Patents by Inventor Marc Stephens

Marc Stephens 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: 10592328
    Abstract: Data, attributes, and metrics from unavailable resource hosts may be collected and used for cluster analysis in order to correlate the different hosts and group similar hosts into clusters. The clusters may be ranked based on the collected information and used to provide a simple way to identify shared failure modes among the unavailable hosts. By identifying the hosts of each cluster, shared failures can be corrected for large groups of hosts at the same time, enabling the hosts to return to operational states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James Michael Thompson, Marc Stephen Olson, Vaibhav Sharma
  • Patent number: 10585205
    Abstract: An apparatus for performing a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment in a borehole penetrating the earth includes: a carrier configured to be conveyed through the borehole; an antenna assembly disposed on the carrier and configured to receive an NMR signal; and an active gain circuit having an input coupled to the antenna and configured to apply gain to the received NMR signal and to provide an output signal comprising NMR experiment data. The apparatus also includes a feedback circuit configured to feed the output signal back to the input of the active gain circuit; wherein the signal fed back to the input of the active gain circuit is out of phase with the received NMR signal and the feedback circuit provides an electrical quality factor Q value of an antenna assembly that is less than the electrical quality factor Q value of the antenna assembly without the feedback circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Marc Stephen Ramirez, Stanislav W. Forgang
  • Patent number: 10565501
    Abstract: Techniques are described for formally expressing whether sequences of operations performed on block storage devices are sequential or random. In embodiments, determinations of whether these sequences of operations are sequential or random may be used to predict latencies involved with running particular workloads, and to predict representative workloads for particular latencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Marc Stephen Olson, James Michael Thompson, Benjamin Arthur Hawks
  • Publication number: 20200053022
    Abstract: A user can set or modify operational parameters of a data volume stored on a network-accessible storage device in a data center. For example, the user may be provided access to a data volume and may request a modification to the operational parameters of the data volume. Instead of modifying the existing data volume, the data center can provision a new data volume and migrate data stored on the existing data volume to the new data volume. While the data migration takes place, the existing data volume may block input/output (I/O) requests and the new data volume may handle such requests instead. Once the data migration is complete, the data center may deallocate the data blocks of the existing data volume such that the data blocks can be reused by other data volumes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Pieter Kristian Brouwer, Marc Stephen Olson, Nachiappan Arumugam, Michael Thacker, Vijay Prasanth Rajavenkateswaran, Arpit Tripathi, Danny Wei
  • Publication number: 20200018148
    Abstract: A method for transforming an earth formation and/or a completion component for the earth formation based on estimating a parameter of the earth formation includes: performing a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment on the earth formation, the NMR experiment includes transmitting an initial radio-frequency (RF) pulse and a series of refocusing RF pulses; detecting a truncated free induction decay (FID) signal following the initial RF pulse and a spin echo following at least one refocusing RF pulse, the truncated FID signal missing an initial part of a total FID signal; reconstructing the total FID signal using the truncated FID signal, the detected spin echo, and a calculated or measured time between end of transmitting the initial RF pulse and beginning of receiving the truncated FID signal; estimating the parameter using the total FID signal; and transforming the earth formation and/or the completion component based on the estimated property using transformation-equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC
    Inventors: Marc Stephen Ramirez, Quming Zhou
  • Patent number: 10521258
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for a storage processing service that processes multiple storage commands. The storage processing service uses tags from test storage commands to determine whether a test storage service is to be instantiated that reflects a corresponding production service. Test storage commands with the same tag are tested on that test service. Additionally, the storage processing service determines a strategy for testing processes on production services when the storage system is overloaded. In one embodiment, the test service manager can determine to stop testing processes for a period of time, and issue a shed command that queues or sheds test storage commands. Advantageously, a shed command, while active at a storage processing service, may alleviate the overload on production services. The test service manager can continue to monitor the storage system to determine whether the overload continues to exist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Todd Burruss, John Luther Guthrie, II, Marc Stephen Olson, Madhuvanesh Parthasarathy
  • Publication number: 20190391292
    Abstract: An apparatus for performing a downhole nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment on a subsurface material in a volume of interest includes: a carrier configured to be conveyed through a borehole penetrating the subsurface material; an NMR sensor assembly disposed on the carrier and comprising a static magnetic field source configured to polarize nuclei of the subsurface material in the volume of interest and an antenna configured to receive NMR signals; and a receiver circuit disposed on the NMR sensor assembly and configured to process received NMR signals to perform the downhole NMR experiment; wherein (i) the receiver circuit is disposed in a pressure-excluding enclosure and (ii) the antenna, the static magnetic field source, and the pressure-excluding enclosure are disposed in a pressure-balancing fluid that is at least partially enclosed by an enclosure of non-metallic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC
