Patents by Inventor Xiaodong Fan
Xiaodong Fan 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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Publication number: 20240124511Abstract: The disclosure provides compositions and methods related to activating alpha-kinase 1 (ALPK1) for modulating an immune response and treating or preventing cancer, infection, inflammation and related diseases and disorders as well as potentiating an immune response to a target antigen. The disclosure also provides heterocyclic compounds of formula (I) as agonists of alpha protein kinase 1 (ALPK1) and their use in activating ALPK1, modulating an immune response and treating diseases such as cancer, wherein A1, A2, L1, L2, L3, Z1, Z2, W1, W2, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 and R7 are defined herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Tian Xu, Cong Xu, Danyang Liu, Jieqing Fan, Yanfang Pan, Tongruei Raymond Li, Xiaodong Chen
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Patent number: 11961093Abstract: A method for regulating an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes receiving a UAV identifier and one or more types of contextual information broadcasted by the UAV. The UAV identifier uniquely identifies the UAV from other UAVs. The one or more types of contextual information includes at least geographical information of the UAV. The method further includes authenticating, via an authentication device, an identity of the UAV based on the UAV identifier to determine whether the UAV is authorized for operation, and transmitting a signal to a remote device in response to determining whether the UAV is authorized for operation.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ming Gong, Jin Dai, Hao Cui, Xiaodong Wang, Han Huang, Jun Wu, Wei Fan, Ning Ma, Xinhua Rong, Xingsen Lin
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Patent number: 11923779Abstract: A method of regulating an output voltage of a switched mode power supply having a variable input voltage and at least one power switch is provided. The method includes generating a control signal for the at least one power switch of the switched mode power supply based at least in part on a control voltage, the control signal having a duty cycle. The method also includes generating a reference voltage based at least in part on the duty cycle of the control signal and a maximum duty cycle, and generating the control voltage based at least in part on the reference voltage and the output voltage.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Astec International LimitedInventors: Bing Zhang, Lian Liang, Mei Qin, Xiaodong Fan, Guozhen Wang
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Publication number: 20240037172Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for automatically identifying additional content for a webpage. The systems and methods may create a side pane placed next to a webpage to supplement the webpage in a browser. The side pane may provide additional information or additional content to help users consume the webpage. The additional content may provide webpage insights and help the users further explore the webpage.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: Yu JIA, Xiaodong FAN, Guihong CAO, Innocent Mutabazi NDIMUBANZI, Zicheng HUANG, Yufei ZHONG, Astha SUNEJA, Jun LIU, Alyssa Nicole RICKEN, Eugene J SO, Julian Manuel VARANDA
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Publication number: 20230418891Abstract: Systems and methods for transferring link context to a web browser. An example method includes receiving, by a web browser, a web address from a desktop application based on a selection of a link in document displayed in the desktop application; receiving, by a web browser from the application, link context for the selected link, the link context including an identification of the desktop application and an identification of the document; loading a web page corresponding to the received web address; based on the link context, identifying a browser-based application corresponding to the desktop application; launching the browser-based application within the web browser; transmitting the link context to the browser-based application; and displaying at least a portion of the document within the web browser.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2022Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Felix ANDREW, Laurentiu NEDELCU, Xiaodong FAN
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Patent number: 11822612Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for automatically identifying additional content for a webpage. The systems and methods may create a side pane placed next to a webpage to supplement the webpage in a browser. The side pane may provide additional information or additional content to help users consume the webpage. The additional content may provide webpage insights and help the users further explore the webpage.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Inventors: Yu Jia, Xiaodong Fan, Guihong Cao, Innocent Mutabazi Ndimubanzi, Zicheng Huang, Yufei Zhong, Astha Suneja, Jun Liu, Alyssa Nicole Ricken, Eugene J So, Julian Manuel Varanda
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Patent number: 11797632Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, devices, and methods for a visual exploration of search engine results. The systems, devices, and methods may present, in response to receiving the search engine results for a query to perform a task, a search result webpage with a cascading waterfall layout that includes a plurality of images from a plurality of webpages included in the search results. The search result webpage may also present, adjacent to the plurality of images, structured data corresponding to a selected image from the plurality of images where the structured data includes details from the webpage to complete the task.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Nikita Astrakhantsev, Parthasarathy Govindarajen, Nektarios Ioannides, Arun Sacheti, Alexander Jack Sunell, Avinash Vemuluru, Xiaodong Fan, Dong Han Wang, Alexandra Victoria Foote, Jun Liu, Elena Usinskiene, Diane Ash Shambaugh, Qianyue You, Liang Tang, Souvick Sarkar, Jeffrey Roger Devries, Adam Jeffrey Curtis
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Publication number: 20230312143Abstract: The present disclosure provides a tandem rotor unmanned aerial vehicle, which includes a vehicle body, a flight control system, and a propulsion system. The propulsion system includes a front distributed propulsion system and a rear distributed propulsion system. The front distributed propulsion system is arranged at a front end of the vehicle body. The rear distributed propulsion system is arranged a rear end of the vehicle body. The front distributed propulsion system includes rotor blades, a rotor nose, a main shaft, a speed reducer, a synchronizer, a motor, and a periodic variable pitch mechanism. A polar attitude of the tandem rotor unmanned aerial vehicle of the present disclosure can be adjusted conveniently and stably in the air, and the adjustment efficiency is high. The present disclosure further provides an attitude adjustment control method for the tandem rotor unmanned aerial vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Jiang WU, Enmin CHEN, Yijie GAO, Xiaodong FAN, Kaixiang ZHANG, Tianyi TAN
