Patents by Inventor William J. VASS

William J. VASS 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).

  • Publication number: 20230267407
    Abstract: A network-attachable data transfer device housed within a shippable enclosure that incorporates an updateable electronic display for displaying shipping destination information is disclosed. The device may be initialized (e.g., prepared to receive data, and the updateable electronic shipping display set to the shipping destination) by a service provider and shipped, in accordance with the displayed destination address, as a self-contained shipping unit. The device may be installed onto a network at the destination and loaded with data. The display may also be updated with the next destination address such that the device is shipped to the updated destination address (e.g., back to the service provider, or onto other destinations before being send back to the service provider). When the device is received back at the service provider, the data is transferred from the device to a service provider storage facility, wiped of data, and prepared to be sent out again.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Colin Laird Lazier, William J. Vass
  • Patent number: 11669800
    Abstract: A network-attachable data transfer device housed within a shippable enclosure that incorporates an updateable electronic display for displaying shipping destination information is disclosed. The device may be initialized (e.g., prepared to receive data, and the updateable electronic shipping display set to the shipping destination) by a service provider and shipped, in accordance with the displayed destination address, as a self-contained shipping unit. The device may be installed onto a network at the destination and loaded with data. The display may also be updated with the next destination address such that the device is shipped to the updated destination address (e.g., back to the service provider, or onto other destinations before being send back to the service provider). When the device is received back at the service provider, the data is transferred from the device to a service provider storage facility, wiped of data, and prepared to be sent out again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Colin Laird Lazier, William J. Vass
  • Patent number: 11455234
    Abstract: A robotic device management service obtains, from a customer, a first set of parameters of a robotic device and a second set of parameters for a simulation environment for testing a robotic device application installable on the robotic device. The set of parameters are used to indicate a storage location of the application and a selection of a simulation environment for testing the application. In response to the request, the robotic device management service selects a set of resources on which to execute the simulation in the simulation environment. The robotic device management service obtains the robotic device application from the storage location and loads the application on to the set of resources to execute the simulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gaurav D. Ghare, Bin Zhu, Roger S. Barga, William J. Vass, Gourav Roy, Chetan Banthiya, Paul Andrew Lafranchise, Dmitry Berkovich, Fusheng Yuan, Ritesh Singh, Swarnaprakash Udayakumar, Brandon Kyle Pelfrey, Jason Chen Hooi Chionh, Iftach Ragoler
  • Patent number: 11417109
    Abstract: An event detection system for detecting events related to vehicles based on sensor data from the vehicles. An event detection service on a network may receive streams of sensor data from vehicles and apply machine learning techniques to train models and to analyze the data to detect vehicle-related events. Supervised and unsupervised techniques may be used to train the models and to detect known as well as anomalous events. Events may be detected based on data from one or from multiple vehicles. The system may respond to events by alerting entities and/or signaling vehicle control systems to respond to the events. Trained models may be downloaded to vehicles; the vehicle computer systems can then locally detect events. The downloaded models can be further trained on the vehicles, uploaded to the network, and integrated into the network-based models to improve the performance of the models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Marvin Michael Theimer, Roger Shane Barga, William J. Vass
  • Patent number: 10802746
    Abstract: Techniques for maintaining versioning of data objects as a result of policy-based changes to the data objects are described herein. Metadata associated with a data object is updated as a result of an operation that is specified in a data policy associated with the data object. The metadata associated with the data object is updated based on a version key that is associated with the data object that is an identifier that identifies the data storage object in a plurality of data storage classes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Colin Laird Lazier, Leon Thrane, William J. Vass
  • Patent number: 10764347
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for a framework for time-associated data stream storage, processing, and replication. A plurality of streams of time-associated data are received from a plurality of sources via a network using an application-layer protocol. Each of the plurality of streams is divided into a plurality of fragments. An acknowledgement is sent to each of the plurality of sources for each of the plurality of fragments via the network using the application-layer protocol. Processing is performed on each of the plurality of fragments for individual ones of the plurality of streams. An action is implemented relative to a respective fragment based at least in part on a result of the processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Gaurav D. Ghare, Aditya Krishnan, Roger Shane Barga, William J. Vass, Mushegh Malkhasyan
  • Publication number: 20200159648
