Patents by Inventor Xiaofeng Tang

Xiaofeng Tang 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: 10743478
    Abstract: A natural fiber felt is provided, which is a film formed by processes of binding a natural fiber net with a binder, extruding, drying and shaping the natural fiber net. A surface of the film is coated with a waterproof layer. The foam binder is formed by combining modified starch serving as a binder and urea serving as a foaming agent with water. A water-repellent agent fruit wax emulsion is employed to form the waterproof layer. The natural fiber net is carded by a carding machine at one time, and the foam binder is sprayed onto the natural fiber net to bind the natural fiber net so as to form the film. The product has characteristics of ultra-thinness and high strength with good performances on heat preservation, moisturizing ability, waterproof and air permeability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Inventor: Xiaofeng Tang
  • Publication number: 20200208405
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to roofing products, for example, suitable for use covering and protecting the roofs of structures. The present disclosure relates more particularly to a roofing product including an upper section and an exposed section. The roofing product includes a substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface, and a plurality of zones of roofing granules disposed on the top surface of the substrate. The plurality of zones includes first, second and third zones within the exposed section. The first zone includes a first collection of algae-resistant roofing granules and has a first algae-resistance intensity. The second zone includes a second collection of algae-resistant roofing granules and has a second algae-resistance intensity. The third zone has a third algae-resistance intensity that is different from the first algae-resistance intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Tang, Shuang Liu, Robert L. Jenkins, Mark W. Simon
  • Patent number: 10402858
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for enabling the automated selection of keywords for rapid keyword portfolio expansion are disclosed. Various embodiments are operable to receive a plurality of keywords to be trafficked on a search engine, and automatically select at least one of the plurality of keywords to be omitted from trafficking on the search engine based on pruning criteria. In some example embodiments, the automatically selecting comprises for each one of the selected at least one of the plurality of keywords, determining a corresponding confidence level with which a corresponding predicted value of the keyword(s) is expected to satisfy the pruning criteria, with the automatic selection of each one of the selected at least one of the plurality of keywords being based on the corresponding confidence level and a configurable confidence level threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Tang, Joel R. Minton
  • Patent number: 10308764
    Abstract: The invention relates to a preparation method of green nylon poly butyrolactams, the biological materials of GABA in vacuum under the condition of high temperature melt decomposition and purified butyrolactams, then by vacuum polymerization of green nylon poly butyrolactams. Compared with the prior art, the invention is prepared by biological method for the synthesis of a wide range of sources, to solve the problem of raw material supply PA4 for mass production, reduce the cost of reaction, and the reaction condition is simple, easy to implement simplified synthesis steps, from the laboratory to the transformation of industrial production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Liming Zhao, Jie Wei, Jun Qian, Juan Ma, Xiaofeng Tang, Yingyang Wu, Yongjun Qiu
  • Patent number: 10311488
    Abstract: A system and method for providing automatic high-value listing feeds for online computer users is disclosed. A particular embodiment includes obtaining publisher information corresponding to a plurality of publisher content items from a plurality of publisher sites; obtaining merchant information including value information corresponding to the plurality of publisher content items; using a processor, the publisher information, and the merchant information to generate a set of high-value feeds for transfer to the plurality of publisher sites, the set of high-value feeds each being ranked corresponding to a quality score computed for each listing item of each high-value feed; and transferring the set of high-value feeds to corresponding publisher sites of the plurality of publisher sites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Shaobo Liu, Tom (Xiaofeng) Tang
  • Publication number: 20190095721
    Abstract: Systems and methods for night vision combining sensor image types. Some implementations may include obtaining a long wave infrared image from a long wave infrared sensor; detecting an object in the long wave infrared image; identifying a region of interest associated with the object; adjusting a control parameter of a near infrared sensor based on data associated with the region of interest; obtaining a near infrared image captured using the adjusted control parameter of the near infrared sensor; and determining a classification of the object based on data of the near infrared image associated with the region of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Lucian Ion, Daniel E. Potter, Evan C. Cull, Xiaofeng Tang
  • Publication number: 20190071610
