Patents by Inventor Ying Zhang

Ying 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: 11995083
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method dynamically switches access plans for a query during concurrent query execution. The method includes receiving a first query configured to be processed by a database system. The method also includes generating, for the first query, an access plan for each of identified resource sets. The method includes determining a first set of available resources that represent an available capacity for the database system. The method further includes selecting a first resource set of the one or more resource sets, where the selecting is based on the first set of available resources being closest to the first resource set. The method also includes selecting, based on the first set of available resources, a first access plan of the one or more access plans. The method includes executing the first query and returning results of the first query to a source of the first query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Xiao Xiao Chen, Sheng Yan Sun, Peng Hui Jiang, Ying Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240169614
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product are provided for post-modeling feature evaluation. In one embodiment, at least at least one post model visual output and associated data is obtained that at least includes an individual conditional expectation (ICE) plot and a partial dependence (PDP) plot. Using the associated data and the plots, a Feature Importance (PI) plot is provided. A plurality of features is then determined for each PI, PDP and ICE plots to calculate at least one Interesting Value for each plot. An overall score is also calculated for each plurality of features based on the associated Interesting Values for each PDP, ICE and PI plots. At least one top feature is selected based on said scores. A final plot is then generated at least reflecting the top feature. The final plot combines the PI, PDP and ICE plots together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Xiao Ming Ma, Wen Pei Yu, Jing James Xu, Xue Ying Zhang, Si Er Han, Jing Xu, Jun Wang
  • Publication number: 20240172104
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for multi-RAT and DSDA capable wireless devices to handle frame blanking in a wireless communication system. A wireless device may establish wireless links according to a first radio access technology and a second radio access technology. The wireless device may determine to perform transmit and receive blanking for one or more antennas of the wireless device for the first radio access technology to perform sounding reference signal transmissions for the second radio access technology based at least in part on a band combination for the wireless links. The wireless device may determine a modification to channel state feedback reporting for the first radio access technology based at least in part on the transmit and receive blanking. The wireless device may perform channel state feedback reporting using the determined modification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Junzhen Qin, Wen Zhao, Lijie Zhang, Lele Cui, Wenping Lou, Qiang Miao, Zhiwei Wang, Ying Zhang, Deepankar Bhattacharjee, Kexin Ma, Alex Yee Kit Ho
  • Publication number: 20240168935
    Abstract: Access usage of one or more shards of a set of shards of a database is determined. The set of shards includes a plurality of shards including a primary shard and one or more replica shards of the primary shard. A shard of the plurality of shards is selected based on the access usage, and a set of indexes is built for the shard that is selected. The set of indexes built for the shard that is selected is used for at least multiple shards of the plurality of shards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Peng Hui JIANG, Sheng Yan SUN, Xiao Xiao CHEN, Ying ZHANG, Xiao Yi TIAN
  • Publication number: 20240158810
    Abstract: The disclosure features compositions and methods for ameliorating cognitive impairments associated with neuropsychiatric disorders, particularly those associated with anterodorsal (AD) thalamus hyperexcitability in the brain of a subject. Various embodiments of the disclosure provide for personalized and targeted therapeutic approaches for screening, diagnosing, preventing, and treating cognitive impairments and neuropsychiatric disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicants: The Broad Institute, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Guoping FENG, Dheeraj ROY, Ying ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240161169
    Abstract: In some implementations, a device may obtain an input that identifies a device type. The device may obtain, based on the input, information indicating a configuration associated with the device type. The device may determine, using a plurality of machine learning models respectively associated with a plurality of memory types, compatibilities between the plurality of memory types and the device type based on the configuration associated with the device type. Each of the plurality of machine learning models may be trained to determine a compatibility of a respective memory type, of the plurality of memory types, with a given configuration. The device may determine a recommendation of one or more memory types for the device type based on the compatibilities between the plurality of memory types and the device type. The device may transmit an indication of the recommendation of the one or more memory types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Libo WANG, Ying ZHANG, Soo Koon NG
  • Publication number: 20240157009
    Abstract: A system may automatically conduct hygiene cycles for a confined space such an interior space of a box suitable for storing and/or carrying packaged food. The system may include a hygiene device that can be attached to the box to conduct the hygiene cycles. The system may also automatically collect information related to the hygiene cycles and transmit the collected information to a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2024
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Wenbin Wei, Ying Zhang, Zhili Ding, Huarong YU
  • Patent number: 11982166
