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  • BROWSER INTERFACE FOR ACCESSING SUPPLEMENTAL CONTENT ASSOCIATED WITH CONTENT PAGES
    Publication number: 20140195337
    Abstract: A user of a computing device may view a content page on a display of a computing device. One aspect of the disclosure is a browser user interface than enables the user to flip the content page (or portion thereof) over (e.g., via a touchscreen gesture) to view supplemental content, such as metadata, associated with the content page (or portion thereof). While viewing the metadata on the back side of the content page in some embodiments, the user can perform a second or reverse flip operation to return to the original page. The user may be presented with options to flip the page backward and forward multiple times to view multiple flipped pages presenting additional supplemental content. The supplemental content may include virtually any information in which the user may be interested and/or that is related or similar to the content page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
  • STALL CONTAINMENT OF RACK IN A DATA CENTER
    Publication number: 20140254089
    Abstract: A system for managing air flow computing devices in a rack includes a stall and filler elements. The stall includes a stall top panel and two side panels spaced apart from one another. The stall accommodates a rack computing system. The filler elements fill gaps between the computing devices of the rack computing systems and the panels of the stalls. An air moving system moves air from the cold aisle through cold-aisle facing air inlets of the computing devices. The filler elements inhibit air moving toward the cold aisle-facing inlets from leaking through gaps between the computing devices of the rack computing systems and the stall panels such that the filler elements inhibit air moving toward inlets in the computing devices from leaking through the gaps between the computing devices in the rack and the stall panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
  • UNAUTHORIZED PRODUCT DETECTION TECHNIQUES
    Publication number: 20140201094
    Abstract: An unauthorized-product detection system may compare data representing various authentication markers of items presumed to have been produced or sourced by a particular entity with stored data representing valid authentication markers of items produced or sourced by the particular entity. The authentication markers may represent inherent physical characteristics of the items or their packaging, or may be generated and applied to the items or their packaging to facilitate counterfeit detection and/or for other purposes. The data (some of which may be encrypted) may be captured using high-resolution cameras, scanners, or other devices, and then communicated to the unauthorized-product detection system for analysis. The system may maintain a data store of data representing captured or valid authentication markers and may store tracking information reflecting the use of various authentication markers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
  • DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM WITH WEB SERVICES CLIENT INTERFACE
    Publication number: 20130212165
    Abstract: A distributed, web-services based storage system. A system may include a web services interface configured to receive, according to a web services protocol, a given client request for access to a given data object, the request including a key value corresponding to the object. The system may also include storage nodes configured to store replicas of the objects, where each replica is accessible via a respective unique locator value, and a keymap instance configured to store a respective keymap entry for each object. For the given object, the respective keymap entry includes the key value and each locator value corresponding to replicas of the object. A coordinator may receive the given client request from the web services interface, responsively access the keymap instance to identify locator values corresponding to the key value and, for a particular locator value, retrieve a corresponding replica from a corresponding storage node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
  • CUSTOM RESOURCES IN A RESOURCE STACK
    Publication number: 20140129690
    Abstract: A resource stack managed by a resource stack provider is created based on a resource stack template that integrates a custom resource from a second provider into the resource stack using a notification system with the second provider. For example, a customer may create a template that defines a resource stack that comprises resources available from the resource stack provider and one or more custom resources provided by a second provider. When a resource stack is created, resources available from the resource stack provider may be provisioned. Custom resources may be initialized by notifying the provider of the custom resource of the requested integration of the custom resource with the resource stack and requested configuration details. The custom resource provider may respond with an indication of successful integration when the custom resource has been successfully initialized. After initializing the resources, the resource stack may be enabled for use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
  • OBJECT STORAGE USING MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS OF OBJECT INFORMATION
    Publication number: 20140324920
    Abstract: A method for grouping and storing objects across different storage solutions in storage systems according to analysis of multiple dimensions of information may be implemented as or in a storage management module. The module collects information about objects (e.g., data objects) in a storage system (e.g., a data storage system). The objects may be objects already stored in the storage system or may be new objects to be stored in the storage system. The module analyzes the collected information across multiple dimensions to determine groupings of the objects, and determines a storage solution for each determined grouping. The module may then direct storage of the objects in the groupings according to the determined storage solutions. Upon obtaining new information about object(s) in the storage system, the module may direct movement of the object(s) from one storage solution to another storage solution according to an analysis including the new information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