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Publication number: 20230266392Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention is a multi-target simultaneous charging method for a lithium battery pack: converting energy loss and charging current into a lithium battery pack charging cost model with a charging weight coefficient, and using an interior point method for solving and processing to acquire a preset charging current sequence; on the basis of the preset charging current sequence, calculating the charging time required when charging the lithium battery pack, and adjusting the charging weight coefficient in the lithium battery pack charging cost model by means of an adaptive momentum gradient descent algorithm to obtain the charging weight coefficient with the shortest charging time; using the charging weight coefficient to optimize the lithium battery pack charging cost model to acquire a new preset charging current sequence; and using the new preset charging current sequence to implement charging, thereby implementing optimized multi-target simultaneous charging of the lithium battery pack.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2020Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicant: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITYInventors: Jian CHEN, Hao CHEN, Xiaodong FAN, Mi ZHOU, Yuan FU
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Publication number: 20230261583Abstract: A method of regulating an output voltage of a switched mode power supply having a variable input voltage and at least one power switch is provided. The method includes generating a control signal for the at least one power switch of the switched mode power supply based at least in part on a control voltage, the control signal having a duty cycle. The method also includes generating a reference voltage based at least in part on the duty cycle of the control signal and a maximum duty cycle, and generating the control voltage based at least in part on the reference voltage and the output voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2020Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: Astec International LimitedInventors: Bing Zhang, Lian Liang, Mei Qin, Xiaodong Fan, Guozhen Wang
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Publication number: 20230125087Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for automatically identifying additional content for a webpage. The systems and methods may create a side pane placed next to a webpage to supplement the webpage in a browser. The side pane may provide additional information or additional content to help users consume the webpage. The additional content may provide webpage insights and help the users further explore the webpage.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2021Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: Yu JIA, Xiaodong FAN, Guihong CAO, Innocent Mutabazi NDIMUBANZI, Zicheng HUANG, Yufei ZHONG, Astha SUNEJA, Jun LIU, Alyssa Nicole RICKEN, Eugene J. SO, Julian Manuel VARANDA
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Publication number: 20220277056Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, devices, and methods for a visual exploration of search engine results. The systems, devices, and methods may present, in response to receiving the search engine results for a query to perform a task, a search result webpage with a cascading waterfall layout that includes a plurality of images from a plurality of webpages included in the search results. The search result webpage may also present, adjacent to the plurality of images, structured data corresponding to a selected image from the plurality of images where the structured data includes details from the webpage to complete the task.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2021Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Nikita ASTRAKHANTSEV, Parthasarathy GOVINDARAJEN, Nektarios IOANNIDES, Arun SACHETI, Alexander Jack SUNELL, Avinash VEMULURU, Xiaodong FAN, Dong Han WANG, Alexandra Victoria FOOTE, Jun LIU, Elena USINSKIENE, Diane Ash SHAMBAUGH, Qianyue YOU, Liang TANG, Souvick SARKAR, Jeffrey Roger DEVRIES, Adam Jeffrey CURTIS
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Publication number: 20220183218Abstract: Automatic germination equipment for oat grains includes a plurality of germination accelerating tank bodies each of which is of a hollow structure, a first direction and a second direction are self-defined in each germination accelerating tank body, a plurality of leaching layers are fixedly arranged in each germination accelerating tank body in the first direction, and the leaching layers are fixedly installed on an inner side surface of the germination accelerating tank body; and a reciprocating switch valve device which includes a bottom valve and a rotating lead screw fixedly connected to the bottom valve, the bottom valve is fixedly connected to an outer side surface of the germination accelerating tank body in the first direction, and one end of the rotating lead screw away from the bottom valve passes through the leaching layers in the second direction and extends towards the interior of the germination accelerating tank body.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2021Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: Zhiquan YU, Jingjing DONG, Wenzhong WANG, Xiaodong FAN, Jingwei XIAO, Wenduo LI
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Patent number: 11357158Abstract: Automatic germination equipment for oat grains includes a plurality of germination accelerating tank bodies each of which is of a hollow structure, a first direction and a second direction are self-defined in each germination accelerating tank body, a plurality of leaching layers are fixedly arranged in each germination accelerating tank body in the first direction, and the leaching layers are fixedly installed on an inner side surface of the germination accelerating tank body; and a reciprocating switch valve device which includes a bottom valve and a rotating lead screw fixedly connected to the bottom valve, the bottom valve is fixedly connected to an outer side surface of the germination accelerating tank body in the first direction, and one end of the rotating lead screw away from the bottom valve passes through the leaching layers in the second direction and extends towards the interior of the germination accelerating tank body.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2021Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: INNER MONGOLIA OATS HOUSE WHOLE GRAIN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhiquan Yu, Jingjing Dong, Wenzhong Wang, Xiaodong Fan, Jingwei Xiao, Wenduo Li
