Amazon Patents Granted

Patents granted to Amazon by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11911695
    Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, an electronic device for converting inputs received by control devices. For instance, a user may attach the electronic device to a control device. The electronic device may then configure the control device with a network application by associating various input devices of the control device with controls of the network application. After configuring the control device, the electronic device may receive input data representing inputs received by the control device. Using the associations, the electronic device may generate control data representing the controls that are associated with the inputs. The electronic device may then send the control data to a remote system, which may use the control data to update a state of the network application. The electronic device may perform similar processes in order to allow the user to use different types of control devices to control the network application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Benjamin Tully-Hanson
  • Patent number: 11914571
    Abstract: Optimistic concurrency may be implemented for multiple writers to a database. Writes to a database from different writers may succeed unless a conflict is detected at the data store for the database. For detected conflicts, a request to resolve the conflict between writes may be submitted to a primary writer, which may determine and provide a resolution of the conflict to the conflicting writers. The data store may then be updated to commit the selected write identified by the resolution of the conflict.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Bao, Murali Brahmadesam, Yi Ding, Niket Goel, Anurag Windlass Gupta, Kamal Kant Gupta, Changan Han, Tiffany Jianto, Tengiz Kharatishvili, Saileshwar Krishnamurthy, Bohan Liu, Saleem Mohideen, Punit Rajgaria, Joseph Andrew Tucek, Alexandre Olegovich Verbitski
  • Patent number: 11914590
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to implement a database request router that routes queries to database servers storing database replicas. In embodiments, the request router maintains caching state metadata that indicates respective caching states of the database servers. For an incoming query, the request router selects a database server to receive the query based on the caching states of the database servers to improve cache utilization. In embodiments, the caching state metadata indicates whether different database objects used by observed queries are cached at individual servers. The database objects used may be determined from execution plans for the queries, obtained from the database servers. In embodiments, the request router may determine a querying pattern of the database and use it to predict an expected time for certain queries. The request router may generate a priming query ahead of the expected time to prepare database server cache for the expected queries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jamie Plenderleith
  • Patent number: 11914483
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for using an algorithm and data structure for efficient and accurate classification of data items into recovery classes. When a target recovery time (TRT) is specified for a data set, a system may obtain version metadata regarding data items in the data set. The metadata may be obtained in reverse chronological order such that the latest record representing a version or other storage operation is first, followed by the second latest record, and so on. The system may use a bidirectional doubly linked list to efficiently store version data for a particular data item in memory. As version metadata records are read and added to the data structure in reverse chronological order, classification determinations may be triggered when certain conditions are met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Koushik Biswas, James William Fogel, Dhananjay Baburao Karanjkar, Douglas John Youd, Allistaire Mair, James Ryan Powers
  • Patent number: 11908468
    Abstract: A system that is capable of resolving anaphora using timing data received by a local device. A local device outputs audio representing a list of entries. The audio may represent synthesized speech of the list of entries. A user can interrupt the device to select an entry in the list, such as by saying “that one.” The local device can determine an offset time representing the time between when audio playback began and when the user interrupted. The local device sends the offset time and audio data representing the utterance to a speech processing system which can then use the offset time and stored data to identify which entry on the list was most recently output by the local device when the user interrupted. The system can then resolve anaphora to match that entry and can perform additional processing based on the referred to item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Prakash Krishnan, Arindam Mandal, Siddhartha Reddy Jonnalagadda, Nikko Strom, Ariya Rastrow, Ying Shi, David Chi-Wai Tang, Nishtha Gupta, Aaron Challenner, Bonan Zheng, Angeliki Metallinou, Vincent Auvray, Minmin Shen
  • Patent number: 11907254
    Abstract: A replicated database can be provisioned that provides primary and secondary replicas that can be provisioned in different data zones or geographical locations. The database can be installed on the primary replica, and both the primary and secondary replica can have installed a block level replication mechanism that allows any I/O operation to be replicated by between the primary and secondary replicas. Any failure or outage of the primary replica can be addressed by performing a failover operation to the secondary replica. A DNS name or other such approach can be used such that the name can be aliased to the secondary replica during a failover, such that there is no action needed on the part of the customer to utilize the “new” primary replica. The creation of the database and provisioning of the replicated instance can be initiated using a Web service call to a control environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Grant Alexander MacDonald McAlister, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian
