Patents by Inventor Tong Zhang

Tong 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).

  • In-memory data storage with adaptive memory fault tolerance
    Patent number: 10534664
    Abstract: A storage aware memory controller for managing a physical storage system. A described controller: a system for mapping physical memory space into a memory region and a storage region; a system for applying different error protections schemes, in which a fine-grained memory fault tolerance scheme is applied to data in the memory region and a course-grained memory fault tolerance scheme is applied to data in the storage region; and a storage file system that includes a mapping table for mapping logical addresses to physical addresses for data stored in the storage region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: SCALEFLUX
    Inventors: Tong Zhang, Hao Zhong, Fei Sun, Yang Liu
  • System and method for automated aerial system operation
    Patent number: 10528049
    Abstract: A method for controlling an aerial system with a rotor enclosed by a housing, including: operating the rotor in a flight mode, detecting a grab event indicative of the aerial system being grabbed, and automatically operating the rotor in a standby mode. A method for controlling an aerial system including a central axis extending normal to a lateral plane of the aerial system, including: generating a first aerodynamic force with a set of rotors enclosed by a housing, detecting that an acute angle between the central axis and a gravity vector is greater than a threshold angle, and operating each rotor of the set of rotors to cooperatively generate a second aerodynamic force less than the first aerodynamic force with the set of rotors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Hangzhou Zero Zero Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mengqiu Wang, Lixin Liu, Pengxiang Jin, Jia Lu, Tong Zhang
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLER-FREE USER DRONE INTERACTION
    Publication number: 20200004236
    Abstract: System and method for controlling an aerial system, without physical interaction with a separate remote device, based on sensed user expressions. User expressions may include thought, voice, facial expressions, and/gestures. User expressions may be sensed by sensors associated with the aerial device or a remote device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Mengqiu Wang, Jia Lu, Tong Zhang, Lixin Liu
  • Video content summarization and class selection
    Patent number: 10521670
    Abstract: A system includes a plurality of summarization engines, each summarization engine to receive video content, via a processing system, and to provide a summary of the video content, thereby providing a plurality of summaries of the video content. The system includes a plurality of meta-algorithmic patterns, each meta-algorithmic pattern to be applied to at least two of the summaries to provide, via the processing system, a meta-summary of the video content using the at least two summaries, thereby providing a plurality of meta-summaries of the video content. The system includes an evaluator to evaluate the plurality of summaries and the plurality of meta-summaries and to determine similarity measures of the video content over each given class of a plurality of classes of video content, and to select a class of the plurality of classes based on the determined similarity measures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Steven J Simske, Tong Zhang, Manav Das
  • Anti-PD1 antibodies and their use as therapeutics and diagnostics
    Patent number: 10519235
    Abstract: Provided are antibodies that specifically bind to Programmed Death-1 (PD1, Pdcd-1, or CD279) and inhibit PD1-mediated cellular signaling and activities in immune cells, antibodies binding to a set of amino acid residues required for its ligand binding, and uses of these antibodies to treat or diagnose cancer, infectious diseases or other pathological disorders modulated by PD1-mediated functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: BEIGENE SWITZERLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Kang Li, Tong Zhang, Jing Song, Lanlan Xu, Qi Liu, Hao Peng
  • System and method for obstacle avoidance in aerial systems
    Patent number: 10515560
    Abstract: An aerial system includes a body, a lift mechanism coupled to the body, a processing system, and at least one camera. The aerial system also includes a first motor configured to rotate the at least one camera about a first axis and a second motor configured to rotate the at least one camera about a second axis. The processing system is configured to determine a direction of travel of the aerial system and to cause the first motor and the second motor to automatically orient the at least one camera about the first axis and the second axis such that the at least one camera automatically faces the direction of travel of the aerial system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Hangzhou Zero Zero Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Xian Su, Zhaozhe Wang, Wei Sun, Tong Zhang, Mengqiu Wang
  • MACHINE TRANSLATION METHOD, APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20190384822
    Abstract: A machine translation method and an apparatus are provided. The method includes: obtaining, when translating a word fragment from a first language into a second language, a source representation vector of the word fragment. The source representation vector of the word fragment represents the word fragment in the first language. The method also includes obtaining a historical translation vector of the word fragment by querying historical translation information according to the source representation vector of the word fragment. The historical translation vector of the word fragment represents a historical translation situation corresponding to the word fragment. The method further includes translating the word fragment according to the historical translation vector of the word fragment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Zhaopeng TU, Shuming SHI, Tong ZHANG
