Patents by Inventor Grant A. McAlister

Grant A. McAlister 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).

  • Patent number: 11947555
    Abstract: Intelligent query routing may be performed across shards of a scalable database table. A router of a database system may receive an access request directed to one or more database tables. The router may evaluate the access request with respect to metadata obtained for the database tables to determine an assignment distribution of computing resources of the database system to data that can satisfy the access request. The router can select planning locations to perform the access request based on the assignment distribution of the computing resources. The router can cause the access request to be performed according to planning at the selected planning locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Saleem Mohideen, Haritabh Gupta, Grant A McAlister, Alexandre Olegovich Verbitski, James Laurence Finnerty, Ahmad Mohammad Radi Ahmad Alsmair, David Charles Wein, Li Che David Hsiao, Navaneetha Krishnan Thanka Nadar, Sadagopan Nattamai Sathiyamoorthy, Baskar Durairaj, Murali Brahmadesam, Gajanan Sharadchandra Chinchwadkar
  • Patent number: 11481397
    Abstract: Techniques for aggregating and emitting database activity record batches are described. Database activity records can be written to a shared memory queue and emitted to a destination using a remote procedure call (RPC). Individual database connection server processes can write client activity records to the queue. An activity monitor plugin in the database engine can monitor the audit records and aggregate the audit records into batches. Batches of audit records can be sent via RPC to their final or intermediate destination. Each instance host in a database service can include a client backend process configured to define how to submit audit records to shared memory. The activity monitor plugin can batch audit records in to messages and submit those messages via RPC to a security host manager and relaying response back to each relevant client backend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Michael Galvin, Shawn McCoy, David Charles Wein, Michael Hall, Khaled Sinno, Grant A. McAlister, Tanmoy Dutta, Dennis Tighe
  • Patent number: 11366728
    Abstract: The first computing system may interface with an operator of the application and a plurality of hosts of the application distributed between different partitions. The second and third computing systems may host first and second portion of the application in first and second partitions, respectively. The second and third computing systems may poll the first computing system to identify first and second value, respectively, representing state conditions of the first and second partitions, respectively, wherein the first and second partition state conditions are the active state, the passive state, and the fenced state. The second and third computing systems may receive responses from the first computing system comprising the first and second values, respectively, and based on the respective values, initiate a transition to the corresponding partition state condition. The first computing system may assign one of the first and second values to indicate which is the active state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Colm MacCarthaigh, Grant A. McAlister
  • Publication number: 20220164228
    Abstract: Fine-grained virtualization provisioning may be performed for in-place database scaling. Computing resource utilization for a database on a host system is obtained for a period of time. The computing resource utilization may be evaluated with respect to a target capacity for the database. If a scaling event is detected based on the evaluation, a modified target capacity may be determined and used to make an adjustment of the computing resources permitted to be used by the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuri Volobuev, Murali Brahmadesam, Stefano Stefani, Daniel Bauman, Alexey Kuznetsov, Krishnamoorthy Rajarathinam, Balasubramaniam Bodeddula, Xiang Peng, Dmitriy Setrakyan, Pooya Saadatpanah, Grant A. McAlister, Anthony Paul Hooper, Navaneetha Krishnan Thanka Nadar, Chayan Biswas, Tobias Joakim Bertil Ternstrom
  • Publication number: 20210157692
    Abstract: The first computing system may interface with an operator of the application and a plurality of hosts of the application distributed between different partitions. The second and third computing systems may host first and second portion of the application in first and second partitions, respectively. The second and third computing systems may poll the first computing system to identify first and second value, respectively, representing state conditions of the first and second partitions, respectively, wherein the first and second partition state conditions are the active state, the passive state, and the fenced state. The second and third computing systems may receive responses from the first computing system comprising the first and second values, respectively, and based on the respective values, initiate a transition to the corresponding partition state condition. The first computing system may assign one of the first and second values to indicate which is the active state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Colm MacCarthaigh, Grant A. McAlister