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  • Validating sign-out implementation for identity federation
    Patent number: 10095860
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for validating that relying parties of a federated identity provider have correctly implemented sign-out functionality. In one approach, a network page is received from a network site that is operated by a relying party of a federated identity provider. It is then determined whether the network page includes code that properly implements a sign-out from the federated identity provider. An action is initiated in response to determining that the network page does not include code that properly implements the sign-out from the federated identity provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jon Arron McClintock, David Scott Cleckley, Jr., Robert Ellis Lee, Annabelle Richard Backman
  • Managing update deployment
    Patent number: 10248404
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing deployment of an update to computing devices are provided. An update deployment manager determines one or more initial computing devices to receive and execute an update. The update deployment manager further monitors a set of performance metrics with respect to the initial computing devices or a collection of computing devices. The update deployment manager may modify the rate of deployment based on the monitored performance metrics. For example, the update deployment manager may select additional computing devices to receive and execute an update. Further, the update deployment manager may halt deployment of the update. Moreover, the update deployment manager may rollback the deployment of the update.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew S. Garman, Nathan Bartholomew Thomas, Gang Li
  • Flexible capacity reservations for network-accessible resources
    Patent number: 11190415
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for flexible capacity pool reservations for network-accessible resources are disclosed. A system includes a plurality of resources of a provider network, and a resource manager. The resource manager receives a reservation modification request from a client that has an existing reservation for an original resource capacity and an original reservation duration. The modification request specifies a desired resource capacity. The reservation manager identifies resources to provide the desired capacity, and determines pricing components for the requested modification based on the difference between the desires resource capacity and the original capacity and on the remaining portion of the duration of the existing reservation. The resource manager modifies the reservation as requested and notifies the client regarding the pricing components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: David John Ward, Jr.
  • Distributed state management using dynamic replication graphs
    Patent number: 9619544
    Abstract: A sequence of configuration-delta messages from a configuration manager of a replication graph established for replicating state information of an application is received at a particular node of the graph. Representations of the messages are stored in a local configuration change repository. Using the repository, the node identifies neighbor source nodes and destination nodes of the graph. Subsequent to receiving a particular configuration-delta message indicating that a neighbor source node has been removed from the graph, a different source node is identified by the particular node, and a request is sent to the different source node to transmit a set of state transition messages pertaining to the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Allan Henry Vermeulen, Chi Hai Ho, Michael Benjamin Deardeuff
  • Self-service provisioning for multi-channel applications
    Patent number: 8161100
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for self-service provisioning of multi-channel applications. A self-service provisioning of a channel application is implemented on at least one server for a merchant based on channel configuration data supplied by a merchant client, at least a portion of the provisioning being performed automatically, the channel application being associated with a channel of commerce and becoming operable to facilitate a customer interaction for the merchant through the channel of commerce. There is communication with at least one channel client to perform the customer interaction according to merchant data stored on the at least one server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gustavo Eduardo Lopez, Andygibb Halim, Jason Aaron McMahon, Clifford A. Cancelosi
  • Dynamic detection of segment pattern
    Patent number: 10887672
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for detecting a pattern used by an encoder when outputting segments for HTTP streaming. A pattern detector receives, as part of a HTTP streaming protocol, a sequence of video segments and a sequence of audio segments forming at least a portion of a media presentation. The pattern detector identifies a duration of the video segments and then sums the durations of the sequence of audio segments until the summed duration is an integer multiple of the duration of the video segments. The pattern detector determines the number of the audio segments used to form the summed duration which includes the number of audio segments forming a cycle of the pattern. This pattern is then added to a manifest of the media presentation along with a repeat indicator defining the number of times the pattern is repeated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yongjun Wu, Parminder Singh, Sally Cheng
  • Variable drive health determination and data placement
    Patent number: 9037921
    Abstract: The relative health of data storage drives may be determined based, at least in some aspects, on data access information and/or other drive operation information. In some examples, upon receiving the operation information from a computing device, a health level of a drive may be determined. The health level determination may be based at least in part on operating information received from a client entity. Additionally, a storage space allocation instruction or operation may be determined for execution. The allocation instruction or operation determined to be performed may be based at least in part on the determined health level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc J. Brooker, Tobias L. Holgers, Madhuvanesh Parthasarathy, Danny Wei
