Patents by Inventor Tao Zhang

Tao 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: 11822550
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for query processing based on a stochastic prediction model are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes maintaining information associated with a set of database operators corresponding to one or more historical query plans, wherein each of the historical query plans is associated with processing of a corresponding historical query in a database; building, based on the maintained information, a data structure comprising probabilities of each database operator in the set transitioning to each of one or more of the other database operators in the set; obtaining a new query to be processed in the database; applying a stochastic prediction algorithm to identify, from among the historical query plans, at least one candidate query plan for the new query based on the data structure; and executing the at least one candidate query plan to access data from the database for the new query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Yanjun Liu, Zhiqiang Hu
  • Publication number: 20230367057
    Abstract: An optical construction (100) includes a lightguide (102), a transmissive reflector (112), and an optical sensor (114). The lightguide (102) includes a first major surface (104) and a second major surface (106) opposite to the first major surface (104). The first major surface (104) includes a first portion (108) and an adjoining second portion (110). The transmissive reflector (112) is disposed adjacent to the first major surface (104) of the lightguide (102). The optical sensor (114) is disposed adjacent to the transmissive reflector (112) opposite to the lightguide (102). The optical sensor (114) is aligned with the first portion (108) of the first major surface (104) of the lightguide (102), such that the optical sensor (114) receives at least a portion of light passing through the first portion (108) of the first major surface (104) and transmitted by the transmissive reflector (112).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Zhe Hu, Mingxing Wang, Tuhua Chen, Zhiping Liu, Yang Liu, Xiulong Men, Hailiang Hou, Huijie Xie, Yifei Zheng, Feng Zhao, Jingfei Chen, Bharat R. Acharya, Quinn D. Sanford, Matthew S. Cole, Tao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11816469
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for container lifecycle management is provided. The embodiment may include registering a topology for a plurality of deployments in a container orchestration platform. The embodiment may include detecting a rolling update to a deployment of the plurality of deployments. The embodiment may include assuming ownership of at least one previous version pod of the deployment. The embodiment may include creating network routing rules for the at least one previous version pod. The embodiment may include routing network packets to the at least one previous version pod based on the created network routing rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hong Jun Tu, Wen Tao Zhang, Yang Yang, Yiwen Huang, Ye Cui, Xiao Kai Dong, Yu Chi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11816574
    Abstract: An input weight pattern of a machine learning model may be received. The input weight pattern may be pruned to produce an output weight pattern based on a predetermined pruning algorithm. The pruning algorithm may include partitioning the input weight pattern into a plurality of sub-patterns, each row of the input weight pattern including sub-rows of a first number of sub-patterns, and each column of the input weight pattern including sub-columns of a second number of sub-patterns; and pruning sub-columns and sub-rows from the plurality of sub-patterns to achieve predetermined column and row sparsities respectively, with a constraint that at least one sub-row in each row of the input weight pattern is not pruned. The output weight pattern may further be compressed to produce a compact weight pattern. The compact weight pattern has lower memory and computational overheads as compared to the input weight pattern for the machine learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Ao Ren, Yuhao Wang, Tao Zhang, Yuan Xie
  • Patent number: 11817552
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for plasma modification of sodium super ionic conductor type solid electrolyte, which comprises: dielectric barrier discharge plasma modification of sodium super ionic conductor solid electrolyte particles to obtain activated sodium super ionic conductor solid electrolyte particles; weigh the polymer and the activated sodium super ionic conductor solid electrolyte particles in a predetermined proportion, dissolve the polymer and the activated sodium super ionic conductor solid electrolyte particles in an organic solvent to obtain a mixed solution, then pour the mixed solution into a preset mold, and then dry it to remove the organic solvent and form a composite solid electrolyte film. The composite solid electrolyte film is taken out of the mold and rolled to obtain the composite solid electrolyte film after rolling treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignees: KUNMING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, JIANGSU FENGCHI CARBON-BASED NEW MATERIALS RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Feng Liang, Minjie Hou, Da Zhang, Tao Zhang, Sunzu Xiang, Wenlong Jiang, Baoqiang Xu, Bin Yang
  • Publication number: 20230360886
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include a process power controller for a plasma processing tool. In an embodiment, the process power controller includes a process power source optimizer, a source predictor, and a process uniformity controller. In an embodiment, the source predictor is communicatively coupled to the process power source optimizer and the process uniformity controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: David Coumou, Zhi Wang, Tao Zhang, David Peterson
  • Publication number: 20230357240
    Abstract: Provided in the present application are a compound of formula (I), a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a preparation method thereof, and the medical use thereof. The compound can be used as an agent in the treatment of diseases and conditions, and the diseases and conditions include cancer, inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Hui Zhu, Jibing Zhang, Xinlong Zhang, Tianbo Shu, Tao Zhang, Yao Xiang, Ying Wang
  • Patent number: 11812223
    Abstract: A method, comprising receiving at least one sound at an electronic device. The at least one sound is enhanced for the at least one user based on a compound metric. The compound metric is calculated using at least two sound metrics selected from an engineering metric, a perceptual metric, and a physiological metric. The engineering metric comprises a difference between an output signal and a desired signal. At least one of the perceptual metric and the physiological metric is based at least in part on input sensed from the at least one user in response to the received at least one sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: STARKEY LABORATORIES, INC.
