Patents by Inventor Mathew Alan Mills

Mathew Alan Mills 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).

  • CONSISTENT DATA STORAGE IN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20200218701
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing consistent data storage in distributed computing systems. A consistent distributed computing file system (consistent DCFS) may be backed by an object storage service that only guarantees eventual consistency, and may leverage a data storage service (e.g., a database service) to store and maintain a file system/directory structure (a consistent DCFS directory) for the consistent DCFS that may be accessed by compute nodes for file/directory information relevant to the data objects in the consistent DCFS, rather than relying on the information maintained by the object storage service. The compute nodes may reference the consistent DCFS directory to, for example, store and retrieve strongly consistent metadata referencing data objects in the consistent DCFS. The compute nodes may, for example, retrieve metadata from consistent DCFS directory to determine whether the object storage service is presenting all of the data that it is supposed to have.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Bogdan Eduard Ghidireac, Peter Sirota, Robert Frederick Leidle, Mathew Alan Mills, George Steven McPherson, Xing Wu, Jonathan Andrew Fritz
  • Consistent data storage in distributed computing systems
    Patent number: 10592475
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing consistent data storage in distributed computing systems. A consistent distributed computing file system (consistent DCFS) may be backed by an object storage service that only guarantees eventual consistency, and may leverage a data storage service (e.g., a database service) to store and maintain a file system/directory structure (a consistent DCFS directory) for the consistent DCFS that may be accessed by compute nodes for file/directory information relevant to the data objects in the consistent DCFS, rather than relying on the information maintained by the object storage service. The compute nodes may reference the consistent DCFS directory to, for example, store and retrieve strongly consistent metadata referencing data objects in the consistent DCFS. The compute nodes may, for example, retrieve metadata from consistent DCFS directory to determine whether the object storage service is presenting all of the data that it is supposed to have.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Bogdan Eduard Ghidireac, Peter Sirota, Robert Frederick Leidle, Mathew Alan Mills, George Steven McPherson, Xing Wu, Jonathan Andrew Fritz