ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,984, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Data storage application programming interface" was invented by Kestutis Patiejunas (Sammamish, Wash.), Christian L. Claiborn (Seattle), Colin L. Lazier (Seattle), Claire E. Suver Weir (Seattle) and Mark C. Seigle (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application programming interface for a data storage service provides a convenient mechanism for clients of the data storage service to access its various capabilities. An API call may be made to initiate a job and in response a job identifier may be provided. A separate API call specifying the job identifie...