Patents by Inventor Wendy Lu
Wendy Lu 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: 11890564Abstract: A perception and planning system includes a system frame and one or more cooling fans mounted on a first side of the system frame to generate an airflow flowing outwardly to remove at least a portion of the heat generated by the processors. The system further includes an air filtering module mounted on a second side of the system frame to filter the air flow flowing inwardly to remove durst or contaminated material from the airflow. The air filtering module includes an air filter, a mounting plate, and a cover plate. The mounting plate can be mounted on the second side of the system frame to receive the air filter. The mounting plate includes one or more magnets. The cover plate can be attached to the mounting plate by a magnetic force generated from the magnets to keep the air filter between the mounting plate and the cover plate.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2018Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: BAIDU USA LLCInventors: Fu-Kang Liao, Wendy Lu
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Patent number: 11886384Abstract: The techniques disclosed herein enable systems to centralize access to various digital items irrespective of the location of those digital items. To achieve this, items that are stored at their original location, e.g., within a cloud storage platform, can be selected by a user for storage at a centralized location such as a favorites section. These items are selected using an interface control which can be an operating system component of an item keeping system that is accessible in any context or application. The item keeping system can generate an item alias for selected items which is then stored in the centralized location. In addition, item aliases can be moved to various destinations by the user to enable customized item storage for items of varying types, origin, and location. In addition, functionality of the interface control can be modified to suite selected items.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Carlos German Perez, Todd S. Behrbaum, Wendy Lu, Matthew F. Gray, Daniela Dimitrova, Helen Anderson, Olga K. Dalecka, Jokko Juhana Korhonen
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Publication number: 20240004946Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing content. One of the methods includes providing a plurality of image content items to an application interface of a client device for presentation; receiving a user selection of a particular image content item of the plurality of presented image content items; and responsive to the selection, providing a combination of native content and third party content associated with the selected image content item, wherein the native content includes a close up view of the selected image content item and the third party content includes a third party webpage.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: Pinterest, Inc.Inventors: Wendy Lu, Justin Velo, Kelvin Tow, Mengya You, Nicole Crawford, Harrison He
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Patent number: 11790024Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing content. One of the methods includes providing a plurality of image content items to an application interface of a client device for presentation; receiving a user selection of a particular image content item of the plurality of presented image content items; and responsive to the selection, providing a combination of native content and third party content associated with the selected image content item, wherein the native content includes a close up view of the selected image content item and the third party content includes a third party webpage.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Pinterest, Inc.Inventors: Wendy Lu, Justin Velo, Kelvin Tow, Mengya You, Nicole Crawford, Harrison He
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Publication number: 20230315686Abstract: The techniques disclosed herein enable systems to centralize access to various digital items irrespective of the location of those digital items. To achieve this, items that are stored at their original location, e.g., within a cloud storage platform, can be selected by a user for storage at a centralized location such as a favorites section. These items are selected using an interface control which can be an operating system component of an item keeping system that is accessible in any context or application. The item keeping system can generate an item alias for selected items which is then stored in the centralized location. In addition, item aliases can be moved to various destinations by the user to enable customized item storage for items of varying types, origin, and location. In addition, functionality of the interface control can be modified to suite selected items.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Carlos German PEREZ, Todd S. BEHRBAUM, Wendy LU, Matthew F. GRAY, Daniela DIMITROVA, Helen ANDERSON, Olga K. DALECKA, Jokko Juhana KORHONEN
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Publication number: 20220365986Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing content. One of the methods includes providing a plurality of image content items to an application interface of a client device for presentation; receiving a user selection of a particular image content item of the plurality of presented image content items; and responsive to the selection, providing a combination of native content and third party content associated with the selected image content item, wherein the native content includes a close up view of the selected image content item and the third party content includes a third party webpage.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Wendy Lu, Justin Velo, Kelvin Tow, Mengya You, Nicole Crawford, Harrison He
