Patents Assigned to Amazon Technologies
  • Patent number: 12197407
    Abstract: Described technologies generate a data structure corresponding to values sequenced based on a plurality of timestamps associated with the values. The data structure can include a first section identifying a first timestamp associated with the plurality of timestamps and a number representing how many timestamps are associated with the plurality of timestamps, and a second section including at least a value linked to the first timestamp, and an additional value representing an encoding type associated with the second section. The data structure can be stored in computer-implemented storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrea Giuliano, Gary Taylor, Gavin Bramhill
  • Patent number: 12200339
    Abstract: A device including a mount, a first arm coupled to the mount, and a second arm coupled to the mount. The first arm includes first teeth and the second arm includes second teeth. A first light assembly rotationally couples to the first arm, and includes a first coupler that engages with the first teeth. A second light assembly rotationally couples to the second arm, and includes a second coupler that engages with the second teeth. A camera assembly pivotably couples to the mount, and includes a camera, a first passive infrared (PIR) sensor, and a second PIR sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexsandra M. Bowers, Ryan David Hruska, Kit William Klein, Chang-Feng Lan, Eric S. Micko, Jon-Christopher Parkman, Sonny Windstrup Rasmussen, Youssef Takhchi
  • Patent number: 12198179
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for updating planogram data associated with a facility. The planogram may indicate, for different shelves and other inventory locations within the facility, which items are on which shelves. For example, the planogram data may indicate that a particular item is located on a particular shelf. Therefore, when a system identifies that a user has taken an item from that shelf, the system may update a virtual cart of that user to indicate addition of the particular item. In some instances, however, a new item may be stocked on the example shelf instead of a previous item. The techniques described herein may use sensor data generated in the facility to identify this change and update the planogram data to indicate an association between the shelf and the new item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Behjat Siddiquie, Petko Tsonev, Claire Law, Connor Spencer Blue Worley, Jue Wang, Bharat Singh, Hue Tuan Thi, Jayakrishnan Kumar Eledath, Nishitkumar Ashokkumar Desai
  • Patent number: 12197863
    Abstract: Methods and systems for automatically processing a document may include classifying a document, such as a medical document, as one or more document types based at least in part on one or more machine learning models and one or more tokens extracted from the medical document, determining a token contribution weight of each token towards the classification, modifying the medical document based on the token contribution weights of the one or more tokens, and displaying the modified medical document on a display to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Murad Mehmet Salahi
  • Patent number: 12198517
    Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, devices and methods for deactivating tags. For instance, an electronic device may include antennas that transmit signals and/or fields for deactivating the tags. In some examples, the electronic device includes a first gate that includes a first portion of the antennas and a second gate that includes a second portion of the antennas. To deactivate the tags, the electronic device may detect locations of an object relative to the electronic device. The electronic device may then activate a respective tag and/or a respective group of tags based on the location of the object. For example, the electronic device may activate a first tag and/or a first group of tags when the object is at a first location, activate a second tag and/or a second group of tags when the object is at a second location, and/or so forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Rachid M Alameh, Jason Thomas Roberts Hart
  • Patent number: 12198046
    Abstract: A visualization tool for machine learning models obtains metadata from a first training node at which a multi-layer machine learning model is being trained. The metadata includes a parameter of an internal layer of the model. The tool determines a plurality of metrics from the metadata, including respective loss function values corresponding to several training iterations of the model. The tool indicates the loss function values and the internal layer parameter values via a graphical interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Xia, Weixin Wu, Meng Wang, Ranju Das
  • Patent number: 12200449
    Abstract: A system configured to perform user orientation estimation to determine a direction a user is facing using a deep neural network (DNN). As a directionality of human speech increases with frequency, the DNN may estimate the user orientation by comparing high-frequency components detected by each of the multiple devices. For example, a group of devices may individually generate feature data, which represents audio features and spatial information, and send the feature data to the other devices. Thus, each device in the group receives feature data generated by the other devices and processes this feature data using a DNN to determine an estimate of user orientation. In some examples, the DNN may also generate sound source localization (SSL) data and/or a confidence score associated with the user orientation estimate. A post-processing step may process the individual user orientation estimates generated by the individual devices and determine a final user orientation estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mahathir Monjur, Mrudula V Athi, Md Tamzeed Islam, Wontak Kim
  • Patent number: 12197960
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for execution of multiple tasks associated with a set of code in an on-demand network code execution system. A user may provide a set of code that is associated with the multiple tasks. The system may generate a first virtual machine instance for execution of a first task. The system may determine that a second task is associated with the first task and may identify a location of the first virtual machine instance. The system may further identify a second virtual machine instance for execution of the second task based on the location of the first virtual machine instance. For example, the system may identify the first virtual machine instance from a plurality of pre-generated virtual machine instances and/or may generate the first virtual machine instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Kakovitch, Rajesh Kumar Pandey, Arijit Ganguly, Luben Karavelov
  • Patent number: 12200118
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing cryptographic services, including providing key pairs. A key management service receives a web service application programming interface or other such request to generate a key pair. To respond to the request, the key management service obtains a pregenerated key pair that is securely stored and provides the key pair in response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajkumar Copparapu, Peter Da-Ming Zieske, Benjamin Elias Seidenberg, Justin Jon Derby
  • Patent number: 12200424
