ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,051, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Shared donor memory compute instances" was invented by Christopher Magee Greenwood (Seattle), Meiwen Li (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Eric Jeffrey Heinz (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are systems and methods that use a donor memory that is accessible from multiple compute instances to access and execute portions of user data stored on the donor memory, thereby decreasing the time required to initialize a compute instance. Upon receipt of a first request to execute a user data, a compute instance group is initialized that includes a donor memo...