Patents Assigned to Amazon Technologies, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20250117871
    Abstract: A vehicle data management system and data jurisdiction system manage vehicle data between multiple jurisdictions and enables a set of jurisdiction rules involving rules of various jurisdictions to be applied consistently. The vehicle data jurisdiction system can detect changes in jurisdiction of a vehicle based on various pieces of received vehicle information and applies appropriate jurisdiction rules from a set of jurisdiction rules. Various jurisdictions may have conflicting jurisdiction rules and, in such circumstances, the data jurisdiction system resolves potential conflicts between the rules using a jurisdiction rules resolution workflow. Based on the resolution of the conflict, the data jurisdiction system can migrate data of the vehicle to one or more other jurisdictions, or otherwise implement the correct rules determined by resolving the conflict.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Roland Mesde, Alex Bessonov, Kyle Daniel Halbach, Nitin Giri, Edwin Ricardo Mendez Rodriguez, Matthew Jonathan Narksusook
  • Patent number: 12273621
    Abstract: Techniques for guiding camera focusing using barcode images are described herein. In an example, a computer system receives an image of a calibration target having a center that is aligned with an optical axis of a camera that generated the image. The calibration target includes steps that are located at different depths with respect to a lens of the camera. The calibration target includes barcode sets. Individual barcodes of a barcode set have a barcode attribute. The computer system decodes the barcode sets in the image and determines a set of decoded barcodes of the barcode sets. The computer system determines, for individual steps, a sharpness metric based on the barcode attribute of individual barcodes of the set of decoded barcodes and determines an adjustment of a focal plane of the lens based on the sharpness metric for the individual steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ali Can, Frank Preiswerk
  • Patent number: 12273542
    Abstract: Media content may be mastered at a higher quality than is supported on various remote workstations to perform tasks with respect to that content, using transmission channels that do not support data transfer rates for large, high quality media content. A compressed version of this content may be transmitted over a first channel for use with various tasks on a remote workstation. For tasks such as color grading that benefit from this higher quality content, a separate but parallel communication channel is used to transmit a higher-quality version of this content. An uncompressed video stream can be encoded using a lossless codec to retain higher quality data. A high quality video stream can be transmitted over a separate transmission channel, and received to a decoder that can decode this stream to provide a high quality video signal for presentation via a grading monitor or other such high quality presentation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Katrina Renee King, Matthew Ross Herson, Mike Owen, Evan Statton
  • Patent number: 12273428
    Abstract: Systems and methods for processing a DNS query to identify and implement pre-processing information by a DNS server component in anticipation of a corresponding content request from a client computing device are provided. The pre-processing information can correspond to identification of content to be preloaded or other actions to be implemented by one or more computing devices in association with an anticipated client content request. Based on identification of the content or future actions, a DNS server component can provide the pre-processing information to one or more computing devices, such as computing devices of a CDN service provider and/or an original content provider, in advance of a corresponding request for content from the client computing device in order to improve performance associated with responding to the client request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Ryan F. Watson
  • Patent number: 12273408
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for migrating a computer application from an entity's premises to a web services platform. Data from multiple sources on the entity's premises is gathered and normalized into a common format. The normalized data is used to create a topology of the network on the entity's premises. This topology is analyzed to determine whether a computer application executing on the entity's premises may be migrated to the web service platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew John Fitzgerald, Kevin Edward Kelly, Rudolph Vaughn Valdez, Paul Horvath
  • Patent number: 12273415
    Abstract: Techniques are described that enable users to configure the mirroring of network traffic sent to or received by computing resources associated with a virtual network of computing resources at a service provider network. The mirrored network traffic can be used for many different purposes including, for example, network traffic content inspection, forensic and threat analysis, network troubleshooting, data loss prevention, and the like. Users can configure such network traffic mirroring without the need to manually install and manage network capture agents or other such processes on each computing resource for which network traffic mirroring is desired. Users can cause mirrored network traffic to be stored at a storage service in the form of packet capture (or “pcap”) files, which can be used by any number of available out-of-band security and monitoring appliances including other user-specific monitoring tools and/or other services of the service provider network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Anoop Dawani, Nishant Mehta, Richard H. Galliher, Lee Spencer Dillard, Joseph Elmar Magerramov
