Patents by Inventor Jie Qiu

Jie Qiu 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: 20150070285
    Abstract: An in-cell touch panel and a liquid crystal device are disclosed. The in-cell touch panel includes a first substrate having a plurality of displaying pixels, a second substrate facing toward the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, a plurality of touching units, and a plurality of sensing areas and driving areas. The displaying pixels include thin film transistors (TFT) and pixel electrodes. The second substrate includes a plurality of color filtering patterns corresponding to the displaying pixels. The touching units are arranged between the TFTs and the first substrate, and are separated from each other. The sensing areas and the driving areas are arranged below the common electrodes. In addition, the sensing areas and the driving area connect to the touching units via the conductive through holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Jie QIU
  • Patent number: 8977908
    Abstract: A method for determining a suspect memory leak, including: sampling the throughput and memory usage of an application server; based on the sampled throughput, monitoring whether the throughput decrease continually, and based on the sampled memory usage, monitoring whether the memory usage remains stable within a predefined range; in response to a continual decrease of the throughput and the memory usage remaining stable within the predetermined range, determining that the application server is suspected of having a memory leak. Using the solution of the present invention can free an administrator of the burden of artificially identifying suspect servers, can identify a suspect server during runtime and further determine whether it actually has a memory leak.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jie Qiu, Hai Shan Wu, Jie Yang, Tao Yu
  • Publication number: 20150049258
    Abstract: The invention discloses a single-layer capacitive touch unit, including a sensing electrode, connected to a control unit through a sensing electrode lead; and a plurality of scan electrodes, disposed at two sides of the sensing electrode; the scan electrode being connected to the control unit through a scan electrode lead, and the scan electrodes and the sensing electrode being coplanar; wherein one end of scan electrode lead connected to a second end of scan electrode and extending to near a next scan electrode to form extending lead; and the other end of scan electrode lead connected to the control unit. The invention also provides a capacitive touch screen with the capacitive touch unit. The invention can reduce the effect of noise signal on the touch signal and increase SNR of the touch signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Jie Qiu, Yung-lun Lin
  • Patent number: 8775769
    Abstract: A partition-based method for diagnosing memory leaks in Java systems, comprising dividing heap memory of a Java virtual machine into a plurality of partitions based on a partition plan, wherein each partition has at least one partition owner; monitoring the status of the respective partitions to determine whether there is a partition in which the memory space is exhausted; and if there is a partition in which the memory space is exhausted, determining that the memory leak may occur in the partition and analyzing the partition to obtain leaked objects and objects related to the leaked objects. The present invention also provides a partition-based apparatus for diagnosing memory leak in Java systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ying Li, Quan Long, Tiancheng Lui, Jie Qiu
  • Publication number: 20140095230
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for inferring a travel path in a public transportation system. The apparatus comprises: a single-line origin-destination (OD) inferring device configured to infer from boarding data of a bus line a passenger alighting stop on the line as an inferred passenger alighting stop according to historical data, wherein the boarding data comprises a passenger boarding stop during a predetermined time period and a number of boarding passengers at the stop. A transfer line inferring device is configured to infer a passenger transfer line as an inferred passenger transfer line according to the boarding data and the inferred passenger alighting stop obtained by the single-line OD inferring means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ning Duan, Xiang Fei, Peng Gao, Min Gong, Ke Hu, Yun Jie Qiu, Zhi Hu Wang, Xin Zhang
  • Publication number: 20140095423
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for inferring a travel path in a public transportation system. The apparatus comprises: a single-line origin-destination (OD) inferring device configured to infer from boarding data of a bus line a passenger alighting stop on the line as an inferred passenger alighting stop according to historical data, wherein the boarding data comprises a passenger boarding stop during a predetermined time period and a number of boarding passengers at the stop. A transfer line inferring device is configured to infer a passenger transfer line as an inferred passenger transfer line according to the boarding data and the inferred passenger alighting stop obtained by the single-line OD inferring means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ning Duan, Xiang Fei, Peng Gao, Min Gong, Ke Hu, Yun Jie Qiu, Zhi Hu Wang, Xin Zhang
  • Patent number: 8612389
