Amazon Patents

Amazon.com, Inc. sells electronics, books, media and other general merchandise through its websites. The company also manufactures and sells electronic devices, including its Kindle e-Readers, Fire tablets and Fire phones. The company also provides services to developers and enterprises through Amazon Web Services, which offers computing, storage, database, analytics and deployment services.

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  • Publication number: 20240086749
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for a service for managing quantum computing resources are disclosed. A task management service receives a description of a task specified by a client. From a pool of computing resources of a provider network, the service selects a quantum computing resource for implementation of the task. The quantum computing resource comprises a plurality of quantum bits. The service causes the quantum computing resource to run a quantum algorithm associated with the task. The service receives one or more results of the quantum algorithm from the quantum computing resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Richardson, Marc John Brooker, James Michael Thompson
  • Publication number: 20240089197
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for interfaces to manage inter-regional connectivity for direct network peerings. A system may include a connectivity coordinator, a first resource collection in a first geographical zone and a second resource collection in a second geographical zone. The coordinator implements a programmatic interface defining connectivity operations. The coordinator receives a request via the interface to establish a logically isolated network path to the second resource collection on behalf of a client that has a dedicated physical link set up to connect to the first resource collection. In response to the request, the coordinator performs one or more configuration operations to enable traffic to flow from the client's network to the second resource collection over a logically isolated network path using the dedicated physical link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew J. Doane, Kevin Christopher Miller, David B. Lennon
  • Publication number: 20240086158
    Abstract: A quantum programming environment may include an assisted composition system to assist the composition of quantum objects. The assisted composition system may receive a partial portion of a quantum object that is being composed but not yet fully composed by a user. The assisted composition system may determine a first abstract representation of the partial portion of the quantum object being composed. The assisted composition system may determine that the first abstract representation resembles at least a first portion of a second abstract representation of a stored quantum object stored in a library for the quantum programming environment. The assisted composition system may obtain a second portion of the stored quantum object from the library and provide it to the user as a next portion to the partial portion of the quantum object being composed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yunong Shi, Saravanakumar Shanmugam Sakthivadivel
  • Publication number: 20240089264
    Abstract: Access level and security group information can be updated for a data instance without having to take down or recycle the instance. A data instance created in a data environment will have at least one default security group. Permissions can be applied to the default security group to limit access via the data environment. A control security group can be created in a control environment and associated with the default security group. Permissions can be applied and updated with respect to the control security group without modifying the default security group, such that the data instance does not need to be recycled or otherwise made unavailable. Requests to perform actions with respect to the control security groups are made via the control environment, while allowing native access to the data via the data environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Grant Alexander MacDonald McAlister
  • Publication number: 20240086176
    Abstract: A feature deployment service of a provider network may deploy feature processing units (FPUs) to implement data processing features at both a provider network and edge devices. The use of FPUs may allow a client to use new features at the edge, without delays due to compliance/testing or software upgrades. An FPU includes a model and compute logic that are used to implement a data processing feature. A feature processing service deploys the FPU to an FPU engine at the provider network and also deploys the FPU to edge devices of the client's network that each include an edge FPU engine. The FPU engine at the provider network and the edge FPU engine at each edge device conform to a common specification/API, allowing deployment and use of the same FPU/data processing features at both the cloud and the edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Palani Chinnakannan, Nicolas Pouyez, Venkata Harish Kommaraju, Lomash Kumar, Christopher Michael Morrissey
  • Publication number: 20240087611
