Patents by Inventor Michael Beranek

Michael Beranek 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: 11842217
    Abstract: Mechanisms for resource isolation allow tenants executing in a multi-tenant software container to be isolated in order to prevent resource starvation by one or more of the tenants. Mechanisms for dependency isolation may be utilized to prevent one tenant executing in a multi-tenant software container from using another tenant in the same container in a manner that requires co-tenancy. Mechanisms for security isolation may be utilized to prevent one tenant in a multi-tenant software container from accessing protected data or functionality of another tenant. Mechanisms for fault isolation may be utilized to prevent tenants in a multi-tenant software container from causing faults or other types of errors that affect other tenants executing in the same software container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Keian Christopher, Kevin Michael Beranek, Christopher Keakini Kaulia, Vijay Ravindra Kulkarni, Samuel Leonard Moniz, Kyle Bradley Peterson, Ajit Ashok Varangaonkar, Jun Xu
  • Patent number: 10389697
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for managing the activation of software containers, for throttling of requests directed to tenants executing in a software container, and for priming the execution of software containers. The activation of software containers and tenants may be managed by maintaining an activation queue for storing requests to activate software containers or tenants on a host computer. Requests may be retrieved from the queue and utilized to determine whether a software container or a tenant is to be activated on a host. “Bounce” or hot swap tenant activations may be performed. Tenant activation requests might also be throttled by denying the requests or by postponing the requests until a later time. A software container might also be configured to throttle incoming requests to tenants executing therein. The execution of a software container might also be primed by replaying previously recorded network traffic to the software container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Vijay Ravindra Kulkarni, Kevin Michael Beranek, Keian Christopher, Chris Hasz, Samuel Leonard Moniz, Kyle Bradley Peterson, Ajit Ashok Varangaonkar, Jun Xu
  • Patent number: 10255062
    Abstract: A classloader executing in an execution environment, such as a JAVA virtual machine or a software container, may be configured to generate class usage data describing the historical usage of classes by applications in the execution environment. Based upon the class usage data, one or more classes may be pre-loaded into a cache prior to receiving a request from an application to load the classes. If an application subsequently requests a class, the request may be satisfied using the class stored in the cache rather than by loading the class at the time the request is received. A probabilistic data structure, such as a Bloom filter, might also be utilized to determine whether a classloader can possibly load a requested class. Only if the classloader can possibly load the requested class will a search be made for the requested class in a classpath associated with the classloader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Beranek, Keian Christopher, Vijay Ravindra Kulkarni, Samuel Leonard Moniz
  • Patent number: 10250455
    Abstract: Host computers in a host pool are configured to execute a tenant management service. The tenant management service receives a tenant configuration from a fleet management service that defines tenant services that are to be executed on each host computer. When tenant services are deployed, the tenant configuration may be utilized to determine whether deployed tenants are to be executed or not. The fleet management service might also provide commands at a later time to execute deployed but not executing tenant services or to terminate executing tenant services. The determination as to whether to execute or terminate tenant services may be made based, at least in part, on status information provided by the tenant management service to the fleet management service. The fleet management service might also provide a runtime configuration to tenant services in order to configure aspects of the runtime operation of the tenant services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Leonard Moniz, Kevin Michael Beranek, Keian Christopher, Kyle Bradley Peterson
  • Patent number: 10097431
    Abstract: A routing service provides functionality for selecting an instance of a tenant service for processing a service request and for providing the network location of the selected instance to a service client. The service client may utilize the network location to make a service request to the selected instance of the tenant service. The routing service might also route the service request to the selected instance of a tenant service. The selection of a particular instance of a tenant service for processing a service request may be made based upon various factors including, but not limited to, attributes of the service client making the request and/or attributes of instances of the tenant service being called. The selection of an instance of a tenant service might also be made to implement segmentation, to implement A/B testing, to load balance service requests, and/or to gradually deploy new versions of a tenant service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Leonard Moniz, Kevin Michael Beranek, Kyle Bradley Peterson, Ajit Ashok Varangaonkar
