Patents by Inventor Liming Zhang

Liming 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: 20090022072
    Abstract: A control-based method for processing media stream queues includes: a multimedia control entity processes the talk burst request queues corresponding to different media types when the conditions of triggering processing of different talk bursts are satisfied; and the multimedia control entity sends the assigned talk burst to the corresponding multimedia session terminal. The present invention also provides a corresponding apparatus. By processing the media stream queues, the present invention ensures talk bursts of multiple correlated media types to be assigned in a session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Zhu, Long Luo, Liming Zhang, Aiqin Zhang
  • Publication number: 20090024743
    Abstract: A media session data transmission control method, a control relation negotiation method and a control device and a system thereof. The data transmission control method includes: the server obtains the media transmission right request of the sender (S601); the server distributes the first media transmission right for the sender based on the first media control strategy (S602); the control relation negotiation method includes: the server receives the media negotiation request from the caller, the media information to be negotiated is carried in the media negotiation request; the server establishes the corresponding media control relation for the caller based on the second media control strategy. Through the application of the media control strategy, the invention optimizes the existing media control process, provides more reasonable and efficient media control, the invention can be applied to multimedia and multiple party communication, and multimedia cluster communication widely.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liming Zhang, Lei Zhu, Long Luo, Qiongyan Liu, Aiqin Zhang
  • Publication number: 20090014683
    Abstract: A selective polish for fabricating electronic devices is disclosed. The selective polish may include the use of a slurry that facilitates the selective polish of a first component but does not substantially polish a second component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Inventors: Liming Zhang, Uday Mahajan
  • Patent number: 7446046
    Abstract: A selective polish for fabricating electronic devices is disclosed. The selective polish may include the use of a slurry that facilitates the selective polish of a first component but does not substantially polish a second component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Liming Zhang, Uday Mahajan
  • Publication number: 20080242062
    Abstract: Diverse semiconductor structures are fabricated on a single substrate or wafer by using a non-selective area growth technique involving deposition of material over the entire substrate. The fabricated structures are obtained by selective removal of portions of the deposited material layers. Single level and multi-level structures are possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2007
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Pietro BERNASCONI, Asish BHARDWAJ, David NEILSON, Liming ZHANG
  • Patent number: 7362787
    Abstract: An interband self-mode-locked (SML) semiconductor laser utilizes an active waveguide structure that includes an active waveguide section and one or more passive waveguide sections that together enhances self-mode-locking. The SML laser operation is based on enhanced Kerr lens mode-locking by vertically optically combining the active section with one or more passive waveguide sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Weiguo Yang, Liming Zhang
  • Publication number: 20070098031
    Abstract: An interband self-mode-locked (SML) semiconductor laser utilizes an active waveguide structure that includes an active waveguide section and one or more passive waveguide sections that together enhances self-mode-locking. The SML laser operation is based on enhanced Kerr lens mode-locking by vertically optically combining the active section with one or more passive waveguide sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2005
    Publication date: May 3, 2007
    Inventors: Weiguo Yang, Liming Zhang
  • Patent number: 7206471
    Abstract: An optoelectronic integrated circuit (OEIC) having an optical core coupled to first and second interface circuits. The first interface circuit is adapted to convert an electrical input signal into an optical signal; the optical core is adapted to process the optical signal in the optical domain; and the second interface circuit is adapted to convert the processed optical signal into an electrical output signal. In one embodiment, an OEIC of the invention is fabricated using a single wafer, has only electrical inputs/outputs, does not have any external optical interfaces, and is not adapted to receive any external optical signals. Advantageously, due to the signal processing being in the optical domain, a circuit of the invention carries out its functionality, with little or no performance degradation, over a relatively wide frequency range. In addition, this circuit has a relatively small size and can be relatively inexpensive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey H. Sinsky, Liming Zhang
  • Publication number: 20070038770
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for providing customized service for users, including: a SIP AS receives service customization request sent by a user via a SIP client; the SIP AS extracts service customization information from the request and provides the service corresponding to the service customization information for the SIP client. By the present invention, the user can perform customized configuration at the SIP client without the aid of WEB AS, so as to facilitate utilizations of users, and realize generation and uploading of completely customized service customization script. Additionally, the present invention can put service customization into effect immediately instead of going into effect until the service is used again. The method of the present invention just needs to add a special SIP service in SIP AS, thereby making full use of the resources and characteristics of SIP AS, facilitating the utilization and improving the effectiveness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2006
