Patents by Inventor Tianming Zhang
Tianming 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).
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Patent number: 12243311Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for vehicle verification. The method may include receiving vehicle verification information related to a vehicle to be verified from a client, wherein the vehicle verification information includes a plurality of images acquired by the client via an imaging device, and the vehicle verification information responds to at least one vehicle verification instruction. The method may further include determining a verification result of the vehicle based on the vehicle verification information.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: BEIJING DIDI INFINITY TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Taolue Xue, Tianming Zhang, Zhiheng Wang, Shudong Wang, Jie Li, Hui Meng, Tianyu Chen, Guiting Dai, Zhaohui Wu, Duoqing Zhou
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Publication number: 20250020665Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods that aid in the determination of whether to perform imaging, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computerized tomography (CT) scan, on a human subject that has sustained or may have sustained an injury to the head using an early biomarker, such as ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1), glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), or a combination thereof. These methods involve detecting levels and changes in levels of UCH-L1 in samples taken from a human subject at time points within 24 hours after the subject has sustained or may have sustained an injury to the head.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2024Publication date: January 16, 2025Inventors: Beth McQuiston, Justin Rogers, Jaime Marino, Raj Chandran, Tianming Zhang, Saul Datwyler
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Patent number: 12175229Abstract: An information handling system may receive a request from a particular remote cluster regarding a cluster scaling event; receive first information from a plurality of other remote clusters indicative of a success or a failure of a corresponding cluster expansion event that was performed at such other remote clusters; receive second information from the plurality of other remote clusters indicative of scores for such other remote clusters in a plurality of metrics; determine, based on the first and second information, a ranking of the metrics based on their criticality to the cluster scaling event; receive third information from the particular remote cluster indicative of scores for the particular remote cluster in the plurality of metrics; and determine a likelihood of success for the cluster scaling event based on the determined ranking of the metrics and the scores for the particular remote cluster in the plurality of metrics.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Jim Lewei Ji, Tianming Zhang, Edward Guohua Ding
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Patent number: 12135893Abstract: An information handling system may include at least one processor; and a storage resource having an element manager stored thereon. The information handling system may be configured to: establish, via the element manager, an information handling system cluster, wherein the information handling system cluster includes the information handling system as a first node and at least one other information handling system as a second node; configure the first node and the second node to communicatively couple to a storage array via a network and use the storage array as a primary storage volume for the information handling system cluster; and migrate the element manager to execute from the storage array.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2023Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Tianming Zhang, Jason Ye, Shangyu Li
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Patent number: 12092647Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods that aid in the determination of whether to perform imaging, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computerized tomography (CT) scan, on a human subject that has sustained or may have sustained an injury to the head using an early biomarker, such as ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1), glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), or a combination thereof. These methods involve detecting levels and changes in levels of UCH-L1 in samples taken from a human subject at time points within 24 hours after the subject has sustained or may have sustained an injury to the head.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2020Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: ABBOTT LABORATORIESInventors: Beth McQuiston, Justin Rogers, Jaime Marino, Raj Chandran, Tianming Zhang, Saul Datwyler
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Patent number: 12079064Abstract: A chip-to-chip process variation aware power efficiency optimization method that includes determining, using an adaptive voltage scaling (AVS) module of a processing unit in a system, an optimal voltage identification (VID) based on chip process variation. The method outputs the optimal VID from the AVS module to a voltage regulator of the system. The method adjusts a direct current (DC) load line setting based on the optimal VID of the processing unit in the system. The method regulates, using the voltage regulator of the system, a voltage supplied to the processing unit based on the DC load line setting.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jiangqi He, Zipeng Luo, Tae Hong Kim, Tianming Zhang
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Publication number: 20240256169Abstract: An information handling system may include at least one processor; and a storage resource having an element manager stored thereon. The information handling system may be configured to: establish, via the element manager, an information handling system cluster, wherein the information handling system cluster includes the information handling system as a first node and at least one other information handling system as a second node; configure the first node and the second node to communicatively couple to a storage array via a network and use the storage array as a primary storage volume for the information handling system cluster; and migrate the element manager to execute from the storage array.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2023Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Tianming ZHANG, Jason YE, Shangyu LI
