Techniques for transformative and derivative metering

US12034612B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC. · US

Inventors

• Zhihan Xia · Seattle, US
• Bo Wang · Kenmore, US
• Matthias Abraham · Berlin, DE
• Brian Dahmen · Bainbridge Island, US
• Anket Dhulekar · Shoreline, US
• Timon Edward Ehrhart · Maple Valley, US
• Kai Feng · Bellevue, US
• Michael Fort · Redmond, US
• Dmytro Kovtun · Mountlake Terrace, US
• Diego Sebastian Macadar · Bellevue, US
• Daniel Martinez Maqueda · Berlin, DE
• Zhi Gang Qian · Daejeon, KR
• Iuri Fernandes Queiroz · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 23, 2018
• Grant date: Jul 9, 2024
• Expiry date: Oct 29, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L41/5032
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A client of a metering service defines mapping data and derivation instructions comprising schema metadata and predicate metadata. The metering service provides usage information for a set of computing resources provided by one or more services of a computing resource service provider. As computing resources are utilized, usage records are generated. A derivation system may obtain one or more usage records and determine whether a predicate applies. If the predicate applies, a derivation function may be executed. For example, the derivation function may generate, from an original usage record, a derived usage record using mapping data provided by a client.