Patents by Inventor Wen Zhao

Wen Zhao 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: 10421727
    Abstract: The present invention includes compounds useful as modulators of TRPM8, such as compounds of Formulae (Ia), (Ib) and (Ic), and the subgenus and species thereof; personal products containing those compounds; and the use of those compounds and the personal products, particularly the use of increasing or inducing chemesthetic sensations, such as cooling or cold sensations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: FIRMENICH INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Lyudmyla Chumakova, Andrew Patron, Chad Priest, Donald Karanewsky, Rachel Kimmich, Brant Clayton Boren, Jeffrey Robert Hammaker, Volodymyr Chumakov, Wen Zhao, Alain Noncovich, Jane Ung
  • Publication number: 20190271558
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods that perform actions including: receiving a user input selecting a current location within a map displayed on a screen of the terminal device; generating a request message indicating a request for a location relationship between the selected current location and a target location, the request message including an identifier of the current location, the target location being a location currently or previously displayed on the map; transmitting the request message to a map server configured to determine a geographical location of the current location and a geographical location of the target location; receiving, from the map server, a location relationship between the current location and the target location, wherein the location relationship is determined based on the geographical location of the current location and the geographical location of the target location; and displaying a graphical indicator representing the location relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicant: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventor: Wen ZHAO
  • Patent number: 10375620
    Abstract: A host device may include a first wireless communication circuit, a second wireless communication circuit including a proxy router, and a host processor communicatively coupled to the wireless communication circuits. The host device may receive, via the second wireless communication circuit, an advertisement message from a client device. The advertisement message may include a request for communication of data with a network. The host device may determine at least one of a communication policy preference of the host device and a network connection property of the host device. The proxy router may select the first or the second wireless communication circuit for use by the host device to communicate the data with the network. The host device may provide, via the second wireless communication circuit, a connection request to the client device, and then transfer, using the selected wireless communication circuit, the data between the client device and the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Paul V. Flynn, Wen Zhao, Syed Aon Mujtaba, Sriram Hariharan, Matthew L. Semersky
  • Publication number: 20190220856
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems and methods for conducting a transaction utilizing a cryptocurrency. The user may fund a cryptocurrency account with his pre-existing cryptocurrency. An issuer may purchase cryptocurrency within a cryptocurrency exchange. The user may then utilize a payment device (e.g., a Crypto Debit Card) that is associated with a cryptocurrency balance to conduct a transaction with a merchant for goods and/or services. An authorization request message may be transmitted to the authorizing entity computer. The authorizing entity computer may determine a cryptocurrency amount corresponding to the fiat currency transaction amount of the authorization request message. A sell request message may be transmitted to an exchange that facilitates the sale of the cryptocurrency amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Xi Li, Wen Zhao Cheng, Jun Ryan Menorca Tagama, Satrajit Ray, Gabriel Jin Juan Ang, Lavanya Rengarajan
  • Publication number: 20190213224
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a page extension point presentation method. The method includes: determining an extension point placeholder in source code of a page when the page is displayed; determining information about a location of a corresponding extension point in the page based on the extension point placeholder; and presenting, in the page, a visual mark of the extension point based on the location information. When searching for the location of the extension point in the page, a web page administrator does not need to determine, according to a customization manual and from source code of a baseline web page, a code segment corresponding to the extension point in the page, or perform tracing or searching layer by layer based on a hierarchical relationship and a nesting relationship of the code. Therefore, this overcomes a disadvantage that manual searching operations are relatively complex, and improves web page extension efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Wen Zhao, Yaya DAI
  • Patent number: 10334654
    Abstract: A wireless communication system is presented for multiple wireless technology coexistence in a mobile device. A method according to this application might include obtaining one or more transmit allocation parameters for a wireless transmission via a first radio technology at a first wireless processor and the preparing to receive wireless data via a second radio technology at a second wireless processor. Next, the exemplary method might request that the wireless transmission be deferred, followed by deciding whether to grant the deferral request based at least on the one or more transmit allocation parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: William S. Burchill, Wen Zhao, Huanyu Chen, Zhaojun Cheng, Weiping Dou
  • Publication number: 20190127237
