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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2016
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Ruslan Anatolyevich Polyanskiy, Bothell, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure is directed to methods, apparatuses, and systems for scaling inventory management systems to accommodate peak capacity loads. For example, some high-demand, high-volume inventory can provided in a limited time period, attracting network traffic that can overwhelm third party providers with limited network or processing capacity. An inventory database at the third party provider can be mirrored at the service provider, such that the inventory database can be copied to the service provider and stored as a mirror database. User requests can be made against the mirror database at the service provider. The user can select inventory to order, which can reserve the inventory until payment information is provided and confirmed at the service provider. Subsequently, the service provider can synchronize the order with the third party provider in accordance with the limited capacity of the third party provider.