Patents Assigned to Amazon Technologies
  • Patent number: 10583973
    Abstract: A combination carrying device includes a rigid basket having a flexible bag nested therein. The flexible bag may be formed from one or more fabrics or like materials and define a tapered volume having a pair of handle extensions. The rigid basket may be formed from plastics or like materials and include rotatable handles disposed on an upper perimeter thereof, and may also define a tapered volume which corresponds to the tapered volume of the flexible bags. A customer carrying a combination carrying device in a materials handling facility (e.g., a warehouse or retail establishment) may place one or more items in the flexible bag nested within the rigid basket, and extract the flexible bag from the rigid basket upon arriving at a destination or after executing a purchase for the items therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiao Wang, Aaron Benjamin Nather, Jason Michael Famularo, Matthew James Bird, Thomas Duester
  • Patent number: 10588069
    Abstract: A method of route discovery in wireless mesh networks comprises: receiving, by a first mesh network device of a wireless mesh network, from a second mesh network device of the wireless mesh network, a first route request identifying a destination mesh network device of the wireless mesh network and a first path selection metric value; determining a path selection metric increment, wherein the path selection metric increment reflects a radio channel contention by the first mesh network device and the second mesh network device; generating a second path selection metric value by adding the path selection metric increment to the first path selection metric value; and broadcasting a second route request identifying the destination mesh network device and the second path selection metric value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Xi Chen, Ashish Kumar Shukla, Avinash Joshi, Qiang Hu
  • Patent number: 10587687
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and computer-accessible storage media for providing redundant storage gateways. A client may create a storage gateway group and add storage gateways to the group. The client may assign one or more volumes on a remote data store to each the storage gateways in the group. Volume data for each storage gateway in the group may be replicated to at least one other storage gateway in the group. If one of the gateways in the group becomes unavailable, one or more other gateways in the group may take over volumes previously assigned to the unavailable gateway, using the replicated data in the group to seamlessly resume gateway operations for the respective volumes. Client processes that previously communicated with the unavailable gateway may be manually or automatically directed to the gateway(s) that are taking over the unavailable gateway's volumes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James Christopher Sorenson, III, Yun Lin
  • Patent number: 10587405
    Abstract: A request a request to perform a cryptographic operation is received, the request including a first identifier assigned to a key group, the key group comprising a plurality of second identifiers, with the plurality of second identifiers corresponding to a plurality of cryptographic keys. A second identifier is determined, according to a distribution scheme, from the plurality of second identifiers, and the cryptographic operation is performed using a cryptographic key of the plurality of cryptographic keys that corresponds to the second identifier that was determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Branchek Roth, Matthew John Campagna, Benjamin Elias Seidenberg
  • Patent number: 10582299
    Abstract: Techniques for simulating a microphone array and generating synthetic audio data to analyze the microphone array geometry. This reduces the development cost of new microphone arrays by enabling an evaluation of performance metrics (False Rejection Rate (FRR), Word Error Rate (WER), etc.) without building device hardware or collecting data. To generate the synthetic audio data, the system performs acoustic modeling to determine a room impulse response associated with a prototype device (e.g., potential microphone array) in a room. The acoustic modeling is based on two parameters—a device response (information about acoustics and geometry of the prototype device) and a room response (information about acoustics and geometry of the room). The device response can be simulated based on the microphone array geometry, and the room response can be determined using a specialized microphone and a plane wave decomposition algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohamed Mansour, Guangdong Pan
  • Patent number: 10581964
    Abstract: A service provider may apply customer-selected or customer-defined auto-scaling policies to a cluster of resources (e.g., virtualized computing resource instances or storage resource instances in a MapReduce cluster). Different policies may be applied to different subsets of cluster resources (e.g., different instance groups containing nodes of different types or having different roles). Each policy may define an expression to be evaluated during execution of a distributed application, a scaling action to take if the expression evaluates true, and an amount by which capacity should be increased or decreased. The expression may be dependent on metrics emitted by the application, cluster, or resource instances by default, metrics defined by the client and emitted by the application, or metrics created through aggregation. Metric collection, aggregation and rules evaluation may be performed by a separate service or by cluster components. An API may support auto-scaling policy definition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Daly Einkauf, Luca Natali, Bhargava Ram Kalathuru, Saurabh Dileep Baji, Abhishek Rajnikant Sinha
  • Patent number: 10579618
    Abstract: A data warehouse system may include a connection pool manager. The connection pool manager may invoke a first client-provided function for rerouting a connection request from a first database to a second database based on a query that is to be executed using the connection. The connection pool manager may invoke a second client-provided function for rewriting the query to be executed to leverage database aspects found on the second database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Strahan
  • Patent number: 10580408
    Abstract: A speech recognition platform configured to receive an audio signal that includes speech from a user and perform automatic speech recognition (ASR) on the audio signal to identify ASR results. The platform may identify: (i) a domain of a voice command within the speech based on the ASR results and based on context information associated with the speech or the user, and (ii) an intent of the voice command. In response to identifying the intent, the platform may perform a corresponding action, such as streaming audio to the device, setting a reminder for the user, purchasing an item on behalf of the user, making a reservation for the user or launching an application for the user. The speech recognition platform, in combination with the device, may therefore facilitate efficient interactions between the user and a voice-controlled device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Michael Hart, Peter Paul Henri Carbon, John Daniel Thimsen, Vikram Kumar Gundeti, Scott Ian Blanksteen, Allan Timothy Lindsay, Frederic Johan Georges Deramat
