This Amazon patent lists Jeff Bezos as an inventor and is directed towards method and system for dynamic pricing of web services utilization. Mr. Bezos was awarded U.S. Patent 7743001 entitled “Method and system for dynamic pricing of web services utilization” on June 22, 2010. The utility patent has been cited 115 times by other U.S. patents in the field of it methods for management and in other fields.

A method and system for dynamic pricing of web services utilization. According to one embodiment, a method may include dynamically predicting utilization of a web services computing resource that is expected to occur during a given interval of time, and dependent upon the dynamically predicted utilization, setting a price associated with utilization of the web services computing resource occurring during the given interval of time. The method may further include providing the price to a customer. Link: U.S. Patent 7743001

Amazon filed this utility patent on June 21, 2005 giving it a processing time of 1827 days (compared to an average processing time of 2086 in the field). They have a total number of 6869 patents. The first named inventor is Jeffrey P. Bezos of Seattle, WA. The patent was allowed by primary examiner John W Hayes and assistant examiner Allen J Jung.

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