Amazon Patent Applications

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM WITH ITERATIVE TWO-PHASE ACTIVE LEARNING

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240127575
Learning iterations, individual ones of which include a respective bucket group selection phase and a class boundary refinement phase, are performed using a source data set whose records are divided into buckets. In the bucket group selection phase of an iteration, a bucket is selected for annotation based on output obtained from a classification model trained in the class boundary refinement phase of an earlier iteration. In the class boundary refinement phase, records of buckets…

FLEXIBLE REMOTE DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240126714
Apparatus and methods are disclosed herein for remote, direct memory access (RDMA) technology that enables direct memory access from one host computer memory to another host computer memory over a physical or virtual computer network according to a number of different RDMA protocols. In one example, a method includes receiving remote direct memory access (RDMA) packets via a network adapter, deriving a protocol index identifying an RDMA protocol used to encode data for an RDMA…

TRACING SERVICE INTERACTIONS WITHOUT GLOBAL TRANSACTION IDENTIFIERS

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240126623
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for tracing service interactions without global transaction identifiers are disclosed. A service monitoring system receives an event message from a first service in a service-oriented system. The event message comprises one or more elements of data from a body of a service request from an upstream service. The first service initiates a sub-task associated with the service request. The service monitoring system receives one or more additional…

CONFIGURABLE VIRTUAL MACHINES

Granted: April 18, 2024
Application Number: 20240126588
Systems and methods for configuring a virtual machine provided by a remote computing system based on the availability of one or more remote computing resources and respective corresponding prices of the one or more remote computing resources are disclosed. Users are presented with an interface that allows for selection of individual remote computing resources to be included in a custom-configured virtual machine. Also, a customized corresponding price is determined for the…

LOCALLY PREDICTING STATE USING A COMPONENTIZED ENTITY SIMULATION

Granted: April 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240121162
A simulation environment (e.g., multi-player game) hosted by a provider network may implement componentized entities to reduce the amount of resource usage for a simulation (e.g., by reducing the amount of input/state data transmitted through the use of dynamically changing input structures). A user may add or remove any number of components to an entity that is simulated at the local client device. When inputs are received for one or more components, values for predictive states are…

SECURED DATABASE RESTORATION ACROSS SERVICE REGIONS

Granted: April 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240121095
A system for database restoration across service regions. The system includes data storage and backup data storage in the first region. The system includes a frontend for the database service configured to receive, from a client, a request to restore a database to the first region from backups stored in another backup data storage in a second region and to receive an authentication token for the request from the client. The system also includes a backup restore manager service for the…

Automated Management of Machine Images

Granted: April 11, 2024
Application Number: 20240118915
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for automated management of machine images are disclosed. A machine image management system determines that a trigger for a machine image build process has occurred. The machine image management system performs the machine image build process responsive to the trigger. The machine image build process generates a machine image, and the machine image comprises a plurality of operating system components associated with an application. The…

PROVIDING ACCESS TO CONFIGURABLE PRIVATE COMPUTER NETWORKS

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240113935
Techniques are described for providing users with access to computer networks, such as to enable users to interact with a remote configurable network service in order to create and configure computer networks that are provided by the configurable network service for use by the users. Computer networks provided by the configurable network service may be configured to be private computer networks that are accessible only by the users who create them, and may each be created and configured…

AUTOMATED POLICY REFINER FOR CLOUD-BASED IDENTITY AND ACCESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240114035
Techniques are described for providing a policy refiner application used to analyze and recommend modifications to identity and access management policies created by users of a cloud provider network (e.g., to move the policies toward least-privilege permissions). A policy refiner application receives as input a policy to analyze, and a log of events related to activity associated with one or more accounts of a cloud provider network. The policy refiner application can identify, from the…

DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM OPERATIONS IMPLEMENTED USING SCALABLE VIRTUAL TRAFFIC HUB

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240113998
Connectivity is enabled between a first and second isolated network using a virtual traffic hub that includes a decision master node responsible for determining a routing action for a packet received at the hub. At the hub, a determination is made that a particular domain name system (DNS) message being directed to a first resource in the first isolated network is to include an indication of a second resource in the second isolated network. The second resource is assigned a network…

