Patents by Inventor Qian Zhang

Qian 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).

  • Patent number: 7660285
    Abstract: The routing of traffic in wireless networks is performed in accordance with a routing metric. The routing metric can reflect the effects of future self-traffic of a forthcoming communication flow. In a described implementation, a routing decision is made for a forthcoming communication flow that is to propagate over multiple nodes of a multi-hop wireless network. The routing decision is based on at least one predicted effect on the wireless network from self-traffic of the forthcoming communication flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Yongqiang Xiong, Qian Zhang, Shouyi Yin
  • Publication number: 20100008946
    Abstract: Therapeutic methods and microorganisms therefor are provided. The microorganisms are designed to accumulate in immunoprivileged tissues and cells, such as in tumors and other proliferating tissue and in inflamed tissues, compared to other tissues, cells and organs, so that they exhibit relatively low toxicity to host organisms. The microorganisms also are designed or modified to result in leaky cell membranes of cells in which they accumulate, resulting in production of antibodies reactive against proteins and other cellular products and also permitting exploitation of proferating proliferating tissues, particularly tumors, to produce selected proteins and other products. Vaccines containing the microorganisms are provided. Combinations of the microorganisms and anti-cancer agents and uses thereof for treating cancer also are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Inventors: Aladar A. Szalay, Tatyana Timiryasova, Yong A. Yu, Qian Zhang
  • Patent number: 7630997
    Abstract: Systems and methods for compressing markup language data, such as XML data, are provided that utilize a finite state machine (FSM), which is representative of an XML schema, and a rule file. Information defined in an XML schema is abstracted into a finite state machine (FSM). The rule file ensures that a compressor and de-compressor have consistent FSMs when the compressor and de-compressor for XML data are not in the same location, such as is generally the case for Web Services scenarios or other client/server scenarios. With the rule file, FSMs can thus be be easily stored, transmitted and updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Yunxin Liu
  • Patent number: 7626931
    Abstract: In view of the foregoing, the present invention provides a unified software framework or architecture for distributed coordination of wireless devices and radios, referred to as Layer 2.5 Software MAC (or ‘SoftMAC’), which resides between the standard 802.11 MAC layer (Layer 2) and IP layer (Layer 3) to regulate and control the amount of traffic (both real-time and “best effort”) delivered to 802.11 MAC DCF interfaces. The software based design can be ported to different OS platforms and systems and is capable of handling new hardware interfaces and MAC mechanisms (e.g., 802.11e) with only a software upgrade. The invention thus provides a natural way to make end systems support coordination of different radios of device(s), achieving better performance. Advantages of the 2.5 layer software MAC in accordance with the invention include: (a) there are no hardware constraints; (b) heterogeneous wireless/radio support is provided at the 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Haitao Wu, Yunxin Liu, Qian Zhang
  • Patent number: 7604594
    Abstract: A method and system for controlling an ultrasound system are provided. The method includes processing image data received from an ultrasound system to obtain a time gain compensation correction curve, wherein the image data is internally time gain compensated. The method further includes processing the image data using the time gain compensation correction curve and user inputs parameters. The user input parameters include at least one of a user defined time gain compensation parameter and a user defined dynamic range parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Qian Zhang Adams, Richard Marion Kulakowski, Michael Joseph Washburn
  • Patent number: 7602707
    Abstract: A method provides differentiated quality of service (QoS) by providing adaptive updates to media access control (MAC) layer parameters on a distributed basis. The method includes calculating a failure probability for a transmission over the network, determining a target value for determining a contention window according to a mapped function of the failure probability, and altering the contention window according to a scaling function of the target value. The mapped function and the scaling can provide QoS differentiation. A wireless device ensures fairness in a wireless time slotted network and includes a network interface card (NIC), a network driver interface, a network monitor, a statistics engine, and an adaptive parameter engine for determining a target value for determining a contention window according to a mapped function of the one or more probabilities to enable an alteration of the contention window and provide new parameters for the MAC layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Zihua Guo, Wenwu Zhu, Qian Zhang, Jun Zhao
  • Patent number: 7593423
