Patents by Inventor Andrew Sean Tyra

Andrew Sean Tyra has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9978070
    Abstract: Functionality is disclosed herein for providing messages specified by a third party to customers of an electronic marketplace while maintaining customer privacy. An occurrence of a customer relationship management event configured by a third party is detected and a message is provided to one or more customers of an electronic marketplace. Actions of customers of the electronic marketplace might be tracked that relate to the message. Analytics may also be provided to a third party while maintaining customer privacy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert David Peterson, Andrew Sean Tyra, John Christopher Mikula
  • Patent number: 9852464
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a method and system for capturing and utilizing item attributes are described. Various embodiments may include a mobile image capture apparatus, which may include a computer system configured to execute an image capture application. The image capture application may instruct an agent to capture an image of an item label. A data extraction component may be configured to process the images captured by the mobile image capture apparatus. For a given captured image, the data extraction component may in various embodiments be configured to perform OCR to determine one or more strings of characters from the image. The data extraction component may be further configured to determine whether one or more patterns match a determined string of characters. In response to the detection of a particular pattern matching a particular string of characters, the data extraction component may extract and store an attribute of the corresponding item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Sean Tyra, Ian D. Clarkson
  • Publication number: 20150043823
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a method and system for capturing and utilizing item attributes are described. Various embodiments may include a mobile image capture apparatus, which may include a computer system configured to execute an image capture application. The image capture application may instruct an agent to capture an image of an item label. A data extraction component may be configured to process the images captured by the mobile image capture apparatus. For a given captured image, the data extraction component may in various embodiments be configured to perform OCR to determine one or more strings of characters from the image. The data extraction component may be further configured to determine whether one or more patterns match a determined string of characters. In response to the detection of a particular pattern matching a particular string of characters, the data extraction component may extract and store an attribute of the corresponding item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: ANDREW SEAN TYRA, IAN D. CLARKSON
  • Patent number: 8873829
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a method and system for capturing and utilizing item attributes are described. Various embodiments may include a mobile image capture apparatus, which may include a computer system configured to execute an image capture application. The image capture application may instruct an agent to capture an image of an item label. A data extraction component may be configured to process the images captured by the mobile image capture apparatus. For a given captured image, the data extraction component may in various embodiments be configured to perform OCR to determine one or more strings of characters from the image. The data extraction component may be further configured to determine whether one or more patterns match a determined string of characters. In response to the detection of a particular pattern matching a particular string of characters, the data extraction component may extract and store an attribute of the corresponding item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Sean Tyra, Ian D. Clarkson
  • Patent number: 8756165
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for facilitating packing and vehicle loading for order fulfillment. A number of totes associated with each one of a plurality of orders fulfilled in a fulfillment center are tracked in a computing resource. Each of the orders specifies at least one item. A plurality of compartment assignments in a delivery vehicle are generated for the totes associated with each of the orders, the delivery vehicle having a plurality of storage compartments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul N. Haake, Dennis Lee, Neha Gupta, Andrew Sean Tyra