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  • Private alias endpoints for isolated virtual networks
    Patent number: 11792041
    Abstract: In accordance with a designation of a private alias endpoint as a routing target for traffic directed to a service from within an isolated virtual network of a provider network, a tunneling intermediary receives a baseline packet generated at a compute instance. The baseline packet indicates a public IP (Internet Protocol) address of the service as the destination, and a private IP address of the compute instance as the source. In accordance with a tunneling protocol, the tunneling intermediary generates an encapsulation packet comprising at least a portion of the baseline packet and a header indicating the isolated virtual network. The encapsulation packet is transmitted to a node of the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Christopher Miller, Richard Alexander Sheehan, Douglas Stewart Laurence, Marwan Salah El-Din Oweis, Andrew Bruce Dickinson
  • Locality based content distribution
    Patent number: 8060561
    Abstract: A system and method for content distribution are provided. A content provider generates a network topology having one or more subnetworks made up of content sources. The content provider segments content, such as applications, into segments for distribution. The content provider then distributes the content such that for each identified subnetwork, each content segment is distributed to a content source. Subsequent, client computing device requests for content can be serviced by selecting a content source in a particular subnetwork selected for delivering the requested content to the client computing device to minimize traffic flow of the requested content through the nodes of the distribution network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, David R. Richardson, Bradley E. Marshall
  • Latency measurement in resource requests
    Patent number: 8930513
    Abstract: Systems and method for the management and processing of resource requests by a service provider, such as a content delivery network (“CDN”) service provider, on behalf of a content provider are provided. The CDN service provider can measure the performance associated with the delivery of resources to requesting client computing devices from various computing devices associated with the CDN service provider. In one embodiment, the CDN service provider can utilize commands responsive to an initial request for a resource that causes the requesting client computing device to transmit one or more supplemental resource requests. Information associated with the processing of the sequence of resource requests can be used to measure CDN service provider latencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Richardson, John Cormie, Colm MacCarthaigh, Benjamin W. S. Redman
  • Detection of child frames in web pages
    Patent number: 8548917
    Abstract: Methods and systems for framing detection are disclosed. A web page comprising a child frame is generated. The child frame comprises an instruction to load a component from a merchant. The child frame comprises a header option restricting a loading of the component from within a parent frame associated with a domain external to the merchant. The web page is sent from the merchant to a client browser. It is determined that the web page is loaded within the parent frame in the client browser if a request for the component is not received by the merchant. It is determined that the web page is not loaded within the parent frame in the client browser if a request for the component is received by the merchant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ram Sripracha, Dominique I. Brezinski
  • Systems and methods for using a uniform resource locator to call for different types of content
    Patent number: 9032045
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems and methods for using a uniform resource locator to retrieve content for both a first application and a second application. The user may elect to use the first or second application to view content associated with the uniform resource locator. In one instance, an unmodified uniform resource locator may be parsed for identifiers that may be used to retrieve content for the second application instead of the content for the first application. In another instance, a modified uniform resource locator may be appended with a second application scheme and a path for the content of the second application address. In both instances, the unmodified and the modified uniform resource locators may be used to retrieve content for the first application or the second application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan A. Leblang
  • Event listener interface for container-based execution of serverless functions
    Patent number: 11513833
    Abstract: A lexical analyzer is provided to analyze serverless application code to help ensure that the serverless application is portable between different execution environments. The lexical analyzer may identify non-portable features of the application, and alerts of these features may be provided to users. A transfer tool may be provided to assist in transferring a serverless application between computing platforms, such as by converting the portable serverless application to a container format. An interface may be provided that subscribes, on behalf of a container, to receive notifications of triggering events from a computing platform's notification service. The interface may provide a message to the container to indicate an occurrence of a triggering event, which may trigger execution of a serverless function by the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jeremiah M. Dunham, Fernando Francisco Dingler Avilez
  • Style consolidation and optimization with strong ownership
    Patent number: 9519629