MULTI-DOMAIN CONFIGURABLE DATA COMPRESSOR/DE-COMPRESSOR

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240111439
A data service implements a configurable data compressor/decompressor using a recipe generated for a particular data set type and using compression operators of a common registry (e.g., pantry) that are referenced by the recipe, wherein the recipe indicates at which nodes of a compression graph respective ones of the compression operators of the registry are to be implemented. The configurable data compressor/decompressor provides a customizable framework for compressing data sets of…

HUB-BASED TOKEN GENERATION AND ENDPOINT SELECTION FOR SECURE CHANNEL ESTABLISHMENT

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240113885
Systems and processes are described for establishing and using a secure channel. A shared secret may be used for authentication of session initiation messages as well as for generation of a private/public key pair for the session. A number of ways of agreeing on the shared secret are described and include pre-sharing the keys, reliance on a key management system, or via a token mechanism that uses a third entity such as a hub to manage authentication, for example. In some instances, the…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC PRODUCT SUMMARY IMAGES

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240112253
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for systems and methods for dynamic product summary images. The dynamic product summary images may be displayed on product pages or in association with individual product search results. The dynamic product summary images may comprise a number of different visual icons that provide a customer quick and easily-digestible information about a product. The dynamic product summary image may also be specific to the user such that…

MANAGED SOLVER EXECUTION USING DIFFERENT SOLVER TYPES

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240112067
A multitenant solver execution service provides managed infrastructure for defining and solving large-scale optimization problems. In embodiments, the service executes solver jobs on managed compute resources such as virtual machines or containers. The compute resources can be automatically scaled up or down based on client demand and are assigned to solver jobs in a serverless manner. Solver jobs can be initiated based on configured triggers. In embodiments, the service allows users to…

QUANTUM CIRCUIT SERVICE

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240112062
A system for managing deployment of quantum circuits is described. The system may include a web server configured to receive, from a consumer, a quantum computing request to perform a job using a given quantum application. The web server may generate a response based on execution of the quantum application and at least a portion of the quantum computing request and return the response to the consumer. The system may also include a deployment service configured to store quantum circuit…

SOFTWARE LICENSE-BASED CODE SUGGESTIONS

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240111843
A system for providing code suggestions according to licensing criteria is described. The system comprises computing devices that implement a code suggestion service. The code suggestion service receives a request that specifies licensing criteria via an interface of the code suggestion service. The code suggestion service determines respective licenses for respective source code files according to a source code attribution database from parsing the plurality of source code files that…

SOLVER EXECUTION SERVICE MANAGEMENT

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240111832
A multitenant solver execution service provides managed infrastructure for defining and solving large-scale optimization problems. In embodiments, the service executes solver jobs on managed compute resources such as virtual machines or containers. The compute resources can be automatically scaled up or down based on client demand and are assigned to solver jobs in a serverless manner. Solver jobs can be initiated based on configured triggers. In embodiments, the service allows users to…

MULTI-TENANT SOLVER EXECUTION SERVICE

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240111831
A multitenant solver execution service provides managed infrastructure for defining and solving large-scale optimization problems. In embodiments, the service executes solver jobs on managed compute resources such as virtual machines or containers. The compute resources can be automatically scaled up or down based on client demand and are assigned to solver jobs in a serverless manner. Solver jobs can be initiated based on configured triggers. In embodiments, the service allows users to…

RECORD-LEVEL LOCKS WITH CONSTANT SPACE COMPLEXITY

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240111751
Systems and methods for implementing record locking for transactions using a probabilistic data structure are described. This probabilistic structure enables adding of data records without growth of the data structure. The data structure includes a hash table for each of multiple hash functions, where entries in the respective hash tables store a transaction time and locking state. To lock a record, each hash function is applied to a record key to provide an index into a respective hash…

USER ASSIGNED NETWORK INTERFACE QUEUES

Granted: April 4, 2024
Application Number: 20240111562
An Application Programming Interface (API) allows a launching of a virtual machine where a queue count can be configured by a user. More specifically, each virtual machine can be assigned a pool of queues. Additionally, each virtual machine can have multiple virtual networking interfaces and a user can assign a number of queues from the pool to each virtual networking interface. Thus, a new metadata field is described that can be used with requests to launch a virtual machine. The…