Patents Assigned to Amazon Technologies
  • Encoding traffic classification information for networking configuration
    Patent number: 9712390
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for encoding traffic classification information for a networking configuration system are disclosed. At a networking configuration server, a hierarchy of network traffic categories and corresponding networking configuration options are generated. In addition, steps of a procedure usable to classify network traffic units into the categories are determined. Data structures to represent the hierarchy and the procedure are constructed at the networking configuration server and provided to a computing device of a distributed system to be used to schedule network transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Avichai Mendle Lissack
  • Data record auditing systems and methods
    Patent number: 9710859
    Abstract: Systems and methods are presented for processing and auditing data records using a stream based data processing system. Data output by data center computers may be collected and used to generate data records that include values for metrics related to computer resource consumption. These data records may be inserted into a stream which can include auditors and various other processors. The auditors may determine whether any of the data records include discrepancies. A gating processor can determine which processors, if any, to provide data records that include discrepancies. Further, an amendment processor can be used to resolve discrepancies detected by the auditors. In addition, a billing processor can be used to generate bills that identify the discrepancies and include information relating to the cause and actions taken in response to the discrepancies detected in the data records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Marvin Michael Theimer, David John Ward, Jr., Léon Thrane, Don Johnson
  • Virtual application installation and storage for digital distribution platforms
    Patent number: 9710481
    Abstract: A virtual installation module running on a user device determines that at least one application file chunk is to be stored in a memory of the user device prior to being executed, wherein the application file chunk includes a subset of the data of the application and is stored on a remote storage device that correspond to an application to be executed by the processing device. The virtual installation module determines when a request to execute the application on the user device will be received and stores the at least one application file chunk from the remote storage device in the memory of the user device based at least in part on when the at least one application file chunk will be utilized during execution of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald John Darling, Jr., Douglas Sim Dietrich, Jaee Patwardhan
  • Load-balanced, persistent connection techniques
    Patent number: 9712625
    Abstract: Techniques for creating a persistent connection between client devices and one or more remote computing resources, which may form a portion of a network-accessible computing platform. This connection may be considered “permanent” or “nearly permanent” to allow the client device to both send data to and receive data from the remote resources at nearly any time. In addition, both the client device and the remote resources may establish virtual channels over this single connection. If no data is exchanged between the client device and the remote computing resources for a threshold amount of time, then the connection may be severed and the client device may attempt to establish a new connection with the remote computing resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Fred Torok, Frederic Johan Georges Deramat, Vikram Kumar Gundeti, Peter Spalding VanLund
  • Delivering media content to achieve a consistent user experience
    Patent number: 9712860
    Abstract: Techniques for delivering content are described that vary the bit rate with which the content is delivered to achieve a consistent level of quality from the user's perspective. This is achieved through the use of quality metrics associated with content fragments that guide decision making in selecting from among the different size fragments that are available for a given segment of the content. Fragment selection attempts to optimize quality within one or more constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Benjamin Franklin Waggoner, Joshua B. Barnard, Matthew James Bordenet, James Eric Knowler, Marc Joliveau, Patrik Schnell
  • Smart contact lists
    Patent number: 9710134
    Abstract: A list of contacts or other files displayed on a computer device may be customized such that an order of the list, or a visual appearance of one or more of the files in the list, may indicate the extent of a user's behavior or activity with regard to the one or more files. The list may be reordered based on the frequency or recency of events associated with such behavior or activity, thereby causing more frequently or recently accessed files to be ranked higher in a list, and less frequently or recently accessed files to be ranked lower in the list. Additionally, an aspect of the appearances of the files in the list may be modified to reflect a frequency or recency with which events associated with one or more of the files have occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Ryan Scott Russell
  • Inter-process communication automated testing framework
    Patent number: 9710368
    Abstract: Application developers may develop applications or portions of application that do not have a corresponding user interface. Testing non-user interface elements of an application may require application developers to develop corresponding user interface elements for all or a portion of the executable code included in the application. Developers may test non-user interface elements of an application or library by wrapping the executable code in a sample application managed by a test harness. The test harness may transmit test operations configured to test the non-user interface elements of the application to the sample application over an inter-process communication channel. The sample application may execute the test and return the results of the test to the test harness using inter-process communication methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Pavan Gundeti, Jesper Mikael Johansson, Daniel Wade Hitchcock
  • Display stack with compressible capacitive sensors
    Patent number: 9710087
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for ambient light sensing for electronic displays. In one embodiment, a device may include a cover layer, a display, and a capacitive sensor stack positioned in between the cover layer and the display. The capacitive sensor stack may include a first sensor optically coupled to the cover layer, a light guide optically coupled to the first sensor, where the light guide is translucent and compressible, and a second sensor optically coupled to the display and to the light guide. The capacitive sensor stack may be configured to detect a force received at the cover film and to compress in response to the force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nagendra Bage Jayaraj, Jung Sik Yang, Sukwon Noh, Charles Robert Watson
  • Adaptive throttling for shared resources
    Patent number: 9712453
    Abstract: Customers of shared resources in a multi-tenant environment can have token buckets allocated that have an associated depth and fill rate, with each token enabling the customer to obtain an amount of work from a shared resource. A resource management system can monitor one or more system or output metrics, and can adjust a global fill rate based at least in part upon values of the monitored metrics. Such an approach can provide a fair distribution of work among the customers, while ensuring that the metrics stay within acceptable ranges and there are no drastic changes in performance levels of the system. The fill rate can update dynamically with changes in the monitored parameters, such that the system can float near an equilibrium point. Commitments for specific minimum service levels also can be met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tate Andrew Certain, James R. Hamilton
