Patents Assigned to Amazon Technologies
  • Patent number: 9155215
    Abstract: An electronic device including a display supported by a substrate is described. A plurality of electrochemical cells are embedded in the substrate to provide power without increasing the size and weight of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Yuting Yeh
  • Patent number: 9152277
    Abstract: A touch sensor, a projection surface, and a projector are combined to form a touchable projection surface system. An image presented by the projector is modified at least partially in response to touches on the touchable projection surface assembly. Implements such as styli, rollers, brushes, and so forth, as well as body parts such as fingers, palms, feet, and so forth may impart touches. Responses to the imparted touches may vary at least partially in response to the different implements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Julien G. Beguin, Ilya D. Rosenberg
  • Patent number: 9154479
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided herein to enable secure proxying of network traffic between trusted and untrusted environments. In particular, a secure proxy may be provided that includes a set of security layers and a secure endpoint resolver, either of which may be provided and/or updated by a service provider. The security layers may be associated with policies that may be applicable to various network protocol layers (e.g., application layer). The security layers may be used to inspect, restrict and/or modify traffic between the trusted and untrusted environment to ensure data and network security. The secure endpoint resolver may be used, for example, by an application in the trusted environment, to obtain current service-related information such as the list of IP addresses currently associated with a service or service endpoint. Such endpoint information may be used, in turn, to update security layer policies such as a white list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Tushaar Sethi
  • Patent number: 9151693
    Abstract: A combinatorial test device is configurable to contemporaneously test one or more sensors of output devices free from user intervention. A device under test such as a user device is placed in a test fixture of the combinatorial test device. Under the control and monitoring of a test controller testing takes place. The testing may be performed for quality assurance after assembly or repair, or to determine the reliability of the device such as by testing the device until a particular life cycle value is reached or a component in the device fails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Yang, Patrick J. Tang, Zhuo Gao, Liu Zhongzhou, Ali-Reza Bahmandar
  • Patent number: 9153157
    Abstract: A display device has a set of picture elements, one active matrix and a display area, the display area including a first area and a non-overlapping second area, the first area comprising monochrome picture elements, and the second area comprising color picture elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Johannes Feenstra
  • Patent number: 9153231
    Abstract: Neural networks may be used in certain automatic speech recognition systems. To improve performance of these neural networks, they may be updated/retrained during run time by training the neural network based on the output of a speech recognition system or based on the output of the neural networks themselves. The outputs may include weighted outputs, lattices, weighted N-best lists, or the like. The neural networks may be acoustic model neural networks or language model neural networks. The neural networks may be retrained after each pass through the network, after each utterance, or in varying time scales.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Stan Weidner Salvador, Frederick Victor Weber
  • Patent number: 9152992
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for facilitating gift campaigns in a social networking system. An initiator of a gift campaign can select a recipient of a gift campaign as well as participants. Embodiments of the disclosure can facilitate selection of participants, collection of funds for the gift campaign and fulfillment of the gift to the recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Rajendra K. Vippagunta, James J. Massey, Anand Subbarayan, Anand D. Paka, Shrinivas Mohan, Sarthak Anand, Aditya Rekha Dharanipragada
  • Patent number: 9154515
    Abstract: Information security may include defending information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, modification, destruction, and so forth. Described herein are systems, methods and devices for enabling a user device to implement functions for dynamically identifying and reacting to potentially malicious activity. In one example, a user device configures a sentinel node to identify potentially malicious behavior by causing the sentinel node to analyze data from selected emitter nodes and selected algorithms. The user device may also specify how the sentinel node reacts to potential malicious activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Francesco Russo, Dominique Imjya Brezinski, Robert Hanna Mahfoud, Martin Matthew O'Reilly
  • Patent number: 9152990
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for providing a product comparison application utilizing crowdsourcing. A network page is rendered providing a grid comprising a plurality of products, product attributes, and/or attribute data. Additions and/or modifications of attributes, products, and/or attribute data are assigned a score to determine which addition or modification to display and/or associate with a product catalog. The grid provides a view for comparison of products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Max L. Kanter, Adam C. Sanders, Laxmikant A. Agrawal, David Erdmann
  • Patent number: 9152460
    Abstract: Systems and method for the management of resource dependent workflows are provided. One or more resource control devices monitor usage of a computing resource by server computing devices. Each resource control device may direct a server computing device to proceed with a workflow or to pause processing a workflow. A resource control device may further direct a server computing device to take resource conserving actions. When a computing resource is determined to be available, a resource control device may direct a paused server computing device to resume a workflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eden G. Adogla, Jamin W. Collins
  • Patent number: 9152724
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for a search result suppression application. A search result suppression application selects items from an electronic catalog. Suppression rules are selected and applied to the selected items. Items which meet conditions defined in the suppression rules are excluded from search results responsive to search queries subsequently applied to the electronic catalog.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin C. Eitreim, Sachin B. Singh
  • Patent number: 9152461
