Patents by Inventor Xiong Zhang

Xiong 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).

  • Heat sink mount and assembly
    Patent number: 9401317
    Abstract: An assembly for a heat sink having a contact plate with opposing first and second faces, a plurality of fins extending from the first face of the contact plate, and a plurality of gaps between the fins. A retaining device has a first pair of opposing sides and a second pair of opposing sides, the first and second pairs of opposing sides surrounding an opening, the first pair of opposing sides having primary framing members, at least some of the primary framing members having a first end at a respective side and a distal free end, with at least one engagement member positioned proximate the distal free ends. The primary framing members define a receiving space for the heat sink. A metal spring is configured in a closed shape cross-section for engagement with the retaining device. The metal spring has a pair of elongated sides, a pair of truncated sides and heat sink engagement regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Aavid Thermalloy, LLC
    Inventors: Rui Sheng Tan, Xiong Zhang, Zhe Hong Liu, San Xi Zheng
  • SOCIAL MEDIA IMPACT ASSESSMENT
    Publication number: 20160188604
    Abstract: A system for identifying influential users of a social network platform. The system may compute a score for each of multiple users. Such a score may be topic-based, leading to a more accurate identification of influential users. Such a topic-based score may indicate authority and/or impact of a user with respect to a topic. The impact may be computed based on authority combined with other factors, such as power of the user. The authority score may be simply computed, in whole or in part, directly from a tweet log without, for example creating a retweet graph. As a result, the scores may be computed, using MapReduce primitives or other constructs that allow the computations to be distributed across multiple parallel processors. Such scores may be used to select users based on impact as part of social trend analysis, marketing or other functions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Danny B. LANGE, Hung-Chih YANG, Xiong ZHANG, Graham A. WHEELER, Jason J. JOYCE, David M. MOORE, Bhalchandra PANDIT
  • THERMAL MODULE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING THE THERMAL MODULE
    Publication number: 20160165750
    Abstract: A thermal module includes a shell, a plurality of fans assembled in the shell, and a plurality of louvers. The shell defines a plurality of openings corresponding to the fans. Each louver includes a frame coupled to one of the vents and a plurality of louver boards. A side edge of each louver board extends outward forming a shaft rotatably coupled to two opposite sides of the frame. The gravity center of the frame is configured adjacent to an end of the frame, which is away from the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: DE-HUA TANG, JUN-XIONG ZHANG
  • Speaker box
    Patent number: 9363604
    Abstract: A speaker box includes a case includes an upper side and a lower side opposite to the upper side, an electroacoustic transducer received in the case and including a first pole plate with a plurality of first gaps for communicating with the magnetic gap, a second pole plate attached on a lower surface of the first pole plate. The second pole plate defines a second main member, a plurality of second auxiliary members extending from a periphery of the first main member, and a plurality of second gaps corresponding to the first gaps. Each of the second auxiliary members defines a longer auxiliary member and a shorter auxiliary member respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignees: AAC ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGIES (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., AMERICAN AUDIO COMPONENTS INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Bin Zha, Xiong Zhang
  • IDENTIFYING INFLUENTIAL USERS OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE
    Publication number: 20160125432
    Abstract: A system includes a memory storing a dataset representing a community of users of a social networking service, the social networking service providing a platform enabling a user within the community to communicate with at least one of a plurality of other users within the community. The system includes a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to determine a ranking of the service users in the dataset based on an initial influence score for at least one of the users. The processor is also configured to determine a contribution to a first user within the community by at least one second user of the plurality of other users within the community, and calculate an influence score for the first user. The ranking is revised based at least in part on the calculated influence score, and information is rendered to a target user based on the revised ranking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Hung-Chih Yang, Danny B. Lange, Xiong Zhang
  • System and Method for Depth Map Coding for Smooth Depth Map Area
    Publication number: 20160105672
    Abstract: A method for coding a coding unit that is coded with a single sample value is provided. The method selects a coding pattern from at least two predetermined coding patterns, each of which includes a plurality of boundary neighboring samples of the coding unit that have been reconstructed, and decodes the coding unit according to a value of at least one of the plurality of boundary neighboring samples of the selected coding pattern that is available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Jianhua Zheng, Zhouye Gu, Chen-Xiong Zhang, Nam Ling
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NON-UNIFORM MAPPING FOR QUANTIZATION MATRIX COEFFICIENTS BETWEEN DIFFERENT SIZES OF QUANTIZATION MATRICES IN IMAGE/VIDEO CODING
    Publication number: 20160088302
