Patents by Inventor Alessandro Gherardi

Alessandro Gherardi 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 FOR HELPING A PERSON TO SELECT A FURNISHING COVERING SURFACE
    Publication number: 20170214880
    Abstract: Described is a method for helping a person to select a furnishing covering surface, comprising the following steps: self-localizing without markers an image acquisition device 2, for determining a pose of the image acquisition device 2; identifying, in at least one image acquired by the image acquisition device 2, a portion of image corresponding to a pre-existing surface to be substituted; segmenting, in one or more images acquired by the image acquisition device 2, at least the portion of image identified; selecting, using a menu displayed on a display 5, a type of furnishing covering surface with which to replace the portion of image previously identified; generating at least one image in which the portion of image is substituted with the type of furnishing covering surface previously selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: FRANCO AMPOLLINI, MASSIMO ROSSINI, ALESSANDRO BEVILACQUA, ALESSANDRO GHERARDI
  • Facilitating data redistribution in database sharding
    Patent number: 9355134
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for facilitating data redistribution in database sharding. A database is maintained that is horizontally partitioned into a set of first buckets using modulo-based assignments. A fixed number of the first buckets are stored in each of multiple physical data stores. The database is repartitioned into a set of second buckets using modulo-based assignments. The number of second buckets in the set is a multiple of the sum of a positive integer and the quantity of the physical data stores. The data in the database is unmoved between the physical data stores by repartitioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Weinan Wang, Joseph Magerramov, Maxym Kharchenko, Min Zhu, Aaron Drew Alexander Kujat, Alessandro Gherardi, Jason Curtis Jenks
  • Facilitating data redistribution in database sharding
    Patent number: 8429162
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for facilitating data redistribution in database sharding. A database is maintained that is horizontally partitioned into a set of first buckets using modulo-based assignments. A fixed number of the first buckets are stored in each of multiple physical data stores. The database is repartitioned into a set of second buckets using modulo-based assignments. The number of second buckets in the set is a multiple of the sum of a positive integer and the quantity of the physical data stores. The data in the database is unmoved between the physical data stores by repartitioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Weinan Wang, Joseph E. Magerramov, Maxym Kharchenko, Min Zhu, Aaron D. Kujat, Alessandro Gherardi, Jason C. Jenks