Patents Assigned to Amazon Technologies, Inc.
  • Patent number: 12373027
    Abstract: A system that detects the location of a user gaze at a display and in response to the duration of the gaze exceeding a threshold, auto-playing content on the display. The system may also determine gaze event data associating the gaze event with the source of the content the user is gazing at. Other information may also be associated with the gaze event such as user ID, time/duration data, or the like. Various actions can be taken in response to the gaze event such as auto-playing of content, outputting a visual indication of the detected gaze, interpreting detected speech using the gaze event data, data aggregation, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Rohit Prasad, Arushan Rajasekaram, Furqan Muhammad Khan, Rajiv M Reddy
  • Patent number: 12374327
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for processing and responding to utterances in different ways depending upon the intent and content of the utterances. Different back-end workflows and front-end user experiences may be triggered for utterances that have different intents. For example, if a user is researching high-consideration items for possible acquisition, such as complex technology or new fashion, providing different user experiences depending upon the particular type of utterance can make the research and acquisition process more efficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Akshay Tandon, Haley Martin, Vaijan M. Hundlekar, Avinash Hanumanthappa, Marielle Paule Sanna, Hakem Mohamed Zaied, Rajesh Prabhu, Rajat K. Jaggi, Lyuliang Liu, Sayali Nakashe
  • Patent number: 12374353
    Abstract: A system may be configured to receive audio data input and determine whether the audio data corresponds to an acoustic event defined by an acoustic event profile. The system may be further configured to detect an ongoing acoustic event corresponding to multiple occurrences of an acoustic event type and, in response, execute a set of actions. The execution of the routine may be based on conditions corresponding to the ongoing acoustic event. The system may be configured to evaluate the occurrences based on the conditions of the ongoing acoustic event including whether the occurrences occur within a timer period, the relative time between occurrences, and whether at least one occurrence is detected within different portions of the time period. The acoustic event profile may be associated with a user profile. The system may execute a routine that sends a notification or directs a device to perform an action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Cesare Ferri, Sripal Mehta, Taylor Angaran Johnson, Heran Zhang, Li Jiang, Vamsi Kodamasimham, Pritesh Sharma, Stephen Mark Lorusso, Xiuye Chen, Chao Wang
  • Patent number: 12374371
    Abstract: Techniques for playing a first audio track for a video on a first audio device of a first audience member and simultaneously playing a second audio track that includes different content for the video than the first audio track on a second audio device of a second audience member by a single media player are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ankit Prem Manocha, Abhishek Patidar, Pemra Narli, Arjun Cholkar, Jayashree Rajagopalan, Kumar Sohony
  • Patent number: 12373586
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are provided for end-to-end tagging and tracking of event signals subject to privacy policies. User events comprising event source data may be collected. A user may be associated with a segment, and the segment may be mapped to data lineage information corresponding to the events that were used to determine that the user is in segment. A segment cache may be generated comprising portions that correspond to different data lineages subject to different privacy policies. Bid requests may be received and processed according to applicable privacy policies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ioannis Ioannidis, Monika Kofler, David Mozealous
  • Patent number: 12373777
    Abstract: A method may include determining inventory item information associated with an inventory item to be stowed in an inventory system that comprises a plurality of moveable inventory holders. The method may also include determining inventory holder information that characterizes one or more properties of a moveable inventory holder of the plurality of moveable inventory holders. The moveable inventory holder may include a plurality of inventory bins. The method may also include determining, using a machine learning model, a set of candidate inventory bins of the plurality of inventory bins based on the inventory item information and the inventory holder information. The method may also include providing for presentation a set of cues corresponding to the set of candidate inventory bins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Neeru Jaroliya, Abhisek Mukhopadhyay, Prakher Tayal, Srikanth Krishna, Andrew Johnson, Vighnesh Mahale, Shashank Kumar Singh, Rajeev Ramanath, Neeraj Jain
  • Patent number: 12375554
    Abstract: At a radio-based application pipeline processing server at which a portion of a distributed unit (DU) of a radio-based application is implemented, a particular networking hardware device is selected from among several devices (which include least one device incorporated within a network function accelerator card and at least one device which is not part of an accelerator card) for transmission of at least a portion of mid-haul traffic to a centralized unit (CU). The mid-haul traffic is transmitted to the CU via the selected device. At least a portion of front-haul traffic is transmitted to a radio unit (RU) via a networking hardware device incorporated within a network function accelerator card of the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Diwakar Gupta, Benjamin Wojtowicz, Upendra Bhalchandra Shevade, Ximeng Simon Yang
  • Patent number: 12374747
    Abstract: A system for removably coupling a battery assembly to a robot or charging system is provided herein. The system can include a cradle body, one or more connectors, and one or more charging interfaces. The cradle body can removably couple to and support a battery of varying shapes and sizes. The cradle body can wrap around at least a portion of the battery. The one or more connectors can be attached to the cradle body to releasably engage corresponding connectors of a robot when the battery assembly is coupled to the robot. The one or more charging interfaces can be attached to the cradle body via which power is provided to the battery to charge the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Samrin Sing, Mary Elizabeth Conrad
  • Patent number: 12375556
    Abstract: In response to a first programmatic request, metadata indicating that a first isolated read channel of a real-time category has been associated with a first target stream is stored at a stream management service. In response to another request, metadata indicating that a second isolated read channel of a non-real-time category has been associated with a second target stream is stored. In response to a read request indicating the first channel or the second channel, one or more data records of the corresponding target streams are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Warren Mercier, Sayantan Chakravorty, Yasemin Avcular, Charlie Paucard
  • Patent number: 12373385
