Patents by Inventor Leiming Yuan

Leiming Yuan 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: 11734667
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for allocating resources are provided. One of the methods includes receiving a first request from a first client for accessing a server, wherein the first request includes token information corresponding to resource information of a second client; determining, according to the token information included in the first request, the resource information of the second client corresponding to the token information; receiving resource allocation information from the first client; and allocating resource according to the resource allocation information from the first client and the resource information of the second client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: ADVANCED NEW TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Leiming Yuan
  • Publication number: 20220092579
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for allocating resources are provided. One of the methods includes receiving a first request from a first client for accessing a server, wherein the first request includes token information corresponding to resource information of a second client; determining, according to the token information included in the first request, the resource information of the second client corresponding to the token information; receiving resource allocation information from the first client; and allocating resource according to the resource allocation information from the first client and the resource information of the second client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventor: Leiming YUAN
  • Patent number: 11222327
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for allocating resources are provided. One of the methods includes receiving a first request from a first client for accessing a server, wherein the first request includes token information corresponding to resource information of a second client; determining, according to the token information included in the first request, the resource information of the second client corresponding to the token information; receiving resource allocation information from the first client; and allocating resource according to the resource allocation information from the first client and the resource information of the second client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: ADVANCED NEW TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Leiming Yuan
  • Publication number: 20190272530
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for allocating resources are provided. One of the methods includes receiving a first request from a first client for accessing a server, wherein the first request includes token information corresponding to resource information of a second client; determining, according to the token information included in the first request, the resource information of the second client corresponding to the token information; receiving resource allocation information from the first client; and allocating resource according to the resource allocation information from the first client and the resource information of the second client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventor: Leiming YUAN
  • Patent number: 10134033
    Abstract: A payment system utilizes an IC identification card to identify a user, finds and verifies a bank account of the user. The payment system uses an IC identification card reader to read user identity information which includes a user identification card number. The system encrypts user identity information using a first encryption key and encrypts the user-entered bank account password using a bank encryption key corresponding to a participating bank, and sends the encrypted information to an intermediary platform, which sends a bank transaction request including user identity information, bank account password and transaction amount to the participating bank subsystem. The participating bank subsystem conducts the requested bank transaction with a user bank account, which is determined according to the user identification card number either by the intermediary platform or by the participating bank subsystem based on a mapping relationship between the user identity information and bank accounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventor: Leiming Yuan
  • Publication number: 20150012438
    Abstract: The present invention provides an account charging method used for charging a user account over a network, including: establishing an intermediary account; saving a second user's charging amount sent by a first user in the intermediary account; and if a confirmation message of receiving a payment is received from the first user, transferring the said charging amount to an account of the second user. The invention facilitates and expedites the charging process, and thereby improves the account charging efficiency, fully utilizes network resources, and greatly reduces the cost of account charging. The intermediary account of the invention can ensure the security and integrity of the account charging process, and thus eliminates the bottleneck of too few online banking users and low maximum payment limitation of the public edition of online banking, increases network usage efficiency, and takes full advantages of speed, convenience and low cost of online transactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Zhaoxi Lu, Leiming Yuan
  • Publication number: 20140337183
    Abstract: A method and system for processing offshore online transaction use an intermediary platform to conduct foreign currency exchange on behalf of a buyer and an offshore seller. The method allows the buyer to purchase a product of an offshore merchant website using a local currency through the intermediary platform. The buyer places an order at the offshore merchant website, which sends an order request to the intermediary platform. The intermediary platform calculates the purchase amount in local currency, and exchanges the local currency amount provided by the user into an equivalent foreign currency amount through a financial platform, and sends a transaction message indicating successful payment to the offshore merchant website to allow shipping of the product. The intermediary platform periodically conducts accounting and profit sharing operations with the offshore merchant website.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Shanfa Li, Fengping WU, Jinbo XIA, Leiming Yuan
  • Patent number: 8793169
    Abstract: The present invention provides an account charging method used for charging a user account over a network, including: establishing an intermediary account; saving a second user's charging amount sent by a first user in the intermediary account; and if a confirmation message of receiving a payment is received from the first user, transferring the said charging amount to an account of the second user. The invention facilitates and expedites the charging process, and thereby improves the account charging efficiency, fully utilizes network resources, and greatly reduces the cost of account charging. The intermediary account of the invention can ensure the security and integrity of the account charging process, and thus eliminates the bottleneck of too few online banking users and low maximum payment limitation of the public edition of online banking, increases network usage efficiency, and takes full advantages of speed, convenience and low cost of online transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Zhaoxi Lu, Leiming Yuan
  • Publication number: 20140074699
