Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Charles Edward Rice

Timothy Craig Worsley

Michael Ellsworth Bundy

Karl Eric Schrader

Adam Douglas Morley

David Henry Clark

Dean Christopher Fullerton

James Lamar Hood

Glenn A Dierkes

Henry Chi-Chung Yan

William Alan Snitselaar

Jeffery Thomas Moore

Michael D Leonhard

Ryan Stuart Carter

Roderick Peter Chamberlin

Karthik Kumar Srivatsa

Jonathan Eric Rosenberg

Cable robots may be used to automatically load items onto one or more surfaces in any environment. An item may be received on a carrier that is connected to tensioning actuators of a cable robot by one or more cables in tension. The actuators of the robot may be manipulated in concert to move the carrier from a first position to a second position, which may be fixed or in motion, at which the item may be expelled from the carrier. The carrier may include induction wheels and/or conveyors for receiving the item thereon and for expelling the item therefrom. The cable robot may be provided in series with a conveyor and mounted to a frame, and used to load items onto a delivery vehicle, such that the frame may be withdrawn as items are loaded.

Automated loading system

Systems and methods for an exit control mechanism indicating an incomplete packing state near an exit portion of a packing station. A control system determines a pack job and determines a pack plan for the pack job. The control system may send instructions to a pack station directing packing of the pack job in accordance with the pack plan. The control system may receive indications of packing progress, for example, electronic indications from a scanner at the pack station, and update the state of the pack job, such as incomplete or complete. The control system instructs an exit mechanism to change from indicating an incomplete pack state to indicating a completed pack state based on, for example, determinations that the steps of the pack plan have been completed correctly and that the pack job is complete.

Exit control mechanism for reducing processing station errors

A network directory service, responsive to receiving a target device symbolic name from a client, identifies a network access server in communication with a network on which the target device resides, notifies the network access server of an expected connection from the client, and returns a device access token to the client. The network access server, responsive to receiving and validating the device access token, forwards the client-originated traffic to the target device by implementing a Network Address Translation (NAT) scheme.

Network directory and access service

The disclosure describes a system for applying custom branded tape to packages that are shipped from a multi-seller materials handling facility. In some implementations, a materials handling facility may store, process and ship items for multiple sellers. As items are packed for shipping, a tape dispensing device may dispense custom branded tape associated with the seller of the item(s) being packed such that the sellers brand, logo or other information is presented on the exterior of the container.

Custom branded tape in a multi-seller environment

Various embodiments of a system and method for diminishing workload imbalance across multiple database systems are described. Embodiments may include a resource balancer configured to, for each of a multiple database systems hosting database resources assigned to different user entities, generate a system usage score for that database system based on database usage scores of respective database resources hosted by that database system. Each usage score of a given database resource may indicate a quantity of work performed by the respective database system to process one or more requests directed to that database resource. The resource balancer may also be configured to generate one or more instructions to move a database resource from a first database system having a first system usage score to a second database system having a smaller system usage score in order to diminish an imbalance of workload across the database systems.

System and method for diminishing workload imbalance across multiple database systems

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Bainbridge Island, WA, United States of America

Charles Edward Rice