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for dynamic format conversion of shared files. Computing devices can use different formats to store the same or substantially similar information. This difference in format can cause incompatibilities between such devices when these devices attempt to share files. The present disclosure can address this problem by providing for dynamic format conversion of shared files. Different computing devices may share access to a file directory storing base content, with each device being provided with a different view of the file directory such that base content in the directory appears in a format supported by the respective device. Further, input/output operations to files in the directory can be converted between respective formats, such that each device manipulates base content in the directory in a supported format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jari Karppanen, David Chukwuemeka Chukwuma
  • Patent number: 12374326
    Abstract: Techniques for determining when speech is directed at another individual of a dialog, and storing a representation of such user-directed speech for use as context when processing subsequently-received system-directed speech are described. A system receives audio data and/or video data and determines therefrom that speech in the audio data is user-directed. Based on this, the system determine whether the speech is able to be used to perform an action by the system. If the speech is able to be used to perform an action, the system stores a natural language representation of the speech. Thereafter, when the system receives system-directed speech, the system generates a rewrite of a natural language representation of the system-directed speech based on the previously-received user-directed speech. The system then determines output data responsive to the system-directed speech using the rewritten natural language representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexandros Potamianos, Arijit Biswas, Bonan Zheng, Anushree Venkatesh, Yohan Jo, Vincent Auvray, Nikolaos Malandrakis, Aaron Challenner, Xinyan Zhao, Angeliki Metallinou, David A Jara, Jiahui Li, Ying Shi, Nikko Strom, Veerdhawal Pande
  • Patent number: 12375350
    Abstract: Techniques are described for providing managed virtual computer networks that have a configured logical network topology with virtual networking devices, such as by a network-accessible configurable network service, with corresponding networking functionality provided for communications between multiple computing nodes of the virtual computer network by emulating functionality that would be provided by the virtual networking devices if they were physically present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Christopher Miller, Eric Jason Brandwine, Andrew J. Doane
  • Patent number: 12373095
    Abstract: Systems and methods for motion tracking and image capture using a stylus device are described. Example embodiments involve a stylus device outputting/emitting light on a surface and receiving backscattered light at an event sensor of the stylus device. The event sensor may generate event data based in part on intensity of the received backscattered light. The stylus device may perform a motion tracking and/or image capture operation based on the event data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Sensarn, Miro Yakov Shverdin
  • Patent number: 12373108
    Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing optimized host-side device-specific queues for a storage device are described. A host system may implement a host-side queue for a storage device that is optimized using device-specific parameters. When an access request to the storage device is received, the request may be enqueued in an order optimized according to parameters of the storage device. Requests are then sent to the device in an optimized order. Optimization parameters may be provided by the manufacturer and read by the host system from the device, the parameters including physical device geometry and runtime telemetry data. In some embodiments, queue ordering for the host-side queue may be supplied by the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tim Rausch, Andrew Kent Warfield, Martine Bruce Wedlake, Andrew C Schleit, Joshua John Buergel
  • Patent number: 12375553
    Abstract: Techniques for distributing transaction processing based on processor capacity and configuration are described herein. For example, a computer system can determine a trigger event indicating that transactions are no longer to be processed by a first processor. The computer system can select a second processor to which the transactions are to be sent. The second processor can be selected based on a transaction processing capacity of the second processor and a configuration of the second processor that indicates that the second processor is configured to process the transactions. The computer system can receive transaction data indicating that a transaction is to be processed. The transaction can be associated with transaction attributes. The computing system can send the transaction data to the second processor in real-time relative to the transaction data being received based at least in part on the second processor being selected and the transaction attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Manohari Neelakanteshwar, Mohit Gupta
  • Patent number: 12373771
    Abstract: Embodiments are described for implementing a tour generation feature for completing tasks within a facility of an inventory management system. Coordinates for stations, starting locations of inventory holders, and rest locations of the inventory holders of the facility may be obtained. A set of tasks may be determined for each station based on an inventory item requirement associated with each station. A priority order for a subset of inventory holders may be determined based on priority characteristics associated with each inventory holder. Tours for the subset of inventory holders may be determined based on the set of tasks, the coordinates, and travel attributes for each inventory holder. The tours may be modified by iteratively invoking a large neighborhood search algorithm that uses destroy heuristics. Previously determined tours for other subsets of inventory holders may be updated using the modified tours for the subset of inventory holders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Vikas Shivashankar, Michael Andrew Caldara, Joseph Durham, Taoan Huang
  • Patent number: 12375445
    Abstract: Techniques for a license manager service of a cloud system to provide users with the ability to activate and run licensed applications in the cloud system. Manually tracking the usage of software licenses for licensed applications can be cumbersome and error-prone. Further, the process of activating the licenses for third-party applications may be difficult or impossible depending on the activation protocols and procedures put in place by the application providers. The license manager may provide users with the ability to activate and use licensed applications, and may further provide users with a managed experience for activating the licenses for the applications. The license manager may launch licensed applications on virtual resources in a user's VPC, manage the process for activating the licensed applications with third-party providers, and provide the users with access to licensed applications that have been activated and configured by the license manager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Willian Silva Martins, Ramapulla Reddy Chennuru, Sambodhi Chakrabarty, Juveria Kanodia, Srinivasan Ramkumar, Sree Sunku, Raviprasad V Mummidi, Nidhi Harish Panpalia
  • Patent number: D1086141
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Quinn Huffstetler, Christopher Clive Jones
  • Patent number: D1086268
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Burns, Michael O'Connor, Paul Douglas Grearson, Jonathan Howard Biddle
  • Patent number: D1086527
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexsandra M. Bowers, Paul Douglas Grearson, Ryan David Hruska, James Siminoff, Youssef Takhchi, Treasure Hinds, Greg Janky, Alexandra Specht