Patents by Inventor Todd Stumpf

Todd Stumpf 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).

  • Determining item availability
    Patent number: 8666846
    Abstract: A facility for processing a request for information about a specified item is described. The facility receives the request from an originator. In response to receiving the request, the facility generates a response to the request that contains information about the specified item. The facility also determines a current level of availability of the specified item, and, based upon this determined level of availability, determines, for each of a number of ordering actions, whether the ordering action is currently available for the specified item. For each ordering action determined to be currently available for the specified item, the facility augments the generated response by adding a control for performing the ordering action. The facility sends the augmented response to the originator of the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John Chenault, Paul Nordstrom, Todd Stumpf, Gintaras Woss