US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on June 24 for "Proactive reservations of network address blocks for client-specified operation categories at isolated virtual networks" (Washington, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,240, issued on June 24, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Proactive reservations of network address blocks for client-specified operation categories at isolated virtual networks" was invented by David James Goodell (Seattle), Matthew Browne Barr (Arlington, Va.), Yujing Xie (Vienna, Va.) and Shovan Kumar Das (Medina, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In response to receiving a reservation request at a provider network, metadata indicating that a group of network addresses of a subnet is reserved for operations of a particular category is stored. A first request for an operation, requiring assignment of an addres...