Patents by Inventor Yanan Zhang

Yanan 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).

  • Patent number: 11775647
    Abstract: This document relates to securing ownership of devices to particular users when the devices are shipped directly from an original equipment manufacturer in order to prevent malicious use of devices that are lost or stolen. A purchaser may purchase a device from an original equipment manufacturer, and as part of the purchasing process, may provide ownership information for the device, which may include a user identifier and an identity provider. The ownership data can be written to firmware, and upon powering on of the device, the device can request a user identifier, which is then validated by the identity provider before allowing operating systems operations to continue on the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Anni Dong, Yanan Zhang, Brian Stuart Perlman
  • Publication number: 20230308534
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a function switching entry determining method and an electronic device, to provide a flexible manner of determining a software/hardware switching entry, and assist a user in conveniently and quickly using a software/hardware capability of a nearby device. According to the method, a control device determines a function requirement of a currently executed task, detects at least one nearby device in a current environment, and determines capability information of the at least one nearby device; and the control device determines at least one first function switching entry based on the function requirement of the currently executed task and the capability information of the at least one nearby device, and displays the at least one first function switching entry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Yanan Zhang, Hongjun Wang
  • Publication number: 20230259439
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a task push method and apparatus, and an electronic device. The method includes: monitoring whether an external device is connected to a current device; when the external device is connected to the current device, determining whether a device usage habit description corresponding to the external device exists; and when the device usage habit description exists, generating a first task card display interface based on the device usage habit description, and displaying, on the current device, the first task card display interface or an interface used to enter the first task card display interface. Compared with the conventional technology, in the method in embodiments of this application, a procedure of using the external device is greatly simplified, complexity of a process of using the external device is reduced, and user experience is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventor: Yanan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11726364
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a diffusion plate support frame, a direct-type backlight module and a display apparatus. The diffusion plate support frame includes: a bottom plate; and one or more support portions, each of the one or more support portions is located on the bottom plate and comprises: a first buffer structure, and a support pin. The first buffer structure is located between the bottom plate and the support pin, and the first buffer structure is used for buffering pressure when subjected to a pressure applied by the support pin towards the bottom plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignees: K-Tronics (Suzhou) Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanan Zhang, Zhibin Hao, Zhihua Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230251773
    Abstract: An interface display method is disclosed. The method includes: An electronic device displays a first page of a first application in full screen. The electronic device receives a first operation on the first page. In response to the first operation, the electronic device displays the first page in a window form in a first area of a display, displays a second page of a second application in a window form in a second area of the display, and displays a first control in a third area of the display, where the first control is associated with a third page of the first application. When the electronic device receives a fourth operation on the first control, the electronic device displays the third page in full screen in response to the fourth operation. In this way, the third page can be quickly entered from the first page, and access efficiency is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Yanan Zhang, Hongjun Wang
  • Publication number: 20230185889
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to cross-device interaction methods and terminal devices. In one example method, a first device determines that a user identity of the first device is the same as a user identity of a second device. The first device obtains a target user of a task being executed by the second device. The first device determines, based on the target user of the task being executed by the second device, that a target contact of an application currently used by the first device is the target user. The first device sends information to the target user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Yanan ZHANG, Xuan ZHOU, Jiayu LONG, Yuzhuo PENG, Dongliang LI
  • Publication number: 20230186013
    Abstract: An annotation method and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: An electronic device displays content of a first file in a first interface. The electronic device detects a preset operation in the first interface, and displays the second interface including a first region and a second region. The first region is used to display the content of the first file, the second region is used to display annotation content. A font format and/or a paragraph format of at least a part of words in the first region are/is different from a font format and/or a paragraph format of words in the first file in the first interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Yanan ZHANG, Huaqi HAO
  • Publication number: 20230168784
    Abstract: Disclosed are an interaction method for an electronic device and an electronic device. After receiving a touch instruction, the electronic device parses a touch manner and a to-be-operated object that correspond to the touch instruction. The touch manner includes at least one type, and each type of touch manner includes a plurality of touch operations. Based on an amplitude of each touch operation, content carried by the to-be-operated object is successively and correspondingly displayed at an upper layer of an operation interface currently browsed by a user. When the user views the content in the to-be-operated object, jumping between the operation interface currently browsed by the user and an app corresponding to the to-be-operated object is avoided, CPU resource occupation of the electronic device due to an application jumping process is avoided, and freezing of the electronic device is also avoided, thereby improving user experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Yanan Zhang, Yuzhuo Peng
  • Publication number: 20230140946
    Abstract: A first electronic device determines a second electronic device within a preset distance when the first electronic device determines, based on a mapping relationship, that a first task that is being executed is not a task that is suitable for being executed by a device type of the first electronic device. The first electronic device receives first information, from the second electronic device, that includes information about a device identifier and a device type of the second electronic device. The first electronic device determines, based on the device identifier and the device type, that the second electronic device is suitable for executing the first task. The first electronic device sends a recommended service corresponding to the first task to the second electronic device. The second electronic device displays prompt information corresponding to the recommended service on a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Yanan Zhang, Whan Woong Kim Stransom, Yuzhuo Peng, Xuan Zhou
  • Publication number: 20230091922
    Abstract: Neuropeptide FF receptor modulators based on a proline scaffold are provided which offer NPFF receptor potencies in the nanomolar range and antagonistic selectivity for the NPFF1 receptor. Methods, compounds and compositions for modulating the function of neuropeptide FF receptors are provided for pharmacotherapies capable of influencing conditions or disorders affected by the neuropeptide FF receptors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Yanan Zhang, Thuy Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11568033