    Inventors: Joao Felipe Santos, Tao Zhang, Yan Zhao, Buye Xu, Ritwik Giri
  • Patent number: 11812387
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for controlling the power consumption of a terminal, and a storage medium. The method comprises: obtaining a temperature of the terminal; and in response to the temperature being greater than a first temperature threshold, controlling the terminal to switch from a dual-connection mode to a single-connection mode based on a power consumption adjustment strategy; wherein the terminal supports the dual-connection mode; the terminal is configured to communicate with a first base station and to communicate with a second base station in the dual connection mode; the first base station is a primary base station, and the second base station is a secondary base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Kai Tang, Yang Xia, Yan Wang, Xingsui Yang, Tao Zhang, Zhi Wang, Zhengpeng Tan, Yunteng Zhuang
  • Publication number: 20230350055
    Abstract: A radar includes antennas, a receiving system, a transmitting system, and a short orbit. The short orbit is provided with a receiving system capable of reciprocating motion thereon; or, the short orbit is provided with a transmitting system capable of reciprocating motion thereon; or, the short orbit is provided with both a receiving system and a transmitting system capable of reciprocating motion thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Tao ZHANG, Jingui ZOU
  • Publication number: 20230352487
    Abstract: The present invention provides a nitride-based multi-channel switching device having a plurality of transistors. The multi-channel switching device comprises a substrate, a plurality gate structures, a plurality of source electrodes and a plurality of drain electrodes. The gate structures, source electrodes and drain electrodes are grouped to form the plurality of transistors and arranged such that each gate structure disposed between a source electrode and drain electrode. Each group of the gate structures are electrically interconnected and connected to at least one gate pad corresponding to each of the transistor. Each group of the drain electrode are electrically interconnected and connected to at least one drain pad corresponding to each of the transistor. All groups of the source electrodes are electrically interconnected and connected to at least one common source pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Hui YAN, Sichao LI, Dinghui CAI, Jihua LI, Yulin CHEN, Tao ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230349549
    Abstract: A burner includes a housing, a fan, a burning head and an ignition mechanism. An air inlet of the housing and an input end of the burning head form a pressure equalizing cavity. The ignition mechanism is arranged at an output end of the burning head. The burning head includes a main frame and at least one stable burning isolation strip, an interior of the main frame is divided into at least two ventilation areas by the stable burning isolation strip in a gas channel direction. A plurality of separation mechanisms is arranged in each ventilation area and divide the ventilation area into a plurality of through holes arranged in the gas channel direction, the through holes are used for allowing mixed gas to pass through and strengthening the mixing effect. The burning flame of a burning surface of the main frame can be divided into mutually independent flames by the stable burning isolation strip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Weizhen LI, Jingcai ZHANG, Tao ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20230342229
    Abstract: A method may include defining a rule identifying an event that triggers a change in a value of a metric. The defining of the rule includes generating a subscription to receive the event from an event stream. Occurrences of the event identified by the rule may be detected based on receiving the event from the event stream. In response to each occurrence of the event, the value of the metric and/or the change in the value of the metric may be evaluated. A notification may be sent to a software application consuming the metric based on the value of the metric and/or the change in the value of the metric satisfying a threshold. Related systems and computer program products are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Daniel Intoppa, Ming Liu
  • Publication number: 20230345651
    Abstract: An assembly configured to support a display screen which is adjustable according to viewing modes, either in a horizontal or a vertical orientation to suit images being viewed. The assembly includes two side support brackets, a top support bracket, a bottom support bracket, and a protection frame. The two side support brackets positioned on both sides of a display screen along a first direction to limit the movement of the display screen. Top and bottom support brackets arranged at both ends along a second direction clamp the display screen. The protection frame on two sides of the top support bracket and the bottom support bracket protect the sides of the display screen. The first direction is perpendicular to the second direction. A display module mounted on boxbody is also disclosed. A multimedia device is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: MEI-TAO ZHANG, HSIU-YING LI
  • Publication number: 20230344011
