Patents by Inventor Xiaolan Zhang

Xiaolan 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).

  • Publication number: 20230385428
    Abstract: A method for processing a cryptographic operation request includes receiving, at a hardware security module (HSM), the cryptographic operation request including a cryptographic key and at least one authorization token, determining, by the HSM, whether an access control list (ACL) associated with the cryptographic key of the cryptographic operation request is authorized to govern access to the cryptographic key, and validating, by the HSM, the at least one authorization token. When the at least one authorization token is valid and the ACL is authorized to govern access to the cryptographic key of the cryptographic operation request, the method includes processing, by the HSM, the cryptographic operation request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Stahlberg, August Huber, Il-Sung Lee, Tao Tao, Xiaolan Zhang, John Randolph, David Elrom
  • Publication number: 20230385631
    Abstract: The method includes: generating an initial super-network structure in a super-network class according to a search space configuration file, and pre-training a super-network in the initial super-network structure by using a data set (S1); sampling a sub-network in the pre-trained super-network by using a controller, and setting corresponding head network and neck network in the sub-network according to a task type to form a sub-task network (S2); training the sub-task network, and updating the initial super-network structure according to a training result to obtain the super-network structure (S3); and verifying the super-network structure based on a plurality of sub-task networks, and optimizing the super-network and the controller by using verification results, and repeating the processes of the controller of sampling, verifying and optimizing until the time of repetitions reaches a threshold, and selecting the super-network structure with an optimal verification result as the search framework of the neural
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Zhenzhen ZHOU, Feng LI, Xiaolan ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11767534
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for determining the activity of a plurality of nucleic acid regulatory elements. These methods may facilitate, e.g., the systematic reverse engineering, and optimization of mammalian cis-regulatory elements at high resolution and at a large scale. The method may include integration of multiplexed DNA synthesis and sequencing technologies to generate and quantify the transcriptional regulatory activity of e.g., thousands of arbitrary DNA sequences in parallel in cell-based as says (e.g., mammalian cell based assays).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Tarjei Mikkelsen, Andreas Gnirke, Alexandre Melnikov, Eric S. Lander, Li Wang, Xiaolan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11741240
    Abstract: A method for processing a cryptographic operation request includes receiving, at a hardware security module (HSM), the cryptographic operation request including a cryptographic key and at least one authorization token, determining, by the HSM, whether an access control list (ACL) associated with the cryptographic key of the cryptographic operation request is authorized to govern access to the cryptographic key, and validating, by the HSM, the at least one authorization token. When the at least one authorization token is valid and the ACL is authorized to govern access to the cryptographic key of the cryptographic operation request, the method includes processing, by the HSM, the cryptographic operation request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Stahlberg, August Huber, Il-Sung Lee, Tao Tao, Xiaolan Zhang, John Randolph, David Elrom
  • Publication number: 20210297260
    Abstract: A method for processing a cryptographic operation request includes receiving, at a hardware security module (HSM), the cryptographic operation request including a cryptographic key and at least one authorization token, determining, by the HSM, whether an access control list (ACL) associated with the cryptographic key of the cryptographic operation request is authorized to govern access to the cryptographic key, and validating, by the HSM, the at least one authorization token. When the at least one authorization token is valid and the ACL is authorized to govern access to the cryptographic key of the cryptographic operation request, the method includes processing, by the HSM, the cryptographic operation request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Stahlberg, August Huber, II-Sung Lee, Tao Tao, Xiaolan Zhang, John Randolph, David Elrom
  • Publication number: 20210208088
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic holder for immunoelectron microscopy grids. The holder comprises a frame, a magnet and a hydrophobic layer. The device can use a magnetic force to simultaneously attach the outer rings of nickel grids to the frame, so that a batch operation (such as rinsing, immunolabeling and dyeing) of the nickel grids can be realized. In addition, due to the hydrophobic effect of the hydrophobic layer, the holder can reduce the amount of the liquid carried by the nickel grids in the process of continuously transferring the nickel grids between different types of liquids to almost zero. Compared with the prior art, the magnetic holder effectively reduces the probability of cross-contamination between reagents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Jingnan Liang, Yiwei Liu, Qian Wang, Zhousinuo Jiang, Xing Dai, Hao Liang, Yuanming Luo, Chunli Li, Zheng Fan, Tong Zhao, Shutao Sun, Xiaolan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20210208090
