Amazon Patents
Amazon.com, Inc. sells electronics, books, media and other general merchandise through its websites. The company also manufactures and sells electronic devices, including its Kindle e-Readers, Fire tablets and Fire phones. The company also provides services to developers and enterprises through Amazon Web Services, which offers computing, storage, database, analytics and deployment services.
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Publication number: 20240111843Abstract: A system for providing code suggestions according to licensing criteria is described. The system comprises computing devices that implement a code suggestion service. The code suggestion service receives a request that specifies licensing criteria via an interface of the code suggestion service. The code suggestion service determines respective licenses for respective source code files according to a source code attribution database from parsing the plurality of source code files that are applicable to the plurality of source code files. The code suggestion service generates a set of candidate code suggestions based, at least in part, on the plurality of source code files. The code suggestion service determines code suggestions from the set of candidate code suggestions that satisfy the licensing criteria based on the respective licenses. The code suggestion service provides the code suggestions determined from the set of candidate source code files that satisfy the licensing criteria.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Pramod Chandra Samudrala, Sri Ranga Akhilesh Bontala, Matthew Lee, Yanitsa Donchev, Zijian Wang, Yuchen Tian, Himani Amrish Shah, Rama Krishna Sandeep Pokkunuri
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Publication number: 20240111751Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing record locking for transactions using a probabilistic data structure are described. This probabilistic structure enables adding of data records without growth of the data structure. The data structure includes a hash table for each of multiple hash functions, where entries in the respective hash tables store a transaction time and locking state. To lock a record, each hash function is applied to a record key to provide an index into a respective hash table and a minimum of the values stored in the hash tables is retrieved. If the retrieved value is less than a transaction time for a transaction attempting to lock the record, locking is permitted and the transaction time is recorded to each of the hash tables. To commit the transaction, the probabilistic data structure is atomically updated as part of the commit operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Himanshu Jindal
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Publication number: 20240113998Abstract: Connectivity is enabled between a first and second isolated network using a virtual traffic hub that includes a decision master node responsible for determining a routing action for a packet received at the hub. At the hub, a determination is made that a particular domain name system (DNS) message being directed to a first resource in the first isolated network is to include an indication of a second resource in the second isolated network. The second resource is assigned a network address within a private address range of the second isolated network, which overlaps with a private address range being used in the first isolated network. The hub causes a transformed version of the network address to be included in the DNS message delivered to the first resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Paul John Tillotson, Bashuman Deb, Thomas Spendley, Omer Hashmi, Baihu Qian, Alexander Justin Penney
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Publication number: 20240112067Abstract: A multitenant solver execution service provides managed infrastructure for defining and solving large-scale optimization problems. In embodiments, the service executes solver jobs on managed compute resources such as virtual machines or containers. The compute resources can be automatically scaled up or down based on client demand and are assigned to solver jobs in a serverless manner. Solver jobs can be initiated based on configured triggers. In embodiments, the service allows users to select from different types of solvers, mix different solvers in a solver job, and translate a model from one solver to another solver. In embodiments, the service provides developer interfaces to, for example, run solver experiments, recommend solver types or solver settings, and suggest model templates. The solver execution service relieves developers from having to manage infrastructure for running optimization solvers and allows developers to easily work with different types of solvers via a unified interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Shreyas Vathul Subramanian, Amey K Dhavle, Guvenc Degirmenci, Kai Fan Tang, Daniel Romero
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Publication number: 20240112062Abstract: A system for managing deployment of quantum circuits is described. The system may include a web server configured to receive, from a consumer, a quantum computing request to perform a job using a given quantum application. The web server may generate a response based on execution of the quantum application and at least a portion of the quantum computing request and return the response to the consumer. The system may also include a deployment service configured to store quantum circuit definitions in a data store. The deployment service may receive, from the web server, a deployment request for executing a quantum circuit. The deployment service may generate a container for implementing the quantum circuit. The deployment service may configure a quantum application in the container for executing a job using the quantum circuit. The deployment service may provide the web server access to results of the execution of the job.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Saravanakumar Shanmugam Sakthivadivel, Altanali Nagji, Jeffrey Paul Heckey, Christian Bruun Madsen, Denis Antipov, Ravi Kiran Chilakapati