  • Patent number: 11909586
    Abstract: Techniques are described for providing logical networking functionality for managed computer networks, such as for virtual computer networks provided on behalf of users or other entities. In some situations, a user may configure or otherwise specify a network topology for a virtual computer network, such as a logical network topology that separates multiple computing nodes of the virtual computer network into multiple logical sub-networks and/or that specifies one or more logical networking devices for the virtual computer network. After a network topology is specified for a virtual computer network, logical networking functionality corresponding to the network topology may be provided in various manners, such as without physically implementing the network topology for the virtual computer network. In some situations, the computing nodes may include virtual machine nodes hosted on one or more physical computing machines or systems, such as by or on behalf of one or more users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Todd Cohn, Eric Jason Brandwine, Andrew J. Doane
  • Patent number: 11910566
    Abstract: A commonly designed processor heat exchanger decouples the mounting hardware used to mount the heat exchanger to a processor from the heat exchanger itself. This allows a single heat exchanger design to be mounted to various different types of processors using processor customized mounting brackets that engage with flanges extending out from a body of the heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Luke Thomas Gregory, Darin Lee Frink, Rick Chun Kit Cheung, Nafea Bshara, Kenny Kiet Huynh, Noah Kelly, Priti Choudhary, Ali Elashri
  • Patent number: 11909850
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to improve a communication channel dynamically and autonomously based on the status of the communication traffic on the communication channel between a first integrated circuit (IC) and a second IC. The communication traffic on the communication channel can be monitored, and latency, bandwidth, link quality, or power consumption associated with the communication channel for the monitored communication traffic can be determined dynamically. A modified protocol for the communication channel that can improve the communication channel as compared to an existing protocol can be determined based on the information related to the latency, bandwidth, link quality, or the power consumption. The existing protocol can be changed autonomously to the modified protocol as the communication traffic varies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gal Kochavi, Itai Avron, Benny Pollak
  • Patent number: 11908463
    Abstract: Techniques for storing and using multi-session context are described. A system may store context data corresponding to a first interaction, where the context data may include action data, entity data and a profile identifier for a user. Later the stored context data may be retrieved during a second interaction corresponding to the entity of the second interaction. The second interaction may take place at a system different than the first interaction. The system may generate a response during the second interaction using the stored context data of the prior interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Arjit Biswas, Shishir Bharathi, Anushree Venkatesh, Yun Lei, Ashish Kumar Agrawal, Siddhartha Reddy Jonnalagadda, Prakash Krishnan, Arindam Mandal, Raefer Christopher Gabriel, Abhay Kumar Jha, David Chi-Wai Tang, Savas Parastatidis
  • Patent number: 11908480
    Abstract: This disclosure proposes systems and methods for processing natural language inputs using data associated with multiple language recognition contexts (LRC). A system using multiple LRCs can receive input data from a device, identify a first identifier associated with the device, and further identify second identifiers associated with the first identifier and representing candidate users of the device. The system can access language processing data used for natural language processing for the LRCs corresponding to each of the first and second identifiers, and process the input data using the language processing data at one or more stages of automatic speech recognition, natural language understanding, entity resolution, and/or command execution. User recognition can reduce the number of candidate users, and thus the amount of data used to process the input data. Dynamic arbitration can select from between competing hypotheses representing the first identifier and a second identifier, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Da Teng, Adrian Evans, Naresh Narayanan
  • Patent number: 11909719
    Abstract: Techniques and technologies for an Internet Protocol (IP) address management (IPAM) system to track and manage IP address workflows in a network. The IPAM system can be used to define and enforce management policies or rules regarding IP address management, such as allocation policies, refill policies, and so forth. For instance, the IPAM system can enforce allocation policies that define rules to allow or deny allocation of IP addresses based on types of resources for which the IP addresses are requested, registered user accounts that are requesting the IP addresses, the purpose of the resources receiving the IP addresses, and so forth. Additionally, the IPAM system can enforce refill policies that define rules for replenishing inventories of IP addresses that have been allocated for different domains in the network. The IPAM system can improve the management of IP address workflows by enforcing policy and tracking IP address workflows in networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Paul Kramer, Michael Erik Untereiner, Samuel Lough, John Jeffrey Schlachtenhaufen, Masood Karimi, Eric Andrew Rubin-Smith, Joshua D Leaverton, Shovan Kumar Das