    Abstract: An electrode assembly, secondary battery, battery module, battery pack and electrical device are provided. In some embodiments, the electrode assembly comprises a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate and a separator disposed between the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate, the positive electrode plate satisfies CAP1=CAP2, in which CAP1 represents capacity of the first positive electrode film layer in Ah, CAP2 represents capacity of the second positive electrode film layer in Ah, and the electrode assembly satisfies |R4/R3-R2/R1|>0, in which R1 represents resistance of the first positive electrode film layer in ?, R2 represents resistance of the second positive electrode film layer in ?, R3 represents resistance of the first negative electrode film layer in m? and R4 represents resistance of the second negative film layer in m?. The present applicant may extend the cycle life of the secondary battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Jianfu He, Qian Liu, Yonghuang Ye
  • Patent number: 11797283
    Abstract: Various embodiments described herein include an application program development and deployment method comprising: acquiring, from a code template library, a first code template matching a code structure of an application program to be developed; creating a template instance based on the first code template; filling a custom code input by a developer into the template instance to obtain a source program code matching said application program; compiling the source program code to obtain a target program code; acquiring a target operating environment mirror matching the target program code from an environment mirror library, wherein at least one operating environment mirror is stored in the environment mirror library, and different operating environment mirrors correspond to different operating environments; and deploying the target program code and the target operating environment mirror onto a target cloud platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: He Yu, Qi Wang, Wen Jing Zhou, Wei Sun, Hai Tao Zhang, Li Wang
  • Publication number: 20230336590
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a railway video resource interconnection and convergence system and a convergence method. The system includes: a security device and a railway video sharing cloud platform. The security device is configured to map, under the condition that a first resource network is physically isolated from other resource networks, an internet protocol address of the first resource network of video resources to an internet protocol address of a shared network; and the railway video sharing cloud platform is configured to acquire a stream of the video resources, and convert the stream of the video resources into a stream of a preset standard format. The present disclosure solves the problem of secure and effective integration of video resources of a professional video monitoring system in a railway and a comprehensive video monitoring system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Mingxia WANG, Lejun ZHANG, Jingfeng ZHANG, Tao ZHANG, Wenhao LIU, Haobo XING, Qiang ZHU
  • Publication number: 20230334047
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for query processing based on a stochastic prediction model are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes maintaining information associated with a set of database operators corresponding to one or more historical query plans, wherein each of the historical query plans is associated with processing of a corresponding historical query in a database; building, based on the maintained information, a data structure comprising probabilities of each database operator in the set transitioning to each of one or more of the other database operators in the set; obtaining a new query to be processed in the database; applying a stochastic prediction algorithm to identify, from among the historical query plans, at least one candidate query plan for the new query based on the data structure; and executing the at least one candidate query plan to access data from the database for the new query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Yanjun Liu, Zhiqiang Hu
  • Patent number: 11789899
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a high-performance data lake system and a data storage method. The data storage method includes the following steps: S1: converting a file into a file stream; S2: converting the file stream into an array in which multiple subarrays are nested; and S3: converting the array into a resilient distributed dataset (RDD), and storing the RDD to a storage layer of a data lake. The present disclosure provides a nested field structure, which lays the foundation for parallel processing in reading, and effectively improves read performance. Furthermore, the present disclosure flexibly generates a number of nested subarrays according to hardware cores, such that the data lake achieves better extension performance, and can keep optimal writing efficiency for different users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignees: Nanhu Laboratory, Advanced Institute of Big Data, Beijing
    Inventors: Hao Liu, Zhiling Chen, Tao Zhang, Peng Wang, Qiuye Wang, Chenxi Yu, Wei Chen, Yinlong Liu, Zhefeng Liu, Yonggang Tu
  • Publication number: 20230327295
    Abstract: A battery quick disconnect assembly, comprising: an accommodating portion which comprises an accommodating cavity, a hardware male interface being provided in the accommodating cavity, the accommodating cavity having an opening, the opening being formed at the proximal end of the accommodating cavity, and a snapping slot being provided at the vicinity of the opening; and a battery assembly which comprises a battery body, the battery body being provided with a hardware female interface and a rotating portion, the rotating portion being provided at the proximal end of the battery body, the rotating portion comprising two rotating pairs, a connecting member for connecting the two rotating pairs, and hooks, one hook being provided close to each rotating pair, and the two rotating pairs being respectively provided on the two sides of the battery body, so that the battery assembly and the accommodating portion can be quickly connected and disconnected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Yuan HE, Tao ZHANG, Yuanzhi WANG