    Abstract: A robotic device management service obtains, from a customer, a first set of parameters of a robotic device and a second set of parameters for a simulation environment for testing a robotic device application installable on the robotic device. The set of parameters are used to indicate a storage location of the application and a selection of a simulation environment for testing the application. In response to the request, the robotic device management service selects a set of resources on which to execute the simulation in the simulation environment. The robotic device management service obtains the robotic device application from the storage location and loads the application on to the set of resources to execute the simulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Gaurav D. Ghare, Bin Zhu, Roger S. Barga, William J. Vass, Gourav Roy, Chetan Banthiya, Paul Andrew Lafranchise, Dmitry Berkovich, Fusheng Yuan, Ritesh Singh, Swarnaprakash Udayakumar, Brandon Kyle Pelfrey, Jason Chen Hooi Chionh, Iftach Ragoler
  • Publication number: 20200156243
    Abstract: A robotic device management service obtains a set of parameters of a simulation environment and a set of components for execution of a simulation of a robotic device application. Based on these parameters, the robotic device management service selects a set of resources for executing the application in a simulation environment. The robotic device management service may launch the set of components among the set of resources and monitor execution of the application in the simulation environment to ensure completion of the simulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Gaurav D. Ghare, Bin Zhu, Roger S. Barga, William J. Vass, Gourav Roy, Chetan Banthiya, Paul Andrew Lafranchise, Dmitry Berkovich, Fusheng Yuan, Ritesh Singh, Swarnaprakash Udayakumar, Brandon Kyle Pelfrey, Jason Chen Hooi Chionh, Iftach Ragoler
  • Publication number: 20190340571
    Abstract: A network-attachable data transfer device housed within a shippable enclosure that incorporates an updateable electronic display for displaying shipping destination information is disclosed. The device may be initialized (e.g., prepared to receive data, and the updateable electronic shipping display set to the shipping destination) by a service provider and shipped, in accordance with the displayed destination address, as a self-contained shipping unit. The device may be installed onto a network at the destination and loaded with data. The display may also be updated with the next destination address such that the device is shipped to the updated destination address (e.g., back to the service provider, or onto other destinations before being send back to the service provider). When the device is received back at the service provider, the data is transferred from the device to a service provider storage facility, wiped of data, and prepared to be sent out again.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Colin Laird Lazier, William J. Vass
  • Publication number: 20190340572
    Abstract: A network-attachable data transfer device housed within a shippable enclosure that incorporates an updateable electronic display for displaying shipping destination information is disclosed. The device may be initialized (e.g., prepared to receive data, and the updateable electronic shipping display set to the shipping destination) by a service provider and shipped, in accordance with the displayed destination address, as a self-contained shipping unit. The device may be installed onto a network at the destination and loaded with data. The display may also be updated with the next destination address such that the device is shipped to the updated destination address (e.g., back to the service provider, or onto other destinations before being send back to the service provider). When the device is received back at the service provider, the data is transferred from the device to a service provider storage facility, wiped of data, and prepared to be sent out again.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Colin Laird Lazier, William J. Vass
  • Patent number: 10459647
    Abstract: A version of a data object is updated as a result of a version changing operation and version metadata associated with the data object is updated based on a version key that is associated with the data object where the version metadata maintains a history of the version changing operations performed on the data object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Colin Laird Lazier, Leon Thrane, William J. Vass
  • Patent number: 10360529
    Abstract: A network-attachable data transfer device housed within a shippable enclosure that incorporates an updateable electronic display for displaying shipping destination information is disclosed. The device may be initialized (e.g., prepared to receive data, and the updateable electronic shipping display set to the shipping destination) by a service provider and shipped, in accordance with the displayed destination address, as a self-contained shipping unit. The device may be installed onto a network at the destination and loaded with data. The display may also be updated with the next destination address such that the device is shipped to the updated destination address (e.g., back to the service provider, or onto other destinations before being send back to the service provider). When the device is received back at the service provider, the data is transferred from the device to a service provider storage facility, wiped of data, and prepared to be sent out again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Colin Laird Lazier, William J. Vass
  • Publication number: 20170004445
    Abstract: A network-attachable data transfer device housed within a shippable enclosure that incorporates an updateable electronic display for displaying shipping destination information is disclosed. The device may be initialized (e.g., prepared to receive data, and the updateable electronic shipping display set to the shipping destination) by a service provider and shipped, in accordance with the displayed destination address, as a self-contained shipping unit. The device may be installed onto a network at the destination and loaded with data. The display may also be updated with the next destination address such that the device is shipped to the updated destination address (e.g., back to the service provider, or onto other destinations before being send back to the service provider). When the device is received back at the service provider, the data is transferred from the device to a service provider storage facility, wiped of data, and prepared to be sent out again.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Colin Laird LAZIER, William J. VASS