Patents by Inventor Kun Zhang

Kun 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).

  • Publication number: 20150012926
    Abstract: A system and method provides video recommendations for a target video in a video sharing environment. The system selects one or more videos that are on one or more video playlists together with the target video. The video co-occurrence data of the target video associates the target video and another video on one or more same video playlists and frequency of the target video and another video on the video playlists is computed. Based on the video co-occurrence data of the target video, one or more co-occurrence videos are selected and ranked based on the video co-occurrence data of the target video. The system selects one or more videos from the co-occurrence videos as video recommendations for the target video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Li Wei, Kun Zhang, Yu He, Xinmei Cai
  • Publication number: 20140357497
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs for designing probes or primers for nucleic acid sequencing, generating libraries of nucleic acid sequences, and mapping genomic sequences are provided herein,
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Kun Zhang, Athurva Gore
  • Publication number: 20140349288
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for making a plurality of probes for analyzing a plurality of nucleic acid samples are provided. Compositions and methods for analyzing a plurality of nucleic acid samples to obtain sequence information in each nucleic acid sample are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: George M. CHURCH, Kun ZHANG, Joseph CHOU
  • Publication number: 20140332238
    Abstract: Braking systems and methods are provided for a drum wench system having a winch drum having an outer surface and a winch drum braking system. The winch drum braking system has a first brake having a first brake lining, located adjacent to the winch drum, and a first three-ring ratchet linkage system connected to the first brake lining. The first three-ring ratchet linkage system is rotatable and adapted to move the first brake lining to a first position or a second position with respect to the outer surface of the winch drum. In the first position, the first brake lining contacts the outer surface of the winch drum to apply break force thereon, and, in the second position, the first brake lining is separated from the winch drum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Kun Zhang, Stephane Breard, Pierre Jacquemont
  • Patent number: 8880991
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for processing scripting-language code in webpages are disclosed. The method includes obtaining scripting-language code that is utilized by a higher-priority webpage, compiling the scripting-language code to generate higher-priority compiled code objects, storing the higher-priority compiled code objects on a communication device, distinguishing the higher-priority compiled code objects from other compiled code objects that are stored on the communication device to delay the higher-priority compiled code objects from being removed from the communication device, and executing the higher-priority compiled code objects when the webpage is requested by the user. In many variations, this approach is not applied to all webpages visited, but only on certain webpages and scripts that are considered high priority, either implicitly or explicitly, based on a priority function that computes a multi-level priority from the history and past browser activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
    Inventors: Shyama Prasad Mondal, Subrato K. De, Dineel D. Sule, Mark Bapst, Kun Zhang
  • Patent number: 8868481
    Abstract: A system and method provides video recommendations for a target video in a video sharing environment. The system selects one or more videos that are on one or more video playlists together with the target video. The video co-occurrence data of the target video associates the target video and another video on one or more same video playlists and frequency of the target video and another video on the video playlists is computed. Based on the video co-occurrence data of the target video, one or more co-occurrence videos are selected and ranked based on the video co-occurrence data of the target video. The system selects one or more videos from the co-occurrence videos as video recommendations for the target video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Li Wei, Kun Zhang, Yu He, Xinmei Cai
  • Publication number: 20140309760
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a music playback method, a third-party application and a device which are in the field of computer technique. The music playback method includes integrating a background music playback module into a third-party application, receiving a music playing signal in which a playlist identification is included, transmitting the music playing signal to the background music playback module through a predetermined port, acquiring by the background music playback module a corresponding playlist based on the playlist identification of the music playing signal, and randomly playing the music in the playlist by the background music playback module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Rong LIU, Shilei LIU, Rong ZHANG, Zhiping FENG, Meng ZHANG, Yanbo MA, Kun ZHANG, Kuiguo WANG, Xiaopeng HUANG, Lei ZHENG, Renkui SHEN, Songlin HE, Chenguang LIU, Wei LIU