  • Patent number: 11903730
    Abstract: Described are systems and methods that use one or more two-dimensional (“2D”) body images of a body to determine body fat measurements of that body. For example, a standard 2D camera of a portable device, such as a cell phone, tablet, laptop, etc., may be used to generate one or more 2D body images of a user. Those 2D body images, or image, may be processed using the disclosed implementations to determine a body fat measurement of the body represented in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Apoorv Chaudhri, Siddhartha Chandra, Prakash Ramu, Amit Kumar Agrawal, Sigal Raab, Anantharanga Prithviraj, Ram Sever, Ita Lifshitz, Ayush Sharma, Anna Shtengel, Gal Levi, Rajesh Gautam
  • Patent number: 11910131
    Abstract: Described are systems and methods for providing a publisher-subscriber architecture for audio and/or video conferencing. Embodiments of the present disclosure can utilize one edge computing resource associated with each client device participating in the audio and/or video conference. One or more client devices can publish streams to the associated edge computing resources. The streams can then be pushed, via a data network, to the edge computing resources associated with the subscribing client devices. The subscribing client devices can access and fetch the streams from the edge computing resources, which can be presented on the client devices as part of a conferencing session experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Patrick DuBois, Christopher LaFata, James Hurley, Raymond Kung Hsien Lin, Alex Converse, Adam Lupinacci, Maxwell Stoller, James Yamat
  • Patent number: 11909795
    Abstract: A content streaming system and methodology for facilitating the management of content streaming. A content delivery service receives at least an original content stream and multiple input contents from an original content provider. Additionally, the content delivery service processes the received input content streams, buffers the original and supplemental input content streams, and switches between the available input content streams for seamless and fast broadcasting. The decision to switch between a second content and a third is determined by an indication that a third input content is available in the buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Tianbing Teng
  • Patent number: 11908467
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for dynamic voice search transitioning. Example methods may include receiving, by a computer system in communication with a display, a first incoming voice data indication, initiating a first user interface theme for presentation at a display, wherein the first user interface theme is a default user interface theme, and receiving first voice data. Example methods may include sending the first voice data to a remote server for processing, receiving an indication from the remote server to initiate a second user interface theme, and initiating the second user interface theme for presentation at the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Rohit Prasad, Anna Santos, David Sanchez, Jared Strawderman, Sarah Castle, Kerry Hammil, Christopher Schindler, Timothy Twerdahl, Joseph Tavares, Bartosz Gulik
  • Patent number: 11905127
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed for helical container conveyance. In one embodiment, an example container conveyance system may include a set of rails having a first rail and a second rail, the set of rails configured to guide a container from an upright position at a first point along the set of rails to an inverted position at a second point along the set of rails. The system may include a drive mechanism configured to propel the container along the set of rails, and a conveyor disposed under a portion of the set of rails corresponding to the second point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Vivek S. Narayanan, Rajeev Dwivedi, Ganesh Krishnamoorthy
  • Patent number: 11909639
    Abstract: A system and method for management and processing of resource requests is provided. A content delivery network service provider receives a DNS query from a client computing device. The DNS query corresponds to a requested resource from the client computing device. The content delivery network service provider associates the client computing device with a cluster of other client computing devices. Based on routing information for the cluster, the content delivery network service provider routes the DNS query. The process can further include monitoring performance data associated with the delivery of the requested resource and updating the routing information for the cluster based on the performance data for use in processing subsequent requests from client computing devices in the cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Richardson, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Bradley Eugene Marshall, Christopher L. Scofield, Elmore Eugene Pope
  • Patent number: 11909829