    Abstract: A method for non-uniform mapping for quantization matrix coefficients between different sizes of quantization matrices in image/video coding includes obtaining a first quantization matrix and identifying a second quantization matrix to be formed therefrom. The second quantization matrix is a factor of two larger than the first quantization matrix. The second quantization matrix is populated with values from the first matrix through non-uniform mapping of the first quantization matrix. Non-uniform mapping to populate the second quantization matrix includes directly mapping values of all or a portion of the first quantization matrix into a most upper left portion of the second quantization matrix and mapping up-sampling values of the first quantization matrix into a remaining portion of the second quantization matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Jianhua Zheng, Chen-Xiong Zhang
  • Social media impact assessment
    Patent number: 9294576
    Abstract: A system for identifying influential users of a social network platform. The system may compute a score for each of multiple users. Such a score may be topic-based, leading to a more accurate identification of influential users. Such a topic-based score may indicate authority and/or impact of a user with respect to a topic. The impact may be computed based on authority combined with other factors, such as power of the user. The authority score may be simply computed, in whole or in part, directly from a tweet log without, for example creating a retweet graph. As a result, the scores may be computed, using MapReduce primitives or other constructs that allow the computations to be distributed across multiple parallel processors. Such scores may be used to select users based on impact as part of social trend analysis, marketing or other functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Danny B. Lange, Hung-Chih Yang, Xiong Zhang, Graham A. Wheeler, Jason J. Joyce, David M. Moore, Bhalchandra Pandit
  • SURFACE METALLIZING METHOD, METHOD FOR PREPARING PLASTIC ARTICLE AND PLASTIC ARTICLE MADE THEREFROM
    Publication number: 20160068963
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for metallizing a plastic surface. The method may comprise the steps of: 1) gasifying the plastic surface to expose the electroless plating promoter; and 2) electroless plating a layer of copper or nickel on the plastic surface, followed by electroplating or a second electroless plating to form a metallized layer on the plastic surface. Further, the present invention discloses a method for preparing a plastic article and a plastic article as manufactured by the method as described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Qing GONG, Liang ZHOU, Weifeng MIAO, Xiong ZHANG
  • Identifying collocations in a corpus of text in a distributed computing environment
    Patent number: 9239827
    Abstract: Technologies pertaining to computing a metric that is indicative of whether an n-gram in a large corpus of text is a collocation are described herein. The metric is computed in connection with a distributed computing framework, wherein n-grams of varying lengths can be analyzed in a single input data pass, and wherein secondary sorting functionality of the distributed computing framework need not be invoked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Xiong Zhang, Hung-chih Yang, Danny Lange
  • METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING DEPTH BASED BLOCK PARTITIONING IN HIGH EFFICIENCY VIDEO CODING
    Publication number: 20150382025
    Abstract: Depth based block partitioning in high efficiency video coding is provided by partitioning a video image block into different partitions using a binary segmentation mask. A determination is made whether to filter pixels at a boundary between the partitions. A particular pixel is not filtered in response to each adjacent pixel in vertical and horizontal planes in relation to the particular pixel having a same value. The particular pixel is filtered in response to any adjacent pixel in the vertical and horizontal planes in relation to the particular pixel having a different value than any other adjacent pixel in the vertical and horizontal planes in relation to the particular pixel. Pixels are filtered pursuant to a filtering process in response to a filtering determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Zhouye Gu, Jianhua Zheng, Nam Ling, Chen-Xiong Zhang
  • METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REDUCING A COMPUTATIONAL LOAD IN HIGH EFFICIENCY VIDEO CODING
    Publication number: 20150381988
    Abstract: A method for reducing a computational load in high efficiency video coding includes generating a full rate distortion calculation list of selected intra coding modes where the intra coding modes including intra prediction modes and depth modeling modes. A rate distortion cost is determined, with a segment-wise depth coding mode being disabled, for each intra prediction mode in the full rate distortion calculation list and a smallest rate distortion cost intra prediction mode is selected. A rate distortion cost for a particular intra prediction mode is calculated with the segment-wise depth coding mode enabled. After comparison, one of the particular intra prediction mode and the smallest rate distortion cost intra prediction mode having the smallest rate distortion cost is applied to a prediction unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Zhouye Gu, Jianhua Zheng, Nam Ling, Chen-Xiong Zhang
  • Identifying influential users of a social networking service
    Patent number: 9218630
    Abstract: Techniques for identifying influential users of a social networking service are provided. Influential users may be identified via an algorithm in which an influence score is assigned to each user based at least in part on other members of the community users having taken an affirmative step with respect to the user's communications. Iterative processing may be performed, with each user's influence score being determined by contributions from other users, and each contribution being determined by the contributor's influence score as of a prior iteration. A map-reduce framework may be employed, with data representing the community being partitioned into a plurality of discrete shards, a map process corresponding to each shard calculating an influence score for users represented in the shard, and reduce processes ranking users according to influence score across all shards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Hung-Chih Yang, Danny B. Lange, Xiong Zhang
  • Tunneling field effect transistor with new structure and preparation method thereof
    Patent number: 9209284