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Patent number: 11403360Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing content. One of the methods includes providing a plurality of image content items to an application interface of a client device for presentation; receiving a user selection of a particular image content item of the plurality of presented image content items; and responsive to the selection, providing a combination of native content and third party content associated with the selected image content item, wherein the native content includes a close up view of the selected image content item and the third party content includes a third party webpage.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Pinterest, Inc.Inventors: Wendy Lu, Justin Velo, Kelvin Tow, Mengya You, Nicole Crawford, Harrison He
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Patent number: 10956529Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing content. One of the methods includes providing a plurality of image content items to an application interface of a client device for presentation; receiving a user selection of a particular image content item of the plurality of presented image content items; and responsive to the selection, providing a combination of native content and third party content associated with the selected image content item, wherein the native content includes a close up view of the selected image content item and the third party content includes a third party webpage.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2018Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Pinterest, Inc.Inventors: Wendy Lu, Justin Velo, Kelvin Tow, Mengya You, Nicole Crawford, Harrison He
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Publication number: 20200164297Abstract: A perception and planning system includes a system frame and one or more cooling fans mounted on a first side of the system frame to generate an airflow flowing outwardly to remove at least a portion of the heat generated by the processors. The system further includes an air filtering module mounted on a second side of the system frame to filter the air flow flowing inwardly to remove durst or contaminated material from the airflow. The air filtering module includes an air filter, a mounting plate, and a cover plate. The mounting plate can be mounted on the second side of the system frame to receive the air filter. The mounting plate includes one or more magnets. The cover plate can be attached to the mounting plate by a magnetic force generated from the magnets to keep the air filter between the mounting plate and the cover plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2018Publication date: May 28, 2020Inventors: FU-KANG LIAO, WENDY LU
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Patent number: 10635621Abstract: An apparatus includes a chassis housing a control server compartment, a compute server compartment, and an input and output (IO) subsystem compartment. The apparatus further includes an IO subsystem inserted into the IO subsystem compartment, a compute server inserted into the compute server compartment, and a control server inserted into the control server compartment coupled to the compute server via an Ethernet connection. The IO subsystem includes one or more IO modules, where at least some of the IO modules can be coupled to sensors. The compute server receives the sensor data from the IO subsystem via some PCIe links and generates planning and control data based on the sensor data for controlling the autonomous vehicle. The control server controls and operates the autonomous vehicle by sending control commands to hardware of the autonomous vehicle based on the planning and control data received from the compute server.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2016Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: BAIDU USA LLCInventors: Wesley Shao, Ji Li, Wendy Lu, Andrew Yao, Junwei Bao, Davy Huang
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Patent number: 10133698Abstract: An IO subsystem chassis includes IO modules and IO slots to receive the IO modules inserted from a frontend of a housing, a baseboard disposed within the housing, the baseboard including first connectors corresponding to the IO slots to receive and connect the IO modules. Each of the IO modules can be coupled a server via the backend panel using a cable. Each IO module includes an IO card having a peripheral device mounted thereon and a card holder having a first receiving socket to receive and hold the IO card plugged in vertically and downwardly. The card holder further includes a second connector to engage with or disengage from a corresponding one of the first connectors of the baseboard horizontally, when the IO module is inserted into or removed from a corresponding IO slot from the frontend, without having to removing the housing.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: BAIDU USA LLCInventors: Wesley Shao, Ji Li, Junwei Bao, Weiyu Wendy Lu
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Publication number: 20180137076Abstract: An apparatus includes a chassis housing a control server compartment, a compute server compartment, and an input and output (IO) subsystem compartment. The apparatus further includes an IO subsystem inserted into the IO subsystem compartment, a compute server inserted into the compute server compartment, and a control server inserted into the control server compartment coupled to the compute server via an Ethernet connection. The IO subsystem includes one or more IO modules, where at least some of the IO modules can be coupled to sensors. The compute server receives the sensor data from the IO subsystem via some PCIe links and generates planning and control data based on the sensor data for controlling the autonomous vehicle. The control server controls and operates the autonomous vehicle by sending control commands to hardware of the autonomous vehicle based on the planning and control data received from the compute server.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2016Publication date: May 17, 2018Inventors: WESLEY SHAO, JI LI, WENDY LU, ANDREW YAO, JUNWEI BAO, DAVY HUANG
