Patents by Inventor Hou Liu
Hou Liu 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: 12135980Abstract: Techniques for an optimization service of a service provider network to help optimize the selection, configuration, and utilization, of virtual machine (VM) instance types to support workloads on behalf of users. The optimization service may implement the techniques described herein at various stages in a life cycle of a workload to help optimize the performance of the workload, and reduce underutilization of computing resources. For example, the optimization service may perform techniques to help new users select an optimized VM instance type on which to initially launch their workload. Further, the optimization service may monitor a workload for the life of the workload, and determine new VM instance types, and/or configuration modifications, that optimize the performance of the workload. The optimization service may provide recommendations to users that help improve performance of their workloads, and that also increase the aggregate utilization of computing resources of the service provider network.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Malcolm Featonby, Leslie Johann Lamprecht, John Merrill Phillips, Umesh Chandani, Roberto Pentz De Faria, Hou Liu, Ladan Mahabadi, Letian Feng
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Publication number: 20220413891Abstract: Techniques for an optimization service of a service provider network to help optimize the selection, configuration, and utilization, of virtual machine (VM) instance types to support workloads on behalf of users. The optimization service may implement the techniques described herein at various stages in a life cycle of a workload to help optimize the performance of the workload, and reduce underutilization of computing resources. For example, the optimization service may perform techniques to help new users select an optimized VM instance type on which to initially launch their workload. Further, the optimization service may monitor a workload for the life of the workload, and determine new VM instance types, and/or configuration modifications, that optimize the performance of the workload. The optimization service may provide recommendations to users that help improve performance of their workloads, and that also increase the aggregate utilization of computing resources of the service provider network.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Malcolm Featonby, Leslie Johann Lamprecht, John Merrill Phillips, Umesh Chandani, Roberto Pentz De Faria, Hou Liu, Ladan Mahabadi, Letian Feng
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Publication number: 20220291941Abstract: Techniques for an optimization service of a service provider network to help optimize the selection, configuration, and utilization, of virtual machine (VM) instance types to support workloads on behalf of users. The optimization service may implement the techniques described herein at various stages in a life cycle of a workload to help optimize the performance of the workload, and reduce underutilization of computing resources. For example, the optimization service may perform techniques to help new users select an optimized VM instance type on which to initially launch their workload. Further, the optimization service may monitor a workload for the life of the workload, and determine new VM instance types, and/or configuration modifications, that optimize the performance of the workload. The optimization service may provide recommendations to users that help improve performance of their workloads, and that also increase the aggregate utilization of computing resources of the service provider network.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Malcolm Featonby, Leslie Johann Lamprecht, John Merrill Phillips, Umesh Chandani, Roberto Pentz De Faria, Hou Liu, Ladan Mahabadi, Letian Feng
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Patent number: 11385920Abstract: Techniques for an optimization service of a service provider network to help optimize the selection, configuration, and utilization, of virtual machine (VM) instance types to support workloads on behalf of users. The optimization service may implement the techniques described herein at various stages in a life cycle of a workload to help optimize the performance of the workload, and reduce underutilization of computing resources. For example, the optimization service may perform techniques to help new users select an optimized VM instance type on which to initially launch their workload. Further, the optimization service may monitor a workload for the life of the workload, and determine new VM instance types, and/or configuration modifications, that optimize the performance of the workload. The optimization service may provide recommendations to users that help improve performance of their workloads, and that also increase the aggregate utilization of computing resources of the service provider network.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2019Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Malcolm Featonby, Leslie Johann Lamprecht, John Merrill Phillips, Umesh Chandani, Roberto Pentz De Faria, Hou Liu, Ladan Mahabadi, Letian Feng