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for generating termination notification of an experiment to be presented through a user interface. In some implementation examples, a termination notification system generates a probability value that is valid as of a time period of an experiment at a predetermined point in time based on at least data sample obtained during the time period, predicted sample sizes of each time period of the experiment, or probability values generated prior to the time period. Responsive to determining that the probability value that is valid as of the time period satisfies a threshold value, the termination notification system causes the user interface to present the termination notification that, when selected, causes the experiment to terminate prior to completion of a predicted duration of the experiment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Liu, Runzhe Wan, James McQueen, Doug Hains, Rui Song, Roger Henry Castillo
  • Patent number: 11910044
    Abstract: Techniques for migrating live broadcast streams from one data center to another data center are described herein. A data center from a plurality of data centers may be determined to transfer live streaming video content from a first data center to the data center. A separate live streaming session for each live streaming session being broadcast by the first data center may be generated by communicating with an ingest service server that receives media content used to generate each separate live streaming session and the live streaming session. Each separate live streaming session may be routed to the candidate data center. A determination that each separate live streaming session of the candidate data center is synchronized with each live streaming session of the first data center may be made. An update to a mapping of IP addresses to redirect requests from the first data center to the candidate data center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiangbo Li, Selvanayagam Sendurpandian, Benjamin Hirsch, Alex Converse, Luke Curley, Nagendra Akula Suresh Babu, Rohit Puri
  • Patent number: 11909814
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for resource allocation policies for a hosted computing environment that can be configured by organizations that use the hosted computing environment under a utility computing model. In one embodiment, a resource allocation request to allocate a computing resource within a hosted computing environment is received. The resource allocation request is associated with an account of an organization. It is determined that a fulfillment of the resource allocation request would violate a resource allocation policy configured by the organization within the hosted computing environment. The resource allocation request is prevented from being automatically fulfilled in response to determining that the fulfillment of the resource allocation request would violate the resource allocation policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Truelove, Diwakar Gupta, Leslie Andrew Prock, Zachary Christopher Mouri
  • Patent number: 11907144
    Abstract: Techniques to reduce the latency in notifying that space in a memory has been freed up are described. For example, when moving data from on-chip memory of a computing engine to system memory, the computing engine can be notified that its on-chip memory is free before an acknowledgment is provided by the system memory that the data being moved has been written into the system memory. The computing engine can be given access to the on-chip memory sooner by generating an early semaphore update based on a determination that the set of data being moved to system memory has been read out from the on-chip memory. The early semaphore update need not wait for the acknowledgement from the system memory, thus reducing the latency of notifying the computing engine that the on-chip memory is free.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond S. Whiteside, Thomas A. Volpe
  • Patent number: 11909787
    Abstract: A videoconference among a plurality of participants may be hosted, wherein the plurality of participants comprise Internet Protocol (IP)-connected participants and a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)-connected participant. The IP-connected participants may send and receive audio content and video content of the videoconference via IP-based connections. The PSTN-connected participant may send and receive the audio content of the videoconference via a PSTN connection. Additional content from the videoconference may also be transmitted to the PSTN-connected participant, for example as text messages via the PSTN connection. The additional content may include, for example, images of a videoconference screen share, chat posts, polls, and the like. Images may be transmitted in the additional content based on video status change events, such as switching slides or pages in a screen share.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John Joseph Dunne, Siddhartha Shankara Rao, Michael Mark Goodwin
  • Patent number: 11907173
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for exposing disparate storage systems and technologies to compute instances through a unified file system interface that is agnostic to the underlying storage systems and technologies. A file system namespace service may provide the ability to compose a file system from different storage technologies and systems (e.g., block storage, object storage, etc.). The file system namespace service may also provide the ability to layer different storage services (e.g., by treating local block storage volume as a write back cache, by treating a file system as a read-through cache in front of an object storage service, etc.), and/or the ability to bind virtual files to other compute instances and/or storage systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Kent Warfield, Jacob Wires
  • Patent number: 11909601
