Patents Assigned to Amazon Technologies
  • Patent number: 10846780
    Abstract: Techniques for using sensor data from an auto replenishment device (ARD) to generate recommendations for ordering other items not associated with an ARD, updating a quantity of an already ordered item, or updating a time period associated with delivery of the ordered items. In embodiments, order history information associated with a user profile for a plurality of items may be maintained. Consumption data from a sensor of an ARD may be received that indicates a current amount of the item. A subset of items may be determined based at least in part on the consumption data and the order history information. In accordance with at least one embodiment, instructions for delivering the subset of items to a location associated with the user profile may be executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Dave Jonathan Lefkow, Chris Brown, Samuel Stevens Heyworth
  • Patent number: 10848712
    Abstract: Within environments, such as audio-video environments, users may synchronize output of multiple media source(s). To synchronize the output of the media source(s), users may define setting(s) associated with outputting the media source(s) at one or more devices. For example, the user may delay or accelerate the output of audio and/or video sources. Interfaces presented on one or more of the devices may allow the user to change the settings. For environments including multiple users, each user may define setting(s) associated with each user to synchronize output of their associated media source(s). Recommendations may be provided to users, that when implemented, attempt to synchronize the media sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Siddhartha Shankara Rao, John Joseph Dunne, Nathan Thomas
  • Patent number: 10847137
    Abstract: An approach to speech recognition, and in particular trigger word detection, implements fixed feature extraction form waveform samples with a neural network (NN). For example, rather than computing Log Frequency Band Energies (LFBEs), a convolutional neural network is used. In some implementations, this NN waveform processing is combined with a trained secondary classification that makes use of phonetic segmentation of a possible trigger word occurrence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Arindam Mandal, Nikko Strom, Kenichi Kumatani, Sankaran Panchapagesan
  • Patent number: 10848431
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for interfaces to manage virtual network interface objects. A system may include resource instances and a network interface virtualization coordinator. Responsive to a record creation request, the coordinator creates an interface records that may include an IP address, subnet information and security properties. The coordinator may, in response to a request to attach the record to a resource instance, enable traffic directed to the IP address to flow to the resource instance. In response to a subsequent detach request, the traffic to the IP address may be disabled at the resource instance. The same interface record may be attached to another resource instance in response to another attach request, enabling traffic directed to the IP address to flow to the second resource instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric W. Schultze, Aaron C. Thompson, Arijit Ganguly, Padmini C. Iyer, Tobias L. Holgers, Christopher J. Lefelhocz, Ian Roger Searle
  • Patent number: 10847153
    Abstract: Systems and methods for temporarily associating user accounts with voice-enabled devices are disclosed. A voice-enabled device, which may be associated with a default account, may be situated in an environment, such as a hotel room. A user may desire to utilize the voice-enabled device to perform one or more actions. In examples, some or all of the actions may require the use of a system resource not available to the default account. In these examples, the user may provide contact information to be used to send a message to personal device of the user to acquire user account information. Upon receipt of such information, the user account may be temporarily associated with the voice-enabled device, and may be dissociated from the voice-enabled device upon the lapse of a period of time and/or occurrence of a dissociation event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Rebecca Joy Lopdrup Miller, Liron Torres, Kadirvel Chockalingam Vanniarajan, Gonzalo Alvarez Barrio, Dick Clarence Hardt
  • Patent number: 10843882
    Abstract: Cable robots may be used to automatically load items onto one or more surfaces in any environment. An item may be received on a carrier that is connected to tensioning actuators of a cable robot by one or more cables in tension. The actuators of the robot may be manipulated in concert to move the carrier from a first position to a second position, which may be fixed or in motion, at which the item may be expelled from the carrier. The carrier may include induction wheels and/or conveyors for receiving the item thereon and for expelling the item therefrom. The cable robot may be provided in series with a conveyor and mounted to a frame, and used to load items onto a delivery vehicle, such that the frame may be withdrawn as items are loaded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Craig Worsley, Karl Eric Schrader, Michael Ellsworth Bundy, Charles Edward Rice
  • Patent number: 10848427
