Patents by Inventor Zhi An

Zhi An 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: 8977256
    Abstract: A computerized method for subscribing an international roaming plan for a communication device, the communication device includes an electronic map. At least one border checkpoint of a predetermined country can be determined on the electronic map. A distance between a current location of the communication device and the location of the at least one border checkpoint is calculated. When the calculated distance is less than a predetermined distance and the current location of the communication device is within the home country, a user may be prompted to select whether to subscribe to an international roaming plan for a particular period of time. A preset message is sent to a predetermined service terminal provided by a telecommunication company to subscribe to the international roaming plan for the communication device when the user makes a selection to subscribe to the international roaming plan for the communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignees: Fu Tai Hua Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cheng-Zhi Li, Jun-Wei Zhang, Jun Zhang
  • Patent number: 8974389
    Abstract: A system and a method for detecting irregular bone defects during dental implant osseointegration process. The system comprises a detecting abutment, an ultrasonic driver, a signal receiving and analyzing device. When dental detection is performed, the detecting abutment is disposed on a substrate holder of a dental implant. The ultrasonic driver configures the piezoelectric transducers disposed on the detecting abutment to produce ultrasonic wave and transmits the ultrasonic wave to the contact surface between the dental implant and the alveolus bone. The piezoelectric transducers can receive the reflected wave caused by the each portion of the contact surface reflecting the ultrasonic wave and transform the reflected wave into time domain voltage signal. The signal receiving and analyzing device receives the time domain voltage signal to determine the depth, the severity and the location of the irregular bone defects of the contact surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: National Central University
    Inventors: Min-Chun Pan, Jian-Zhi Chen
  • Publication number: 20150067105
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an HTTP streaming session may be initiated at a client device in a network. The client device may have a buffer and may be configured to request and receive one or more data segments over HTTP from an HTTP server. A first data segment at a first data source rate may be requested and subsequently received. The first data segment may be stored in the buffer. A second data source rate may then be calculated based on a storage level in the buffer, and a second data segment at the second data source rate may be requested.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Xiaoqing Zhu, Zhi Li, Rong Pan, Joshua B. Gahm, Hao Hu
  • Publication number: 20150067280
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus for controlling memory startup, and relate to the field of memory control technologies. The present invention is not limited to the number of pins of a control chip, thereby reducing costs. The method is applied to a control apparatus, where the control apparatus includes a preset data segment; the preset data segment includes at least one sub data segment; and each sub data segment is corresponding to one configuration type. The method includes: reading each sub data segment in a first data segment and performing a first operation on a sub data segment corresponding to a first configuration type to obtain a second data segment; performing matching between the second data segment and the preset data segment; and starting up the memory according to the first configuration type when the second data segment matches the preset data segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Bingxu YU, Zhiyong CAI, Zhi LI
  • Publication number: 20150067887
    Abstract: A digital content rights management method and system belongs to the digital content rights management technique field. The method of the invention includes the steps: registering the system, generating the time stamp, verifying the time stamp when the system starts up, acquiring the certificate, verifying the time before accessing the digital content. The system of the invention comprises a device for accessing the digital content and a server, wherein the device for accessing the digital content comprises: a registering module, a time stamp generating module, a time stamp verification module, a certificate of authorization acquiring module, and a time verification module. The method and system have solved the problem that the digital content can still be used beyond the time limit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Yi WANG, Zhi TANG, Dengsha YUAN, Xuefeng YANG
  • Publication number: 20150065708
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound [4-(2-amino-10-methyl-4-oxo-6,7,8,9-tetrahydro-4a,7-cycloimino-pyrimido[4,5-b][1,4]diazepine-5(4H)-yl)benzoyl]-glutamate (JK12A for short) with the structure in Formula I. The present invention also relates to the crystal form and salt of the compound JK12A, and preparation method and applications thereof. The compound JK12A of the present invention can be used to prepare drugs as an active ingredient for medicament or food additives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Yongzhi Cheng, Zhi Cheng, Min Zhou, Zhaojun Wang, Huizhen Li, Shenggang Fan
  • Publication number: 20150065140