  • Patent number: 9928058
    Abstract: A classloader executing in an execution environment, such as a JAVA virtual machine or a software container, may be configured to generate class usage data describing the historical usage of classes by applications in the execution environment. Based upon the class usage data, one or more classes may be pre-loaded into a cache prior to receiving a request from an application to load the classes. If an application subsequently requests a class, the request may be satisfied using the class stored in the cache rather than by loading the class at the time the request is received. A probabilistic data structure, such as a Bloom filter, might also be utilized to determine whether a classloader can possibly load a requested class. Only if the classloader can possibly load the requested class will a search be made for the requested class in a classpath associated with the classloader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Beranek, Keian Christopher, Vijay Ravindra Kulkarni, Samuel Leonard Moniz
  • Patent number: 9836388
    Abstract: The techniques described herein provide software testing of a candidate software system. In some examples, an interceptor intercepts at least one production request to a production software system. The duplicating proxy service causes the at least one intercepted request to be processed by the candidate software system being validated and the production software system being used to validate the candidate software system. The duplicating proxy service may then compare and/or analyze at least one candidate response to the intercepted request from the candidate software system and at least one production response to the intercepted request from the production software system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Leonard Moniz, Kevin Michael Beranek, Keian Christopher, Andrew Ross Evenson, Christopher Keakini Kaulia, Kyle Bradley Peterson
  • Patent number: 9754122
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for isolating tenants executing in a multi-tenant software container. Mechanisms for resource isolation allow tenants executing in a multi-tenant software container to be isolated in order to prevent resource starvation by one or more of the tenants. Mechanisms for dependency isolation may be utilized to prevent one tenant executing in a multi-tenant software container from using another tenant in the same container in a manner that requires co-tenancy. Mechanisms for security isolation may be utilized to prevent one tenant in a multi-tenant software container from accessing protected data or functionality of another tenant. Mechanisms for fault isolation may be utilized to prevent tenants in a multi-tenant software container from causing faults or other types of errors that affect other tenants executing in the same software container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Keian Christopher, Kevin Michael Beranek, Christopher Keakini Kaulia, Vijay Ravindra Kulkarni, Samuel Leonard Moniz, Kyle Bradley Peterson, Ajit Ashok Varangaonkar, Jun Xu
  • Patent number: 9703611
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for isolating tenants executing in a multi-tenant software container. Mechanisms for resource isolation allow tenants executing in a multi-tenant software container to be isolated in order to prevent resource starvation by one or more of the tenants. Mechanisms for dependency isolation may be utilized to prevent one tenant executing in a multi-tenant software container from using another tenant in the same container in a manner that requires co-tenancy. Mechanisms for security isolation may be utilized to prevent one tenant in a multi-tenant software container from accessing protected data or functionality of another tenant. Mechanisms for fault isolation may be utilized to prevent tenants in a multi-tenant software container from causing faults or other types of errors that affect other tenants executing in the same software container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Keian Christopher, Kevin Michael Beranek, Christopher Keakini Kaulia, Vijay Ravindra Kulkarni, Samuel Leonard Moniz, Kyle Bradley Peterson, Ajit Ashok Varangaonkar, Jun Xu
  • Patent number: 9471353
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for isolating tenants executing in a multi-tenant software container. Mechanisms for resource isolation allow tenants executing in a multi-tenant software container to be isolated in order to prevent resource starvation by one or more of the tenants. Mechanisms for dependency isolation may be utilized to prevent one tenant executing in a multi-tenant software container from using another tenant in the same container in a manner that requires co-tenancy. Mechanisms for security isolation may be utilized to prevent one tenant in a multi-tenant software container from accessing protected data or functionality of another tenant. Mechanisms for fault isolation may be utilized to prevent tenants in a multi-tenant software container from causing faults or other types of errors that affect other tenants executing in the same software container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Keian Christopher, Kevin Michael Beranek, Christopher Keakini Kaulia, Vijay Ravindra Kulkarni, Samuel Leonard Moniz, Kyle Bradley Peterson, Ajit Ashok Varangaonkar, Jun Xu
