Patents by Inventor Qin Zhang

Qin 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: 20140012787
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for information process and motor control using artificially constructed apparatus. More specially, the present invention provides a system and method that can process nature language and other informational input including visual, audio and other sensory inputs and respond intelligently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Inventor: Qin Zhang
  • Publication number: 20130332946
    Abstract: A method for establishing a network platform for renting the electronic publications adopts a grid algorithm, links to the Internet via various networks, and establishes the network platform having an information service grid character for renting the electronic publication. Three types of nodes are established in the information service grid: a first type of node is established as service domain owner and the administrator grid node; a second type of node is established as service provider grid node that is composed of the consumers of the electronic publication; and the third type of node is established as the service provider grid node which is composed of the publishers of the electronic publication; the three types of node provide the network information service by utilizing the grid computing mode and the SOAP. The service provider grid nodes can do online maintenance on the content of the electronic publication provided by them and collect the charge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: SHANGHAI GAOZHI SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO. LTD
    Inventors: Xingxie Liu, Qin Zhang, Guowei Xu, Ning Lui
  • Publication number: 20130332945
    Abstract: A method for establishing a network platform for renting the electronic publications adopts a grid algorithm, links to the Internet via various networks, and establishes the network platform having an information service grid character for renting the electronic publication. Three types of nodes are established in the information service grid: a first type of node is established as service domain owner and the administrator grid node; a second type of node is established as service provider grid node that is composed of the consumers of the electronic publication; and the third type of node is established as the service provider grid node which is composed of the publishers of the electronic publication; the three types of node provide the network information service by utilizing the grid computing mode and the SOAP. The service provider grid nodes can do online maintenance on the content of the electronic publication provided by them and collect the charge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: SHANGHAI GAOZHI SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO. LTD
    Inventors: Xingxie Liu, Qin Zhang, Guowei Xu, Ning Lui
  • Patent number: 8606609
    Abstract: The present invention relates to designating that durations of specific tasks are estimated or tentative. The user can indicate estimated durations by the sheet mode or the dialog mode. Estimated duration characters are symbols of uncertainty, such as “?”, that indicate that the duration entries are not fixed and final, but may need to be adjusted in the future. The user can select an option to not display the estimated duration character even though the estimated field for the task is set. The user can also select an option to have new tasks that are created have estimated duration characters until the user chooses to enter a duration value. The program can also filter the task list to display only tasks that have estimated duration characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brett A. Bentsen, Qin Zhang, Eric W. Doerr
  • Publication number: 20130325857
    Abstract: Ordering search results may include obtaining an exposed log file from a log system, computing a Bayesian posterior probability for relevancy between the log file and a search request, computing an expected value of the relevancy between the log file and the search request based on the Bayesian posterior probability, storing the search request and an identifier of the log file as a key and the expected value of the relevancy between the log file and the search request as a value into a search data structure, in response to receiving a search request submitted by a user, finding expected values of relevancy between the submitted search request and log files that are relevant to the submitted search request from the search data structure, and ordering the found log files in a descending order of the expected values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Huaxing Jin, Wei Zheng, Peng Huang, Xu Yang, Feng Lin, Jiong Feng, Qin Zhang
  • Patent number: 8578676
    Abstract: A tower barrel for wind electric power generation includes a barrel wall for supporting a wind turbine generator system, a torsion cable direction-changing device which is placed in the tower barrel and fixed on the barrel wall for holding the cable from the wind turbine generator system and restraining the torsion of the cable, and cable clamps which are placed under the torsion cable direction-changing device and connected to the barrel wall for securing the cable. The torsion cable direction-changing device includes a beam and two supports for the beam, the supports are fixed on the barrel wall. The torsion cable direction-changing device in the tower barrel improves the safety of the cable, and so improves the safety of the wind turbine generator system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Sinovel Wind Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jizhuang Lu, Qin Zhang, Fang Chen, Huimin He
  • Patent number: 8573656
    Abstract: A multi-actuator robotic device for performing knot-tying is provided herein. The device performs an automatic knot-tying to mimic human hand making a clove hitch knot using a sequence of coordinated string delivery and capturing actions and is particularly useful in the field of hop twining. In one example, the device uses four pneumatic actuators to perform nine coordinated knot-tying actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: S.S. Steiner, Inc.