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dual-arm clamping type holder for transmission electron microscopy grids and preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises: firstly manufacturing a frame with two adjacent arms located on a same plane and have a clamping structure by a hard material; then putting the frame in a molten adhering liquid so that the frame is dipped with the adhering liquid; and finally, taking out the frame dipped with the adhering liquid, and waiting for the adhering liquid to solidify into adhering layers along the arms. The dual-arm clamping type holder manufactured by the method of the present invention comprises a frame and adhering layers; and the adhering layers adhere to the inner sides of the clamping structure between the two adjacent arms of the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Jingnan Liang, Hao Liang, Yiwei Liu, Weina Sun, Chunli Li, Yuanming Luo, Zheng Fan, Tong Zhao, Shutao Sun, Qian Wang, Xiaolan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11041820
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic holder for immunoelectron microscopy grids. The holder comprises a frame, a magnet and a hydrophobic layer. The device can use a magnetic force to simultaneously attach the outer rings of nickel grids to the frame, so that a batch operation (such as rinsing, immunolabeling and dyeing) of the nickel grids can be realized. In addition, due to the hydrophobic effect of the hydrophobic layer, the holder can reduce the amount of the liquid carried by the nickel grids in the process of continuously transferring the nickel grids between different types of liquids to almost zero. Compared with the prior art, the magnetic holder effectively reduces the probability of cross-contamination between reagents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Jingnan Liang, Yiwei Liu, Qian Wang, Zhousinuo Jiang, Xing Dai, Hao Liang, Yuanming Luo, Chunli Li, Zheng Fan, Tong Zhao, Shutao Sun, Xiaolan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11041784
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dual-arm clamping type holder for transmission electron microscopy grids and preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises: firstly manufacturing a frame with two adjacent arms located on a same plane and have a clamping structure by a hard material; then putting the frame in a molten adhering liquid so that the frame is dipped with the adhering liquid; and finally, taking out the frame dipped with the adhering liquid, and waiting for the adhering liquid to solidify into adhering layers along the arms. The dual-arm clamping type holder manufactured by the method of the present invention comprises a frame and adhering layers; and the adhering layers adhere to the inner sides of the clamping structure between the two adjacent arms of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Jingnan Liang, Hao Liang, Yiwei Liu, Weina Sun, Chunli Li, Yuanming Luo, Zheng Fan, Tong Zhao, Shutao Sun, Qian Wang, Xiaolan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11032080
    Abstract: A method for processing a cryptographic operation request includes receiving, at a hardware security module (HSM), the cryptographic operation request including a cryptographic key and at least one authorization token, determining, by the HSM, whether an access control list (ACL) associated with the cryptographic key of the cryptographic operation request is authorized to govern access to the cryptographic key, and validating, by the HSM, the at least one authorization token. When the at least one authorization token is valid and the ACL is authorized to govern access to the cryptographic key of the cryptographic operation request, the method includes processing, by the HSM, the cryptographic operation request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Stahlberg, Il-Sung Lee, Tao Tao, Xiaolan Zhang, John Randolph, August Huber, David Elrom
  • Publication number: 20210137779
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for HFCWO oscillation therapy can enhance expectoration by preferred impact to the user to encourage mucus dislodging, including by successive pressure imposition to a chest engagement device to provide HFCWO.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Aaron A. AYU, Kok Boon R. ONG, Deny D. BARILEA, John A. BOBEY, Leonardo B. ARTIAGA, Jr., Xiaolan ZHANG, Wei BIAN, Yong Guan TAY, Mo Chuk WONG, Qingqing KOH, Joo Cheng CHHUA, Stacey REULAND, Mathieu BERNARD
  • Patent number: 10540662
    Abstract: A method of checking file system compliance including receiving a plurality of compliance rules corresponding to a file system of a production system, collecting, by a collector, file system meta data from the file system, analyzing, by an analyzer, the file system meta data using the plurality of compliance rules to determine at least one compliance deviation of the file system, and throttling the collector and the analyzer independently of one-another, wherein the collector and the analyzer are configured according to a model of performance for the production system and a schedule for the collection and analyzing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas M. Barlett, Yixin Diao, Harish Dindigal, Robert Filepp, Bo Forsberg, Lakshminarayanan Renganarayana, Xiaolan Zhang
  • Patent number: 10376591
    Abstract: A formulation includes a carrier agent formed by conjugating at least one biologically active hydrophobic compound with at least one hydrophilic compound, the at least one biologically active hydrophobic compound selected from the group of farnesylthiosalicylic acid and a derivative of farnesylthiosalicylic acid which is biologically active as an RAS antagonist, wherein a plurality of the carrier agents are adapted to assemble into a structure and the at least one biologically active hydrophobic compound is conjugated with the at least one hydrophilic compound via a linkage which is labile in vivo, and a biologically active compound associated with the carrier agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Song Li, Yixian Huang, Xiaolan Zhang, Xiang Gao
  • Patent number: 10249014
