Patents by Inventor Min SHENG

Min SHENG 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: 12455776
    Abstract: A system and a method for operation, maintenance and resource management of mega-constellations based on computing-network integration are provided. The system includes: K MEO satellites and N LEO satellites, each MEO satellite manages multiple LEO satellites in each time slot of each scheduling cycle. Each LEO satellite is configured to acquire data of a computing task within a preset time period and perform data computation based on resource scheduling information for time slot t transmitted by an MEO satellite in each time slot t of each scheduling cycle within the preset time period. Each MEO satellite is configured to generate the resource scheduling information for time slot t based on its own resource task status in the time slot t, transmit the resource scheduling information for time slot t to each of the multiple LEO satellites under its management during the time slot t, and to perform coordinated data computation on computing tasks of the multiple LEO satellites it manages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2025
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2025
    Assignee: Xidian University
    Inventors: Di Zhou, Min Sheng, Hongmei He, Sijing Ji, Jiandong Li, Yan Shi, Weigang Bai, Yan Zhu
  • Patent number: 12432157
    Abstract: A large-scale network node simulation method based on Linux container is provided, which solves problems of low packet transmission efficiency and multi-thread creation in real-time simulation in a large-scale network scenario. The method includes: scheduling all container nodes in a scenario; managing, by a container node, a dynamic thread through an idle thread management queue, and setting a finite state machine and a function pointer for the dynamic thread; registering, by a source container node, an output queue with a next-hop container node, and informing the next-hop container node to allocate a dynamic thread for receiving and processing the output queue. Packet transmission is realized between the container nodes through data units created in a shared memory. The sending thread and the receiving thread dynamically adjust the number of dynamic threads by checking the state of the output queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2025
    Assignee: Xidian University
    Inventors: Yan Shi, Min Sheng, Qixuan Cao, Jiandong Li, Weigang Bai, Di Zhou, Haoran Li, Yan Zhu, Feng Ding, Lianwei Zhou
  • Patent number: 12368505
    Abstract: An inter-layer link design method of multilayer constellations with enhanced service coverage capacity is provided, the method includes: establishing a multilayer satellite network spinning T time slot, and obtaining a coordinate of each satellite in the multilayer satellite network at each time slot under a geocentric coordinate system; establishing an adjacency matrix of each constellation in the multilayer satellite network; establishing a feasible set of inter-layer links between adjacent layers in the multilayer satellite network for each time slot; establishing a globally non-uniform service model according to geographical population distribution, and dividing an earth surface into multiple logical area; obtaining a weight of inter-layer link in the feasible set of inter-layer links at each time slot; establishing an assignment model of inter-layer link according to the weight of inter-layer link; and optimizing an inter-layer link set in the feasible set of inter-layer links to obtain a target inter-la
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Xidian University
    Inventors: Min Sheng, Qi Hao, Di Zhou, Weigang Bai, Jiandong Li, Yan Shi, Haoran Li
  • Patent number: 12279298
    Abstract: A service-level communication and computing collaborative resource allocation device and method for a large-scale satellite network are provided, the device includes: a network information management function module including a service request collection unit configured to collect service requests arriving at each satellite node in the network, and a network resource collection unit configured to collect available resource status information for each satellite node; a service preprocessing function module configured to preprocess service requests; a service feature extraction function module configured to perform feature extraction for preprocessed service requests to generate service demand features; a service order decision submodule configured to determine a service order of service requests; a service strategy decision submodule configured to output a service strategy of the service request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Xidian University
    Inventors: Di Zhou, Chenxi Bao, Min Sheng, Jiandong Li, Yan Shi, Weigang Bai, Sijing Ji, Yan Zhu
  • Patent number: 12108283
    Abstract: Hierarchical network operation and resource control system and method for a mega satellite constellation, belonging to the field of spatial information technology, are provided. The hierarchical network operation and resource control system includes a service layer, a global organization layer, a local coordination layer and a resource layer. The service layer is used as an input to drive operation of whole system. The global organization layer is to realize “operation, measurement and control” integrated control and decision of whole network. The local coordination layer is to realize local management decision and management slice generation. The resource layer is to provide physical resource and physical device and realize resource virtualization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Xidian University
    Inventors: Min Sheng, Di Zhou, Sijing Ji, Weigang Bai, Jiandong Li, Yan Shi, Haoran Li
  • Patent number: 12108322
    Abstract: A method for enhancing network coverage based on adaptive generation of resource cell. A traditional cell in a network is taken as an initial state of the network. A correlation matrix in a current network state is generated. Whether |?i,jt??i,jt-1|/?i,jt-1>? is determined. Each access point is divided into a plurality of resource cells. A CU-DU network mapping table is generated. A middlehaul link of each of the plurality of resource cells is constructed according to the CU-DU network mapping table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Xidian University
    Inventors: Junyu Liu, Min Sheng, Ziwen Xie, Jiandong Li, Yu Su, Yan Shi, Xiayu Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240283529