    Abstract: An ammonia adsorption product is described which may be used for fresh caught fish and bait. The product may comprise functionalized tectosilicate compound and a buffer. High concentrations of ammonia produced by fish waste can be lethal, even though oxygen availability is rich enough to keep fish breathing. The product is a user-friendly, sustainable, affordable product which is able to extend the life of the fish by safely removing ammonia by an ion-exchange mechanism. This product can convert toxic ammonia into ammonium and uptake ammonium by releasing sodium ions in the water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: University of South Florida
    Inventors: Norma A. Alcantar, Wen Zhao, Sarina Joy Ergas
  • Publication number: 20190069329
    Abstract: A client device can be configured to identify data to be communicated with a network. In some examples, the client device can determine one or more transient properties of the client device and/or receive a connection request from a host device that is connected to the network, where the connection request comprises one or more connection properties of the host device. In some instances, the client device can also be configured to determine whether the host device is capable of transmitting the data to the network based at least in part on the one or more transient properties of the client device and the one or more connection properties of the host device and/or establish a connection with the host device in accordance with determining that the host device is capable of transmitting the data to the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ajoy K. Singh, Dennis Mathews, Paul V. Flynn, Wen Zhao, Yong Liu, Syed Aon Mujtaba, Sriram Hariharan, Matthew L. Semersky
  • Patent number: 10206236
    Abstract: A device and method selects an antenna configuration. The method performed at a user equipment includes determining at least one communication functionality that is being used, each communication functionality configured to utilize at least one antenna in a multi-antenna arrangement of the user equipment. The method includes receiving a first indication of whether a cellular communication functionality is being used, the cellular communication functionality configured to utilize at least one antenna in the multi-antenna arrangement. The method includes receiving a second indication of whether a coexistence condition is present. The method includes determining an antenna configuration for the multi-antenna arrangement to be used by the determined communication functionality based upon the determined communication functionality, the first indication, and the second indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Hsin-Yuo Liu, Ruben Caballero, Mohit Narang, Peter M. Agboh, Paul V. Flynn, Qiong Wu, Nicholas M. McDonnell, Navid Damji, Ming Hu, Wen Zhao
  • Patent number: 10205474
    Abstract: A method for facilitating in-device coexistence between wireless communication technologies on a wireless communication device is provided. The method can include transmitting data traffic from the wireless communication device via an aggressor wireless communication technology; determining occurrence of an in-device interference condition resulting from transmission of the data traffic via the aggressor wireless communication technology interfering with concurrent data reception by the wireless communication device via a victim wireless communication technology; and reducing a bit rate of the data traffic transmitted via the aggressor wireless communication technology in response to the in-device interference condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Wen Zhao, Paul V. Flynn, William S. Burchill, Vinay R. Majjigi, Xiaowen Wang, Syed A. Mujtaba, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 10200843
    Abstract: In the subject system for Bluetooth audio role-based scheduling, an electronic device (e.g., a mobile phone), may receive streaming audio over a cellular connection, e.g. LTE, and may stream the audio to a head unit of a vehicle, e.g. via Bluetooth. The electronic device may also concurrently communicate with other electronic devices via, e.g., Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and/or BTLE. The electronic device may determine the Bluetooth/communication capabilities of the HU device, such as buffer size, and the electronic device may proactively configure Bluetooth settings/parameters for communicating with the HU device based on the capabilities of the HU device. The electronic device may also adaptively modify scheduling for communications with other electronic devices based on the determined capabilities of the HU device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Camille Chen, Siegfried Lehmann, Hsin-Yao Chen, Wen Zhao
  • Patent number: 10166528
    Abstract: An ammonia adsorption product is described which may be used for fresh caught fish and bait. The product may comprise functionalized tectosilicate compound and a buffer. High concentrations of ammonia produced by fish waste can be lethal, even though oxygen availability is rich enough to keep fish breathing. The product is a user-friendly, sustainable, affordable product which is able to extend the life of the fish by safely removing ammonia by an ion-exchange mechanism. This product can convert toxic ammonia into ammonium and uptake ammonium by releasing sodium ions in the water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: University of South Florida
    Inventors: Norma A. Alcantar, Wen Zhao, Sarina Joy Ergas
  • Patent number: 10145726
    Abstract: Provided is a fiber optic acoustic wave detection system, pertaining to the fiber optic sensing technical field. The system comprises a power output apparatus, a backward Rayleigh scattering principle-based first distributed sensing apparatus, a backward weak optical fiber grating reflection principle-based second distributed sensing apparatus, and a third distributed sensing apparatus. The first distributed sensing apparatus and the second distributed sensing apparatus are connected with the power output apparatus, respectively. The first distributed sensing apparatus and the second distributed sensing apparatus are connected with the third distributed sensing apparatus, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Laser Institute of Shandong Academy of Science
