Patents by Inventor Kevin Xu
Kevin Xu 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: 12197758Abstract: A source site includes a controller, a set of source worker nodes, and a message queue connected between the controller and source worker nodes. The message queue receives messages and stores the messages for retrieval. A destination site includes a set of destination worker nodes. Tasks are generated to replicate changes to objects at the source site to the destination site. The controller pushes messages corresponding to the tasks onto the message queue. A source worker node retrieves a message corresponding to a task from the message queue for processing in conjunction with a destination worker node. The message is indicated as having been retrieved from the message queue.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2020Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLCInventors: Abhinav Duggal, Atul Avinash Karmarkar, Philip Shilane, Kevin Xu
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Patent number: 12088460Abstract: A system described herein may determine that a first measure of likelihood of demand for a particular service from a first set of edge computing devices exceeds a first threshold, and may instruct the first set of edge computing devices to provision resources to provide the particular service. The system may subsequently determine that a second measure of likelihood of demand for the particular service from a second set of edge computing devices exceeds a second threshold, the second set of edge computing devices being a subset of the first set of edge computing devices, and may initiate a service state synchronization operation with respect to the second set of edge computing devices. The system may select a particular edge computing device, of the second set of edge computing devices, to provide the particular service to a User Equipment (“UE”).Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2023Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Kevin Xu, Patricia R. Chang, Mason Ng
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Publication number: 20240251295Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for dynamic resource slice allocation are provided. A bidding engine dynamically tracks available network slices and available edge computing resources to generate a current list of resource slices corresponding to combinations of available network slices and available edge computing resources. A bidding auction is conducted for the current list of resource slices. A user equipment device is determined to be a winner of the bidding auction for a resource slice based upon a bidding request from the user equipment device. In this way, the user equipment device is provide with access to the resource slice based upon a determination that the user equipment device won the bidding auction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2023Publication date: July 25, 2024Inventors: Mason Ng, Kevin Xu
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Publication number: 20240155475Abstract: A system described herein may identify a particular service provided by a first Edge Computing (“EC”) device to a particular User Equipment (“UE”), and may monitor performance information associated with the first EC device and/or a second EC device. The system may determine, based on the monitoring, that the second EC device should provide the service to the particular UE in lieu of the first EC device; and may accordingly cause the service to be provided to the particular UE by the second EC device in lieu of the first EC device. The system may notify the first EC device that the second EC device has been selected to provide the service to the particular UE in lieu of the first EC device, and/or may notify the second EC device that the second EC device has been selected to provide the service to the particular UE.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Kevin Xu, Charles P. Szrom, Valerie Feldmann
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Publication number: 20240098474Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for receiving a communication session request associated with a particular User Equipment (“UE”). The system may identify locator information associated with an edge discovery system associated with a network that includes a plurality of edge devices, wherein the edge discovery system receives service requests associated with one or more UEs and provides an indication of a respective edge device of the plurality of edge device in response to respective service requests. The system may output, in response to the communication session request, the locator information associated with the edge discovery system, wherein the particular UE communicates with the edge discovery system using the locator information to output a particular service request and receive, from the edge discovery system, an indication of a particular edge device of the plurality of edge devices in response to the particular service request.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Kevin Xu, Charles P. Szrom, Valerie Feldmann
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Publication number: 20240056485Abstract: A system described herein may maintain one or more smart contracts on a distributed ledger. The system may receive a request, associated with a User Equipment (“UE”), for access to a particular network (e.g., a private network), identify one or more attributes of the UE, and select a particular smart contract based on the attributes of the UE. The system may execute the selected particular smart contract, which may include performing operations, indicated by the particular smart contract, using the one or more attributes of the UE as inputs. Executing the particular smart contract may further include identifying outputs that result from performing the particular set of operations using the attributes of the UE as inputs, such as a network access policy for the UE. The system may output a response to the request, indicating the network access policy determined based on executing the particular smart contract.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2022Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Kevin Xu, Mohan Palat
