Patents by Inventor Jie Zheng

Jie Zheng 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: 10084646
    Abstract: A method for updating a descriptor engine for a network interface card (NIC) may include quiescing a transmit stream to the NIC. The method may further include stopping a descriptor engine from providing new receive descriptors to the NIC. The method may further include creating a copy in a memory of any receive descriptors already available to the NIC prior to the stopping the descriptor engine. The method may further include setting a controller to redirect inbound traffic to the memory. The method may further include restoring a transmit configuration and a transmit state of the descriptor engine subsequent to updating the descriptor engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Howard M. Haynie, Donald Jung, Jeffrey M. Turner, Jie Zheng
  • Publication number: 20180270385
    Abstract: An image scanning apparatus includes a controller configured to perform a light quantity adjustment determining process to determine whether a detection light quantity needs to be adjusted, based on adjustment determination values, in a black-white detectable position, a light quantity adjusting process to adjust the detection light quantity to maximize an adjustment difference value between a gradation value generated by scanning a white portion of a reference member and a gradation value generated by scanning a black portion of the reference member, a threshold calculating process to calculate a detection threshold based on a black value and a white value, and a reference position detecting process to detect a reference position by comparing, with the detection threshold, gradation values generated by scanning the reference member while illuminating the reference member with the detection light quantity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventor: Jie ZHENG
  • Publication number: 20180264254
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wire fixing device for a cardiac pacemaker electrode, including: an electrode fixator used for clamping the tail of an electrode, where the electrode fixator includes an electrode clamping component, first hooks and second hooks; the electrode clamping component includes a first clamping piece and a second clamping piece that are semicircular cylindrical, one side edge of the first clamping piece and one side edge of the second clamping piece are connected in a hinged manner by a clamp hinge connector, and a circular tube is formed when the electrode clamping component is closed; several first hooks are provided on the back of the first clamping piece, several second hooks are provided on the back of the second clamping piece, and hook tips of the first hooks and the second hooks are all bent towards a rotation direction of the electrode clamping component during closing; and the first hooks and the second hooks can be interlaced with each other when the electrode clamping c
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: Wuxi People's Hospital
    Inventors: Changying Zhang, Shipeng Dang, Ruxing Wang, Zhiming Yu, Kulin Li, Jie Zheng, Xiaoyu Liu, Xiaoyan Li, Zhenye Zhang
  • Patent number: 10078547
    Abstract: Technical solutions are described for computing data check word for a host request for an I/O processing operation at a host computer system that communicates with a control unit. An example method includes obtaining information for a first I/O operation at a channel subsystem in the host computer system, and accessing an address control word (ACW) of the first I/O operation. The ACW is stored in the local channel memory, and the ACW includes a first data check seed-value. The method also includes computing a first data check word based on the first data check seed-value from the ACW. The method also includes obtaining information for a second I/O operation at the channel subsystem, and in response to the second i/o operation corresponding to said ACW of the first I/O operation, computing a second data check word based on a second data check seed-value from a cache memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Raymond Wong, Jie Zheng
  • Patent number: 10078461
    Abstract: A host divides a dataset into stripes and sends the stripes to respective data chips of a distributed memory buffer system, where the data chips buffer the respective slices. Each data chip can buffer stripes from multiple datasets. Through the use of: (i) error detection methods; (ii) tagging the stripes for identification; and (iii) acknowledgement responses from the data chips, the host keeps track of the status of each slice at the data chips. If errors are detected for a given stripe, the host resends the stripe in the next store cycle, concurrently with stripes for the next dataset. Once all stripes have been received error-free across all the data chips, the host issues a store command which triggers the data chips to move the respective stripes from buffer to memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Susan M. Eickhoff, Steven R. Carlough, Patrick J. Meaney, Stephen J. Powell, Jie Zheng, Gary A. Van Huben
  • Patent number: 10072380
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process of detoxifying pretreated lignocellulose-containing material comprising washing the pretreated lignocellulose-containing material in a washing solution and treating the used washing solution to remove an enzyme inhibitor and/or an inhibitor of a fermenting organism before recycling the used washing solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignees: Novozymes Als, Cofco LTD
