Patents by Inventor Aditya K. Prasad

Aditya K. Prasad 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).

  • Method and apparatus for network services metering
    Patent number: 8200815
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for metering network services, for example Web services. In embodiments, a network services metering system may collect network service usage information via an add usage interface and store the usage information in a database. In one embodiment, the usage information may be partitioned into two or more partitions. Once the usage information has been aggregated and stored, the metering system may be queried to obtain usage statistics such as aggregate usage over specific time intervals. In one embodiment, a pipeline mechanism that generates and processes batches of usage information may be implemented for adding usage information to the database. The pipeline mechanism may help to reduce or eliminate redundancy and loss of usage information, and may make the metering system linearly scalable in multiple dimensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Aditya K. Prasad, Sorin Gherman, Alan S. Geller, Rahul Singh, Nicholas J. Lee
  • Method and apparatus for network services metering
    Patent number: 7908358
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for metering network services, for example Web services. In embodiments, a network services metering system may collect network service usage information via an add usage interface and store the usage information in a database. In one embodiment, the usage information may be partitioned into two or more partitions. Once the usage information has been aggregated and stored, the metering system may be queried to obtain usage statistics such as aggregate usage over specific time intervals. In one embodiment, a pipeline mechanism that generates and processes batches of usage information may be implemented for adding usage information to the database. The pipeline mechanism may help to reduce or eliminate redundancy and loss of usage information, and may make the metering system linearly scalable in multiple dimensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Aditya K. Prasad, Sorin Gherman, Alan S. Geller, Rahul Singh, Nicholas J. Lee