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Patent number: 11778476Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for selectively granting or revoking/denying access to applications, services, data, etc. to a User Equipment (“UE”) based on location-based policies and a network-determined location of the UE. The network-determined location may be determined by elements of a wireless network, such as a Mobility Management Entity (“MME”), Access and Mobility Management Function (“AMF”), or other suitable element.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Valerie Feldmann, Kevin Xu, Robert Belson
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Patent number: 11549852Abstract: Exemplary sap flow sensors are provided. A sap flow sensor includes a substrate having a main body and at least two arms spaced apart from one another. The at least two arms extend from the main body. The sap flow sensor further includes a sap flow gauge that is disposed on the substrate. The sap flow gauge is configured to monitor a flow rate of sap through a stem of a plant. The sap flow gauge includes a heating element coupled to an arm of the at least two arms. The sap flow gauge further includes a first temperature sensor and a second temperature sensor disposed on opposite sides of the heating element. The first temperature sensor and the second temperature sensor each coupled to a neighboring arm of the at least two arms.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2022Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: CALVERT VENTURES LLCInventors: Pushpam Joseph Aji John, Kevin Xu
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Publication number: 20220362449Abstract: Fluidic devices, methods, and systems are disclosed. One system may comprises a sheath, a delivery module, and a removal module. The sheath includes a working lumen, a delivery lumen, and a removal lumen. The delivery module is configured to move a fluid from a fluid reservoir and into a body cavity through the delivery lumen. The removal module is configured to move the fluid and a particulate contained therein out of the body cavity through the removal lumen, through a filtration device that removes the particulate, and back into the fluid reservoir. One method comprises placing a distal end of sheath into a body cavity, energizing the working lumen to generate a particulate in the cavity, moving the fluid into the cavity to engage the particulate, and moving the fluid and the contaminant from the body cavity, through a filter for removing the contaminant, and back into the fluid source.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Wei Alfred GAO, Cheng ZHANG, Yuan Chester HONG, Feng Kevin XU
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Patent number: 11433172Abstract: Fluidic devices, methods, and systems are disclosed. One system may comprises a sheath, a delivery module, and a removal module. The sheath includes a working lumen, a delivery lumen, and a removal lumen. The delivery module is configured to move a fluid from a fluid reservoir and into a body cavity through the delivery lumen. The removal module is configured to move the fluid and a particulate contained therein out of the body cavity through the removal lumen, through a filtration device that removes the particulate, and back into the fluid reservoir. One method comprises placing a distal end of sheath into a body cavity, energizing the working lumen to generate a particulate in the cavity, moving the fluid into the cavity to engage the particulate, and moving the fluid and the contaminant from the body cavity, through a filter for removing the contaminant, and back into the fluid source.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Wei Alfred Gao, Cheng Zhang, Yuan Chester Hong, Feng Kevin Xu
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Patent number: 11395211Abstract: A system described herein may provide techniques for a geographically-based traffic handling policy. An originating device may mark traffic with geographic restriction information, such as in a header of network traffic, indicating a geographic restriction on the propagation of the traffic. The geographic restriction may indicate a geographic region in which the traffic may be forwarded, or a geographic region in which the traffic is prohibited from being forwarded. Network devices in a path between the originating device and a destination device may determine whether to drop the traffic or perform other policy-related actions based on whether such devices are inside the geographic region in which the traffic may be forwarded. In some implementations a destination device may register as an exception to such policies, based on which an originating device or a router may bypass geographically-based traffic handling policies with respect to marked traffic directed to the destination device.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Charles P. Szrom, Kevin Xu, Rashmitha Sirsi, Valerie Feldmann, Robert Belson
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Publication number: 20220221348Abstract: Exemplary sap flow sensors are provided. A sap flow sensor includes a substrate having a main body and at least two arms spaced apart from one another. The at least two arms extend from the main body. The sap flow sensor further includes a sap flow gauge that is disposed on the substrate. The sap flow gauge is configured to monitor a flow rate of sap through a stem of a plant. The sap flow gauge includes a heating element coupled to an arm of the at least two arms. The sap flow gauge further includes a first temperature sensor and a second temperature sensor disposed on opposite sides of the heating element. The first temperature sensor and the second temperature sensor each coupled to a neighboring arm of the at least two arms.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2022Publication date: July 14, 2022Inventors: Pushpam Joseph Aji John, Kevin Xu
