Patents by Inventor Sen Zhang

Sen 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: 10713979
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an unloading device and a self-unloading display device having a first component or a second component cooperatively installed, the first and the second component respectively have a cooperative installation surface, the cooperative installation surface of the first component is provided with at least one unloading device; the unloading device comprises a driving device and a pushing mechanism; the pushing mechanism is connected to a driving device in a transmission way, the pushing mechanism has at least a set of telescopic dowel bars, an end part of the dowel bar is an inclined surface, a small end formed by the inclined surface is arranged close to the cooperative installation surface of the first component; the driving device drives the dowel bar to move along the cooperative installation surface of the first component, the inclined surface of the dowel bar abuts with and moves along the second component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: ROE Visual Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Danhu Cai, Yongfei Yu, Shunwen Tian, Ping Wu, Sen Zhang, Zhanqiang Li, Chen Lu, Dries Vermeulen
  • Publication number: 20200210423
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a multi-party data joint query method, a device, a server and a storage medium. The multi-party datajoint query method executed by a manager includes: analyzing a multi-party joint query sentence to obtain a logical execution plan; processing the logical execution plan according to providers of respective nodes in the logical execution plan to obtain a physical execution plan of each provider; and generating a query instruction of each provider according to the physical execution plan of each provider, and sending the query instruction to respective provider. The query instruction is configured to instruct the providers to perform a query cooperatively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Zhi FENG, Yu ZHANG, Sen ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20200136885
    Abstract: A communication method, a communications apparatus, and a storage medium are disclosed, to reduce a probability that consecutive bit errors occur in a communications system. A received to-be-sent signal is modulated to obtain a modulated signal, and N rounds of operations are further performed on the modulated signal to obtain an encoded signal. An output of the 1st-round operation in the N rounds of operations is determined based on the modulated signal and an output that is of the Nth-round operation and that is processed by a first delay circuit, and an output of the ith-round operation in the N rounds of operations is determined based on an output of the (i?1)th-round operation and an output that is of the Nth-round operation and that is processed by a second delay circuit, where i is an integer greater than 1 and less than or equal to N.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Tianjian ZUO, Sen ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20200121706
    Abstract: A method for inhibiting myopia and an application in preparing a drug. According to the invention, myopia is inhibited by an anti-hypoxia effect achieved by inhibiting the expression of intraocular HIF-1?, and myopia is effectively delayed and inhibited by an anti-hypoxia effect achieved by inhibiting the effect of intraocular HIF-1?. The present invention utilizes HIF-1? inhibitors salidroside and formononetin to inhibit HIF-1? activity to play an anti-hypoxia effect and play a role in delaying myopia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Jia QU, Fei ZHAO, Xiangtian ZHOU, Miaozhen PAN, Sen ZHANG, Qingyi ZHOU, Hao WU
  • Publication number: 20200125076
    Abstract: A computer implemented method at an energy management system (EMS) controller apparatus for automatic generation of a SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) slave interface for an energy management system (EMS), includes storing a SCADA configuration file mapping SCADA data points to EMS data objects; providing the EMS data objects coded in statically typed programming language; providing site configuration information of the energy management system (EMS); scanning, by an object access framework (OAF), EMS data objects with EMS annotations and combining them with the site configuration information to generate an object binding repository (OBR); and compiling the SCADA configuration file to combine the SCADA data points mapping with the object binding repository to generate SCADA bindings information as part of the SCADA slave interface for the energy management system (EMS).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: GREENSMITH ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Sen Zhang, Murat Bayraktar, Nikolai Teleguine
  • Publication number: 20200119584
    Abstract: Computer software and a system are disclosed to provide group control and network operations to/for a multiplicity of distributed energy storage units. The group control software and system can connect multiple individual distributed energy storage units and operate those units in synchronicity to create a large virtual energy storage device. Methods of controlling the distributed energy storage units include: a browser-based online user portal, or network-based, system-to-system protocols by third-party operation controllers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: Greensmith Energy Management Systems, LLC
    Inventor: SEN ZHANG
  • Patent number: 10613761
    Abstract: Data service status information is obtained at a local storage tier regarding a data service operation performed on one or more data sets that qualify for remote storage based on a given policy. A determination is made whether or not to store at least a portion of the one or more data sets at a remote storage tier based on the obtained data service status information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Junping Zhao, Kevin Xu, Sen Zhang, Kenneth J. Taylor