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Publication number: 20240112253Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for systems and methods for dynamic product summary images. The dynamic product summary images may be displayed on product pages or in association with individual product search results. The dynamic product summary images may comprise a number of different visual icons that provide a customer quick and easily-digestible information about a product. The dynamic product summary image may also be specific to the user such that different users may be presented with different icons based on details about the product that they are likely to find most important. For example, a dynamic product summary image for a laptop may include an icon indicating a processor type, an icon indicating a graphics card type, an icon indicating an operating system, etc. This provides for a more efficient product browsing process and mitigates or eliminates the need for the customer to search the entire product page for important details about the product.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Syama Prasad Suprasadachandran Pillai, Trisa Sarkar, Pankaj Kothari, Rahul Chaubey
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Publication number: 20240113935Abstract: Techniques are described for providing users with access to computer networks, such as to enable users to interact with a remote configurable network service in order to create and configure computer networks that are provided by the configurable network service for use by the users. Computer networks provided by the configurable network service may be configured to be private computer networks that are accessible only by the users who create them, and may each be created and configured by a client of the configurable network service to be an extension to an existing computer network of the client, such as a private computer network extension to an existing private computer network of the client. If so, secure private access between an existing computer network and new computer network extension that is being provided may be enabled using one or more VPN connections or other private access mechanisms.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Eric Jason Brandwine, Clarissa Loree Cook Brandwine, Daniel T. Cohn, Andrew J. Doane, Carl J. Moses, Stephen E. Schmidt
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Publication number: 20240114035Abstract: Techniques are described for providing a policy refiner application used to analyze and recommend modifications to identity and access management policies created by users of a cloud provider network (e.g., to move the policies toward least-privilege permissions). A policy refiner application receives as input a policy to analyze, and a log of events related to activity associated with one or more accounts of a cloud provider network. The policy refiner application can identify, from the log of events, actions that were permitted based on particular statements contained in the policy. Based on field values contained in the corresponding events, the policy refiner application generates an abstraction of the field values, where the abstraction of the field values may represent a more restrictive version of the field from a policy perspective. These abstractions can be presented to users as recommendations for modifying their policy to reduce the privileges granted by the policy.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Neha RUNGTA, Chungha SUNG, Amit GOEL, Zvonimir RAKAMARIC, Loris D'ANTONI
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Publication number: 20240111562Abstract: An Application Programming Interface (API) allows a launching of a virtual machine where a queue count can be configured by a user. More specifically, each virtual machine can be assigned a pool of queues. Additionally, each virtual machine can have multiple virtual networking interfaces and a user can assign a number of queues from the pool to each virtual networking interface. Thus, a new metadata field is described that can be used with requests to launch a virtual machine. The metadata field includes one or more parameters that associate a number of queues with each virtual networking interface. A queue count can be dynamically configured by a user to ensure that the queues are efficiently used given that the user understands the intended application of the virtual machine being launched.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Evgeny Schmeilin, Dileep Varma Bairraju, Georgy Zorik Machulsky, Said Bshara
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Patent number: 11947912Abstract: Devices and techniques are generally described for determining named entity recognition tags. In various examples, first input data representing a natural language input may be determined. In some examples, a first machine learned model may determine first data comprising a first encoded representation of the first input data. In various examples, second data representing a grouping of text of the first input data may be determined based at least in part on the first data. In some examples, first entity data may be determined by searching a memory layer using the second data. In at least some examples, the first entity data and the first data may be combined to generate third data. In various examples, output data comprising a predicted named entity recognition tag may be generated for the grouping of text based at least in part on the third data.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Shuyan Dong, Zhichu Lu, Yue Liu
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Patent number: 11948170Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for estimating impressions for a digital out of home (DOOH) advertising spaces (e.g., digital billboards and screens). A DOOH advertising system may determine the location of relevant DOOH advertising spaces and the location of certain consumers with known attributes and a known location. Based on this information the DOOH advertising system may estimate a number of impressions for a given DOOH advertising space and a given consumer segment associated with attributes of consumers within a certain distance from the DOOH advertising space. Using this information, the DOOH advertising spaces having the highest estimated impressions for a given consumer segment may be identified.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Sarp Arda Coskun, Ran Baror, Charles Joseph Rojo, Robin Michelle Sweers, Kaushik Shankar, Timothy Jacob Lawson, Wei Zhan, Jason Mach, Ankit Rajiv Kuwadekar, Adam Jacob Gilbert, Michael Lee Loritsch
