Patents by Inventor Stefano Stefani

Stefano Stefani 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: 11023440
    Abstract: A computing resource service provider deploys resources to process input data sets on an ongoing basis and provide requestors with queryable data structures generated from the input data sets over determined, rolling periods of time. In one embodiment, the input data sets are processed using one or more nearest neighbor search algorithms, and the outputs therefrom are represented in data structures which are rotated as newer data structures are subsequently generated. The disclosed systems and techniques improve resource utilization, processing efficiency, query latency, and result consistency relative to known controls for large and/or complex data processing tasks, such as those employed in machine learning techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Pracheer Gupta, Madan Mohan Rao Jampani, Andrea Olgiati, Poorna Chand Srinivas Perumalla, Stefano Stefani
  • Patent number: 11003684
    Abstract: A replica database may receive a replication instruction from a master. The replica may maintain a version of a collection of data in database pages stored on a storage device. A replication thread may process the instruction. The replication thread may determine that an item affected by the instruction is located in a page that is both loaded into a memory buffer and subject to contention. The page may be modified with information indicating that the instruction has not been processed. A subsequent reader thread may, while processing a request to access the page, apply the instruction and complete processing of the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shriram Sridharan, Kamal Kant Gupta, Alexandre Olegovich Verbitski, Stefano Stefani
  • Publication number: 20210132986
    Abstract: A determination is made as to whether a value of a first parameter of a first application is to be obtained using a natural language interaction. Based on received input, a first service of a plurality of services is identified. The first service is to be used to perform a first task associated with the first parameter. Portions of the first application to determine the value of the first parameter and to invoke the first service are generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Vikram Sathyanarayana Anbazhagan, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Stefano Stefani, Vladimir Zhukov
  • Patent number: 10997160
    Abstract: Updates performed as part of transaction requests to a data store may be included in a stream of updates. Updates to items in the data store that are included in transactions determined not to be committed to the data store may be excluded from the stream of updates. Records in the stream of updates may include an identifier for the transaction that included the update described by the record. The identifier for the transaction may be used to identify updates to other items in the data store that are included in the same transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Akshat Vig, Somasundaram Perianayagam, Vaibhav Jain, Alexander Richard Keyes, Stefano Stefani, Douglas Brian Terry, James Christopher Sorenson, III, Amit Gupta, Rishabh Jain
  • Publication number: 20210103604
    Abstract: A system that implements a scalable data storage service may maintain tables in a non-relational data store on behalf of clients. The system may provide a Web services interface through which service requests are received, and an API usable to request that a table be created, deleted, or described; that an item be stored, retrieved, deleted, or its attributes modified; or that a table be queried (or scanned) with filtered items and/or their attributes returned. An asynchronous workflow may be invoked to create or delete a table. Items stored in tables may be partitioned and indexed using a simple or composite primary key. The system may not impose pre-defined limits on table size, and may employ a flexible schema. The service may provide a best-effort or committed throughput model. The system may automatically scale and/or re-partition tables in response to detecting workload changes, node failures, or other conditions or anomalies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Stefano Stefani, Chiranjeeb Buragohain, Rande A. Blackman, Timothy Andrew Rath, Raymond S. Bradford, Grant Alexander MacDonald McAlister, Jakub Kulesza, James R. Hamilton, Luis Felipe Cabrera
  • Publication number: 20210097433
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for automated problem detection for machine learning models are disclosed. A machine learning analysis system receives data associated with use of a machine learning model. The data was collected by a machine learning inference system and comprises input to the model or a plurality of inferences representing output of the machine learning model. The machine learning analysis system performs analysis of the data associated with the use of the machine learning model. The machine learning analysis system detects one or more problems associated with the use of the machine learning model based at least in part on the analysis. The machine learning analysis system initiates one or more remedial actions associated with the one or more problems associated with the use of the machine learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrea Olgiati, Maximiliano Maccanti, Arun Babu Nagarajan, Lakshmi Naarayanan Ramakrishnan, Urvashi Chowdhary, Gowda Dayananda Anjaneyapura Range, Zohar Karnin, Laurence Louis Eric Rouesnel, Stefano Stefani, Vladimir Zhukov
  • Publication number: 20210097444
    Abstract: Techniques for automated machine learning (ML) pipeline exploration and deployment are described. An automated ML pipeline generation system allows users to easily construct optimized ML pipelines by providing a dataset, identifying a target column in the dataset, and providing an exploration budget. Multiple candidate ML pipelines can be identified and evaluated through an exploration process, and a best ML pipeline can be provided to the requesting user or deployed for production inference. Users can configure, monitor, and adapt the exploration at multiple points in time throughout.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Tanya BANSAL, Piali DAS, Leo Parker DIRAC, Fan LI, Zohar KARNIN, Philip GAUTIER, Patricia GRAO GIL, Laurence Louis Eric ROUESNEL, Ravikumar Anantakrishnan VENKATESWAR, Orchid MAJUMDER, Stefano Stefani, Vladimir Zhukov
