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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185634 | Managing resource consolidation configurations Systems and methods for monitoring the performance associated with fulfilling resource requests and determining optimizations for improving such performance are provided. A processing device obtains and processes performance information associated with processing a ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185497 | Distributed storage system with web services client interface 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 ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185446 | Generating parts bundles Disclosed are various embodiments for generating automobile parts bundles associated with maintenance events. A maintenance schedule is retrieved and various maintenance events are identified. Various maintenance tasks associated with maintenance events are also ide... | 05/22/2012 |
| D660313 | Display screen portion with user interface | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180758 | Data management system utilizing predicate logic A predicate logic corpus can be generated from any number of data sources or data stores. The creation of a predicate logic corpus for information such as metadata allows ascendancy, descendancy, relationship, hierarchical, contextual, and knowledge information to b... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180688 | Computer-readable medium, system, and method for item recommendations based on media consumption Disclosed are various embodiments for generating item recommendations based on broadcast media consumed by a user on a client device. An item recommendation application receives a quantity of media information associated with the broadcast media being consumed from ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175935 | Methods and apparatus for providing multiple product delivery options including a tote delivery option Methods and apparatus for providing multiple shipping options to customers of a network site. A user interface to the network site may provide two or more shipping options to customers of the site when ordering items offered by the site. The shipping options include... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175925 | Position-based item identification in a materials handling facility Positional placement guidelines for storing items in an inventory area may allow determination and tracking of the position of the items in the inventory area. Position information may be associated with each item in a materials handling facility to assist in locati... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171351 | Collecting information from user devices An information collection system may include a server and one or more user devices that are in electronic communication with each other. Information may be collected by the user devices. For example, a user device may collect information regarding an error that occu... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170923 | Services for offsetting the environmental impact of electronic transactions The environmental impact of various transactions can be reduced or offset by determining the impact of various shipping and packaging options, and providing these options to customers. Customers then have the ability to select options that reduce the environmental i... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170897 | Automated validation of results of human performance of tasks Techniques are described for facilitating automated validation of results of performance of tasks. In some situations, task requesters may specify various automated validation criteria for tasks that they submit, and those specified validation criteria may automatic... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170712 | Method and apparatus for non-linear unit-level sortation in order fulfillment processes A flexible, non-linear, unit-level sortation system for sorting mixed collections of items into orders. Collections of unsorted items for fulfilling requests are delivered to one or more singulation stations. At a singulation station, individual units of items are s... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166201 | Configuring intercommunications between computing nodes Techniques are described for configuring intercommunications between multiple computing nodes, such as multiple virtual machine nodes hosted on one or more physical computing machines or systems. In some situations, virtual networks may be established and maintained... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166155 | System and method for website experimentation A data processing system comprises web page generation logic and website experimentation logic. The web page generation logic is configured to generate web pages to be provided to visitors of a website. The website experimentation logic is coupled to the web page ge... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8166062 | Search-caching and threshold alerting for commerce sites Users can be notified when information becomes available, such as when an item is available for purchase at some point in the future. Users can indicate to receive information about the item using a desired notification type, such as an email message or text message... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161100 | Self-service provisioning for multi-channel applications 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... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160929 | Local item availability information Techniques are described for determining merchants that are able to provide items of interest. In some situations, consumers or other users supply requests for information about particular items of interest, and appropriate local merchants that are currently availab... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159961 | Load balancing utilizing adaptive thresholding A method and a system for processing data requests in a client-server computing environment, such as the Web, are disclosed. A client device initially transmits a data request to a randomly selected first server device. The first server device may reject the data re... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156243 | Request routing A system, method and computer-readable medium for request routing. A client request processing a resource identifier for requested content transmits a first DNS query to a content delivery network service provider. The content delivery network service provider trans... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156073 | Item attribute generation using query and item data Arrangements and methods provide item data information to one or more merchants. A Web server includes various modules that interact with customer item search queries and item data to create a set of attributes that is sent to a merchant as part of an item data form... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156015 | Method, medium, and system for associating graphical icons with destination addresses using drag and drop Various embodiments of a network page are provided. In one embodiment, at least one server serves up a network page to a client to be rendered on the client in a networked environment. The network page is associated with a network site that facilitates a purchase of... