Patents by Inventor Ernest S. Powers, III

Ernest S. Powers, III 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).

  • Dynamic throttling systems and services
    Patent number: 9729557
    Abstract: A lightweight throttling mechanism allows for dynamic control of access to resources in a distributed environment. Each request received by a server of a server group is parsed to determine tokens in the request, which are compared with designated rules to determine whether to process or reject the request based on usage data associated with an aspect of the request, the token values, and the rule(s) specified for the request. The receiving of each request can be broadcast to throttling components for each server such that the global state of the system is known to each server. The system then can monitor usage and dynamically throttle requests based on real time data in a distributed environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Soumya Sanyal, Ernest S. Powers, III, Mack Zhou, Matthew T. Tavis, Stephen A. Slotnick, John Wai Yam Hui, Charles Porter Schermerhorn
  • Dynamic throttling systems and services
    Patent number: 9344371
    Abstract: A lightweight throttling mechanism allows for dynamic control of access to resources in a distributed environment. Each request received by a server of a server group is parsed to determine tokens in the request, which are compared with designated rules to determine whether to process or reject the request based on usage data associated with an aspect of the request, the token values, and the rule(s) specified for the request. The receiving of each request can be broadcast to throttling components for each server such that the global state of the system is known to each server. The system then can monitor usage and dynamically throttle requests based on real time data in a distributed environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Soumya Sanyal, Ernest S. Powers, III, Mack Zhou, Matthew T. Tavis, Stephen A. Slotnick, John Wai Yam Hui, Charles Porter Schermerhorn
  • Dynamic throttling systems and services
    Patent number: 8863266
    Abstract: A lightweight throttling mechanism allows for dynamic control of access to resources in a distributed environment. Each request received by a server of a server group is parsed to determine tokens in the request, which are compared with designated rules to determine whether to process or reject the request based on usage data associated with an aspect of the request, the token values, and the rule(s) specified for the request. The receiving of each request can be broadcast to throttling components for each server such that the global state of the system is known to each server. The system then can monitor usage and dynamically throttle requests based on real time data in a distributed environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Soumya Sanyal, Ernest S. Powers, III, Mack Zhou, Matthew T. Tavis, Stephen A. Slotnick, John Wai Yam Hui, Charles Porter Schermerhorn
  • Dynamic throttling systems and services
    Patent number: 8281382
    Abstract: A lightweight throttling mechanism allows for dynamic control of access to resources in a distributed environment. Each request received by a server of a server group is parsed to determine tokens in the request, which are compared with designated rules to determine whether to process or reject the request based on usage data associated with an aspect of the request, the token values, and the rule(s) specified for the request. The receiving of each request can be broadcast to throttling components for each server such that the global state of the system is known to each server. The system then can monitor usage and dynamically throttle requests based on real time data in a distributed environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Soumya Sanyal, Ernest S. Powers, III, Mack Zhou, Matthew T. Tavis, Stephen A. Slotnick, John Wai Yam Hui, Porter Schermerhorn