Patents by Inventor W. Cary Hall

W. Cary Hall 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: 9239838
    Abstract: A method and system is provided for maintaining customer data in a data store system utilizing a scalable partitioning framework. More specifically, the data store of a customer service system is partitioned (divided) into multiple partitions by a partitionable key of customer data so that each partition owns a subset of the customer data. By maintaining several partitions that store a subset of the customer data exclusive to each other, blackout or brownout problems can be local to one partition and, thus, the availability for the entire system will be increased. Moreover, a set of partitionable keys, a minimal unit to be moved between partitions, is grouped and associated with a partition. By eliminating direct dependencies between the partitions and the partitionable keys, the system can have great flexibility with regard to migrating customer data between partitions and adding a new partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas K. Peddy, Chelsea C. Krueger, Michael J. McCann, Suguna Subramaniam, W. Cary Hall, Sasan Dashtinezhad, Guy Bialostocki
  • Patent number: 8898105
    Abstract: A method and system is provided for maintaining customer data in a data store system utilizing a scalable partitioning framework. More specifically, the data store of a customer service system is partitioned (divided) into multiple partitions by a partitionable key of customer data so that each partition owns a subset of the customer data. By maintaining several partitions that store a subset of the customer data exclusive to each other, blackout or brownout problems can be local to one partition and, thus, the availability for the entire system will be increased. Moreover, a set of partitionable keys, a minimal unit to be moved between partitions, is grouped and associated with a partition. By eliminating direct dependencies between the partitions and the partitionable keys, the system can have great flexibility with regard to migrating customer data between partitions and adding a new partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas K. Peddy, Chelsea Krueger, Michael J. McCann, Suguna Subramaniam, W. Cary Hall, Sasan Dashtinezhad, Guy Bialostocki
  • Patent number: 8271468
    Abstract: A method and system is provided for maintaining customer data in a data store system utilizing a scalable partitioning framework. More specifically, the data store of a customer service system is partitioned (divided) into multiple partitions by a partitionable key of customer data so that each partition owns a subset of the customer data. By maintaining several partitions that store a subset of the customer data exclusive to each other, blackout or brownout problems can be local to one partition and, thus, the availability for the entire system will be increased. Moreover, a set of partitionable keys, a minimal unit to be moved between partitions, is grouped and associated with a partition. By eliminating direct dependencies between the partitions and the partitionable keys, the system can have great flexibility with regard to migrating customer data between partitions and adding a new partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas K. Peddy, Chelsea C. Krueger, Michael J. McCann, Suguna Subramaniam, W. Cary Hall
  • Patent number: 8150870
    Abstract: A method and system is provided for maintaining customer data in a data store system utilizing a scalable partitioning framework. More specifically, the data store of a customer service system is partitioned (divided) into multiple partitions by a partitionable key of customer data so that each partition owns a subset of the customer data. By maintaining several partitions that store a subset of the customer data exclusive to each other, blackout or brownout problems can be local to one partition and, thus, the availability for the entire system will be increased. Moreover, a set of partitionable keys, a minimal unit to be moved between partitions, is grouped and associated with a partition. By eliminating direct dependencies between the partitions and the partitionable keys, the system can have great flexibility with regard to migrating customer data between partitions and adding a new partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas K. Peddy, Chelsea C. Krueger, Michael J. McCann, Suguna Subramaniam, W. Cary Hall, Sasan Dashtinezhad, Guy Bialostocki
  • Patent number: 7774329
    Abstract: A method and system is provided for maintaining customer data in a data store system utilizing a scalable partitioning framework. More specifically, the data store of a customer service system is partitioned (divided) into multiple partitions by a partitionable key of customer data so that each partition owns a subset of the customer data. By maintaining several partitions that store a subset of the customer data exclusive to each other, blackout or brownout problems can be local to one partition and, thus, the availability for the entire system will be increased. Moreover, a set of partitionable keys, a minimal unit to be moved between partitions, is grouped and associated with a partition. By eliminating direct dependencies between the partitions and the partitionable keys, the system can have great flexibility with regard to migrating customer data between partitions and adding a new partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas K. Peddy, Chelsea C. Krueger, Michael J. McCann, Suguna Subramaniam, W. Cary Hall