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to enable the load-balanced use of globalized network addresses, addressable throughout a network to access a network-accessible service. A set of global access points are provided, which advertise availability of the globalized network addresses. The access points enable rapid use of connection-oriented communication sessions by conducting an initialization phase of the sessions locally on the access point. Session context information is then handed off to an endpoint for the service, which can provide the service through the already-established sessions. To avoid breaking sessions due to changes in network routing, each access point can apply a uniform selection criteria for endpoints, such that if client traffic is routed to a different access point, that access point redirects the traffic to the same endpoint previously servicing the traffic via an established session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Anton Stephen Radlein, Harvo Reyzell Jones, Hardeep Singh Uppal, Dennis Marinus, Dhiraj Gupta
  • Patent number: 10848346
    Abstract: In accordance with a designation of a private alias endpoint as a routing target for traffic directed to a service from within an isolated virtual network of a provider network, a tunneling intermediary receives a baseline packet generated at a compute instance. The baseline packet indicates a public IP (Internet Protocol) address of the service as the destination, and a private IP address of the compute instance as the source. In accordance with a tunneling protocol, the tunneling intermediary generates an encapsulation packet comprising at least a portion of the baseline packet and a header indicating the isolated virtual network. The encapsulation packet is transmitted to a node of the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Christopher Miller, Richard Alexander Sheehan, Douglas Stewart Laurence, Marwan Salah EL-Din Oweis, Andrew Bruce Dickinson
  • Patent number: 10846659
    Abstract: Access to calendar data indicating the state of time blocks is varied according to visibility conditions associated with at least some of the time blocks. Parameters for a meeting are used to determine a state in which to indicate a block of time, which may conflict with the meeting. The state may be either an occupied or unoccupied state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory Branchek Roth
  • Patent number: 10846960
    Abstract: A garage door is controlled to open using an audio/video (A/V) recording and communication device. The device detects a vehicle within an area about the garage door and receives, using a camera, image data representative of an object associated with the vehicle. The device also compares the image data representative of the object associated with the vehicle with previously stored image data and identifies the object based on the comparing of the image data representative of the object with the previously stored image data. The device also authenticates an electronic device within the vehicle that is associated with the object by wirelessly communicating with the electronic device and determines, based at least in part on the authenticating of the electronic device within the vehicle, that the vehicle is an authorized vehicle. The device also transmits an actuation command to the garage door to cause the garage door to open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Elliott Lemberger, John Modestine, Mark Siminoff, Peter Gerstberger, Spiro Sacre, Christopher Loew
  • Patent number: 10846284
    Abstract: A data analysis platform may be based on database views. A build module may receive, from a source code repository, information about a modified definition of a view. The build module may identify schema objects on which the view depends and form instructions for creating the view and the schema objects. The instructions may be executed to form the updated version of the view in a schema space separate from a production schema space. A deployment pipeline may coordinate replacing the production version of the view with the new version in response to validating the new version of the view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yangbae Park, Aaron John Seldon Steers, Jason Scott Flittner, Stuart William Barnes, Siddharth Sridhar
  • Patent number: 10848418
    Abstract: A representation of packet processing operations is obtained from a client of a provider network. A set of packet processing nodes is configured at a premise external to the provider network, and the representation is transmitted to the premise. In response to a reception of a network packet, the set of packet processing nodes perform the packet processing operations at the external premise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Stewart Allen, Andrew Davenport, Ciprian Dan Cosma, Anthony Nicholas Liguori, Joseph Elmar Magerramov, Nachiappan Arumugam
  • Patent number: 10846163
    Abstract: Described herein is a hybrid approach to error reporting, using a combination of hardware and software, for peripheral component interconnect (PCI) express devices. The device hardware detects an error on a packet, where the packet is for a transaction and received from a host computer. Upon detecting the error, the device hardware generates an interrupt that is processed in software. In certain embodiments, the software based processing involves determining, based on the packet, that the transaction is directed to an address space of an emulated configuration register. The software based processing further involves identifying a function as being associated with the error, determining attributes associated with the error, and storing the attributes and an identifier associated with the function in a location available to the device hardware, thereby enabling the device hardware to report the attributes and identifier to the host computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hani Ayoub, Adi Habusha, Itay Poleg
