Patents by Inventor Eric Samuel Stone

Eric Samuel Stone 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).

  • Termination policies for scaling compute resources
    Patent number: 9804890
    Abstract: Approaches are described for enabling a user to specify one or more termination policies that can be used to select which instances in a group of virtual machines (or other compute resources) allocated to the user should be terminated first when scaling down the group of virtual machine instances. The termination policies can be utilized by an automatic scaling service when managing the resources in a multitenant shared resource computing environment, such as a cloud computing environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Solomon Pai, Eric Samuel Stone, Mihir Rajendrabhai Patel, Thomas Hans Deml
  • STANDBY INSTANCES FOR AUTO-SCALING GROUPS
    Publication number: 20170237618
    Abstract: A computing resource service provider may provide computing instances organized into logical groups, such as auto-scaling groups. Computing instances assigned to an auto-scaling group may be place into standby. Standby instances may still be managed by the auto-scaling group but may not contribute to the capacity of the auto-scaling group for auto-scaling purposes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Shawn Jones, Eric Samuel Stone, Derek Solomon Pai
  • Computing resource transition notification and pending state
    Patent number: 9674302
    Abstract: A computing resource associated with a user is scheduled to undergo a transition. Prior to the scheduled transition, the computing resource is placed in a pending state. The user is notified that the computing resource is scheduled to undergo the transition. In response to an input received from the user, the computing resource is allowed to undergo the transition when the input indicates that the transition can proceed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmed Usman Khalid, Eric Samuel Stone, Nikita Pinski, Alexander Kulikov, Derek Solomon Pai
  • Standby instances for auto-scaling groups
    Patent number: 9647889
    Abstract: A computing resource service provider may provide computing instances organized into logical groups, such as auto-scaling groups. Computing instances assigned to an auto-scaling group may be place into standby. Standby instances may still be managed by the auto-scaling group but may not contribute to the capacity of the auto-scaling group for auto-scaling purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shawn Jones, Eric Samuel Stone, Derek Solomon Pai
  • COMPUTING RESOURCE PROVISIONING
    Publication number: 20170031714
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for provisioning a computing resource is provided. Provisioning a computing resource based on a provisioning policy is initiated. The provisioning policy may specify one or more supplementary operations whose successful completion is optional for the computing resource to be used. Further in the method and apparatus, the computing resource is provided for use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Eric Samuel Stone, Thomas Hans Deml, Mihir Rajendrabhai Patel
  • Computing resource provisioning failure mitigation
    Patent number: 9471349
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for provisioning a computing resource is provided. Provisioning a computing resource based on a provisioning policy is initiated. The provisioning policy may specify one or more supplementary operations whose successful completion is optional for the computing resource to be used. Further in the method and apparatus, the computing resource is provided for use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Eric Samuel Stone, Thomas Hans Deml, Mihir Rajendrabhai Patel
  • Vertical Scaling Of Computing Instances
    Publication number: 20160164738
    Abstract: Technology for scaling computing instances is provided. In one example, a method may include identifying vertical scaling rules defining a criterion for vertically scaling a computing instance from a first instance type to a second instance type. The method may further include monitoring usage of the computing instance and vertically scaling the computing instance from the first instance type to the second instance type based on the usage as compared to the vertical scaling rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Nikita Pinski, Derek Solomon Pai, Ahmed Usman Khalid, Eric Samuel Stone, Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec