US 11,457,050 B1Granted

Ephemeral data stream service

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorsGeorgi Petev Kolev, Didier Wenzek, Carl Summers, Gabriel Theodoro, Mikhail Erofeev

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Abstract

Systems and methods are described for communications between computing devices via an ephemeral data stream routing service, which allows the devices to establish a single-use connection for streaming arbitrary amounts of data. A computing device may request an ephemeral data stream from the ephemeral data stream routing service, which may respond by creating an endpoint and providing a single-use URL that locates the endpoint. The sending and receiving computing devices may then use the single-use URL to connect to the endpoint, which may be implemented on a single routing device or a pair of routing devices within the ephemeral data stream routing service. The service then relays a data stream from the sender to the receiver, and may forward the data stream from one routing device to another within the service as needed. The ephemeral data stream routing service then removes the endpoint and invalidates the single-use URL.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A system for providing ephemeral data streams, the system comprising:

a data store;
and
a processor in communication with the data store, wherein the processor executes computer-executable instructions stored in the data store to perform operations including:
receiving, from a first computing device, a request to pass an ephemeral data stream from the first computing device to a second computing device;
creating an ephemeral data stream connection endpoint, wherein the ephemeral data stream connection endpoint enables a data stream connection between two computing devices;
generating an ephemeral data stream uniform resource locator (“URL”) that locates the ephemeral data stream connection endpoint;
transmitting the ephemeral data stream URL to at least one computing device of the first computing device and the second computing device, wherein transmitting the ephemeral data stream URL to the at least one computing device causes the at least one computing device to transmit the ephemeral data stream URL to the other computing device of the first computing device and the second computing device;
receiving, from the first computing device, a first connection to the ephemeral data stream connection endpoint, the first connection made using the ephemeral data stream URL;
receiving, from the second computing device, a second connection to the ephemeral data stream connection endpoint, the second connection made using the ephemeral data stream URL;
passing the ephemeral data stream, as received from the first computing device via the first connection to the ephemeral data stream connection endpoint, to the second computing device via the second connection to the ephemeral data stream connection endpoint;
determining that the ephemeral data stream has ended;
and
removing the ephemeral data stream connection endpoint.

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