Patents by Inventor Alan Roy Powell

Alan Roy Powell 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).

  • Instance migration for rapid recovery from correlated failures
    Patent number: 9652326
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for instance migration to support rapid recovery from correlated failures are described. A failure event affecting one or more compute instances of a provider network, including a particular compute instance hosted at a first instance host, is detected based on an analysis of health status information. A determination is made as to whether a particular compute instance meets an acceptance criterion for a failure-induced migration. The acceptance criterion may be based on storage-related requests from the particular compute instance. If the particular compute instance meets the acceptance criterion, one or more configuration operations are initiated to re-launch the particular compute instance at a different instance host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Paul Bauer, Marc Nevin Daya, Jaco Hermanus Gabriel Le Roux, Kevin Robert Scaife, Laban Mwangi Kimotho, Brian Modra, Alan Roy Powell