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Patent number: 11947913Abstract: Techniques for performing multi-stage entity resolution (ER) processing are described. A system may determine a portion of a user input corresponding to an entity name, and may request an entity provider component to perform a search to determine one or more entities corresponding to the entity name. The preliminary search results may be sent to a skill selection component for processing, while the entity provider component performs a complete search to determine entities corresponding to the entity name. A selected skill component may request the complete search results to perform its processing, including determining an output responsive to the user input.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: David Paul Ramos, Tonytip Ketudat, Vikas Chawla, Lukas Leon Brower
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Patent number: 11948109Abstract: Techniques for planning resources using block and route information are described. In an example, a computing system determines a demand for item transportation expected during a planning horizon. The computing system determines information about a pre-planned transportation resource available during the planning horizon and costs associated with the pre-planned transportation resource. The computing system uses an optimization model to determine a block having a time length, a tour to transport, during the block, a first portion of the demand using the pre-planned transportation resource, and a second portion of the demand to be transported using an on-demand transportation resource. The computing system indicates, to a first computing device of the pre-planned transportation resource, an assignment of the block to the pre-planned transportation resource.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Phillip Oliver Kriett, Philip Mark Kaminsky, Ivan Borges Oliveira, Manik Kumar
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Patent number: 11947695Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for discovering availability of digital media titles from multiple digital media service providers. A control is presented to establish a relationship between a user account and a first digital media service provider. A first availability for access by the user account of a digital media title is received from the first digital media service provider. A second availability for access by the user account of the digital media title is received from a second digital media service provider. An indication of availability for access of the digital media title by the user account from the first digital media service provider and the second digital media service provider is presented based at least in part on the first availability and the second availability.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Brett C. Barrilleaux, Ann M. Groeninger
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Patent number: 11950062Abstract: A system configured to improve sound source localization (SSL) processing by reducing a number of direction vectors and grouping the direction vectors into direction cells is provided. The system performs clustering to generate a smaller set of direction vectors included in a delay-direction codebook, reducing a size of the codebook to the number of unique delay vectors. In addition, the system groups the direction vectors into direction cells having a regular structure (e.g., predetermined uniformity and/or symmetry), which simplifies SSL processing and results in a substantial reduction in computational cost. The system may also select between multiple codebooks and/or dynamically adjust the codebook to compensate for changes to the microphone array. For example, a device with a microphone array fixed to a display that can tilt may adjust the codebook based on a tilt angle of the display to improve accuracy.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Wai Chung Chu, Carlo Murgia
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Patent number: 11949818Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for establishing network-based data communications (e.g., voice calls, video calls, etc.) between a user device of a user and a remote device of another user, and transitioning the data communications to a different user device of the user based on various types of information. In some examples, the user devices may be located in one or more environments of the user, and the data communications may be transitioned between the user devices based, at least in part, on a location of the user in the environment(s) relative to the multiple devices. For instance, if a user device is performing data communications with the remote device, but it is determined that the user has moved into a closer proximity to another user device, the performance of the data communications may be transitioned to the other user device to which the user is in closer proximity.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jerzy Zagorski, Tomasz Miarowski
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Patent number: 11949634Abstract: Technologies directed to a control circuit using dynamic signal compression are described. A control circuit includes a front-end module (FEM) coupled to an RF cable, the FEM having a low-noise amplifier (LNA). The control circuit further includes an automatic gain control (AGC) circuitry coupled to the FEM. The AGC circuitry receives a first radio frequency (RF) signal having a first portion of one or more symbols and a second portion of one or more symbols. The AGC circuitry further amplifies the first portion to generate a first portion of an output signal. The AGC circuitry further compresses the second portion to obtain a second portion of the output signal. The AGC circuitry further sends a control signal to cause the FEM to change a gain state value of the LNA from a first value to a second value based on a comparison between a voltage of the output signal and a reference voltage.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Nathan Labadie, Divya Naveenan, In Chul Hyun, Cheol Su Kim