    Abstract: A simulation environment (e.g., multi-player game) may be hosted by multiple nodes of a provider network. The number of nodes may increase or decrease, depending on the load on the simulation. Each node may be assigned a root key that includes 3D coordinates. The nodes may maintain a circular keyspace that includes the x-axis coordinates, the y-axis coordinates, and the z-axis coordinates, according to a consistent hashing algorithm. A given node may have any number of successor or predecessor nodes along each axis keyspace. If load on a particular node increases above a threshold amount, a new node may be allocated and insert itself into the 3D keyspace, taking over authority for any entities that are located within a portion of the volume that was previously managed by the particular node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Karl Berg
  • Patent number: 11907676
    Abstract: Techniques for implementing a streaming remote procedure call (RPC) mechanism using distributed processing components of a system are described. A first processing component sends a connect message to a second processing component. Thereafter, the first processing component sends different instances of data to the second processing component as the different instances of data are determined by the first processing component. The second processing component performs at least some processes as the second processing component receives the different instances of data. After the first processing component sends all relevant data to the second processing component, the first processing component sends a commit message to the second processing component. Based at least in part on receiving the commit message, the second processing component determines finishes its processing, and sends result data to the first processing component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Joe Pemberton
  • Patent number: 11908452
    Abstract: Techniques for presenting an alternative input representation to a user for testing and collecting processing data are described. A system may determine that a received spoken input triggers an alternative input representation for presenting. The system may output data corresponding to the alternative input representation in response to the received spoken input, and the system may receive user feedback from the user. The system may store the user feedback and processing data corresponding to processing of the alternative input representation, which may be later used to update an alternative input component configured to determine alternative input representations for spoken inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sixing Lu, Chengyuan Ma, Chenlei Guo, Fangfu Li
  • Patent number: 11909950
    Abstract: Systems and methods for evaluating the performance of three-dimensional (3D) sensors can include, for example, obtaining, via a 3D sensor in a testing apparatus, range information of a scene within a field-of-view (FOV) of the 3D sensor. The scene includes a plurality of targets disposed within the testing apparatus. Each of the plurality of targets is located at a different distance from the 3D sensor in the testing apparatus. A validation of the performance of the 3D sensor at the different distances is performed at a same point in time, based on the range information. An indication of a result of the validation is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Karl Bernard Swanson, Gregory Cartagena, Jing Ma, Olugbenga Osibodu, Albert William Saunders, IV, Stephen A. Caldara, William Joseph Klein, Dincer Bozkaya, Sara Jean Woo
  • Patent number: 11907731
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide for deployment of an integrated development environment configured to include one or more tools associated with specific code portions being executed within the integrated development environment. A user may provide a request to access one or more projects and definition files associated with the one or more projects may be evaluated to determine one or more tools used for execution of the source code of the one or more projects. The one or more tools may be automatically incorporated into whichever integrated development environment the user selects to ensure proper execution of the code without manual updates or installation by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andreas Resios, Ida Mia Olsen, Martin Oliver Rehfeld, Fabian Jakobs, Timir Karia, Jonathan Weiss
  • Patent number: 11908472
    Abstract: Coordinated operation of a voice-controlled device and an accessory device in an environment is described. A remote system processes audio data it receives from the voice-controlled device in the environment to identify a first intent associated with a first domain, a second intent associated with a second domain, and a named entity associated with the audio data. The remote system sends, to the voice-controlled device, first information for accessing main content associated with the named entity, and a first instruction corresponding to the first intent. The remote system also sends, to the accessory device, second information for accessing control information or supplemental content associated with the main content, and a second instruction corresponding to the second intent. The first and second instructions, when processed by the devices in the environment, cause coordinated operation of the voice-controlled device and the accessory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Derick Deller, Link Cornelius, Apoorv Naik, Zoe Adams, Aslan Appleman, Pete Klein
  • Patent number: 11907092
    Abstract: A quantum computing monitoring system may receive a request from user describing an algorithm to be executed using classical and quantum computing resources and a metric to be monitored associated with execution of the algorithm at the quantum computing resources. In execution, the quantum computing monitoring system may cause measurements to be obtained from the quantum computing resources at individual steps of the execution of the algorithm at the quantum computing resources, and the metric to be determined based on the obtained measurements. The quantum computing monitoring system may evaluate the metric with respect to a threshold, and provide an alert to the user responsive to determining that the metric fails to satisfy the threshold. The quantum computing monitoring system may further perform an operation to modify the execution of the algorithm at the quantum computing resources as needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Milan Krneta, Eric M Kessler, Christian Bruun Madsen, Michael D Pratt
