Patents by Inventor Shawn Bice

Shawn Bice 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: 11768830
    Abstract: Techniques for implementing a multi-wire protocol and multi-dialect database engine are described. A database engine exposes multiple interfaces in the form of ports that support different database wire protocols. The database engine supports multiple query dialects that can be passed over any one of the supported wire protocols. The database engine can support multiple different query dialects within a single database session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Murali Brahmadesam, Suprio Pal, Korry Allen Douglas, Jan Wieck, Stefano Stefani, Richard Shawn Bice
  • Patent number: 11172818
    Abstract: Large amounts of human body movement data may be collected, possibly via streaming data, from one or more sensors worn by a user. The data may be analyzed along with other classification data to generate feedback for the user or for other interested people (e.g., a trainer, a coach, a team member, health professional, etc.). The analysis may utilize one or more machine learning (ML) algorithms that use training data to create one or more ML models. When a user is evaluated after receiving feedback, accuracy of the feedback may be evaluated and fed back to the ML model to continue training the ML model(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Marvin Theimer, Richard Shawn Bice
  • Patent number: 11102204
    Abstract: A shared resource service allows multiple clients to agree on rules for accessing a shared resource (e.g., a shared database or a shared service). The shared resource service also allows the clients to make changes to the rules (e.g., via consensus or majority vote). The clients use the shared resource service to enforce the rules, without having to trust each other to follow the rules when accessing the shared resource. First, the clients agree on a set of initial rules for accessing the shared resource and a set of initial rules for making changes to the rules. After the rules are initialized, then the clients can begin using the shared resource in accordance with the agreed upon rules. In response to a request for accessing the shared resource or a request for changing rules, the shared resource service enforce the applicable rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Richard Jacques de Kadt, Richard Shawn Bice, Allan Henry Vermeulen, Tate Andrew Certain, Anthony A. Virtuoso, Philip Simko
  • Patent number: 11061924
    Abstract: A geographically distributed system using a hybrid, multi-master design is disclosed. The system may use global tables, for which both reads and writes may be performed locally, but with a single region serving as a master region. All strongly consistent reads and writes may be sent to the master region, whereas eventually consistent reads and writes may be performed in any region with a replica. The master region may not be statically assigned but may move from region to region. The master region may be assigned manually by client preference or may be assigned and updated automatically based on the time of day or workload characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Asmita Barve, Richard Shawn Bice, Tate Andrew Certain, Sanket Vishram Chandorkar, Derek William Richard Chen-Becker, Arijit Choudhury, Murtaza Doctor, Sudhir Konduru, Timothy Matthew Lewis, Abhijeet More, Hina Naseer, Ramanathan Padinjarel Somanathan, Karthikeyani Palanisami, Rashmi Krishnaiah Setty, Sanjay Shanthakumar, Ray Manpreet Singh Matharu, Douglas Brian Terry
  • Publication number: 20200311617
    Abstract: Techniques for using scoring algorithms utilizing containers for flexible machine learning inference are described. In some embodiments, a request to host a machine learning (ML) model within a service provider network on behalf of a user is received, the request identifying an endpoint to perform scoring using the ML model. An endpoint is initialized as a container running on a virtual machine based on a container image and used to score data and return a result of said scoring to a user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Charles Drummond SWAN, Edo LIBERTY, Steven Andrew LOEPPKY, Stefano STEFANI, Alexander Johannes SMOLA, Swaminathan SIVASUBRAMANIAN, Craig WILEY, Richard Shawn BICE, Thomas Albert FAULHABER, JR., Taylor GOODHART
  • Publication number: 20190155937
    Abstract: A geographically distributed system using a hybrid, multi-master design is disclosed. The system may use global tables, for which both reads and writes may be performed locally, but with a single region serving as a master region. All strongly consistent reads and writes may be sent to the master region, whereas eventually consistent reads and writes may be performed in any region with a replica. The master region may not be statically assigned but may move from region to region. The master region may be assigned manually by client preference or may be assigned and updated automatically based on the time of day or workload characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Asmita Barve, Richard Shawn Bice, Tate Andrew Certain, Sanket Vishram Chandorkar, Derek William Richard Chen-Becker, Arijit Choudhury, Murtaza Doctor, Sudhir Konduru, Timothy Matthew Lewis, Abhijeet More, Hina Naseer, Ramanathan Padinjarel Somanathan, Karthikeyani Palanisami, Rashmi Krishnaiah Setty, Sanjay Shanthakumar, Ray Manpreet Singh Matharu, Douglas Brian Terry