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Patent number: 11977562Abstract: An information handling system may include at least one processor and a non-transitory memory coupled to the at least one processor. The information handling system may be configured to: transmit a request to a remote information handling system regarding an upcoming cluster scaling event for an information handling system cluster; receive information from the remote information handling system indicative of a plurality of known-good cluster configurations; determine a closest one of the plurality of known-good cluster configurations; make one or more configuration changes to the information handling system cluster to cause a configuration of the information handling system cluster to match the closest one; and initiate the cluster scaling event.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Jim Lewei Ji, Edward Guohua Ding, Tianming Zhang
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Publication number: 20240143412Abstract: Disclosed systems and methods may retrieve a base image of a plugin for a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCl) platform and create a Docker image for an HCl platform plugin based, in part, on the base image. The HCl platform plugin enables an extended function not native to the HCl platform. Disclosed methods may include registering the Docker image within an HCl platform instance running on an HCl appliance associated with a customer, and saving the Docker image to a Docker image repository within the HCl platform instance. The extended HCl platform function may be any suitable function including, as an illustrative example, a function for provisioning a third party storage device within the HCl platform. Disclosed method steps may be performed by an independent third party developer that lacks authorized access to an HCl platform instance.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Jason YE, Tianming ZHANG, Carl SHI, Jia WANG
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Publication number: 20240143544Abstract: An information handling system may include at least one processor and a memory. The information handling system may be configured to maintain a plurality of folders in a central management system, wherein each folder is a data structure having one or more hosts associated therewith; and in response to an instruction to move a particular host from a first folder to a second folder: un-associate the particular host from the first folder; associate the particular host with the second folder; and transmit a notification regarding the movement to a local management system of a satellite information handling system; wherein the local management system is configured to update a local data structure regarding the movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Jason YE, Donald MACE, Tianming ZHANG, Carl SHI, Brook Quan ZHANG
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Publication number: 20240143431Abstract: Disclosed systems and methods include or support a message logging service in which, responsive to receiving an event message generated by a business function, the message is logged in accordance with a message severity, one or more severity level attributes of the system, and one or more message logging criterion. Responsive to determining the message severity meets a first criterion, the message may be routed to and saved within a first persistent log file. Responsive to determining the message severity satisfies a second criterion, the message may be temporarily stored to a FIFO message queue, for possible inclusion in a second persistent log file. A health monitoring service for monitoring application programs corresponding to various business functions, upon detecting a degraded health state of a business function, may cause messages stored in the message queue to be dumped to a second persistent log file.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Jason YE, Tianming ZHANG, Carl SHI, Jia WANG
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Publication number: 20230239237Abstract: Disclosed service discovery methods include responding, by a node, to detecting a new connection to a switch port by performing new connection operations that include determining, using link-layer discovery protocol (LLDP) advertisements, a switch port number and self-assigning an IP address in accordance with a predetermined addressing protocol in which the self-assigned IP address is indicative of the switch port number. The IP address assigned to the node may indicate the node's switch port number. Disclosed methods may further include initiating a unicast discovery procedure to determine, via unicast messages exchanged between nodes connected to the switch, a switch port roster that lists or otherwise indicates nodes connected to the switch as well as their corresponding port numbers and services available from each node. The switch port roster may be distributed to each of the connected nodes. The unicast discovery procedure may be periodically launched to refresh and re-distribute the roster.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2022Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Zhuo ZHANG, Kai ZHOU, Zheng ZHANG, Tianming ZHANG
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Publication number: 20230195486Abstract: An information handling system may include at least one processor and a memory. The information handling system may be configured to: add a node to a cluster of information handling systems; while the node is a member of the cluster, cause a plurality of components of the node to be changed according to a first set of changes; for each change in the first set of changes, store a record of the change; and in response to an indication that the node is to be removed from the cluster, cause the plurality of components of the node to be changed according to a second set of changes, wherein the changes in the second set of changes are configured to undo the changes in the first set of changes.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Edward Guohua DING, Jim Lewei JI, Tianming ZHANG