  • ARCHITECTURE FOR SHARING BROWSING SESSION HISTORIES
    Publication number: 20140214919
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for enabling users to efficiently store and share browsing sessions or portions thereof with other users or the general public. Browsing session requests and other activities may be sent to an intermediary system, which can retrieve requested content and store a representation of the requested content or data regarding the requested content. The stored data may be organized as a saved browsing session such that users may access the shared browsing session at a subsequent time and view the browsing session substantially in its entirety. Users may search for shared browsing sessions and access data regarding the requests made during a browsing session. In addition, data regarding client devices used during shared browsing sessions may be tracked and associated with the shared browsing sessions such that subsequent users can search for shared browsing sessions based partly on such device characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
  • DATABASE SYSTEM PROVIDING SINGLE-TENANT AND MULTI-TENANT ENVIRONMENTS
    Publication number: 20140244585
    Abstract: A database service may provide multi-tenant and single-tenant environments in which tables may be maintained on behalf of clients. The service (or underlying system) may create database instances and tables in either or both types of environments (e.g., by default or according to various parameter values specified in requests to create the instances or tables). When receiving and servicing requests directed to a table hosted in a single-tenant environment, the system may elide at least some of the authentication or metering operations that would be performed when servicing requests directed to tables hosted in a multi-tenant environment. Tables may be moved from a single-tenant environment to a multi-tenant environment, or vice versa, automatically by the system (e.g., dependent on an observed, expected, or desired throughput) or in response to an explicit request from a client to do so (e.g., to increase throughput or reduce cost).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
  • BLOCK RESTORE ORDERING IN A STREAMING RESTORE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20140149357
    Abstract: A distributed data warehouse system may maintain data blocks on behalf of clients, and may store primary and secondary copies of each data block on different disks or nodes in a cluster. The warehouse system may back up data blocks in a remote key-value backup storage system. A restore operation may retrieve data blocks from backup storage using their unique identifiers as keys (while incoming queries are serviced) in response to a failure or a query targeting data that was lost or corrupted. The order in which data blocks are restored may be dependent on the relative likelihood that they will be accessed in the near future (e.g., based on how recently or frequently they were accessed, written, or backed up; the values of one or more access counters associated with each data block; or how recently a database table containing data in each data block was loaded).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
  • URL RESCUE BY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION RELATED TO AN ITEM REFERENCED IN AN INVALID URL
    Publication number: 20130204981
    Abstract: A server system is disclosed that is capable of providing responsive content to a user when a request for an invalid URL is received. In a preferred embodiment, the server system implements multiple rescue strategies for attempting to rescue the invalid URL. One such rescue strategy involves repairing the URL by correcting for encoding errors, such as errors introduced by some web clients. Another rescue strategy involves determining that the URL contains an obsolete or outdated item identifier (e.g., product identifier) that renders the URL invalid, and returning information regarding one or more related items to the user. Another rescue strategy involves mining the invalid URL for one or more text strings reflective of the type of content desired, and then using the one or more text strings to execute a keyword search to identify content to provide to the user. The various rescue strategies may be attempted in sequence according to a hierarchy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
  • VIRTUAL TAPE LIBRARY SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20140181395
    Abstract: A virtual tape library system is used to back up data from a client archive system expecting physical tape operations onto logical data containers and/or a metadata store of a storage service by emulating the physical tape operations. For example, a virtual tape library appliance is installed at a customer premise location to interface with a client archive system. The virtual tape library appliance provides virtual interfaces to appear as physical tape library subsystems, such as tape drives and media changing interfaces. However, these virtual interfaces are supported by logical data containers in a storage service and a metadata store. The virtual tape library system allows the client archive system to make requests to import new virtual tapes, export virtual tapes for archiving, store virtual tapes at a virtual location, load and eject virtual tapes into a virtual tape drive and operate on virtual tapes in a virtual tape drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
  • ASYMMETRIC PACKET FLOW IN A DISTRIBUTED LOAD BALANCER
    Publication number: 20140310390
