Patents by Inventor Xiaohai Zhang
Xiaohai 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).
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Patent number: 11593559Abstract: Computer-implemented techniques for enhanced tagging of natural language queries that are initially segmented and tagged by a named entity recognition system. By doing so, enhanced tagging of a natural language query that represents a deeper understanding of the query is provided. The enhanced tagging improves the operation of search engines that use the enhanced tags by enabling the search engine to identify and return more relevant search results in answers to natural language queries.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Xiaohai Zhang, Haifeng Zhao, Yang Chen, Michael A. Menarguez, Liang Zhang
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Publication number: 20220185981Abstract: Disclosed is a low-temperature supercritical foaming process, comprising the following steps: (1) bringing a polyolefin material or a thermoplastic elastomer material into contact with at least one inert gas in a reactor at a pressure higher than atmospheric pressure to drive the gas into the material, the pressure holding temperature of the polyolefin material or thermoplastic elastomer material being lower than the melting temperature of the material by 5-40° C.; (2) reducing the pressure to expand the material so as to produce a primary foamed material, and taking out the primary foamed material; and (3) taking out the primary foamed material and putting same into a tunnel furnace for secondary foaming, the temperature of the tunnel furnace being higher than the melting temperature of the material. Compared with the prior art, the present invention features high production efficiency, energy saving, and improvement of the reactor utilization rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2020Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: Xiaohai ZHANG, Wentao ZHAI
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Publication number: 20210319033Abstract: In an example embodiment, ?-divergence is used to replace cross-entropy or KL-divergence as the loss function for learning-to-rank tasks in an online network. Additionally, in an example embodiment, entropy regularization is used to encourage score diversity for documents of the same relevance level. The result of both these approaches it to reduce or eliminate technical problems encountered using prior art techniques.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2020Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Xiaohai Zhang, Liang Zhang
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Publication number: 20200410053Abstract: Computer-implemented techniques for enhanced tagging of natural language queries that are initially segmented and tagged by a named entity recognition system. By doing so, enhanced tagging of a natural language query that represents a deeper understanding of the query is provided. The enhanced tagging improves the operation of search engines that use the enhanced tags by enabling the search engine to identify and return more relevant search results in answers to natural language queries.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2019Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Xiaohai Zhang, Haifeng Zhao, Yang Chen, Michael A. Menarguez, Liang Zhang
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Publication number: 20200410056Abstract: A crowdsource pipeline manager that is capable of using a crowdsource platform to automatically generate a large amount of high-quality training examples in a timely manner for training a machine learning model for a natural language processing task. Instead of merely creating a collection job with the crowdsource platform, the crowdsource pipeline manager creates a peer-reviewed collection job. The peer-reviewed collection job is created with the crowdsource platform such that execution of a corresponding judging job by the crowdsource platform is automatically triggered after the crowdsource platform executes the peer-reviewed collection job.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2019Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Yang Chen, Xiaohai Zhang, Michael A. Menarguez, Haifeng Zhao, Liang Zhang
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Patent number: 10809875Abstract: A display control method, a device thereof, and an electronic apparatus are disclosed. The display control method includes obtaining an input operation for a first folder icon in an interactive interface currently displayed on a display screen of an electronic apparatus; generating a call instruction in response to the input operation, the call instruction being used for starting a folder manager; starting the folder manager in response to the call instruction; obtaining all folders on the electronic apparatus under the folder manager; putting all the folders in an unfolded state; and displaying the folders in the unfolded state by the display screen in a queue manner.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2015Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventors: Rui Deng, Yang Yang, Fei Gao, Li Ding, Xiaohai Zhang
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Patent number: 10035894Abstract: Disclosed are a colored TPU foam material, a preparation method and a use thereof, as we as a method for preparing a shaped body, a sheet and a shoe material by using same. The colored TPU foam material is composed of colored foam particles or colored foam sheets; the concentration of a pigment in the colored foam particles or the colored foam sheets is 0.01-5 wt %; the pigment has the same concentration inside and outside the colored TPU foam material, and the colored TPU foam material has a hardness of shore A 5-65, a density of 0.05-0.5 g/cm3, and an average cell size of less than 100 ?m. The present invention has features such as a good internal and external color uniformity, no wrinkles being present on the surface, etc.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2015Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Inventors: Xiaohai Zhang, Wentao Zhai