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for capacitive touch sensing using system-in-package components and batteries. In one embodiment, a device may include a flexible printed circuit, a button cell electrically coupled to the flexible printed circuit, and a system-in-package that is electrically coupled to the flexible printed circuit. The system-in-package may include an electromagnetic interference shield, and a capacitive touch sensor. The capacitive touch sensor may be configured to detect a change in capacitance via a change in electric field at the electromagnetic interference shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Chaoran Yang, Binbin Yang, Xin Zhao, Lei Wang, Fubin Song
  • Patent number: 12200067
    Abstract: Techniques for session-based device grouping are described. In an example, a computer system receives first data requesting an output, determines a function to provide content data based at least in part on the first data, determines a session identifier of a session associated with execution of the function, and determines session data associated with the session identifier. The session data includes a first device identifier of a first device, an indication that the first device is outputting the content data, and a second device identifier of a second device. The computer system also causes, based at least in part on the session data including the second device identifier, the second device to output the content data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Prashant Jayaram Thakare, Nicholas Adam Cummings, Ratika Anand, Faqin Zhong, Parathan Sivagnanasundaram, Casey Stuart Smith
  • Patent number: 12200645
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for implementing a distributed unit in a radio access network that synchronizes its clock with a radio unit. A distributed unit may be deployed in a location where it cannot receive timing information from a satellite or may lack the equipment to obtain and process satellite signals. The clock of the distributed unit may thus drift relative to the clocks of the radio units, which may cause the distributed unit to mistime its transmissions of data to radio units for delivery to user devices. The distributed unit may prevent clock drift by obtaining timing information from the radio units, determining an amount of clock drift that is occurring, and applying a correction factor to keep the distributed unit clock synchronized with the radio unit clock. The distributed unit may determine how often to synchronize based on the severity and variability of the clock drift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Ozgur Dural
  • Patent number: 12198359
    Abstract: Systems and methods for communicating in a network using share signals in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure are provided. In one embodiment, a method for communicating in a network may include receiving, from a first client device associated with an A/V recording and communication device, at a backend server in network communication with the A/V recording and communication device, a share signal comprising location data and first image data captured by a first camera of the A/V recording and communication device, the share signal including a command to share the first image data with a network of users; generating a power-up command signal based on the share signal; identifying at least one second camera to power up; and transmitting the power-up command signal to the at least one second camera, by the backend server, using a network interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Elliott Lemberger
  • Patent number: 12198005
    Abstract: A quantum computing service may use multiple quantum computers to execute a same quantum computing algorithm to improve the quantum computational accuracy. The quantum computing service may instruct individual ones of the multiple quantum computers to execute the quantum computing algorithm repeatedly for a number of times. The quantum computing service may obtain a plurality of results from the multiple quantum computers. The quantum computing service may aggregate the plurality of results to generate an ensemble result, and provide the ensemble result to a customer as a final result of the quantum computing algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Bruun Madsen, Jeffrey Paul Heckey, Cody Aoan Wang, Yunong Shi
  • Patent number: 12197308
    Abstract: On-circuit utilization monitoring may be performed for a systolic array. A current utilization measurement may be determined for processing elements of a systolic array and compared with a prior utilization measurement. Based on the comparison, a throttling recommendation may be provided to a management component to determine whether to perform the throttling recommendation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas A Volpe, Ron Diamant
  • Patent number: 12197578
    Abstract: Techniques are described for monitoring and analyzing input/output (I/O) messages for patterns indicative of ransomware attacks affecting computer systems of a cloud provider, and for performing various remediation actions to mitigate data loss once a potential ransomware attack is detected. The monitoring of I/O activity for such patterns is performed at least in part by I/O proxy devices coupled to computer systems of a cloud provider network, where an I/O proxy device is interposed in the I/O path between guest operating systems running on a computer system and storage devices to which I/O messages are destined. An I/O proxy device can analyze I/O messages for patterns indicative of potential ransomware attacks by monitoring for anomalous I/O patterns which may, e.g., be indicative of a malicious process attempting to encrypt or otherwise render in accessible a significant portion of one or more storage volumes as part of a ransomware attack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric Jason Brandwine
  • Publication number: 20250016522
    Abstract: A system for providing a geofence service is disclosed. The geofence service receives an encrypted geospatial index for a specified geofence based on application of a hash function to respective ones of a plurality of locations for the specified geofence in accordance with a secret key that is unknown to the geofence service. The geofence service stores the encrypted geospatial index to a data store according to a geofence identifier for the specified geofence. The geofence service receives an encrypted device location identifier generated based on application of the hash function to a representation of a current location of a user device in accordance with the secret key. The geofence service determines whether the user device is located in a location of the plurality of locations based on a query of the encrypted geospatial index according to the encrypted device location identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Szymon Ulewicz
  • Publication number: 20250015987
    Abstract: A host device may include an interconnect, a host memory, and a set of processor cores. A processor core may execute a VM assigned to a cryptographic key and may send a request to access a physical address in the host memory toward the interconnect. An enforcer device may receive the request and extract a key identifier from the request. The enforcer device may determine whether to allow the request to access the physical address via the interconnect based on the key identifier and a list of allowed keys stored on the enforcer device. If the enforcer device determines to not allow the request to access, the enforcer device may modify the physical address and/or the key identifier of the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ali Ghassan Saidi, Adi Habusha
  • Patent number: D1057710
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tim Wall, Miyuki Matsumoto
  • Patent number: D1057723
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tim Wall, Jeffrey Philip Infante