Patents by Inventor Blake P. Hess

Blake P. Hess 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: 12177204
    Abstract: Techniques for certificate authority (CA) selection are described. A certificate management service of a cloud provider network receives a first request to generate a certificate from an electronic device, the first request including an indication of an identity of a user and an identification of a domain name to associate with the certificate. A CA selection policy applicable to the first request is identified, the CA selection policy including a CA selection rule. A CA to generate the certificate is identified by evaluating the CA selection rule, the CA selection rule associates at least a portion of the domain name with the CA. A second request to generate the certificate is sent to the identified CA. The certificate or an identification of the certificate from the CA is returned to the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Manikandan Subramanian, Marcel Andrew Levy, Blake P Hess
  • Publication number: 20230300124
    Abstract: Techniques for certificate authority (CA) selection are described. A certificate management service of a cloud provider network receives a first request to generate a certificate from an electronic device, the first request including an indication of an identity of a user and an identification of a domain name to associate with the certificate. A CA selection policy applicable to the first request is identified, the CA selection policy including a CA selection rule. A CA to generate the certificate is identified by evaluating the CA selection rule, the CA selection rule associates at least a portion of the domain name with the CA. A second request to generate the certificate is sent to the identified CA. The certificate or an identification of the certificate from the CA is returned to the electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Manikandan SUBRAMANIAN, Marcel Andrew LEVY, Blake P. HESS
  • Patent number: 11307912
    Abstract: A set of consumers of a producer-consumer system includes a main consumer subset and a backstop consumer subset. A plurality of updates to message processing information are deployed to the set of consumers. Each update of the plurality of updates is first deployed to the backstop consumer sub-set and is subsequently deployed to the main consumer subset. The main consumer subset may obtain messages from producers and attempt to process the messages. By contrast, the backstop consumer subset may obtain messages only after a failed processing attempt by the main consumers. Upon obtaining a message, a main consumer may process the message successfully or may fail processing and provide the message for processing by a backstop consumer, which may be more up to date than the main consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank Gregory Williston, Marcel Andrew Levy, Andrew Ketcham, Blake P. Hess
  • Patent number: 9250088
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for discovery of public points of interest. Data identifying points of interest is obtained. Each point of interest is associated with a respective user and specifies a respective name and a respective geographic location. A public point of interest is determined based at least in part on a similarity of the respective names of a subset of the points of interest, a proximity of the respective geographic locations of the subset of the points of interest, and a number of different users associated with the subset of the points of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Kozolchyk, Darren E. Canavor, Blake P. Hess, Jeffrey J. Fielding
  • Patent number: 8566014
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for discovery of public points of interest. Data identifying points of interest is obtained. Each point of interest is associated with a respective user and specifies a respective name and a respective geographic location. A public point of interest is determined based at least in part on a similarity of the respective names of a subset of the points of interest, a proximity of the respective geographic locations of the subset of the points of interest, and a number of different users associated with the subset of the points of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Kozolchyk, Darren E. Canavor, Blake P. Hess, Jeffrey J. Fielding