Patents by Inventor Rui Ma

Rui Ma 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: 8402019
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method and computer program products for determining a particular document that initiated a topic of interest in a collection of documents, were each of the documents has contents and a time it was created. The method includes ranking the documents in the collection based on the respective times that the documents were created, ranking the documents based on how similar their respective contents are to the topic of interest and ranking the documents based on originality of their respective contents. The method further includes producing a composite ranking of the documents based on the time, contents, and originality rankings, and then determining the particular document that initiated the topic of interest from the composite ranking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Xin Jin, William Scott Spangler, Rui Ma
  • Patent number: 8377889
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed of treating diabetes, abnormal adipocyte activity, and insulin resistance using C-terminal fragments of adiponectin receptor R1. Methods of causing the secretion of insulin in healthy and diabetic patients using C-terminal fragments of adiponectin receptor R1 are also disclosed. In addition, methods are disclosed of increasing the insulin levels in healthy patients using C-terminal fragments of adiponectin receptor R1. In addition, methods of treating abnormal adipocyte activity, treating metabolic syndrome, causing insulin secretion, increasing insulin levels, inhibiting insulin degradation enzyme, treating Alzheimer's disease, treating cardiovascular disease associated with adiponectin levels, inhibiting ADAM-17 enzyme, treating a condition associated with TNF-alpha, and treating a condition associated with HER2-neu are disclosed. Compositions, dosage forms, and kits are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Pugia, Rui Ma
  • Publication number: 20120268400
    Abstract: A method and system for revising user input position. The method for revising user input position includes, detecting input position of a user, revising the input position of the user based on a predefined revising model, to obtain an accurate position, where, a wrong input position of the user is at least analyzed in advance to obtain the revising model and in response to obtaining the accurate position, triggering an application corresponding to the accurate position. With the technology for automatically revising the input position of the user on the touch screen provided by the invention, it is possible to help the user more conveniently locate the needed content, so as to save the time of the user and improve the user experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sheng Hua Bao, Jian Chen, Lu Cheng En, Rui Ma, Zhong Su, Rui Wang
  • Publication number: 20120271624
    Abstract: Techniques for processing geographical location data in a document comprise: obtaining geographical location data in the document; grading the geographical location data according to a predetermined condition to determine an associated relationship between the geographical location data; marking on an electronic map the associated relationship between the geographical location data; and presenting the marked electronic map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jian Chen, Ben Fei, Rui Ma, Zhong Su, Xian Wu
  • Publication number: 20120135916
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed for determining progression of a condition, onset of a condition, or efficacy of treatment of a condition characterized by an adipocyte imbalance in a patient. In addition, methods are disclosed of treating diabetes, abnormal adipocyte activity, and insulin resistance using monomeric, homodimeric, and heterodimeric forms of certain C-terminal fragments of adiponectin receptor. In addition, methods of treating abnormal adipocyte activity, treating metabolic syndrome, causing insulin secretion, increasing insulin levels, inhibiting insulin degradation enzyme, treating Alzheimer's disease, treating cardiovascular disease associated with adiponectin levels, inhibiting ADAM-17 enzyme, inhibiting a protease, treating a condition associated with TNF-alpha, and treating a condition associated with HER2-neu are disclosed. Compositions, dosage forms, and kits are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Pugia, Rui Ma
  • Publication number: 20120113887
    Abstract: A method and system for mobility management of a User Equipment (UE) in a radio relay system is used for resolving the technical problem of performing a UE handover between different relay stations belonging to a same Donor eNodeB (DeNB). The method comprises that: an X2 interface link is established between the relay stations belonging to one DeNB; a source relay station transmits a handover request to a target relay station, and the target relay station performs admission control; when the target relay station permits the UE to access, the source relay station performs forwarding of UE context and cached data; after the UE has successfully accessed the target relay station, the target relay station notifies the DeNB that the path has changed, and the DeNB performs a path handover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaoqin Shen, Lifeng Han, Rui Ma
  • Publication number: 20120069788
    Abstract: A random access method and a base station are provided, wherein the method comprises: a base station assigning a relay-dedicated random access preamble to a relay, wherein the relay-dedicated random access preamble indicates an access priority of the relay to be higher than that of an ordinary UE (S502); the base station receiving the relay-dedicated random access preamble sent from the relay and a random access preamble sent from the ordinary UE (S504); and the base station performing, when determining the relay-dedicated random access preamble is received, a non-contention-based random access preferentially for the relay (S506). Through the above processes, the time taken by random access of the relay to the network can be saved, and the success ratio of random access of the relay to the network is increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: ZTEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiaoqin Shen, Rui Ma, Zhongda Du
