Patents by Inventor Benjamin Aldouby Schwartz

Benjamin Aldouby Schwartz 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: 11785232
    Abstract: A user of a storage system can upload files for a media asset, which can include a high quality media file and various related files. As part of the upload process, the storage system can extract metadata that describes the media asset. The user can specify one or more lifecycle policies to be applied for storage of the asset, and a rules engine can ensure the application of the one or more policies. The rules engine can also enable the use of simple media processing workflows. A filename hashing approach can be used to ensure that the segments and files for the asset are stored in a relatively random and even distribution across the partitions of the storage system. As part of the lifecycle for the asset, the high quality media file can be moved to less expensive storage once transcoding of the asset or another such action occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremiah M. Dunham, Andrew Tunall, Benjamin Black, Kristopher Kosmatka, Benjamin Aldouby Schwartz, Jason LaPier, Justin Abrahms
  • Publication number: 20230124822
    Abstract: A user of a storage system can upload files for a media asset, which can include a high quality media file and various related files. As part of the upload process, the storage system can extract metadata that describes the media asset. The user can specify one or more lifecycle policies to be applied for storage of the asset, and a rules engine can ensure the application of the one or more policies. The rules engine can also enable the use of simple media processing workflows. A filename hashing approach can be used to ensure that the segments and files for the asset are stored in a relatively random and even distribution across the partitions of the storage system. As part of the lifecycle for the asset, the high quality media file can be moved to less expensive storage once transcoding of the asset or another such action occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Jeremiah M. Dunham, Andrew Tunall, Benjamin Black, Kristopher Kosmatka, Benjamin Aldouby Schwartz, Jason LaPier, Justin Abrahms
  • Patent number: 11620324
    Abstract: An asset storage server is provided herein that assigns related files to an asset name and assigns permissions to the asset name such that related files with unrelated names can be assigned permissions independent of the file naming convention and without requiring a user to individually set the permissions of each file. The asset storage server may also generate modified versions of original file names and index a distributed object store based on the modified versions such that related files with related names are not listed in the same partition of the distributed object store. Indexing the distributed object store based on the modified versions of the original file names may reduce data retrieval latency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Aldouby Schwartz, Jeremiah Dunham, Andrew Tunall, Jason LaPier, Dustin Encelewski, Justin Abrahms, Khawaja Shams
  • Patent number: 11586595
    Abstract: A set of data units associated with a data object is obtained, such that respective instances of the data object can be reconstructed from respective subsets of the set. Corresponding to a request for the data object, a first subset of the set is identified. The first subset meets a uniqueness criterion with respect to other subsets of the set that are used to respond to other requests for the data object. An instance of the data object is reconstructed from the first subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Khawaja Salman Shams, Ryan Farris, Benjamin Aldouby Schwartz, David Dunlap, Andrew Kent Warfield
  • Patent number: 11580152
    Abstract: A media storage service may store a plurality of copies of a same media recording in cloud DVR, one copy specific to one of a plurality of clients. The client may interact directly with the media storage service based on path-based indexing techniques for playback of the media recording. The client may send a request, including a path of a manifest file associated with the copy specific to the client, to the media storage service. The manifest file may include information indicating respective paths of one or more segments of the copy. The media storage service may identify and return the manifest file to the client. The media storage service may further receive requests from the client to access the segments of the copy. The requests may include the respective paths, based on which the media storage service may retrieve the segments for the client to play.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Akhil Ramachandran, Ahmet Gurcan, Meera Jindal, Benjamin Aldouby Schwartz, Abilash Ravikumar, Ryan Farris, Saurav Sengupta, Dylan Kyle Abraham, Michael Kale
  • Patent number: 11553196
    Abstract: A user of a storage system can upload files for a media asset, which can include a high quality media file and various related files. As part of the upload process, the storage system can extract metadata that describes the media asset. The user can specify one or more lifecycle policies to be applied for storage of the asset, and a rules engine can ensure the application of the one or more policies. The rules engine can also enable the use of simple media processing workflows. A filename hashing approach can be used to ensure that the segments and files for the asset are stored in a relatively random and even distribution across the partitions of the storage system. As part of the lifecycle for the asset, the high quality media file can be moved to less expensive storage once transcoding of the asset or another such action occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremiah M. Dunham, Andrew Tunall, Benjamin Black, Kristopher Kosmatka, Benjamin Aldouby Schwartz, Jason LaPier, Justin Abrahms
  • Patent number: 11113155