  • Patent number: 11910073
    Abstract: A respective set of features, including emotion-related features, are extracted from segments of a video for which a preview is to be generated. A subset of the segments is chosen using the features and filtering criteria including at least one emotion-based filtering criterion. Respective weighted preview-suitability scores are assigned to the segments of the subset using at least a metric of similarity between individual segments and a plot summary of the video. The scores are used to select and combine segments to form a preview for the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mayank Sharma, Prabhakar Gupta, Honey Gupta, Kumar Keshav
  • Patent number: 11907339
    Abstract: As agents move about a materials handling facility, tracklets representative of the position of each agent are maintained along with a confidence score indicating a confidence that the position of the agent is known. If the confidence score falls below a threshold level, image data of the agent associated with the low confidence score is obtained and processed to generate one or more embedding vectors representative of the agent at a current position. Those embedding vectors are then compared with embedding vectors of other candidate agents to determine a set of embedding vectors having a highest similarity. The candidate agent represented by the set of embedding vectors having the highest similarity score is determined to be the agent and the position of that candidate agent is updated to the current position, thereby re-identifying the agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Behjat Siddiquie, Tian Lan, Jayakrishnan Eledath, Hoi Cheung Pang
  • Patent number: 11900700
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for language-agnostic subtitle drift detection and correction. A method may include determining subtitles and/or captions from media content (e.g., videos), the subtitles and/or captions corresponding to dialog in the media content. The subtitles may be broken up into segments which may be analyzed to determine a likelihood of drift (e.g., a likelihood that the subtitles are out of synchronization with the dialog in the media content) for each segment. For segments with a high likelihood of drift, the subtitles may be incrementally adjusted to determine an adjustment that eliminates and/or reduces the amount of drift, and the drift in the segment may be corrected based on the drift amount detected. A linear regression model and/or human blocks determined by human operators may be used to otherwise optimize drift correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tamojit Chatterjee, Mayank Sharma, Muhammad Raffay Hamid, Sandeep Joshi
  • Patent number: 11896899
    Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for providing network applications. For instance, system(s) may install a network application on a first virtual server. The system(s) may then receive first data representing events that occurred during a first launching of the network application on the first virtual server. Using the events, the system(s) may generate second data for optimizing a second launching of the network application on a second virtual server and store the second data in one or more databases. As such, after installing the network application on the second virtual server, the system(s) may provide the second virtual server with the second data so that the second virtual server may use the second data to optimize the second launching of the network application. In some examples, using the second data reduces the amount of time that it takes for the second virtual server to launch the network application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kunjan Shridhar Naik, Brian Fisher, Mickey Ottis Williams, Clifford Julius Berger, Skyler J. Brown, Peter Han, Greg Roberts
  • Patent number: 11902364
    Abstract: Techniques are described for providing managed computer networks, such as for managed virtual computer networks overlaid on one or more other underlying computer networks. In some situations, the techniques include facilitating replication of a primary computing node that is actively participating in a managed computer network, such as by maintaining one or more other computing nodes in the managed computer network as replicas, and using such replica computing nodes in various manners. For example, a particular managed virtual computer network may span multiple broadcast domains of an underlying computer network, and a particular primary computing node and a corresponding remote replica computing node of the managed virtual computer network may be implemented in distinct broadcast domains of the underlying computer network, with the replica computing node being used to transparently replace the primary computing node in the virtual computer network if the primary computing node becomes unavailable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Jason Brandwine, Kevin Christopher Miller, Andrew J. Doane
  • Patent number: 11900152