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Patent number: 11949970Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide for novel boundary generation features for interleaving additional content into media content. Media content may be received which includes a video and audio portion. An unencrypted encode of the video portion may be generated. A first set of time stamps for the video portion may be generated using a computer vision algorithm. A second set of time stamps for the video portion may be generated for identifying IDR frames using a first algorithm. A third set of time stamps may be generated to serve as boundaries for interleaving additional content into the media content based on a priority algorithm that uses the first set of time stamps and the second set of time stamps. The video portion may be encoded using the third set of time stamps to determine the IDR frames for the media content.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Abhishek Kumar, Yongjun Wu, Sitaraman Ganapathy, Vasanthakumar Soundararajan, Varun Chadha
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Patent number: 11949997Abstract: A device include a first camera, a second camera, and a shutter assembly. The shutter assembly includes a switch, a link coupled to the switch and having a first cover, and an arm coupled to the link and having a second cover. Actuating the switch to a first position disposes the first cover within a first field of view of the first camera and the second cover within a second field of view of the second camera. Actuating the switch to a second position disposes the first cover outside of the first field of view and the second cover outside of the second field of view.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Rahul Gupta, Oszkar Tiberius Bajko, Kristina Perez de Tagle, Hung-Bing Tan, Mona Mayeh, Martin Peter Aalund, Sudarshan Rangaraj, Arivazhagan Chandrashekaran, Pierre Della Nave
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Patent number: 11947516Abstract: The updating of a definition layer or schema for a large distributed database can be accomplished using a plurality of data store tiers. A distributed database can be made up of many individual data stores, and these data stores can be allocated across a set of tiers based on business logic or other allocation criteria. The update can be applied sequentially to the individual tiers, such that only data stores for a single tier are being updated at any given time. This can help to minimize downtime for the database as a whole, and can help to minimize problems that may result from an unsuccessful update. Such an approach can also allow for simplified error detection and rollback, as well as providing control over a rate at which the update is applied to the various data stores of the distributed database.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ankit Kumar, Alazel Acheson, Jasmeet Chhabra, Luke Edward Kennedy, Daniel Stephen Popick, Weixun Wang
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Patent number: 11945665Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for automated lateral transfer and elevation of sortation shuttles. An example system may include a track having a first portion arranged in a first direction, a shuttle configured to move along the track, and a shuttle carriage system configured to move in a second direction transverse to the first direction, where the shuttle is configured to move from the track to the shuttle carriage system. The shuttle carriage system may include a first frame configured to support the shuttle, a first electromagnet configured to propel the first frame, and a second electromagnet coupled to the first frame, the second electromagnet configured to propel the shuttle off the first frame.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Lais, Ganesh Krishnamoorthy, Michael Alan Bray, Erika Regan Storvick, Zahin Nambiar
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Patent number: 11947537Abstract: Index management for non-relational database systems may be automatically performed. Performance of queries to a non-relational database may be evaluated to determine whether to create or remove an additional index. An additional index may be automatically created to store a subset of data projected from the non-relational database to utilize when performing a query to the non-relational database instead of accessing data in the non-relational database.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Akshat Vig, Sharatkumar Nagesh Kuppahally, Lewis Bruck, Somasundaram Perianayagam
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Patent number: 11948562Abstract: Described herein is a system for predictive feature analysis to precompute and store data required to respond to a user input in advance of receiving the user input. To determine when to precompute the data, the system uses a prediction model to predict user interactions and when to expect the user input. The system predicts that a user input is about to be received, and starts to process certain data to determine feature data and stores the data in a cache. When the user input is received, the system retrieves the data from the cache for further processing to respond to the user input.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: William Evan Welbourne, Min Hao Chen, Jennifer Liwen Chen
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Patent number: 11947555Abstract: Intelligent query routing may be performed across shards of a scalable database table. A router of a database system may receive an access request directed to one or more database tables. The router may evaluate the access request with respect to metadata obtained for the database tables to determine an assignment distribution of computing resources of the database system to data that can satisfy the access request. The router can select planning locations to perform the access request based on the assignment distribution of the computing resources. The router can cause the access request to be performed according to planning at the selected planning locations.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Saleem Mohideen, Haritabh Gupta, Grant A McAlister, Alexandre Olegovich Verbitski, James Laurence Finnerty, Ahmad Mohammad Radi Ahmad Alsmair, David Charles Wein, Li Che David Hsiao, Navaneetha Krishnan Thanka Nadar, Sadagopan Nattamai Sathiyamoorthy, Baskar Durairaj, Murali Brahmadesam, Gajanan Sharadchandra Chinchwadkar
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Patent number: 11948022Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for a web services provider to interact with a client on remote job execution. For example, a web services provider may receive a job command, from an interactive programming environment of a client, applicable to job for a machine learning algorithm on a web services provider system, process the job command using at least one of a training instance and an inference instance, and provide metrics and log data during the processing of the job to the interactive programming environment.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Albert Faulhaber, Jr., Leo Parker Dirac