  • Coordinating distributed order execution
    Patent number: 9710865
    Abstract: An order processing system operates in conjunction with external systems to process orders received by an online shopping system. The order processing system maintains execution references that indicate that an external system is performing an action with respect to an item in an order. Each execution reference may store data defining the state of the corresponding execution. The external systems may update the stored state according to a state machine, which may be an acyclic directed graph. The order processing system also maintains an execution registry including data specifying the actions performed by external systems that may not be performed in combination. When a request is received to start an action with respect to an item in an order, the order processing system uses the execution references associated with the item and the execution registry to determine if the request may be granted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Bradford W. Siemssen
  • Time-based device interfaces
    Patent number: 9710123
    Abstract: A user interface on a computing device can utilize a calendar bar with various portions of the interface, such as a lock screen and home or application screens. The calendar bar can enable the user to view upcoming appointments and determine how much the user has before those appointments. The user can tilt the device or select an appointment to obtain additional information. If the device is unlocked or otherwise accessible, the user can also navigate back and forth between a calendar display and other information, such as past or present actions with respect to the device, and can scroll back in forth in time using any of these displayed portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy T. Gray
  • Method and system for dynamic web services utilization
    Patent number: 9710830
    Abstract: A method and system for dynamic pricing of web services utilization. According to one embodiment, a method may include dynamically predicting utilization of a web services computing resource that is expected to occur during a given interval of time, and dependent upon the dynamically predicted utilization, setting a price associated with utilization of the web services computing resource occurring during the given interval of time. The method may further include providing the price to a customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Allan H. Vermeulen, Jeffrey P. Bezos
  • Grouping routing resources for isolated virtual network traffic management
    Patent number: 9712386
    Abstract: A connectivity manager (CM) of a provider network establishes a plurality of ERGs (edge resource groups), each comprising at least an edge router and a network marker translation agent (NMTA). The CM selects a particular ERG to be used for network traffic between a first set of resources of a virtual computing service of the provider network and a second set of resources outside the provider network. To enable connectivity between the first and second set of resources, the CM initiate propagation of (a) routing metadata to an edge router of the particular ERG and/or (b) a network marker mapping entry to an NMTA of the particular ERG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Po-Chun Chen, Russell Richard Leighton, Wesley Douglas Doonan, Kevin Christopher Miller
  • Congestion control in storage systems
    Patent number: 9710407
    Abstract: An I/O request directed to a portion of a storage object managed at a distributed storage service is received. A congestion control parameter value to be used to schedule a storage operation corresponding to the I/O request is determined. The congestion control parameter is based at least in part on an offset within the storage object to which the I/O request is directed. The storage operation is scheduled in accordance with the congestion control parameter at a selected physical storage device to which the portion of the storage object is mapped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Matti Juhani Oikarinen, Matteo Frigo, Michael Anthony Nuss, Wayne William Duso
  • Flexible scripting platform for troubleshooting
    Patent number: 9710316
    Abstract: A scripting service may provide a scripting platform to users of the scripting service. The users may cause execution of various scripts and/or modify or generate new scripts associated with the scripting service. Execution of the various scripts may cause the scripting service to transmit application programming interface (API) calls to other services. The API calls may cause the other service to return data to the scripting service. The scripting service may then serialize the returned data and provide the serialized data to a particular user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mahendra Manshi Chheda, John Russell Lane, Morgan Zia Nichols, Oguz Mut, Bilal Quadri, Tyler Ricks Southwick
  • Point of interest mapping
    Patent number: 9710873
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to, among other things, providing point of interest item recommendations and/or map information. In some examples, a profile for a first user may be determined based at least in part on point of interest information. Additionally, point of interest associations may be received from one or more of a group of users, where at least one of the group is not the first user. Based at least in part on the determined profile of the first user and the received point of interest associations, a map route and/or map information associated with a route from a first location to at least a second location may be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter J. Hill
  • Customer support interface
    Patent number: 9710122
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for an error support application. Error reports are received and correlated with aggregated known errors. Support is initiated as a function of whether the error is caused by a provided infrastructure service or developer functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Suvenderan Pillay, Mahendra Manshi Chheda, Suraj Kumar Subrun, Daine Mimico Neale Mamacos, Cornelle Christiaan Pretorius Janse Van Rensburg
  • Locality based quorum eligibility
    Patent number: 9710344
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for distributing data items. A plurality of nodes forms a distributed data store. A new master candidate is determined through an election among the plurality of nodes. Before performing a failover from a failed master to the new master candidate, a consensus is reached among a locality-based failover quorum of the nodes. The quorum excludes any of the nodes that are in a failover quorum ineligibility mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael T. Helmick, Jakub Kulesza, Stefano Stefani, David A. Lutz
  • Bootstrapping authentication of second application via confirmation by first application
    Patent number: 9710640
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments that facilitate bootstrap authentication of a second application by way of a user confirmation via a first application, where the first application is authenticated using trusted credentials. A security credential for a user account is received from a user. A first application is authenticated with an authentication service using the security credential. One or more user actions are received by the first application. The user actions constitute a confirmation of a bootstrap authentication request submitted by a second application. Data encoding the user actions is sent to the authentication service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Harsha Ramalingam, Jesper Mikael Johansson, Bharath Kumar Bhimanaik
  • Electronic device
    Patent number: D792468
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Heinz-Dominik Langhammer, Giles David Matthew McWilliam, Marc Rene Walliser