  • Patent number: 12271669
    Abstract: Generated instruction sequences captured from software interactions may be executed as part of formal verification of a design under test. Software-instructed commands to be performed to configure a design under test formatted according to an interface implemented by the design under test can be obtained. A sequence to perform the software-instructed commands may be generated to configure the design under test in a hardware design and verification language. The sequence may then be executed to perform the software-instructed commands to configure the design under test and then perform formal verification on the configured design under test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Uri Leder, Ori Ariel, Assaf Fainer, Simaan Bahouth, Max Chvalevsky, Itai Kahana
  • Patent number: 12271698
    Abstract: A schema and cell value aware Named Entity Recognition (NER) model is used to perform natural language queries. Natural language queries may be received via an interface of a natural language query processing system. A fuzzy search may be performed that allows non-exact matches for column names or cell values of data sets potentially used to answer the natural language query. An NER model that adds a type embedding for an exact match of a column name or cell found in the fuzzy search that corresponds to a span of one or more words may be applied as part of generating the entity prediction for the natural language query. One or more queries to at least one of the data sets may be performed to return a result to the natural language query using the entity prediction generated by the NER machine learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Wang, Sudipta Sengupta, Zhiguo Wang, Ramesh M Nallapati, Bing Xiang
  • Patent number: 12269644
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for containers having mechanical secured door indicators. In one embodiment, an example container may include a first container wall, a second container wall, a third container wall, and a fourth container wall configured to move from an open position to a closed positon. The fourth container wall may include a first portion coupled to the second container wall, and a second portion coupled to the third container wall, where the first portion and the second portion are coplanar when the fourth container wall is in the closed position. The foldable container may include a bottom container platform having a machine-readable code, and a pivotable arm configured to cover the machine-readable code when the fourth container wall is in the closed position, and to uncover the machine-readable code when the fourth container wall is not in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Joseph Greenbaum, Dincer Bozkaya, Albert William Saunders, IV
  • Patent number: 12272371
    Abstract: Real-time audio enhancement for a target speaker may be performed. An embedding of a sample of speaker audio is created using a trained neural network that performs voice identification. The embedding is then concatenated with the input features of a trained machine learning model for audio enhancement. The audio enhancement model can recognize and enhance a target speaker's speech in a real-time implementation, as the embedding is in the same feature space of the audio enhancement model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ritwik Giri, Shrikant Venkataramani, Jean-Marc Valin, Mehmet Umut Isik, Arvindh Krishnaswamy
  • Patent number: 12273807
    Abstract: Techniques for establishing connections between user devices and headless devices attempting to connect to networks. A headless device may attempt to connect to an access point that requires interaction with a captive portal webpage for access to a network. However, the headless device my lack a display to present the captive portal webpage. The headless device may establish a connection with a user device using a PAN protocol. The headless device may then receive the captive portal webpage received from the access point, and relay the webpage to the user device using the PAN protocol. A user may use the user device to interact with the captive portal webpage, and the user device may then relay interaction data back to the headless device using the PAN protocol. The headless device may then provide that interaction data to the access point to be provided access to the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: QingYun Wei, Zhao Lou, Shao-Cheng Wang, Avinash Joshi, Xi Chen
  • Patent number: 12271098
    Abstract: A device includes a housing, a camera at least partially disposed within the housing, one or more microphones at least partially disposed within the housing, and a printed circuit board (PCB) including a switch. The switch has a lever that is transitionable between a displaced position and a non-displaced position. A privacy cover couple to the housing and includes a rib disposed on an interior surface of the privacy cover. The privacy cover is transitionable between a first position in which the camera is obstructed and the rib is engaged with the lever to transition the lever to the displaced position, and a second position in which the camera is unobstructed and the rib is disengaged with the lever such that the lever is permitted to transition to the non-displaced position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Rafal Piersiak, John Roos, Matthew J. England, Mikhail Donskoi, Maksym Yemelin, Chung-Sen Huang, Chi-Yuan Wang, Hsiu-Fen Yeh, Bartlomiej Pawlik, Samuel Taeyoung Lee