    Inventors: Haiyu Ren, Hong Zhi Huang, Jie Zheng
  • Publication number: 20180239914
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for receiving by a user from a source a communication being a fragment of a message having an unrecognizable part containing confidential data. The unrecognizable part is converted into recognizable data upon receipt of the communication and presented to the user. The user can send a request for an additional fragment of the message if needed to complete the message or to decipher the message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Yao Chen, De Shou Kong, Xin Xu, Jie Zheng, Hai Bo Zou
  • Publication number: 20180233623
    Abstract: An anti-blocking system includes a first device, a second device and a first transmission line. The first transmission line is configured to transfer a plurality of objects from the first device to the second device. The first device includes a side surface close to a second device. The second device includes a first swing sensor and a second swing sensor configured to detect whether or not a blockage occurs in the plurality of objects, wherein the first swing sensor is disposed at a side of the side surface away from the second device and the second swing sensor is disposed inside the second device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Jinghong SU, Liqiang BAO, Huizhou ZHANG, Wenbo LAI, Jie ZHENG, Zhigang NIAN, Jian ZHOU
  • Patent number: 10012653
    Abstract: A composition is disclosed which is capable of being used for detection, comprising a noble metal nanoparticle. The inventive compositions exhibit little interaction with serum proteins while exhibiting pH-dependent adsorption onto live cell membranes. The nanoparticles of the claimed invention are capable of interacting with cell membranes, which in turn permits the advantages of nanoparticle bio-imaging to be extended to many pH dependent biological processes such as targeting acidic tumor microenvironment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
    Inventors: Jie Zheng, Mengxiao Yu
  • Publication number: 20180139352
    Abstract: An image scanner has an operation clock generator, a photoelectric converter, an AD converter configured to convert the analog pixel signals serially output by the photoelectric converter to digital pixel data by sampling the analog pixel signals in accordance with an operation clock generated by the operation clock generator, a data generator configured to generate read image data representing an read image of the original based on the pixel data converted by the AD converter, a resolution setter configured to set a reading resolution in the sub scanning direction, and a line period determiner configured to determine the line period to be (integer+decimal value) times a modulation period based on the reading resolution set by the resolution setter, the modulation period being inversion of the modulation frequency. The integer is greater than one and the decimal value is determined based on the reading resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Kazushi SHUMIYA, Jie ZHENG, Masashi FUJIMOTO, Takahiro IKENO
  • Patent number: 9948910
    Abstract: One aspect of the invention includes an apparatus that simultaneously displays the video input and supplementary information, having a video overlay device, and a network management module, a removable storage device and a display device coupled to the video overlay device. The network management module includes a computer or a cloud server for uploading, via network, and controlling supplementary information. The video overlay device includes a central processing unit, and a video input processing unit, a video output processing unit and local memory coupled to the central processing unit. Under a control of the central processing unit, the supplementary information is obtained from the network management module, an email sent from the network management module, or removable storage devices, and is subsequently stored in the local memory, processed and displayed in a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Inventors: Jie Zheng, Lei Zheng
  • Publication number: 20180102917
    Abstract: Communication between one communication bus having one set of characteristics and another communication bus having another set of characteristics is facilitated by a bridge coupling the two communication buses. The bridge includes a scoreboard to manage data communicated between the buses. In one particular example, the one communication bus is a Processor Local Bus (PLB6) and the other communication bus is an Application Specific Integrated Chip (ASIC) Interconnect Bus (AIB).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventors: Andrew R. Ranck, Mushfiq U. Saleheen, Jie Zheng
  • Patent number: 9936930
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for determining a tumor ablation margin. The method includes acquiring an angiography image before tumor ablation and an angiography image after tumor ablation when tumor ablation is performed, registering the angiography image before tumor ablation and the angiography image after tumor ablation, and determining the tumor ablation margin according to the relative positions of the tumor area in the angiography image before tumor ablation and the ablation area in the angiography image after tumor ablation after registration. Using an embodiment, one directly determines the tumor ablation margin during tumor ablation, thus improving the efficiency and success rate of tumor ablation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Xiang Deng, Jie Zheng