  • AERIAL SYSTEM PROPULSION ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF USE
    Publication number: 20190382105
    Abstract: An aerial vehicle including a housing, an outrunner motor including a stator mechanically coupled to the housing and a rotor rotationally coupled to the stator, and a propeller removably coupled to the rotor, the propeller including a hub and a plurality of propeller blades. A rotor, a propeller including a hub and a propeller blade, a radial alignment mechanism, a rotational retention mechanism, and an axial retention mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Hanqing Guo, Zhaozhe Wang, Tong Zhang, Mengqiu Wang
  • Three-dimensional memory device and method of making the same using concurrent formation of memory openings and contact openings
    Patent number: 10490569
    Abstract: Multiple tier structures are stacked over a substrate. Each tier structure includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and sacrificial material layers and a retro-stepped dielectric material portion overlying the alternating stack. Multiple types of openings are formed concurrently during formation of each tier structure. Openings concurrently formed through each tier structure can include at least two types of openings that may be selected from through-tier memory openings, through-tier support openings, and through-tier staircase-region openings. Each through-tier opening is filled with a respective through-tier sacrificial opening fill structure. Stacks of through-tier sacrificial opening fill structures can be removed in stages to form various device components, which include memory stack structures, support pillar structures, and staircase-region contact via structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Mitsuteru Mushiga, Hisakazu Otoi, Kensuke Yamaguchi, James Kai, Zhixin Cui, Murshed Chowdhury, Johann Alsmeier, Tong Zhang
  • Communications device, base station, and communications method
    Patent number: 10484839
    Abstract: A communications apparatus, a base station, and a communications method. The communications apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to: group users in a 3D beam-forming space of a current cell into multiple space user groups; determine group configuration information of the users in the 3D beam-forming space of the current cell; notify a neighbor cell of the group configuration information of the users in the 3D beam-forming space of the current cell to assist inter-cell interference coordination, wherein the current cell is configured with an antenna array having multiple physical antennas to achieve 3D beam-forming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Tong Zhang, Zhongbin Qin, Weijuan Gao, Hui Liang, Qinyan Jiang
  • Public accessible automated robotic warehouse for mails, parcels and packages
    Patent number: 10472173
    Abstract: A robotic warehouse includes a housing, a plurality of pallets, a plurality of bins, a rack assembly, a plurality of robots, a locker assembly and a centralized control system. A customer drops off a first package on a first pallet or in a first bin in a first locker of the locker assembly. A robot picks up the first package on the first pallet or in the first bin in the first locker of the locker assembly. The robot moves the first package on the first pallet or in the first bin to a first unit of the rack assembly. The robot moves a second package on a second pallet or in a second bin from a second unit of the rack assembly to a second locker of the locker assembly. Another customer picks up the second package from the second locker of the locker assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Inventors: Ching Qing Guo, ViVien Z S Guo, Tiffany Tong Zhang
  • Method and apparatus for determining a location of a point of interest
    Patent number: 10473475
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are for determining a location of a new point of interest by determining demand information of a user based on retrieval data of the user. The retrieval data includes at least point of interest data, and the demand information includes at least a demand occurrence position. Supply information, including at least a supply region of existing points of interest are obtained based on the retrieval data. The demand information of the user is matched with the supply information of the existing points of interest to obtain the unsatisfied demand information of the user. The location of the new point of interest is determined based on the unsatisfied demand information of the user. The demand information for determining the location of a new point of interest is more accurate and comprehensive, and accuracy and reliability of the site selection of a new point of interest are improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Haishan Wu, Tianyi Wang, Tong Zhang
  • CHIMERIC NK RECEPTOR AND METHODS FOR TREATING CANCER
    Publication number: 20190338011
    Abstract: The present invention relates to chimeric immune receptor molecules for reducing or eliminating tumors. The chimeric receptors are composed a C-type lectin-like natural killer cell receptor, or a protein associated therewith, fused to an immune signaling receptor containing an immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif. Methods for using the chimeric receptors are further provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Tong Zhang, Charles L. Sentman
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUTONOMOUS PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEOGRAPHY
    Publication number: 20190335084
    Abstract: An aerial system, including a processing system, an optical system, an actuation system and a lift mechanism, includes an autonomous photography and/or videography system 70, implemented, at least in part, by the processing system 22, the optical system 26, the actuation system 28 and the lift mechanism 32. The autonomous photograph and/or videography system performs the steps of establishing a desired flight trajectory, detecting a target, controlling the flight of the aerial system as a function of the desired flight trajectory relative to the target using the lift mechanism and controlling the camera to capture pictures and/or video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Mengqiu Wang, Lixin Liu, Tong Zhang, Jia Lu