  • Publication number: 20120063393
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and terminal for selecting a random access resource, the method includes: the terminal receives the physical downlink control channel signaling sent by a system; the terminal determines the first subframe which meets a condition A and contains a random access resource from the subsequent subframes of the subframe receiving the physical downlink control channel signaling, the condition A is that the time difference between the first subframe and the subframe receiving the physical downlink control channel signaling is greater than or equal to k, k is the time delay defined by the physical layer of the terminal; and the terminal starts a selection on the subframe containing a random access source from the first subframe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhongda Du, Rui Ma, Bin Yu
  • Publication number: 20120005192
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for enhancing webpage browsing. The method of the invention includes a predicting step which predicts, for a first block in the webpage, a subsequent second block, based on a browsing history of blocks of webpages by at least one user; and a link generating step of automatically generating a link pointing to the second block based on a result of the predicting step. The apparatus includes: predicting means configured to predict, for a first block in the webpage, a subsequent second block, based on a browsing history of blocks of web pages by at least one user; and link generating means configured to automatically generate a link pointing to the second block based on a result of the predicting means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shenghua Bao, Jian Chen, Lu Cheng En, Rui Ma, Zhong Su
  • Publication number: 20110320462
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for recommending information to users within a social network. The method builds a recommendation list with at least one two-tuple, where each two-tuple comprises a target user name and an information item and ranks the recommendation list by using two-tuples in the recommendation list as a basic unit. By selecting a two-tuple in the recommendation list, the user can recommend a corresponding information item to a user represented by a target user name. An apparatus is also provided by using a builder for building for a user a recommendation list comprising at least one two-tuple and a sorter for ranking the recommendation list by using two-tuples in the recommendation list as a basic unit, such that, by selecting a two-tuple in the recommendation list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shenghua Bao, Jian Chen, Cheng En Lu, Rui Ma, Zhong Su
  • Publication number: 20110301089
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed of treating diabetes, abnormal adipocyte activity, and insulin resistance using C-terminal fragments of adiponectin receptor R1. Methods of causing the secretion of insulin in healthy and diabetic patients using C-terminal fragments of adiponectin receptor R1 are also disclosed. In addition, methods are disclosed of increasing the insulin levels in healthy patients using C-terminal fragments of adiponectin receptor R1. In addition, methods of treating abnormal adipocyte activity, treating metabolic syndrome, causing insulin secretion, increasing insulin levels, inhibiting insulin degradation enzyme, treating Alzheimer's disease, treating cardiovascular disease associated with adiponectin levels, inhibiting ADAM-17 enzyme, treating a condition associated with TNF-alpha, and treating a condition associated with HER2-neu are disclosed. Compositions, dosage forms, and kits are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Pugia, Rui Ma
  • Publication number: 20110295594
    Abstract: System, method and program product for text processing using object coreference technology. In particular, the invention provides a text processing method which includes, acquiring text to be processed; extracting subject words and entity words corresponding to the subject words from the text; grouping the subject words; determining entity words that reference a same concerned object according to the grouped subject words; and generating processing policy for entity words that reference a same concerned object. The invention also includes a system with means for carrying out the method. The invention generally realizes automatic, more comprehensive, accurate, efficient analysis and processing on text data. The invention can be used to dig a large amount of comment data about some entity, and the invention can also be used to suggest insertion place in an article where embedded advertisement is inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keke Cai, Rui Ma, Zhong Su, Xiao Xun Zhang, Hui Jia Zhu
  • Publication number: 20110252025
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method and computer program products for determining a particular document that initiated a topic of interest in a collection of documents, were each of the documents has contents and a time it was created. The method includes ranking the documents in the collection based on the respective times that the documents were created, ranking the documents based on how similar their respective contents are to the topic of interest and ranking the documents based on originality of their respective contents. The method further includes producing a composite ranking of the documents based on the time, contents, and originality rankings, and then determining the particular document that initiated the topic of interest from the composite ranking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xin JIN, William Scott SPANGLER, Rui MA
  • Publication number: 20110231448