    Abstract: Transactional log data for a distributed database may be archived by a number of computing nodes scalable to a specified concurrency parameter. A log record may be mapped to a computing node for performance of an archiving operation. The log record may be stored with information indicative of a position, in a hierarchy of shards, of the shard from which the log record originated. The log record may be replayed in an order, relative to other records, that is based on the shard's position in the shard hierarchy. The log record may be replayed on a shard identified based on a time-invariant and idempotent hash function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Aldouby Schwartz, Serj Kazar, Dumanshu Goyal
  • Patent number: 11086932
    Abstract: A media storage service may maintain an asset including information to indicate a specific media content and a specific number of replicas to be stored by the media storage service for the specific media content. The media storage service may receive content recording-related requests from a recording manager to define or update the specific number for the specific media content. The media storage service may receive one or more segments specific to the media content from an encoder. The media storage service may create and store the specific number of replicas, as indicated in the asset, for the media content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Akhil Ramachandran, Meera Jindal, Benjamin Aldouby Schwartz, Ahmet Gurcan, Ryan Farris, Abilash Ravikumar, Saurav Sengupta, Michael Kale
  • Patent number: 10893303
    Abstract: A content streaming system and methodology for facilitating the management of content streaming. A content delivery service provides streaming content that is organized according to a set of encoded content chunks. An encoding component generates encoded chunk data for transmission to requestors. A content delivery management component can determine configuration information that indicates the size of the content chunks. The content delivery management component can then receive encoded data but will not replicate and propagate the received encoded data to distribution endpoints of the content delivery service until complete content chunks are ready for transmission. A video playback application processes the set of encoded content chunks to dynamically form a content segment for live video streaming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Matei Berceanu Mitaru, Mark DeSpain, Benjamin Aldouby Schwartz
  • Patent number: 10860604
    Abstract: A database client may implement scalable tracking for database updates according to a secondary index. As update requests are generated and sent to a database, tracking attributes may be included in the update requests in order to be inserted into the database with respect to a portion of the database for which the requested update is performed. Tracking attributes may include a sequence number which may be used to determine an order in which the updates are performed at the database. Tracking attributes may also include a bucket identifier, which may categorize or label the portion of data updated as part of an update. These tracking attributes may be replicated to a secondary index maintained for the database. Queries to the secondary index based on the tracking attributes may identify updates performed to the database. Notifications of the identified updates may then be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Prashant Pandey, Benjamin Aldouby Schwartz, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Khawaja Salman Shams
  • Publication number: 20200236373
    Abstract: A user of a storage system can upload files for a media asset, which can include a high quality media file and various related files. As part of the upload process, the storage system can extract metadata that describes the media asset. The user can specify one or more lifecycle policies to be applied for storage of the asset, and a rules engine can ensure the application of the one or more policies. The rules engine can also enable the use of simple media processing workflows. A filename hashing approach can be used to ensure that the segments and files for the asset are stored in a relatively random and even distribution across the partitions of the storage system. As part of the lifecycle for the asset, the high quality media file can be moved to less expensive storage once transcoding of the asset or another such action occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Jeremiah M. Dunham, Andrew Tunall, Benjamin Black, Kristopher Kosmatka, Benjamin Aldouby Schwartz, Jason LaPier, Justin Abrahms
  • Patent number: 10701377
    Abstract: A user of a storage system can upload files for a media asset, which can include a high quality media file and various related files. As part of the upload process, the storage system can extract metadata that describes the media asset. The user can specify one or more lifecycle policies to be applied for storage of the asset, and a rules engine can ensure the application of the one or more policies. The rules engine can also enable the use of simple media processing workflows. A filename hashing approach can be used to ensure that the segments and files for the asset are stored in a relatively random and even distribution across the partitions of the storage system. As part of the lifecycle for the asset, the high quality media file can be moved to less expensive storage once transcoding of the asset or another such action occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jeremiah M. Dunham, Andrew Tunall, Benjamin Black, Kristopher Kosmatka, Benjamin Aldouby Schwartz, Jason LaPier, Justin Abrahms
  • Patent number: 10592546
    Abstract: An asset storage server is provided herein that assigns related files to an asset name and assigns permissions to the asset name such that related files with unrelated names can be assigned permissions independent of the file naming convention and without requiring a user to individually set the permissions of each file. The asset storage server may also generate modified versions of original file names and index a distributed object store based on the modified versions such that related files with related names are not listed in the same partition of the distributed object store. Indexing the distributed object store based on the modified versions of the original file names may reduce data retrieval latency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Aldouby Schwartz, Jeremiah Dunham, Andrew Tunall, Jason LaPier, Dustin Encelewski, Justin Abrahms, Khawaja Shams
  • Patent number: 10521449