    Abstract: A method and system for processing offshore online transaction use an intermediary platform to conduct foreign currency exchange on behalf of a buyer and an offshore seller. The method allows the buyer to purchase a product of an offshore merchant website using a local currency through the intermediary platform. The buyer places an order at the offshore merchant website, which sends an order request to the intermediary platform. The intermediary platform calculates the purchase amount in local currency, and exchanges the local currency amount provided by the user into an equivalent foreign currency amount through a financial platform, and sends a transaction message indicating successful payment to the offshore merchant website to allow shipping of the product. The intermediary platform periodically conducts accounting and profit sharing operations with the offshore merchant website.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Shanfa LI, Fengping WU, Jinbo XIA, Leiming YUAN
  • Patent number: 8612344
    Abstract: A method and system for processing offshore online transaction use an intermediary platform to conduct foreign currency exchange on behalf of a buyer and an offshore seller. The method allows the buyer to purchase a product of an offshore merchant website using a local currency through the intermediary platform. The buyer places an order at the offshore merchant website, which sends an order request to the intermediary platform. The intermediary platform calculates the purchase amount in local currency, and exchanges the local currency amount provided by the user into an equivalent foreign currency amount through a financial platform, and sends a transaction message indicating successful payment to the offshore merchant website to allow shipping of the product. The intermediary platform periodically conducts accounting and profit sharing operations with the offshore merchant website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Shanfa Li, Leiming Yuan, Jinbo Xia, Fengping Wu
  • Patent number: 8055558
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and a system for authentication via a communication terminal using short messages, in order to solve the problems that the content of a short message is easy to be leaked out by a proxy SP and that the loss and delay of a short message may lead to repeating user payments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Leiming Yuan, Chengang Wu
  • Publication number: 20110231283
    Abstract: A method and system for processing offshore online transaction use an intermediary platform to conduct foreign currency exchange on behalf of a buyer and an offshore seller. The method allows the buyer to purchase a product of an offshore merchant website using a local currency through the intermediary platform. The buyer places an order at the offshore merchant website, which sends an order request to the intermediary platform. The intermediary platform calculates the purchase amount in local currency, and exchanges the local currency amount provided by the user into an equivalent foreign currency amount through a financial platform, and sends a transaction message indicating successful payment to the offshore merchant website to allow shipping of the product. The intermediary platform periodically conducts accounting and profit sharing operations with the offshore merchant website.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Shanfa Li, Leiming Yuan, Jinbo Xia, Fengping Wu
  • Publication number: 20100241572
    Abstract: A payment system utilizes an IC identification card to identify a user, finds and verifies a bank account of the user. The payment system uses an IC identification card reader to read user identity information which includes a user identification card number. The system encrypts user identity information using a first encryption key and encrypts the user-entered bank account password using a bank encryption key corresponding to a participating bank, and sends the encrypted information to an intermediary platform, which sends a bank transaction request including user identity information, bank account password and transaction amount to the participating bank subsystem. The participating bank subsystem conducts the requested bank transaction with a user bank account, which is determined according to the user identification card number either by the intermediary platform or by the participating bank subsystem based on a mapping relationship between the user identity information and bank accounts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2008
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventor: Leiming Yuan
  • Publication number: 20100169223
    Abstract: A payment system utilizes an IC identification card to identify a user, finds and verifies a bank account of the user. The system uses an IC identification card reader to read user identity information, and sends it along with user bank account information to an intermediary platform to be processed. The intermediary platform sends the received user identity information along with the other bank transaction information as part of a bank transaction request to a participating bank subsystem to be processed. The participating bank subsystem conducts the requested bank transaction with a user bank account determined according to the user identification either by the intermediary platform or by the participating bank subsystem based on a mapping relationship between the user identity and bank accounts. The decryption of the user identification information is done either by the IC identification card reader or at the intermediary platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventor: Leiming Yuan
  • Publication number: 20100153249
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a system for making a payment to a third party using a communication client such as a mobile phone. The payment is made through an intermediary platform adapted for establishing communication between the communication client and the third-party subsystem. The intermediary platform receives a call-in request from the communication client, determines whether the communication client has a mobile telephone number, and further determines whether the mobile telephone number has a payment account bound therewith. If affirmative, the intermediary platform accepts a payment request from the communication client, and makes a deduction from the payment account in order to complete the payment. The intermediary platform may also be used to make a payment to the third-party through a network client such as a PC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Leiming Yuan, Wenjin Liang, Lei Ma
  • Publication number: 20100082462
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and a system for authentication via a communication terminal using short messages, in order to solve the problems that the content of a short message is easy to be leaked out by a proxy SP and that the loss and delay of a short message may lead to repeating user payments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Inventors: Leiming Yuan, Chengang Wu
  • Publication number: 20090228378
    Abstract: The present invention provides an account charging method used for charging a user account over a network, including: establishing an intermediary account; saving a second user's charging amount sent by a first user in the intermediary account; and if a confirmation message of receiving a payment is received from the first user, transferring the said charging amount to an account of the second user. The invention facilitates and expedites the charging process, and thereby improves the account charging efficiency, fully utilizes network resources, and greatly reduces the cost of account charging. The intermediary account of the invention can ensure the security and integrity of the account charging process, and thus eliminates the bottleneck of too few online banking users and low maximum payment limitation of the public edition of online banking, increases network usage efficiency, and takes full advantages of speed, convenience and low cost of online transactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhaoxi Lu, Leiming Yuan