    Abstract: A device for generating opinion pairs having sentiment orientation based impact relations, having: a reception unit which receives a plurality of object-oriented opinions; an extraction unit which extracts opinions having impact relations among the plurality of object-oriented opinions; an analysis unit which analyzes sentiment orientations of the extracted respective opinions; and a generation unit which establishes correlations between the opinions having sentiment orientation based impact relations to generate the opinion pairs having the sentiment orientation based impact relations. The present device can search and locate more implicit opinions as supplementary opinions by detecting impact relations from a plurality of opinions, and help users interested in different objects obtain more comprehensive comments and summaries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keke Cai, Rui Ma, Zhong Su, Xiao Xun Zhang, Hui Jia Zhu
  • Patent number: 8017573
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed of treating diabetes, abnormal adipocyte activity, and insulin resistance using C-terminal fragments of adiponectin receptor R1. Methods of causing the secretion of insulin in healthy and diabetic patients using C-terminal fragments of adiponectin receptor R1 are also disclosed. In addition, methods are disclosed of increasing the insulin levels in healthy patients using C-terminal fragments of adiponectin receptor R1. In addition, methods of treating abnormal adipocyte activity, treating metabolic syndrome, causing insulin secretion, increasing insulin levels, inhibiting insulin degradation enzyme, treating Alzheimer's disease, treating cardiovascular disease associated with adiponectin levels, inhibiting ADAM-17 enzyme, treating a condition associated with TNF-alpha, and treating a condition associated with HER2-neu are disclosed. Compositions, dosage forms, and kits are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Pugia, Rui Ma
  • Publication number: 20110078206
    Abstract: A tagging method and apparatus, including computer program products, based on a structured data set are provided, the tagging method comprising: creating classification models for respective nodes in the structured data set of an event; acquiring public opinions on the event; and tagging the opinions to corresponding nodes of the structured data set using the created classification models. The tagging method and apparatus of the present disclosure are able to provide well-ordered, focused public opinions for each event to users, and to exhibit the evolution of the public opinions along with time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jian Chen, Ben Fei, Rui Ma, Zhong Su, Xian Wu
  • Publication number: 20110055187
    Abstract: A method and system for searching an electronic map. The method includes the steps of: receiving a query entered by a user for searching the electronic map; extracting place names in the query; extracting in web pages searched on a computer network co-occurrence place names that co-occurred with the place names; selecting extension place names from the co-occurrence place names, thereby obtaining a set of extension place names; generating a set of queries, wherein the set of queries includes the query entered by the user, and includes a query obtained by replacing the place names in the query entered by the user with each extension place name in the set of extension place names respectively; and sending the set of queries to a map search engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keke Cai, Rui Ma, Zong Su, Xiao Xun Zhang, Hui Jia Zhu
  • Publication number: 20100306123
    Abstract: A user comment processing method and system and an information retrieval method and system. The user comment processing method includes the steps of: receiving objective data of a feature of a product or service and user comments on the product or service; identifying user comments associated with the feature of the product or service from the user comments on the product or service; identifying the opinion facet in the user comments associated with the feature of the product or service; establishing association-relationship between the opinion facet and the objective data of the corresponding feature of the product or service, and calculating an occurrence frequency of the opinion facet associated with the objective data; and creating an association rule of the opinion facet and the objective data according to the association-relationship and the occurrence frequency of the opinion facet associated with the objective data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keke Cai, Rui Ma, Zhong Su, Xiao Xun Zhang, Hui Jia Zhu
  • Patent number: 7830094
    Abstract: A driver arrangement for LED light sources includes a transformer having primary and secondary winding connections. A first electronic switch (SW1) controls current flow through the primary winding, and a sensing resistor is coupled to the primary winding to produce a current sensing signal. A second electronic switch (SW2) is sensitive to the sensing signal to switch off SW1 as current flow through the primary winding reaches a given threshold. SW1 is thus alternatively turned-on and off in alternating turn-on and switch-off phases to power the LED light source via the secondary winding. SW1 is a field effect transistor, preferably a MOSFET. The transformer is SELV-rated. The sensing resistor may be a variable resistor to adjust the duration of the on/off phases to permit controlled dimming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung
    Inventors: Xi Yuan He, Rui Ma, Giovanni Scilla
  • Patent number: 7800119
    Abstract: A semiconductor lamp having a light-emitting semiconductor device, the semiconductor device comprising a carrier and at least one light-emitting semiconductor component on the carrier, and a heatsink. The heatsink has a first main face, the semiconductor device is located adjacent to the first main face, and the carrier faces the first main face. The semiconductor device is thermally coupled to the heatsink, and the heatsink has at least one feedthrough for electrical connection of the semiconductor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: OSRAM Gesellschaft mit beschrankänkter Haftung
    Inventors: Xiyuan He, Rui Ma, Wolfgang Georg Pabst, Giovanni Scilla