Amazon Assigned Two Patents

Management of object mapping information
corresponding to distributed storage system

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV, has been assigned a patent (8,316,213) developed by four co-inventors for a "management of object mapping information corresponding to a distributed storage system."

The co-inventors are James Christopher Sorenson III, Seattle, WA, Gunavardhan Kakulapati, Bellevue, WA, Jason G. McHugh, Seattle, and Allan H. Vermeulen, Seattle, WA.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for managing mapping information for objects maintained in a distributed storage system are provided. The distributed storage system can include a keymap subsystem that manages the mapping information according to object keys. Requests for specific object mapping information are directed to specific keymap coordinators within the keymap subsystem based on a consistency based hashing schema. The hashing schema is updated and distributed to other components within the distributed storage system based on a defined distribution model."

The patent application was filed on July 31, 2009 (12/533,885).

Control of access to mass storage system

Amazon Technologies, Inc. Reno, NV, has been assigned a patent (8,321,915) developed by four co-inventors for a "control of access to mass storage system."

The co-inventors are Guido Enrico Bartolucci, Seattle, WA, Manikandan Thangarathnam, Tamil Nadu, India, Ryan J. Snodgrass, Kirkland, WA, and Sriram Narasimhan, Chennai, India.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Disclosed are various systems, methods, and other embodiments for the control of access to a mass storage system. In one example, a plurality of buckets are maintained in mass storage system, each of the buckets being employed to store at least one data file. In a server, a use of the buckets by a plurality of entities that use a plurality of clients is facilitated for the storage of a plurality of files over a public network. The use of one of the buckets by the one of the entities is restricted to a namespace."

The patent application was filed on March 31, 2008 (12/059,633).