Patents by Inventor Peter C. Beckman

Peter C. Beckman 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: 10547586
    Abstract: Systems and methods involve managing exhaustible electronic resources, such as IPv4 addresses. A determination to allocate an internet protocol (IP) address can be made based at least in part on an amount of traffic that the IP address receives when not allocated to a customer and another amount of traffic received from a prospective customer. Information directed to the allocated IP address can be received and routed to a network associated with the customer via a connection configured to share information using the IP address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Joel C. Hegg, Peter C. Beckman, Jeremy T. Hall
  • Patent number: 9336551
    Abstract: Systems and methods involve managing exhaustible electronic resources, such as IPv4 addresses. A spot market for the electronic resources is operated to enable users to obtain units of the electronic resources. Potential users may provide pricing criteria. When a spot price for units of the electronic resources satisfies the pricing criteria for a potential user, the potential user may be given access to a requested number of units of the electronic resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Joel C. Hegg, Peter C. Beckman, Jeremy T. Hall
  • Patent number: 9160835
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems and methods for sending and receiving messages between two user devices using vibration generation and detection techniques. The devices may be placed in proximity to each and initiate a solicitation protocol and a communications protocol routine to establish a vibration communication link. The devices may exchange information using information that is encoded into the vibrations that are transferred from one user device to another user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter C. Beckman
  • Patent number: 9140599
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems and methods for sending and receiving messages between two user devices using vibration generation and detection techniques. The devices may be placed in proximity to each other and initiate a solicitation protocol and a communication protocol routine to establish a vibration communication link. The devices may exchange information using information that is encoded into the vibrations that are transferred from one user device to another user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter C. Beckman
  • Patent number: 8984651
    Abstract: A computing data center that contains a set of physically isolatable units of computing resources for which a physical security exception action plan is to be provided. Upon determining that a security event has occurred for one or more physically isolatable units, the computing data center implements physical security settings on potentially affected computing resources so that a physical security exception action plan can be met. The computing data center may, for example, remove data from the physically isolatable units and make the removed data available elsewhere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin C. Miller, Peter C. Beckman
  • Patent number: 8528101
    Abstract: A computing data center that contains a set of physically isolatable units of computing resources for which a physical security exception action plan is to be provided. Upon determining that a security event has occurred for one or more physically isolatable units, the computing data center implements physical security settings on potentially affected computing resources so that a physical security exception action plan can be met. The computing data center may, for example, remove data from the physically isolatable units and make the removed data available elsewhere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin C. Miller, Peter C. Beckman