Synchronization of digital content
Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number:
11966879
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to the sharing of synchronization information corresponding to content among devices in a communication network. An originating device collects synchronization information related to the presentation of content to a user via the originating device. The synchronization information is defined according to reference points related to the presentation of the content to the user via the originating device, including a current state of the presentation…
Bandwidth estimation for video streams
Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number:
11968412
Methods and systems for improved quality of a streaming session using multiple simultaneous streams. For the multiple simultaneous streams an audio/video device (A/V device) records and generates a high-resolution stream and a low-resolution stream for simultaneous transmission to a server. The server selects one of the two streams for retransmission to a destination client device. The server also monitors the streaming session and estimates a total available bandwidth between the server…
Incremental authenticated data encodings
Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number:
11968292
Data is encoded to be incrementally authenticable. A plaintext is used to generate a ciphertext that comprises a plurality of authentication tags. Proper subsets of the authentication tags are usable to authenticate respective portions of plaintexts obtained from the ciphertext. Portions of the plaintext can be obtained and authenticated without decrypting the complete ciphertext.
Controlling ingestion of streaming data to serverless function executions
Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number:
11968280
Systems and methods are described controlling ingestion of data items within a data stream by executions of a serverless function on a serverless compute system. A poller device can act as an intermediary between the data stream and the serverless function, iteratively retrieving data items from the data stream and passing them in invocations of the serverless function. To allow for fine-grained control of ingestion without requiring implementation of complex logic at the poller device,…
Data streaming service with virtualized broker clusters
Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number:
11968279
Various embodiments of systems and methods for providing virtualized (e.g., serverless) broker clusters for a data streaming service are disclosed. A data streaming service uses a front-end proxy layer and a back-end broker layer to provide virtualized broker clusters, for example in a Kafka-based streaming service. Resources included in a virtualized broker cluster are monitored and automatically scaled-up, scaled-down, or re-balanced in a way that is transparent to data producing…
Targeted traffic filtering
Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number:
11968226
Remote Triggered Black Holes (RTBHs) can be precisely placed on networks that are not directly physically connected to a target of an attack. A network source of a potential attack can be determined. A path between the network source and the target can be identified, and a determination can be made as to which networks along that path subscribe to an attack mitigation service. From multiple identified subscriber networks, a subscriber network can be identified that is determined to be…
Optical transceiver
Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number:
11967994
An optical transceiver includes a built-in optical switch to switch between diverse fiber paths in switches in a datacenter or in switches between two datacenters. The built-in optical switch can be used to switch between racks in a datacenter to increase capacity for any rack that requests it. A controller, which receives a signal from a server computer in one of the racks, can be external to the optical transceiver or within the optical transceiver. In either case, the server computer…
Clock synchronization in a network using a distributed pulse signal
Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number:
11967964
A clock disciplining scheme uses a pulse per second (PPS) signal that is distributed throughout a network to coordinate timing. In determining the time, jitter can occur due to latency between detection of the PPS signal and a software interrupt generated there from. This jitter affects the accuracy of the clock disciplining process. To eliminate the jitter, extra hardware is used to capture when the PPS signal occurred relative to a hardware clock counter associated with the clock…
Tiered electronic protection systems for aerial vehicles
Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number:
11967818
Described are systems and methods for monitoring, detecting, and/or protecting various systems of an aerial vehicle, such as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Embodiments of the present disclosure can provide a multi-tiered system to provide monitoring, detection, and/or initiation of protection protocols in response to detected faults in connection with the electronics associated with UAV systems, such as the motor drive and/or control systems that may drive the propulsion systems of…
Policies and controls for building and validating database software in a shared management environment
Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number:
11966880
Techniques for building, validating, and utilizing custom database software in a shared management environment are described. A database customization service allows users to provide database installation files as part of a configuration to generate a custom database engine version. The creation of custom database engine versions may be governed by policy, and the database customization service may provide recommendations for creating custom database engine versions according to various…
Security camera
Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number:
D1024158
Teleporting magic states from a color code to a surface code and decoding a merged surface-color code
Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number:
11966817
A technique for merging, via lattice surgery, a color code and a surface code, and subsequentially decoding one or more rounds of stabilizer measurements of the merged code is disclosed. Such a technique can be applied to bottom-up fault-tolerant magic state preparation protocol such that an encoded magic state can be teleported from a color code to a surface code. Decoding the stabilizer measurements of the merged code requires a decoding algorithm specific to the merged code in which…
Multi-domain configurable data compressor/de-compressor
Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number:
11966597
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…
Change data capture log augmentation for streamlined ETL processing
Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number:
11966411
Techniques for change data capture (CDC) log augmentation are described. In some examples, a user configures CDC log augmentation by indicating which data should be included in a CDC log, and the database, when generating a CDC log associated with this configuration, can obtain the associated data and augment the CDC log by inserting this data into it. The augmented data can include one or more fields from a record in a separate database table, where the record can be identified based on…
Inferring brand similarities using graph neural networks and selection prediction
Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number:
11966405
Disclosed are various embodiments for inferring brand similarities using graph neural networks and selection prediction. In one embodiment, a brand-to-brand graph is generated indicating similarities between a set of brands according to at least one of: click-through data or conversion data. Using a first graph neural network (GNN) tower, the brand-to-brand graph is analyzed to determine brand similarities among a first brand identified from a search query and a first set of other…
Machine learning inference calls for database query processing
Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number:
11966396
Techniques for performing machine learning inference calls in database query processing are described. A method for performing machine learning inference calls in database query processing may include generating a query plan to optimize a query for batch processing of data stored in a database service, the query plan including a batch mode operator to execute a function reference and an execution context associated with the batch mode operator, executing the query plan to invoke a…
Pseudo-local multi-service enabled file systems using a locally-addressable secure compute layer
Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number:
11966370
Systems and methods are provided for implementing a multi-service file system for a hosted computing instance via a locally-addressable secure compute layer. Software within the instance can submit file operations to the secure compute layer, which the secure compute layer can translate into calls to one or more network-accessible storage services. To provide a multi-service file system, the secure compute layer can obtain mapping data mapping file system objects within the virtualized…
Automated tier-based transitioning for data objects
Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number:
11966359
An object-based data storage service receives a request to store a data object in a first location corresponding to a first data storage tier. The request may specify a parameter to enable transitioning of the data object to another data storage tier. In response to the request, the object-based data storage service stores the data object in the first location and monitors access of the data object to determine usage data associated with the data object. The object-based data storage…
Availability zone recovery using virtual private clouds
Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number:
11966306
Availability zone and region recovery are described. For an availability zone (AZ), a recovery availability zone (rAZ) may be identified based on available computing capacity of the recovery availability zone and geographic proximity of the availability zone relative to the recovery availability zone. In an instance in which the availability zone is impacted in which at least one of hardware and software of the availability zone is not fully operational, a virtual private cloud (VPC) is…
Hinge for sidewalk robot
Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number:
11964605
A latch mechanism for a sidewalk delivery robot or container includes a plunger that extends to engage a latch body on a lid to lock the lid closed, a cable for pulling the plunger out of engagement with the lid to free the lid for opening, and a temporary catch mechanism for holding the plunger in the retracted position during an initial phase of the opening process. The catch, and therefore the plunger, is released when a forward-extending release arm of the catch is engaged by the…
