Patents by Inventor Brian J. Feinstein

Brian J. Feinstein 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).

  • Patent number: 10055783
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying products in video are disclosed. A video containing at least one object is received, and video frames are extracted from the video for analysis. At least one object is extracted from one or more of the video frames to determine whether it corresponds to a product. Hyperlinks can be generated and embedded in a user interface to allow a user to purchase the product and/or retrieve additional information about the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian J. Feinstein
  • Patent number: 9117236
    Abstract: Interactions between an item and an online shopper may be used to determine interest in an item or a category of items. Once interest has been determined, the online shopper may be presented with an option to initiate communication with other users. This communication may be between a plurality of users including shoppers, owners, experts, item representatives, and so forth. Communication may include text chat, video chat, audio chat, telephone, and so forth. Rewards may be provided to some or all users to encourage communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian J. Feinstein
  • Patent number: 9049105
    Abstract: One or more event records associated with incidents that may occur in a network may be created and stored in an event sequence with other related event records. Whether the event records are related may be determined based at least in part on a dependency between network elements associated with the incidents. The one or more event records may be executed by event handlers to create additional event records, which may also be stored in an event sequence with related event records. A user may request event sequences for display at a user device. Event sequences may be processed to provide at least a portion of the sequences based at least in part on user-specific information. A user may interact with and/or respond to event records in the network. Such interactions or responses may also be stored as event records in an event sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian J. Feinstein, Geoffrey E. Endresen, John W. Heitmann, Luan K. Nguyen, Viraj Sanghvi, Brian T. Smith
  • Patent number: 8943154
    Abstract: Certain embodiments herein relate to modeling relationships between users, network elements, and events in an organization. Organizational information regarding users and network elements may be collected and analyzed to create a relationship graph relating users and network elements. The relationship graph may include nodes representing users and network elements and edges connecting pairs of users and/or network elements. The edges may be weighted based on a number of factors, such as operational dependencies, user preferences for receiving information associated with events, and a user's historical actions, which may determine whether a user may receive an event. A relationship graph as described herein may be leveraged to provide various uses, including generating a relationship subgraph that may allow users to identify the impact of events on other users and network elements in an organization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Colin Bodell, Craig V. Kulfan, Geoffrey E. Endresen, Brian J. Feinstein, John G. Focht, Luan K. Nguyen, Viraj Sanghvi, Brian T. Smith
  • Patent number: 8719172
    Abstract: Systems and methods for hiding details associated with orders in an electronic commerce system are disclosed. An order is submitted by a user associated with a user account, and the order is processed by the electronic commerce system. A security measure can be imposed on the order and/or products associated with the order. An additional authentication layer can be enforced with regard to the order and/or products associated with the order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian J. Feinstein
  • Patent number: 8682739
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying products in video are disclosed. A video containing at least one object is received, and video frames are extracted from the video for analysis. At least one object is extracted from one or more of the video frames to determine whether it corresponds to a product. Hyperlinks can be generated and embedded in a user interface to allow a user to purchase the product and/or retrieve additional information about the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian J. Feinstein
  • Patent number: 8386340
    Abstract: Interactions between an item and an online shopper may be used to determine interest in an item or a category of items. Once interest has been determined, the online shopper may be presented with an option to initiate communication with other users. This communication may be between a plurality of users including shoppers, owners, experts, item representatives, and so forth. Communication may include text chat, video chat, audio chat, telephone, and so forth. Rewards may be provided to some or all users to encourage communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian J. Feinstein