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Patent number: 11947590Abstract: Embodiments of a contextualized visual search (CVS) system are disclosed capable of isolating target images of items that contain instances of a previously-unseen query image from a large database of target images. In embodiments, the system is used to implement an interactive query interface of an e-commerce portal, which allows the user to specify the query image (e.g. a logo) to be searched. The system converts the query image into a feature vector using a first machine learning model, and compares the feature vector to feature vectors of target images using a second machine learning model to find matching target images that contain an instance of the query image. The system then returns a query result indicating a list of items associated with matched target images. In embodiments, the query results may be ranked based on a set of personalized factors associated with the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ria Chakraborty, Madhur Popli, Rishi Kishore Verma, Pranesh Bhimarao Kaveri
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Patent number: 11947939Abstract: Network services are deployed in a networked environment in association with a user account. Dependencies of a network service, such as other network services, may be identified based on an online analysis and an offline analysis of the network service. Further, anomalies associated with the dependencies may be identified in some situations. A call graph may include nodes corresponding to the network services and its dependencies, and may include an identifier corresponding to a part of the call path that has the anomaly. An inspection of the call graph allows software developers to readily recognize that their service depends on a potentially flawed software that may cause a service failure or outage.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Juan-Pierre Longmore, Sean Alexander Monroe, Ajay Narendra Malalikar, Rajesh Somnath Kamath, Noel O'Flaherty
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Patent number: 11947657Abstract: An Identity and Access Management Service implements persistent source values PSVs) for assumed identities. A source value (e.g., an original identifier of an entity) is persisted across assumed identities, facilitating identification of entities (users or applications) responsible for actions taken by the assumed (e.g., alternative) identities. The Manager receives a request to assume an identity. The request includes the entities current credentials and a PSV. The current credentials are authenticated and a persistent source value policy may be relied on to determine whether and/or how to grant the assumed identity. The PSV may be copied from credentials in the request in order to be included in the credentials for the requested identity that the Manager provides in response to the request. Use of the requested credentials, including the PSV, to access services or resources may be logged, the logs including the PSV from the request to assume the identity.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Rachit Jain, Douglas Spencer Hewitt, Conor P Cahill, Ogbeide Derrick Oigiagbe
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Patent number: 11947568Abstract: Working set ratio estimations of data items in a sliding time window are determined to dynamically allocate storage for the data items. A working set ratio may be determined by accessing a fixed-size array that stores respective timestamps of last accesses of data items to determine which data items are useful to determine an estimate of a working set for the application within a range of time. The working set ratio is then determined from an estimated working set and an amount of computing resources allocated to the application by the estimated working set. The amount of the computing resources allocated to the application may then be automatically scaled according to the determine working set ratio.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Bryce Jonathan Danz, Sankhyayan Debnath, Stefano Stefani, Anton Shyrabokau, Mohammad Abu Obaida, Marc Brooker, David Charles Wein, Zhonghua Feng
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Patent number: 11949628Abstract: Technologies to improve wireless communications by on-body products are described. One device includes millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency front-end circuitry and a baseband processor with an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) physical (PHY) layer. The baseband processor determines received signal strength indicator (RSSI) value and phase value associated with a wireless channel in a mmWave frequency range. The baseband processor determines a state of motion of the device using the RSSI value and the phase value. The baseband processor sends data to the second device using a first subcarrier structure of the OFDM PHY layer, in response to the state of motion being a first state of motion. The baseband processor sends data to the second device using a second subcarrier structure of the OFDM physical layer, in response to the state motion being a second state of motion having more motion than the first state of motion.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Cyril Arokiaraj Arool Emmanuel, Balamurugan Shanmugam
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Patent number: 11947425Abstract: Systems and methods for durable storage of storage volume “snapshots” are provided. Snapshots are stored as collections of snapshot data objects. To improve the durability of snapshot storage, physical deletion of snapshot data objects may be delayed for a period of time after the snapshot data objects are marked for deletion. Lists of the stored snapshot data objects and the snapshot data objects that make up active snapshots may be periodically analyzed. If there are any snapshot data objects that are part of active snapshots and are not present in the list of stored snapshot data objects, the snapshot data objects may be recovered before they are physically deleted.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Shengjie Quan