    Abstract: A distributed load balancer in which a router receives packets from at least one client and routes packet flows to multiple ingress servers. For unknown packet flows, an ingress server cooperates with primary and secondary flow trackers to establish connections to server nodes. For known packet flows, the ingress server sends the packets to target server nodes. The server nodes randomly select egress servers for outgoing packets of the packet flows. The ingress servers, flow trackers, and egress servers are implemented by multiple load balancer nodes in a load balancer node layer. The ingress and egress servers for a given packet flow may be on different load balancer nodes. The load balancer nodes may use a consistent hash function to compute a consistent hash ring for the nodes according to packet flow client/public endpoint pairs so that nodes associated with given packet flows can be located.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
  • MULTIPATH ROUTING IN A DISTRIBUTED LOAD BALANCER
    Publication number: 20140310391
    Abstract: A distributed load balancer in which a router receives packets from at least one client and routes packet flows to multiple load balancer nodes. The router exposes a public IP address and the load balancer nodes all advertise the same public IP address to the router. The router may implement a per-flow hashed multipath routing technique, for example an equal-cost multipath (ECMP) routing technique, to distribute the flows across the load balancer nodes. Thus, the multiple load balancer nodes may service a single public endpoint. The load balancer nodes may advertise to the router according to the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Rather than advertising itself, however, a load balancer node may be advertised to the router by one or more neighbor load balancer nodes; the neighbor nodes may terminate the BGP sessions with the router in response to determining that the load balancer node has failed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
  • Communicating context to a device using an imperceptible audio identifier
    Patent number: 10971144
    Abstract: Various embodiments of systems and methods allow a system to embed an item identifier into a content item. A first device can then play an audio trigger that is imperceptible to humans before playing the item identifier. A second device can go into an active listening mode after detecting the audio trigger and record an audio segment contain the embedded item identifier. A system can then decode the item identifier to determine an appropriate context for the second device. The second device can then receive a vocal command or query and respond according to the determined context. In one example, the first device can be a television, and the second device can be a digital assistant (e.g., Amazon Alexa) that detects advertisements played on the television via audio signals embedded in accompanying audio streams. Subsequent user interactions with the digital assistant can then be informed by the context of the recently-heard advertisements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Satayan Mahajan
  • STREAMING RESTORE OF A DATABASE FROM A BACKUP SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20140149355
    Abstract: A distributed data warehouse system may maintain data blocks on behalf of clients in multiple clusters in a data store. Each cluster may include a single leader node and multiple compute nodes, each including multiple disks storing data. The warehouse system may store primary and secondary copies of each data block on different disks or nodes in a cluster. Each node may include a data structure that maintains metadata about each data block stored on the node, including its unique identifier. The warehouse system may back up data blocks in a remote key-value backup storage system with high durability. A streaming restore operation may be used to retrieve data blocks from backup storage using their unique identifiers as keys. The warehouse system may service incoming queries (and may satisfy some queries by retrieving data from backup storage on an as-needed basis) prior to completion of the restore operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
  • PLAYLIST OF MULTIPLE OBJECTS ACROSS MULTPLE PROVIDERS
    Publication number: 20110320020
    Abstract: A system includes a device such as a television or multimedia player that has access to content residing at various storage sites and multimedia content providers. For example, the device has access to locally stored content, remotely stored content, music content that resides at music service providers such as Rhapsody and video content from multiple providers such as YouTube, NetFlix, Amazon, VuDu, etc. The user is provided with tools to create a playlist of content where the content includes, for example, one or more videos from local storage and remote services such as YouTube, NetFlix, Amazon, VuDu, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: VIZIO INC.
    Inventor: Pat William Price
  • Playlist of multiple objects across multiple providers
    Patent number: 9176960
    Abstract: A system includes a device such as a television or multimedia player that has access to content residing at various storage sites and multimedia content providers. For example, the device has access to locally stored content, remotely stored content, music content that resides at music service providers such as Rhapsody and video content from multiple providers such as YouTube, NetFlix, Amazon, VuDu, etc. The user is provided with tools to create a playlist of content where the content includes, for example, one or more videos from local storage and remote services such as YouTube, NetFlix, Amazon, VuDu, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Vizio, Inc
    Inventor: Pat William Price
  • Plug adapter
    Patent number: D966194
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Wilfrido Loor Canizares
  • Plug adapter
    Patent number: D999174
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Wilfrido Loor Canizares
  • Stylus
    Patent number: D1018542
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Tim Wall
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