Patents by Inventor Darren James Alton

Darren James Alton 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).

  • Distributed computing system node management
    Patent number: 10826971
    Abstract: Techniques for distributed computing system node management are described herein. In some cases, internal compute nodes (i.e., compute nodes that are allocated to the distributed system) may be mutually trusted such that they may freely establish communications with one another. By contrast, external compute nodes (i.e., compute nodes that aren't allocated to the distributed computing system) may be untrusted such that their access to the distributed system may be regulated. In some cases, one or more of the compute nodes within the distributed computing system may maintain respective collections of system view information. Each respective collection of system view information may include, for example, information associated with the corresponding compute node's view of the distributed computing system based on information that is available to the corresponding compute node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Guido Beat Zgraggen, Christopher Ryan Mhley, Darren James Alton, Adam Julio Villalobos, Eric Benjamin Merritt, Xiao Zeng
  • Distributed computing system node management
    Patent number: 10742718
    Abstract: Techniques for distributed computing system node management are described herein. In some cases, internal compute nodes (i.e., compute nodes that are allocated to the distributed system) may be mutually trusted such that they may freely establish communications with one another. By contrast, external compute nodes (i.e., compute nodes that aren't allocated to the distributed computing system) may be untrusted such that their access to the distributed system may be regulated. In some cases, one or more of the compute nodes within the distributed computing system may maintain respective collections of system view information. Each respective collection of system view information may include, for example, information associated with the corresponding compute node's view of the distributed computing system based on information that is available to the corresponding compute node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Guido Beat Zgraggen, Christopher Ryan Mhley, Darren James Alton, Adam Julio Villalobos, Eric Benjamin Merritt, Xiao Zeng
  • Distributed computing system node management
    Patent number: 10243870
    Abstract: Techniques for distributed computing system node management are described herein. In some cases, internal compute nodes (i.e., compute nodes that are allocated to the distributed system) may be mutually trusted such that they may freely establish communications with one another. By contrast, external compute nodes (i.e., compute nodes that aren't allocated to the distributed computing system) may be untrusted such that their access to the distributed system may be regulated. In some cases, one or more of the compute nodes within the distributed computing system may maintain respective collections of system view information. Each respective collection of system view information may include, for example, information associated with the corresponding compute node's view of the distributed computing system based on information that is available to the corresponding compute node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Darren James Alton, Xiao Zeng, Adam Julio Villalobos, Eric Benjamin Merritt, Guido Beat Zgraggen, Christopher Ryan Mhley