  • Patent number: 9397905
    Abstract: A multi-tenant service container receives a container health check request and responsively identifies a list of expected tenants. The list of expected tenants may include all of the tenants hosted by the multi-tenant service container, all of the tenants hosted by the multi-tenant service container that are associated with a particular process or a list of tenants defined by the container health check request. The multi-tenant service container issues a tenant health status request to the tenants in the expected tenant list and responsively receives a tenant health status from the tenants. The received tenant health status is either a tenant healthy status or a tenant unhealthy status. The multi-tenant service container issues a container health status based on the tenant health statuses received from the tenants on the expected tenant list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Leonard Moniz, Kevin Michael Beranek, Keian Christopher, Jun Xu
  • Patent number: 9250891
    Abstract: A classloader executing in an execution environment, such as a JAVA virtual machine or a software container, may be configured to generate class usage data describing the historical usage of classes by applications in the execution environment. Based upon the class usage data, one or more classes may be pre-loaded into a cache prior to receiving a request from an application to load the classes. If an application subsequently requests a class, the request may be satisfied using the class stored in the cache rather than by loading the class at the time the request is received. A probabilistic data structure, such as a Bloom filter, might also be utilized to determine whether a classloader can possibly load a requested class. Only if the classloader can possibly load the requested class will a search be made for the requested class in a classpath associated with the classloader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Beranek, Keian Christopher, Vijay Ravindra Kulkarni, Samuel Leonard Moniz
  • Patent number: 8966464
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for isolating tenants executing in a multi-tenant software container. Mechanisms for resource isolation allow tenants executing in a multi-tenant software container to be isolated in order to prevent resource starvation by one or more of the tenants. Mechanisms for dependency isolation may be utilized to prevent one tenant executing in a multi-tenant software container from using another tenant in the same container in a manner that requires co-tenancy. Mechanisms for security isolation may be utilized to prevent one tenant in a multi-tenant software container from accessing protected data or functionality of another tenant. Mechanisms for fault isolation may be utilized to prevent tenants in a multi-tenant software container from causing faults or other types of errors that affect other tenants executing in the same software container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Keian Christopher, Kevin Michael Beranek, Christopher Keakini Kaulia, Vijay Ravindra Kulkarni, Samuel Leonard Moniz, Kyle Bradley Peterson, Ajit Ashok Varangaonkar, Jun Xu
  • Publication number: 20060248453
    Abstract: With a client connected to a server, an agent tool simulates user interaction and traversal of dynamic web pages, causing the server-side processes to serve HTML pages to the client. As these pages are served, they are collected by the agent, modified to include static hyperlinks to replace the server side directed navigation logic, and then persistently stored in local files where they are available for off-line navigation by a browser without the need for accessing the server(s). In effect, the HTML pages are published.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Applicant: International Business Machine Corporation
    Inventors: Craig Bennett, Michael Beranek, Jeffrey Bonasso, Christopher Davia, Steven Stapel
  • Publication number: 20050283475
    Abstract: A method and system is provided to monitor speech and detect keywords or phrases in the speech, such as for example, monitored calls in a call center or speakers/presenters using teleprompters, or the like. Upon detection of the keywords of phrases, information associated with the keywords or phrases may be presented to a display device so that a user may dynamically receive new information as context of the speech progresses. This provides dynamic information as the context of the conversation develops. The information may be presented as links, cues, text, or similar formats. The detected keywords or phrases may also be associated with rules that govern the conditions and criteria for processing the detected keyword and presentation of the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2004
    Publication date: December 22, 2005
    Inventors: Michael Beranek, Jason Malinowski