  • Patent number: 10185554
    Abstract: The described unified service management system provides a unified console to perform functions of individual management specialists. A unified console facilitates an administrator to perform the complex tasks that were performed by the individual management specialists. The unified console provides a “wizard” based approach to the administrator to design all aspects of the complex tasks including placement of components or computing devices, deciding on policies of the components or computing devices, deciding on health policies of components or computing devices, fixing data protection policies of components or computing devices, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ashvinkumar J. Sanghvi, Shawn Bice, Casey McKinnon, Vij Rajarajan, Jens K. Jacobsen, Kristoffer S. Schultz, Thomas William Keane
  • Publication number: 20160125015
    Abstract: The maintaining of a database that is distributed across a front database and one or more cloud databases. Rather than have the front and remote portions of the database be fixed, a data distribution manager evaluates databases segments following a data distribution policy to identify one or more database segments that are to be transferred to or from the one or more cloud databases from or to the front database. In response, the data distribution manager causes the identified database segment to be moved. Accordingly, the data that is in the front database (and the data that is stored in the cloud) may vary over time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Michael James Zwilling, Conor John Cunningham, Joe Cheow Chao Yong, Marina Polishchuk, Brian James Gianforcaro, Tobias Ternstrom, Lingzhi Allen, Nigel Robin Ellis, Rohan Kumar, Richard Shawn Bice
  • Patent number: 9015662
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to declaratively managing software applications, dynamically applying configuration changes to a specified software application based on a service level objective (SLO) and to efficiently performing an impact analysis for a specified service level agreement SLO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: John M. Oslake, Subramanian Muralidhar, Richard Shawn Bice, Jeffrey Robert Currier, Narayan Mohanrao Nevrekar, Kenneth Van Hyning
  • Publication number: 20150006688
    Abstract: The described unified service management system provides a unified console to perform functions of individual management specialists. A unified console facilitates an administrator to perform the complex tasks that were performed by the individual management specialists. The unified console provides a “wizard” based approach to the administrator to design all aspects of the complex tasks including placement of components or computing devices, deciding on policies of the components or computing devices, deciding on health policies of components or computing devices, fixing data protection policies of components or computing devices, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Ashvinkumar J. Sanghvi, Shawn Bice, Casey McKinnon, Vij Rajarajan, Jens K. Jacobsen, Kristoffer S. Schultz, Thomas William Keane
  • Patent number: 8838755
    Abstract: The described unified service management system provides a unified console to perform functions of individual management specialists. A unified console facilitates an administrator to perform the complex tasks that were performed by the individual management specialists. The unified console provides a “wizard” based approach to the administrator to design all aspects of the complex tasks including placement of components or computing devices, deciding on policies of the components or computing devices, deciding on health policies of components or computing devices, fixing data protection policies of components or computing devices, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ashvinkumar J. Sanghvi, Shawn Bice, Casey McKinnon, Vij Rajarajan, Jens K Jacobsen, Kristoffer S Schultz
  • Publication number: 20140189639
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to declaratively managing software applications, dynamically applying configuration changes to a specified software application based on a service level objective (SLO) and to efficiently performing an impact analysis for a specified service level agreement SLO.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Inventors: John M. Oslake, Subramanian Muralidhar, Richard Shawn Bice, Jeffrey Robert Currier, Narayan Mohanrao Nevrekar, Kenneth Van Hyning
  • Patent number: 8751415