    Abstract: A timecoding technique for determining and assigning timecodes for variable frame rate video. Content identified for timecode assignment is decoded, and for sequential frames of the content, portions of timestamps are compared to determine if the frames are from a same time period (e.g., from the same second in time). For a subsequent frame from the same time period, an index is atomically incremented, a timecode generated from a combination of the time period and the index, and the timecode assigned to the frame. For a subsequent frame from a different time period, the index is initialized, a timecode generated from a combination of the different time period and the initialized index, and the timecode assigned to the frame. Accumulated durations of frames may be used in place of timestamps, in some instances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David Montgomery, Max Eliaser, Nathaniel James Hebert
  • Patent number: 11927472
    Abstract: Modular storage systems include load sensors disposed beneath or in association with platforms. The load sensors are pulse-sampled for signals corresponding to loads at time intervals, rather than continuously, in order to conserve electrical power. An item associated with a transaction is identified based on a change in the loads, as determined from the pulse-sampled signals. The platforms are aligned at horizontal or non-horizontal angles, and photovoltaic power sources with banks of photovoltaic cells are mounted to front edges of the platforms. When a user reaches over one of the photovoltaic cells to access an item on a platform, a level of power or voltage generated by the photovoltaic cell is diminished. The item closest to the photovoltaic cell having the diminished power or voltage, or a customer that accessed the item, may be identified accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Ray DesJardien, Chelsea Olson, Robert M. Riggs, Dan Beltzer, Paul Eugene Munger, Aaron M. McDaniel, Andrew James Pierce, Michael Mosman, Nathan Pius O'Neill
  • Patent number: 11927963
    Abstract: A physical space contains stationary objects that do not move over time (e.g., a couch) and may have non-stationary objects that do move over time (e.g., people and pets). An autonomous mobile device (AMD) determines and uses an occupancy map of stationary objects to find a route from one point to another in a physical space. Non-stationary objects are detected and prevented from being incorrectly added to the occupancy map. Point cloud data is processed to determine first candidate objects. Image data is processed to determine second candidate objects. These candidate objects are associated with each other and their characteristics assessed to determine if the candidate objects are stationary or non-stationary. The occupancy map is updated with stationary obstacles. During navigation, the occupancy map may be used for route planning while the non-stationary objects are used for local avoidance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Shreekant Gayaka, Boshen Niu, Simon Edwards-Parton
  • Patent number: 11925866
    Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for modifying network applications. For instance, remote system(s) may store an application on a first virtual storage device and store a modification for the application on a second virtual storage device. The remote system(s) may then install the application on a virtual server using the first virtual storage device. Additionally, the remote system(s) may receive a request to access the application along with an indication to enable the modification for the application. Based on the request, the remote system(s) may modify the application on the virtual server using the second virtual storage device. The remote system(s) may then launch the application, as modified, on the virtual server. Once the application is launched, the system(s) may provide the application to a user device using the virtual server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Matt Adams, Ryan Panella, Samuel Arthur Sidney Bartlett, Onur Bulut, Robin Andrew Boaz
  • Patent number: 11928044
    Abstract: Techniques for a service provider network to communicatively couple services and/or applications in a serverless computing environment. A pipe component can configure a pipe to integrate two services by transmitting data between services and/or applications using the pipe. The pipe may also be configured to transform how a service processes an event, control timing of event transmissions using the pipe, define an event structure for an event, and/or batch events. Pipes enable an application or service to exchange data with a variety of services provided by the service provider network while controlling what type of data is generated, stored, or transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nikita Pinski, Mohamed Marzouk Adedoyin Mounirou, Jakub Mateusz Narloch
  • Patent number: 11926428
    Abstract: The disclosure describes an automated aerial vehicle (AAV) and system for automatically detecting a contact or an imminent contact between a propeller of the AAV and an object (e.g., human, pet, or other animal). When a contact or an imminent contact is detected, a safety profile may be executed to reduce or avoid any potential harm to the object and/or the AAV. For example, if a contact with a propeller of the AAV by an object is detected, the rotation of the propeller may be stopped to avoid harming the object. Likewise, an object detection component may be used to detect an object that is nearing a propeller, stop the rotation of the propeller, and/or navigate the AAV away from the detected object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Buchmueller, Brian C. Beckman, Amir Navot, Brandon William Porter, Gur Kimchi, Jeffrey P. Bezos, Frederik Schaffalitzky