    Abstract: Provided are methods and compositions for inhibiting carbonyl based fouling materials of basic wash systems. Said methods comprise contacting the hydrocarbon stream that is or will be subjected to said wash systems with water soluble or water dispersible copolymers. Said copolymers comprise repeat units of ethylenically unsaturated monomers such as acrylic acid with other repeat units such as alkyl acrylates, allyl ethers, ethoxylated allyl repeat units, etc. In other embodiments, a third repeat unit is present and may comprise a hydrophobic moiety such as a styrene repeat unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Xiaofeng TANG, Guixi ZHANG, Mike HONG, Yongtao SHI, Chun XU, Dengchao YAN
  • Publication number: 20180223043
    Abstract: The invention relates to a preparation method of green nylon poly butyrolactams, the biological materials of GABA in vacuum under the condition of high temperature melt decomposition and purified butyrolactams, then by vacuum polymerization of green nylon poly butyrolactams. Compared with the prior art, the invention is prepared by biological method for the synthesis of a wide range of sources, to solve the problem of raw material supply PA4 for mass production, reduce the cost of reaction, and the reaction condition is simple, easy to implement simplified synthesis steps, from the laboratory to the transformation of industrial production.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Liming ZHAO, Jie WEI, Jun QIAN, Juan MA, Xiaofeng TANG, Yingyang WU, Yongjun QIU
  • Publication number: 20170311556
    Abstract: A natural fiber felt is provided, which is a film formed by processes of binding a natural fiber net with a binder, extruding, drying and shaping the natural fiber net. A surface of the film is coated with a waterproof layer. The foam binder is formed by combining modified starch serving as a binder and urea serving as a foaming agent with water. A water-repellent agent fruit wax emulsion is employed to form the waterproof layer. The natural fiber net is carded by a carding machine at one time, and the foam binder is sprayed onto the natural fiber net to bind the natural fiber net so as to form the film. The product has characteristics of ultra-thinness and high strength with good performances on heat preservation, moisturizing ability, waterproof and air permeability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventor: Xiaofeng TANG
  • Patent number: 9529897
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for combining keywords into logical clusters that share a similar behavior with respect to a considered dimension are disclosed. Various embodiments are operable to order a list of keywords from high activity to low activity, partition the list into at least two sets, a head partition including keywords with an activity level above a predefined threshold, a tail partition including the remainder of the keywords in the list, model the keywords in the head partition based on a set of variables, score the keywords in the head partition based on the modeling, and cluster head partition keywords with tail partition keywords having at least one common variable into at least one keyword cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Tang, Salvador Duran, Joel R. Minton
  • Publication number: 20160321695
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for enabling the automated selection of keywords for rapid keyword portfolio expansion are disclosed. Various embodiments are operable to receive a plurality of keywords to be trafficked on a search engine, and automatically select at least one of the plurality of keywords to be omitted from trafficking on the search engine based on pruning criteria. In some example embodiments, the automatically selecting comprises for each one of the selected at least one of the plurality of keywords, determining a corresponding confidence level with which a corresponding predicted value of the keyword(s) is expected to satisfy the pruning criteria, with the automatic selection of each one of the selected at least one of the plurality of keywords being based on the corresponding confidence level and a configurable confidence level threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Tang, Joel R. Minton
  • Patent number: 9406080
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for enabling the automated selection of keywords for rapid keyword portfolio expansion are disclosed. In some embodiments, a report is generated comprising selected keywords and a corresponding value for each selected keywords, with the corresponding value being based on the corresponding keyword being omitted from trafficking on a search engine, and at least a portion of the selected keywords are removed from being trafficked on the search engine based on the selection of the keywords to be omitted, with the removing of the at least a portion of the selected keywords being performed in response to a user input corresponding to the report, the user input being used to determine the at least a portion of the selected keywords to be omitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Tang, Joel R. Minton
  • Publication number: 20160042410
    Abstract: A system and method for providing automatic high-value listing feeds for online computer users is disclosed. A particular embodiment includes obtaining publisher information corresponding to a plurality of publisher content items from a plurality of publisher sites; obtaining merchant information including value information corresponding to the plurality of publisher content items; using a processor, the publisher information, and the merchant information to generate a set of high-value feeds for transfer to the plurality of publisher sites, the set of high-value feeds each being ranked corresponding to a quality score computed for each listing item of each high-value feed; and transferring the set of high-value feeds to corresponding publisher sites of the plurality of publisher sites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Shaobo Liu, Tom (Xiaofeng) Tang