    Inventors: Qin Zhang, Long He, Henry J. Charvet
  • Publication number: 20130286936
    Abstract: A processor in a mobile wireless device communicates detailed state information about attachments to a user identity module card embedded in the mobile wireless device. The processor detects a change in an attach state of the mobile wireless device for at least one of a plurality of attachment types. The processor determines the attach state of the mobile wireless device for each of the plurality of attachment types and sends a status message to the user identity module card indicating the determined attach states. The plurality of attachment types can include at least a circuit switched attachment and a packet switched attachment. The processor can wait until completion of circuit switched and packet switched attachments of the mobile wireless device to the wireless network prior to sending the status message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Abhishek SEN, Qin ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20130275851
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for information process of web pages using artificially constructed apparatus. More specially, in one preferred embodiment of the present invention, web pages are processed to obtain types of web pages according to information related to the web pages or contents of the web pages, wherein the information related the web pages includes url addresses (links) of the web pages, icons (or texts) for links for the web pages, metadata of the web pages, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventor: Qin Zhang
  • Publication number: 20130268657
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for sampling from distributed data streams. Data elements are received at site servers configured to collect and report data to a coordinator device. The site servers assign a binary string to each of the data elements. Each bit of the binary strings can be independently set to a 0 or a 1 with a probability of one half. The binary string is used to sample from the received data elements, and the data elements and/or the sampled data elements can be transmitted to a coordinator device. The coordinator device can examine one or more bits of the binary string to draw samples of the received data elements in accordance with desired probabilities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Inventors: Graham Cormode, Ke Yi, Qin Zhang
  • Publication number: 20130259422
    Abstract: An N×N switching apparatus for optical components is provided. A switching apparatus includes a first element that provides for a supply of a length of optical fiber in tension and has an interface component for maintaining an end of the optical fiber in tension at a first position. The switching apparatus further includes a second element that has a coupling component for detachably maintaining the end of the optical fiber at a second position. The first and second elements are arranged such that the end of the optical fiber is movable between the first and second elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: GO!FOTON HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Takeuchi, Qin Zhang, Haiguang Lu
  • Patent number: 8539042
    Abstract: A method for establishing a network platform for renting the electronic publications adopts a grid algorithm, links to the Internet via various networks, and establishes the network platform having an information service grid character for renting the electronic publication. Three types of nodes are established in the information service grid: a first type of node is established as service domain owner and the administrator grid node; a second type of node is established as service provider grid node that is composed of the consumers of the electronic publication; and the third type of node is established as the service provider grid node which is composed of the publishers of the electronic publication; the three types of node provide the network information service by utilizing the grid computing mode and the SOAP. The service provider grid nodes can do online maintenance on the content of the electronic publication provided by them and collect the charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Shanghai Gaozhi Science and Technology Development Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Xingxie Liu, Qin Zhang, Guowei Xu, Ning Liu
  • Patent number: 8538975
    Abstract: Ordering search results may include obtaining an exposed log file from a log system, computing a Bayesian posterior probability for relevancy between the log file and a search request, computing an expected value of the relevancy between the log file and the search request based on the Bayesian posterior probability, storing the search request and an identifier of the log file as a key and the expected value of the relevancy between the log file and the search request as a value into a search data structure, in response to receiving a search request submitted by a user, finding expected values of relevancy between the submitted search request and log files that are relevant to the submitted search request from the search data structure, and ordering the found log files in a descending order of the expected values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Huaxing Jin, Wei Zheng, Peng Huang, Xu Yang, Feng Lin, Jiong Feng, Qin Zhang
  • Publication number: 20130226854
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for information process using artificially constructed apparatus. More specially, in one preferred embodiment of the present invention, documents can be processed so that the most relevant terms of the contents of the documents can be obtained, and searched. In another preferred embodiment of the present invention, the present invention provides a system and method that can search for information in a document structure and provide precise results by analyzing the inputs and search results using the executing system and the knowledge structure of the think system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Inventor: Qin Zhang