  • Patent number: 11928029
    Abstract: A system that implements a data storage service may store data for a database table in multiple replicated partitions on respective storage nodes. In response to a request to back up a table, the service may back up individual partitions of the table to a remote storage system independently and (in some cases) in parallel, and may update (or create) and store metadata about the table and its partitions on storage nodes of the data storage service and/or in the remote storage system. Backing up each partition may include exporting it from the database in which the table is stored, packaging and compressing the exported partition for upload, and uploading the exported, packaged, and compressed partition to the remote storage system. The remote storage system may be a key-value durable storage system in which each backed-up partition is accessible using its partition identifier as the key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Maximiliano Maccanti, Timothy Andrew Rath, Rama Krishna Sandeep Pokkunuri, Akshat Vig, Clarence Wing Yin Ng, Srivaths Badrinath Copparam, Rajaprabhu Thiruchi Loganathan, Wei Xiao, William Alexander Stevenson
  • Patent number: 11926048
    Abstract: Modular components may be used to build a robotic manipulator. A subset of the modular components can be selected to build the robotic manipulator based on a schematic. The subset of modular components can be assembled in different combinations to build the robotic manipulator. Using one of the combinations of the subset of modular components, the robotic manipulator can be built.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Bertan Atamer, Yuri Anatoly Ivanov
  • Patent number: 11928150
    Abstract: Systems and methods for image-based item identification are disclosed. Image data corresponding to one or more images depicting an item may be sent to one or more remote systems for image-based item identification. The identification indications and/or identification confidence scores received from the remote systems may be aggregated and weighted based at least in part on one or more factors related to the remote systems, the results, domains, image capture timing, image capture angles, and/or events to more accurately identify an item depicted in the images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Justin-Josef Angel, Milena Sadee, Cressida Magdalen Harding, Eric Alan Breitbard, Animesh Mishra, Vlastimil Pis, Robert Steven Murdock
  • Patent number: 11928099
    Abstract: Time and value ordering may be applied for items stored in data backups. A change log that persists changes to a data set may be updated with changes and used to update an in-memory table for the data set, which describes changes to items up to a current time. An event may be detected to seal the in-memory table from subsequent updates and a persistent data object that orders the items in the in-memory according to both keys of the respective items and the respective time values of the items, as stored in the change log, may be generated and stored as part of a backup for the data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James Christopher Sorenson, III, Hao He, Nicholas Gordon, Mrithyunjaya Kumar Annapragada
  • Patent number: 11928491
    Abstract: Techniques are described for enabling model-driven server migration workflows in a cloud provider network. Cloud provider networks often provide various types of tools and services that enable users to migrate computing resources (e.g., servers, databases, applications, etc.) from users' on-premises computing environments to a cloud provider network. A model-driven server migration service as described herein comprises a plurality of modular migration components including, e.g., a snapshot validation component, a snapshot conversion component, an injection component, etc. The model-driven server migration service enables users to customize server migration workflows using server migration templates containing descriptive configurations for some or all of the provided migration components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jiangtao Zhang, Wenjing Cao
  • Patent number: 11928637
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a system and method for generating a delivery plan for multi-tier delivery schemes are described. Embodiments may include generating a delivery plan for a region including multiple delivery locations. The delivery plan may specify at least one agent delivery route within the region. The delivery route may include at least one shipment acquisition location coinciding with an expected travel route of a vehicle conveying shipments. The agent delivery route may be traversed by an agent that is to deliver a specific group of shipments acquired from the vehicle at the shipment acquisition location. Embodiments may include selecting the specific group of shipments for delivery on the delivery route. The selecting is based on a time constraint for delivering the group of shipments to respective delivery locations along the delivery route, and historical delivery time information for previous deliveries to the delivery locations along the delivery route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrea C. Steves, Sebastian Lehmann
  • Patent number: 11925447