  • Patent number: 10581675
    Abstract: A system for deploying an application using an infrastructure identified based on metadata associated with source code of the application. The system extracts code metadata during compile time and build time of the application source code. Application configuration parameters are identified from the metadata and matched to an application configuration pattern selected from multiple application configuration patterns stored in a repository. A learning process is applied wherein feedback data is used to create new application configuration patterns and update existing patterns. An infrastructure script is generated using infrastructure parameters identified using the selected application configuration pattern. The infrastructure script is executed to provision an infrastructure for deployment of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Balaji Thiagarajan Iyer
  • Patent number: 10579422
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing backlogged tasks are disclosed. In the method and apparatus, upon receiving a task pertaining to a requestor group, a number of outstanding tasks associated with the requestor group is determined and the task is submitted for processing if the number of outstanding tasks is within an allowable range. If the number of outstanding tasks is outside of the allowable range, take one or more actions may be taken, which may include rejecting the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Branchek Roth, Bradley Jeffery Behm
  • Patent number: 10580066
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for systems and methods for personalizing portable shopping displays using mobile devices and inaudible tones. Example methods may include causing a first inaudible tone to be emitted by a speaker, the first inaudible tone configured to initiate a change in a user interface at a mobile device, determining a second inaudible tone from a user device using a microphone, the second inaudible tone including a user identifier of a user, and determining a user interaction with a product at a product display. Certain example methods may include determining user preference data, and causing presentation of product information for the product using the user preference data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: William R. Hazlewood, Janet Ellen Galore, Alaa-Eddine Mendili, Dominick Khanh Pham, Jeff Gelfuso
  • Patent number: 10579229
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for a media player customization application. A media player framework defines basic functionality to render media items. Plugins may be added to the media player framework to implement desired functionality. The plugin model allows for a media player to minimize file sizes by only included required functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Aneeb Naveed Qureshi
  • Patent number: 10582015
    Abstract: In one aspect, the disclosure teaches a system configured to receive from a device a request for content including an identifier of a first set of dictionaries available locally at the device. The system is also configured to select a second set of dictionaries to compress content requested by the device based at least on the set of dictionaries available at the device, the second set of dictionaries selected from a third set of local system dictionaries available at the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Michael Schurman, Almann T. Goo, Muneer Mirza, Christopher Allen Suver
  • Patent number: 10581715
    Abstract: Systems and methods for an incast mitigation approach that first modifies network responses for content requests above a threshold size to be delayed according a response latency selected from an established latency range. Additionally, as incast characteristics are analyzed from network traffic, the volumes can selectively modify the individual established latency range to increase the latency range during periods of higher incast characteristics and to decrease the latency range when incast characteristics appear to be decreasing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James Michael Thompson, Valentin Gabriel Priescu, Dragos Diaconescu, Colin Harrison Brace, Anandh Mahalingam, Danny Wei
  • Patent number: 10579694
    Abstract: Content items, such as e-books, audio files, video files, and the like, may be tagged as associated with a location based on observing the locations at which users access the content items. A rich set of tag data may be gathered by additionally observing such things as the date and time when users access the content items as well as allowing the users to tag the content items with comments or ratings. A fine granularity of tagging may be achieved by associating the tags with specific portions of the content items. Content recommendations based on the tags may be provided to other users when those users are in approximately the same location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan A. Jenkins, John Rauser, William Alexander Strand
  • Patent number: 10579831
    Abstract: A computer system encodes a plurality of components of a data set into a probabilistic data structure and digitally signs the probabilistic data structure. The computer system provides the digital signature for the probabilistic data structure and the probabilistic data structure to various entities. An entity can verify an individual component of the data set within the probabilistic data structure by verifying the individual component against the probabilistic data structure and the digital signature of the probabilistic data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Alan Rubin, Gregory Branchek Roth
  • Patent number: 10580149
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods are disclosed for performing image processing at a camera-level. For example, a camera service may run on top of a camera hardware abstraction layer (HAL) and may be configured to perform image processing such as applying a blurring algorithm, applying a color filter and/or other video effects. An application may pass metadata to the camera service via an application programming interface (API) and the camera service may use the metadata to determine parameters for the image processing. The camera service may apply the blurring algorithm for a first period of time before transitioning to unblurred image data over a second period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Guhan Lakshminarayanan, Alexander Bruce Gentles, Naushirwan Navroze Patuck, Christopher Hong-Wen Tserng, Vinod Kancharla Prasad, Reto Koradi, Kunal Patel
  • Patent number: D877143
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Eli Wall, Christopher Green
  • Patent number: D877227
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Michael Seflic, Marc Rene Walliser, Christopher Green
  • Patent number: D877237
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Niranjan Madan Mohan Bhatia, Eliot Kim, Han Zhang