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Patent number: 11947510Abstract: A distributed storage system may store data object instances in persistent storage and may store keymap information for those data object instances in a distributed hash table on multiple computing nodes. Each data object instance may include a composite key containing a user key. The keymap information for each data object instance may map the user key to a locator and the locator to the data object instance. A request to store or retrieve keymap information for a data object instance may be routed to a particular computing node based on a consistent hashing scheme in which a hash function is applied to a portion of the composite key of the data object instance. Thus, related entries may be clustered on the same computing nodes. The portion of the key to which the hash function is applied may include a pre-determined number of bits or be identified using a delimiter.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jason G. McHugh, Praveen Kumar Gattu, Michael A. Ten-Pow, Derek Ernest Denny-Brown, II
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Patent number: 11947540Abstract: Techniques and systems can receive a query identifying a name linked to performance data of a computer system and a location of the performance data. The name linked to the performance data of the computer system and the location of the performance data can be communicated to a first computer-implemented system. The first computer-implemented system can include identifying data derived from the name and the location of the performance data. Identifying data derived from the name and the location of the performance data can be received from the first computer-implemented system. The identifying data derived from the name and the location of the performance data can be used to retrieve the performance data. The performance data can be hosted by a second computer-implemented system that is different than the first computer-implemented system.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Andrea Giuliano, Gianluca Cacace
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Patent number: 11947774Abstract: Techniques are provided herein for selecting and transmitting snippets from a messaging application. A “snippet” refers to an audio segment of a song that is less than the whole of the song. A user may request to view various audio segments (e.g., by category, by search, etc.) corresponding to portions of respective songs via a user interface of the messaging application. In some embodiments, an audio segment can be selected and metadata associated with that particular audio segment may be transmitted to another computing device where the audio segment can be played (e.g., streamed). In this manner, these snippets can be employed by the user to enhance their chat or texting conversation.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Nadal Alyafaie, Joseph Flavian Squillace, Caleb Prabhakar, Ashima Sehgal
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Patent number: 11948005Abstract: At a managed control plane service, constituent services and operational requirements of an application are identified. In response to an end-user request directed to the application, contents of an inter-service request are generated at a resource selected by the managed control plane service for a first constituent service, and a response to the message is generated at another resource selected for a second constituent service. Tasks to be performed for the operational requirements are initiated by the managed control plane service.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Michael Groenewald, Diwakar Gupta, Izak van Der Merwe, Adam Scott King, Cindy-Lee Engelbrecht, Christopher Sam Goosen, Aletta Johanna Blanken, Ryan Walter Jason Waite
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Patent number: 11948019Abstract: An interruption-handling setting for a category of interactions of an application is determined via a programmatic interface. A set of user-generated input is obtained while presentation to a user of a set of output of the category is in progress. A response to the set of user-generated input is prepared based at least in part on the interruption-handling setting.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Swapandeep Singh, Minaxi Singla, Kartik Rustagi, Omkar Prakash Kurode, Gouthamamani Venkatesan, Ajay Bhaskar Medury, Lefan Zhang, Haiyang Sun, Rama Krishna Sandeep Pokkunuri, Sai Madhu Bhargav Pallem, Harshal Pimpalkhute
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Patent number: 11948352Abstract: The exchange of weight gradients among the processing nodes can introduce a substantial bottleneck to the training process. Instead of remaining idle during the weight gradients exchange process, a processing node can update its own set of weights for the next iteration of the training process using the processing node's local weight gradients. The next iteration of training can be started by using these speculative weights until the weight gradients exchange process completes and a global weights update is available. If the speculative weights is close enough to the weight values from the global weights update, the training process at the processing node can continue training using the results computed from the speculative weights to reduce the overall training time.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Patricio Kaplan, Randy Renfu Huang
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Publication number: 20240104439Abstract: Methods and apparatus for dynamic modification of interruptibility settings of network-accessible resources are disclosed. A system includes a resource manager and a plurality of resource instances, each of which has an interruptibility setting. In response to an instance acquisition request, the resource manager allocates an instance with a first interruptibility setting, allowing the resource manager to revoke the client's access to the instance without a notification. In response to an approval of an interruptibility upgrade request, the resource manager modifies the interruptibility setting to a second setting that allows the client to retain access to the instance for at least a specified time. Respective billing amounts for the client's use of the instance are determined for each of the interruptibility settings used.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: David John Ward, JR.
