Patents by Inventor Yi Meng
Yi Meng 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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Publication number: 20160325195Abstract: A simple, glue-free movable track model with a dual-pin structure comprises an intermediate connecting component (1), a track shoe (2), elastic pin bushes (58) and an auxiliary clamp, an elastic opening (50) is formed on a rotating shaft hole of the intermediate connecting component (1), and the intermediate connecting component (1) is spliced , in a snap-fit manner, with an intermediate rotating shaft (51) of the track shoe (2) through the elastic opening (50) back-off dowels (21) are arranged at the both ends of the track shoe (2) and are spliced with the elastic pin bushes (58) so that the elastic pin bushes (58) can be fit into the back-off dowels (21) and then securely engaged. The movable track model can realize one-time assembly, reduce manufacturing difficulty and improve manufacturing efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2016Publication date: November 10, 2016Inventor: Yi Meng
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Publication number: 20160100936Abstract: A system for graft fixation including ACL graft reconstruction and fixation is presented. The system may comprise a loop fixation device for retaining a tissue graft. The loop fixation device may comprise a graft retention portion and a cortical fixation portion to allow the loop fixation device to rest on the cortical portion of a bone. A tissue graft may pass through a bone tunnel and engage the loop fixation device preventing withdraw of the tissue graft back through the bone tunnel. The system may also include graft fixation within a bone tunnel using a sleeve, or tube construct, with a fixation member, or screw, to engage a tissue graft within the sleeve.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2015Publication date: April 14, 2016Inventors: Brad Anthony Niese, Eric Wall, Yi-Meng Yen, Jeffery D. Arnett, Allen F. Anderson, Mininder Kocher, Theodore J. Ganley, Rebekah Koch, Dylan Matthew Hushka, Ryan Harper
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Patent number: 9265600Abstract: A system for graft fixation including ACL graft reconstruction and fixation is presented. The system may comprise a loop fixation device for retaining a tissue graft. The loop fixation device may comprise a graft retention portion and a cortical fixation portion to allow the loop fixation device to rest on the cortical portion of a bone. A tissue graft may pass through a bone tunnel and engage the loop fixation device preventing withdraw of the tissue graft back through the bone tunnel. The system may also include graft fixation within a bone tunnel using a sleeve, or tube construct, with a fixation member, or screw, to engage a tissue graft within the sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2014Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: ORTHOPEDIATRICS CORP.Inventors: Brad Anthony Niese, Eric Wall, Yi-Meng Yen, Jeffery D. Arnett, Allen F. Anderson, Mininder Kocher, Theodore J. Ganley, Rebekah Koch, Dylan Matthew Hushka, Ryan Harper
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Publication number: 20140358230Abstract: A system for graft fixation including ACL graft reconstruction and fixation is presented. The system may comprise a loop fixation device for retaining a tissue graft. The loop fixation device may comprise a graft retention portion and a cortical fixation portion to allow the loop fixation device to rest on the cortical portion of a bone. A tissue graft may pass through a bone tunnel and engage the loop fixation device preventing withdraw of the tissue graft back through the bone tunnel. The system may also include graft fixation within a bone tunnel using a sleeve, or tube construct, with a fixation member, or screw, to engage a tissue graft within the sleeve.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2014Publication date: December 4, 2014Inventors: Brad Anthony Niese, Eric Wall, Yi-Meng Yen, Jeffery D. Arnett, Allen F. Anderson, Minder Kocher, Theodore J. Ganley, Rebekah Koch, Dylan Matthew Hushka, Ryan Harper
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Patent number: 8776093Abstract: An application programming interface (API) that leverages operating system instrumentation to provide a chain of threads and processes may alleviate some debugging complications. Specifically, the chain may start with the first thread in the process that experienced the original failure and end with the last thread upon which the first thread directly or indirectly depends. The API may aid debugging efforts by classifying all threads related or dependent upon an original failed thread into specific categories of failures, requesting further information from the originating OS concerning specific failed threads, and using that information to debug the failed application or process more thoroughly.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2011Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Corneliu I. Lupu, Gerald Francis Maffeo, Michael Hans Krause, Stephan A. Doll, Vamshidhar R. Kommineni, William Hunter Hudson, Yi Meng
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Patent number: 8076919Abstract: Disclosed is a Power Factor Correction Controller, which comprises a boost converter, a current sensing unit, an arithmetic unit, and a switch driving unit. The current sensing unit can sense or derive the current that pass through the energy delivery device, which is normally implemented by a diode or a switch. The current sensing unit can also sense the inductor current, or the switch current. With the current sensing unit, the arithmetic unit can calculate the optimum switch on-time or when to turn off the switch, without direct-sensing of the load. The disclosed method reduces the system cost by removing the needs to sense the load condition as in the prior arts. The disclosed method also improves the system response by sensing the delivered current at energy delivery side, rather than the receiver side as in the prior arts.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2009Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: Holtek Semiconductor Inc.Inventors: Vincent Liu, Yi-Meng Lan, Ming-Hung Chien
