Patents Assigned to Amazon Technologies
  • Patent number: 10666913
    Abstract: Input functionality for audio/video (A/V) recording and communication doorbells in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure are provided. In one embodiment, an A/V recording and communication doorbell is provided, comprising: a button, a camera, a microphone, a communication module, one or more processors, and a non-transitory machine-readable memory storing a program, the program executable by at least one of the processors, the program comprising sets of instructions for: receiving, by the button, an input and generating, in response to the input, input data; determining, based on the input data, whether the input is received for a threshold period of time; upon determining that the input is received for the threshold period of time, establishing, a connection to a security monitoring service; and in response to establishing the connection, initiating a two-way audio communication between the security monitoring service and the A/V recording and communication doorbell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: James Siminoff
  • Patent number: 10666077
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for remote configuration of battery charging settings. In one embodiment, an example device may include a battery, at least one memory that stores computer-executable instructions, and at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to access the at least one memory and execute the computer-executable instructions to determine that a charger is connected to the device, determine a first length of time that a maximum charging voltage for the battery has been set to a first voltage value, determine that the maximum charging voltage is to be reduced from the first voltage value to a second voltage value, and charge the battery at a maximum of the second voltage value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Bhupal Kanaiyalal Dharia, Feng Wang, Jianlin Chen, Xuezhang Dong
  • Patent number: 10666712
    Abstract: Technology for a publish-subscribe messaging method may include determining a schema for structuring raw data published in a publication by a publisher in a publish-subscribe system at a channel node in a network and distributing the schema from the channel node to other channel nodes in the network. The method may include identifying the publication from the publisher at one of the channel nodes and applying the schema to the raw data of the publication at the channel node, transforming the raw data to transformed data. The transformed data may be provided at a subscriber in the publish-subscribe system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Chetan Manohar Dandekar, Saral Jain
  • Patent number: 10666436
    Abstract: A system uses information submitted in connection with a request to determine if and how to process the request. The information may be electronically signed by a requestor using a key such that the system processing the request can verify that the requestor has the key and that the information is authentic. The information may include information that identifies a holder of a key needed for processing the request, where the holder of the key can be the system or another, possibly third party, system. Requests to decrypt data may be processed to ensure that a certain amount of time passes before access to the decrypted data is provided, thereby providing an opportunity to cancel such requests and/or otherwise mitigate potential security breaches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Branchek Roth, Matthew James Wren, Eric Jason Brandwine, Brian Irl Pratt
  • Patent number: 10664537
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for editable search. A computing device displays a term on a network page. The computing device then displays a search result on the network page, wherein the search result is related to the term. Later, the computing device displays an alternative term in response to a selection of the term. The computing device then sends a search query to a remote application executing on a remote computing device in response to a selection of the alternative term, wherein the search query includes the alternative term. The computing device subsequently updates the search result on the network page with a new search result related to the alternative term.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Ross Mueller, David Robert Cole, Anna Maria Godfrey, Whitney Gale Spathelf
  • Patent number: 10661894
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to an unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”) that transitions in-flight between vertical flight configuration and horizontal flight configuration by changing an orientation of the UAV by approximately ninety degrees. The UAV may include propulsion units that are coupled to a wing. The wing may include wing segments rotatably coupled together by pivots that rotate to position the propulsion units around a center of mass of the UAV when the fuselage is oriented perpendicular with the horizon. In this vertical flight configuration, the UAV may perform vertical flight or hover. During the vertical flight, the UAV may cause the wing to extend outward via the pivots such that the wing segments become positioned substantially parallel to one another and the wing resembles a conventional fixed wing. With the wing extended, the UAV assumes a horizontal flight configuration that provides upward lift generated from the wing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jack Erdozain, Jr., Berk Ozturk, Nicholas Hampel Roberts, Brian C. Beckman
  • Patent number: 10666564
    Abstract: Entropy in routing tables may be increase to perform packet forwarding. Hash tables that store forwarding routes may be divided into multiple hash table segments. Forwarding routes may be stored across the hash table segments in different route segments. When looking up route segments to identify a forwarding route for a destination address of a network packet, digest values generated for previous route segments may be used to determine hash key values to identify hash table entries in a different hash table segment. The forwarding route may be identified according to the hash table entries located based on the digest values for previous route segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Bijendra Singh, Kari Ann O'Brien
