Patents by Inventor Geoffrey E. Endresen
Geoffrey E. Endresen 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).
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Patent number: 10127195Abstract: Selective content presentation for the purpose of self-imposed censoring of content is implemented on an electronic device. The selective content presentation involves acquiring a content suppression preference for suppressing content presentation at an electronic device. Subsequently, a content portion and a content selection tag for the content portion are also received at the electronic device. When the electronic device determines based on the content selection tag that a part of content portion is designated for suppression by the content suppression preference, the part of the content portion is obstructed by the electronic device to form a modified content portion. The modified content portion is further presented to a user via the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2014Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jason A. Bliss, Luan Nguyen, Geoffrey E. Endresen, Brian T. Smith, Bethel Shawn McMillan
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Patent number: 9049105Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 11, 2012Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Brian J. Feinstein, Geoffrey E. Endresen, John W. Heitmann, Luan K. Nguyen, Viraj Sanghvi, Brian T. Smith
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Patent number: 8943154Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 11, 2012Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: 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
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Publication number: 20140372876Abstract: Selective content presentation for the purpose of self-imposed censoring of content is implemented on an electronic device. The selective content presentation involves acquiring a content suppression preference for suppressing content presentation at an electronic device. Subsequently, a content portion and a content selection tag for the content portion are also received at the electronic device. When the electronic device determines based on the content selection tag that a part of content portion is designated for suppression by the content suppression preference, the part of the content portion is obstructed by the electronic device to form a modified content portion. The modified content portion is further presented to a user via the electronic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: Jason A. Bliss, Luan Nguyen, Geoffrey E. Endresen, Brian T. Smith, Bethel Shawn McMillan
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Patent number: 8909740Abstract: Systems and methods enable users to exchange content, such as chat text, with other users that are consuming like video media. In one implementation, several users collectively group together to form a video session. The video media played during the video session may be selected by a vote of the users. The users in the video session each consume the same video media, and the video media is played on individual user computer devices in a synchronized manner. The users send chat text to one another over a network using a computer user interface. The chat text is superimposed over the synchronized video running on the individual user computer devices.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2010Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jason A. Bliss, William Alexander Strand, Luan Nguyen, Geoffrey E. Endresen, Tal Stramer, Bethel Shawn McMillan, Roy F. Price, Cameron Janes
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Patent number: 8826322Abstract: Selective content presentation for the purpose of self-imposed censoring of content is implemented on an electronic device. The selective content presentation involves acquiring a content suppression preference for suppressing content presentation at an electronic device. Subsequently, a content portion and a content selection tag for the content portion are also received at the electronic device. When the electronic device determines based on the content selection tag that a part of content portion is designated for suppression by the content suppression preference, the part of the content portion is obstructed by the electronic device to form a modified content portion. The modified content portion is further presented to a user via the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2010Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jason A. Bliss, Luan Nguyen, Geoffrey E. Endresen, Brian T. Smith, Bethel Shawn McMillan
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Patent number: 8719104Abstract: Techniques for enabling users to acquire multiple items or information about multiple items that appear within an image are described herein. For instance, a user may provide (e.g., upload) or may otherwise find an image that contains multiple items. The user may then request to acquire some or all of the multiple items or may request information regarding some or all of the illustrated items. In some instances, the described techniques initiate acquisition of the elements in accordance with a determined preference of the user.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2009Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Geoffrey E. Endresen
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Patent number: 8542823Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for partially encrypting one or more portions of an electronic file and decrypting the partially encrypted file. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method partially encrypts an electronic file. The method identifies one or more portions of the electronic file to be encrypted. The one or more portions are identified based on metadata in the electronic file that designate the one or more portions to be encrypted. The method encrypts the identified one or more portions of the electronic file using encryption software.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2009Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Luan K. Nguyen, William A. Strand, Jason A. Bliss, Geoffrey E. Endresen, Bethel S. McMillan
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Publication number: 20110283309Abstract: Selective content presentation for the purpose of self-imposed censoring of content is implemented on an electronic device. The selective content presentation involves acquiring a content suppression preference for suppressing content presentation at an electronic device. Subsequently, a content portion and a content selection tag for the content portion are also received at the electronic device. When the electronic device determines based on the content selection tag that a part of content portion is designated for suppression by the content suppression preference, the part of the content portion is obstructed by the electronic device to form a modified content portion. The modified content portion is further presented to a user via the electronic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2010Publication date: November 17, 2011Inventors: Jason A. Bliss, Luan Nguyen, Geoffrey E. Endresen, Brian T. Smith, Bethel Shawn McMillan