Patents by Inventor Nicholas Scott Branker

Nicholas Scott Branker 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).

  • Object-backed block-based distributed storage
    Patent number: 11775569
    Abstract: An object-backed block-based storage system may store data blocks in a block cache in a non-relational database and data block objects in an object data store. Access requests for a particular data block may be received at a storage protocol target that are formatted according to a network-based storage protocol. Translated access requests formatted according to respective programmatic interfaces may be generated and sent to the non-relational database or to the object data store in order to access the particular data block. A response indicating success or failure of the access request may be sent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Albert Gorski, Nicholas Scott Branker
  • OBJECT-BACKED BLOCK-BASED DISTRIBUTED STORAGE
    Publication number: 20170235818
    Abstract: An object-backed block-based storage system may store data blocks in a block cache in a non-relational database and data block objects in an object data store. Access requests for a particular data block may be received at a storage protocol target that are formatted according to a network-based storage protocol. Translated access requests formatted according to respective programmatic interfaces may be generated and sent to the non-relational database or to the object data store in order to access the particular data block. A response indicating success or failure of the access request may be sent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Albert Gorski, Nicholas Scott Branker
  • Object-backed block-based distributed storage
    Patent number: 9639546
    Abstract: An object-backed block-based storage system may store data blocks in a block cache in a non-relational database and data block objects in an object data store. Access requests for a particular data block may be received at a storage protocol target that are formatted according to a network-based storage protocol. Translated access requests formatted according to respective programmatic interfaces may be generated and sent to the non-relational database or to the object data store in order to access the particular data block. A response indicating success or failure of the access request may be sent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Albert Gorski, Nicholas Scott Branker