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Publication number: 20220210655Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for selectively granting or revoking/denying access to applications, services, data, etc. to a User Equipment (“UE”) based on location-based policies and a network-determined location of the UE. The network-determined location may be determined by elements of a wireless network, such as a Mobility Management Entity (“MME”), Access and Mobility Management Function (“AMF”), or other suitable element.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2022Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Valerie Feldmann, Kevin Xu, Robert Belson
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Patent number: 11349915Abstract: A source worker node at a source site fetches a task from a message queue. The task specifies replicating a first object at the source site to a destination site. A request for a connection is issued from the source worker node to the destination site. The request is received by a load balancer at the destination site and assigned to a destination worker node. A connection is established between the source and destination worker nodes. A determination is made that the destination site does not include an object that is the same as the first object. Upon the determination, a deduplication is performed between the source and destination worker nodes of segments into which the first object has been divided. Deduplicated segments of the first object are transmitted from the source worker node to the destination worker node for storage at the destination site.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2018Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLCInventors: Kevin Xu, Abhinav Duggal, Atul Avinash Karmarkar, Philip Shilane
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Patent number: 11327799Abstract: A schedule is stored indicating a frequency of replication from source to destination sites. When a replication job is initiated, information identifying one or more objects at the source site to be replicated is copied into a snapshot without pausing user operations against the one or more objects. The snapshot is compared with a previous snapshot to generate replication tasks for the replication job. The replication tasks are placed onto a message queue at the source site, where a worker node at the source site retrieves a replication task from the message queue and processes the replication task in conjunction with a worker node at the destination site.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLCInventors: Atul Avinash Karmarkar, Philip Shilane, Kevin Xu, Abhinav Duggal
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Patent number: 11317292Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for selectively granting or revoking/denying access to applications, services, data, etc. to a User Equipment (“UE”) based on location-based policies and a network-determined location of the UE. The network-determined location may be determined by elements of a wireless network, such as a Mobility Management Entity (“MME”), Access and Mobility Management Function (“AMF”), or other suitable element.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Valerie Feldmann, Kevin Xu, Robert Belson
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Patent number: 11206014Abstract: A modulator spreads the spectrum of a generated clock to reduce Electro-Magnetic Interference (EMI). A capacitor is charged by a variable current to generate a ramp voltage that is compared to a reference to end a clock cycle and discharge the capacitor. An up-down counter drives a Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) that controls the variable charging current to provide triangle modulation. A smaller offset current is added or subtracted for cubic modulation when the up-down counter reaches its minimum count. A frequency divider that clocks the up-down counter also clocks a Linear-Feedback Shift-Register (LFSR) to that controls pseudo-random current sources that further modulate variable current and frequency. The LFSR is clocked with the up-down counter to modulate each frequency step, or only at the minimum count to randomly modulate at the minimum frequency. Binary-weighted bits from the up-down counter to the DAC are swapped to modulate the frequency step size.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2021Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: High Tech Technology LimitedInventors: Chik Wai (David) Ng, Wai Kit (Victor) So, Yuanzhe (Kevin) Xu, Ka Lok (Roy) Ng, Tin Ho (Andy) Wu
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Publication number: 20210329534Abstract: A system described herein may provide techniques for a geographically-based traffic handling policy. An originating device may mark traffic with geographic restriction information, such as in a header of network traffic, indicating a geographic restriction on the propagation of the traffic. The geographic restriction may indicate a geographic region in which the traffic may be forwarded, or a geographic region in which the traffic is prohibited from being forwarded. Network devices in a path between the originating device and a destination device may determine whether to drop the traffic or perform other policy-related actions based on whether such devices are inside the geographic region in which the traffic may be forwarded. In some implementations a destination device may register as an exception to such policies, based on which an originating device or a router may bypass geographically-based traffic handling policies with respect to marked traffic directed to the destination device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2020Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Charles P. Szrom, Kevin Xu, Rashmitha Sirsi, Valerie Feldmann, Robert Belson
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Patent number: D970001Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Weimin Zhou, Kevin Xu, Lynette Li, Gary Cao, Rocky Qu, Roy Liao, Zhao Xia Jin, David Hou, Xue Liu
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Patent number: D970724Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Weimin Zhou, Kevin Xu, Lynette Li, Gary Cao, Rocky Qu, Roy Liao, Zhao Xia Jin, David Hou, Xue Liu