Patents by Inventor Ni Zhou

Ni Zhou 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: 11113423
    Abstract: An FPGA hardware device obtains encrypted data of each participant of a secure computing system, where the FPGA hardware device stores at least one first key, where the at least one first key is at least one first key of all participants in the secure computing system or at least one first key of a predetermined number of trusted managers in the secure computing system, where the FPGA hardware device includes an FPGA chip. The FPGA hardware device decrypts the encrypted data of each participant by using a working key of each participant, to obtain plaintext data of each participant, where the working key of each participant is obtained based on a corresponding first key of the at least one first key. The FPGA hardware device performs computing based on the plaintext data of each participant to obtain a computing result. The FPGA hardware device outputs the computing result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guozhen Pan, Yichen Tu, Ni Zhou, Jianguo Xu, Yongchao Liu
  • Publication number: 20210141941
    Abstract: An FPGA hardware device obtains encrypted data of each participant of a secure computing system, where the FPGA hardware device stores at least one first key, where the at least one first key is at least one first key of all participants in the secure computing system or at least one first key of a predetermined number of trusted managers in the secure computing system, where the FPGA hardware device includes an FPGA chip. The FPGA hardware device decrypts the encrypted data of each participant by using a working key of each participant, to obtain plaintext data of each participant, where the working key of each participant is obtained based on a corresponding first key of the at least one first key. The FPGA hardware device performs computing based on the plaintext data of each participant to obtain a computing result. The FPGA hardware device outputs the computing result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Guozhen Pan, Yichen Tu, Ni Zhou, Jianguo Xu, Yongchao Liu
  • Patent number: 10929571
    Abstract: An FPGA hardware device obtains encrypted data of each participant of a secure computing system, where the FPGA hardware device stores at least one first key, where the at least one first key is at least one first key of all participants in the secure computing system or at least one first key of a predetermined number of trusted managers in the secure computing system, where the FPGA hardware device includes an FPGA chip. The FPGA hardware device decrypts the encrypted data of each participant by using a working key of each participant, to obtain plaintext data of each participant, where the working key of each participant is obtained based on a corresponding first key of the at least one first key. The FPGA hardware device performs computing based on the plaintext data of each participant to obtain a computing result. The FPGA hardware device outputs the computing result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guozhen Pan, Yichen Tu, Ni Zhou, Jianguo Xu, Yongchao Liu
  • Publication number: 20200226296
    Abstract: An FPGA hardware device obtains encrypted data of each participant of a secure computing system, where the FPGA hardware device stores at least one first key, where the at least one first key is at least one first key of all participants in the secure computing system or at least one first key of a predetermined number of trusted managers in the secure computing system, where the FPGA hardware device includes an FPGA chip. The FPGA hardware device decrypts the encrypted data of each participant by using a working key of each participant, to obtain plaintext data of each participant, where the working key of each participant is obtained based on a corresponding first key of the at least one first key. The FPGA hardware device performs computing based on the plaintext data of each participant to obtain a computing result. The FPGA hardware device outputs the computing result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Guozhen Pan, Yichen Tu, Ni Zhou, Jianguo Xu, Yongchao Liu
  • Patent number: 10657293
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for configuring a field programmable gate array (FPGA) based trusted execution environment (TEE) for use in a blockchain network. One of the methods includes storing a device identifier (ID), a first random number, and a first encryption key in a field programmable gate array (FPGA) device; sending an encrypted bitstream to the FPGA device, wherein the encrypted bitstream can be decrypted by the first key into a decrypted bitstream comprising a second random number; receiving an encrypted message from the FPGA device; decrypting the encrypted message from the FPGA device using a third key to produce a decrypted message; in response to decrypting the encrypted message: determining a third random number in the decrypted message; encrypting keys using the third random number; and sending the keys to the FPGA device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Changzheng Wei, Guozhen Pan, Ying Yan, Huabing Du, Boran Zhao, Xuyang Song, Yichen Tu, Ni Zhou, Jianguo Xu
  • Patent number: 10140251
    Abstract: A processor and a method for executing a matrix multiplication operation on a processor. A specific implementation of the processor includes a data bus and an array processor having k processing units. The data bus is configured to sequentially read n columns of row vectors from an M×N multiplicand matrix and input same to each processing unit in the array processor, read an n×k submatrix from an N×K multiplier matrix and input each column vector of the submatrix to a corresponding processing unit in the array processor, and output a result obtained by each processing unit after executing a multiplication operation. Each processing unit in the array processor is configured to execute in parallel a vector multiplication operation on the input row and column vectors. Each processing unit includes a Wallace tree multiplier having n multipliers and n?1 adders. This implementation improves the processing efficiency of a matrix multiplication operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ni Zhou, Wei Qi, Yong Wang, Jian Ouyang
  • Publication number: 20180107630
    Abstract: A processor and a method for executing a matrix multiplication operation on a processor. A specific implementation of the processor includes a data bus and an array processor having k processing units. The data bus is configured to sequentially read n columns of row vectors from an M×N multiplicand matrix and input same to each processing unit in the array processor, read an n×k submatrix from an N×K multiplier matrix and input each column vector of the submatrix to a corresponding processing unit in the array processor, and output a result obtained by each processing unit after executing a multiplication operation. Each processing unit in the array processor is configured to execute in parallel a vector multiplication operation on the input row and column vectors. Each processing unit includes a Wallace tree multiplier having n multipliers and n-1 adders. This implementation improves the processing efficiency of a matrix multiplication operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Ni Zhou, Wei Qi, Yong Wang, Jian Ouyang
  • Patent number: 9912349
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for processing a floating point number matrix, an apparatus and a computer readable storage medium. In embodiments of the present disclosure, the minimum value of the floating point number model matrix and the maximum value of the floating point number model matrix are obtained according to a floating point number model matrix to be compressed, and then, compression processing is performed for the floating point number model matrix to obtain the fixed point number model matrix according to the bit width, the minimum value of the floating point number model matrix and the maximum value of the floating point number model matrix. The compression processing is performed for the floating point number model matrix of the deep learning model by a fixed point method, to obtain the fixed point number model matrix and reduce the storage space and amount of operation of the deep learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science And Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian Ouyang, Ni Zhou, Yong Wang, Wei Qi