U.S. Patents

Note: Some of the following patents have been licensed to industries and resulted in substantial net-income to URI to date and there will be ongoing royalty payments to URI. 

  • “Hardware efficient rabin fingerprints,” US Patent No. 10,108,659 (With Cyril Guyot, Dongyang Li, Qingbo Wang)
  • “Cache coherence protocol ” US Patent No. 10,055,349 Issued on Aug. 21, 2018. (With Dr. Jin Ren and Gregory Fedynyshyn) 
  • “Systems and methods for cache coherence protocol ” US Patent No. 9,298,624. Issued on March 29, 2016. (With Dr. Jin Ren and Gregory Fedynyshyn) 
  • “Storage of data reference blocks and deltas in different storage devices,” US Patent No. 9,176,883. Issued on Nov 3, 2015.
  • “Multiferro-heterostructure composition having tunable magnetic coupling at room temperature,” US Patent No. 9,130,144, with Ruihua Cheng. Issued on Sept 8, 2015.
  • “Method and apparatus for maximizing data recoverability using coupling updates by parties,” US Patent No. 8,862,842, Issued on Oct 14, 2014.
  • “Systems and methods for recovering information from NAND gates array memory systems,” US Patent No. 8,650,436, with Weijun Xiao. Issued on Oct 14, 2014.
  • “Systems and methods for distance estimation between electronic devices” US Patent No. 8,611,260, with Yan Sun, Weijun Xiao, and Yinan Liu. Issued on Dec 17, 2013.
  • “RING, Recover Information from NAND-Gate Memories,” US Patent No. 8,327,182. Issued on Dec 4, 2012.
  • “Data retrieval system and method that provides retrieval of data to any point in time,” US Patent No. 8,239,706, issued on August 7, 2012.
  • “SWEET: System and Method for Maintaining Redundant Storages Coherent using Sliding Window of Eager Execution Transactions (SWEET),” US Patent No. 8,140,772, issued on March 20, 2012.
  • “Cache architecture for a processing unit providing reduced power consumption in cache operation” U.S. Patent No. 7,966,452, issued on June 21, 2011.
  • “Data Recovery System and Method Including A Disk Array Architecture that Provides Recovery of Data to Any Point of Time” U.S. Patent No. 7,730,347, issued on June 1, 2010.
  • “STICS: SCSI-To-IP Cache Storage Device and Method,” US Patent and Trademark Office, US Patent No. 7,275,134. (with Ben He).
  • “RORIB–A cost effective approach for real-time, online and remote information backup,” US Patent No. 7,177,887. (with Jian Li).
  • “Data replication method over a limited bandwidth network by mirroring parities,” U.S Patent 7,457,980, issued on November 25, 2008. 
  • “ACE: Adaptive cache engine for storage area network including systems and methods related thereto” United States Patent No. 7,370,163. Issued on May 6, 2008. (with Ming Zhang and Yinan Liu)
  • “RAPID-Cache (Redundant, Asymmetrically Parallel, Inexpensive Disk Cache), A new cache structure for RAID systems,” U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, No. 6,243,795, June 5th, 2001. (with Yiming Hu). 
  • “Disk Caching Disk: A new device for high performance I/O system,” U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, No. 5,754,888. Issued on September 24th, 1997. (with Yiming Hu)
  • “Cache memory system for vector processing,” U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, No. 5,379,393.
  • “A Special Purpose Embedded System for Neural Machine Interface for Artificial Legs”, US PTO, patent pending. (with Huang He and Zhang Xiaorong).
  • “Integrating Neuromuscular and Cyber Systems for Neural Control of Artificial Legs”, US PTO Patent pending. (with Huang He and Yan Sun).
  • “Software write blocker for Windows”, US PTO, Copy Right. (with Jin Ren and Vic Fay-Wolfe)
  • “Methods for detecting unfair ratings and building trust in raters in online rating systems using signal modeling technique” Application Pending: 60/894,012