  • Patent number: 8856111
    Abstract: Recommendations for a media item associated with a primary entity are based on co-interaction information gathered from other media content items of several different media types that are also associated with the primary entity. Co-interaction information can include, for example, co-click data for websites, co-watch data for videos, or co-purchase data for purchases. The co-interaction data is processed to determine a co-interaction score between primary media items and secondary media items. From the co-interaction scores, secondary entities associated with the secondary media items are determined. A relatedness score is determined for these secondary entities based on the aggregation of the co-interaction scores of the secondary media items they are associated with. The relatedness score indicates a determination of how related one entity is to another. The secondary entities are ranked according to relatedness score in order to determine secondary entities most relevant to the primary entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Clancy, Cristos J. Goodrow, Yu He, Kun Zhang
  • Publication number: 20140279773
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for scoring concept terms using a deep network. One of the methods includes receiving an input comprising a plurality of features of a resource, wherein each feature is a value of a respective attribute of the resource; processing each of the features using a respective embedding function to generate one or more numeric values; processing the numeric values to generate an alternative representation of the features of the resource, wherein processing the floating point values comprises applying one or more non-linear transformations to the floating point values; and processing the alternative representation of the input to generate a respective relevance score for each concept term in a pre-determined set of concept terms, wherein each of the respective relevance scores measures a predicted relevance of the corresponding concept term to the resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Kai Chen, Xiaodan Song, Gregory S. Corrado, Kun Zhang, Jeffrey A. Dean, Bahman Rabii
  • Patent number: 8819591
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for treatment planning are described. A treatment planning system provides a computer-simulated virtual environment including a virtual artifact that is a three-dimensional simulation of a patient anatomy, wherein the three-dimensional simulation is generated from one or more diagnostic images taken of the patient anatomy. The treatment planning system performs a treatment planning operation associated with the virtual artifact in response to a user interaction with the virtual environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Accuray Incorporated
    Inventors: Bai Wang, Kun Zhang, Xiangyong Cheng, I-Ning Chang, Robert W. Hill, Colin Sims, Hongwu Wang
  • Patent number: 8800676
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel hand-held aerosol fire suppression apparatus, comprising thermal insulating layer (3), inner cylinder (4), aerosol generating agent (5), heat insulating material (6), jet nozzle (9), tapered jet orifice (10), enclosure (11), ignition head (12) and piezoelectric crystal assembly (13), wherein the thermal insulating layer (3) is arranged between the inner cylinder (4) and the aerosol generating agent (5), and the jet nozzle (9) is screwed to the enclosure (11) by means of a thread structure that comprises 3˜6 thread segments. Compared to that in the prior art, with the segment thread design for screwing the jet nozzle to the enclosure, the time required for removing the jet nozzle can be reduced significantly, and therefore the apparatus in the present invention has much better safety feature against accidents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Shaanxi J & R Fire Fighting Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongbao Guo, Kun Zhang, Chunjie Ma, Tengfei Zhai, Zhenping Deng
  • Patent number: 8771950
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for making a plurality of probes for analyzing a plurality of nucleic acid samples are provided. Compositions and methods for analyzing a plurality of nucleic acid samples to obtain sequence information in each nucleic acid sample are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: George M. Church, Kun Zhang, Joseph Chou
  • Publication number: 20140164161
    Abstract: Methods and terminals for processing e-tickets are provided. The terminal can include a saving module, a parsing module, and a voice reading module. The e-ticket can be obtained by a terminal. The terminal can parse contents of the e-ticket to generate ticket information of the e-ticket by triggering a reading button to call an internal program. The ticket information can be converted by the terminal into a voice message corresponding to the e-ticket. The voice message can be played by the terminal to read the ticket information of the e-ticket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: BIFENG ZHANG, SHILI LIN, HUAFENG MA, KUN ZHANG, TONGYI GUO, XIAO XIAO, QILIANG CHEN
  • Publication number: 20130346588
    Abstract: Techniques for determining status aware media play are described. When current user behavior with respect to a media segment deviates from baseline user behavior, the media segment is tagged in memory, and a determination is made as to whether playback functionality with respect to the tagged media segment should be adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Kun Zhang, Kevin Dongsoo Chang