    Abstract: A method and system including a monitoring device to detect, during a session, a set of radar signals associated with first respiratory-related movements of a first person and second respiratory-related movements of a second person located within a detection zone comprising at least a portion of a bed. The method and system dynamically generate an out-of-bed zone adjacent to a side of the bed. The out-of-bed zone is monitored to detect motion within the zone to determine when the first person exits and enters the bed. The method and system identify a portion of the set of radar signals collected during a time period when the first person is determined to be out of the bed. The identified portion of the set of radar signals is removed from the set of radar signals collected during the sleep session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Pratik Kalpesh Patel, Feng Zhang, Koohyun Um, James J. Wolfe
  • Patent number: 11928558
    Abstract: A request is received associated with a review. Within first content, a first field of interest and a second field of interest are identified and within second content, a third field of interest and a fourth field of interest are identified. A review is generated that includes a first indication of the first field of interest and a second indication of the second field of interest within the first content, as well as a third indication of the third field of interest and a fourth indication of the fourth field of interest within the second content. The review is transmitted to a device of a reviewer for reviewing the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Siddharth Vivek Joshi, Anuj Gupta, Mark Chien, Jonathan Thomas Greenlee, Stefano Stefani, Warren Barkley, Jon I. Turow, Sindhu Chejerla, Kriti Bharti, Prateek Sharma
  • Patent number: 11930495
    Abstract: An IoT service of a provider network may be used to optimize downlink scheduling for edge devices that use a radio communication protocol (e.g., LoRaWAN). A processing instance receives DL packets from a client application that are to be sent to an edge device. The processing instance adds metadata entries (device ID, message ID) to a metadata queue and stores the DL packets into a data store. A scheduling instance obtains a metadata entry and the associated DL packet, formats the DL packet based on edge device information, and publishes the packet to a gateway topic. A separate connection instance receives the formatted DL packet and sends it to a gateway of the client network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hongbo Tian, Rongsheng Huang, Jungtao Liu
  • Patent number: 11928238
    Abstract: A domain registry (DR) service executing within a service provider network protects data, such as account data, that is associated with different accounts for testing and/or performing other operations/actions by registering an account with one or more domains. The DR service may register an account in one or more domains based on a request by a user. The operations performed that uses/changes data associated with accounts may be restricted based on the domains for which an account is registered. For example, an account that is registered in a “testing” domain may have different workflows/operations performed using the account data associated with the account registered in the testing domain as compared to an account that is not part of the testing domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuk Lun Patrick Kwan, Gary Rittinger, Ting-Jui Ho, Gabriel Marcelo Fusca, Barrett Lowell Brumitt
  • Patent number: 11930082
    Abstract: Techniques for communications in a multi-zone space are described. In an example, a system stores data indicating devices in zones of a space and data indicating zones that are associated with a communications session. A display in a zone presents graphical user interface indicating the zones associated with the communications session. Incoming audio data can be mixed with audio data detected from another participating zone and a speaker in the zone can output this audio data. Audio data detected from the participating zone can also be mixed and sent to a remote device that is an endpoint of the communications session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Amandeep Singh, Ravi Kumar Alamanda, Monish Nagisetty, Michele Mixter
  • Patent number: 11930222
    Abstract: A system for encoding video for film grain synthesis is disclosed. A video encoding system includes a film grain description estimator configured to receive an input video comprising film grain and analyze the input video to generate a film grain description for the input video. The video encoding system includes a video encoder configured to receive the input video and, responsive to a determination that the input video comprises film grain, configure one or more encoder settings based on presence of the film grain to achieve a compression target for the input video. The video encoder is further configured to encode the input video comprising film grain using the encoder settings configured based on the presence of film grain to produce encoded video. The video encoding system is configured to send the encoded video and the film grain description to a video destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Ramzi Khsib
  • Patent number: 11928182