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156013 | Methods and apparatus for fulfilling tote deliveries Methods and apparatus for fulfilling tote delivery orders. A tote delivery service directs delivery of items ordered by customers via a network site to delivery addresses corresponding to the customers in reusable totes on assigned tote delivery days. Tote delivery ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156006 | Inventory commingling and reconciliation of inaccuracies A facility for managing ownership of units of an item is described. The facility defines a commingling zone. For units of the item that are outside the commingling zone, the facility attributes ownership among a plurality of owners individually to each of the units.... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155146 | Stateless packet segmentation and processing High-speed processing of packets to, and from, a virtualization environment can be provided while utilizing segmentation offload and other such functionality of commodity hardware. Virtualization information can be added to extension portions of protocol headers, fo... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154870 | Air directing device for rack system A computing system includes a rack system that allows air to flow into the rack system on a first side of the rack system and to discharge from the rack system on a second side of the rack system. One or more air directing devices are coupled to the rack system on t... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151578 | Multi-mode cooling system with pre-dehumidification A system for cooling computer systems in a room of a data center includes a dehumidification system and an air channeling sub-system. The air channeling sub-system includes a mechanical cooling section that removes heat from the cooling air and an evaporative coolin... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150889 | Parallel processing framework Data can be processed in parallel across a cluster of nodes using a parallel processing framework. Using Web services calls between components allows the number of nodes to be scaled as necessary, and allows developers to build applications on the framework using a ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150870 | Scalable partitioning in a multilayered data service framework A method and system is provided for maintaining customer data in a data store system utilizing a scalable partitioning framework. More specifically, the data store of a customer service system is partitioned (divided) into multiple partitions by a partitionable key ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150864 | Automated monitoring and control of access to content from a source A provider of content may provide access to portions of content from a source, but not the source content in its entirety. In some embodiments, one or more access rules or criteria may be implemented that enable users to access portions of the source content up to a... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150695 | Presentation of written works based on character identities and attributes A method is provided for presenting a written work. A character identity is recognized within a written work. Presentation information for the written work, such as a graphical scheme or an electronic voice, is determined based on the character identity. The present... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146136 | Automated acceptance or rejection of consumer correction submissions Systems and methods for generating a score for use in automated processing of correction submissions are presented. In one embodiment, a submission value from a correction submission obtained from a submitter is obtained. The submission value corresponds to a propos... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145726 | Method and apparatus for web resource validation Method and apparatus for Web resource validation. Embodiments may provide a Web resource validation service for validating Web services and Web sites in general. Embodiments may be implemented internally in a Web entity's architecture and/or exposed externally as a ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145633 | Configurable item finder user interface A configurable item finder user interface (UI) is provided that helps users locate desired items within data stores of item data and item attribute data. The configurable item finder UI presents a set of selectors through which users can quickly indicate the desired... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145512 | Data mining of user activity data to identify sequential item acquisition patterns A data mining component collectively analyzes item acquisition histories of users of an electronic catalog of items to identify pairs of items that tend to be acquired sequentially. For each such item pair, the data mining component may also determine whether user a... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8141374 | Multi-mode cooling system and method with evaporative cooling A air channeling sub-system may include a mechanical cooling section and a direct evaporative cooling section. The direct evaporative cooling section may be downstream from the mechanical cooling section. Cooling air is channeled through the air channeling sub-syste... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140436 | Processes for verifying creators of works represented in an electronic catalog An electronic catalog system provides an interface for users to author and post content for viewing by other users. Users who are verified as creators of works represented in the electronic catalog (e.g., authors of books) are additionally given the option to post c... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140404 | Browsing with static pages Disclosed are various embodiments for showing images and information associated with a plurality of items individually for each item in a network page. In one embodiment, a page generator generates a network page comprising an image layer and an information layer wh... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140403 | User profile and geolocation for efficient transactions Techniques for providing friction-free transactions using geolocation and user identifiers are described herein. These techniques may ascertain a user's location based on a location of a mobile device. A transaction between the user and a merchant may be completed w... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135820 | Request routing based on class A system and method for management and processing of resource requests is provided. A content delivery network service provider receives a DNS query from a client computing device. The DNS query corresponds to a requested resource from the client computing device. T... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135624 | User profile and geolocation for efficient transactions Techniques for providing friction-free transactions using geolocation and user identifiers are described herein. These techniques may ascertain a user's location based on a location of a mobile device. A transaction between the user and a merchant may be completed w... | 03/13/2012 |