  • Publication number: 20130278734
    Abstract: A method and system for generating and tracking dynamic advertisements within a program, such as a video game, running on a portable computing device (PCD) are described. The method and system include receiving a call from the program for a texture and reviewing an identifier associated with the texture. A graphics driver determines if the identifier associated with the texture matches an identifier in a texture database. The graphics driver then selects a dynamic advertisement from a texture database if the identifier associated with the texture matches the identifier in the texture database. The graphics driver issues commands to the graphics processor so that dynamic advertisement is presented on a screen display. The graphics driver then determines if a video object produced by the program blocks a portion of the dynamic advertisement present on the screen display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Ruiduo Yang, Mark H. Feldman, Donald W. Gillies, Rajat Gupta, Aleksandra L. Krstic, Kun Zhang, Anubha Jayaswal, Peter Andic
  • Patent number: 8539463
    Abstract: A content processing device and corresponding method are disclosed. The content processing device includes a compiler front end to parse programming language source code into an high level intermediate representation and a detection component to detect high level constructs in the intermediate representation of the source code that satisfy constraints for parallel-merging high level constructs. And a parallel-merging component modifies the high level intermediate representation of the source code by parallel-merging the detected constructs to generate new high level parallel-merged constructs in a modified high-level intermediate representation of the source code that enable runtime operations of the detected constructs when finally lowered into processor instructions to be able to execute in parallel using the executable code generated from the modified intermediate representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
    Inventors: Subrato K. De, Dineel D. Sule, Kun Zhang
  • Patent number: 8519742
    Abstract: A latch includes three circuits. The first circuit drives a first output (QB) to a first level when a first input (D) and a first clock phase (CK) are both low, to a second level when D and CK are both high, and provides high impedance (HI-Z) when different logic levels are applied to D and CK. The second circuit drives a second output (Q) to the first level when a third input (DB) and a complimentary clock phase (CKB) are both low, to the second level when DB and CKB are both high, and provides HI-Z when different logic levels are applied to DB and CKB. The third circuit maintains voltages of Q and QB when the first and second circuits provide HI-Z at Q and QB. Odd-number dividers constructed with such latches produce 50% duty cycle operation without restricting output pulse widths to integer multiples of input periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kun Zhang, Kenneth Barnett
  • Patent number: 8484203
    Abstract: Recommendations for a media item associated with a primary entity are based on co-interaction information gathered from other media content items of several different media types that are also associated with the primary entity. Co-interaction information can include, for example, co-click data for websites, co-watch data for videos, or co-purchase data for purchases. The co-interaction data is processed to determine a co-interaction score between primary media items and secondary media items. From the co-interaction scores, secondary entities associated with the secondary media items are determined. A relatedness score is determined for these secondary entities based on the aggregation of the co-interaction scores of the secondary media items they are associated with. The relatedness score indicates a determination of how related one entity is to another. The secondary entities are ranked according to relatedness score in order to determine secondary entities most relevant to the primary entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Clancy, Cristos J. Goodrow, Yu He, Kun Zhang
  • Publication number: 20130159243
    Abstract: A system and method provides video recommendations for a target video in a video sharing environment. The system selects one or more videos that are on one or more video playlists together with the target video. The video co-occurrence data of the target video associates the target video and another video on one or more same video playlists and frequency of the target video and another video on the video playlists is computed. Based on the video co-occurrence data of the target video, one or more co-occurrence videos are selected and ranked based on the video co-occurrence data of the target video. The system selects one or more videos from the co-occurrence videos as video recommendations for the target video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Li Wei, Kun Zhang, Yu He, Xinmei Cai
  • Publication number: 20130157260
    Abstract: An assay for identifying compounds that affect conversion of Bcl-2 family protein from an antiapoptotic to a proapoptotic form or inhibit activity of Bcl-2 family protein is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
    Inventors: Arnold Satterthwait, Xiao-kun Zhang, Xiuwen Zhu, Siva Kolluri, John C. Reed