  • Patent number: 10666580
    Abstract: A network switch and system for detecting the capacity of available paths in a network and for modifying traffic distribution at each stage of the network, such that traffic is proportionally balanced across the unequal capacity paths. A centralized controller manipulates path weights on each switch such that a load is distributed proportionately to the capacity available to ensure that all available capacity is evenly utilized. A central view of the network is used to determine capacity information, calculate a minimal change set to optimize the traffic flows, and modify the existing multipath group objects. A centralized application can use the capacity information of each switch to build a capacity model of the network. Once the full model has been built up by the application, programming of the specific decisions is done via the controller through an API in communication with each network device's local agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Callaghan, Amit Sahoo, Frederick David Sinn, Ashi Ramachandran Sudhakumari, Arti Bhatt, Matthew Dean Rehder
  • Patent number: 10664538
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described for capturing detailed data access audit trails identifying the portions of pages or other files accessed by users from a specific network content source. A graphical representation of a page or file may be rendered by an intermediary system, and an initial portion of the graphical representation may be sent to a user device along with control data. The user device may send interaction data to the intermediary system as the user interacts with the page or file, which may result in additional graphical content being delivered to the user device by the intermediary system. In the event of a corporate data leak or for other data access audit purposes, a system administrator may search stored interaction data to identify which users accessed or viewed specific information within one or more pages or files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sajeeva Lakmal Bandara Pallemulle, Camilla De Oliveira Penna Tavares, Muneer Mirza
  • Patent number: 10666684
    Abstract: A request to access one or more computing resources is received by a system. The system performs one or more operations in response to the request according to one or more security polices, the one or more operations selected according to a substantially random selection process. A response to the request is caused based at least in part on the one or more operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Branchek Roth, Eric Jason Brandwine
  • Patent number: 10665082
    Abstract: This application is directed to techniques and processes for notifying a user about power levels of electronic devices. For example, a first electronic device may receive data representing the power level of a second electronic device. The first electronic device may then determine that the power level is below a threshold power level. After the determination, the first electronic device may detect a user and/or a client device located within a threshold distance to the first electronic device and/or the second electronic device. The first electronic device may then send data to the second electronic device, wherein the data includes a command to emit light according to a pattern indicating that the power level is below the threshold power level. Additionally, the first electronic device may send a message to the client device, where the message indicates that the power level is below the threshold power level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan David Hruska, Elliott Lemberger, John Modestine, Sang Min Park, Michael V. Recker
  • Patent number: 10661169
    Abstract: A gaming server can host a gaming session involving multiple players utilizing separate gaming devices. To ensure consistency across devices, the gaming server receives player-specific game data from each device then sends updated game state data to the gaming devices. Each gaming device includes a circular buffer that can contain up to a determined amount of recent game state data. If a device is to provide an instant replay, the devices can pull the state data from the circular buffer and cause the game replay to be rendered according to the timeline of the buffered game state data. Once the replay is finished, the game session resumes and new game state data is stored to the circular buffer. The gaming server can also store the game state data such that after the session the state data can be downloaded and a full replay rendered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Saucedo
  • Patent number: 10666569
    Abstract: A journal service manages a journal that holds a number of journal entries. Journal entries are provided to the journal service by one or more producer services, and the journal service provides journal entries to one or more consumer services. Lead consumers retrieve journal entries from the journal service by specifying a named cursor which identifies a location within the journal from which the journal entries are retrieved. The journal service may select a lead producer and a lead consumer from a collection of candidate producers and consumers using a fitness score determined for each candidate producer and consumer. The fitness score may be based at least in part on the processing capability, predicted reliability, and cost of each candidate producer and consumer. The journal service may replace a lead consumer or producer with an alternate consumer or producer in response to a variety of events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Richard Jacques de Kadt, Benjamin Warren Mercier, Carlos Vara Callau, Timothy Daniel Cole, Aaron Gifford Freshwater, Sayantan Chakravorty, Allan Henry Vermeulen
  • Patent number: 10666606