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Patent number: 11372663Abstract: Techniques for an optimization service of a service provider network to help optimize the selection, configuration, and utilization, of virtual machine (VM) instance types to support workloads on behalf of users. The optimization service may implement the techniques described herein at various stages in a life cycle of a workload to help optimize the performance of the workload, and reduce underutilization of computing resources. For example, the optimization service may perform techniques to help new users select an optimized VM instance type on which to initially launch their workload. Further, the optimization service may monitor a workload for the life of the workload, and determine new VM instance types, and/or configuration modifications, that optimize the performance of the workload. The optimization service may provide recommendations to users that help improve performance of their workloads, and that also increase the aggregate utilization of computing resources of the service provider network.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Malcolm Featonby, Leslie Johann Lamprecht, John Merrill Phillips, Umesh Chandani, Roberto Pentz De Faria, Hou Liu, Ladan Mahabadi, Letian Feng
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Patent number: 11360795Abstract: Techniques for an optimization service of a service provider network to help optimize the selection, configuration, and utilization, of virtual machine (VM) instance types to support workloads on behalf of users. The optimization service may implement the techniques described herein at various stages in a life cycle of a workload to help optimize the performance of the workload, and reduce underutilization of computing resources. For example, the optimization service may perform techniques to help new users select an optimized VM instance type on which to initially launch their workload. Further, the optimization service may monitor a workload for the life of the workload, and determine new VM instance types, and/or configuration modifications, that optimize the performance of the workload. The optimization service may provide recommendations to users that help improve performance of their workloads, and that also increase the aggregate utilization of computing resources of the service provider network.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Malcolm Featonby, Leslie Johann Lamprecht, John Merrill Phillips, Umesh Chandani, Roberto Pentz De Faria, Hou Liu, Ladan Mahabadi, Letian Feng
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Patent number: 11138049Abstract: Techniques for an optimization service of a service provider network to provide users with machine-generated narratives that include human-intelligible, credible, and transparent recommendations and rationales for recommended VM instance types. The optimization service may gather various information or data about the workload, such as utilization characteristics of the underlying computing resources, and decompose the workloads through a number of dimensions that can be used to describe the workload. Further, the optimization service may analyze the utilization characteristics and/or other data to determine more optimized VM instance types for the workloads that are to be recommended to the users, and also rationales that describes why each recommendation is an appropriate fit for the workload being assessed.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Malcolm Featonby, John Merrill Phillips, Leslie Johann Lamprecht, Roberto Pentz De Faria, Hou Liu, Umesh Chandani, Ladan Mahabadi, Letian Feng
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Patent number: 11128696Abstract: Techniques for an optimization service of a service provider network to help optimize the selection, configuration, and utilization, of virtual machine (VM) instance types to support workloads on behalf of users. The optimization service may implement the techniques described herein at various stages in a life cycle of a workload to help optimize the performance of the workload, and reduce underutilization of computing resources. For example, the optimization service may perform techniques to help new users select an optimized VM instance type on which to initially launch their workload. Further, the optimization service may monitor a workload for the life of the workload, and determine new VM instance types, and/or configuration modifications, that optimize the performance of the workload. The optimization service may provide recommendations to users that help improve performance of their workloads, and that also increase the aggregate utilization of computing resources of the service provider network.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2019Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Malcolm Featonby, Leslie Johann Lamprecht, John Merrill Phillips, Umesh Chandani, Roberto Pentz De Faria, Hou Liu, Ladan Mahabadi, Letian Feng
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Patent number: 11068312Abstract: Techniques for an optimization service of a service provider network to help optimize the selection, configuration, and utilization, of virtual machine (VM) instance types to support workloads on behalf of users. The optimization service may implement the techniques described herein at various stages in a life cycle of a workload to help optimize the performance of the workload, and reduce underutilization of computing resources. For example, the optimization service may perform techniques to help new users select an optimized VM instance type on which to initially launch their workload. Further, the optimization service may monitor a workload for the life of the workload, and determine new VM instance types, and/or configuration modifications, that optimize the performance of the workload. The optimization service may provide recommendations to users that help improve performance of their workloads, and that also increase the aggregate utilization of computing resources of the service provider network.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Inventors: Malcolm Featonby, Leslie Johann Lamprecht, John Merrill Phillips, Umesh Chandani, Roberto Pentz De Faria, Hou Liu, Ladan Mahabadi, Letian Feng
