Patents by Inventor Aaron Z. Blower

Aaron Z. Blower has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Event-based user behavior timeline, predictions, and recommendations
    Patent number: 9369536
    Abstract: Techniques for generating a timeline of significant events associated with a user and of user behavior that is contextually relevant to the events are described herein. Also, the techniques include predicting user behavior that has a tendency to occur after an event and for providing item recommendations associated with the predictions. In some implementations, the event that is noted in predicting user behavior may be retrieved from the timeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew John Holtzclaw, Aaron Z Blower, Chetan Kumar, Raghavendra Nyamagoudar
  • Collaborative browsing and chat sessions
    Patent number: 9122758
    Abstract: Techniques for initiating a shared electronic browsing session for a plurality of users are described herein. A computing device may initiate the session and associate browsing and chat activity of the users with the session to enable at least one of real-time, joint browsing and chat or asynchronous browsing and chat. Further, the computing device may determine a social graph for one of the users based on the session and may recommend items to the user based on content browsing and chat activities of users included in the social graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Z. Blower, Andrew J. Holtzclaw, Meenakshi Jain, Chetan Kumar, Teresa S. K. Lau, Raghavendra Nyamagoudar