    Abstract: An inter-layer link design method of multilayer constellations with enhanced service coverage capacity is provided, the method includes: establishing a multilayer satellite network spinning T time slot, and obtaining a coordinate of each satellite in the multilayer satellite network at each time slot under a geocentric coordinate system; establishing an adjacency matrix of each constellation in the multilayer satellite network; establishing a feasible set of inter-layer links between adjacent layers in the multilayer satellite network for each time slot; establishing a globally non-uniform service model according to geographical population distribution, and dividing an earth surface into multiple logical area; obtaining a weight of inter-layer link in the feasible set of inter-layer links at each time slot; establishing an assignment model of inter-layer link according to the weight of inter-layer link; and optimizing an inter-layer link set in the feasible set of inter-layer links to obtain a target inter-la
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Min SHENG, Qi HAO, Di ZHOU, Weigang BAI, Jiandong LI, Yan SHI, Haoran LI
  • Patent number: 12058577
    Abstract: Lightweight inter-satellite handover device and method for a mega LEO satellite network are provided. An attribute extraction sub-module extracts attributes of handover users in a user information storage unit. Based on the attributes of the handover users, a cluster sub-module clusters the handover users into user clusters. A decision set generator sub-module generates target satellite sets of the user clusters, determines each target satellite of the target satellite sets of the user clusters of each LEO satellite whether belongs to LEO satellites in a management domain of a handover decision point of managing the LEO satellite based on management domain information in a LEO satellite information storage unit, and if YES, performing inter-satellite handover by a centralized decision unit, otherwise performing inter-satellite handover by a distributed decision unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: XIDIAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Min Sheng, Di Zhou, Liuying Wang, Sijing Ji, Jiandong Li, Weigang Bai, Yan Shi, Haoran Li
  • Patent number: 11778487
    Abstract: A scene-based beam generation method for ground-to-air coverage based on convex polygon subdivision is provided and includes: obtaining a collection of base station positions by using a method of universal transverse mercator projection; constructing a three-dimensional (3D) low altitude signal coverage area; performing convex polygon subdivision on the area to be covered; and generating a beam configuration of each base station. The method realizes generation of beam configurations of base stations in the 3D low altitude signal coverage area, overcomes a problem that the existing 17 kind of scene-based beams cannot realize the coverage of 3D area, overcomes a problem of mismatch between network state information and beam configuration caused by dynamic adjustment of beam configurations. The beam configurations generated by the method does not need to obtain the number of users in real time to adjust the beam, and has a good coverage ability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: XIDIAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Junyu Liu, Min Sheng, Songtao Lei, Ziye Zhang, Yan Shi, Yu Su, Jiandong Li
  • Publication number: 20230216806
    Abstract: A large-scale network node simulation method based on Linux container is provided, which solves problems of low packet transmission efficiency and multi-thread creation in real-time simulation in a large-scale network scenario. The method includes: scheduling all container nodes in a scenario; managing, by a container node, a dynamic thread through an idle thread management queue, and setting a finite state machine and a function pointer for the dynamic thread; registering, by a source container node, an output queue with a next-hop container node, and informing the next-hop container node to allocate a dynamic thread for receiving and processing the output queue. Packet transmission is realized between the container nodes through data units created in a shared memory. The sending thread and the receiving thread dynamically adjust the number of dynamic threads by checking the state of the output queue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Yan SHI, Min SHENG, Qixuan CAO, Jiandong LI, Weigang BAI, Di ZHOU, Haoran LI, Yan ZHU, Feng DING, Lianwei ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20230146215
    Abstract: A scene-based beam generation method for ground-to-air coverage based on convex polygon subdivision is provided and includes: obtaining a collection of base station positions by using a method of universal transverse mercator projection; constructing a three-dimensional (3D) low altitude signal coverage area; performing convex polygon subdivision on the area to be covered; and generating a beam configuration of each base station. The method realizes generation of beam configurations of base stations in the 3D low altitude signal coverage area, overcomes a problem that the existing 17 kind of scene-based beams cannot realize the coverage of 3D area, overcomes a problem of mismatch between network state information and beam configuration caused by dynamic adjustment of beam configurations. The beam configurations generated by the method does not need to obtain the number of users in real time to adjust the beam, and has a good coverage ability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Junyu Liu, Min Sheng, Songtao Lei, Ziye Zhang, Yan Shi, Yu Su, Jiandong Li
  • Patent number: 11560271
    Abstract: An electronic smoking device includes a liquid supply (34) and an atomizer in a housing. The liquid supply (34) includes at least two container members (34a, 34b) attachable to one another through a connection mechanism to form a liquid supply main body. Each of the container members (34a, 34b) may have an outlet (341a, 341b) sealed by a sealing member (342a, 342b) and a second end which is closed, and an aerosol channel (343a, 343b) formed between the container members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Inventor: Min Sheng
  • Publication number: 20220353742