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Liming Zhang
  • Patent number: 7076120
    Abstract: The specification describes an optical pulse generator in a return-to-zero format in which a phase-modulated (PM) optical signal is converted to intensity-modulated (IM) optical pulses using chromatic dispersion. Compared with Mach-Zehnder-modulator-based pulse generators, this scheme is potentially more efficient (lower insertion loss). The pulse generator of the invention is suitable for very high data rates, e.g. 40 Gb/s. The structure of the pulse generator is a phase-modulated pulse source combined with a dispersive element having the required dispersion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Juerg Leuthold, Xing Wei, Liming Zhang
  • Publication number: 20060148260
    Abstract: A selective polish for fabricating electronic devices is disclosed. The selective polish may include the use of a slurry that facilitates the selective polish of a first component but does not substantially polish a second component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2005
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Inventors: Liming Zhang, Uday Mahajan
  • Publication number: 20060140533
    Abstract: An optoelectronic integrated circuit (OEIC) having an optical core coupled to first and second interface circuits. The first interface circuit is adapted to convert an electrical input signal into an optical signal; the optical core is adapted to process the optical signal in the optical domain; and the second interface circuit is adapted to convert the processed optical signal into an electrical output signal. In one embodiment, an OEIC of the invention is fabricated using a single wafer, has only electrical inputs/outputs, does not have any external optical interfaces, and is not adapted to receive any external optical signals. Advantageously, due to the signal processing being in the optical domain, a circuit of the invention carries out its functionality, with little or no performance degradation, over a relatively wide frequency range. In addition, this circuit has a relatively small size and can be relatively inexpensive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2004
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Inventors: Jeffrey Sinsky, Liming Zhang
  • Patent number: 7020168
    Abstract: A high power multi-frequency laser includes a laser cavity defined by reflective elements, a frequency routing device in the cavity comprising a plurality of frequency selective pathways, a first set of optical amplifiers optically coupled to a first end of the frequency routing device, and a second set of optical amplifiers optically coupling a second end of the frequency routing device and a first one of the reflective elements. The high power multi-frequency laser further includes a power combiner. The power combiner is optically coupled to the first set of optical amplifiers and a second one of the reflective elements and combines the outputs of the first set of optical amplifiers such that a common output for the multi-frequency laser is provided. The common output of the present invention provides a single output from the multi-frequency laser having a high output coupling efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Pietro Arturo Giovanni Bernasconi, Barry Irwin Miller, Nicholas J. Sauer, Lawrence Warren Stulz, Dries Van Thourhout, Weiguo Yang, Liming Zhang
  • Patent number: 6927198
    Abstract: A cleaning solution, method, and apparatus for cleaning semiconductor substrates after chemical mechanical polishing of copper films is described. The present invention includes a cleaning solution which combines deionized water, an organic compound, and a fluoride compound in an acidic pH environment for cleaning the surface of a semiconductor substrate after polishing a copper layer. Such methods of cleaning semiconductor substrates after copper CMP alleviate the problems associated with brush loading and surface and subsurface contamination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Liming Zhang, Yuexing Zhao, Diane J. Hymes, Wilbur C. Krusell
  • Publication number: 20050002424
    Abstract: A high power multi-frequency laser includes a laser cavity defined by reflective elements, a frequency routing device in the cavity comprising a plurality of frequency selective pathways, a first set of optical amplifiers optically coupled to a first end of the frequency routing device, and a second set of optical amplifiers optically coupling a second end of the frequency routing device and a first one of the reflective elements. The high power multi-frequency laser further includes a power combiner. The power combiner is optically coupled to the first set of optical amplifiers and a second one of the reflective elements and combines the outputs of the first set of optical amplifiers such that a common output for the multi-frequency laser is provided. The common output of the present invention provides a single output from the multi-frequency laser having a high output coupling efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2003
    Publication date: January 6, 2005
    Inventors: Pietro Bernasconi, Barry Miller, Nicholas Sauer, Lawrence Stulz, Dries Thourhout, Weiguo Yang, Liming Zhang
  • Patent number: 6829262
    Abstract: A process evaluates an aging property of a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) laser. The process includes illuminating a Bragg grating of the distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) laser with light while the DBR laser is both supplied a tuning current and not lasing. The process also includes performing an action to the DBR laser responsive to a wavelength of a Bragg peak in a portion of the light reflected by the Bragg grating and a value of the tuning current supplied during the illuminating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: Tri Quint Technology Holding Co.