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Publication number: 20200310853Abstract: Techniques for an optimization service of a service provider network to help optimize the selection, configuration, and utilization, of virtual machine (VM) instance types to support workloads on behalf of users. The optimization service may implement the techniques described herein at various stages in a life cycle of a workload to help optimize the performance of the workload, and reduce underutilization of computing resources. For example, the optimization service may perform techniques to help new users select an optimized VM instance type on which to initially launch their workload. Further, the optimization service may monitor a workload for the life of the workload, and determine new VM instance types, and/or configuration modifications, that optimize the performance of the workload. The optimization service may provide recommendations to users that help improve performance of their workloads, and that also increase the aggregate utilization of computing resources of the service provider network.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2019Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Malcolm Featonby, Leslie Johann Lamprecht, John Merrill Phillips, Umesh Chandani, Roberto Pentz De Faria, Hou Liu, Ladan Mahabadi, Letian Feng
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Publication number: 20200310852Abstract: Techniques for an optimization service of a service provider network to help optimize the selection, configuration, and utilization, of virtual machine (VM) instance types to support workloads on behalf of users. The optimization service may implement the techniques described herein at various stages in a life cycle of a workload to help optimize the performance of the workload, and reduce underutilization of computing resources. For example, the optimization service may perform techniques to help new users select an optimized VM instance type on which to initially launch their workload. Further, the optimization service may monitor a workload for the life of the workload, and determine new VM instance types, and/or configuration modifications, that optimize the performance of the workload. The optimization service may provide recommendations to users that help improve performance of their workloads, and that also increase the aggregate utilization of computing resources of the service provider network.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2019Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Malcolm Featonby, Leslie Johann Lamprecht, John Merrill Phillips, Umesh Chandani, Roberto Pentz De Faria, Hou Liu, Ladan Mahabadi, Letian Feng
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Publication number: 20200310851Abstract: Techniques for an optimization service of a service provider network to help optimize the selection, configuration, and utilization, of virtual machine (VM) instance types to support workloads on behalf of users. The optimization service may implement the techniques described herein at various stages in a life cycle of a workload to help optimize the performance of the workload, and reduce underutilization of computing resources. For example, the optimization service may perform techniques to help new users select an optimized VM instance type on which to initially launch their workload. Further, the optimization service may monitor a workload for the life of the workload, and determine new VM instance types, and/or configuration modifications, that optimize the performance of the workload. The optimization service may provide recommendations to users that help improve performance of their workloads, and that also increase the aggregate utilization of computing resources of the service provider network.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2019Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Malcolm Featonby, Leslie Johann Lamprecht, John Merrill Phillips, Umesh Chandani, Roberto Pentz De Faria, Hou Liu, Ladan Mahabadi, Letian Feng
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Publication number: 20200314171Abstract: Techniques for an optimization service of a service provider network to help optimize the selection, configuration, and utilization, of virtual machine (VM) instance types to support workloads on behalf of users. The optimization service may implement the techniques described herein at various stages in a life cycle of a workload to help optimize the performance of the workload, and reduce underutilization of computing resources. For example, the optimization service may perform techniques to help new users select an optimized VM instance type on which to initially launch their workload. Further, the optimization service may monitor a workload for the life of the workload, and determine new VM instance types, and/or configuration modifications, that optimize the performance of the workload. The optimization service may provide recommendations to users that help improve performance of their workloads, and that also increase the aggregate utilization of computing resources of the service provider network.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2019Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Malcolm Featonby, Leslie Johann Lamprecht, John Merrill Phillips, Umesh Chandani, Roberto Pentz De Faria, Hou Liu, Ladan Mahabadi, Letian Feng
