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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:
Jun. 11, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 24, 2016
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);

Inventors:

Amjad Hussain, Bellevue, WA (US);

Sivaprasad Venkata Padisetty, Bellevue, WA (US);

Emily Grace Aimette Freebairn, Seattle, WA (US);

Steven Merlin Twitchell, Renton, WA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/16 (2013.01); H04L 41/5051 (2013.01); H04L 67/34 (2013.01); H04L 67/36 (2013.01);
Abstract

Mechanisms are presented by which a customer of a resource provider can determine information about the portions of shared resources that are allocated to the customer. The information can include, for example, the software, operating systems software versions, software updates, software patches, and other such packages installed and/or executing on the various resources. In at least some embodiments, a customer can select one of a set of predefined actions that enables the customer to query the allocations, or resource instances, to obtain the information, such as through a series of inventory reports stored to a central location. In at least some embodiments the information can be obtained using a set of gatherers each configured to obtain a specific type of information.


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