    Abstract: A data processing method includes: presenting one or more control elements on the touch screen, where the one or more control elements are in a one-to-one correspondence with one or more pieces of data; and encrypting or decrypting, based on fingerprint data obtained by the fingerprint recognition module, first data corresponding to a first control element when an operation of dragging the first control element from a location outside a second region to the second region is detected, where the second region includes at least a partial region of the first region. This can further complete operations of confirming that encryption or decryption is to be performed and performing authentication in one step, to shorten steps and time of a data encryption or decryption operation, thereby improving user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yunfei Qi, Yuanli Gan, Yanan Zhang, Huaqi Hao
  • Publication number: 20230006832
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein that are capable of registering a user device with a cloud-based management service using an intermediate cloud storage. For instance, the intermediate cloud storage may store an encrypted data blob including information that identifies the user device. The intermediate cloud storage or a registration system may decrypt the encrypted data blob so that the registration system may use the decrypted data blob to register the user device with the cloud-based management service. For instance, the registration system may retrieve the encrypted or decrypted data blob from the intermediate cloud storage by providing a requisite secret to the intermediate cloud storage. The requisite secret may be provided to the registration system by the user device (e.g., via a matrix barcode, such as a QR code).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Adrian Francisco TERAN GUAJARDO, Hung Minh DANG, Yanan ZHANG, Brian Stuart PERLMAN, Colin William HASSETT, Jonathan M. ANDES
  • Publication number: 20220398334
    Abstract: This application provides a notification prompt method, a server, and a storage medium. The method includes: when a notification is received, determining a target terminal that meets a preset notification prompt condition from terminal devices on which an account of a target user is logged in; obtaining identity information of a user currently using the target terminal; and when detecting, based on the identity information, that only the target user is currently using the target terminal, controlling the target terminal to prompt the notification in a first prompt mode, where preview content of the notification is displayed in the first prompt mode; or when detecting, based on the identity information, that a plurality of users are currently using the target terminal, controlling the target terminal to prompt the notification in a second prompt mode, where preview content of the notification is not displayed in the second prompt mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Yanan Zhang, Shi Liu
  • Publication number: 20220374123
    Abstract: A display element display method and an electronic device are provided. The method is applied to an electronic device including a first body and a second body. The first body is bendable relative to the second body. The first body and the second body respectively correspond to different display areas of the electronic device. The method includes: The electronic device detects a status of the first body and a status of the second body (301); determines a main interaction area and a main display area based on the status of the first body and the status of the second body (302); obtains one or more display elements on a to-be-displayed user interface (303); determines a display element type, where the display element type includes a main interaction element and a main display element (304); and displays the main interaction element in the main interaction area and displays the main display element in the main display area (306).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanan Zhang, Liang Hu
  • Patent number: 11491136
    Abstract: Neuropeptide FF receptor modulators based on a proline scaffold are provided which offer NPFF receptor potencies in the nanomolar range and antagonistic selectivity for the NPFF1 receptor. Methods, compounds and compositions for modulating the function of neuropeptide FF receptors are provided for pharmacotherapies capable of influencing conditions or disorders affected by the neuropeptide FF receptors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yanan Zhang, Thuy Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20220332695
    Abstract: Heteroaryl and aliphatic analogs of diarylurea-based cannabinoid 1 receptor (CB1R) allosteric modulators are described. Exemplary analogs can provide improved potencies and pharmacokinetic properties. Methods of using the analogs to treat diseases mediated by CB1R, such as substance abuse and obesity, are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Yanan ZHANG, Thuy T. NGUYEN
  • Publication number: 20220318036
    Abstract: A screen display method and an electronic device. The method includes: displaying interfaces of at least two applications, including a first interface of a first application and a second interface of a second application, where the first interface is an interface displayed in full screen mode, and the second interface is a floating window displayed in the first interface; receiving a first operation performed on the first interface; and automatically displaying the second interface in a minimized state in the first interface in response to the first operation, where the second interface in the minimized state is any one of a floating ball, an icon of the second application, a contact avatar, and a video pop-up window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Yanan Zhang, Zhihao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11463764
    Abstract: A method and a system for automatically adjusting intensity of a signal outputted by an HDMI transmitter are provided. With the method, a length of an HDMI transmission line between the HDMI transmitter and an HDMI receiver is determined. A swing amplitude and a pre-emphasis intensity of the signal outputted by the HDMI transmitter are determined based on the length of the HDMI transmission line and a frequency of the signal outputted by the HDMI transmitter. An HDMI output drive circuit is configured based on the swing amplitude and the pre-emphasis intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: LONTIUM SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiangyu Ji, Yanan Zhang, Haiyan Wei, Jiaxi Fu, Lianliang Tai, Yu Chen, Yongling Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220292658
    Abstract: Provided are an image fusion method, a storage medium and an electronic device are to-be-fused are acquired. Luminance and chrominance separation is performed on the visible light image to extract a luminance component and a chrominance component. Luminance fusion is performed on the luminance component of the visible light image and the infrared image to obtain a luminance fusion result. Image reconstruction is performed according to the luminance fusion result and the chrominance component of the visible light image to obtain a fused image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventor: Yanan ZHANG
  • Patent number: 11438163
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein that are capable of registering a user device with a cloud-based management service using an intermediate cloud storage. For instance, the intermediate cloud storage may store an encrypted data blob including information that identifies the user device. The intermediate cloud storage or a registration system may decrypt the encrypted data blob so that the registration system may use the decrypted data blob to register the user device with the cloud-based management service. For instance, the registration system may retrieve the encrypted or decrypted data blob from the intermediate cloud storage by providing a requisite secret to the intermediate cloud storage. The requisite secret may be provided to the registration system by the user device (e.g., via a matrix barcode, such as a QR code).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Adrian Francisco Teran Guajardo, Hung Minh Dang, Yanan Zhang, Brian Stuart Perlman, Colin William Hassett, Jonathan M. Andes