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for segmented simultaneous water injection and oil recovery through double pipes in horizontal section, comprising several packers, several oil-extracting mechanisms and several water-injection mechanisms, wherein each of the packers, each of the oil-extracting mechanisms, and each of the water-injection mechanisms has an injection channel and a production channel, when several packers, several oil-extracting mechanisms and several water-injection mechanisms are combined, each of the injection channels is connected in turn, and each of the production channels is also connected in turn, the oil-extracting mechanism can extract oil through the production channel, the water-injection mechanism can inject water through the injection channel. The beneficial effects of this disclosure include: the oil in the oil production section can be produced while the water injection section is injected with water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Nanniwan Oil Production Plant, Yanchang Oilfield Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pingtian Fan, Yuetian Liu, Weichu Yu, Ping Li, Yongdong Wang, Ying Zhang, Baolin Guan, Fengping Yan, Yuanping Hu, Min Sun
  • Patent number: 11974595
    Abstract: A method for testing burning performance of a dark-colored cigarette using a dark-colored cigarette paper is provided. The dark-colored cigarette paper has a grayscale less than 255. The method includes: simulating, by a robotic arm, a cigarette smoking process and environment; acquiring, by a full-vision camera system, an image of a burn line and ash column region of the dark-colored cigarette; and analyzing a burning performance indicator of the dark-colored cigarette according to coordinate information of the burn line and ash column region. The method is based on a surface reflection characteristic of the dark-colored cigarette paper and a principle of optical reflection to light and highlight an edge of the dark-colored cigarette sample by a light source at a certain angle from a side. In this way, the method forms a chromatic aberration to localize the dark-colored cigarette sample, thereby testing the burning performance of the dark-colored cigarette sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: CHINA TOBACCO YUNNAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Han Zheng, Jianbo Zhan, Hao Wang, Zhenhua Yu, Jiao Xie, Xu Wang, Ying Zhang, Tao Wang, Baoshan Yue, Tingting Yu, Jiang Yu, Liwei Li, Jing Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240135567
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the disclosure provide methods and systems for evaluating vegetation connectivity. In some embodiments, the disclosure provide a method including: acquiring vegetation patch vector data of a research area, extracting a geometric center from the vegetation patch vector data, and constructing the geometric center into a network node combination; constructing, according to a split-and-merge algorithm, the network node combination into Delaunay triangulation networks that are connected to but not overlap with each other; calculating and summarizing connectivity between a patch to which each node in the Delaunay triangulation network belongs and a patch to which an adjacent node belongs, to obtain overall connectivity between the patch to which each node belongs and the patch to which the adjacent node belongs; and performing spatial integrated expression processing on connectivity of each independent patch to obtain a spatial measurement result of vegetation connectivity of the research area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicants: Chinese Academy of Surveying & Mapping, IGSNRR, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Ying ZHANG, Wei SONG, Qinghua QIAO
  • Publication number: 20240134853
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method dynamically switches access plans for a query during concurrent query execution. The method includes receiving a first query configured to be processed by a database system. The method also includes generating, for the first query, an access plan for each of identified resource sets. The method includes determining a first set of available resources that represent an available capacity for the database system. The method further includes selecting a first resource set of the one or more resource sets, where the selecting is based on the first set of available resources being closest to the first resource set. The method also includes selecting, based on the first set of available resources, a first access plan of the one or more access plans. The method includes executing the first query and returning results of the first query to a source of the first query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Xiao Xiao Chen, Sheng Yan Sun, Peng Hui Jiang, YING ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240134763
    Abstract: System testing is described. An example system testing method includes: acquiring module relationship information for a system under test, the system under test including a plurality of modules, the module relationship information indicating a logical relationship between each two of the plurality of modules; and testing at least two modules in the system under test based on the module relationship information, the at least two modules being associated with each other for the same function implemented by the system under test. By use of the technical solution of the present disclosure, both system and module perspectives can be applied to system integration testing, so as to achieve a more comprehensive system testing coverage and find problems in the system under test as soon as possible, which can help to improve the system testing coverage and system testing efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Ray Guangliang Lei, Kay Shan, Ying Zhang, Xinquan Fu, Chun Xi Kenny Chen
  • Patent number: 11966685
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a webpage edition system and a method thereof. The webpage edition system comprises an edition unit and a transform unit. The transform unit includes a plurality of syntax transform modules. Each syntax transform module is corresponding to a webpage edition instruction. A portion of each webpage edition instruction is defined by a natural language-based syntactic structure. The edition unit uses one or a combination of more than two of the plurality of webpage edition instructions to form a webpage edition instruction set. While executing the webpage edition instruction set, the edition unit takes the corresponding syntax transform module from the transform unit to convert each webpage edition instruction set into a webpage element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Inventor: Ying Zhang Lu
  • Publication number: 20240126531
    Abstract: Described are improved systems, computer program products, and methods for a new local rolling online patching solution to a database server with minimized disruption to other instances during patching. For a one-node database server, it achieves single rolling online patching by starting a new instance of the same database from the newly patched home before shutting down the collocated instance running out of the old home.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Ying Zhang, Andrey Gusev, Jonathan Creighton, Siu Tam, Balaji Pagadala
