US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on April 21 for "Dynamic latency shaping to control server load" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,239, issued on April 21, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Dynamic latency shaping to control server load" was invented by Sriram Venugopal (Issaquah, Wash.), Andrew Boyer (Berlin), Mark Robinson (Seattle), Aravinda Venkatramana (Redmond, Wash.), Harshi Priya Yarragonda (Seattle), Abhimanyu Agarwal (Seattle) and Scott Kirvan (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for controlling load on a server hosting block storage volumes by dynamically controlling latency for input/output (I/O) operations to the block storage volumes. The system can selectively inject synthetic latency into th...