    Abstract: Systems and method for the management of resource dependent workflows are provided. One or more resource control devices monitor usage of a computing resource by server computing devices. Each resource control device may direct a server computing device to proceed with a workflow or to pause processing a workflow. A resource control device may further direct a server computing device to take resource conserving actions. When a computing resource is determined to be available, a resource control device may direct a paused server computing device to resume a workflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eden G. Adogla, Jamin W. Collins
  • Patent number: 9152505
    Abstract: Systems, methods and related processes for securely erasing and/or rendering permanently inaccessible data stored on storage systems securely erased is described. Such storage systems may, in some aspects, integrate hardware capable of secure erasure. In some aspects, a cryptographically-based system is utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc J. Brooker, David R. Richardson, Madhuvanesh Parthasarathy, Tate Andrew Certain
  • Patent number: 9153902
    Abstract: Certain embodiments herein relate to mounting configurations for transferring forces or loads away from connectors for a device. A mounting element may be secured to a connector and, in response to the connector receiving a certain amount of force, may move the connector to a surface or an element associated with the device that may be more suitable for withstanding the force. Various positions of a mounting element with respect to a connector, and/or geometric variations of the mounting element, may allow the mounting element to move the connector in multiple planes, such as vertical, horizontal, and/or diagonal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Paul Davies, Angel Wilfredo Martinez, Andrew McIntyre, Brandon Michael Potens
  • Patent number: 9151946
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electrowetting display device includes a preliminary partition wall pattern formed on a lower substrate on which a pixel electrode of an oxide series and an insulation layer are formed. The preliminary partition wall pattern is disposed along a boundary of the pixel electrode. A water-repellent layer including a self-assembled monolayer having a hydrophobic property is formed on the lower substrate. A portion of the preliminary partition wall pattern and the water-repellent layer formed on the preliminary partition wall pattern are removed to form a partition wall pattern on the insulation layer and to form a water-repellent pattern on the pixel electrode and the insulation layer between partition walls of the partition wall patterns. A fluid layer is formed on the lower substrate on which the water-repellent pattern is formed. The lower substrate and an upper substrate are combined with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Woo-Yong Sung, A-Ram Lee, Tae-Gyun Kim, Tae-Woon Cha, Sang-Gun Choi
  • Patent number: 9151953
    Abstract: A wearable computer device may include multiple imaging devices or other sensors working in concert to recognize conditions, objects or areas of an environment in which the wearable computer device is situated. The device may include a imaging device and a sensor, which may but need not be a imaging device, for sensing and capturing information regarding the environment. The sensor may be configured to perform one or more specific tasks, such as recognizing particular items, and the imaging device may be generally configured to perform multiple tasks. Upon the execution of a specific task by the sensor, information or instructions regarding the specific task may be provided to a wearer of the device, or may cause the imaging device to automatically operate to gather further information. Such information gathered from the imaging device or the sensor may be provided to the user, such as on a computer display mounted to the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Fareed Adib Qaddoura
  • Patent number: 9152149
    Abstract: A system for managing inventory items includes a portable inventory holder and an unmanned drive unit configured to move the inventory holder between locations in an inventory facility. The inventory facility includes a plurality of uniquely identifiable fiducial markers having a small set of values distributed in a pattern. The drive unit captures at least one image of a subset of the plurality of the fiducial markers. The at least one captured image is processed to determine a location of the drive unit within the facility. A path is determined along which the drive unit moves to an inventory holder and moves the inventory holder to another location. The pattern of fiducial markers can include one or more repeated instances of uniquely identifiable fiducial markers. A fiducial marker can encode information using a readable code and at least one attribute of the fiducial marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andriy Palamarchuk, Jeremiah David Brazeau
  • Patent number: 9153141
    Abstract: User content access events pertaining to a content item, such as an ebook, audio, video file, and so on, are collected and analyzed to determine progress data, including abandonment information about when the content item, or a portion thereof, has been abandoned. Once determined, recommendations may be presented based on the progress data from similar users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Francis J. Kane, Jr., Tom Killalea, Llewllyn J. Mason
  • Patent number: 9154551
    Abstract: Systems and methods for processing a DNS query to identify and implement pre-processing information by a DNS server component in anticipation of a corresponding content request from a client computing device are provided. The pre-processing information can correspond to identification of content to be preloaded or other actions to be implemented by one or more computing devices in association with an anticipated client content request. Based on identification of the content or future actions, a DNS server component can provide the pre-processing information to one or more computing devices, such as computing devices of a CDN service provider and/or an original content provider, in advance of a corresponding request for content from the client computing device in order to improve performance associated with responding to the client request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Ryan F. Watson
  • Patent number: 9154534
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for automatically discovering services available between two or more media devices. These services may be configured to provide content for presentation, present content, and so forth. Once discovered, connections may be established between the media devices. These connections may be used to control or deliver content using the services. The discovery, establishment of the connections, or both may occur automatically without user intervention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward James Gayles, Varadarajan Gopalakrishnan, Shih-Chun Chang