiments of the present invention. The method includes: receiving, by a Media Gateway, a message for adding a wireless side end point, assigning an IP address and a port number for a call and transmitting a response message containing the IP address and the port number assigned for the call; acquiring, by the Media Gateway, the IP address and the port number assigned for the call by the Base Station Controller via the Mobile Switching Center Server and establishing an IP bearer with the Base Station Controller. A device and a system for establishing a bearer for a GSM network are also disclosed in embodiments of the present invention. With the present invention, a full or part path transcoder-free operation may be realized, which can avoid quality reduction and transmission delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shaohua Luo, Zhenhua Liu, Hao Zhang
  • Publication number: 20130055009
    Abstract: A system and method for providing reliable storage are provided. A method for initiator operations includes storing information associated with an access attempt in a store, and accessing a storage system responsive to the access attempt, wherein the storage system includes a first storage node and a second storage node arranged in a sequential loop, and where the first storage node is accessed by an initiator. The method also includes determining if the access attempt completed successfully, deleting the information from the store if the access attempt completed successfully, and indicating an error if the access attempt did not complete successfully.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: FutureWei Technologies, Inc
    Inventors: Andrew Patterson, James Hughes, Hao Zhang
  • Patent number: 8384497
    Abstract: A piezoelectric resonator structure, comprising: (i) a substrate, (ii) an acoustic mirror, (iii) a first electrode, (iv) a piezoelectric layer, and (v) a second electrode, wherein each of the substrate, the acoustic mirror, the first electrode, the piezoelectric layer, and the second electrode has a top surface and a bottom surface, a first end portion and an opposite, second end portion, and a body portion defined therebetween, wherein the overlapped area of body portions of the substrate, the acoustic mirror, the first electrode, the piezoelectric layer and the second electrode is defined as an active area A. A plurality of air gaps and interference structures is formed at the first end portion of the piezoelectric layer and the second electrode, and the second end portion of the piezoelectric layer and the second electrode to enhance the performance of the piezoelectric resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Inventor: Hao Zhang