Amazon Assigned Patent

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV, has been assigned a patent (8,943,279) developed by McHugh, Jason G., Seattle, WA, Gattu, Praveen Kumar, Redmond, WA, Ten-Pow, Michael A., and Denny-Brown, II, Derek Ernest, Seattle, WA, for a “system and method for toggling a storage system versioning feature.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems and methods providing a versioning feature in a storage system may allow the versioning feature to be toggled on and/or off during operation. Access operations targeting data objects stored in the system, e.g., delete and store type operations) may behave differently depending on whether versioning is, or has ever been) enabled for the storage system or a storage bucket thereof, or is not, or has never been) enabled for the storage system or storage bucket. For example, if versioning is off or suspended, a store operation may overwrite existing data. However, if versioning is enabled, a store type operation may create and store a new, unique object. If versioning has never been enabled, a delete operation may delete a stored object. However, if versioning has ever been enabled, a delete operation may create a new, unique delete marker object and may or may not delete any objects or data.“

The patent application was filed on March 14, 2014 (14/212,145).