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for discovering application configuration files in a system. The method includes the steps of: obtaining a process identifier of an application in concern; comparing the obtained process identifier with a process identifier of a process for operating configuration files in the system; and determining configuration files to be the configuration files of the application in concern if the obtained process identifier is identical to the process identifier of a process for operating the configuration files in the system. Application configuration files can be automatically discovered and thereby monitored, such that the change of the application configuration files can be effectively and accurately detected, so as to facilitate a user to perform various subsequent operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tian Cheng Liu, Qiming Teng, Jie Qiu, Xiao Zhong
  • Publication number: 20130325906
    Abstract: A method and system for placing database. The method includes: receiving a request of creating a new database; determining whether there is a need to migrate current database among current virtual machines based on resource demand and free resource in the current virtual machines; determining database placement plan based on the resource demand, migration strategy and migration cost associated with the migration strategy in response to whether there is a need to migrate the database; and executing the database placement plan. The invention can help a database service provider to optimize database layout in database provision through database migration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jie Qiu, Berthold Reinwald, Qi Rong Wang, Tao Yu, Lei Zhi
  • Patent number: 8566783
    Abstract: A method and navigation helper for generating constraint language codes for navigation in a constraint language editor. The constraint language editor generates model/instance-related constraint expressions according to the loaded model/instance and related constraints. The navigation is a path implementing the constraints. The method includes parsing the loaded model/instance; calculating a possible association related to the element through the type of the navigation-related element in the model/instance; and calculating a possible navigation path according to the association.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ying Li, Jing Luo, Jia Yin Mao, Jie Qiu
  • Patent number: 8433948
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for realizing application high availability are provided. The application is installed on both a first node and a second node, the first node being used as an active node, and the second node being used as a passive node. The method includes: monitoring access operations to files by an application during its execution on the active node; replicating the monitored updates to the file by the application from the active node to a storage device accessible to the passive node if the application performs updates to a file during the access operations; sniffing the execution of the application on the active node; and switching the active node to the second node and initiating the application on the second node in response to sniffing a failure in the execution of the application on the active node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ying Li, Jie Qiu, Jie Yang, Xiao Zhong
  • Patent number: 8407694
    Abstract: A system and method for facilitating installing software includes steps and means for identifying whether the phase of a software installing process changes and, responsive to the identifying a change in the phase of the software installing process, executing an additional task of the current phase of the software installing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ying Chen, Ying Li, Jie Qiu, Ke Wei Sun
  • Publication number: 20130055034
    Abstract: A method for determining a suspect memory leak, including: sampling the throughput and memory usage of an application server; based on the sampled throughput, monitoring whether the throughput decrease continually, and based on the sampled memory usage, monitoring whether the memory usage remains stable within a predefined range; in response to a continual decrease of the throughput and the memory usage remaining stable within the predetermined range, determining that the application server is suspected of having a memory leak. Using the solution of the present invention can free an administrator of the burden of artificially identifying suspect servers, can identify a suspect server during runtime and further determine whether it actually has a memory leak.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jie Qiu, Hai Shan Wu, Jie Yang, Tao Yu
  • Publication number: 20130024551
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and apparatuses for enabling cluster scaling. Specifically, there is disclosed a method of recording a context of configuration for an initial node of a cluster, comprising: retrieving at least one file to be used for configuring the initial node; and recording a context while configuring the initial node using the at least one file, the recorded context being information on the configuration of the initial node and to be used for enabling addition of a new node into the cluster. There is also disclosed a method of enabling addition of a new node into a cluster. Corresponding apparatuses are also disclosed. According to embodiments of the present invention, the efficiency of improving cluster scaling may be effectively improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Li Rong Jian, Jie Qiu, Jie Y. Yang, Tao Yu, Xiao Zhong
  • Publication number: 20130024554