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Publication number: 20240103310Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for front-lit displays having uniform brightness. In one embodiment, an example display may include an electrophoretic display, a light guide configured to direct light from one or more light emitting diodes, and a cover lens assembly. The cover lens assembly may include a cover glass layer, an anti-glare film coupled to the cover glass layer, and a hot melt adhesive disposed about lateral edge surfaces of the cover glass layer and the anti-glare film, such that the hot melt adhesive forms a perimeter of the cover lens assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Nageswara Rao Tadepalli, Weihsin Hou, Kyu-Tak Son, Juho Ilkka Jalava, Ahmed Hassan, Xiaolong Zheng, Moonshik Kang
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Publication number: 20240104416Abstract: A system and method for indicating, via a heralding signal, that an amplitude damping decay event has occurred within a quantum low-density parity-check code is disclosed. Logical information may be encoded into a superconducting qubit using one or more transmons, wherein a first level and a second level are encoded into a code space of the qubit, and at least one intermediate level outside of the code space characterizes an amplitude damping decay channel which is then used to herald an amplitude damping decay event. Dynamical decoupling pulse sequences may be used to drive such qubit structures and bias noise towards the amplitude damping decay channel. The one or more heralding signals within a lower-level code may then be used as input to a quantum low-density parity-check code for decoding syndrome measurements with the knowledge of occurrences of amplitude damping decay as indicated via the one or more heralding signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Aleksander Marek Kubica, Alex Retzker
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Publication number: 20240104074Abstract: A constraint on a location at which a portion of a data set can be stored is determined based on input received via a programmatic interface. The portion of the data set is stored at a location selected in accordance with the constraint. An analysis operation, whose input includes the portion of the data set, is performed at a set of computing resources selected from a plurality of resources based at least in part on their location.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Matt A Cember, Emma Lippman, Vinaykumar S. Patil
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Patent number: 11938617Abstract: Examples described herein are directed to methods, computer-readable media, and systems for controlling an end of arm tool with one or more suction zones to pick up an item. Sensor data regarding the item is obtained. The sensor data is used to determine which of the one or more suction zones should be used to pick up the item. A rotational orientation is also determined that orients the determined suction zone(s) with the item. The end of arm tool is then instructed to create a suction force at the one or more suction zones and to pick up the item using the suction force.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jude Jonas, Bertan Atamer, Gregory Thomas Merlino, Gregory Coleman, Robert Kevin Katzschmann, Erica Aduh, Manikantan Nambi, Beth A. Marcus, Kristin Covelle, Areej Pirzada
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Patent number: 11940320Abstract: A load sensor compares generated values of load signals to predicted values of the load signals. Where an error between a generated value and a predicted value is less than a threshold, a value of zero is transmitted by the load sensor to an external systems, in an encoded stream of bits, and the error are used to calculate a predicated value of a next load signal, such that insubstantial changes in loading resulting in small errors are not transmitted to the external system. Where an error between the generated value and the predicted value exceeds the threshold, however, a value representative of the error is transmitted to the external system, in an encoded stream of bits. The external system processes the stream of bits to calculate the error, to determine that an item has been placed on a storage system or removed therefrom, or to identify the item.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Sarang Sandeep Bhadsavle, Alexander Eugene Choi, Graham Cyril Jordan, Paul Eugene Munger, Robert M. Riggs, Benjamin Hong Yee, Matthew Zimmer
