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).

  • Publication number: 20160071200
    Abstract: A method for calculating an assisted categorized budget includes: storing a plurality of account profiles, each profile including data related to a payment account including an account identifier, a transaction history for the account, and consumer data for a consumer associated with the account; receiving a budget request, the request including a specific account identifier; identifying a specific account profile including the specific account identifier; identifying one or more related account profiles based on related consumer data and/or transaction history; and generating a budget for the payment account related to the specific account profile, the budget being based on at least (i) the consumer data included in the specific account profile, (ii) the transaction history included in the specific account profile, and (iii) at least one of (a) the consumer data and (b) transaction history included in the identified one or more related account profiles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: MasterCard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Edward LEE, Tong Zhang, Qian Wang
  • Publication number: 20160071201
    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: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Tong Zhang, Edward Lee, Qian Wang
  • Publication number: 20160065179
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide circuits for generating high accuracy millimeter wave or radio frequency (RF) wideband in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) oscillating signals having acceptable amplitude and phase mismatch over process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) variations with reduced cost, area, and power consumption. In one example apparatus, a polyphase filter having a first stage and a second stage is provided. Each stage comprises resistive elements and capacitive elements. Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide for intentional resistive and/or capacitive value mismatch between the resistive or capacitive values of one or multiple stages such that the phase mismatch between the resulting I and Q signals may be reduced without degrading the amplitude mismatch. Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide for replacing the resistive elements in at least one stage with transistors operating in the triode region, where the on-resistance is controlled by a feedback network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Mazhareddin TAGHIVAND, Tong ZHANG, Mohammad Mahdi GHAHRAMANI
  • Patent number: 9269425
    Abstract: A three-dimensional array of memory elements that reversibly change a level of electrical conductance in response to a voltage difference being applied across them. The memory elements can be set to a low resistance state and reset to a high resistance state during standard operation by biasing appropriate voltages on the word lines and bit lines. Prior to standard operation, the memory elements undergo a forming operation, during which current through the bit lines is limited. A forming voltage is applied to the memory elements during forming with a polarity such that a higher voltage is applied to anodes and a lower voltage to cathodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: SANDISK 3D LLC
    Inventors: Zhida Lan, Roy E. Scheuerlein, Tong Zhang, Kun Hou, Perumal Ratnam
  • Patent number: 9239967
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media with executable instructions, and/or logic are provided for incremental image clustering. An example method for incremental image clustering can include identifying, via a computing device, a number of candidate nodes from among evaluated leaf image cluster (LIC) nodes on an image cluster tree (ICT) based on a similarity between a feature of a new image and an average feature of each of the evaluated LIC nodes. The evaluated nodes include at least one node along each path from a root node to either a leaf node or a node having a similarity exceeding a first threshold. A most-similar node can be determined, via the computing device, from among the number of candidate nodes. The new image can be inserted to a node associated with the determined most-similar node, via the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Ke-Yan Liu, Xin-Yun Sun, Tong Zhang, Lei Wang, Min Wang
  • Patent number: 9229958
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure may include methods, systems, and computer readable media with executable instructions. An example method for retrieving visual media can include receiving a text query associated with a target content. A first group of visual media is identified based on correspondence of metadata of the visual media with the text query, and keyframes from the first group of identified visual media are selected. The method further includes detecting instances of a content type in the selected keyframes, and grouping similar instances of the content type into clusters. The target content is associated with a cluster having a greatest quantity of similar instances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Tong Zhang, Ke-Yan Liu, Xin-Yun Sun
  • Publication number: 20150371238
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of imputing a personal holiday associated with a consumer into a forecast model includes steps, using a processing device, for accessing transaction records associated with purchasing activity of a consumer in a payment network over a predetermined period of time, the transaction records including information about a purchase and date when the purchase was made. The method further includes predicting a personal holiday of the consumer within the predetermined period of time based on the transaction records, wherein the personal holiday repeats at regular intervals within the predetermined period of time; and imputing the date into a forecast model to predict future purchase activity of the consumer. A system includes a processing device and memory to store instructions that, when executed by the processing device, cause the processing device to perform the operations comprising the method steps of the computer-implemented method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Qian Wang, Tong Zhang, Shen Xi Meng, Po Hu
  • Patent number: 9217034
    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: March 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: BEIGENE, LTD.