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method, a device, and a system for reporting a signal quality measurement result, relates to the field of communications, and implements reporting of an adjacent-frequency signal quality measurement result by a terminal. Embodiments of the present application disclose a method for reporting a signal quality measurement result, including: receiving adjacent frequency information, an adjacent-frequency signal quality reporting amount, and a reporting threshold corresponding to the adjacent-frequency signal quality reporting amount from a radio network node; according to the adjacent frequency information, performing measurement to obtain an adjacent-frequency signal quality measurement result; and reporting the adjacent-frequency signal quality measurement result in a preset bit string format to the radio network node. The embodiments of the present application are mainly used for redirection, handover, and cell change operations of a terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Yuliang Zhi, Yanyan Chen
  • Publication number: 20150061609
    Abstract: A reference signal generating circuit is provided that generates a reference signal corresponding to an input signal for power factor compensation of a power converter. The reference signal generating circuit includes a detector sampling the input signal according to a reference clock to detect and hold the maximum input signal and a phase measuring unit measuring a phase of the sampled input signal based on the sampled input signal and the detected maximum input signal. The circuit also includes a reference signal generating unit configured to generate a reference signal having a specific value in response to the measured phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: MagnaChip Semiconductor, Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhi Yuan CUI, Younggi RYU, Inho HWANG, Sang Hoon JUNG, Taeyoung PARK
  • Publication number: 20150065498
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to N-linked lactam compounds of general formula (I) which are M1 receptor positive allosteric modulators and that are useful in the treatment of diseases in which the M1 receptor is involved, such as Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, pain or sleep disorders. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, and to the use of the compounds and compositions in the treatment of diseases mediated by the M1 receptor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Scott D. Kuduk, Douglas C. Beshore, Zhi-Qiang Yang, Youheng Shu, Daniel Pitts
  • Publication number: 20150064930
    Abstract: A process of manufacturing the gate oxide layer, which uses the wet oxidation by deuterium to form gate oxide layer, wherein the nitriding treatment is applied to formed gate oxide layer by high temperature annealing process, the stable Si-D bonds is formed on surface of the gate oxide layer to reduce silicon dangling bonds, which reduce the defect of the gate oxide interface and lower the interface defect density of the gate oxide layer and the charge density effectively to avoid NBTI, is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Shanghai Huali Microelectronics Corporation
    Inventors: ZHONGPING LI, ZHI WANG, JINMING SU, HSUSHENG CHANG
  • Publication number: 20150065133
    Abstract: Traffic associated with user equipment that are coupled to a first radio access network is steered to a second radio access network based on an adaptable signal strength criterion. The signal strength criterion is related to real-time network load conditions of the first radio access network and can be broadcasted from a serving access point to the user equipment. Moreover, the signal strength criterion facilitates steering, to the second radio network, traffic associated with user equipment that are located closer to a cell edge of the first radio access network before steering traffic associated with user equipment are located further away from the cell edge. In addition, based on the network congestion within the first radio access network, the signal strength criterion is modified to adjust the number of user equipment that are steered to the second radio network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicants: AT&T Mobility II LLC, AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zhi Cui, Arthur Richard Brisebois, Ye Chen, Thomas W. Henderson, Vince Spatafora, Yonghui Tong, Donald E. Zelmer
  • Publication number: 20150066965
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to data processing and collection, further relate to a data processing method and a corresponding system, a data collecting method and a corresponding system. Particularly, the data processing method of the present invention comprises: obtaining position data; obtaining a position-function mapping relationship; and converting the position data into user behavior data according to the position-function mapping relationship. As compared to the prior art, at least one embodiment of the present invention has at least one of the following advantages: first, to collect user operations on a mobile terminal in a non-intrusive manner; second, to facilitate analysis performed on various applications of the mobile terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Ning Duan, Ke Hu, Zhi Hu Wang, Jian Ming Zhang
  • Publication number: 20150063139
    Abstract: According to an example embodiment of this application, a method may include determining a distance from a network element; and assigning at least one of a downlink resource or an uplink resource to the network element based at least in part on the determined distance, wherein the assigned resource is used for both a downlink and an uplink communication of the network element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Zhi Zhang, Yixue Lei, Kodo Shu