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Patent number: 11941014Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for versioned metadata management for a time-series database are disclosed. A metadata service of a distributed time-series database stores, to one or more metadata storage resources, first metadata descriptive of a table. The first metadata is associated with a version number in a logical sequence for the table. The metadata service stores, in a log, data indicative of one or more metadata updates for the table. The metadata update(s) are associated with an additional version number higher than the version number in the logical sequence. Responsive to a read request, the metadata service determines a most recent version number that has been applied from the log to the metadata storage resource(s). Responsive to the read request and based (at least in part) on the most recent version number, the metadata service returns either the first metadata or second metadata comprising the update(s).Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Sudipto Das, Kanishka Chaturvedi, Timothy A Rath, Avinash Goutham Reddy Aluguvelly
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Patent number: 11940923Abstract: Technologies are described for cost based management of cache entries stored in a computer memory. In one example, a plurality of cache entries may be stored at a cache in a computer memory and the cache entries may have a cost measure associated with individual cache entries. A cost measure may represent a computing cost of an application to generate a cache entry. An incoming cache entry may be received at the cache, where the incoming cache entry has a cost measure associated with the incoming cache entry. In response to receiving the incoming cache entry, a cache entry that has a lower cost measure than the cost measure for other cache entries may be identified for eviction from the cache. The cache entry identified for eviction may be evicted from the cache, and the incoming cache entry may be written into the cache stored in the computer memory.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Samnick, Jacob Shannan Carr, Sean Robert Connell
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Patent number: 11939164Abstract: Described are automated systems and methods for the handling and processing of items at material handling facility. The exemplary systems and methods can receive the items from various upstream processes and systems and can process and handle the items so that they can be provided to various downstream processes and systems. The exemplary systems and methods can provide modular systems and methods that can perform automated singulation, sortation, retrieval, and packing of items without any manual handling.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Larry Joe Robb, Emily R. Parrish, Justin Stone, Jose Luis De La Rosa, Joshua Martin Middleton, Roland J. Menassa, Eli Douglas Girod, Maxim P. Hoffman, Mohammad Mosa, Vatsal Mehta
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Patent number: 11941278Abstract: A data storage system includes multiple head nodes and data storage sleds. Volume data is replicated between a primary and one or more secondary head nodes for a volume partition and is further flushed to a set of mass storage devices of the data storage sleds. Volume metadata is maintained in a primary and one or more secondary head nodes for a volume partition and is updated in response to volume data being flushed to the data storage sleds. Also, the primary and secondary head nodes store check-points of volume metadata to the data storage sleds, wherein in response to a failure of a primary or secondary head node for a volume partition, a replacement secondary head node for the volume partition recreates a secondary replica for the volume partition based, at least in part, on a stored volume metadata checkpoint.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Norbert Paul Kusters, Jianhua Fan, Shuvabrata Ganguly, Danny Wei, Avram Israel Blaszka
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Patent number: 11940983Abstract: A service to provide anomaly detection receives a request to back-test the service. The request includes information for accessing a dataset of historical data. The service executes workflows to ingest the data, train a plurality of machine learning models to perform anomaly detection, and detect anomalies in the dataset. A representation of the detect anomalies is generated and presented to a user. The service receives an indication to activate the service to provide ongoing anomaly detection services.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Mohammad Adnan, Mohammed Talal Yassar Azam, Aditya Bahuguna, Fnu Syed Furqhan Ulla, Devesh Ratho, Ankita Verma, Ankur Mehrotra
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Patent number: 11941002Abstract: Techniques and systems can analyze information associated with instructions to sort data to determine an identifier common to at least a plurality of individual instructions to sort the data. A correspondence of the identifier to a sort identifier used to sort the data can be determined. Based on the determined correspondence, the techniques and systems can sort the data based on the identifier.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Michael George Clarke, Jake Johnathan Ursetta, Yasaswi Vempati
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Patent number: D1019657Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Tim Wall, Jeffrey Philip Infante