Patents by Inventor JOHN MERRILL PHILLIPS
JOHN MERRILL PHILLIPS 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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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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Patent number: 11487562Abstract: A network-based virtual computing resource provider may offer virtual compute instances that implement rolling resource credits for scheduling virtual computing resources. Work requests for a virtual compute instance may be received at a virtualization manager. A resource credit balance may be determined for the virtual compute instance. The resource credit balance may accumulate resource credits in rolling fashion, carrying over unused credits from previous time periods. Resource credits may then be applied when generating scheduling instructions to provide to a physical resource to perform the work requests, such as a physical CPU in order to increase the utilization of the resource according to the number of credits applied. Applied resource credits may then be deducted from the credit balance.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: John Merrill Phillips, William John Earl, Deepak Singh
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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: 11409796Abstract: A database service that receives and manages time series data into a set of generational data tables. The database service generates a set of generational data tables configured to receive a subset of time series data. Each generational data table is created with an initial set of access parameters that facilitates the receipt of incoming time series data. Thereafter, the database service creates additional generational data tables to receive the continuous received time series data and then modifies the access parameters of the previously created data table, such as for read only rights.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Mihir Sadruddin Surani, Roberto Pentz De Faria, Mohit Gupta, Yuxuan Liu, Leslie Johann Lamprecht, John Merrill Phillips, John David Dunagan, Malcolm Featonby
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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: 11194688Abstract: Techniques for an optimization service of a service provider network to generate an architecture diagram that represents an architecture of a web-based application. The optimization service may use the architecture diagram to determine modifications or changes to make to the application. For example, the optimization service may compare the architecture diagram with optimized architecture diagrams that represent application best practices, and determine the modifications or change to make to the application to optimize the application and bring the application in-line with best practices. Further, the optimization service may use the architecture diagram to generate a visualization, and provide the user account with the visualization of the architecture diagram to show users their application architecture.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Malcolm Featonby, Jacob Adam Gabrielson, Kai Fan Tang, John Merrill Phillips, Leslie Johann Lamprecht, Letian Feng, Roberto Pentz De Faria
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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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Patent number: 10963984Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for interaction monitoring for virtualized graphics processing are disclosed. Execution of an application is initiated on a virtual compute instance that is implemented using CPU and memory resources of a server. Instruction calls are produced by the execution of the application and sent from the server to a graphics server over a network. The graphics server comprises a physical GPU, and a virtual GPU is implemented using the physical GPU and attached to the virtual compute instance. GPU output is generated at the graphics server based at least in part on execution of the instruction calls using the virtual GPU. A log of interactions between the application and the virtual GPU is stored. The interactions comprise the instruction calls sent to the graphics server and responses to the instruction calls sent to the virtual compute instance.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Malcolm Featonby, Yuxuan Liu, Umesh Chandani, John Merrill Phillips, Jr., Adithya Bhat, Douglas Cotton Kurtz, Mihir Sadruddin Surani
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Patent number: 10911371Abstract: A control-plane component of a network-accessible service receives an indication that a resource request has been submitted by a client. The component determines, based at least in part on metadata associated with the client, that a first parameter selection policy (PSP) of one or more PSPs created for the service is applicable. The first PSP includes a condition set to determine applicability, and a value set indicating parameter values to be used to fulfill resource requests to which the PSP applies. Using the value set, an effective parameter value list for one or more operations to be performed to allocate the requested resource is generated, and the allocation operations are initiated.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2015Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Richard Jacques De Kadt, Matthew Shawn Wilson, John Merrill Phillips, Michael Groenewald, Jacobus Johannes Van Der Merwe
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Patent number: 10884778Abstract: Techniques for managing dynamically scalable virtualized compute instances within a provider network are described. A dynamically scalable instance has a baseline performance level and a maximum performance level associated with a computing resource, such as a processor, a memory, a network interface, etc. In response to receive a request to launch a dynamically scalable instance, one or more services select a computer system to host the requested instance from a pool of instance-hosting computer systems of a provider network. The instance-hosting computer systems include a monitoring agent that reports computing resource usage data to the one or more services. The one or more services monitor the resource usage of the instance-hosting computer systems and migrate instances so that the dynamically scalable instances can operate up to the maximum level of performance.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: John David Dunagan, Mohit Gupta, Mihir Sadruddin Surani, Yuxuan Liu, Les Johann Lamprecht, John Merrill Phillips, Malcolm Featonby, Roberto Pentz De Faria, Erik Quanstrom, James Rigby, Ethan Faust, Wenbo Bu
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Patent number: 10877786Abstract: Techniques for managing compute resource usage by virtualized compute instances within a provider network are described. A computer system connected to a provider network hosts one or more compute instances. An agent associated with the computer system obtains per-compute instance resource usage information of computer system resources such as processors, memory, and network interfaces. The agent sends the usage information to a usage management service of the provider network. The usage management service generates usage limits based on the usage information from the agent and on usage targets and sends the usage limits to the computer system. The computer system limits the resource usage of the compute instance based on the usage limits.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: John David Dunagan, Mohit Gupta, Mihir Sadruddin Surani, Yuxuan Liu, Les Johann Lamprecht, John Merrill Phillips, Malcolm Featonby, Roberto Pentz De Faria
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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