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Patent number: 10498582Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for displaying related content associated with browsing a website. For example, a user may access a website to view content provided by the website. As opposed to the user manually searching for interesting content through trial and error, related content that may be interesting to the user may be identified and surfaced to the user. For example, a user profile specifying user interests of the user may be used to identify related content assigned topics corresponding to the user interests (e.g., content provided by the website or other web source). In this way, the related content may be displayed to the user through a content recommendation reader interface. In an example, the content recommendation reader interface may be provided by a web browser so that related content may be identified and/or provided to users of any website from any device.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2017Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Yan Ke, Serge Smirnov, Qiaolin Mao, Alexander Owen Coll, Ting Cai, Xiaodong Fan, Junaid Ahmed
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Patent number: 10298007Abstract: A digital power supply protection circuit includes: a signal preprocessing circuit, configured to receive an overcurrent signal and a first inceptive impulse clock timing, and perform preprocessing on the overcurrent signal according to the first inceptive impulse clock timing so as to obtain a first reference signal a signal generation circuit, configured to receive the first inceptive impulse clock timing, count time duration between a rising edge of the first inceptive impulse clock timing and a rising edge of the first reference signal so as to obtain a first time duration, and upon the first time duration is greater than a second time duration, generate a first disabling signal by delaying the rising edge of the first inceptive impulse clock timing for the second time duration; and a clock timing adjustment circuit, configured to adjust the first inceptive impulse clock timing according to the first disabling signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2017Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Li Xiang, Xiaodong Fan
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Publication number: 20170338647Abstract: A digital power supply protection circuit includes: a signal preprocessing circuit, configured to receive an overcurrent signal and a first inceptive impulse clock timing, and perform preprocessing on the overcurrent signal according to the first inceptive impulse clock timing so as to obtain a first reference signal a signal generation circuit, configured to receive the first inceptive impulse clock timing, count time duration between a rising edge of the first inceptive impulse clock timing and a rising edge of the first reference signal so as to obtain a first time duration, and upon the first time duration is greater than a second time duration, generate a first disabling signal by delaying the rising edge of the first inceptive impulse clock timing for the second time duration; and a clock timing adjustment circuit, configured to adjust the first inceptive impulse clock timing according to the first disabling signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2017Publication date: November 23, 2017Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Li XIANG, Xiaodong Fan
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Patent number: 9787203Abstract: A power source management method and a power source are provided. The method includes: comparing a feedforward control signal with a feedback control signal by using a logic control circuit, outputting the signals after the comparison, and performing matching, to obtain control signals of switching transistors of a full-bridge topology circuit; and adjusting the control signals of the switching transistors of the full-bridge topology circuit by using the logic control circuit, so that operating duty cycles of two bridge arms on a primary side match, are symmetric within one switch period of the logic control circuit, or match for a long time, to prevent transformer biasing. The power source management method and the power source can achieve good feedforward performance, suppress input disturbance, and additionally prevent transformer biasing, which ensures that the power source works normally.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2016Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zhaozheng Hou, Xiaodong Fan, Jiebin Cheng, Zhihua Liu, Xuezhen Zhang
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Publication number: 20170272303Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for displaying related content associated with browsing a website. For example, a user may access a website to view content provided by the website. As opposed to the user manually searching for interesting content through trial and error, related content that may be interesting to the user may be identified and surfaced to the user. For example, a user profile specifying user interests of the user may be used to identify related content assigned topics corresponding to the user interests (e.g., content provided by the website or other web source). In this way, the related content may be displayed to the user through a content recommendation reader interface. In an example, the content recommendation reader interface may be provided by a web browser so that related content may be identified and/or provided to users of any website from any device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2017Publication date: September 21, 2017Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Yan KE, Serge SMIRNOV, Qiaolin MAO, Alexander Owen COLL, Ting CAI, Xiaodong FAN, Junaid AHMED
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Patent number: 9754210Abstract: In one implementation, a computer-implemented method for determining user interests includes receiving user activity data that describes an interaction between a user and digital content. The method further includes generating first interest-level data that quantifies a first level of interest between the user and an entity that is a topic of the digital content, where the entity is of a plurality of entities included within a knowledge base. The knowledge base includes an ontology that indicates relationships between the plurality of entities. The method further includes identifying a candidate entity based on the candidate entity having one of the relationships to the entity within the knowledge base. Additionally, the method includes generating second interest-level data that quantifies a second level of interest between the user and the candidate entity based on an analysis of the one of the relationships of the candidate entity to the entity within the knowledge base.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2014Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Minghui Xia, Evgeny Podlepaev, Qiaolin Mao, Eric Conrad Ranft, Xiaodong Fan, Ting Cai