    Inventors: Kang Li, Tong Zhang, Jing Song, Lanlan Xu, Qi Liu, Hao Peng
  • Publication number: 20150364084
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a pixel driving circuit and a display device, and the pixel driving circuit includes a drive transistor and an organic light emitting diode, where a cathode of the organic light emitting diode receives a first power supply signal, and an anode of the organic light emitting diode is connected with a gate electrode of the drive transistor; the first power supply signal is loaded to the gate electrode of the drive transistor through the cathode and the anode of the organic light emitting diode to reset a signal at the gate electrode of the drive transistor during an operating period of the pixel driving circuit; and the first power supply signal is a low-level signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Hanyu GU, Dong Qian, Tong Zhang
  • Patent number: 9211506
    Abstract: Disclosed is a membrane surface modification method. The method is applicable to a variety of hydrophobic membranes by doping selected inorganic particles. One act of the method involves the in-situ embedment of the inorganic particles onto the membrane surface by dispersing the particles in a non-solvent bath for polymer precipitation. Further membrane surface modification can be achieved by hydrothermally growing new inorganic phase on the embedded particles. The embedment of particles is for the subsequent phase growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: The University of Hong Kong
    Inventors: Kaimin Shih, Xiao-Yan Li, Xiao-Mao Wang, Tong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20150358881
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a communication management apparatus and a communication management method. The communication management apparatus comprises a reception index determination device configured to determine, with respect to respective neighboring cells of a serving cell of each terminal apparatus within a predetermined cell, a reference signal reception index for the terminal apparatus according to location information of the terminal apparatus, the reference signal reception index being used for indicating signal reception situation of the terminal apparatus with respect to the neighboring cells. The communication management apparatus and the communication management method according to the present disclosure can at least improve cell switching performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Qimei CUI, Weijuan Gao, Qinyan Jiang, Tong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20150347855
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to clothing stripe detection based on line segment orientation. A processor may determine whether a clothing region within an image includes stripes based on a stripe classifier applied to line segment information about line segments in the clothing region. The line segment information may include the number of line segments in the clothing region at each of a plurality of orientations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: XIANWANG WANG, TONG ZHANG, DANIEL R TRETTER
  • Publication number: 20150315274
    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: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: Kang Li, Tong Zhang, Jing Song, Lanlan Xu, Qi Liu, Hao Peng
  • Publication number: 20150293905
    Abstract: A method for summarizing a document is provided. A concept is detected for each sentence in said document. Relevance measures between the sentences are computed according to the detected concepts. And then a concept-aware graph is constructed, wherein a node in said graph represents a sentence in the document and an edge between two nodes represents a relevance measure between these two sentences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Lei Wang, Xun Wang, Min Wang, Tong Zhang, Bin Bai
  • Publication number: 20150225470
    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: January 20, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Tong Zhang, Charles L. Sentman
  • Patent number: 9092696
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to an image sign classifier. In one implementation, a processor causes a user interface to be displayed to receive information related to a target sign type in an image. The processor may train an image sign classifier based on the information to recognize the target sign type and output information related to the trained classifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Tong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20150187265
    Abstract: An AMOLED display panel and an organic light emitting diode display device are disclosed. The AMOLED display panel includes: a multitude of pixel circuits; a multitude of data lines coupled to the pixel circuits; a driver unit, which is configured to provide a first data signal; a multipath selection unit, which is connected between the data lines and the driver unit, and configured to transmit the first data signal to the selected data line; and a voltage stabilizer unit, which is connected to the data lines, and configured to output a second signal to the data lines; wherein, before a data writing stage, the second signal outputted from the voltage stabilizer unit is applied to the data lines. The number of wired data lines in the AMOLED display panel and the volume of the display panel are reduced, and the manufacturing process of the display panel is simplified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Tong ZHANG, Dong QIAN, Hanyu Gu
  • Publication number: 20150187266
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a pixel compensation circuit and method for an organic light emitting display. The circuit comprises a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, a driving transistor, a capacitor, and an organic light emitting element. The first transistor transmits a data signal to a first plate of the capacitor; the second transistor applies a reference voltage to the first plate of the capacitor; the driving transistor determines a magnitude of a driving current; the third transistor establishes a connection between the gate electrode and the drain electrode of the driving transistor; the fourth transistor passes the driving current from the driving transistor to the organic light emitting element; and the organic light emitting element emits light in response to the driving current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Dong QIAN, Hanyu Gu, Tong Zhang
  • Publication number: 20150169839
    Abstract: Health-related data is accessed; as is a database of payment card transaction data. At least a portion of the health-related data is linked to at least a portion of the payment card transaction data to obtain linked data. Statistical analysis is carried out on the linked data, and the results of the statistical analysis are made available to at least one appropriate party. Privacy is protected, for example, via an opt-in approach or through data aggregation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: MasterCard International Incorporated
    Inventors: Tong Zhang, Qian Wang
  • Publication number: 20150162387
    Abstract: An OLED display apparatus with an in cell touch structure includes a cover plate, an array substrate facing the cover plate, an organic light-emitting layer arranged therebetween, multiple driving lines and multiple sensing lines arranged at an inner side of the cover plate facing the array substrate, multiple signal pins arranged at an inner side of the array substrate, where each of the signal pins corresponds to one of the driving lines or one of the sensing lines, and multiple conductive structures. The conductive structures are arranged between the driving lines and the signal pins or between the sensing lines and the signal pins. Each conductive structure includes an end electrically connecting a driving line or a sensing line to a corresponding signal pin, and an opposite end electrically connected to a corresponding touch signal transmission line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicants: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd., Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hanyu GU, Dong QIAN, Tong ZHANG