Patents by Inventor Christopher Sams
Christopher Sams 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).
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Patent number: 11948005Abstract: At a managed control plane service, constituent services and operational requirements of an application are identified. In response to an end-user request directed to the application, contents of an inter-service request are generated at a resource selected by the managed control plane service for a first constituent service, and a response to the message is generated at another resource selected for a second constituent service. Tasks to be performed for the operational requirements are initiated by the managed control plane service.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Michael Groenewald, Diwakar Gupta, Izak van Der Merwe, Adam Scott King, Cindy-Lee Engelbrecht, Christopher Sam Goosen, Aletta Johanna Blanken, Ryan Walter Jason Waite
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Patent number: 11397622Abstract: Techniques are described for enabling users of a service provider to manage placement preferences used to launch virtualized computing resources into a fleet of dedicated physical servers. Users can use one or more service provider interfaces to provide input indicating various placement preferences associated with a fleet of physical servers dedicated for use by a user of the service provider. These placement preferences can be used to determine at which physical server virtualized computing resources—for example, virtual machine (VM) instances, containers, and the like—are launched in response to launch requests. Among other benefits, the ability to configure customized placement preferences enables users to better satisfy various performance, reliability, software licensing, and other considerations users may have with respect to how their resources are placed within physical server fleets.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Bret Kiraly, Diwakar Gupta, Shane Ashley Hall, Johannes Stephanus Jansen Van Rensburg, Christopher Sam Goosen
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Publication number: 20220156664Abstract: A risk exposure model is developed for network or moveable assets not specific to a single, fixed address or location. An asset map using a plurality of geographic representation points is used to identify the physical locations of the asset portions (or possible physical locations in the case of a moveable asset). Baseline geographic, geologic, political, and demographic data is similarly represented using geographic representation points. Meta-data associated with each geographic representation point is used to identify details related to the asset or baseline feature corresponding to the geographic point. Risk exposure values are then calculated using the geographic representation points specific to the asset portions that are subject to risks associated with the location of the asset portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2022Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: Jordan Byk, Christopher Sams, David Carttar, Monalisa Samal, Surender Kumar
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Patent number: 11244263Abstract: A risk exposure model is developed for network or moveable assets not specific to a single, fixed address or location. An asset map using a plurality of geographic representation points is used to identify the physical locations of the asset portions (or possible physical locations in the case of a moveable asset). Baseline geographic, geologic, political, and demographic data is similarly represented using geographic representation points. Meta-data associated with each geographic representation point is used to identify details related to the asset or baseline feature at that geographic location. Risk exposure values are then calculated using the geographic representation points specific to the asset portions that are subject to risks associated with the location of the asset portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: RISK MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Jordan Byk, Christopher Sams, David Carttar, Monalisa Samal, Surender Kumar
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Publication number: 20210406071Abstract: At a managed control plane service, constituent services and operational requirements of an application are identified. In response to an end-user request directed to the application, contents of an inter-service request are generated at a resource selected by the managed control plane service for a first constituent service, and a response to the message is generated at another resource selected for a second constituent service. Tasks to be performed for the operational requirements are initiated by the managed control plane service.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2020Publication date: December 30, 2021Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Michael Groenewald, Diwakar Gupta, Izak van Van Der Merwe, Adam Scott King, Cindy-Lee Engelbrecht, Christopher Sam Goosen, Aletta Johanna Blanken, Ryan Walter Jason Waite
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Patent number: 11093302Abstract: Techniques are described for enabling customers of a service provider network to modify and extend the functionality of application programming interfaces (APIs) provided to customers by various services of the provider network. Services of a service provider network provide interfaces that enable customers and other users to define custom API actions representing functionality to be performed by the services upon receipt of corresponding API requests. In this manner, the functionality exposed by provider network services to customers via APIs becomes extensible and customizable to fit customers' particular use cases and without the provider network needing to contemplate and explicitly implement all possible customer-specific API action variations.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Sam Goosen, Diwakar Gupta, Jacob Adam Gabrielson, Marcin Piotr Kowalski
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Publication number: 20210089368Abstract: Techniques are described for enabling customers of a service provider network to modify and extend the functionality of application programming interfaces (APIs) provided to customers by various services of the provider network. Services of a service provider network provide interfaces that enable customers and other users to define custom API actions representing functionality to be performed by the services upon receipt of corresponding API requests. In this manner, the functionality exposed by provider network services to customers via APIs becomes extensible and customizable to fit customers' particular use cases and without the provider network needing to contemplate and explicitly implement all possible customer-specific API action variations.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2019Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Christopher Sam GOOSEN, Diwakar GUPTA, Jacob Adam GABRIELSON, Marcin Piotr KOWALSKI