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for providing updating of disk images supporting serverless code execution and controlled deployment of updated disk images. A disk image can be defined as a set of layers that represent a file system include code of a serverless function and other data used by the code. A function owner can designate one layer as containing software or other data subject to update. When a new version of the layer is obtained at a serverless compute system, the system can generate a new disk image containing the updated layer. The system can then gradually transition the function to the new disk image, by dividing calls to the function among two versions of the function—one using the prior disk image, and one using the new disk image. Performance data gained from the new version of the function can be used to control the gradual transition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc Brooker, David Nasi, Trishika Pattabiraman, Holly Mesrobian, Mikhail Danilov, Peter Barry, Peter Martin McDonnell
  • Patent number: 11899684
    Abstract: A system that implements a data storage service may store data on behalf of clients in multiple replicas on respective computing nodes. The system may employ an external service to select a master replica for a replica group. The master replica may service consistent read operations and/or write operations that are directed to the replica group (or to a data partition stored by the replica group). The master replica may employ a quorum based mechanism for performing replicated write operations, and a local lease mechanism for determining the replica authorized to perform consistent reads, even when the external service is unavailable. The master replica may propagate local leases to replica group members as replicated writes. If another replica assumes mastership for the replica group, it may not begin servicing consistent read operations that are directed to the replica group until the lease period for a current local lease expires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Andrew Rath, David Alan Lutz
  • Patent number: 11899659
    Abstract: The maintenance of a materialized view created and managed by a materialized view management platform may be dynamically adjusted. The performance of updates to a materialized view are monitored to trigger different events to make adjustments to the performance of subsequent updates. The materialized view management platform can adequately scale to handle changes to data sources as inputs to the maintenance of the materialized view, as well as make other adjustments handle various changes in the capability of the target data store to receive updates to the materialized view (e.g., target data store outages).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Rohan Deshpande, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Omer Ahmed Zaki, Karthik Gurumoorthy Subramanya Bharathy, Rajib Dugar, Shivateja Reddy Ummenthala
  • Patent number: 11900072
    Abstract: Offered is a system that presents on a display screen a translation of a sentence together with an untranslated version of the sentence, and that can cause both of the displayed sentences to break apart into component parts in response to a simple user action, e.g., double-tapping on one of them. When the user selects (e.g., taps on) any portion of either version of the sentence, the system can identify a corresponding portion of the other version (in the other language). In some implementations, a user device can include both a microphone and a display screen, and an automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine can be used to transcribe the user's speech in one language (e.g., English) into text. The system can translate the resulting text into another language (e.g., Spanish) and display the translated text on the display screen along with the untranslated text. When a user selects a portion of a sentence, the system can also present information about the selected portion (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Michael Bossio, Kartik Suchindra Babu, John Thomas Beck
  • Patent number: 11902436
    Abstract: A cryptographic key management service receives a request, associated with a principal, to use a cryptographic key to perform a cryptographic operation. In response to the request, the service determines whether a rate limit specific to the principal is associated with the cryptographic key. If the rate limit is associated with the cryptographic key, the service generates a response to the request that conforms to the rate limit. The service provides the response in response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexis Lynn Carlough, William Frederick Hingle Kruse
  • Patent number: 11900024
    Abstract: Simulated network packets may be processed via a network processing pipeline. A packet processor may implement packet processing stages to process network packets received via physical network interface at the packet processor. A controller for the packet processor may provide simulated network packets to the packet processor for processing at the different packet processing stages, bypassing the physical network interface. Dummy simulated packets may be provided to or generated at the packet processor on behalf of the controller to be parsed, processed, and returned to the controller. Metadata simulated packets may be injected into the packet processing stages and recaptured in storage locations that are accessible to the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas A. Volpe
  • Patent number: 11902232
    Abstract: A system adapted to link email conversations is disclosed. An email client identifies email conversations from email header information and presents the conversations along with other emails in a user's inbox. The user interface receives user inputs selecting first and second email conversations and specifying that the two should be linked. The email client generates an identifier and associates the identifier with emails that are comprised in the selected first and second conversations. When a recipient receives an email that is part of a conversation that has been linked by another user, the recipient's email client notifies the user of the prior linking and provides a button with which the recipient may also implement the link. A user may select to create a new email and link the new email to an existing conversation. An identifier is generated and associated with the new email and emails in the selected conversation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ivo van Doorn, Floor Mesters