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Publication number: 20110214017Abstract: An application programming interface (API) that leverages operating system instrumentation to provide a chain of threads and processes may alleviate some debugging complications. Specifically, the chain may start with the first thread in the process that experienced the original failure and end with the last thread upon which the first thread directly or indirectly depends. The API may aid debugging efforts by classifying all threads related or dependent upon an original failed thread into specific categories of failures, requesting further information from the originating OS concerning specific failed threads, and using that information to debug the failed application or process more thoroughly.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2011Publication date: September 1, 2011Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Corneliu I. Lupu, Gerald Francis Maffeo, Michael Hans Krause, Stephan A. Doll, Vamshidhar R. Kommineni, William Hunter Hudson, Yi Meng
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Patent number: 8006125Abstract: Provided is a technique to automatically detect and recover a computer system after a failed attempt to read a partition, for example, a failed attempt to boot a target operating system, caused by corrupt disk metadata, such as a corrupt partition table metadata or a corrupt boot sector metadata.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2005Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Yi Meng, Matthew M. Kerner, Karan Mehra, Parveen K. Patel
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Patent number: 7991923Abstract: A system that facilitates maintaining hard disk drive performance comprises a memory component that includes extensions to at least one protocol associated with a hard disk drive, the extensions enable communications to occur in real-time between an operating system and the hard disk drive. An interface component utilizes the extensions to receive a notification from the hard disk drive and relay the notification to the operating system, the notification relates to an operating parameter of the hard disk drive.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2010Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Frank J. Shu, Nathan S. Obr, Yi Meng
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Patent number: 7958512Abstract: An application programming interface (API) that leverages operating system instrumentation to provide a chain of threads and processes may alleviate some debugging complications. Specifically, the chain may start with the first thread in the process that experienced the original failure and end with the last thread upon which the first thread directly or indirectly depends. The API may aid debugging efforts by classifying all threads related or dependent upon an original failed thread into specific categories of failures, requesting further information from the originating OS concerning specific failed threads, and using that information to debug the failed application or process more thoroughly.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2006Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Corneliu I. Lupu, Gerald Francis Maffeo, Michael Hans Krause, Stephan A. Doll, Vamshidhar R. Kommineni, William Hunter Hudson, Yi Meng
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Publication number: 20100295786Abstract: This invention provides an input device. The input device includes a first casing, a second casing, a button unit, and an expansion part. The second casing is pivotally connected to the first casing. The button unit is connected to the first casing. The expansion part is disposed at the first casing and the second casing. When the input device is in a using state, the first casing and the second casing are coplanar. When the input device is in a storage state, the second casing covers the first casing and the expansion part is compressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2010Publication date: November 25, 2010Applicants: MAINTEK COMPUTER (SUZHOU) CO., LTD., PEGATRON CORPORATIONInventors: Yun Ai, Chia-Huang Chan, Yi Liu, Ping-Yi Meng, Zhe-Shun Zhong, Xiao-Min Liu
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Publication number: 20100299492Abstract: A system that facilitates maintaining hard disk drive performance comprises a memory component that includes extensions to at least one protocol associated with a hard disk drive, the extensions enable communications to occur in real-time between an operating system and the hard disk drive. An interface component utilizes the extensions to receive a notification from the hard disk drive and relay the notification to the operating system, the notification relates to an operating parameter of the hard disk drive.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2010Publication date: November 25, 2010Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Frank J. Shu, Nathan S. Obr, Yi Meng
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Patent number: 7805630Abstract: A method and apparatus to detect and mitigate disk failure is disclosed. The method may collect data from a disk from time to time and by analyzing the data, may provide an alert that there is a bad disk.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2006Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Matthew Kerner, Swetha Narayanaswamy, Barbara Kess, Yi Meng, Weijuan Shi, Michael Ryan Berg, Randall K. Winjum
