Patents by Inventor Zhiheng Mao

Zhiheng Mao 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).

  • Publication number: 20140364152
    Abstract: Implementations relate to systems and methods for localized notification that provide localized information to one or more mobile devices in a wireless communication system that are located in one or more geographical regions. The wireless communication system includes a localized notification server that responds to geographically-targeted broadcast requests and localized service or information requests. The localized notification server localizes components of the wireless communication system into sets of localized components that provide wireless communication service to mobile devices in the specific geographical regions. In response to a request to broadcast to a target geographical region, the localized notification server identifies a set of localized components associated with the target geographical region. The localized notification server then broadcasts information to mobile devices actively serviced by the set of localized components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Kirk Taylor, Liren Chen, Jack Steenstra, Guilherme Hoefel, Yang Zhang, Zhiheng Mao, Santosh Gopalan
  • Patent number: 8838064
    Abstract: Implementations relate to systems and methods for localized notification that provide localized information to one or more mobile devices in a wireless communication system that are located in one or more geographical regions. The wireless communication system includes a localized notification server that responds to geographically-targeted broadcast requests and localized service or information requests. The localized notification server localizes components of the wireless communication system into sets of localized components that provide wireless communication service to mobile devices in the specific geographical regions. In response to a request to broadcast to a target geographical region, the localized notification server identifies a set of localized components associated with the target geographical region. The localized notification server then broadcasts information to mobile devices actively serviced by the set of localized components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kirk S. Taylor, Liren Chen, Jack B. Steenstra, Guilherme K. Hoefel, Yang Zhang, Zhiheng Mao, Santosh Gopalan
  • Patent number: 8374114
    Abstract: Embodiment methods and systems enable a broadcast network, such as a MediaFLO network, to maintain the presentation quality of video data received from content providers when transforming it to a format suitable for broadcasting to mobile devices. Methods enable encoding of H.264 frames received from a third-party encoder into superframes for broadcast over MediaFLO FLO TV®. The methods group individual image frames together into superframes for broadcast, making allowances for frames which are supposed to be decoded in one second but presented or displayed in a subsequent second. The various embodiments ensure that image frames are group together into superframe so that frames that are supposed to be presented together in the same second are displayed together and so that frames that are dependent on those frames for decoding are not put ahead of the frames from which they depend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Zhiheng Mao, Jason A. Reich, Ethan M. Idenmill, Devarshi P. Shah, Scott T. Swazey
  • Patent number: 8340628
    Abstract: Implementations relate to systems and methods for localized notification that provide localized information to one or more mobile devices in a wireless communication system that are located in one or more geographical regions. The wireless communication system includes a localized notification server that responds to geographically-targeted broadcast requests and localized service or information requests. The localized notification server localizes components of the wireless communication system into sets of localized components that provide wireless communication service to mobile devices in the specific geographical regions. In response to a request to broadcast to a target geographical region, the localized notification server identifies a set of localized components associated with the target geographical region. The localized notification server then broadcasts information to mobile devices actively serviced by the set of localized components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kirk S. Taylor, Liren Chen, Jack B. Steenstra, Guilherme K. Hoefel, Yang Zhang, Zhiheng Mao, Santosh Gopalan
  • Publication number: 20110188435
    Abstract: Embodiment methods and systems enable a broadcast network, such as a MediaFLO network, to maintain the presentation quality of video data received from content providers when transforming it to a format suitable for broadcasting to mobile devices. Methods enable encoding of H.264 frames received from a third-party encoder into superframes for broadcast over MediaFLO FLO TV®. The methods group individual image frames together into superframes for broadcast, making allowances for frames which are supposed to be decoded in one second but presented or displayed in a subsequent second. The various embodiments ensure that image frames are group together into superframe so that frames that are supposed to be presented together in the same second are displayed together and so that frames that are dependent on those frames for decoding are not put ahead of the frames from which they depend.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Zhiheng Mao, Jason A. Reich, Ethan M. Idenmill, Devarshi P. Shah, Scott T. Swazey
  • Publication number: 20110059748
    Abstract: Implementations relate to systems and methods for localized notification that provide localized information to one or more mobile devices in a wireless communication system that are located in one or more geographical regions. The wireless communication system includes a localized notification server that responds to geographically-targeted broadcast requests and localized service or information requests. The localized notification server localizes components of the wireless communication system into sets of localized components that provide wireless communication service to mobile devices in the specific geographical regions. In response to a request to broadcast to a target geographical region, the localized notification server identifies a set of localized components associated with the target geographical region. The localized notification server then broadcasts information to mobile devices actively serviced by the set of localized components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Inventors: Kirk S. Taylor, Liren Chen, Jack B. Steenstra, Guilherme K. Hoefel, Yang Zhang, Zhiheng Mao, Santosh Gopalan