Inventor
GORDON NICHOLAS
US19 patents
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AMAZON TECH INC
16 patentsUS11126505B1Sep 21, 2021
Past-state backup generator and interface for database systems
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US10754844B1Aug 25, 2020
Efficient database snapshot generation
AMAZON TECH INC21 citations92
US12174845B1Dec 24, 2024
Analytic query processing using a backup of a database
AMAZON TECH INC7 citations83
US11250022B1Feb 15, 2022
Offline index builds for database tables
AMAZON TECH INC7 citations83
US11860673B1Jan 2, 2024
Database with client-controlled encryption key
AMAZON TECH INC17 citations82
US11579981B2Feb 14, 2023
Past-state backup generator and interface for database systems
AMAZON TECH INC4 citations73
US12013764B2Jun 18, 2024
Past-state backup generator and interface for database systems
AMAZON TECH INC1 citations72
US11928099B1Mar 12, 2024
Time and value ordered data objects for a backup of a data set
AMAZON TECH INC2 citations71
US11698914B1Jul 11, 2023
Serverless managed bulk import on a global NoSQL database with selective back pressure
AMAZON TECH INC3 citations71
US11436211B1Sep 6, 2022
Renaming a database table with minimized application downtime
AMAZON TECH INC4 citations69
US11860835B1Jan 2, 2024
Efficient drop column requests in a non-relational data store
AMAZON TECH INC2 citations66
US12487983B2Dec 2, 2025
Time and value ordered data objects for a backup of a data set
AMAZON TECH INC0 citations60
US11860892B2Jan 2, 2024
Offline index builds for database tables
AMAZON TECH INC0 citations60
US11595205B1Feb 28, 2023
Database with client-controlled encryption key
AMAZON TECH INC1 citations59
US11568063B1Jan 31, 2023
Database with client-controlled encryption key
AMAZON TECH INC1 citations59
US12450229B1Oct 21, 2025
Providing query units to support external analytics queries to a backup of a database
AMAZON TECH INC1 citations56