Patents by Inventor Nan Cao

Nan Cao 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: 11951647
    Abstract: Provided is a node diaphragm scraping and sorting device for a bamboo split, which is configured to scrape node diaphragms of the bamboo splits and to sequentially sort the bamboo inner layers and bamboo outer layers of the bamboo splits towards the same direction. The device includes a scraping device, a sorting device and a clamping and conveying device which are arranged from front to back along an axis. The scraping device includes a conical cylinder, two pressing semi-rings, and a scraping ring. The sorting device includes an e-shaped sleeve composed of an inner cylinder and an outer cylinder, and two shifting forks located at both ends of the sleeve. The clamping and conveying device includes an inner ring moving on the axis, two clamping semi-rings and a conveying power device. The structure, function and technical parameters of each branch device are also introduced in detail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: Nanjing Forestry University, JM Industries Group, Fujian Shuangyi Bamboo and Wood Development Co Ltd
    Inventors: Jiabin Cai, Shuai Cao, Minghan Li, Nan Zhou, Chang Liu, Pengyu Wang
  • Publication number: 20240098834
    Abstract: A wireless communication method for use in a wireless terminal is disclosed. The method comprises switching from a first state to a second state according to at least one time value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Chenchen ZHANG, Nan ZHANG, Wei CAO, Jianqiang DAI, Kaibo TIAN
  • Patent number: 11937293
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to wireless communications and, more particularly, to systems and methods for determining an adaptive random access response window length in non-terrestrial networks. In one embodiment, a method performed by a communication device includes: receiving system information from a communication node, wherein the communication node communicates using a satellite in orbit or a high altitude platform station (HAPS); and determining an adaptive random access response window length based on the system information and whether the communication device has access to situation information that: characterizes a location of the communication device, an ephemeris of the satellite or a trajectory of the HAPS, and a payload type of the satellite or the HAPS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wei Cao, Zhen Yang, Nan Zhang, Jianwu Dou, Linxi Hu
  • Publication number: 20240090064
    Abstract: Methods and systems for techniques for beam management in wireless networks are disclosed. In one example aspect, the method includes receiving, by a wireless device, a configuration from a network device, and initiating, by the wireless device, a process to recover a link to a network based on information elements within the configuration associated with different criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Nan ZHANG, Wei CAO, Jianwu DOU, Jianqiang DAI
  • Publication number: 20240086650
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a relation extraction system adapted to financial entities and fused with prior knowledge and a method thereof, the system at least comprising: a deep pretraining module, for training and generating a deep pretrained model for recognizing attributes of the financial entities; a keyword analyzing module, for extracting and outputting positional information and importance vectors of keywords in a Chinese finance-related text; an attention mechanism module, for encoding the positional information of the keywords to obtain attention masks, and inputting them with entity information into the deep pretrained model to acquire text feature vectors; and an optimal margin distribution model module, for predicting financial-entity relations based on the text feature vectors and the importance vectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Xuanhua SHI, Yao WAN, Teng ZHANG, Hai JIN, Nan CAO, Mengfan LI
  • Publication number: 20230403685
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a communication method, a base station, a user equipment, and a storage medium in a communication system supporting a carrier aggregation (CA). The method comprises identifying ratio information for a plurality of carriers for a user equipment (UE) from at least one candidate ratio information based on a total carrier transmission capacity of the plurality of carriers. The method comprises determining a transmit power for each carrier based on the target power allocation ratio information. The method comprises receiving, from the UE, uplink signals according to the transmit power for each carrier. The ratio information for the plurality of carriers includes a power allocation ratio for each carrier. The total carrier transmission capacity of the plurality of carriers comprises a sum of transport block sizes of individual carriers in the plurality of carriers. The above method performed by the base station or UE can be performed using an artificial intelligence model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Shoufeng WANG, Junyi YU, Nan CAO, Xiaohui YANG, Xiao HAN, Haoqiang RUAN
  • Publication number: 20230362730
    Abstract: A network node and a method performed by the network node are provided. According to an embodiment, a method performed by a network node is provided. The method comprises obtaining prediction information on an availability of an unlicensed band based on historical data of the unlicensed band. The method comprises selecting transmission resources of the unlicensed band based on the prediction information. The method comprises determining a number of data packets capable of being allocated to the transmission resources based on the prediction information. The method comprises transmitting the data packets on the transmission resources according to the determined number of data packets capable of being allocated to the transmission resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Shoufeng WANG, Junyi YU, Nan CAO, Wenjing ZHOU, Jiankang WANG, Xiaohui YANG
  • Publication number: 20230284194
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a 5th Generation (5G) or 6th Generation (6G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a carrier management method, a resource allocation method and related devices, relating to the technical field of communication. The carrier management method comprises: receiving an access request from a user equipment (UE); and, determining, from candidate component carriers (CCs), a primary cell (Pcell) of the UE based on the per-resource block (RB) throughput corresponding to each candidate CC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Shoufeng WANG, Junyi YU, Wei GAO, Sheng LEI, Xiaohui YANG, Nan CAO
  • Patent number: 11619692
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for acquiring and processing magnetic resonance data, a magnetic resonance imaging system and method, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method for acquiring and processing magnetic resonance data comprises: populating, to a K-space, a plurality of sets of echo data acquired from a plurality of excitations of a tissue to be imaged, wherein at least two of the plurality of sets of echo data have opposite K-space populating orders; and reconstructing an image based on the echo data populated to the K-space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Nan Cao, Yongchuan Lai
  • Publication number: 20230040972
