Patents by Inventor William T. Shelton

William T. Shelton 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).

  • Providing system resources with secure containment units
    Patent number: 11521139
    Abstract: A system for providing resources to customers includes racks, sub-rack level secure containment units in the racks, and a provisioning control system. The sub-rack level secure containment units each enclose system resources. The racks hold two or more of the sub-rack level secure containment units. For each customer, the provisioning control system may provision a set of sub-rack level secure containment units to the customer. The provisioning control system may monitor, and create a record of, events of physical access to the system resources in each customer's set of sub-rack level secure containment units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew S. Garman, James R. Hamilton, William T. Shelton, Michael P. Czamara, Terrance Douglas Hanold, Abhinav Agrawal, John W. Eichelberg, Rajesh Viswanathan
  • Method, system, and apparatus for providing alert synthesis in a data protection system
    Patent number: 9141482
    Abstract: A method for diagnosing problems with protection of a data source and recovery of the same. The method includes diagnosing a copy of data located at the storage location and diagnosing a temporal version of the copy of data. Based on the diagnosis it is determined whether an error or a warning was detected. If either were detected a response is provided with a suggested solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Catherine Van Ingen, Brian T. Berkowitz, Karandeep Singh Anand, Manikandan Thangarathnam, Purushottam M. Kulkarni, William T. Shelton, Seetharaman Harikrishnan, Sundararajan Srinivasan, Yezdi Z. Lashkari
  • Tag-based resource configuration control
    Patent number: 9112777
    Abstract: In a system that provides network-based infrastructure services, customer resources are tagged in accordance with policies provided by the customers. Resources may be automatically tagged upon creation based on the provided policies. In addition, existing resources may be analyzed and automatically tagged to indicate characteristics of the resources that may be of interest to the customer. The customers may also specify configuration policies in terms of resource tags, and the system may be configured to apply and/or enforce the configuration policies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher B. Barclay, Nicholas Alexander Allen, William T. Shelton
  • METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ALERT SYNTHESIS IN A DATA PROTECTION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20140223227
    Abstract: A method for diagnosing problems with protection of a data source and recovery of the same. The method includes diagnosing a copy of data located at the storage location and diagnosing a temporal version of the copy of data. Based on the diagnosis it is determined whether an error or a warning was detected. If either were detected a response is provided with a suggested solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Catherine Van Ingen, Brian T. Berkowitz, Karandeep Singh Anand, Manikandan Thangarathnam, Purushottam M. Kulkarni, William T. Shelton, Seetharaman Harikrishnan, Sundararajan Srinivasan, Yezdi Z. Lashkari
  • PROVIDING SYSTEM RESOURCES WITH SECURE CONTAINMENT UNITS
    Publication number: 20140088979
    Abstract: A system for providing resources to customers includes racks, sub-rack level secure containment units in the racks, and a provisioning control system. The sub-rack level secure containment units each enclose system resources. The racks hold two or more of the sub-rack level secure containment units. For each customer, the provisioning control system may provision a set of sub-rack level secure containment units to the customer. The provisioning control system may monitor, and create a record of, events of physical access to the system resources in each customer's set of sub-rack level secure containment units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Inventors: Matthew S. Garman, James R. Hamilton, William T. Shelton, Michael P. Czamara, Terrance Douglas Hanold, Abhinav Agrawal, John W. Eichelberg, Rajesh Viswanathan
  • Method, system, and apparatus for providing alert synthesis in a data protection system
    Patent number: 8549355
    Abstract: A method for diagnosing problems with protection of a data source and recovery of the same. The method includes diagnosing a copy of data located at the storage location and diagnosing a temporal version of the copy of data. Based on the diagnosis it is determined whether an error or a warning was detected. If either were detected a response is provided with a suggested solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Catherine van Ingen, Brian T. Berkowitz, Karandeep Singh Anand, Manikandan Thangarathnam, Purushottam M. Kulkarni, William T. Shelton, Seetharaman Harikrishnan, Sundararajan Srinivasan, Yezdi Z. Lashkari
  • METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ALERT SYNTHESIS IN A DATA PROTECTION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20090113241
    Abstract: A method for diagnosing problems with protection of a data source and recovery of the same. The method includes diagnosing a copy of data located at the storage location and diagnosing a temporal version of the copy of data. Based on the diagnosis it is determined whether an error or a warning was detected. If either were detected a response is provided with a suggested solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Catharine van Ingen, Brian T. Berkowitz, Karandeep Singh Anand, Manikandan Thangarathnam, Purushottam M. Kulkarni, William T. Shelton, JR., Seetharaman Harikrishnan, Sundararajan Srinivasan, Yezdi Z. Lashkari
  • Method, system, and apparatus for providing alert synthesis in a data protection system
    Patent number: 7502961
    Abstract: A method for diagnosing problems with protection of a data source and recovery of the same. The method includes diagnosing a copy of data located at the storage location and diagnosing a temporal version of the copy of data. Based on the diagnosis it is determined whether an error or a warning was detected. If either were detected a response is provided with a suggested solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Catharine van Ingen, Brian T Berkowitz, Karandeep Singh Anand, Manikandan Thangarathnam, Purushottam M Kulkarni, William T Shelton, Jr., Seetharaman Harikrishnan, Sundararajan Srinivasan, Yezdi Z Lashkari