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Patent number: 10951479Abstract: Techniques for managing fault domains using cells are described. An area of a provider network may be divided into multiple cells, with each cell representing a different fault domain of the area of the provider network. A customer can provide domain definitions for their service or application and a cell management service can use the domain definitions to place the infrastructure and compute resources underlying the customer's application or service in appropriate cells within an area of the provider network. In some embodiments, the domain definitions may be account-based, where the domain definition may be to place resources in different fault domains depending on the account they are associated with. Alternatively, the customer may tag resources with an identifier such that resources tagged with a first identifier may be placed in a first cell while resources tagged with a second identifier may be placed in a second cell.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Diwakar Gupta, Johannes Stephanus Jansen Van Rensburg, Aletta Johanna Blanken, Christopher Sam Goosen, Bret Kiraly
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Publication number: 20200379818Abstract: Techniques are described for enabling users of a service provider to manage placement preferences used to launch virtualized computing resources into a fleet of dedicated physical servers. Users can use one or more service provider interfaces to provide input indicating various placement preferences associated with a fleet of physical servers dedicated for use by a user of the service provider. These placement preferences can be used to determine at which physical server virtualized computing resources—for example, virtual machine (VM) instances, containers, and the like—are launched in response to launch requests. Among other benefits, the ability to configure customized placement preferences enables users to better satisfy various performance, reliability, software licensing, and other considerations users may have with respect to how their resources are placed within physical server fleets.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2019Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: Bret KIRALY, Diwakar GUPTA, Shane Ashley HALL, Johannes Stephanus JANSEN VAN RENSBURG, Christopher Sam Goosen
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Publication number: 20200012985Abstract: A risk exposure model is developed for network or moveable assets not specific to a single, fixed address or location. An asset map using a plurality of geographic representation points is used to identify the physical locations of the asset portions (or possible physical locations in the case of a moveable asset). Baseline geographic, geologic, political, and demographic data is similarly represented using geographic representation points. Meta-data associated with each geographic representation point is used to identify details related to the asset or baseline feature at that geographic location. Risk exposure values are then calculated using the geographic representation points specific to the asset portions that are subject to risks associated with the location of the asset portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventors: Jordan Byk, Christopher Sams, David Carttar, Monalisa Samal, Surender Kumar
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Patent number: 10417592Abstract: A risk exposure model is developed for network or moveable assets not specific to a single, fixed address or location. An asset map using a plurality of geographic representation points is used to identify the physical locations of the asset portions (or possible physical locations in the case of a moveable asset). Baseline geographic, geologic, political, and demographic data is similarly represented using geographic representation points. Meta-data associated with each geographic representation point is used to identify details related to the asset or baseline feature at that geographic location. Risk exposure values are then calculated using the geographic representation points specific to the asset portions that are subject to risks associated with the location of the asset portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2013Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Risk Management Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Jordan Byk, Christopher Sams, David Carttar, Monalisa Samal, Surender Kumar
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Patent number: 10402368Abstract: A mechanism for extracting system characteristics from an unstructured data format, a semi-structured data format, or a structured data format is disclosed. A processing device may receive information associated with a computing system in an unstructured data format. A content type of the information in the unstructured data format may be determined. A parser corresponding to the content type may be identified. A system characteristic from the information in the unstructured data format may be extracted using the parser. The extracted system characteristic may be stored in a common format.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2017Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.Inventors: Jesse Jaggars, Christopher Sams, Michael Clark, Kyle Lape
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Publication number: 20180189299Abstract: A mechanism for extracting system characteristics from an unstructured data format, a semi-structured data format, or a structured data format is disclosed. A processing device may receive information associated with a computing system in an unstructured data format. A content type of the information in the unstructured data format may be determined. A parser corresponding to the content type may be identified. A system characteristic from the information in the unstructured data format may be extracted using the parser. The extracted system characteristic may be stored in a common format.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2017Publication date: July 5, 2018Inventors: Jesse Jaggars, Christopher Sams, Michael Clark, Kyle Lape
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Publication number: 20140278708Abstract: A risk exposure model is developed for network or moveable assets not specific to a single, fixed address or location. An asset map using a plurality of geographic representation points is used to identify the physical locations of the asset portions (or possible physical locations in the case of a moveable asset). Baseline geographic, geologic, political, and demographic data is similarly represented using geographic representation points. Meta-data associated with each geographic representation point is used to identify details related to the asset or baseline feature at that geographic location. Risk exposure values are then calculated using the geographic representation points specific to the asset portions that are subject to risks associated with the location of the asset portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Risk Management Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Jordan Byk, Christopher Sams, David Carttar, Monalisa Samal, Surender Kumar