  • Publication number: 20150206184
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for enabling the automated selection of keywords for rapid keyword portfolio expansion are disclosed. Various embodiments are operable to normalize a plurality of keywords received from a source, filter the normalized plurality of keywords against one or more keyword filtration lists, produce site-specific variants of the filtered plurality of keywords, associate at least one level of dimension data with each of the plurality of keywords, and store the processed plurality of keywords and dimension data in a keyword database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Tang, Joel R. Minton
  • Patent number: 8996403
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for enabling the automated selection of keywords for rapid keyword portfolio expansion are disclosed. Various embodiments are operable to normalize a plurality of keywords received from a source, filter the normalized plurality of keywords against one or more keyword filtration lists, produce site-specific variants of the filtered plurality of keywords, associate at least one level of dimension data with each of the plurality of keywords, and store the processed plurality of keywords and dimension data in a keyword database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Tang, Joel R. Minton
  • Publication number: 20140164383
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for combining keywords into logical clusters that share a similar behavior with respect to a considered dimension are disclosed. Various embodiments are operable to order a list of keywords from high activity to low activity, partition the list into at least two sets, a head partition including keywords with an activity level above a predefined threshold, a tail partition including the remainder of the keywords in the list, model the keywords in the head partition based on a set of variables, score the keywords in the head partition based on the modeling, and cluster head partition keywords with tail partition keywords having at least one common variable into at least one keyword cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Tang, Salvador Duran, Joel R. Minton
  • Patent number: 8679850
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a method of detecting cationic polymers comprising: obtaining a target water sample containing a cationic polymer; adding a polymer dispersant solution and a phosphate solution to the target water sample, the polymer dispersant solution is comprised of a polymer dispersant with calcium and magnesium hardness and the phosphate solution is comprised of a phosphate; standing the target water sample; and measuring the turbidity of the target water sample; comparing the turbidity of said target water sample with a calibration curve of the turbidity of samples containing known concentrations of cationic polymers to determine the concentration of cationic polymers in said target water sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Guixi Zhang, Sijing Wang, Hong Xu, Xiaofeng Tang
  • Patent number: 8655912
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for combining keywords into logical clusters that share a similar behavior with respect to a considered dimension are disclosed. Various embodiments are operable to order a list of keywords from high activity to low activity, partition the list into at least two sets, a head partition including keywords with an activity level above a predefined threshold, a tail partition including the remainder of the keywords in the list, model the keywords in the head partition based on a set of variables, score the keywords in the head partition based on the modeling, and cluster head partition keywords with tail partition keywords having at least one common variable into at least one keyword cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: eBay, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Tang, Salvador Duran, Joel R. Minton
  • Publication number: 20120270328
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a method of detecting cationic polymers comprising: obtaining a target water sample containing a cationic polymer; adding a polymer dispersant solution and a phosphate solution to the target water sample, the polymer dispersant solution is comprised of a polymer dispersant with calcium and magnesium hardness and the phosphate solution is comprised of a phosphate; standing the target water sample; and measuring the turbidity of the target water sample; comparing the turbidity of said target water sample with a calibration curve of the turbidity of samples containing known concentrations of cationic polymers to determine the concentration of cationic polymers in said target water sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Guixi Zhang, Sijing Wang, Hong Xu, Xiaofeng Tang
  • Publication number: 20120016906
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for enabling the automated selection of keywords for rapid keyword portfolio expansion are disclosed. Various embodiments are operable to normalize a plurality of keywords received from a source, filter the normalized plurality of keywords against one or more keyword filtration lists, produce site-specific variants of the filtered plurality of keywords, associate at least one level of dimension data with each of the plurality of keywords, and store the processed plurality of keywords and dimension data in a keyword database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Tang, Joel R. Minton