    Abstract: A plurality of training iterations is conducted for a machine learning task. A given iteration includes generating a version of a stacking model using a portion of a labeled data set. Proposed labels are then obtained in the iteration using the generated version of the stacking model for a set of unlabeled records. The unlabeled records and their proposed labels are then used to generate versions of base models for the iteration. After the training iterations are completed, a trained ensemble of models including the stacking model and the base models is stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tarik Arici, Vito Nicola Mandorino, Ismail Baha Tutar
  • Patent number: 11930300
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for replacing image data from a virtual machine with local image data, such as for a video application. In some aspects, a method for replacing image data in a video application may include obtaining first image data from a camera connected to the user device and transmitting the first image data to a virtual machine that executes the video application. The user device may receive a video application image from the virtual machine that includes an indication that identifies the first image data. The user device may identify the first image data in the video application image based on the indication and replace it with second image data obtained from the camera device to produce a modified video application image. The client device may render the modified video application image in a virtual computing environment displayed on the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jose Miguel Resendiz Castillo, Harsh Murarka, Paolo Maggi
  • Patent number: 11929152
    Abstract: Techniques for predicting a pair of an enzyme primary sequence and a substrate, and interaction probability for the pair are described. An exemplary method includes receiving a request to predict a pair of an enzyme primary sequence and a substrate, and interaction probability for the pair; combining an enzyme vector, a substrate vector, and an interaction indication for the enzyme and substrate to form a machine learning model input; applying a machine learning model to the machine learning model input to predict the pair of an enzyme primary sequence and a substrate, and interaction probability for the pair; and outputting a result of the application of the machine learning model including the predicted pair of an enzyme primary sequence and a substrate, and interaction probability for the pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Sewall Ford, Zachary Wu, Layne Christopher Price, Franziska Seeger, Yen Ling Adelene Sim
  • Patent number: 11928880
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for detecting an uncovered portion of a body of a person in a frame of video content. In an example, a first machine learning model of a computing system may output a first score for the frame based on a map that identifies a region of the frame associated with an uncovered body part type. Depending on a value of the first score, a second machine learning model that includes a neural network architecture may further analyze the frame to output a second score. The first score and second score may be merged to produce a third score for the frame. A plurality of scores may be determined, respectively, for frames of the video content, and a maximum score may be selected. The video content may be selected for presentation on a display for further evaluation based on the maximum score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaohang Sun, Mohamed Kamal Omar, Alexander Ratnikov, Ahmed Aly Saad Ahmed, Tai-Ching Li, Travis Silvers, Hanxiao Deng, Muhammad Raffay Hamid, Ivan Ryndin
  • Patent number: 11929070
    Abstract: Techniques for performing centralized unsuperivised learning in a multi-domain system are described. A user may request labeled data for an ML task, where the request includes a prompt for obtaining relevant explicit user feedback. The system may use the prompt to collect explicit user feedback for relevant runtime user inputs. After a duration of time (in the user's request for labeled data) has elapsed, the system determines whether collected user feedback indicates processing of the user input was defective and, if so, determines a cause of the defective processing. The system then uses one or more label generators to generate labeled data using the collected user feedback, whether the processing was defective, and the determined defect cause.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ruhi Sarikaya, Zheng Du, Xiaohu Liu, Kai Liu, Sriharsha Venkata Chintalapati, Chenlei Guo, Hung Tuan Pham, Joe Pemberton, Zhenyu Yao, Bigyan Rajbhandari
  • Patent number: 11930039
    Abstract: Devices and techniques are generally described for detection of network anomalies. In various examples, first data describing network communication between a plurality of source entities and a plurality of destination entities may be received. In some examples, respective feature data representing network communication between a respective source entity and one or more of the plurality of destination entities may be generated. In some examples, an unsupervised machine learning model may be used to determine a first number of clusters of the feature data. In various cases, a first source entity that is an outlier with respect to the first number of clusters may be determined based at least in part on the first number of clusters. The first source entity may be classified as an anomalous entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sarath Geethakumar, Wayne Chiang, Shravan Kumar Gopal, Yash Zalavadia
