Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Andrew Stuart Huntwork

Jeremy Boynes

Shashank Shekhar

Prashant J Thakare

Pravi Garg

Anna Catherine Bell

Gurinder Raju

Vikram Kumar Gundeti

Melissa Elaine Davis

Bo Li

Zachary Mohamed Shalla

Gavin Richard Jewell

Shiladitya Roy

Anand Victor

Gheorghe Aprotosoaie

John Ingram Baker Dugaw

Vishnu V Sadhana

Benjamin Elliott Pew

Jon N Sorensen

Yifeng Zheng

Donald J Valdez, Ii

Eswara Jnana Swaroop Bhupathiraju

Rongzhou Shen

Viraj Vijay Sanghvi

Frédéric Johan Georges Deramat

Saiprasad Satya Kapila

Arvind Srinivasan

Kevin Shude Lin

David Edouard Louis Robert

Nathan G Leupold

A speech processing system configured to convey linked content to a user in a voice user interface (VUI) environment is described. The system may create output audio data that includes an audible indicator (e.g., a beep) that indicates to a user linked content. An audible indicator may be located at the beginning and/or end of linked content in the output audio data. The system may also output non-linked content in a first voice while outputting linked content in a second voice. The system may further overlay audio atop the linked portion of the output audio data, with the overlaid audio indicating the linked content to the user. A user may invoke linked content in output audio by speaking the linked content, or a portion thereof, back to the system. The system may then output the linked, additional content to the user.

Linked content in voice user interface

Described herein is a system for enabling a user to multitask by allowing a user to pause or interrupt an on-going interaction with a skill. The system monitors a state of a skill session, and updates the state to allow the user or system to suspend the session. The user may provide an instruction to pause an active session, causing the system to place the session in a suspended state. The user may then provide an instruction to resume the suspended session, causing the system to place the session in an active state. In other cases, the user input may be a request during an active session that requires invoking another skill. The system may place the current session in a suspended state, and invoke a second skill session to monitor the interaction with a second skill. When the interaction with the second skill is completed, the system may resume the previous session by placing it in an active state.

Multi-tasking and skills processing

Disclosed are various embodiments for hierarchical modeling of network sites. A page model from a hierarchy of page models is provided in at least one computing device. The page model includes a plurality of features. Each one of the features is assigned to a respective network page region. The features include at least one original feature and at least one inheritable feature from a parent page model. A network page is generated in the at least one computing device corresponding to the page model. Each one of the features of the page model is encoded for rendering within the respective network page region.

Hierarchical modeling for network sites

Disclosed are various embodiments for predicting and classifying events that create a sudden or substantial increase in network traffic activity. To begin, an increase of network activity can be detected. Upon detecting the increase in network activity, it can be determined that the increase in network activity is unexpected in view of one or more predicted activity events. The system can be adjusted to reduce the network activity in response to determining that the increase in network activity is unexpected.

Predicting and classifying network activity events

Described herein is a system for allocating resources among multiple skills to enable multitasking. The system tracks use of resources using skill sessions. In one case, the system suspends a skill session to release a resource for allocation to another resource. In another case, the system determines if multiple skill sessions can remain active and use resources to provide output to the user at the same time.

Multi-tasking resource management

Disclosed are various embodiments for generating network pages for customers that include customer-generated page portions. A request for a network page is obtained from a client. The network page is associated with a network site hosted on behalf of a first party by a second party. A portion of the network page is obtained from a service operated by the party in response to the request. The network page, which includes the portion, is generated in response to the request. The generated network page is sent to the client in response to the request.

Generating network pages using customer-generated network page portions

Disclosed are various embodiments for separating control of network sites through the use of a proxy server application. A request for network content is received from a computing device. The network content is hosted by an organization on behalf of a customer. The network content is requested from one application on a trusted network that is subject to security supervision by the organization when the network content is determined to correspond to a secured portion of a network site. The network content is instead requested from another application managed by the customer on an untrusted network that is not subject to security supervision by the organization when the network content is determined to correspond to an unsecured portion of the network site. The network content is then sent to the computing device.

Separating control of network sites

Disclosed are various embodiments for the mapping of behavior to data. Multiple behavior elements from a code library that are compatible with one or more data elements of a document are determined according to a data contract associated with each one of the behavior elements. Each of the behavior elements is configured to consume one or more data elements and produce a user interface feature. One or more of the behavior elements are selected according to one or more rules. A mapping of the selected behavior elements to the data elements is generated.

Mapping behavior to data

Disclosed are various embodiments for securing execution of page generation code. The page generation code may be instrumented with code that facilitates monitoring of one or more resources consumed by the page generation code. Various checks relating, for example, to code size and whether exception-handling code is present may be performed. The page generation code may be executed to generate a network page in response to a request obtained from a client. One or more resource consumption limits may be enforced upon the page generation code.

Securing execution of customer-supplied network page generation code

Disclosed are various embodiments relating to generating portions of network pages associated with a network site, where the portions of the network pages are generated by page generation code that uses a subset of aggregated data provided to it. A request for a network page is received from a first party. Data is aggregated from one or more data sources in response to the request. Each data source provides multiple data items using a multipart encoding. Page generation code supplied by the first party is executed to generate at least a portion of the network page in response to receiving a subset of the data which is used by the page generation code. The page generation code is able to access the subset of the data as predefined variables.

Providing aggregated data to page generation code for network page generation

Disclosed are various embodiments relating to virtual file systems for customers having network sites hosted by a hosting provider. A file system with multiple files of a customer is maintained for a hosting provider. Customer access to a virtualized version of the file system is facilitated. The virtualized version of the file system includes a virtual file that is dynamically generated based at least in part on one of the files in response to an access of the virtual file by the customer. The file system excludes the virtual file. A modification to the virtual file by the customer is obtained. The file in the file system is updated based at least in part on the modification to the virtual file.

Virtual file system for hosted network sites

Disclosed are various embodiments for predicting and classifying events that create a sudden and substantial increase in network traffic activity. To begin, a sales event may be predicted based on the results following the search for one or more prediction factors that occur during a predefined period of time. Based either on the individual results of each evaluation or a combination of results of the search of two or more of the prediction factors, a sales event may be predicted. Additionally, upon detection of a sudden and substantial increase in network traffic activity, one or more classification factors may be evaluated to determine whether the cause of the increase is due to a sales event or other type of alternative activity event.

Techniques for providing a network auditing service may be provided. Information about a configuration of a potentially compromised network of computer resources may be compared to a maintained and standard network configuration that is distinct from the potentially compromised network to determine differences. In one example, the potentially compromised network of computer resources may be periodically scanned for configuration information, which may be compared to the standard network configuration to determine if any changes have occurred that would indicate security problems. A report of the differences between the potentially compromised network and the standard network configuration information may be generated and provided for presentation.

Automated network security

Disclosed are various embodiments for generating network pages for customers that include customer-generated page portions. A request for a network page is obtained from a client. The network page is associated with a network site hosted by a hosting provider on behalf of a customer. A portion of the network page is obtained from a service operated by the customer in response to the request. The network page, which includes the portion, is generated in response to the request. The generated network page is sent to the client in response to the request.

Disclosed are various embodiments that facilitate error handling in a network resource generation environment. A request for a network resource is obtained from a client. The network resource is associated with a network site hosted on behalf of a first party by a second party. Resource generation code supplied by the first party is executed by a framework in response to the request. A customized error network resource is sent to the client in response to determining that an error has occurred in the framework that executes the resource generation code.

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Andrew Stuart Huntwork