    Abstract: A tunneling field effect transistor with a new structure and a preparation method thereof are provided. The tunneling field effect transistor includes an active region between a source and a drain, a gate dielectric layer, and a gate located on a side of the gate dielectric layer deviating from the source, and a tunneling region disposed between the gate dielectric layer and the source and in contact with both the gate dielectric layer and the source. The source includes at least a first area and a second area perpendicularly connected in an “L” shape. The tunneling region is in contact with at least the first area and the second area. The gate dielectric layer is in contact with at least the tunneling region and the source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jing Zhao, Xichao Yang, Chen-Xiong Zhang
  • Multiple predictor set for intra coding with intra mode prediction
    Patent number: 9204155
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a codec configured to predict an intra mode for a considered block based on a plurality of group numbers and a plurality of corresponding group indices for a plurality used modes of a plurality of adjacent blocks to the considered block, wherein a group number corresponding to an actual intra mode for the considered block is coded and sent if the predicted intra mode does not match the actual intra mode. Also disclosed is a network component comprising a processor configured to predict an intra mode for a considered block based on a minimum group number and a minimum group index of two used modes for two adjacent blocks of the considered block, and a transmitter configured to send coded bits of a group number for an actual intra mode for the considered block if the actual intra mode does not match the predicted intra mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lingzhi Liu, Guichun Li, Nam Ling, Jianhua Zheng, Cheng-Xiong Zhang
  • Simplified bilateral intra smoothing filter
    Patent number: 9179148
    Abstract: A method comprising receiving a plurality of reference pixels, computing a plurality of filter coefficients based on differences between a reference pixel and neighboring reference pixels in the plurality of reference pixels, and combining the filter coefficients with the reference pixel and the neighboring reference pixels to generate a filtered value, wherein the filtered value is used for intra prediction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignees: Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara University
    Inventors: Guichun Li, Lingzhi Liu, Changcai Lai, Nam Ling, Jianhua Zheng, Chen-Xiong Zhang
  • Acoustic device
    Patent number: 9154865
    Abstract: One embodiment of the invention discloses an acoustic device having a housing and a speaker unit accommodated in the housing. The speaker unit forms a front volume and a back volume together with the housing. The housing includes an extra volume communicating with the back volume and a sound channel communicated with the front volume. The extra volume is isolated from the sound channel. The invention provides an acoustic device with enlarged back volume for improving low frequency sound quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignees: AAC Microtech (changzhou) Co., Ltd., AAC Acoustic Technologies (shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu-Bin Zha, Xiong Zhang
  • Illumination Compensation (IC) Refinement
    Publication number: 20150271488
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a receiver configured to receive video views comprising a reference view and a current view, wherein the reference view comprises a reference block and the current view comprises a current block, and a processor coupled to the receiver and configured to determine neighboring reference pixels associated with the reference block, determine neighboring current pixels associated with the current block, determine a first positional pairing between the neighboring reference pixels and the neighboring current pixels, determine a second positional pairing between the neighboring reference pixels and the neighboring current pixels, and determine an optimal pairing from between the first positional pairing and the second positional pairing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Zhouye Gu, Jianhua Zheng, Nam Ling, Chen-Xiong Zhang
  • ELECTRICALLY ERASABLE PROGRAMMABLE READ-ONLY MEMORY AND STORAGE ARRAY OF THE SAME
    Publication number: 20150255124
    Abstract: An Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM) and an EEPROM storage array are provided. The EEPROM storage array includes: at least one storage area, wherein the storage area comprises M word lines in a row direction, 8 bit lines in a column direction, 8 source lines in the column direction, and a plurality of storage units arranged in M rows and 8 columns, where M is a positive integer; and wherein gate electrodes of storage units in a same row are connected with a same word line, drain electrodes of storage units in a same column are connected with a same bit line, and source electrodes of storage units in a same column are connected with a same source line. The EEPROM's volume is reduced by connecting source electrodes of storage units in a same column to a same source line, and arranging the source lines in a column direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: Shanghai Huahong Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Jing GU, Weiran KONG, Bo ZHANG, Xiong ZHANG, Binghan LI
  • Tunneling Field Effect Transistor with New Structure and Preparation Method Thereof
    Publication number: 20150228768
    Abstract: A tunneling field effect transistor with a new structure and a preparation method thereof are provided. The tunneling field effect transistor includes an active region between a source and a drain, a gate dielectric layer, and a gate located on a side of the gate dielectric layer deviating from the source, and a tunneling region disposed between the gate dielectric layer and the source and in contact with both the gate dielectric layer and the source. The source includes at least a first area and a second area perpendicularly connected in an “L” shape. The tunneling region is in contact with at least the first area and the second area. The gate dielectric layer is in contact with at least the tunneling region and the source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Jing Zhao, Xichao Yang, Chen-Xiong Zhang