  • Patent number: 10845978
    Abstract: Techniques for scroll positioning of electronic documents, such as web pages, using element association are described. One or more first document elements associated with a first scroll position of a first document version may be determined. One or more first data representations of the one or more first document elements may then be generated. One or more second document elements may then be determined from within a second (i.e., reloaded) document version. One or more second data representations of the one or more second document elements may then be generated. At least one association between at least one of the one or more first data representations and at least one of the one or more of the second data representations may then be determined. A second scroll position for display of the second document version may then be determined based, at least in part, on the at least one association.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jari Juhani Karppanen, Amey Shreekant Jahagirdar, Jae Yoon Kim, Kartikey Bhatt, Serghei Drozdov, Sunitha Kalkunte Srivatsa
  • Patent number: 10848734
    Abstract: Techniques are described for encoding image frames of media content to be displayed within a three-dimensional projection space. Image frames at opposing sides of a seam of the three-dimensional projection space implementing a virtual reality (VR) environment can be identified and characteristics of portions of those image frames at the seam can be determined. Encoding parameters for a portion of one image frame can then be generated based on the characteristics of the portion of the other image frame on the opposite side of the seam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Benjamin Franklin Waggoner, Yongjun Wu
  • Patent number: 10847158
    Abstract: Techniques for synchronously outputting content by one or more devices are described. A system may receive a user command and may receive content responsive to the command from an application(s). The content may include various kinds of data (e.g., audio data, image data, video data, etc.). The system may also receive a presentation framework from the application, with the presentation framework indicating how content responsive to the input command should be synchronously output by one or more devices. The system determines one or more devices proximate to the user, determines which of the one or more devices may be used to output content indicated in the presentation framework, and causes the one or more devices to output content in a synchronous manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Felix Wu, Rohan Mutagi, Manuel Jesus Leon Rivas, Noel Evans, Frédéric Johan Georges Deramat, Miguel Alberdi Lorenzo, Lev Danielyan, Vikram Kumar Gundeti, Vijitha Raji
  • Patent number: 10843347
    Abstract: An end-of-arm-tool (EOAT) can elongate from a retracted position into an extend position to be configured to fit within a space available for contacting and grasping an object. The EOAT includes arrays of linkage elements having corresponding arrays of suction cups attached to linkage element of the linkage element array. In the retracted position, the arrays are pulled away from the distal end of the EOAT to be alongside of a longitudinal rail. In the extended position, a proximal end of the array is moved toward the distal end of the EOAT such that the linkages glide outwardly and linearly to deploy additional suction cups of the suction cup array against the object-to-be-lifted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc
    Inventors: Sean Murphy, Onkar Dabeer, Zachary Tokarczyk
  • Patent number: 10848591
    Abstract: Systems and methods for sender profile and/or recipient profile disambiguation and/or confirmation are disclosed. In instances where a sender profile is not indicated by a user sending a communication from a communal device, heuristic data may be utilized to infer the sender profile. Similar heuristic data may also be used when selection of the sender profile is associated with a low confidence level. Heuristic data may also be used to infer the recipient profile when the user does not indicate the recipient profile or when selection of the recipient profile is associated with a low confidence. Various confirmations may result from the sender and recipient profile disambiguation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christo Frank Devaraj, James Alexander Stanton, Sumedha Arvind Kshirsagar, Christopher Geiger Parker, Aaron Takayanagi Barnet, Venkatesh Kancharla, Gregory Michael Hart
  • Patent number: 10846810
    Abstract: Some aspects of the present embodiments enable users of audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices to report video footage to one or more reward providers. The reward provider may then review the reported video footage, determine whether a crime may have been committed, determine an amount of a reward to be offered, and post a reward offer through one or more outlets. The present embodiments may help in reducing crimes by publicizing criminal events and incentivizing members of the public to come forward with information that can be used to help identify and apprehend criminal perpetrators and/or to solve crimes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James Siminoff, August Cziment
  • Patent number: D902977
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew J England, Wen-Yo Lu, Christopher Loew