    Abstract: One or more computing nodes located in a first region may maintain a first collection of data items. A second set of one or more computing nodes in a second region may maintain a collection of data items that is at least a partial replica of the first collection. Notifications of changes to the first collection may be transmitted, via a broadcast communications channel, to a replication module, which may be included in a client application. The replication module may transmit requests to update the second collection of data based on changes to the first collection. Conflicts may be resolved through a last-write wins policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Aldouby Schwartz, Khawaja Salman Shams, Usman Ahmed Shami, David Craig Yanacek, Khai Quang Tran
  • Publication number: 20190391994
    Abstract: An asset storage server is provided herein that assigns related files to an asset name and assigns permissions to the asset name such that related files with unrelated names can be assigned permissions independent of the file naming convention and without requiring a user to individually set the permissions of each file. The asset storage server may also generate modified versions of original file names and index a distributed object store based on the modified versions such that related files with related names are not listed in the same partition of the distributed object store. Indexing the distributed object store based on the modified versions of the original file names may reduce data retrieval latency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Benjamin Aldouby Schwartz, Jeremiah Dunham, Andrew Tunall, Jason LaPier, Dustin Encelewski, Justin Abrahms, Khawaja Shams
  • Patent number: 10346458
    Abstract: An asset storage server is provided herein that assigns related files to an asset name and assigns permissions to the asset name such that related files with unrelated names can be assigned permissions independent of the file naming convention and without requiring a user to individually set the permissions of each file. The asset storage server may also generate modified versions of original file names and index a distributed object store based on the modified versions such that related files with related names are not listed in the same partition of the distributed object store. Indexing the distributed object store based on the modified versions of the original file names may reduce data retrieval latency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Aldouby Schwartz, Jeremiah Dunham, Andrew Tunall, Jason LaPier, Dustin Encelewski, Justin Abrahms, Khawaja Shams
  • Publication number: 20180089183
    Abstract: An asset storage server is provided herein that assigns related files to an asset name and assigns permissions to the asset name such that related files with unrelated names can be assigned permissions independent of the file naming convention and without requiring a user to individually set the permissions of each file. The asset storage server may also generate modified versions of original file names and index a distributed object store based on the modified versions such that related files with related names are not listed in the same partition of the distributed object store. Indexing the distributed object store based on the modified versions of the original file names may reduce data retrieval latency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Benjamin Aldouby Schwartz, Jeremiah Dunham, Andrew Tunall, Jason LaPier, Dustin Encelewski, Justin Abrahms, Khawaja Shams
  • Publication number: 20180091514
    Abstract: An asset storage server is provided herein that assigns related files to an asset name and assigns permissions to the asset name such that related files with unrelated names can be assigned permissions independent of the file naming convention and without requiring a user to individually set the permissions of each file. The asset storage server may also generate modified versions of original file names and index a distributed object store based on the modified versions such that related files with related names are not listed in the same partition of the distributed object store. Indexing the distributed object store based on the modified versions of the original file names may reduce data retrieval latency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Benjamin Aldouby Schwartz, Jeremiah Dunham, Andrew Tunall, Jason LaPier, Dustin Encelewski, Justin Abrahms, Khawaja Shams
  • Publication number: 20180077420
    Abstract: A user of a storage system can upload files for a media asset, which can include a high quality media file and various related files. As part of the upload process, the storage system can extract metadata that describes the media asset. The user can specify one or more lifecycle policies to be applied for storage of the asset, and a rules engine can ensure the application of the one or more policies. The rules engine can also enable the use of simple media processing workflows. A filename hashing approach can be used to ensure that the segments and files for the asset are stored in a relatively random and even distribution across the partitions of the storage system. As part of the lifecycle for the asset, the high quality media file can be moved to less expensive storage once transcoding of the asset or another such action occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Jeremiah M. Dunham, Andrew Tunall, Benjamin Black, Kristopher Kosmatka, Benjamin Aldouby Schwartz, Jason LaPier, Justin Abrahms
  • Patent number: 9823982
    Abstract: Transactional log data for a distributed database may be archived by a number of computing nodes scalable to a specified concurrency parameter. A log record may be mapped to a computing node for performance of an archiving operation. The log record may be stored with information indicative of a position, in a hierarchy of shards, of the shard from which the log record originated. The log record may be replayed in an order, relative to other records, that is based on the shard's position in the shard hierarchy. The log record may be replayed on a shard identified based on a time-invariant and idempotent hash function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Aldouby Schwartz, Serj Kazar, Dumanshu Goyal