  • Publication number: 20200097450
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for a file system, the file system comprising at least a first logical storage area and a second logical storage area, a logical block of the first logical storage area and that of the second logical storage area being different in size, and in response to a request for creating a file, selecting a logical storage area for storing the file from the at least first logical storage area and second logical storage area; and storing the file in the selected logical storage area. According to the above various embodiments of the present invention, a direct and effective way may be used to support variable-length block size in a file system, without increasing metadata and positioning overheads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Jia Zhai, Yingchao Zhou, Wengang Wang, Jun Guo, Sen Zhang
  • Patent number: 10559960
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for controlling a power plant system comprising a photovoltaic power source, an inverter, a DC-to-DC converter, an energy storage and an energy storage manager, the method comprising: receiving target value for AC power to be supplied by the inverter; receiving weather forecast information, energy storage status information and photovoltaic power source parameters; generating forecasted energy flow information for the photovoltaic power source based on the weather information and the photovoltaic power source parameters; comparing the forecasted energy flow information and the energy storage status information; and adjusting the target value for the AC power based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: GREENSMITH ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, INC
    Inventor: Sen Zhang
  • Patent number: 10545984
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for providing a table in a database system, the table including a column having a column data type set to an abstract data type, receiving a first data record to be added to the table, the first data record including a first data value to be included in the column, determining a first data type corresponding to a data type of the first data value, changing the column data type from the abstract data type to the first data type, receiving a second data record to be added to the table, the second data record including a second data value to be including in the column, determining a second data type corresponding to the data type of the second data value, and selectively changing the column data type to the second data type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Sen Zhang, Yinghua Ouyang, Jian Wang, Zhen Tian
  • Publication number: 20200022908
    Abstract: A method for treating myopia and an application in preparation of a medicament are provided, where the volume of choroidal blood flow is increased by expanding the choroid via a drug or a surgical method, so as to achieve treatment of the myopia caused by scleral hypoxia, which provides a new idea and method for treating myopia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Xiangtian ZHOU, Sen ZHANG, Jia QU, Guoyun ZHANG, Fei ZHAO, Xuan ZHOU
  • Patent number: 10516295
    Abstract: The present invention provides a software and system to provide group control and network operations to/for a multiplicity of distributed energy storage units. In particular, the group control software and system connects multiple individual distributed energy storage units and operates those units in synchronicity to create a large virtual energy storage device. This group control system includes two methods of controlling the distributed energy storage units: through a browser-based online user portal, or though network-based, system-to-system protocols by third-party operation controllers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Greensmith Energy Management Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Sen Zhang
  • Patent number: 10503695
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for a file system, the file system comprising at least a first logical storage area and a second logical storage area, a logical block of the first logical storage area and that of the second logical storage area being different in size, and in response to a request for creating a file, selecting a logical storage area for storing the file from the at least first logical storage area and second logical storage area; and storing the file in the selected logical storage area. According to the above various embodiments of the present invention, a direct and effective way may be used to support variable-length block size in a file system, without increasing metadata and positioning overheads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Jia Zhai, Yingchao Zhou, Wengang Wang, Jun Guo, Sen Zhang
  • Patent number: 10437504
    Abstract: An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a storage system having at least first and second storage tiers each comprising a plurality of storage devices. The storage system implements a plurality of data mover modules for controlling movement of data objects between the first and second storage tiers. A given one of the data objects is transferred between the first and second storage tiers utilizing a distributed multi-part data movement protocol in which different portions of the given data object are transferred between the first and second storage tiers by different ones of the data mover modules. For example, each of the different portions may be transferred between the first and second storage tiers by its corresponding data mover module as a plurality of distinct non-overlapping parts. In such an arrangement, each of the plurality of distinct non-overlapping parts of each of the different portions may have a corresponding unique tag identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Haiyun Bao, Sorin Faibish, Caiping Zheng, Sen Zhang