  • Executing untrusted content in a trusted network
    Patent number: 8892754
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for executing untrusted content in a trusted network through the use of an external proxy server application. An identification of a resource specified by a user is obtained in one or more computing devices. The user is associated with one of a plurality of network sites hosted by the one or more computing devices. The one or more computing devices are within a trusted network that is separated from an untrusted network by a firewall. The resource is obtained from an external proxy server application executed in the untrusted network. One or more network pages are generated for the one of the network sites based at least in part on the resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew S. Huntwork, Jeremy Boynes, Benjamin Elliott Pew, Shashank Shekhar, Anna Catherine Bell, Prashant J. Thakare
  • System and method for service availability management
    Patent number: 8296609
    Abstract: A service framework uses importance ranking information in making call decisions and/or wait-time decisions in connection with service requests. Each of the service requests has an importance ranking which reflects the importance of the information provided by the service to a task being performed. The health of a service may be controlled by permitting fewer (or more) service requests to be made to the service when the service is less (or more) healthy. The likelihood of a service request being made to the service may depend on the importance ranking of the service request. When waiting for a response, a determination whether to continue waiting may be made based on the likelihood that the service has failed and based on the importance of the information to the task being performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul G. Nordstrom
  • Generating preview bundles corresponding to content pages
    Patent number: 8321505
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for generating and/or processing a preview bundle. Embodiments include receiving a request from a client to generate a preview network page that corresponds to a production network page generated in a production environment. Embodiments further include specifying at least a portion of the preview network page as a user developed portion. Embodiments also include generating the preview network page that is based at least upon the production network page and by replacing source elements of the production network page associated with the user developed portion with at least one data structure element that contains the data elements referenced by the source elements of the corresponding production network page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrea Albani, Viraj V. Sanghvi, Jeremy Boynes
  • Request routing information based on client IP groupings
    Patent number: 10958501
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing requesting routing functionality associated with resource requests for one or more resources associated with a content provider are provided. The request routing functionality can correspond to the processing of domain name service (“DNS”) requests for resources by computing devices by correlating client computing device identifiers, such as an Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, with identifiers (e.g., IP addresses) associated with other components in a content delivery environment, such as DNS resolvers associated with the client computing device. The processing of the DNS requests can also correspond to client computing device clustering or classes of client computing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Richardson, John Cormie, Colm MacCarthaigh, Benjamin W. S. Redman
  • PREDICTIVE CACHING FOR CONTENT
    Publication number: 20140059156
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for predictive caching of content to facilitate instantaneous use of the content. If a user is likely to commence use of a content item through a client, and if the client has available resources to facilitate instantaneous use, the client is configured to predictively cache the content item before the user commences use. In doing so, the client may obtain metadata for the content item and an initial portion of the content item from a server. The client may then initialize various resources to facilitate instantaneous use of the content item by the client based at least in part on the metadata and the initial portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: James Marvin Freeman, II, Aaron M. Bromberg, Bryant F. Herron-Patmon, Nush Karmacharya, Joshua B. Barnard, Peter Wei-Chih Chen, Stephen A. Slotnick, Abhishek Dubey, Andrew J. Watts, Richard J. Winograd
  • Collaborative browsing on a network site
    Patent number: 8739044
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for facilitating collaborative browsing of a network site by multiple users. A user interface is rendered in a computing device, and the user interface facilitates participation in a collaborative browsing session by multiple users including a master user and one or more other users. The user interface includes a browsing window that is configured to facilitate browsing of a network site by the master user. An indication of a status change of the browsing window is sent to another computing device when the computing device corresponds to a client in use by the master user. The indication of the status change excludes graphical screen capture data. The status change is replicated in the browsing window when the computing device corresponds to a client in use by the one or more other users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Anand Varadarajan
  • System and method for service availability management
    Patent number: 7904759
