This inventor holds 1 USPTO granted patent. Top assignee: Snowflake Inc.. Active years: 2026.
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Company Filing History:
Years Active: 2026
Title: Lawrence Douglas Webley: Cloud Resource Preprovisioning Inventor.
Introduction
Lawrence Douglas Webley is an inventor based in Woodinville, Washington, and is associated with Snowflake Inc. His work includes an invention for planning cloud compute-resource provisioning around anticipated demand and target readiness times.
Latest Patents
Webley is credited with 1 patent, titled “Optimal Free Pool Preprovisioning.” The invention describes how a cloud data platform can select candidate times to provision compute resources into a free pool, using expected demand and a target time as inputs. It compares historical periods with similar provisioning-latency distributions and estimates the minimum number of resources to provision at each candidate time so that the required number is ready by the target time within a specified confidence level.
Career Highlights
Webley’s listed company affiliation is Snowflake Inc. His patent focuses on improving the timing and quantity of cloud-resource provisioning, helping a platform prepare capacity in advance while accounting for historical provisioning delays.
Collaborations
Webley’s listed coworkers include Orestis Kostakis and Murray Marvin Stokely, III.
Conclusion
Lawrence Douglas Webley’s patent addresses a practical cloud-computing challenge by using historical latency patterns to guide resource preprovisioning and readiness planning.
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