    Abstract: Techniques are described for optimizing and consolidating style files for formatted pages of data such as web pages. Styles may be consolidated through the identification of common rules shared by multiple styles, and the common rules may be incorporated into a common style that has the style mappings and/or namespace of the source styles. Consolidation may enable minimal style information to be sent in response to a page request, the style information corresponding to a requesting browser type and/or version. Embodiments may also provide for global constants in style rules, with global constant resolution performed dynamically at runtime. Embodiments may also support file splitting for optimal browser performance, with the style file splitting performed dynamically at runtime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian J. Tajuddin
  • Techniques for device discovery and configuration
    Patent number: 10798545
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for configuring a device. In some embodiments, a device identifier associated with a target device is received from a service provider computer. A connection request comprising the device identifier is received. In response to receiving the connection request, the target device is configured to connect to a network access point. A request for configuration information associated with the target device may be requested. In some examples, the configuration information comprises authentication information associated with a user account. In response to receiving the configuration information, the configuration information may be transmitted to the target device. The transmission of the configuration information may cause the target device to be configured to exchange data with the service provider computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Darren Ernest Canavor, Srikanth Mantha
  • Request routing using network computing components
    Patent number: 7925782
    Abstract: A system, method and computer-readable medium for request routing. A DNS server at a content delivery network service provider obtains a DNS query corresponding to a resource requested from a client computing device and associated with a first resource identifier. The first resource identifier includes a first portion with DNS information and a second portion with path information. The DNS server selects a network computing component for processing the requested resource based on the DNS portion of the resource identifier and transmits information identifying the selected network computing component to the client computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, David R. Richardson, Christopher L. Scofield, Bradley E. Marshall
  • Preemptive filtering of events of an event bus with a deterministic filter
    Patent number: 11663058
    Abstract: A probabilistic data structure such as a bloom filter may be used to provide a space efficient representation of rules that define events of interest to sources and may be used to reduce the number of events ingested by an event bus system. An event bus system may generate a probabilistic data structure based on the rules that may be used at the event source as a filter. The probabilistic data structure predetermines whether the events to be sent to the event bus system will be of interest to any event targets and if an event is of no interest to any of the event targets, the event will not be sent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jakub Wojciak, James Lance Eather, Rogerio Sathio Yamaguti, Shawn Patrick Jones, Arijit Choudhury, Rishi Baldawa
  • Stubbing techniques in distributed-services environments
    Patent number: 9026589
    Abstract: A stubbing service records requests and corresponding replies for purpose of playing back the recorded replies in response to re-receiving the corresponding requests. In a record mode, the stubbing service may receive a request from a first service intended for a second service. The stubbing service may send the request onto the second service and may, in response, receive a reply to the request from the second service. The stubbing service may then pass the reply onto the first service. When in a playback mode, the stubbing service may directly serve the stored reply to the first service in response to receiving the same request intended for the second service from the first service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nirav P. Desai, Stanislava R. Vlasseva, Gurbinder S. Gill, Kyle Andrew Farrell, Michael C. Moore
  • Request management for hierarchical cache
    Patent number: 10666756
    Abstract: A computer implemented cache management system and method is provided for use with a service provider configured to communicate with one or more client devices and with a content provider. The system includes a cache hierarchy comprising multiple cache levels that maintain at least some resources for the content provider, and one or more request managers for processing client requests for resources and retrieving the resources from the cache hierarchy. In response to a resource request, the request manager selects a cache level from the cache hierarchy based on a popularity associated with the requested resource, and attempts to retrieve the resource from the selected cache level while bypassing cache level(s) inferior to the selected level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Graham Baldwin, Ryan F. Watson
  • Events service for online advertising
    Patent number: 10157404
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer-readable media related to online advertisement campaign recommendations. A server may obtain data from an events datastore indicative of missing time slices from a partition of events data. The server may obtain first events data for the missing time slices. The server may identify redundant events data in the first events data that is redundant to second events data stored in the events datastore. The server may delete the redundant events data from the first events data to generate a modified first events data. The server may transmit the modified first events data to the events datastore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Bradley, Sebastiano Merlino, David Neil Turner, Alistair Francis Smith
  • Browser-based selection of content request modes
    Patent number: 10242322