  • Patent number: 11930013
    Abstract: Techniques are described for providing an access control list (ACL) assisted process for filtering the analysis and display of dependency relationships among software application components (e.g., packages, files, classes, etc.), e.g., as part of modernization processes aimed at decomposing monolithic applications, identifying anti-patterns, or otherwise analyzing such applications. A software modernization service of a cloud provider network provides discovery agents and other tools that are capable of creating an inventory of users' software applications and collecting application artifacts (e.g., source code or bytecode files) associated with the software applications in users' computing environments. Various techniques are described for using ACLs containing entries enabling or disabling the analysis or display of various application components to customize various modernization processes and results displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jiangtao Zhang, Roland Mesde
  • Patent number: 11929933
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for streaming data between a user device and a remote computing environment via a “switchboard” service that enables interaction without the user device or the remote computing environment establishing additional connections. A first routing device receives a connection from a user device that requests routing a data stream to or from a remote computing environment. The first routing device processes the request by generating a token, which is passed to the remote computing environment along with the request. The remote computing environment passes the token to a second routing device, which decodes the routing token to identify the first routing device. The second routing device then passes the request token to the first routing device, which responds by establishing a route for streaming data between the connection made with the user device and the remote computing environment via the routing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Georgi Petev Kolev, Didier Wenzek, Carl Summers, Gabriel Theodoro, Mikhail Erofeev, Adam Bene
  • Patent number: 11924361
    Abstract: Determining whether to allow access to a message is disclosed. A message is received from a sender. The message is associated with a first time-to-live (TTL) value. A determination is made that the first time-to-live value has not been exceeded. The determination is made at least in part by obtaining an external master clock time. In response to the determination, access is allowed to the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Statica, Christopher A. Howell, Kara Lynn Coppa
  • Patent number: 11919662
    Abstract: A constellation of many satellites provide communication between devices such as user terminals (UTs) and ground stations that are connected to other networks, such as the Internet. A constellation management system (CMS) facilitates management and operation of the satellites in the constellation and facilitates information exchange with other authorized systems to provide for situationally aware operation. The CMS may ingest data such as satellite telemetry, space weather data, object ephemeris data about other orbital objects, and so forth. The CMS uses the ingested data to automatically operate satellites to perform routine activities such as station keeping maneuvers, maintenance activities, interference mitigation, and so forth. Confirmation from a human operator may be obtained before performing some activities. Activities may be planned and coordinated to minimize resource consumption for the individual satellite as well as the constellation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jason A. Rhoads, Darren Andrew Schumacher
  • Patent number: 11924331
    Abstract: Systems and processes are described for a message service with distributed key caching for server-side encryption. Message requests are received by message handlers of the message service that cache data encryption keys used to encrypt and decrypt messages that are stored to message containers in back end storage. A metadata service obtains the data encryption keys from a key management service, caches the keys locally, and sends the keys to the message handlers upon request, where the keys are cached, again. The key management service may generate the data encryption keys based on a master key (e.g., a client's master key). The message handlers may send both message data encrypted using the data encryption key and an encrypted copy of the data encryption key to be stored together in the data store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Petr Shveykin, Kelvin Yiu, Jakub Wojciak
  • Patent number: 11922191
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for efficiently identifying whether any expected user interface elements (e.g., informational components, containers, navigational components, input controls, labels, etc.) are missing from a rendered user interface. A user interface is generated and rendered by a client device according to user interface content data received from a content provider. User interface feature identifiers associated with user interface features included in the rendered user interface are identified and applied to one or more probabilistic data structure algorithms to generate a rendered feature probabilistic data structure digest representing the rendered user interface features. The rendered feature probabilistic data structure digest is compared with an expected feature digest to determine whether any expected user interface features are missing from the rendered user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Shreekanth Pandurang Lakshmeshwar