  • Publication number: 20240122229
    Abstract: A method for comprehensively analyzing and/or evaluating cigarette burning quality index is disclosed. The steps include collecting cigarette burning quality index data, filtering the cigarette burning quality index data, standardizing cigarette data, and measuring cigarette burning quality. The importance of the cigarette burning quality indicators can also be evaluated. The method for comprehensively analyzing and/or evaluating cigarette burning quality indicators can reflect general laws more accurately by maintaining the sample distribution through a singularity detection method, and analyzing correlations of each index with cigarette performance from multiple perspectives, to fuse them into a comprehensive measurement value. The importance ranking and weight of indicators can be obtained more completely and stably.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Han ZHENG, Jianbo ZHAN, Hao WANG, Zhenhua YU, Xu WANG, Jiao XIE, Ying ZHANG, Tao WANG, Tingting YU, Baoshan YUE
  • Publication number: 20240125423
    Abstract: A projection device includes a housing and a bracket assembly. The housing has a first side wall and a second side wall connected to each other, the first side wall has a connecting portion and a limit groove, the limit groove has a curved section and a linear section connected to each other. The second side wall has a projection hole. The bracket assembly includes an adapter and a bracket. The adapter is movably connected to the connecting portion. The bracket is pivotally connected to the adapter and has a limit post extending into the limit groove. When the limit post moves to the linear section, the adapter is adapted to move in the connecting portion and drives the limit post to move in the linear section, so the bracket can be closer to the projection hole and the effect of covering the projection hole by the bracket is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: YING ZHANG, CHIH-HAO WU, GANG LI
  • Patent number: 11958011
    Abstract: A separation device includes a membrane separation module (10), an adsorption module (20), and a gas intake module (30). The membrane separation module includes a first housing (110), and a membrane assembly (130) disposed in the first housing. The first housing has a first gas inlet (121), a first gas outlet (122), and a retentate gas outlet (123). The membrane module has a permeate gas outlet, the permeate gas outlet being in communication with the first gas outlet. The adsorption module has a second housing (210) and an adsorbent layer (230) disposed in it. The second housing is disposed on the first housing and has a second gas inlet (221), a second gas outlet (222), and a desorption gas outlet (223). The second gas inlet is in communication with the first gas outlet. The gas intake module has a third gas outlet (321) in communication with the first gas inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, DALIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM AND PETROCHEMICALS, CORP.
    Inventors: Shengzhong Zhang, Ying Zhang, Kai Qiao, Dequan Fan, Yanpeng Zhang, Ming Gao
  • Patent number: 11958104
    Abstract: A slurrying device includes a slurrying tank and a rotor stirrer. The rotor stirrer includes a stirring drum, a transmission gear arranged at an end face of the stirring drum configured to face the slurrying tank, and a rotor stirring rod configured to extend from the stirring drum and into the slurrying tank to stir a slurrying liquid in the slurrying tank. The rotor stirring rod is meshed with the transmission gear and configured to revolve along a planar trajectory of the transmission gear while simultaneously rotating. The rotor stirrer further includes a driving device provided at the stirring drum and configured to drive the rotor stirring rod to rotate via the transmission gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: ZHUHAI RUNXINGTAI ELECTRICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ying Zhang, Jicheng Wang, Gunan Li, Bingfeng Liu, Yong Wang, Huaide Ren
  • Publication number: 20240115235
    Abstract: An ultrasound system comprises a robotic system to position an ultrasound probe against and move the probe over a body part; and a data generating module to control the robotic system to generate training data comprising images associated with target view(s), being associated with a target position of the probe that has a plurality of training positions that includes a direction pointing towards the target position; a machine learning module comprising a trained algorithm to receive image(s) at a current probe position information defining a direction pointing towards an estimated position based on the image(s); and, an execution module to autonomously control the robotic system including: moving the probe to find an optimal position for each of the target view(s) based on estimated direction information generated by the algorithm for different probe positions and to capture at the optimal position for each of the target view(s), image(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Eelko Ronner, Robert Riezebos, Kenrick Trip, Fabian Ballast, Ying Zhang, Janne Willems Van Dijk, Nick Van Stijn, Rembrandt Klazinga, Sandeep Dhareendra Patil
  • Patent number: 11954895
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for automatically identifying south troughs by improved Laplace and relates to the technical field of meteorology. The method includes the following steps: acquiring grid data of a geopotential height field; calculating a gradient field of the geopotential height field in an x direction; searching for a turning point where a gradient value turned from being negative to being positive, and cleaning the gradient field; calculating a divergence of the x direction to obtain an improved Laplacian numerical value L?; performing 0,1 binarization processing on the L? to obtain a black-and-white image and a plurality of targets of potential troughs, merging the black-and-white image and the plurality of targets of the potential troughs by expansion, recovering original scale through erosion, and selecting an effective target through an angle of direction of a contour and an axial ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Chengdu University of Information Technology
    Inventors: Wendong Hu, Yanqiong Hao, Hongping Shu, Tiangui Xiao, Yan Chen, Ying Zhang, Jian Shao, Jianhong Gan, Yaqiang Wang, Fei Luo, Huahong Li, Balin Xu, Qiyang Peng, Juzhang Ren, Chengchao Li, Tao Zhang, Xiaohang Wen, Chao Wang, Yongkai Zhang, Wenjie Zhou, Jingyi Tao