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for generating request decision models for use by client computing devices to determine request paths or modes for content requests. The request modes may correspond to direct requests (e.g., requests made from a client device directly to a content server hosting requested content) or to indirect requests (e.g., requests made from the client device to the content server via an intermediary system). The request decision models may be trained by a machine learning algorithm using performance data (e.g., prior content load times), contextual information (e.g., state information associated with devices at times content requests are executed), and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Saral Jain, Ameet Nirmal Vaswani, Matthew Lloyd Trahan
  • Distribution network with forward resource propagation
    Patent number: 8433771
    Abstract: A resource distribution network and method for distributing content in the network. The network comprises a plurality of servers arranged in tiers and partitioned. Each server includes a resource store with a set of resources for distribution a next successive tier. Updates to each successive tier are provided by a pull-forward client on servers in the tier. This forward propagation mechanism maximizes resource availability at edge servers in the network. Resources transmitted to the edge tier servers may be transformed, combined and rendered without taxing lower tier servers. Transformation and pre-rendering of data can be performed by low priority CPU tasks at each layer of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph L. Ellsworth, Brandon W. Porter, Chris A. Suver, Christopher R. Newcombe
  • Generating network pages using customer-supplied generation code
    Patent number: 8775559
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for generating network pages using customer-supplied page generation code. A network page request is obtained from a client. The network page is associated with a network site hosted by a hosting provider on behalf of a customer. Customer data is aggregated from multiple data sources. Customer-supplied page generation code is executed to generate the network page. The page generation code may access the customer data through predefined variables, but the page generation code is restricted from accessing the data sources directly. The network page is sent to the client in response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew S. Huntwork, Jeremy Boynes, Pravi Garg, Prashant J. Thakare, Shashank Shekhar
  • Monitoring performance and operation of data exchanges
    Patent number: 8489737
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring the performance associated with fulfilling resource requests are provided. One or more client computing devices obtain an original resource request and associate a record identifier with the original resource request. The one or more client computing devices also determine performance data associated with processing each embedded resource request included in a response to the original resource request. Each embedded resource request is associated with a component record identifier that is associated with, but different from, the record identifier of the original resource request. The one or more client computing devices can then transmit the determined performance data with the record identifier to another processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark S. Baumback, David William Bettis, Jonathan A. Jenkins
  • Replicating changes from a database to a destination and modifying replication capacity
    Patent number: 11803568
    Abstract: A client of a distributed database service may conveniently enable replication of data from a source table to a destination (e.g., a different service/database table) by submitting a request enable replication for the source table. In response to the request to enable replication, the database service enables replication for the source table. To replicate a change, the database service may modify a format of the change based on a data storage format of the destination that is different than a data storage format of the database service. The database service monitors the performance of the replication and based on the performance, the database service may automatically modify the capacity to perform the replication of changes to the destination (e.g., by assigning additional resources to replication).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Vaibhav Jain, Rishabh Jain, Amit Gupta
  • Auto-provisioning device
    Patent number: 10306473
    Abstract: A provisioning device may be shipped to a client and used to automatically provision an IoT device to join a local network to communicate with a remote service provider. In response to a trigger input, the provisioning device creates a wireless hotspot that is recognizable by an IoT device as a provisioning hotspot. The provisioning device receives a signal from the IoT device indicating that the IoT device is available to be provisioned. The provisioning device obtains provisioning data and transmits the provisioning data to the IoT device. The IoT device uses the provisioning data to connect to a local wireless network and to establish a connection to the remote service provider. The IoT device may then use one or more IoT services of the service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle Michael Roche, James Christopher Sorenson, III
  • SERVICE PROVIDER REGISTRATION BY A CONTENT BROKER
    Publication number: 20130332569
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium for managing registration, by a content broker, of one or more resources with one or more service providers are provided. A content broker obtains registration information for registering the one or more resources with a service provider. The registration information may include a request to publish one or more resources to a service provider, an identification of the one or more resources, service provider selection criteria provided by the content provider or otherwise selected, and the like. The content broker transmits a service provider generation request corresponding to the registration information to the service provider. Then, the content broker manages and processes data pursuant to registration of the one or more resources with the service provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Richardson, Bradley Eugene Marshall, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Tal Sarfa