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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2015
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Aaron-Kenneth Karl Rehaag, Vancouver, CA;

Zakiul Islam, Vancouver, CA;

Xiaoming Wang, Kirkland, WA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06Q 10/00 (2012.01); G06Q 10/06 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/142 (2013.01); G06Q 10/00 (2013.01); G06Q 10/06 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04L 67/2842 (2013.01); G06F 17/30424 (2013.01);
Abstract

A provider network for providing continuous workflow service for an open-ended number of workflows using non-persistent threads. In some cases, the provider network includes a workflow handling service and a workflow evaluation service. The workflow handling service may receive indications of task completion events related to respective workflows, and in turn may send non-blocking requests for workflow decisions from the workflow evaluation service. In generating a workflow decision, the workflow evaluation service may determine resources for executing a workflow evaluation thread for generating the workflow decision. Further, a given workflow evaluation thread may determine a workflow decision without relying on a previously stored state for a state machine corresponding to the workflow. In this way, a given workflow decision may be determined on different allocated resources at different points in time in maintaining the workflow.


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