  • Patent number: 11919549
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for flexible rail switching components for container shuttles. In one embodiment, an example system for a shuttle may include an elongated spring steel plate, a first rail track component coupled to the elongated spring steel plate, a second rail track component coupled to the elongated spring steel plate and disposed adjacent to the first rail track component, and a third rail track component coupled to the elongated spring steel plate and disposed adjacent to the second rail track component. The elongated spring steel plate may be configured to be actuated from a first position to a second position. A distance between the first rail track component and the second rail track component when the elongated spring steel plate is in the second position may be less than when the elongated spring steel plate is in the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Alan Bray, Rajeev Dwivedi
  • Patent number: 11924640
    Abstract: Techniques for establishing a data connection are described. In an example, a computer system receives, from a second device of a computer network, first data associated with a first device and second data associated with the second device. The first device is not connected to the computer network. The computer system determines third data generated by one or more devices other than the first device and the second device and associated with at least one of: the first device, the second device, a user account, or the computer network. The computer system generates, based on the first data, the second data, and the third data, a confidence score indicating a likelihood of a user authorization to connect the first device to the computer network. The computer system sends, to the second device based on the confidence score, instructions associated with connecting the first device to the computer network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Quentin N Robinson, Abraham Martin Passaglia, Rashmesh Radhakrishnan, Andrew Roths
  • Patent number: 11921768
    Abstract: Devices and techniques are generally described for iterative theme discovery in text. In some examples, first text data that is separated into a plurality of documents may be received. In some examples, a codebook comprising a first topic associated with a first set of keywords and a second topic associated with second set of keywords may be identified. Instructions to modify the codebook to generate a modified codebook may be received. The instructions may be effective to add to, delete from, and/or modify at least one of the keywords of the first set of keywords or the first topic. In some further examples, a first document of the plurality of documents may be tagged with the first topic based at least in part on the first keywords of the modified codebook. In some examples, output data may be generated that indicates that the first document pertains to the first topic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Bhavana Ganesh, Arushi Prakash, Banu Selin Tosun, Matthew Brorby, Naumaan Nayyar, Hakan Karagul, Megan Noel Shaw
  • Patent number: 11924367
    Abstract: Joint noise and echo suppression may be performed for enhancing two-way audio communications. Audio data is captured at a communication device and audio data transmitted to the communication device from another communication device are used as input features to a trained machine learning model that uses the transmitted audio data as a reference signal to eliminate residual echo in the captured audio data when also suppressing noise in the captured audio data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Valin, Karim Helwani, Srikanth Venkata Tenneti, Erfan Soltanmohammadi, Mehmet Umut Isik, Richard Newman, Michael Mark Goodwin, Arvindh Krishnaswamy
  • Patent number: 11922925
    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. In some instances, the speech recognition platform engages in a back-and-forth dialog with the user in order to properly fulfill the user's request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Paul Henri Carbon, Vikram Kumar Gundeti, Frederic Johan Georges Deramat, Ajay Gopalakrishnan, John Daniel Thimsen
  • Patent number: 11922386
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and apparatus of an automated and self-service kiosk that allows customers to select inventory items available from the kiosk and walk or move away with selected inventory item(s) without having to process payment, identify the inventory item(s), or provide any other form of checkout. After a customer has picked one or more items and departed the kiosk, the picked items are determined and the customer charged for the items. For example, one or more of detected weight changes measured at the kiosk and/or images generated at the kiosk may be used to identify items picked by the customer from the kiosk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Subhash Sasidharakurup, Srinivasan Hariram, Mehakinder Singh Oberoi, Ashish Pal, Rajesh Jain, Shanoop Sivadas, Himanshu Singh, Aniket Nagesh Dubhashi, Vinay P. Vaidya, Debasish Das