  • REAL-TIME DATA STORAGE AND ANALYTICS SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20190311345
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for storing, sorting, and analyzing account transactions in a payment network, and for real-time data analytics. One embodiment of a real-time data storage and analytics system includes a payment network that collects and processes account transactions. The system also includes a first data cluster that includes a first data structure. The first data structure stores a set of the account transactions. Additionally, the system includes a second data cluster that in turn includes a second data structure. The second data structure stores account transactions for new account and account transactions for which there is insufficient space in the first data structure. Moreover, the system includes an application engine that generates a score for an account based on transaction data associated with the account transactions for the account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Po Hu, Tong Zhang, Ramamohan Sangasani
  • SIMILARITY-BASED DATA DEDUPLICATION ON SOLID-STATE STORAGE DEVICES WITH EMBEDDED NONVOLATILE MEMORY
    Publication number: 20190310788
    Abstract: A storage device and method for performing device level similarity-based data deduplication. A solid-state storage device is provided that includes: a set of flash memory; a nonvolatile memory (NVM) cache; and a controller that performs similarity-based data deduplication in response to write requests from a host, wherein the controller includes: a cache management module that temporarily stores a new data sector in NVM cache when a write request is received; a similarity detection module that determines if a similar data sector exists in flash memory; a data chunk management module that, in response to determining the similar data sector exists, generates a new data chunk that includes a metadata block, a base sector and at least one delta, wherein the new data chunk is stored in a newly allocated physical block address (PBA) in flash memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Tong Zhang, Yang Liu, Fei Sun, Hao Zhong
  • Aerial system propulsion assembly and method of use
    Patent number: 10435144
    Abstract: An aerial vehicle including a housing, an outrunner motor including a stator mechanically coupled to the housing and a rotor rotationally coupled to the stator, and a propeller removably coupled to the rotor, the propeller including a hub and a plurality of propeller blades. A rotor, a propeller including a hub and a propeller blade, a radial alignment mechanism, a rotational retention mechanism, and an axial retention mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Hangzhou Zero Zero Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Hanqing Guo, Zhaozhe Wang, Tong Zhang, Mengqiu Wang
  • Method and system for implementing self-imposed spending limit
    Patent number: 10417703
    Abstract: A method for imposing spending limits includes: storing data related to a payment account; receiving a spending limit request from a consumer associated with the account, the request including a spending target and spending category; generating a budget including a starting spending limit and two or more periods of time; applying, to the account, a spending limit, such that a value of transactions funded by the account during a first period of time and related to the spending category cannot exceed the applied spending limit, wherein the applied spending limit is the starting spending limit; decreasing the applied spending limit after the first period of time, such that transactions funded by the account during a second period of time cannot exceed the decreased applied spending limit; and repeating the decreasing step until the applied spending limit is equal to the spending target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Tong Zhang, Edward Lee, Qian Wang
  • THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME USING CONCURRENT FORMATION OF MEMORY OPENINGS AND CONTACT OPENINGS
    Publication number: 20190280003
    Abstract: Multiple tier structures are stacked over a substrate. Each tier structure includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and sacrificial material layers and a retro-stepped dielectric material portion overlying the alternating stack. Multiple types of openings are formed concurrently during formation of each tier structure. Openings concurrently formed through each tier structure can include at least two types of openings that may be selected from through-tier memory openings, through-tier support openings, and through-tier staircase-region openings. Each through-tier opening is filled with a respective through-tier sacrificial opening fill structure. Stacks of through-tier sacrificial opening fill structures can be removed in stages to form various device components, which include memory stack structures, support pillar structures, and staircase-region contact via structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Mitsuteru Mushiga, Hisakazu Otoi, Kensuke Yamaguchi, James Kai, Zhixin Cui, Murshed Chowdhury, Johann Alsmeier, Tong Zhang
  • ANTI-TIM-3 ANTIBODIES AND USE THEREOF
    Publication number: 20190276533
    Abstract: Provided are antibodies that specifically bind to T-cell immunoglobulin domain and mucin domain 3 (Tim-3). The anti-Tim-3 antibodies can be used to treat, prevent or diagnose immune, cancerous, infectious diseases or other pathological disorders that may be modulated by Tim-3-mediated functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Tong Zhang, Liu Xue, Qi Liu, Hao Peng, Min Wei, Kang Li