  • Publication number: 20190292338
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for preparing a polyimide film having a low dielectric constant and high fracture toughness. The method comprises: first preparing an aromatic diamine solution, and then grinding and well mixing a carbic anhydride-maleimido heptaisobutyl polysilsesquioxane alternating copolymer and aromatic dianhydride; adding the mixture to the aromatic diamine solution, and then stirring to obtain a carbic anhydride-maleimido heptaisobutyl polysilsesquioxane alternating copolymer/polyamide acid solution; uniformly applying the carbic anhydride-maleimido heptaisobutyl polysilsesquioxane alternating copolymer/polyamide acid solution to a clean glass sheet, and then placing the glass sheet in a vacuum drying cabinet for treatment; cooling the treated glass sheet to room temperature and then putting same in water for ultrasonic peeling of a film, and vacuum drying the film to obtain a target product. The dielectric constant of the film obtained in the present invention is reduced to 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jianqing ZHAO, Zhigeng CHEN, Shumei LIU, Sen ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20190280797
    Abstract: This application discloses a flexible Ethernet group establishment method and a device. The method includes: determining that there are at least M physical layer PHY links; receiving at least M delay test requests sent by a near-end device; determining, by the far-end device, at least M receiving time points at which the at least M delay test requests are received; and determining M PHY links used to establish a flexible Ethernet group, from the at least M PHY links based on the at least M receiving time points, where a delay difference between any two of the M PHY links satisfies a preset delay condition. According to the method in this application, the delay difference between the any two PHY links is accurately determined based on time points at which delay test requests are received over any two PHY links.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Min ZHA, Sen ZHANG, Jing HUANG
  • Publication number: 20190273382
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for controlling a power plant system comprising a photovoltaic power source, an inverter, a DC-to-DC converter, an energy storage and an energy storage manager, the method comprising: receiving target value for AC power to be supplied by the inverter; receiving weather forecast information, energy storage status information and photovoltaic power source parameters; generating forecasted energy flow information for the photovoltaic power source based on the weather information and the photovoltaic power source parameters; comparing the forecasted energy flow information and the energy storage status information; and adjusting the target value for the AC power based on the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicant: GREENSMITH ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: Sen ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20190259669
    Abstract: A device integrated with JFET, the device is divided into a JFET region and a power device region, and the device includes: a drain (201) with a first conduction type; and a first conduction type region disposed on a front surface of the drain (201); the JFET region includes: a first well (205) with a second conduction type and formed in the first conduction type region; a second well (207) with a second conduction type and formed in the first conduction type region; a JFET source (212) with the first conduction type; a metal electrode formed on the JFET source (212), which is in contact with the JFET source (212); and a second conduction type buried layer (203) formed under the JFET source (212) and the second well (207).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: CSMC TECHNOLOGIES FAB2 CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yan GU, Shikang CHENG, Sen ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20190252537
    Abstract: A device integrated with a junction field-effect transistor, the device is divided into a JFET region and a power device area, and the device includes: a drain (201) having a first conduction type; and a first conduction type region (214) disposed on a front face of the drain; the JFET region further includes: a JFET source (208) having a first conduction type; a first well (202) having a second conduction type; a metal electrode (212) formed on the JFET source (208), which is in contact with the JFET source (208); a JFET metal gate (213) disposed on the first well (202) at both sides of the JFET source (208); and a first clamping region (210) located below the JFET metal gate (213) and within the first well (202).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: CSMC TECHNOLOGIES FAB2 CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yan GU, Shikang CHENG, Sen ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20190250960
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a server for managing an image across cloud servers relate to the field of computer technologies. The method includes: obtaining layered image information of a layered image file of a service virtual machine on a second cloud server; creating a boot partition and a rootfs partition based on a pre-created installer virtual machine and the layered image information; and creating, based on the boot partition and the rootfs partition, an image corresponding to the service virtual machine. In this method, no manual operation is required, and not only reducing management costs, but also improving management efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Sen ZHANG, Fei QI