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Patent number: 7802019Abstract: A system that facilitates maintaining hard disk drive performance comprises a memory component that includes extensions to at least one protocol associated with a hard disk drive, the extensions enable communications to occur in real-time between an operating system and the hard disk drive. An interface component utilizes the extensions to receive a notification from the hard disk drive and relay the notification to the operating system, the notification relates to an operating parameter of the hard disk drive.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2005Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Frank J. Shu, Nathan S. Obr, Yi Meng
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Patent number: 7734945Abstract: Provided is a system to automatically recover a computer system after a failed attempt, or failed attempts, to boot a target operating system on the computer system.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2005Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Bjorn B. Levidow, Yi Meng
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Publication number: 20100128503Abstract: Disclosed is a Power Factor Correction Controller, which comprises a boost converter, a current sensing unit, an arithmetic unit, and a switch driving unit. The current sensing unit can sense or derive the current that pass through the energy delivery device, which is normally implemented by a diode or a switch. The current sensing unit can also sense the inductor current, or the switch current. With the current sensing unit, the arithmetic unit can calculate the optimum switch on-time or when to turn off the switch, without direct-sensing of the load. The disclosed method reduces the system cost by removing the needs to sense the load condition as in the prior arts. The disclosed method also improves the system response by sensing the delivered current at energy delivery side, rather than the receiver side as in the prior arts.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2009Publication date: May 27, 2010Applicant: HOLTEK SEMICONDUCTOR INC.Inventors: Vincent Liu, Yi-Meng Lan, Ming-Hung Chien
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Patent number: 7469362Abstract: In embodiments of the invention, selected aspects of a process' call stacks are hashed, and the hash is used to capture the execution state of the process in a concise form and with minimal impact on the performance of the process and with no modification to the process code. The hash allows vendors and developers to classify failures in order to associate them with their known root causes to support rapid customer feedback and to maximize efficiency of correction. Further, the hash provides a metric usable to prioritize diagnosis of failures. In an embodiment of the invention, the identities of modules on the call stack are hashed in combination with some but not all offset information to minimize the affect of patches and minor changes to the code, and improve the ability to discriminate different execution paths.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2005Date of Patent: December 23, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: William Hunter Hudson, Vamshidhar Radha Kommineni, Yi Meng, Kenneth Kai-Baun Ma, Gerald Francis Maffeo
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Patent number: 7441159Abstract: Checksum values are used to detect low-level data corruption. I/O operations, such as, for example, read operations and write operations, cause data blocks to pass through a number of low-level drivers when the data blocks are transferred between an operating system and mass storage location. A checksum filter driver intercepts a data block as the data block passes between low-level drivers as a result of the performance of an I/O operation. The checksum filter driver calculates a first checksum value for the data block. The checksum filter subsequently intercepts the data block as the data block passes between low-level drivers as a result of the performance of a subsequent I/O operation. The checksum filter driver calculates a second checksum value for the data block. The first checksum value and the second checksum value are compared. Data corruption is detected when a checksum mismatch occurs.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2006Date of Patent: October 21, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Yi Meng, John D. Service, Sidhartha
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Publication number: 20080028264Abstract: A method and apparatus to detect and mitigate disk failure is disclosed. The method may collect data from a disk from time to time and by analyzing the data, may provide an alert that there is a bad disk.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2006Publication date: January 31, 2008Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Matthew Kerner, Swetha Narayanaswamy, Barbara Kess, Yi Meng, Weijuan Shi, Michael Ryan Berg, Randall K. Winjum
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Patent number: 7302613Abstract: A system, method and interface for consistently capturing kernel resident information are provided. An operating system architecture includes user mode modules and kernel mode applications. A user mode module initiates a kernel mode information request through an application program interface identifying one or more process threads of interest. A kernel mode module captures information corresponding to standard kernel mode information and corresponding to the specifically identified process threads. The information is returned in a pre-allocated buffer.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2003Date of Patent: November 27, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Andrew L. Bliss, John D. Service, Narayanan Ganapathy, Neill M. Clift, Yi Meng