    Inventors: Quming Zhou, Marc Stephen Ramirez
  • Patent number: 10498648
    Abstract: A method for processing packet data in a service provider environment includes, by a network-enabled data processing device within a server computer of the service provider environment, receive packet data including header information and payload information. The packet header information can be separated from the payload information. The separated header information can be forwarded to a processor of the server computer for processing, without forwarding at least a portion of the payload information. Transforming instructions and at least one address of one or more storage locations can be received from the processor, based at least in part on the header information. The payload information can be transformed based on the transforming instructions. The transformed payload information can be stored in the one or more storage locations based on the at least one address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Richardson, Marc John Brooker, Norbert Paul Kusters, Anthony Nicholas Liguori, Marc Stephen Olson
  • Patent number: 10474372
    Abstract: A system and method for provisioning a volume and repartitioning a provisioned volume based at least in part on a workload. A request to provision a volume of a specified size is received, a first set of partition options is determined based at least in part on the specified size, and second set of partition options is determined based at least in part on one or more performance characteristics. A volume partitioning is determined based at least in part on an intersection of a number of partitions between the first set of partition options and the second set of partition options, and further based at least in part on a set of optimization criteria. Based at least in part on tracked usage of the volume or a repartition request, a determination is made to repartition the volume such that the partitioning scheme fulfills a set of optimization criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc Stephen Olson, Marc John Brooker, Tarun Goyal, Arpit Tripathi
  • Patent number: 10469405
    Abstract: A user can set or modify operational parameters of a data volume stored on a network-accessible storage device in a data center. For example, the user may be provided access to a data volume and may request a modification to the operational parameters of the data volume. Instead of modifying the existing data volume, the data center can provision a new data volume and migrate data stored on the existing data volume to the new data volume. While the data migration takes place, the existing data volume may block input/output (I/O) requests and the new data volume may handle such requests instead. Once the data migration is complete, the data center may deallocate the data blocks of the existing data volume such that the data blocks can be reused by other data volumes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Pieter Kristian Brouwer, Marc Stephen Olson, Nachiappan Arumugam, Michael Thacker, Vijay Prasanth Rajavenkateswaran, Arpit Tripathi, Danny Wei
  • Patent number: 10412002
    Abstract: A method for processing packet data in a service provider environment includes, by a network-enabled data processing device within a server computer of the service provider environment, receiving packet data comprising header information and payload information. The header information is separated from the payload information. The separated header information is forwarded to a processor of the server computer for processing, without forwarding at least a portion of the payload information. At least one address of a storage location is received from the processor. The at least one address is associated with a logical-to-physical address mapping based on the header information. The payload information is stored in the storage location based on the at least one address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Richardson, Marc John Brooker, Norbert Paul Kusters, Anthony Nicholas Liguori, Marc Stephen Olson
  • Patent number: 10404613
    Abstract: Computing resource services have computing resources allocated among regions and data zones, where regions can be completely separate deployments of an infrastructure to provide the highest degree of independence. The more regions that are utilized by a customer, the higher the level of fault tolerance may exist. Current networks consist of heavily distributed infrastructures or mainly centralized infrastructures, both of which can cause complete control plane failures when even a subset of a data zone or region loses network connectivity. The placement of control plane and data plane resources provides for optimal availability and durability during infrastructure failures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc John Brooker, Marc Levy, Norbert Paul Kusters, David R. Richardson, Marc Stephen Olson
  • Publication number: 20190219726
    Abstract: An apparatus for performing a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment in a borehole penetrating the earth includes: a carrier configured to be conveyed through the borehole; an antenna assembly disposed on the carrier and configured to receive an NMR signal; and an active gain circuit having an input coupled to the antenna and configured to apply gain to the received NMR signal and to provide an output signal comprising NMR experiment data. The apparatus also includes a feedback circuit configured to feed the output signal back to the input of the active gain circuit; wherein the signal fed back to the input of the active gain circuit is out of phase with the received NMR signal and the feedback circuit provides an electrical quality factor Q value of an antenna assembly that is less than the electrical quality factor Q value of the antenna assembly without the feedback circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC
    Inventors: Marc Stephen Ramirez, Stanislav W. Forgang