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Publication number: 20170286383Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, services, platforms, and methods are discussed herein that provide assistance for user interface devices. In one example, an assistance application is provided comprising an imaging system configured to capture an image of a scene, an interface system configured to provide data associated with the image to a distributed assistance service that responsively processes the data to recognize properties of the scene and establish feedback for a user based at least on the properties of the scene, and a user interface configured to provide the feedback to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2016Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Anirudh Koul, Ao Li, Elias Haroun, Irene Wen Ling Chen, Shweta Sharma, Christiano Bianchet, Saqib Shaikh, Stéphane Morichère-Matte, Biing Tsyr Lai, Nathan Pak Kei Lam, Wendy Lu
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Publication number: 20170228339Abstract: An IO subsystem chassis includes IO modules and IO slots to receive the IO modules inserted from a frontend of a housing, a baseboard disposed within the housing, the baseboard including first connectors corresponding to the IO slots to receive and connect the IO modules. Each of the IO modules can be coupled a server via the backend panel using a cable. Each IO module includes an IO card having a peripheral device mounted thereon and a card holder having a first receiving socket to receive and hold the IO card plugged in vertically and downwardly. The card holder further includes a second connector to engage with or disengage from a corresponding one of the first connectors of the baseboard horizontally, when the IO module is inserted into or removed from a corresponding IO slot from the frontend, without having to removing the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2016Publication date: August 10, 2017Inventors: Wesley Shao, Ji Li, Junwei Bao, Weiyu Wendy Lu
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Publication number: 20110285267Abstract: An ion wind fan can be incorporated into a solid-state lighting device to thermally manage the lighting device. In one embodiment, the lighting device has the approximate shape of an A-series light bulb and an A-series light bulb and includes a bulb body, a bulb cover coupled to the bulb body defining a bulb cavity and one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs) located inside the bulb cavity. The lighting device further includes a heat pipe to transfer heat from the one or more LEDs to one or more heat sinks, and an ion wind fan to generate an airflow in impinging on the one or more heat sinks.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2010Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: Ventiva, Inc.Inventors: Wei-Yu Wendy LU, Scott L. Gooch, Wei-Min Jeff Wang
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Publication number: 20110174468Abstract: Ion wind fans generate ozone. To more effectively catalyze ozone, in one embodiment, the present invention includes a heat sink having contoured heat sink fins that are coated with an ozone catalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2010Publication date: July 21, 2011Applicant: Ventiva, Inc.Inventors: Wei-Yu Wendy LU, Daniel Jon SCHLITZ
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Publication number: 20110036552Abstract: Ion wind fans produce ozone. In one embodiment, a heat sink used in conjunction with an ion wind fan includes at least one ozone catalyst fin coated with an ozone catalyst, to destroy at least some of the ozone produced by the ion wind fan. In one embodiment, the ozone catalyst fan protrudes from the downstream side of the heat sink towards the ion wind fan.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2009Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: Ventiva, Inc.Inventors: Wei-Yu Wendy LU, Daniel Jon Schlitz
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Patent number: 6957365Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates determining whether a disk drive is likely to fail. The system monitors a first acoustic signal emitted from the disk drive during operation of the disk drive. Next, the system compares characteristics of the first acoustic signal against characteristics of a first baseline acoustic signal that reflects normal operation of the disk drive. If the first acoustic signal differs by a predetermined amount from the first baseline acoustic signal, the system indicates that the disk drive is likely to fail.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2002Date of Patent: October 18, 2005Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.Inventors: Kenny C. Gross, Wendy Lu
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Patent number: 6789049Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that dynamically characterizes computer system performance. The system operates by simultaneously varying multiple input variables in the computer system, and gathering performance results by measuring time-dependent responses in one or more response variables. In this way, responses to variations in the multiple input variables can be measured simultaneously. Next, the system analyzes the performance results to determine correlations between input variables and output variables.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2002Date of Patent: September 7, 2004Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.Inventors: Kenny C. Gross, Wendy Lu
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Patent number: 6782324Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates determining whether a disk drive is likely to fail. The system operates by monitoring at least three acoustic signals emitted from a two-dimensional array of disk drives and then comparing characteristics of each acoustic signal with baseline acoustic signals. These baseline acoustic signals reflect normal operation of the two-dimensional array of disk drives. If the acoustic signals differ by a predetermined amount from the baseline acoustic signals, the system identifies one or more disk drives in the two-dimensional array of disk drives that are likely to fail.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2002Date of Patent: August 24, 2004Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.Inventors: Kenny C. Gross, Wendy Lu