    Abstract: During a process of migrating a source system into a standardized virtual environment, virtual machine instances of the source system executing in a hypervisor are snapshotted as virtual machine images in an operational repository of the hypervisor. The virtual machine images in the operational repository are short-term snapshots. From time to time during the migration process, long-term snapshots of the source system are created by checking given ones of the virtual machine images from the hypervisor operational repository into an image library as image objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vasanth Bala, Kamal Bhattacharya, Thomas Diethelm, Praveen Jayachandran, Lakshminarayanan Renganarayana, Marcel Schlatter, Akshat Verma, Xiaolan Zhang
  • Patent number: 10244081
    Abstract: An arbitrary customer instance is transferred from a customer environment to a target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment as a transferred image. An image adjustment plan, capturing at least one adjustment required to render the transferred image compliant with standards of the target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment, is formulated. The image adjustment plan is executed to adjust the transferred image to obtain an adjusted image compliant with standards of the target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment. The adjusted image is on-boarded into the managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment as a standard image thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rema Ananthanarayanan, Kamal Bhattacharya, Florian Graf, Praveen Jayachandran, Bharat Krishnamurthy, Lakshminarayanan Renganarayana, Marcel Schlatter, Kristiann J. Schultz, Akshat Verma, Balaji Viswanathan, Xiaolan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20180367311
    Abstract: A method for processing a cryptographic operation request includes receiving, at a hardware security module (HSM), the cryptographic operation request including a cryptographic key and at least one authorization token, determining, by the HSM, whether an access control list (ACL) associated with the cryptographic key of the cryptographic operation request is authorized to govern access to the cryptographic key, and validating, by the HSM, the at least one authorization token. When the at least one authorization token is valid and the ACL is authorized to govern access to the cryptographic key of the cryptographic operation request, the method includes processing, by the HSM, the cryptographic operation request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Stahlberg, Il-Sung Lee, Tao Tao, Xiaolan Zhang, John Randolph, August Huber, David Elrom
  • Publication number: 20180225617
    Abstract: A method and system for automating work pattern quantification and providing worker feedback based on quantified metrics is provided. The system may first identify a work pattern to be quantified for a user. Using one more predefined rules associated with the identified work pattern, the system determines at least one task associated with the work pattern. One or more services accessed to perform the associated task(s) are identified and event data from these services is collected, each event including an associated timestamp. The event data is analyzed to generate a focus metric(s). The generated focus metrics may then be used to quantify a work pattern by providing individual or group feedback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Patrick LEUNG, Geoff STEARNS, Nick SIDERAKIS, Kirill TITIEVSKY, Benjamin GOJMAN, Zachary YORKE, Xiaolan ZHANG, Adrien BARANES, Samuel HOFFSTAETTER
  • Patent number: 9916171
    Abstract: In an approach for detecting one or more applications in a VM, one or more processors establish a time duration. One or more processors detect two or more files, each file in the two or more files having a time stamp time that differs from a last modified time stamp time of at least one other file in the two or more files by no more than the time duration. One or more processors record an identifier for each file of the two or more files, a location, a name, and a last modified time stamp time of each file of the two or more files. One or more processors map the two or more files to an application installed on the VM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vasanth Bala, Ea-Ee Jan, Lakshminarayanan Renganarayana, Wolfgang O. H. Richter, Xiaolan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20180000957
    Abstract: A formulation includes a carrier agent formed by conjugating at least one biologically active hydrophobic compound with at least one hydrophilic compound, the at least one biologically active hydrophobic compound selected from the group of farnesylthiosalicylic acid and a derivative of farnesylthiosalicylic acid which is biologically active as an RAS antagonist, wherein a plurality of the carrier agents are adapted to assemble into a structure and the at least one biologically active hydrophobic compound is conjugated with the at least one hydrophilic compound via a linkage which is labile in vivo, and a biologically active compound associated with the carrier agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: SONG LI, YIXIAN HUANG, XIAOLAN ZHANG, XIANG GAO
  • Patent number: 9855341
    Abstract: A method of forming or creating a formulation for a compound to be delivered includes creating a carrier agent by conjugating at least one hydrophobic domain or hydrophobic compound with at least one hydrophilic domain or hydrophilic compound and associating the compound to be delivered with the carrier agent to create the formulation. The at least one hydrophobic compound has the formula: wherein R1 is a farnesyl group, a geranyl group or geranyl-geranyl group, X is O, S, SO, SO2, NH or Se, Z is C—R2 or N, R2 is H, CN, CO2R7, SO3R7, CONR7R8 or SO2NR7R8, wherein R7 and R8 are each independently H, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, CO2M or SO3M, wherein M is a cation and R3, R4, and R5 are independently H, a carboxyl group, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aminoalkyl group, a nitroalkyl group, a nitro group, a halo atom, an amino group, a mono-alkylamino group, a di-alkylamino group, mercapto group, a mercaptoalkyl group, an azido group or a thiocyanato group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Song Li, Yixian Huang, Xiaolan Zhang, Xiang Gao