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Publication number: 20200310876Abstract: Techniques for an optimization service of a service provider network to help optimize the selection, configuration, and utilization, of virtual machine (VM) instance types to support workloads on behalf of users. The optimization service may implement the techniques described herein at various stages in a life cycle of a workload to help optimize the performance of the workload, and reduce underutilization of computing resources. For example, the optimization service may perform techniques to help new users select an optimized VM instance type on which to initially launch their workload. Further, the optimization service may monitor a workload for the life of the workload, and determine new VM instance types, and/or configuration modifications, that optimize the performance of the workload. The optimization service may provide recommendations to users that help improve performance of their workloads, and that also increase the aggregate utilization of computing resources of the service provider network.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2019Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Malcolm Featonby, Leslie Johann Lamprecht, John Merrill Phillips, Umesh Chandani, Roberto Pentz De Faria, Hou Liu, Ladan Mahabadi, Letian Feng
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Publication number: 20060263499Abstract: Water is slowly added to dry grain having a water content previously adjusted to 10% to 15% at a water addition rate of 0.5% to 2.0%/h, in order to provide a water content of 20% to 30%, and thereafter, the grain is placed into a tank, followed by tempering for 2 to 15 hours.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2004Publication date: November 23, 2006Inventors: Toshiko Satake, Takeshi Fukumori, Shigeharu Kanemoto, Hou Liu, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Motonobu Kawano, Hiroto Shinmura, Hiromichi Aoto, Kota Nakagawa, Kenichi Ishiwata
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Publication number: 20060177606Abstract: The present invention provides a polarizing film with high polarization degree and high transmittance, which is directed to the use of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)-based film by subjecting to a monoaxial multi-step dry-stretch process, thereafter conducting a swelling process in a water-washing tank, cross-dyeing in a dyeing-crosslinking tank comprising an aqueous iodine containing solution, then subjecting to a post stretch process in an stretch tank 05 comprising PVA crosslinking agent, as to obtaining a polarizing film with a transmittance of at least 43% and a polarization degree of at least 98%; and the producing method thereof, a polarizing plate and an optical component produced from the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2005Publication date: August 10, 2006Inventors: Yih Lo, Chun-Hsiung Chen, De-Hou Liu, Yao-Chung Cheng, Liang-Pao Chang, Tai-Wang Lai, Bor-Ping Wang, Shu-Huei Yao
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Patent number: 4484007Abstract: There is provided an improved process for producing biologically active arylterpenoid compounds useful to inhibit eclosion of pupae, e.g., fly pupae or mosquito pupae. The process is characterized by reacting a terpenoid material having a terminal unsaturated linkage, e.g., dihydromyrcene (3,7-dimethylocta-1,6-diene) with a lower alkyl Grignard reagent, e.g., n-propyl magnesium chloride to form a Grignard exchange product. The exchange product is then benzylated. Either a benzyl halide, e.g., p-isopropylbenzyl chloride, or a benzaldehyde, e.g., p-isopropylbenzaldehyde may be used. These compounds are specifically described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,002,769. They contain also a lower alkoxy group, e.g., methoxy. This can be introduced prior to the formation of the Grignard exchange product or at a later stage in the operation. Use of the exchange-type Grignard reaction enables elimination of several steps when producing the arylterpenoids from pinene as the terpene source, and consequent costs.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 1983Date of Patent: November 20, 1984Assignee: SCM CorporationInventors: Carlos G. Cardenas, Tse-Lok Ho, Shing-Hou Liu
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Patent number: 4359586Abstract: 2-Hydroxy-3-methylcyclopent-2-en-1-one was synthesized in a five-step synthesis starting from 2-methyl-1,3-butadiene. Novel intermediate steps include the hot tube isomerization of 1,1-dihalo-2-methyl-2-vinylcyclopropane to give 1-methyl-4,4-dihalocyclopent-1-ene, hydrolysis to 3-methyl-2-cyclopenten-1-one, epoxidation of the latter using a phase transfer catalyst, followed by catalyzed isomerization to produce 2-hydroxy-3-methylcyclopent-2-en-1-one in high overall yield.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 1981Date of Patent: November 16, 1982Assignee: SCM CorporationInventors: Tse-Lok Ho, Shing-Hou Liu
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Patent number: 4329508Abstract: A process for making mixed 2- and 3-C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkyl-2-cyclopenten-1-ones from a corresponding alkylcyclopentadiene by epoxidation to the oxiranes, hydrolysis to the diols, dehydration of the diols and rearrangement of the resulting mixed alkylcyclopentenones. The resulting product can be used to make methylcyclopentenolone, a synthetic maple flavor.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1980Date of Patent: May 11, 1982Assignee: SCM CorporationInventors: T. L. Ho, Shing-Hou Liu