    Abstract: A method includes displaying a plurality of user modifiable utilization views of a monitored software application, where each of the plurality of user modifiable utilization views is customizable to fit a domain of analysis by identifying one or more resource types of multiple resource components. Each of the plurality of user modifiable utilization views is displayed in one more graphical user interfaces. The method includes determining a desired ordering of the one or more resource types within a hierarchy of types and filtering one or more details of the multiple resource components to create a customized view. A user can navigate between each of the plurality of user modifiable utilization views to dynamically construct related target analysis views including filtered details across one or more other domains of analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Matt Hollingsworth, Colleen Hamilton, John M. Oslake, Shawn Bice, Narayan Nevrekar
  • Patent number: 8713207
    Abstract: Described are systems and methods for instrumenting configuration and system settings based on targeting configuration settings at dynamically populated groups, groups with varied membership, and objects defined in a class. The systems and methods provide for attributing a configuration setting or policy to one or more objects and then targeting the object at one or more scopes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Travis Wright, Abbot Moffat, Hakan Berk, Ferit Findik, Anand Lakshminarayanan, Shawn Bice, Vitaly Voloshin, Marisol Ontaneda
  • Patent number: 8707254
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to declaratively managing software applications, dynamically applying configuration changes to a specified software application based on a service level objective (SLO) and to efficiently performing an impact analysis for a specified service level agreement SLO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: John M. Oslake, Subramanian Muralidhar, Richard Shawn Bice, Jeffrey Robert Currier, Narayan Mohanrao Nevrekar, Kenneth Van Hyning
  • Publication number: 20130268914
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to declaratively managing software applications, dynamically applying configuration changes to a specified software application based on a service level objective (SLO) and to efficiently performing an impact analysis for a specified service level agreement SLO.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: John M. Oslake, Subramanian Muralidhar, Richard Shawn Bice, Jeffrey Robert Currier, Narayan Mohanrao Nevrekar, Kenneth Van Hyning
  • Publication number: 20130246780
    Abstract: Described are systems and methods for instrumenting configuration and system settings based on targeting configuration settings at dynamically populated groups, groups with varied membership, and objects defined in a class. The systems and methods provide for attributing a configuration setting or policy to one or more objects and then targeting the object at one or more scopes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Travis Wright, Abbot Moffat, Hakan Berk, Ferit Findik, Anand Lakshminarayanan, Shawn Bice, Vitaly Voloshin, Marisol Ontaneda
  • Patent number: 8396845
    Abstract: Data-tier application components (DACs) and methods for managing database applications are disclosed. According to one particular embodiment, a DAC includes a single unit of management that packages metadata related to a database object. The metadata related to the database object includes an identifier of the database object, a database runtime resource identifier of a database runtime resource operable to manipulate the database object, and a policy related to execution of the database runtime resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Omri Bahat, Shawn Bice, Samer Boshra, Charlie D. Carson, Matt Hollingsworth, Robert Hutchinson, Praveen Seshadri, Ken Van Hyning, Sameer Verkhedkar
  • Patent number: 8386653
    Abstract: Described are systems and methods for instrumenting configuration and system settings based on targeting configuration settings at dynamically populated groups, groups with varied membership, and objects defined in a class. The systems and methods provide for attributing a configuration setting or policy to one or more objects and then targeting the object at one or more scope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Travis Wright, Abbot Moffat, Hakan Berk, Ferit Findik, Vitaly Voloshin, Marisol Ontaneda, Anand Lakshminarayanan, Shawn Bice
  • Patent number: 8380684
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing database applications are disclosed. A system includes a fabric that identifies a set of data-tier application components. Each of the data-tier application components includes a logical representation of a collection of database elements. The fabric identifies a set of database runtime resources hosting the set of data-tier application components, and the fabric identifies computing resources used by the set of database runtime resources to host the set of data-tier application components. The system also includes a management point to receive a fabric policy. One or more actions of the fabric policy are automatically applied to affected entities identified by the fabric to bring fabric elements into compliance with the fabric policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Matt Hollingsworth, John M Oslake, Shawn Bice, Ken Van Hyning, Jin Feng, Praveen Seshadri