Patents by Inventor Eric Robert Northup

Eric Robert Northup 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: 11853771
    Abstract: A branded fleet server system includes a pre-assembled third-party computer system integrated into a chassis of the branded fleet server system. The pre-assembled third-party computer system is configured to execute proprietary software that is only licensed for use on branded hardware. A virtualization offloading component is included in the server chassis of the branded fleet server along with the pre-assembled third-party computer system. The virtualization offloading component acts as a bridge between the pre-assembled third-party computer system and a virtualized computing service. As such, the virtualization offloading component manages communications, security, metadata, etc. to allow the pre-assembled computer system to function as one of a fleet of virtualization hosts of the virtualized computing service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Zachary Bowen, Darin Lee Frink, Eric Robert Northup, David A Skirmont, Manish Singh Rathaur
  • Patent number: 11363012
    Abstract: A customer in a computing resource provider environment, running an application on a VM instance, uses role credentials to request access to one or more web services. The request is forwarded to an enclave associated with the VM instance such that the enclave digitally signs the request and access to the one or more web services is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jasmeet Chhabra, Rebecca Claire Weiss, Eric Robert Northup
  • Publication number: 20220129556
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes an automatic speech recognition (ASR) module, a natural-language understanding (NLU) module, a dialog manager, one or more agents, an arbitrator, a delivery system, one or more processors, and a non-transitory memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors operable when executing the instructions to receive a user input, process the user input using the ASR module, the NLU module, the dialog manager, one or more of the agents, the arbitrator, and the delivery system, and provide a response to the user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Zhiyu Chen, Honglei Liu, Hu Xu, Seungwhan Moon, Hao Zhou, Bing Liu, Zihang Meng, Amy Lawson Bearman, Ahmed Magdy Hamed Mohamed, Eric Robert Northup, Jihang Li, Jinsong Yu, Jeremy Gillmor Kahn, Lloyd Hilaiel, Justin Denney, Christophe Chaland
  • Patent number: 11243589
    Abstract: A branded fleet server system includes a pre-assembled third-party computer system integrated into a chassis of the branded fleet server system. The pre-assembled third-party computer system is configured to execute proprietary software that is only licensed for use on branded hardware. A baseboard management controller (BMC) included in the server chassis couples with the pre-assembled computer system via one or more cables coupled to ports of the pre-assembled computer system. The BMC enables remote control of the pre-assembled computer system, such as remote power on and power off. An electro-mechanical device, such as a solenoid, presses a power button of the pre-assembled computer system based on control signals from the BMC to change a power state of the pre-assembled computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Zachary Bowen, Darin Lee Frink, Eric Robert Northup, David A Skirmont, Manish Singh Rathaur
  • Patent number: 11113046
    Abstract: A branded fleet server system includes a pre-assembled third-party computer system integrated into a chassis of the branded fleet server system. The pre-assembled third-party computer system is configured to execute proprietary software that is only licensed for use on branded hardware. A baseboard management controller (BMC) included in the server chassis couples with the pre-assembled computer system via one or more cables coupled to ports of the pre-assembled computer system. The BMC enables remote control of the pre-assembled computer system, such as remote power on and power off. Also the BMC may enable automatic and remote software and/or firmware updates to be performed at the pre-assembled computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Zachary Bowen, Darin Lee Frink, Eric Robert Northup, David A Skirmont, Manish Singh Rathaur