    Abstract: A method provides differentiated quality of service (QoS) by providing adaptive updates to media access control (MAC) layer parameters on a distributed basis. The method includes calculating a failure probability for a transmission over the network, determining a target value for determining a contention window according to a mapped function of the failure probability, and altering the contention window according to a scaling function of the target value. The mapped function and the scaling can provide QoS differentiation. A wireless device ensures fairness in a wireless time slotted network and includes a network interface card (NIC), a network driver interface, a network monitor, a statistics engine, and an adaptive parameter engine for determining a target value for determining a contention window according to a mapped function of the one or more probabilities to enable an alteration of the contention window and provide new parameters for the MAC layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Zihua Guo, Wenwu Zhu, Qian Zhang, Jun Zhao
  • Patent number: 7588771
    Abstract: Therapeutic methods and microorganisms therefor are provided. The microorganisms are designed to accumulate in immunoprivileged tissues and cells, such as in tumors and other proliferating tissue and in inflamed tissues, compared to other tissues, cells and organs, so that they exhibit relatively low toxicity to host organisms. The microorganisms also are designed or modified to result in leaky cell membranes of cells in which they accumulate, resulting in production of antibodies reactive against proteins and other cellular products and also permitting exploitation of proliferating tissues, particularly tumors, to produce selected proteins and other products. Vaccines containing the microorganisms are provided. Combinations of the microorganisms and anti-cancer agents and uses thereof for treating cancer also are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: Genelux Corporation
    Inventors: Aladar A. Szalay, Tatyana Timiryasova, Yong A. Yu, Qian Zhang
  • Patent number: 7588767
    Abstract: Therapeutic methods and microorganisms therefore are provided. The microorganisms are designed to accumulate in immunoprivileged tissues and cells, such as in tumors and other proliferating tissue and in inflamed tissues, compared to other tissues, cells and organs, so that they exhibit relatively low toxicity to host organisms. The microorganisms also are designed or modified to result in leaky cell membranes of cells in which they accumulate, resulting in production of antibodies reactive against proteins and other cellular products and also permitting exploitation of proliferating tissues, particularly tumors, to produce selected proteins and other products. Methods for making tumor specific antibodies and also methods of making gene products encoded by the microorganism as well as antibodies reactive therewith are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: Genelux Corporation
    Inventors: Aladar A. Szalay, Tatyana Timiryasova, Yong A. Yu, Qian Zhang
  • Patent number: 7581010
    Abstract: A middle layer network protocol enhancement, virtual connectivity (VC) makes the network attachment point changes of local and remote peers transparent to applications that use network services. A virtual connectivity module local to each peer translates communication connection parameters from apparent to real and vice versa, as well as sending and receiving secure connection updates directly to and from peers. Unlike Mobile IP, no routing infrastructure modifications are required. A subscribe-notify service provides connection update notifications when direct peer-to-peer connection updates are not possible, for example, when two communicating peers move simultaneously or when the moving peer is communicating with a peer behind network address translation (NAT). Methods for detecting these conditions are disclosed, as is a virtual connectivity protocol and virtual connectivity module architecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Chuanxiong Guo, Jun Yuan, Qian Zhang, Wenwu Zhu
  • Patent number: 7577097
    Abstract: Systems and methods for Compound TCP are described. In one aspect, a single TCP connection is opened for communication of data over a compound stream between first and second computing devices. The compound stream includes two or more logical data streams to emulate congestion control behavior of multiple separate network (TCP) connections. Data flow over the compound stream is managed with multiple different congestion control schemes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kun Tan, Qian Zhang
  • Patent number: 7574726
    Abstract: A resource allocation of multiple compressed AV streams delivered over the Internet is disclosed that achieves end-to-end optimal quality through a multimedia streaming TCP-friendly transport (MSTFP) protocol that adaptively estimates the network bandwidth while smoothing the sending rate. Resources allocated dynamically according to a media encoding distortion and network degradation algorithm. A scheme is also disclosed for dynamically estimating the available network bandwidth for streaming of objects, such as MPEG4 multiple video objects, in conjunction with the MSTFP protocol. The scheme can account for packet-loss rates to minimize end-to-end distortion for media delivery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Ya-Qin Zhang, Wenwu Zhu
  • Patent number: 7559078
    Abstract: A resource allocation of multiple compressed AV streams delivered over the Internet is disclosed that achieves end-to-end optimal quality through a multimedia streaming TCP-friendly transport (MSTFP) protocol that adaptively estimates the network bandwidth while smoothing the sending rate. Resources allocated dynamically according to a media encoding distortion and network degradation algorithm. A scheme is also disclosed for dynamically estimating the available network bandwidth for streaming of objects, such as MPEG4 multiple video objects, in conjunction with the MSTFP protocol. The scheme can account for packet-loss rates to minimize end-to-end distortion for media delivery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Qian Zhang, Ya-Qin Zhang, Wenwu Zhu