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Patent number: 10019220Abstract: A control method and an apparatus thereof applied to a terminal apparatus with a display device are provided. The terminal apparatus can establish a data connection with a wearable device. The method includes: receiving a control instruction generated by the terminal apparatus; acquiring a display picture on the display device of the terminal apparatus based on the control instruction; and sending the display picture to the wearable device through data connection, so that the wearable device displays the display picture. After the control instruction is generated by the terminal apparatus, the display picture on the display device of the terminal apparatus is sent to the wearable device through the data connection, to display the display picture on the wearable device. Thus, viewing experience different from viewing through the terminal apparatus is provided for a user and the viewing experience for the user is improved.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2015Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Rui Deng, Xiaohai Zhang
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Publication number: 20170038946Abstract: A display control method, a device thereof, and an electronic apparatus are disclosed. The display control method includes obtaining an input operation for a first folder icon in an interactive interface currently displayed on a display screen of an electronic apparatus; generating a call instruction in response to the input operation, the call instruction being used for starting a folder manager; starting the folder manager in response to the call instruction; obtaining all folders on the electronic apparatus under the folder manager; putting all the folders in an unfolded state; and displaying the folders in the unfolded state by the display screen in a queue manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2015Publication date: February 9, 2017Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Rui Deng, Yang Yang, Fei Gao, Li Ding, Xiaohai Zhang
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Publication number: 20170031563Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for display control as well as an electronic device. The method comprises: loading a desktop application, the desktop application having an interaction interface including a plurality of folders; obtaining a first input operation on an icon of a first folder on the interaction interface currently displayed on the display screen; generating, in response to the first input operation, an invocation instruction; activating the folder manager in response to the invocation instruction; obtaining all folders in the electronic device with the folder manager; setting all the folders to an unfolded state; displaying the folders in the unfolded state in a queue on the display screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2015Publication date: February 2, 2017Applicants: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED, BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD.Inventors: Shoupeng ZHANG, Yang YANG, Xiaohai ZHANG, Li DING
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Publication number: 20170010849Abstract: A control method and an apparatus thereof applied to a terminal apparatus with a display device are provided. The terminal apparatus can establish a data connection with a wearable device. The method includes: receiving a control instruction generated by the terminal apparatus; acquiring a display picture on the display device of the terminal apparatus based on the control instruction; and sending the display picture to the wearable device through data connection, so that the wearable device displays the display picture. After the control instruction is generated by the terminal apparatus, the display picture on the display device of the terminal apparatus is sent to the wearable device through the data connection, to display the display picture on the wearable device. Thus, viewing experience different from viewing through the terminal apparatus is provided for a user and the viewing experience for the user is improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2015Publication date: January 12, 2017Applicants: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Rui DENG, Xiaohai ZHANG
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Publication number: 20160311993Abstract: Disclosed are a coloured TPU foam material, a preparation method and a use thereof, as we as a method for preparing a shaped body, a sheet and a shoe material by using same. The coloured TPU foam material is composed of coloured foam particles or coloured foam sheets; the concentration of a pigment in the coloured foam particles or the coloured foam sheets is 0.01-5 wt %; the pigment has the same concentration inside and outside the coloured TPU foam material, and the coloured TPU foam material has a hardness of shore A 5-65, a density of 0.05-0.5 g/cm3, and an average cell size of less than 100 ?m. The present invention has features such as a good internal and external colour uniformity, no wrinkles being present on the surface, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2015Publication date: October 27, 2016Inventors: Xiaohai ZHANG, Wentao ZHAI
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Publication number: 20160155280Abstract: The disclosure provides an information processing method, an electronic device and a wearable electronic device. The information processing method comprises: obtaining a first physiological parameter at a user's first part by using a first wearable electronic device; generating a first identification code corresponding to the first physiological parameter; acquiring a second identification code transmitted from a second wearable electronic device which communicates with the first wearable electronic device; judging whether the first identification code matches the second identification code, to obtain a judgment result; and establishing a connection between the first wearable electronic device and the second wearable electronic device, if the judgment result indicates that the first identification code matches the second identification code.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2016Publication date: June 2, 2016Inventors: Bin Yang, Guoyong Sun, Xiaohai Zhang
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Patent number: 9343061Abstract: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for converting text information. The method includes: receiving, by a first terminal, a call or data from a second terminal; obtaining, by the first terminal, according to a mapping relationship between identification information of the second terminal and voice characteristic parameters of an user of the second terminal, the voice characteristic parameters of the user of the second terminal corresponding to the identification information of the second terminal when the first terminal is in a working mode of text-to-voice conversion; and converting, by the first terminal, related text information about the call or data to audio information with the voice characteristic parameters of the user of the second terminal.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2013Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: HUAWEI DEVICE CO., LTD.Inventors: Jiong Chen, Xiaohai Zhang