  • Publication number: 20210097431
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for debugging and profiling of machine learning model training are disclosed. A machine learning analysis system receives data associated with training of a machine learning model. The data was collected by a machine learning training cluster. The machine learning analysis system performs analysis of the data associated with the training of the machine learning model. The machine learning analysis system detects one or more conditions associated with the training of the machine learning model based at least in part on the analysis. The machine learning analysis system generates one or more alarms describing the one or more conditions associated with the training of the machine learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrea Olgiati, Lakshmi Naarayanan Ramakrishnan, Jeffrey John Geevarghese, Denis Davydenko, Vikas Kumar, Rahul Raghavendra Huilgol, Amol Ashok Lele, Stefano Stefani, Vladimir Zhukov
  • Patent number: 10956250
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to implement a database system configured to return the state of a data item upon failure of a condition check on the data item during a conditional write. In embodiments, a write request may specify an indicator to return the item state upon condition failure. The request may specify multiple database operations to execute as a transaction, where failure of a single condition check will cause the entire transaction to fail and an item state causing the failure to be returned. The returned state of the data item may include a selection of the item's attributes specified by the request. Advantageously, these features allow a client to easily obtain the precise cause of a write's failure. Moreover, because the item state is returned only when a conditional write fails and only when requested, the response size of most write requests remains unchanged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Akshat Vig, Rashmi Krishnaiah Setty, Joon Ahn, Somasundaram Perianayagam, Fahad Ahmed, Kapil Singh, Stefano Stefani, Vaibhav Jain
  • Patent number: 10938641
    Abstract: Techniques for providing an on-demand development environment are described. A service of a provider network receives a request to launch a development environment, such as a notebook, from an electronic device. The service obtains an identification of a computing cluster hosted by the provider network. The service obtains an identification of a compute instance hosted within the provider network, the compute instance executing a software environment to host one or more development environments. The service causes the compute instance to launch a development environment. The service sends a message to configure the launched development environment to execute a computer program written in the development environment using the computing cluster. The service generates a token to secure communications between the electronic device and the development environment and sends the token to an originator of the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Andrew Fritz, Balaji Kannan, Nivetha Purusothaman, Parag Pramod Chaudhari, Jalpan Randeri, Yishan Yang, Udit Mehrotra, Sneha Bharadwaj, Rui Liu, Ajay Baliram Jadhav, Anoop Kochummen Johnson, Konstantin Milyutin, Vignesh Rajamani, Sachin Suresh Bhat, Anthony Virtuoso, Stefano Stefani, Rahul Pathak, Anurag Gupta, Ashok Kumar
  • Patent number: 10915524
    Abstract: A computing resource service provider deploys resources to process input data sets on an ongoing basis and provide requestors with queryable data structures generated from the input data sets over determined, rolling periods of time. In one embodiment, the input data sets are processed using one or more nearest neighbor search algorithms, and the outputs therefrom are represented in data structures which are rotated as newer data structures are subsequently generated. The disclosed systems and techniques improve resource utilization, processing efficiency, query latency, and result consistency relative to known controls for large and/or complex data processing tasks, such as those employed in machine learning techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Pracheer Gupta, Poorna Chand Srinivas Perumalla, Andrea Olgiati, Madan Mohan Rao Jampani, Stefano Stefani
  • Patent number: 10909091
    Abstract: A data store may implement on-demand data schema modifications. Request to change a schema for a data set in a data store may be received and a description of the change recorded as part of a schema history for the data set. The request to change the schema may then be acknowledged. When access requests directed to the data set are received at the data store, the schema history for the data set may be evaluated. If the schema history indicates that data that is to be accessed in order to service the data store needs to include one or more changes in the schema history, then a version of the schema that includes the one or more changes may be applied to the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Aakash Shah, Kamal Kant Gupta, Alexandre Olegovich Verbitski, Sailesh Krishnamurthy, Hyungsoo Jung, Anurag Windlass Gupta, Zhaohui Zhang, Tengiz Kharatishvili, Stefano Stefani
  • Patent number: 10891152
    Abstract: A determination is made as to whether a value of a first parameter of a first application is to be obtained using a natural language interaction. Based on received input, a first service of a plurality of services is identified. The first service is to be used to perform a first task associated with the first parameter. Portions of the first application to determine the value of the first parameter and to invoke the first service are generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Vikram Sathyanarayana Anbazhagan, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Stefano Stefani, Vladimir Zhukov
  • Patent number: 10877669