    Inventors: David Alan Ackerman, Sung-Nee George Chu, Eric J Dean, John Evan Johnson, Leonard Jan-Peter Ketelsen, Liming Zhang
  • Patent number: 6760142
    Abstract: In accordance with the invention, a train of RZ or CSRZ pulses is produced by passing phase modulated laser light through a delay interferometer. The parameters of the phase modulation and the delay interferometer are calculated from the desired pulse train characteristics (e.g. repetition rate, RZ or CSRZ, duty cycle). A directly modulated CW laser, or a CW laser followed by a phase modulator, produces the constant amplitude, phase modulated light. The phase modulated signal is split into two paths. One signal path is delayed with respect to the other by the calculated delay. The signals are recombined in an optical coupler to produce an RZ pulse train and/or a CSRZ pulse train.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Juerg Leuthold, Xing Wei, Liming Zhang
  • Publication number: 20040033917
    Abstract: A cleaning solution, method, and apparatus for cleaning semiconductor substrates after chemical mechanical polishing of copper films is described. The present invention includes a cleaning solution which combines deionized water, an organic compound, and a fluoride compound in an acidic pH environment for cleaning the surface of a semiconductor substrate after polishing a copper layer. Such methods of cleaning semiconductor substrates after copper CMP alleviate the problems associated with brush loading and surface and subsurface contamination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2003
    Publication date: February 19, 2004
    Applicant: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Liming Zhang, Yuexing Zhao, Diane J. Hymes, Wilbur C. Krusell
  • Publication number: 20040005110
    Abstract: The specification describes an optical pulse generator in a return-to-zero format in which a phase-modulated (PM) optical signal is converted to intensity-modulated (IM) optical pulses using chromatic dispersion. Compared with Mach-Zehnder-modulator-based pulse generators, this scheme is potentially more efficient (lower insertion loss). The pulse generator of the invention is suitable for very high data rates, e.g. 40 Gb/s. The structure of the pulse generator is a phase-modulated pulse source combined with a dispersive element having the required dispersion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2002
    Publication date: January 8, 2004
    Inventors: Juerg Leuthold, Xing Wei, Liming Zhang
  • Publication number: 20030210912
    Abstract: In accordance with the invention, a train of RZ or CSRZ pulses is produced by passing phase modulated laser light through a delay interferometer. The parameters of the phase modulation and the delay interferometer are calculated from the desired pulse train characteristics (e.g. repetition rate, RZ or CSRZ, duty cycle). A directly modulated CW laser, or a CW laser followed by a phase modulator, produces the constant amplitude, phase modulated light. The phase modulated signal is split into two paths. One signal path is delayed with respect to the other by the calculated delay. The signals are recombined in an optical coupler to produce an RZ pulse train and/or a CSRZ pulse train.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2002
    Publication date: November 13, 2003
    Inventors: Juerg Leuthold, Xing Wei, Liming Zhang