  • Publication number: 20130226844
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for information process using artificially constructed apparatus. In one preferred embodiment of the present invention, if the task for the system of the present invention is to summarize document content, the thinking mode will first analyze the identification information of the element files for words (or phrases) in the document to identify key words (or phrases), then the key words (or phrases) will be analyzed to establish links between key words (phrases). By the frequency of appearances of the key words (or phrases), in combination of the appearances of other key words (or phrases) that are related to the key words, the most important key word (or phrase) or key words (or phrases) can be obtained. Thus the document can be summarized by the most important key word (or phrase) or key words (or phrases) as the topic (or topics) of the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Inventor: Qin Zhang
  • Publication number: 20130191381
    Abstract: Ordering search results may include obtaining an exposed log file from a log system, computing a Bayesian posterior probability for relevancy between the log file and a search request, computing an expected value of the relevancy between the log file and the search request based on the Bayesian posterior probability, storing the search request and an identifier of the log file as a key and the expected value of the relevancy between the log file and the search request as a value into a search data structure, in response to receiving a search request submitted by a user, finding expected values of relevancy between the submitted search request and log files that are relevant to the submitted search request from the search data structure, and ordering the found log files in a descending order of the expected values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED
    Inventors: Huaxing Jin, Wei Zheng, Peng Huang, Xu Yang, Feng Lin, Jiong Feng, Qin Zhang
  • Patent number: 8469868
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for bleed control in a packaging layout having a plurality of packaging decoration patterns for making a plurality of packaging boxes. The method includes obtaining bleed lines based on a bleed width from cutting lines of each packaging decoration pattern for each packaging box. The method also includes irradiating light beams toward the packaging layout in four directions substantially perpendicular to each side of the packaging layout to form irradiated bleed line segments. The method further includes calculating a ratio of the projection length of each of irradiated bleed line segments to a respective projection length of a respective bleed line for each packaging decoration pattern in a respective irradiating direction. The method also includes excluding the irradiated bleed line segments for releasing bleed limit if the ratio is less than the threshold, and otherwise releasing bleed limit for the irradiated bleed line facing the four directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Founder International Co., Ltd. (Beijing)
    Inventors: Qin Zhang, Kaiming Xu, Jianjun Jiang, Hanguang Yuan
  • Patent number: 8458326
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for sampling from distributed data streams. Data elements are received at site servers configured to collect and report data to a coordinator device. The site servers assign a binary string to each of the data elements. Each bit of the binary strings can be independently set to a 0 or a 1 with a probability of one half. The binary string is used to sample from the received data elements, and the data elements and/or the sampled data elements can be transmitted to a coordinator device. The coordinator device can examine one or more bits of the binary string to draw samples of the received data elements in accordance with desired probabilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: AT&T Intellecutal Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Graham Cormode, Ke Yi, Qin Zhang
  • Patent number: 8392438
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for identifying synonym and utilizing such synonym to conduct search is disclosed. The disclosed method includes: obtaining arbitrary two words to be identified; determining whether a shortest edit distance between the two words less than or equal to an edit distance threshold; determining whether the two words to be identified exist in a preset knowledge database, and if an answer is yes then searching a smallest granularity type with highest weight value for each word in the knowledge database; and if the two word have the same smallest granularity type with highest weight value, then determining such two words are synonyms, or non-synonym otherwise. The disclosed techniques greatly improve accuracy of synonym identification and guarantee effect of synonym identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Jing Dong, Fei Xing, Ning Guo, Lei Hou, Qin Zhang
  • Patent number: 8346765
    Abstract: Generating ranked search results includes receiving a plurality of matching information items that match a search request, ranking at least some of the plurality of matching information items using a linear ranking model that linearly combines a first plurality of feature values to obtain a first set of ranked results, ranking at least some of the first set of ranked results using a nonlinear ranking model that nonlinearly combines a second plurality of feature values to obtain a second set of ranked results, and provide a search response based on the second set of ranked results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Ning Guo, Fei Xing, Yuheng Xie, Lei Hou, Qin Zhang