    Abstract: A service framework uses importance ranking information in making call decisions and/or wait-time decisions in connection with service requests. Each of the service requests has an importance ranking which reflects the importance of the information provided by the service to a task being performed. The health of a service may be controlled by permitting fewer (or more) service requests to be made to the service when the service is less (or more) healthy. The likelihood of a service request being made to the service may depend on the importance ranking of the service request. When waiting for a response, a determination whether to continue waiting may be made based on the likelihood that the service has failed and based on the importance of the information to the task being performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul G. Nordstrom
  • Message management for communal account
    Patent number: 11632345
    Abstract: Systems and methods to prevent or diminish message thread explosion are disclosed. Message data sent between members of a communal profile and/or between members of multiple communal profiles may be consolidated into a single message thread, which may be displayed on devices associated with the members associated with of the communal profile(s). Consolidation of the message data into a communal message thread may allow users to more intuitively view conversations between members of their communal profile and/or between members of their communal profile and other communal profiles without viewing individual message threads between members of the communal profile(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon Taylor, Chris Parker, Ran Mokady, Christo Frank Devaraj, Nancy Yi Liang, Blair Harold Beebe
  • User authentication using client-side browse history
    Patent number: 10212170
    Abstract: Techniques for authenticating a user may be described. In particular, a network-based document may be provided to a computing system of a user. The network-based document may include code and an identifier of another network-based document. The code may be configured to, upon execution, determine whether the other network-based document was accessed prior to providing the network-based document to the computing system. The other network-based document may be accessible to the user based on an identifier of the user. An indication that the other network-based document was accessed may be determined. For example, the indication may be received from the computing system based on an execution of the code at the computing system. The user may be authenticated based on the indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Darren Ernest Canavor, William Alexander Strand
  • Latency measurement in resource requests
    Patent number: 9185012
    Abstract: Systems and method for the management and processing of resource requests by a service provider, such as a content delivery network (“CDN”) service provider, on behalf of a content provider are provided. The CDN service provider can measure the performance associated with the delivery of resources to a requesting client computing devices from various computing devices associated with the CDN service provider. In one embodiment, the CDN service provider can utilize commands responsive to an initial request for a resource that causes the requesting client computing device to transmit one or more supplemental resource requests. Information associated with the processing of the sequence of resource requests can be used to measure CDN service provider latencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Richardson, John Cormie, Colm MacCarthaigh, Benjamin W. S. Redman
  • Modifying network site behavior using session-level performance metrics
    Patent number: 8996699
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for modifying network site behavior. At least one session-level performance metric associated with a client is determined. The one or more session-level performance metrics are determined from one or more latency times. Each one of the latency times represents a time elapsed between a sending of a network page request in the client and a rendering in the client of a network page received from a network page server in response to the network page request. A response to a next network page request from the client is modified according to the one or more session-level performance metrics in order to adjust a next latency time for the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan A. Jenkins, John M. Rauser, William A. Strand
  • Managing resources using resource expiration data
    Patent number: 8782236
    Abstract: Resource management techniques, such as cache optimization, are employed to organize resources within caches such that the most requested content (e.g., the most popular content) is more readily available. A service provider utilizes content expiration data as indicative of resource popularity. As resources are requested, the resources propagate through a cache server hierarchy associated with the service provider. More frequently requested resources are maintained at edge cache servers based on shorter expiration data that is reset with each repeated request. Less frequently requested resources are maintained at higher levels of a cache server hierarchy based on longer expiration data associated with cache servers higher on the hierarchy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley E. Marshall, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, David R. Richardson
  • Request-based encoding for streaming content portions
    Patent number: 10616301
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to enable request-driven encoding of content portions to be played back as part of a content stream. A content stream can represent multiple types of content, each initially encoded according to different formatting parameters. Thus, playback of the multiple types of content as initially encoded would result in an inconsistently formatted content stream. To address this, a streaming content delivery service may respond to requests by including in a manifest file for a stream consistently formatted content portions, even when one or more of such portions is not yet available. The streaming content delivery service can initiate encoding of the not-yet-available portions, such that they are available and delivered to a client when requested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Brinkley, Alex Xiaoye Zhang