  • Patent number: 7558244
    Abstract: An implementation of a technology, described herein, for transmitting compressed network transport-layer-protocol headers in a speedy, efficient, inferentially synchronized, and robust manner. An implementation, described herein, models the transmission of compressed headers to the congestion procedure of the network transport-layer protocol (e.g., TCP's). Doing so, the sender of the compressed headers can infer whether the receiver correctly received them. Unlike the slow direct synchronization employed by conventional schemes, this implementation of the present claimed invention inferentially synchronizes by modeling after the congestion procedure of the network transport-layer protocol. This is inherently faster than direct synchronization. Since the implementation performs well over both noiseless and noisy links, it is particularly suited to use over wireless communications channels. This abstract itself is not intended to limit the scope of this patent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: HongBin Liao, Qian Zhang, Wenwu Zhu, Ya-Qin Zhang
  • Patent number: 7558875
    Abstract: Overlay network peers may be grouped so that each peer in a peer group has a similar transport network proximity measure with respect to the peers in other peer groups. A first set of transport network distances may include distances between a peer group and peer group neighbors of the peer group. A second set of distances may include distances between a peer and the peer group neighbors of the peer group. The peer may decide to join the peer group if the first set of distances is near to the second set. A first peer group may query a second peer group for the second peer group's neighboring peer groups. The distance between the first peer group and each of the second peer group's neighbors may be measured. Overlay network connections may be established between the first peer group and the closest of the second peer group's neighbors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Xin Yan Zhang, Qian Zhang, Yongqiang Xiong, Wenwu Zhu
  • Publication number: 20090155287
    Abstract: Modified viruses and methods for preparing the modified viruses are provided. Vaccines that contain the viruses are provided. The viruses can be used in methods of treatment of diseases, such as proliferative and inflammatory disorders, including cancer, and as anti-tumor and/or antiangiogenic agents. The viruses also can be used in diagnostic methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventors: Nanhai Chen, Alexa Frentzen, Aladar A. Szalay, Yong A. Yu, Qian Zhang
  • Publication number: 20090136917
    Abstract: Diagnostic methods and compositions associated with viral therapy are provided. In particular, methods, compositions, and kits to measure markers and therapeutic indicator predictive of viral efficacy in antitumor therapy are provided. Therapeutic viruses and combinations and kits for use in the practicing the methods also are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Inventors: Aladar A. Szalay, Yong A. Yu, Nanhai Chen, Alexa Frentzen, Qian Zhang
  • Patent number: 7539188
    Abstract: An implementation of a technology, described herein, for transmitting compressed network transport-layer-protocol headers in a speedy, efficient, inferentially synchronized, and robust manner. An implementation, described herein, models the transmission of compressed headers to the congestion procedure of the network transport-layer protocol (e.g., TCP's). Doing so, the sender of the compressed headers can infer whether the receiver correctly received them. Unlike the slow direct synchronization employed by conventional schemes, this implementation of the present claimed invention inferentially synchronizes by modeling after the congestion procedure of the network transport-layer protocol. This is inherently faster than direct synchronization. Since the implementation performs well over both noiseless and noisy links, it is particularly suited to use over wireless communications channels. This abstract itself is not intended to limit the scope of this patent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: HongBin Liao, Qian Zhang, Wenwu Zhu, Ya-Qin Zhang
  • Patent number: 7536467
    Abstract: An end host in a peer-to-peer system stores identifiers for both its peers and the neighbors of its peers. When the IP address of the end host and one of the peers changes, the end host's new IP address can be sent to each neighbor of the peer so that communication between the end host and the peer will not be lost. The order in which the neighbors of the peer are stored can be prioritized for faster delivery of the end host's changed IP address to the peer. The prioritizing can be by available bandwidth of the neighbors, proximity of the neighbors, trust between the peer and its neighbors, the probability that the IP address of the neighbors will change, etc. Proximity of the peers from each other and the end host can be a function of the identifier, which can be generated from a public key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Chuanxiong Guo, Haitao Wu, Kun Tan, Qian Zhang, Wenwu Zhu
  • Patent number: D605328
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignees: Shanghai Sansi Electronics Engineering Co. Ltd., Shanghai Sansi Technology Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yinghua Wang, Xiaodong Gu, Hao Wang, Qian Zhang