  • Patent number: 11922456
    Abstract: Data clean rooms provided for subscribers to advertising analysis services include data regarding advertising impressions, selections, view or conversion events, and memberships of audience segments, and computing functions or capacities for processing the data in an anonymized fashion. When advertisements are presented to customers, and interactions by customers (e.g., impressions, views, clicks, conversions or others) with goods or services are detected, data regarding the interactions may be aggregated and stored. When queries on behalf of an advertiser are identified, data associated with the queries may be retrieved and stored in a data clean room for processing or analysis. Anonymized responses to the query may be returned to the customer or serve as basis for one or more advertising events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Crider, Hariharan Jayaraman, Nicole Landis Ferragonio, Alan Kerry Lewis, Keerat Singh Sharma
  • Patent number: 11921484
    Abstract: A safety rated robotic motor control system may be configured to receive sensor data from sensors positioned on a motor. The data can be received by a programmable logic device and processed to generate a fault message based on a first set of characteristics. The fault message and the data can be transmitted to a safety controller that determines a second set of characteristics and generates operating instructions based on the fault message and the second set of characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Justin Croyle, Sean Garcen, Craig Ropi, Joshua Zarr
  • Patent number: 11922486
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to using cascading algorithms to automatically identify items placed in a tote or other receptacle utilized by users in material handling facilities as the users move around the facilities. A tote may store a database or “gallery” of item representations for all of the items that are stored in the facility that a user may place in their totes. The tote may use multiple algorithms in a cascading manner to analyze the gallery of item representations in order to iteratively narrow the search space of item representations in the gallery to determine which of the items was placed in the tote by a user. Upon identifying the item placed in the tote, the tote may add an item identifier for the item to a virtual listing of item identifiers representing items previously placed in the tote.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Oded Maron, Jeremy Samuel De Bonet, Daniel Ron, Ejaz Ahmed, Mirko Ristivojevic, Jonathan Cohn
  • Patent number: 11923960
    Abstract: A satellite antenna ground station service includes a plurality of ground stations and associated data centers, wherein the data centers are part of a provider network. Clients may reserve satellite antenna access time-slots via a user interface of the satellite antenna ground station service and store data directly to a data center of the provider network or to the client's premises via a direct connection between the client and the provider network. In some embodiments, the provider network may offer a plurality of network-based services, such as a compute service, a data storage service, a machine learning service, or a data analytics service, and a client may utilize one or more of these services to analyze and process downlinked data received from a satellite of the client via a satellite antenna ground station of the satellite antenna ground station service of the provider network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lowell Shayn Hawthorne, David M. Nolton
  • Patent number: 11922728
    Abstract: Where an event is determined to have occurred at a location within a vicinity of a plurality of actors, imaging data captured using cameras having the location is processed using one or more machine learning systems or techniques operating on the cameras to determine which of the actors is most likely associated with the event. For each relevant pixel of each image captured by a camera, the camera returns a set of vectors extending to pixels of body parts of actors who are most likely to have been involved with an event occurring at the relevant pixel, along with a measure of confidence in the respective vectors. A server receives the vectors from the cameras, determines which of the images depicted the event in a favorable view, based at least in part on the quality of such images, and selects one of the actors as associated with the event accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jaechul Kim, Nishitkumar Ashokkumar Desai, Jayakrishnan Kumar Eledath, Kartik Muktinutalapati, Shaonan Zhang, Hoi Cheung Pang, Dilip Kumar, Kushagra Srivastava, Gerard Guy Medioni, Daniel Bibireata
  • Patent number: D1016812
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Christopher Smith, Howie Ho Wai Lau, Jennifer Li, Oluseyi Oluyemisi Babatola, Spencer Ralph Dodge
  • Patent number: D1016877
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Emmanuel Laffon de Mazieres, Michael O'Connor, Jonathan Howard Biddle, Paul Douglas Grearson, Thomas Burns
  • Patent number: D1017105
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Wilfrido Loor Canizares, Bernhard Wildner, Marc Rene Walliser
  • Patent number: D1017667
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Wen-Yo Lu, Matthew J. England, Yen-Chi Tsai, Shao-Hung Wang, James Siminoff