    Abstract: The present application describes systems and methods for authenticating rechargeable batteries in a rechargeable battery cabinet. The rechargeable battery cabinet may be a part of a large, scalable, distributed network of rechargeable battery cabinets, in which rechargeable battery cabinets may be removed or added based on consumer demand for fresh batteries. The system and methods may track the rechargeable batteries and where they are located in the rechargeable battery cabinets by first assigning a dynamic identification number, such that a rechargeable battery compartment does not need a static identifier. The system and method may allow for real-time reading of the status of rechargeable battery cabinets and rechargeable batteries in the system. Each rechargeable battery may have a static identifier to uniquely identify the rechargeable battery. This system and method allows for efficient scaling and identification of rechargeable battery within the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Nan CAO, Hongtao MA, Meng Zheng
  • Publication number: 20220353552
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods for pulling a live stream, and electronic devices and storage mediums. The method includes: receiving a third-party business stream pull request for a target live stream from a third-party business client, determining a source business domain name and a live stream name of the target live stream based on the third-party business stream pull request, searching one or more local live streams for the target live stream according to the source business domain name and the live stream name, where the one or more local live streams are at a first node of the content delivery network, and forwarding, in response to a presence of the target live stream in the one or more local live streams, the target live stream to the third-party business client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuan CHENG, Zhe LUO, Nan CAO, Junjian GUO, Bing YU
  • Publication number: 20220198891
    Abstract: A vibration control apparatus configured to control a vibration generated by a vibration apparatus, using a signal, includes processer circuitry, and an energy controller configured to convert a waveform of the signal while maintaining energy of the signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Masashi KONYO, Kosuke YAMAGUCHI, Nan CAO, Satoshi TADOKORO
  • Patent number: 11360171
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a magnetic resonance imaging system and a method for obtaining magnetic resonance imaging data. The method comprises: applying a fat suppression pulse before the start of any repetition time of an imaging sequence; performing a plurality of echoes in the repetition time, wherein first image data when water and fat are in phase and second image data when water and fat are out of phase are obtained during each echo of the plurality of echoes; and obtaining fat-suppressed image data according to the first image data and the second image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Nan Cao, Yongchuan Lai, Pengfei Lu
  • Publication number: 20220135087
    Abstract: A passenger-oriented transfer synchronization optimization method and a passenger-oriented transfer synchronization optimization device, in which minimizing average waiting time of passengers is taken as an optimization objective, and constraint conditions are determined based on the transfer-related information; an arrival time and a departure time of each train is adjusted on an original train diagram of lines to be adjusted, and an adjusted train diagram is determined; and the trains on the lines to be adjusted are controlled based on the adjusted train diagram. Urban rail transit train diagrams for complex lines can be made, and no manual participation is required when adjusting the train diagrams, which can not only improve the adjustment efficiency, but also ensure the adjustment effect by avoiding errors caused by manual adjustments. The transfer efficiency of passengers can be improved when making transfers, and all-day transfer synchronizations can be optimized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Nan Cao, Ming Luo, Xingdong Zhao
  • Publication number: 20220104027
    Abstract: The present application provides a method for sharing spectrum resource, device, electronic device and storage medium, which belong to the technical field of wireless communication and artificial intelligence. The method includes predicting traffic data amount of the at least two radio access technology (RAT) systems in a set first sharing period according to history traffic data of the at least two RAT systems and allocating spectrum resources in the first sharing period to the at least two RAT systems respectively according to the predicted traffic data amount. Based on the solutions provided by embodiments according to the present application, the utilization rate of spectrum resources can be effectively increased, and the user's traffic perception can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Wei GAO, Shoufeng WANG, Junyi YU, Xiaohui YANG, Nan CAO, Wenjing ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20210405140
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for acquiring and processing magnetic resonance data, a magnetic resonance imaging system and method, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method for acquiring and processing magnetic resonance data comprises: populating, to a K-space, a plurality of sets of echo data acquired from a plurality of excitations of a tissue to be imaged, wherein at least two of the plurality of sets of echo data have opposite K-space populating orders; and reconstructing an image based on the echo data populated to the K-space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Nan CAO, Yongchuan LAI
  • Publication number: 20210393216
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a magnetic resonance system, an image display method thereof, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: acquiring sequential images to be displayed, the sequential images comprising a plurality of images; determining an identical window width for the plurality of images; and displaying the plurality of images of the sequential images based on the window width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Nan CAO, Yongchuan LAI, Jianyong YIN
  • Publication number: 20200341088
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a magnetic resonance imaging system and a method for obtaining magnetic resonance imaging data. The method comprises: applying a fat suppression pulse before the start of any repetition time of an imaging sequence; performing a plurality of echoes in the repetition time, wherein first image data when water and fat are in phase and second image data when water and fat are out of phase are obtained during each echo of the plurality of echoes; and obtaining fat-suppressed image data according to the first image data and the second image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Nan CAO, Yongchuan LAI, Pengfei LU
  • Patent number: 10799183
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for scanning an image subject along a scan axis. The method includes stitching sectional datasets acquired from different anatomical sections of the image subject based on locations of a landmark in the sectional datasets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Nan Cao, Yongchuan Lai, Shiyu Li, Ting Zhang
  • Patent number: 10692588
    Abstract: A system and method for analyzing chemical data including a processor and one or more classifiers, stored in memory and coupled to the processor, which further includes an indication predictive module configured to predict whether a given chemical treats a particular indication or not and a side effect predictive module configured to predict whether a given chemical causes a side-effect or not. A correlation engine is configured to determine one or more correlations between one or more indications and one or more side effects for the given chemical and a visualization tool is configured to analyze the one or more correlations and to output results of the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nan Cao, Jianying Hu, Robert K. Sorrentino, Fei Wang, Ping Zhang