    Abstract: A customer may request a service endpoint for a service in their virtual network on a provider network. In response, a service endpoint is generated in the customer's virtual network, a local IP address in the IP address range of the customer's virtual network is assigned to the service endpoint, and a DNS name is assigned to the service endpoint. Resources on the customer's virtual network resolve the DNS name of the service endpoint to obtain the local IP address of the service endpoint and send service requests for the service to the local IP address of the service endpoint. The service endpoint adds routing information to the service requests and sends the service requests over the network substrate to be routed to the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Siaosi Voegele, Kevin Christopher Miller, Justin Canfield Crites, Andriy Palamarchuk, Andrew Bruce Dickinson, Christopher Carson Thomas, Rebecca Claire Weiss
  • Patent number: 10664385
    Abstract: Techniques for debugging of a collection of instructions executed by a computing system including a set of actors are described herein. A first sub-set of actors from the set of actors to be monitored for debugging and one or more error condition associated with the collection of instructions may be identified. A set of indications including indications of messages processed by the actors, indications of associated actor states prior to processing of the messages, and indications of associated actor states subsequent to processing of the messages may be received from the sub-set of actors. It may then be determined that a first actor of the sub-set of actors has satisfied the error condition. Based at least in part on the set of indications, one or more messages associated with satisfaction of the error condition may then be identified, for example for re-processing and debugging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Julio Villalobos, Martin Paul Zolnieryk, Andrew Kyle McWilliams, Brian James Schuster
  • Patent number: 10664375
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for stress management in a searchable data service. The searchable data service may provide a searchable index to a backend data store, and an interface to build and query the searchable index, that enables client applications to search for and retrieve locators for stored entities in the backend data store. Embodiments of the searchable data service may implement a distributed stress management mechanism that may provide functionality including, but not limited to, the automated monitoring of critical resources, analysis of resource usage, and decisions on and performance of actions to keep resource usage within comfort zones. In one embodiment, in response to usage of a particular resource being detected as out of the comfort zone on a node, an action may be performed to transfer at least part of the resource usage for the local resource to another node that provides a similar resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick W. Ransil, Aleksey V. Martynov, James S. Larson, James R. Collette, Robert Wai-Chi Chu, Partha Saha
  • Patent number: 10664797
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for an interface for verifiable tracking of an item through a supply chain using a distributed electronic ledger. For example, when an item is added to a catalog system, the item information may be included in the creation element at the start of the ledger for the item. A certification authority may be included to verify that items received correspond to the item included in the catalog based on one or more certification rules. If a certification rule is satisfied, a record may be added to indicate transfer of the item from a provider to the catalog system. The certification information may be dynamically presented with item description information such as in response to searches of the catalog system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Louis Chappell, Rui Filipe Lopes Joaquim, Anselmo Talotta, Hakan Bahcivanci, Ana Paula Ribeiro Atayde
  • Patent number: 10665245
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for automatically identifying a speaker. Artifacts of automatic speech recognition (“ASR”) and/or other automatically determined information may be processed against individual user profiles or models. Scores may be determined reflecting the likelihood that individual users made an utterance. The scores can be based on, e.g., individual components of Gaussian mixture models (“GMMs”) that score best for frames of audio data of an utterance. A user associated with the highest likelihood score for a particular utterance can be identified as the speaker of the utterance. Information regarding the identified user can be provided to components of a spoken language processing system, separate applications, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hugh Evan Secker-Walker, Baiyang Liu, Frederick Victor Weber
  • Patent number: 10664903
    Abstract: Three-dimensional models (or avatars) may be defined based on imaging data captured from a customer. The avatars may be based on a virtual mannequin having one or more dimensions in common with the customer, a body template corresponding to the customer, or imaging data captured from the customer. The avatars are displayed on displays or in user interfaces and used for any purpose, such as to depict how clothing will appear or behave while being worn by a customer alone or with other clothing. Customers may drag-and-drop images of clothing onto the avatars. One or more of the avatars may be displayed on any display, such as a monitor or a virtual reality headset, which may depict the avatars in a static or dynamic mode. Images of avatars and clothing may be used to generate print catalogs depicting the appearance or behavior of the clothing while worn by the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Yuji Haitani, William R. Hazlewood, Alaa-Eddine Mendili, Dominick Khanh Pham
  • Patent number: 10664331
    Abstract: A technology is provided for generating a customized application program interface (API) in a service provider environment. A model is created of computing resources and data hosted by a service provider environment. An API is generated based on the model for the computing resources and the data, wherein the API is configured to enable the client to access the computing resources and data. Calls are received from the client at an API gateway hosting the API to access the data and the computing resources hosted by the service provider environment. A response to the calls is sent wherein the response is generated by the computing resources using the data accessible to the API in the service provider environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Ryan Paul Green