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Publication number: 20160086405Abstract: The disclosure provides an information processing method, an electronic device and a wearable electronic device. The information processing method comprises: obtaining a first physiological parameter at a user's first part by using a first wearable electronic device; generating a first identification code corresponding to the first physiological parameter; acquiring a second identification code transmitted from a second wearable electronic device which communicates with the first wearable electronic device; judging whether the first identification code matches the second identification code, to obtain a judgment result; and establishing a connection between the first wearable electronic device and the second wearable electronic device, if the judgment result indicates that the first identification code matches the second identification code.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2015Publication date: March 24, 2016Inventors: Bin Yang, Guoyong Sun, Xiaohai Zhang
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Publication number: 20130251121Abstract: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for converting text information. The method includes: receiving, by a first terminal, a call or data from a second terminal; obtaining, by the first terminal, according to a mapping relationship between identification information of the second terminal and voice characteristic parameters of an user of the second terminal, the voice characteristic parameters of the user of the second terminal corresponding to the identification information of the second terminal when the first terminal is in a working mode of text-to-voice conversion; and converting, by the first terminal, related text information about the call or data to audio information with the voice characteristic parameters of the user of the second terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: Huawei Device Co., LTDInventors: Jiong Chen, Xiaohai Zhang
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Patent number: 7689720Abstract: A shared concept of time, called “graph time,” is agreed upon by all nodes within a graph. Each node maintains its own local delta representative of a difference in the node's system clock and graph time. Upon connecting to a neighbor node in a graph, a node is sent graph time as perceived by the neighbor node. In accordance with an embodiment, the node assumes that the lag time in receiving the graph time from the neighbor node is one-half of the lag time between the request for the connection and the receipt of the graph time. Graph time as sent by the neighbor node is added to one-half of the total delay and the sum is subtracted from the node's system time to calculate the delta for the node requesting connection.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2003Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jeremy L. Dewey, Christian Huitema, Xiaohai Zhang
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Patent number: 7493363Abstract: A system and method of serverless peer-to-peer group management and maintenance is presented. Group formation and discovery of private, public, and enumerated groups are provided, as is a method of joining such a peer-to-peer group. Group information management provided by the present invention ensures that each node maintains a current database from the initial joining of the group through the run phase of membership. Group graph maintenance utilizes a group signature to ensure that partitions in a graph may be detected and repaired. The utility of connections within the graph are also monitored so that non-productive connections may be dropped to increase the efficiency of the group. The diameter of the graph is also monitored and adjusted to ensure rapid information transfer throughout the group. A disconnect procedure is used to maintain the graph integrity and prevent partitions resulting from the departure of a group member.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2001Date of Patent: February 17, 2009Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Christian Huitema, Alexandru Gavrilescu, Noel W. Anderson, Xiaohai Zhang
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Patent number: 7478120Abstract: A peer graph is formed by assigning published identifiers to peer nodes that each map to network addresses. A signed number space is defined based on the published identifiers. Given a key, a closest peer node is determined by maintaining data identifying other peer nodes. Index information identifying the key and an associated value are stored as a pair on a storing peer node. Further key and value pairs are maintained in a local indexing database. Hierarchically structured levels are organized in a peer indexing database as a factor of the number space size. A group identifier is stored at a peer indexing database level determined as a function of the storing peer node, level and number space size factor. The key is hashed as a function of the initial group identifier and number space size factor to identify a closest peer node. Key and value pairs are transiently maintained.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2004Date of Patent: January 13, 2009Inventor: Xiaohai Zhang
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Patent number: 7068789Abstract: A method for ensuring valid and secure peer-to-peer communications in a group structure. Specifically, the system of the present invention presents a method of ensuring secure peer-to-peer group formation, group member addition, group member eviction, group information distribution, etc. Such functionality may be distributed to the individual peers in the group to further enhance the overall security of the group while enhancing flexibility. The P2P group security allows every peer who is a valid member of the group to invite new members. The recipients of these invitations are then able to contact any member of the group to join the group, not only the inviter. Further, groups may function when the group creator is not online. Likewise, the method allows the creation of secure groups with users from different security domains, relying on their security credentials in those domains for initial authentication.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2001Date of Patent: June 27, 2006Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Christian Huitema, Alexandru Gavrilescu, Xiaohai Zhang