    Abstract: Hierarchical network operation and resource control system and method for a mega satellite constellation, belonging to the field of spatial information technology, are provided. The hierarchical network operation and resource control system includes a service layer, a global organization layer, a local coordination layer and a resource layer. The service layer is used as an input to drive operation of whole system. The global organization layer is to realize “operation, measurement and control” integrated control and decision of whole network. The local coordination layer is to realize local management decision and management slice generation. The resource layer is to provide physical resource and physical device and realize resource virtualization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Min SHENG, Di ZHOU, Sijing JI, Weigang BAI, Jiandong LI, Yan SHI, Haoran LI
  • Publication number: 20220345967
    Abstract: Lightweight inter-satellite handover device and method for a mega LEO satellite network are provided. An attribute extraction sub-module extracts attributes of handover users in a user information storage unit. Based on the attributes of the handover users, a cluster sub-module clusters the handover users into user clusters. A decision set generator sub-module generates target satellite sets of the user clusters, determines each target satellite of the target satellite sets of the user clusters of each LEO satellite whether belongs to LEO satellites in a management domain of a handover decision point of managing the LEO satellite based on management domain information in a LEO satellite information storage unit, and if YES, performing inter-satellite handover by a centralized decision unit, otherwise performing inter-satellite handover by a distributed decision unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Min SHENG, Di ZHOU, Liuying WANG, Sijing JI, Jiandong LI, Weigang BAI, Yan SHI, Haoran LI
  • Publication number: 20220110045
    Abstract: A method for enhancing network coverage based on adaptive generation of resource cell. A traditional cell in a network is taken as an initial state of the network. A correlation matrix in a current network state is generated. Whether |?i,jt??i,jt-1|/?i,jt-1>? is determined. Each access point is divided into a plurality of resource cells. A CU-DU network mapping table is generated. A middlehaul link of each of the plurality of resource cells is constructed according to the CU-DU network mapping table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Junyu LIU, Min SHENG, Ziwen XIE, Jiandong LI, Yu SU, Yan SHI, Xiayu ZHANG
  • Patent number: 10869313
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides an uplink access method based on an orthogonal frequency-division multiple access mechanism, comprising: determining the number of subchannels available for a current transmission and the number of time slot blocks required for the current access; transmitting uplink access trigger frames on the available subchannels; randomly selecting among the available subchannels and the time slot blocks; and transmitting an uplink access response frame to an access point by the randomly selected available subchannel and time slot block, to perform random access. The embodiment of the present invention can reduce an average time taken by users to access channels, thereby reducing transmission delay of data packet, reducing waste of time and subchannel resources, and improving the throughput of the entire network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: XIDIAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jiandong Li, Hongyan Li, Shun Zhang, Ting Zheng, Ronghui Hou, Zhicong Xie, Pengyu Huang, Yinghong Ma, Min Sheng, Yan Zhang, Qin Liu
  • Publication number: 20200345065
    Abstract: An electronic smoking device includes a liquid supply (34) and an atomizer in a housing. The liquid supply (34) includes at least two container members (34a, 34b) attachable to one another through a connection mechanism to form a liquid supply main body. Each of the container members (34a, 34b) may have an outlet (341a, 341b) sealed by a sealing member (342a, 342b) and a second end which is closed, and an aerosol channel (343a, 343b) formed between the container members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventor: Min SHENG
  • Patent number: 10789474
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure disclose a system, method and apparatus for displaying information. A specific embodiment of the method comprises: acquiring currently displayed information, the currently displayed information including an image; associating an augmented reality AR display identifier with the currently displayed information, in response to a preset object in a preset object set existing in the image; displaying the image associated with an AR play identifier, in response to receiving a request for browsing the currently displayed information associated with the AR display identifier from a user; acquiring AR image data of the preset object existing in the image from a server, in response to receiving a request for browsing the image associated with the AR play identifier from the user; and displaying an AR image of the preset object existing in the image based on the AR image data of the preset object existing in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yingchao Li, Zuncheng Yang, Min Sheng, Zhongqin Wu
  • Publication number: 20190327739
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides an uplink access method based on an orthogonal frequency-division multiple access mechanism, comprising: determining the number of subchannels available for a current transmission and the number of time slot blocks required for the current access; transmitting uplink access trigger frames on the available subchannels; randomly selecting among the available subchannels and the time slot blocks; and transmitting an uplink access response frame to an access point by the randomly selected available subchannel and time slot block, to perform random access. The embodiment of the present invention can reduce an average time taken by users to access channels, thereby reducing transmission delay of data packet, reducing waste of time and subchannel resources, and improving the throughput of the entire network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Jiandong LI, Hongyan LI, Shun ZHANG, Ting ZHENG, Ronghui HOU, Zhicong XIE, Pengyu HUANG, Yinghong MA, Min SHENG, Yan ZHANG, Qin LIU
  • Patent number: D1097200
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2025
    Assignees: East China University of Science abd Technology, Suzhou Huache Safety Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Sheng, Fangfang Wang, Zihong Xia, Jun Shi