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and apparatuses for enabling cluster scaling. Specifically, there is disclosed a method of recording a context of configuration for an initial node of a cluster, comprising: retrieving at least one file to be used for configuring the initial node; and recording a context while configuring the initial node using the at least one file, the recorded context being information on the configuration of the initial node and to be used for enabling addition of a new node into the cluster. There is also disclosed a method of enabling addition of a new node into a cluster. Corresponding apparatuses are also disclosed. According to embodiments of the present invention, the efficiency of improving cluster scaling may be effectively improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Li Rong Jian, Jie Qiu, Jie Y. Yang, Tao Yu, Xiao Zhong
  • Publication number: 20120297377
    Abstract: A method, Web server and computer system are provided for converging a desktop application and a Web application. The method includes in response to a request from a client user for using a target desktop application, starting a desktop application initialization process on the Web server and determining an appropriate corresponding hosting server for the user; preparing and provisioning desktop application environment on the corresponding hosting server and starting the target desktop application; transmitting the corresponding hosting server's address to the client so as to make desktop application interaction between the client and the corresponding hosting server; and in response to the completion of the desktop application interaction, stopping and exiting the target desktop application on the corresponding hosting server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: YING CHEN, Xing Fang, Jie Qiu, Qing Bo Wang, Meng Ye
  • Publication number: 20120216070
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for realizing application high availability are provided. The application is installed on both a first node and a second node, the first node being used as an active node, and the second node being used as a passive node. The method includes: monitoring access operations to files by an application during its execution on the active node; replicating the monitored updates to the file by the application from the active node to a storage device accessible to the passive node if the application performs updates to a file during the access operations; sniffing the execution of the application on the active node; and switching the active node to the second node and initiating the application on the second node in response to sniffing a failure in the execution of the application on the active node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ying Li, Jie Qiu, Jie Yang, Xiao Zhong
  • Patent number: 8193162
    Abstract: This invention provides a novel human liver regeneration associated protein hLRTM4 and the polynucleotide which encodes the hLRTM4 protein. Furthermore, this invention provides a method of preparing and using hLRTM4 protein, and its polynucleotides. hLRTM4 protein can be used to treat liver injury, and its antagonists (e.g. antisense nucleic acids and antibodies) can be used to treat hepatocellular carcinoma. This invention also provides the corresponding pharmaceutical compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, CAS
    Inventors: Mujun Zhao, Zhanwu Liu, Jie Qiu, Zaiping Li
  • Patent number: 8195979
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for realizing application high availability. The application is installed on both a first node and a second node, the first node being used as an active node, and the second node being used as a passive node. The method includes: monitoring access operations to files by an application during its execution on the active node; replicating the monitored updates to the file by the application from the active node to a storage device accessible to the passive node if the application performs updates to a file during the access operations; sniffing the execution of the application on the active node; and switching the active node to the second node and initiating the application on the second node in response to sniffing a failure in the execution of the application on the active node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ying Li, Jie Qiu, Jie Yang, Xiao Zhong
  • Patent number: 8180726
    Abstract: A method and device for performing a constraint failure analysis on an instance model. The present invention provides a convenient tool to bridge between a model-constraint designer and a model user, reduce load for model/constraint usability, simplify the learning curve, and assist to make a model correction for the model user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ying Li, Tian Cheng Liu, Jing J. Luo, Jie Qiu
  • Patent number: 8151143
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of partitioned memory dump in a software system is provided, the apparatus comprising: a monitor for, during the execution of the software system, monitoring the memory allocations and deallocations of objects in the software system and according to the results of the monitoring, assigning the allocated objects in the software system into corresponding memory partitions, wherein the memory space of the software system is partitioned according to a given partitioning scheme; an event detector for detecting a triggering event of memory dump; and a dumper for dumping related memory partitions according to the detected triggering event of memory dump. Preferably, the apparatus further comprises an analyzer for analyzing the dumped information, and generating a new dump triggering event or a new partitioning scheme based on the analysis results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ying Li, Jie Qiu, Qi Ming Teng