    Inventors: Chen Wang, Ying Shang, Xiaohui Liu, Wen'an Zhao, Long Ma, Chang Li, Bing Cao, Jiasheng Ni, Chang Wang
  • Patent number: 10138143
    Abstract: An ammonia adsorption product is described which may be used for fresh caught fish and bait. The product may comprise functionalized tectosilicate compound and a buffer. High concentrations of ammonia produced by fish waste can be lethal, even though oxygen availability is rich enough to keep fish breathing. The product is a user-friendly, sustainable, affordable product which is able to extend the life of the fish by safely removing ammonia by an ion-exchange mechanism. This product can convert toxic ammonia into ammonium and uptake ammonium by releasing sodium ions in the water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: University of South Florida
    Inventors: Norma A. Alcantar, Wen Zhao, Sarina Joy Ergas
  • Patent number: 10135484
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to performing antenna selection to reduce interference in a wireless device. According to some embodiments, it may be determined whether simultaneous communication according to first and second wireless communication technologies causes performance degradation to a third wireless communication technology. If the simultaneous communication according to first and second wireless communication technologies does cause performance degradation to the third wireless communication technology, selection of antenna(s) used for the communications may be based at least in part on the determination that the simultaneous communication according to the first and second wireless communication technologies causes performance degradation to the third wireless communication technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Swapnil S. Jain, Nicholas M. McDonnell, Wen Zhao, Paul V. Flynn
  • Publication number: 20180315042
    Abstract: Usage of another person's electronic payment device on a mobile computing device such as a mobile phone may be possible by requesting a one-time use dynamic token for a specific amount from an authority.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Aditi RUNGTA, Hisyam Nursaid Indrakesuma, Wen Zhao Cheng, Xudong Wu
  • Publication number: 20180295140
    Abstract: A mobile device receives an invitation to commence a media session. The invitation may be from a legitimate caller or from a spoofing caller. The mobile device checks parameters using templates to evaluate a consistency of the invitation with respect to a database in the mobile device. The templates include session protocol, network topology, routing, and social templates. Specific template data includes standardized protocol parameters, values from a database of the mobile device and phonebook entries of the mobile device. Examples of the parameters include capabilities, preconditions, vendor equipment identifiers, a hop counter value and originating network information. The originating network information may be obtained from the database by first querying an on-line database to determine a network identifier associated with caller identification information in the invitation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Shi LU, Camille CHEN, Wenping LOU, Wen ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20180279398
    Abstract: A wireless communication system is presented for multiple wireless technology coexistence in a mobile device. A method according to this application might include obtaining one or more transmit allocation parameters for a wireless transmission via a first radio technology at a first wireless processor and the preparing to receive wireless data via a second radio technology at a second wireless processor. Next, the exemplary method might request that the wireless transmission be deferred, followed by deciding whether to grant the deferral request based at least on the one or more transmit allocation parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: William S. Burchill, Wen Zhao, Huanyu Chen, Zhaojun Cheng, Weiping Dou
  • Patent number: 10085294
    Abstract: A client device and a host device may create a local connection for providing wide area network access, such as Internet access, to the client device. In some embodiments, the client device may have limited network capabilities and may not be able to access the Internet without the host device. The client device may provide its speed and direction in a message to potential host devices. A host device may calculate a suitability metric, based on the speed and direction of the client as well as connection properties of the networks, which indicates an ability for the host device to connect the client device to the Internet. The host device may provide the suitability metric within a connection request to the client device. Based on the suitability metric and/or other factors, the client device and the host device may establish the local connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Paul V. Flynn, Dennis Mathews, Ajoy K. Singh, Wen Zhao, Yong Liu, Syed Aon Mujtaba, Sriram Hariharan, Matthew L. Semersky
  • Publication number: 20180255007
    Abstract: A message sending method includes: displaying chat messages on a chat interface, which is one of a group chat interface and a single chat interface; when detecting a reply operation performed by a user on a first chat message in the chat messages, obtaining content of the first chat message and content of a reply message corresponding to the reply operation; combining the content of the first chat message and the content of the reply message into a second chat message; when the first chat message is on the group chat interface, sending the second chat message to a client corresponding to each chat account that participates in a group chat; and when the first chat message is on the single chat interface, sending the second chat message to a client corresponding to a chat account that posted the first chat message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Kankan JI, Chuanchuan YANG, Yankai PENG, Xiaolong ZHANG, Wen ZHAO, Chen HUANG