Amazon Patent Applications

LOG-BASED DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT

Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number: 20240152530
For a given cross-data-store transaction request at a storage service, a coordinator transmits respective voting transition requests to a plurality of log-based transaction managers (LTMs) configured for the respective data stores to which writes are directed in the transaction. The LTMs transmit responses to the coordinator based on data-store-specific conflict detection performed using contents of the voting transition requests and respective data-store-specific state transition logs.…

CONTENT EXTRACTION USING RELATED ENTITY GROUP METADATA FROM REFERENCE OBJECTS

Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number: 20240152510
Representations of sets of descriptors of reference objects are stored in a repository, with individual descriptors including information about entities identified in the reference objects. In response to a request to extract content from a particular data object, a reference object which satisfies a similarity criterion with respect to the particular data object is identified from the repository using the descriptors. A structural comparison of the particular data object and the…

INFERENCE FLOW ORCHESTRATION SERVICE

Granted: May 9, 2024
Application Number: 20240152402
Descriptors of machine learning tasks to be used to respond to analysis requests, indicating acceptable categories of runtime environments for the tasks and metrics to be collected from the tasks, are received via programmatic interfaces. In response to an analysis request, an orchestrator receives results from individual tasks as they become available, provides the results to other tasks, and causes a response to the request to be prepared using results from at least a subset of the…

REGISTERING ADDITIONAL TYPE SYSTEMS USING A HUB DATA MODEL FOR DATA PROCESSING

Granted: May 2, 2024
Application Number: 20240143576
A new type system may be added to a type registry for a data processing service. A request to add the new type system may be received that describes the new type system for a data store. The new type system may be used to perform a data processing job that accesses the data store to obtain or store data as a source or target data store.

AUTOMATIC ARCHIVING OF DATA STORE LOG DATA

Granted: May 2, 2024
Application Number: 20240143543
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for automatic archiving of data store log data are disclosed. One or more operation records in a log are selected for archival. The one or more operation records comprise data indicative of operations performed on one or more data objects of a data store. The one or more operation records are selected for archival prior to deletion from the log. The one or more operation records are replicated from the log to an archive. Based at least in…

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…

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…

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…

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…