  • Publication number: 20190166228
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for program code allocation based on processor features are disclosed. Analysis of program code is performed using static analysis and/or runtime analysis. The analysis determines one or more processor features invoked by the program code. One or more program execution servers are selected from a plurality of program execution servers based at least in part on the one or more processor features invoked by the program code. One or more selected program execution servers comprise the one or more processor features invoked by the program code, and an additional one or more of the program execution servers lack the one or more processor features invoked by the program code. The program code is executed using the one or more selected program execution servers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc John Brooker, Marc Stephen Olson
  • Patent number: 10270668
    Abstract: A distributed system may implement identifying correlated events in a distributed system according to operational metrics. A distributed system may collect large numbers of operational metrics from multiple different sources. Some operational metrics may be monitored, analyzing the operational metrics for correlation with other operational metrics. The monitored operational metrics may be manually selected, or identified according to anomalous events detected for the operational metrics. Based on the monitoring, a correlated event may be detected. A response for the correlated event may be determined and performed. In some embodiments, a notification of the correlated event may be sent. Corrective actions may be performed at the distributed system, in some embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James Michael Thompson, Marc Stephen Olson, Marc John Brooker
  • Patent number: 10268593
    Abstract: A request to create a volume to store data is received. A block within the storage node is selected, dependent at least in part on metadata indicating regions of available storage space in a storage node, to associate with a volume. Information is generated that includes an address to the block. A second computer system is determined to lacks the address to the block. The second computer system is enabled, by providing at least a portion of the information to the second computer system, to perform an operation to the block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc Stephen Olson, Christopher Magee Greenwood, Anthony Nicholas Liguori, James Michael Thompson, Surya Prakash Dhoolam, Marc John Brooker, Danny Wei
  • Patent number: 10250673
    Abstract: At a first client-side component of a storage service, a metric of a storage workload directed from the first client-side component towards server components of the storage service is determined. The metric is transmitted to a particular server component, which is configured to propagate the metric to a different client-side component of the storage service. The first client-side component receives, from a server component, a different metric of a storage workload of a second client-side component. The first client-side component reschedules at least one storage request based at least in part on the different metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc John Brooker, Marc Stephen Olson, Benjamin Arthur Hawks, James Michael Thompson
  • Patent number: 10200501
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for program code allocation based on processor features are disclosed. Analysis of program code is performed using static analysis and/or runtime analysis. The analysis determines one or more processor features invoked by the program code. One or more program execution servers are selected from a plurality of program execution servers based at least in part on the one or more processor features invoked by the program code. One or more selected program execution servers comprise the one or more processor features invoked by the program code, and an additional one or more of the program execution servers lack the one or more processor features invoked by the program code. The program code is executed using the one or more selected program execution servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc John Brooker, Marc Stephen Olson
  • Patent number: 10185507
    Abstract: A first location in one or more storage nodes is determined, with the first location being associated with a first block of a plurality of blocks associated with a storage volume. First information that maps the first block to the first location is generated. At least a portion of data is obtained from the first block at the first location. A second location in the one or more storage nodes is determined, with the second location being associated with a second block. Second information that maps the second block to the second location is included in the first information. A second computer system, different from the first computer system, is enabled, by providing at least a portion of the first information, to perform an operation to the storage volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc Stephen Olson, Christopher Magee Greenwood, Anthony Nicholas Liguori, James Michael Thompson, Surya Prakash Dhoolam, Marc John Brooker, Danny Wei
  • Patent number: 10169068
    Abstract: Live migration may be performed for virtual computing resources utilizing network-based storage. A virtual compute instance operating at a source host may be moved to a destination host. The virtual compute instance may be a client of a network-based storage resource that stores data for the virtual compute instance. Access to the data stored for the virtual compute instance may be limited to the source host. When migration is performed, the destination host may be prepared to assume operation of the virtual compute instance. Operation of the virtual compute instance at the source host may be paused and the access to the data at the network-based storage resource may be modified to limit access to the destination host. Operation of the virtual compute instance may then resume at the destination host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Pieter Kristian Brouwer, Kristina Kraemer Brenneman, Marc John Brooker, Jerry Lin, Marc Stephen Olson