    Abstract: A system that implements a scaleable data storage service may maintain tables in a data store on behalf of storage service clients. The service may maintain data in partitions stored on respective computing nodes in the system. The service may support multiple throughput models, including a committed throughput model and a best effort throughput model. A service request to create a table may specify that requests directed to the table should be serviced under a committed throughput model and may specify the committed throughput level in terms of logical service request units. The service may reserve low-latency storage and other resources sufficient to meet the specified committed throughput level. A client/user may request a modification to the committed throughput level in anticipation of workload changes, such as an increase or decrease in traffic or data volume. In response, the system may increase or decrease the resources reserved for the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Stefano Stefani, Wei Xiao, Timothy Andrew Rath, Rande A. Blackman, Grant A. M. McAlister, Raymond S. Bradford
  • Patent number: 10853129
    Abstract: Implementations detailed herein include description of a computer-implemented method to migrate a machine learning model from one accelerator portion (such as a portion of a graphical processor unit (GPU)) to a different accelerator portion. In some instances, a state of the first accelerator portion is persisted, the second accelerator portion is configured, the first accelerator portion is then detached from a client application instance, and at least a portion of an inference request is performed using the loaded at least a portion of the machine learning model on the second accelerator portion that had been configured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sudipta Sengupta, Haifeng He, Pejus Manoj Das, Poorna Chand Srinivas Perumalla, Wei Xiao, Shirley Xue Yi Leung, Vladimir Mitrovic, Yongcong Luo, Jiacheng Guo, Stefano Stefani, Matthew Shawn Wilson
  • Publication number: 20200341657
    Abstract: A system that implements a scalable data storage service may maintain tables in a data store on behalf of storage service clients. The service may maintain table data in multiple replicas of partitions that are stored on respective computing nodes in the system. In response to detecting an anomaly in the system, detecting a change in data volume on a partition or service request traffic directed to a partition, or receiving a service request from a client to split a partition, the data storage service may create additional copies of a partition replica using a physical copy mechanism. The data storage service may issue a split command defined in an API for the data store to divide the original and additional replicas into multiple replica groups, and to configure each replica group to maintain a respective portion of the table data that was stored in the partition before the split.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Stefano Stefani, Timothy Andrew Rath, Chiranjeeb Buragahain, Yan Valerie Leshinsky, David Alan Lutz, Jakub Kulesza, Wei Xiao, Jai Vasanth
  • Publication number: 20200311617
    Abstract: Techniques for using scoring algorithms utilizing containers for flexible machine learning inference are described. In some embodiments, a request to host a machine learning (ML) model within a service provider network on behalf of a user is received, the request identifying an endpoint to perform scoring using the ML model. An endpoint is initialized as a container running on a virtual machine based on a container image and used to score data and return a result of said scoring to a user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Charles Drummond SWAN, Edo LIBERTY, Steven Andrew LOEPPKY, Stefano STEFANI, Alexander Johannes SMOLA, Swaminathan SIVASUBRAMANIAN, Craig WILEY, Richard Shawn BICE, Thomas Albert FAULHABER, JR., Taylor GOODHART
  • Patent number: 10777186
    Abstract: Techniques for streaming real-time automated speech recognition (ASR) are described. A user can stream audio data to a frontend service of the ASR service. The frontend service can establish a bi-directional connection to an audio decoder host to perform ASR on the data stream. The audio decoder host may include a streaming ASR engine which can analyze chunks of the audio data stream using an acoustic model to divide the audio data into words, and a language model to identify sentences made of the words spoken in the audio file. The acoustic model can be trained using short audio sentence data (e.g., on the order of 30 seconds to a few minutes), enabling the transcription service to accurately transcribe short chunks of audio data. The results are then punctuated and normalized. The resulting transcript is then streamed back to the user over the bi-directional connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technolgies, Inc.
    Inventors: Stefano Stefani, Pramod Gurunath, Ashish Singh, Katrin Kirchoff, Deepikaa Suresh, Varun Sembium Varadarajan, Vasanth Philomin, Vikram Sathyanarayana Anbazhagan, Pu Paul Zhao, Vijit Gupta, Ruoyu Huang
  • Patent number: 10776395
    Abstract: A system that implements a scalable data storage service may maintain tables in a non-relational data store on behalf of clients. The system may provide a Web services interface through which service requests are received, and an API usable to request that a table be created, deleted, or described; that an item be stored, retrieved, deleted, or its attributes modified; or that a table be queried (or scanned) with filtered items and/or their attributes returned. An asynchronous workflow may be invoked to create or delete a table. Items stored in tables may be partitioned and indexed using a simple or composite primary key. The system may not impose pre-defined limits on table size, and may employ a flexible schema. The service may provide a best-effort or committed throughput model. The system may automatically scale and/or re-partition tables in response to detecting workload changes, node failures, or other conditions or anomalies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Stefano Stefani, Chiranjeeb Buragohain, Rande A. Blackman, Timothy Andrew Rath, Raymond S. Bradford, Grant Alexander MacDonald McAlister, Jakub Kulesza, James R. Hamilton, Luis Felipe Cabrera
  • Patent number: 10764185
    Abstract: A pricing policy to be applied to token population changes at a token bucket used for admission control during burst-mode operations at a work target is determined. Over a time period, changes to the token population of that bucket are recorded. An amount to be charged to a client is determined, based on the recorded changes in token population and an associated pricing amount indicated in the policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Stuart Henry Seelye Marshall, Wei Xiao, Bjorn Patrick Swift, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Miguel Mascarenhas Filipe, Yijun Lu, Stefano Stefani, James R. Hamilton