Amazon Assigned Two Patents

Implementing scalable data storage service
Amazon Technology, Inc., Reno, NV, has been assigned a patent (8,918,435), developed by Sivasubramanian Swaminathan, Seattle, WA, Stefani Stefano, Issaquah, WA, Buragahain Chiranjeeb, Blackman Rande A., Rath Timothy Andrew, Bradford Raymond S., McAlister Grant Alexander MacDonald, Hamilton James R., Seattle, WA, Kulesza Jakub, and Cabrera Luis Felipe, Bellevue, WA for a “system and method for implementing a scalable data storage service.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “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.“

The patent application was filed on November 25, 2013 (14/088,786)

Data storage mapping and management
Amazon Technology, Inc., Reno, NV, has been assigned a patent (8,918,392), developed by Brooker Marc J., Seattle, WA, Parthasarathy Madhuvanesh, Certain Tate Andrew, and Lee Kerry Q., Seattle, WA, for a “data storage mapping and management.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A storage controller is implemented for controlling a storage system. The storage controller may be implemented using a distributed computer system and may include components for servicing client data requests based on the characteristics of the distributed computer system, the client, or the data requests. The storage controller is scalable independently of the storage system it controls. All components of the storage controller, as well as the client, may be virtual or hardware-based instances of a distributed computer system.“

The patent application was filed on March 29, 2012 (13/434,638)