  • Patent number: 12271638
    Abstract: A storage object and an associated permissions record is stored at a storage server. The permissions record indicates that some storage consumers are not permitted to perform a type of I/O operation on the storage object. In response to detecting that an event of a deletion triggering type with respect to the records, a modified version of the permissions record is stored at the server, indicating that the storage consumers remain prohibited from performing the I/O operations. In response to receiving a command to perform a particular I/O at the server after the modified version has been stored, the modified version is used to process the command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Barak Pinhas, Swapnil Vinay Dinkar, Andrew Boyer, Yonatan Divinsky, Alex Friedman
  • Patent number: 12271511
    Abstract: Techniques for cooperative timing alignment using synchronization pulses are described. The techniques can include generating, at an integrated circuit device, a timing signal, controlling a local count value based on the timing signal, monitoring a synchronization signal of a system comprising the integrated circuit device, detecting a synchronization pulse in the synchronization signal, and aligning the local count value with an implied count value associated with the synchronization pulse in order to align the local count value with those of other integrated circuit devices of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Guy Nakibly, Moshe Raz, Zvika Glaubach
  • Patent number: 12271411
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein for generating a semantically related search query that differs by at least one lexical token from document data provided as input. A machine-learning model may be trained using supervised and/or deep learning algorithms and a training data set including historical queries and the document data identified as being semantically related to those queries. The semantically-related search query may be associated with the document and utilized in subsequent searches to match the document to a subsequent query based on identifying a lexical match between the subsequent search query and the semantically-related search query associated with the document. These techniques enable semantically related search queries to be assigned offline but utilized to identify semantically related documents using lexical matching techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Damla Ezgi Akcora, Amin Mantrach
  • Patent number: 12271276
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to a first network device in a primary region that can failover network traffic into a second network device in a failover region. The first network device can receive routing criteria identifying how traffic originating in the primary region should be routed. The first network device can transmit this routing criteria to the second network device in the failover region. Based on determining the occurrence of a failover event, the first network device may transmit network traffic originating in the primary region to the second network device in the failover region. The second network device can determine how to route the network traffic based on the routing criteria of the primary region. In some embodiments, the second network device can determine how to route the network traffic based on the routing criteria of the failover region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hardeep Singh Uppal, Harvo Reyzell Jones, Brad E Marshall, Joseph Elmar Magerramov
  • Patent number: 12271456
    Abstract: Maintaining the security of biometric data is an utmost priority. Biometric data is secured using one or more techniques. With one technique, biometric input such as images of a user's palm is used to generate first primary data (PD). The original biometric input is deleted from temporary secure storage while the first PD is securely stored. The first PD may then be processed later to determine a second PD. The first PD may then be deleted, and the second PD subsequently used. With another technique, biometric input or a PD may be processed by a first model to determine first secondary data (SD) that is representative of features of a particular user within a first embedding space. Later the PD may be processed by a second model to determine a second SD in a second embedding space. The first SD is deleted, and the second SD subsequently used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Manoj Aggarwal, Gerard Guy Medioni, Chad Desjardins, Dilip Kumar
  • Patent number: D1069379
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Christopher Steven Haroun
  • Patent number: D1069380
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Christopher Steven Haroun
  • Patent number: D1069689
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Cohn, Youssef Takhchi, Alexsandra M. Bowers, Ryan Andrew Crawford, Heather Gleason, Ryan David Hruska, Michael James O'Connor, Emmanuel Laffon de Mazieres