  • Publication number: 20180089023
    Abstract: Technical solutions are described for computing data check word for a host request for an I/O processing operation at a host computer system that communicates with a control unit. An example method includes obtaining information for a first I/O operation at a channel subsystem in the host computer system, and accessing an address control word (ACW) of the first I/O operation. The ACW is stored in the local channel memory, and the ACW includes a first data check seed-value. The method also includes computing a first data check word based on the first data check seed-value from the ACW. The method also includes obtaining information for a second I/O operation at the channel subsystem, and in response to the second i/o operation corresponding to said ACW of the first I/O operation, computing a second data check word based on a second data check seed-value from a cache memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: RAYMOND WONG, JIE ZHENG
  • Publication number: 20180091363
    Abstract: Examples of techniques for upgrading a descriptor engine for a network interface card (NIC) are disclosed. An example method may include: quiescing a transmit stream to the NIC; stopping a descriptor engine from providing new receive descriptors to the NIC; creating a copy in a memory of any receive descriptors already available to the NIC prior to the stopping the descriptor engine; setting a controller to redirect inbound traffic to the memory; logging a current configuration, state, and receive pointers of the descriptor engine; updating the descriptor engine; restoring a transmit configuration and a transmit state of the descriptor engine; and enabling a transmit stream of a data router such that transmit packets are created by the descriptor engine for transmission by the NIC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Howard M. Haynie, Donald Jung, Jeffrey M. Turner, Jie Zheng
  • Patent number: 9920296
    Abstract: The present invention provides a newly isolated bacterial strain of Paenibacillus, designated Paenibacillus alvei strain TS-15 for use as a biocontrol agent in the inhibition and/or elimination of a human foodborne pathogen, e.g., Salmonella, on a plant or plant organ, e.g., a tomato or tomato plant. Strain TS-15 or mutants thereof may also be used in the control of plant pathogens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health & Human Servic
    Inventors: Eric W. Brown, Jie Zheng, Alexander Enurah
  • Publication number: 20180074875
    Abstract: Examples of techniques for hang detection and recovery are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method may include: sending, by a processor, a read request to a controller; detecting, by a data hang detection circuit, the read request; initiating, by the data hang detection circuit, a counter when the read request is first detected; monitoring, by the data hang detection circuit, to receive a read response from the controller; and responsive to the counter reaching a timeout threshold before receiving the read response, sending, by the data hang detection circuit a timeout error to the processor via a multiplexer in the data hang detection circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Michael J. Becht, Yuen C. Tschang, Raymond Wong, Jie Zheng
  • Patent number: 9871674
    Abstract: Communication between one communication bus having one set of characteristics and another communication bus having another set of characteristics is facilitated by a bridge coupling the two communication buses. The bridge includes a scoreboard to manage data communicated between the buses. In one particular example, the one communication bus is a Processor Local Bus (PLB6) and the other communication bus is an Application Specific Integrated Chip (ASIC) Interconnect Bus (AIB).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew R. Ranck, Mushfiq U. Saleheen, Jie Zheng
  • Publication number: 20170374338
    Abstract: One aspect of the invention includes an apparatus that simultaneously displays the video input and supplementary information, having a video overlay device, and a network management module, a removable storage device and a display device coupled to the video overlay device. The network management module includes a computer or a cloud server for uploading, via network, and controlling supplementary information. The video overlay device includes a central processing unit, and a video input processing unit, a video output processing unit and local memory coupled to the central processing unit. Under a control of the central processing unit, the supplementary information is obtained from the network management module, an email sent from the network management module, or removable storage devices, and is subsequently stored in the local memory, processed and displayed in a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Jie Zheng, Lei Zheng
  • Patent number: 9824034
    Abstract: Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for a parallel ordering queue using an encoded command type. In some embodiments, a command may be receive from a receiver of a first bus, wherein the command is to be sent to a second bus. The command may be decoded. The command may be associated with an encoded command type. The command may be placed in an ordering queue. A first entry of a second queue may be popped based on the encoded command type of the first entry of the ordering queue. The first entry of the ordering queue may be removed from the ordering queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jie Zheng