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James Alfred Gordon Greenfield
JG
James Alfred Gordon Greenfield
— 7 Patents in 2016
Amazon
:
7
patents
#82
of
2,598
Top 4%
Overall
(2016):
#14,404
of
481,213
Top 3%
7
Patents 2016
Issued Patents
2016
Showing
1–7
of
7
patents
Patent #
Title
Co-Inventors
Date
Approx Value ⓘ
9521188
Scheduled execution of instances
Eric Paul Wei
,
Albert P. Niemoller
2016-12-13
$84,236,000
9471352
Capability based placement
Gustav Karl Mauer
,
André Mostert
,
Christopher Richard Jacques de Kadt
,
Christopher Anthony Romanzin
2016-10-18
$61,837,000
9451013
Providing instance availability information
Gregory Branchek Roth
,
Christopher Richard Jacques de Kadt
,
Randall Avery Shealey
,
Robin Alan Golden
,
Arjun Radhakrishnan
2016-09-20
$53,510,000
9413604
Instance host configuration
Marcin Piotr Kowalski
,
Roland Paterson-Jones
2016-08-09
$60,829,000
9407569
Providing notification of computing resource availability for on-demand allocation
Diwakar Gupta
,
Eric Paul Wei
2016-08-02
$66,577,000
9374417
Dynamic specification auditing for a distributed system
Dirk Gerhardes Oberholster
,
Christopher Richard Jacques de Kadt
2016-06-21
$73,626,000
9306814
Providing instance availability information
Gregory Branchek Roth
,
Christopher Richard Jacques de Kadt
,
Randall Avery Shealey
,
Robin Alan Golden
,
Arjun Radhakrishnan
2016-04-05
$52,195,000
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