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Publication number: 20230185829Abstract: An information handling system may include at least one processor and a non-transitory memory coupled to the at least one processor. The information handling system may be configured to: transmit a request to a remote information handling system regarding an upcoming cluster scaling event for an information handling system cluster; receive information from the remote information handling system indicative of a plurality of known-good cluster configurations; determine a closest one of the plurality of known-good cluster configurations; make one or more configuration changes to the information handling system cluster to cause a configuration of the information handling system cluster to match the closest one; and initiate the cluster scaling event.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Jim Lewei JI, Edward Guohua DING, Tianming ZHANG
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Publication number: 20230176887Abstract: An information handling system may receive a request from a particular remote cluster regarding a cluster scaling event; receive first information from a plurality of other remote clusters indicative of a success or a failure of a corresponding cluster expansion event that was performed at such other remote clusters; receive second information from the plurality of other remote clusters indicative of scores for such other remote clusters in a plurality of metrics; determine, based on the first and second information, a ranking of the metrics based on their criticality to the cluster scaling event; receive third information from the particular remote cluster indicative of scores for the particular remote cluster in the plurality of metrics; and determine a likelihood of success for the cluster scaling event based on the determined ranking of the metrics and the scores for the particular remote cluster in the plurality of metrics.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2021Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Jim Lewei JI, Tianming ZHANG, Edward Guohua DING
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Patent number: 11671314Abstract: An information handling system may include a host system including a host network interface; and a management controller including a management network interface, the management controller being configured to provide out-of-band management of the information handling system. The management controller may be configured to: receive, via the management network interface, network configuration information for the host network interface; and provide access to the network configuration information via an application programming interface (API). The host system may be configured to: poll the API of the management controller at selected times until the management controller provides access to the network configuration information; retrieve the network configuration information via the API; and configure the host network interface in accordance with the network configuration information.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Tianming Zhang, Jason Jianxin Ye, Zhenyu Qi
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Patent number: 11593141Abstract: An information handling system may include at least one processor, and a non-transitory memory coupled to the at least one processor. The information handling system may be configured to execute a configuration procedure to set up a plurality of information handling resources of the information handling system, and wherein the configuration procedure includes a plurality of logical groups related to different types of configuration. Each logical group may include one or more atomic groups, each atomic group including a plurality of logically related atomic operations. In response to a failure of a particular atomic operation of a particular atomic group, the information handling system may be configured to roll back the particular atomic operation and allow the configuration procedure to be restarted at a beginning of the particular atomic group.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Tianming Zhang, Jason Jianxin Ye
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Publication number: 20220335722Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for vehicle verification. The method may include receiving vehicle verification information related to a vehicle to be verified from a client, wherein the vehicle verification information includes a plurality of images acquired by the client via an imaging device, and the vehicle verification information responds to at least one vehicle verification instruction. The method may further include determining a verification result of the vehicle based on the vehicle verification information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Applicant: BEIJING DIDI INFINITY TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Taolue XUE, Tianming ZHANG, Zhiheng WANG, Shudong WANG, Jie LI, Hui MENG, Tianyu CHEN, Guiting DAI, Zhaohui WU, Duoqing ZHOU
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Publication number: 20220300063Abstract: A chip-to-chip process variation aware power efficiency optimization method that includes determining, using an adaptive voltage scaling (AVS) module of a processing unit in a system, an optimal voltage identification (VID) based on chip process variation. The method outputs the optimal VID from the AVS module to a voltage regulator of the system. The method adjusts a direct current (DC) load line setting based on the optimal VID of the processing unit in the system. The method regulates, using the voltage regulator of the system, a voltage supplied to the processing unit based on the DC load line setting.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Inventors: Jiangqi He, Zipeng Luo, Tae Hong Kim, Tianming Zhang
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Publication number: 20210406058Abstract: An information handling system may include at least one processor, and a non-transitory memory coupled to the at least one processor. The information handling system may be configured to execute a configuration procedure to set up a plurality of information handling resources of the information handling system, and wherein the configuration procedure includes a plurality of logical groups related to different types of configuration. Each logical group may include one or more atomic groups, each atomic group including a plurality of logically related atomic operations. In response to a failure of a particular atomic operation of a particular atomic group, the information handling system may be configured to roll back the particular atomic operation and allow the configuration procedure to be restarted at a beginning of the particular atomic group.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2020Publication date: December 30, 2021Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Tianming ZHANG, Jason Jianxin YE