  • Patent number: 11902339
    Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for transferring a session associated with an application between electronic devices. For instance, system(s) may receive, from a first electronic device, a first selection associated with the network application. The system(s) may then create the session for the network application and send, to the first electronic device, first content related to the session. Later, the system(s) may receive, from a second electronic device, a second selection associated with the network application. The system(s) may then determine that the session is still active for the first electronic device and transfer the session to being active for the second electronic device. As such, the system(s) may begin to send, to the second electronic device, second content related to the session. In some circumstances, the system(s) may also cause a control device to begin controlling the session that is now active for the second electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Arun Param, Dave Banks, Raghunath Chirravuri, Mustafa Hakim, Jared Haren, Yunjin Huang, Maaz Humayun, Anwar Karam, Salvatore Mitrano
  • Patent number: 11902309
    Abstract: Historical time-series data can be analyzed using a probabilistic model to determine one or more distributions, including at least a normal distribution and an anomaly distribution. These distributions can be analyzed to obtain values for distribution parameters, such as mean, standard deviation, and density, as well as other statistical parameters, for use in building a forecasting model. This model can analyze the time-series data to predict or forecast actionable anomalies at one or more future points or periods in time, such as may exceed a determined anomaly threshold with at least a minimum amount of confidence. A determination can be made as to one or more actions to take in anticipation of the anomalous event, or volume of events, such as to attempt to prevent the occurrence or to be better positioned to handle the occurrence. Such forecasting or prediction can utilize both modeling and feature engineering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Vijayan Nagarajan, Lisa Harrington Waygood, Siddharth Krishnamurthy
  • Patent number: 11900221
    Abstract: A technique for performing lattice surgery without using twists is disclosed. Also, an error correcting code and decoder is provided that allows for error decoding of Pauli measurements performed in association with a lattice surgery operation. This allows for overall run-times of lattice surgery to be reduced. For example, some level of errors are tolerable, because they can be corrected, thus fewer measurement rounds (dm) may be performed for a given round of Pauli measurements. Additionally, a temporal encoding of lattice surgery technique is provided, which may additionally or alternatively be used to shorten run times. Also, a quantum computer layout is provided, wherein the layout includes a core computing region and a cache region. Also, protocols for swapping logical qubits between the core and cache are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Chamberland, Earl Terence Campbell
  • Patent number: 11900079
    Abstract: Source code of a graph analysis program expressed in a platform-independent language which supports linear algebra primitives is obtained. An executable version of the program is generated, which includes an invocation of a function of a parallel programming library optimized for a particular hardware platform. A result of executing the program is stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley R. Bebee, Bryan B. Thompson, Thomas James Lewis, Olaf Hartig
  • Patent number: 11899725
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for more efficiently updating a data directory, which maps data objects stored by a data storage service, such as maintained by on premise computing resources of a client of the data storage service. In one example, event data corresponding to operations performed on a plurality of data objects stored in a data storage partition of a data storage service may be obtained. A set of data objects relevant to a directory maintained locally by a client device may be determined. The event data may be filtered, such as by removing entries of the plurality of entries not corresponding to the set of data objects. The filtered event data may then be stored or pushed to a client device, to cause the directory to be updated, without requiring a full examination of the data storage partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Daniel Kropelin, John M Jamail
  • Patent number: 11899551
    Abstract: On-chip software-based activity monitoring is implemented to configure hardware-based activity throttling. A software-based activity monitor implemented on an integrated circuit obtains data from on-chip components to determine throttling modifications for a processing engine of the integrated circuit. The throttling modifications are applied to throttling criteria that is used by a hardware-based activity monitor on the integrated circuit which is responsible for directly evaluating and throttling processing at the processing engine of the integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas A. Volpe
  • Patent number: D1015180
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: James Siminoff, Mark D. Siminoff, Wen-Yo Lu, Christopher Loew, Jia Li, Wei-Chung Wang, Gregory Berlin, Eric S. Micko, Andrew Louis Russell