  • Publication number: 20150064457
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are aminoplast resin-based coating compositions that provide formable, abrasion-resistant, and weatherable coatings when cured on the substrate. The coating compositions comprise an aminoplast resin; a curing catalyst; a first polyol having an average molecular weight greater than 300; a second polyol having an average molecular weight less than or equal to 300; and at least 5% by weight solids of at least two 2-hydroxyphenol benzotriazole (HPBT)-containing compounds based on the total solids of the coating composition. Also disclosed herein are articles comprising coatings cured from such coating compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: SDC Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiangxu Chen, Ren-Zhi Jin
  • Publication number: 20150061807
    Abstract: A transformer includes a magnetic core, a primary winding, and a plurality of secondary windings. The magnetic core has an axial and a radial direction. The primary winding includes a plurality of winding sections and at least one connecting section. The winding sections are arranged along the axial direction. The connecting section is connected between the two adjacent winding sections. Each of the winding sections includes a plurality of primary winding layers and pull-out portions. The primary winding layers surround the magnetic core and are arranged along the radial direction. One pull-out portion connects two primary winding layers adjacent to the pull-out portion. Part of normal projections of the primary winding layers on a surface of the magnetic core are located between normal projections of the pull-out portions on the surface of the magnetic core. The secondary windings surround the primary winding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Jiang CHU, Wei ZHANG, Zhi HUANG
  • Publication number: 20150064969
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly mounted to a metallic casing of an electronic device includes an insulating body, a metallic shell secured to the insulating body, and at least one conducting member secured to the metallic shell. When the electrical connector assembly is mounted to the casing of the electronic device, the conducting member elastically resists against the casing of the electronic device to maintain reliable contact between the electrical connector assembly and the casing of the electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicants: HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY(ShenZhen) Co., LTD., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: YI-HSIANG KAO, ZHI-GANG LIU
  • Patent number: 8969375
    Abstract: Disclosed are compound of Formula (Ia), wherein R1A, R1, R2, R10, J, L, T, X, Y, and Z are as defined in the specification, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The compounds may be used as agents in the treatment of diseases, including cancer. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions, comprising one or more compounds of Formula (Ia).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: AbbVie, Inc.
    Inventors: Chunqiu Lai, Zhi-Fu Tao, Keith W. Woods, Thomas D. Penning, Andrew J. Souers, Anthony Mastracchio, Julie M. Miyashiro, Yunsong Tong
  • Patent number: 8970710
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for measuring the quality of a video is provided. The method comprises: generating a frame loss pattern of the video by indicating whether each frame in the video is lost or successfully transmitted; and evaluating the quality of the video as a function of the generated t came loss pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Xiao Dong Gu, De Bing Liu, Zhi Bo Chen
  • Patent number: 8971247
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for retransmitting Media Access Control (MAC) protocol data units (MPDUs) in a multi-user multiple-input and multiple-output (MU-MIMO) communication system are disclosed. Concurrent data streams within a first transmission window are transmitted. Each concurrent data stream is associated with a different recipient and includes an equal number of MPDUs. An indication of a retransmission subset of the MPDUs to be retransmitted for each concurrent data stream may be obtained if errors are present. The retransmission subset for each concurrent data stream is retransmitted within a second transmission window. A length of the second transmission window is as long as the longest of the retransmission subsets of the concurrent data streams. One or more new MPDUs may be added to the concurrent data streams in the second transmission window so that each concurrent data stream in the second transmission window carries a same number of MPDUs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Santosh Paul Abraham, Zhi Quan, Simone Merlin, Mohammad H. Taghavi Nasrabadi
  • Patent number: 8969565
    Abstract: Imidazo[1,2-b]pyridazine-based compounds of the formula: are disclosed, wherein R1, R2 and R3 are defined herein. Compositions comprising the compounds and methods of their use to treat, manage and/or prevent diseases and disorders mediated by mediated by adaptor associated kinase 1 activity are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Yingzhi Bi, Kenneth Gordon Carson, Giovanni Cianchetta, Michael Alan Green, Godwin Kumi, Zhi Liang, Ying Jade Liu, Alan Main, Yulian Zhang, Gregory Glenn Zipp