Patents by Inventor Christopher Pinkham

Christopher Pinkham 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).

  • Publication number: 20070240160
    Abstract: Techniques are described for managing the execution of programs on multiple computing systems, such as computing systems organized into multiple groups. A program execution service manages the program execution on behalf of multiple customers or other users, and selects appropriate computing systems to execute one or more instances of program, such as based in part on locations of one or more previously stored copies of the program from which copies of the program to execute may be acquired. For example, in some situations the selection of an appropriate computing system to execute an instance of a program is based in part on physical or logical proximity to other resources, such as stored copies of the program, executing copies of the program, and/or available computing systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Roland Paterson-Jones, Christopher Pinkham, Benjamin Tobler, Willem van Biljon, Gabriel Smit, Christopher Brown, Quinton Hoole
  • Publication number: 20070239987
    Abstract: Techniques are described for managing communications between multiple intercommunicating computing nodes, such as multiple virtual machine nodes hosted on one or more physical computing machines or systems. In some situations, users may specify groups of computing nodes and optionally associated access policies for use in the managing of the communications for those groups, such as by specifying which source nodes are allowed to transmit data to particular destinations nodes. In addition, determinations of whether initiated data transmissions from source nodes to destination nodes are authorized may be dynamically negotiated for and recorded for later use in automatically authorizing future such data transmissions without negotiation. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract, and it is submitted with the intention that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Quinton Hoole, Christopher Pinkham, Roland Paterson-Jones, Willem Van Biljon