Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Daniel Benjamin Rausch

Amir Pelleg

Laura Allison Ridlehoover

Samuel Stevens Heyworth

Douglas James Herrington

Nirav Praful Desai

Marc Brandon Hensley

Amirali Virani

Hannah McClellan Richards

Stephan Josef Andrizzi

Nicole Dare

Jai Prakash Chabria

Paul Warren Smart

Jeffrey Rosenberg

Apoorva Iyer

Jessica Protasio

Kenneth DeLand

Anindya Guha

Nitish Kumar

Jae Pum Park

Tom Killalea

John B Shaw

Janna Hamaker

Christopher F Weight

Kara Cavallaro

Bruno A Posokhow

Michael M Lee

Bradley James Bozarth

Thomas Bruno Mader

David A Limp

Richard David Young

Nagendra Bage Jayaraj

Anna Kim Lee

Mohamed Aakhil Fardeen

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described for creating custom user interface ('UI') controls. A networked computing service may determine that an action performed by a user of the service is likely to be repeated, based on previous actions performed by the user and/or other users, parameters of the action including characteristics of an item associated with the action, and other criteria. The networked computing service may generate, or recommend generation of, a custom UI control that automates performance of the action. The networked computing service may automatically determine parameters of the action, and may determine alternative parameters and/or alternative actions if the action cannot be performed using the determined parameters. Custom UI controls may be associated with various computing devices and/or other electronic devices, and categories of custom UI controls may be determined and displayed.

Creation of custom user interface controls that are associated with physical devices

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described for performing actions based on user activation of custom user interface ('UI') controls. A user of a networked computing service may activate a custom UI control by selecting the custom UI control (such as by touching the custom UI control displayed on a touchscreen display) to trigger the networked computing service to perform a predefined action associated with the custom UI control. In the event that the predefined action cannot be performed, the networked computing service may identify an alternative action that may be performed instead of the predefined action, optionally request user confirmation of the alternative action, and perform the alternative action.

Adaptive performance of actions associated with custom user interface controls

Techniques for use with electronic book readers include coordinating or translating position information between different versions of an electronic book. Positions within different versions can be translated for various purposes, such as transferring annotations between versions or synchronizing positions within different versions.

Book version mapping

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described for selecting and displaying custom user interface ('UI') controls. A user of a networked computing service may create custom UI controls that perform user-specified actions, and the networked computing service may present these custom UI controls as part of its user interface. The networked computing service may determine which of a set of custom UI controls to present based on criteria such as frequency or recency of recurring usage, a context or a category associated with the custom UI controls, user preferences, the status of a pending action, usage of similar custom UI controls by other users, or other criteria. The networked computing service may present an interface that enables further customization or modification of the custom UI controls.

Selection and display of custom user interface controls

Automatic creation of custom user interface controls

An effortless and automated reordering system includes a dedicated electronic device with a simple button interface that, upon depression of the button, initiates a process of ordering (or reordering) a product associated with the device and a button on that device. The electronic device may store in memory a device identifier and button identifiers for each button as the basis for order request information. The stored data may be communicated to a fulfillment service (e.g., an online merchant, fulfillment center, etc.) for order identification processing. In some cases, an application provided by the fulfillment service may be executed on a secondary management device to allow a user to configure the electronic device to map the buttons to different products, and even different vendors, to facilitate reconfigurable order management.

Effortless and automated reordering

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface

Display screen or portion thereof with an animated graphical user interface

Architectures and techniques are described to rent electronic books. In particular, a content provider can rent electronic books to individuals for a specified rental term. The individuals may have the option to modify the rental term for an electronic book. The rental term for a particular electronic book may be modified by extending the rental term of the particular electronic book or decreasing the rental term of the particular electronic book. Individuals may also convert the rental of an electronic book to a purchase and a purchase of an electronic book to a rental. In order to rent the electronic books to individuals, the content provider may acquire permission from the publishers of the electronic books. In some cases, the content provider may acquire a pool of time-bound rentable licenses from the publishers to allocate to individuals renting electronic books from the content provider.

Electronic book rentals

Techniques for aligning content items with one another are described herein. These techniques may align different versions of a same content item for the purpose of identifying differences between the versions, identifying commonalities between the versions, mapping annotations made in one version to the other version, aggregating annotations across the different versions, or for any other reason. The content items may include electronic books, songs, videos, documents, or the like.

Aligning content items to identify differences

Architectures and techniques are described to determine a reading level of an electronic book. In particular, words, phrases, clauses, and parts of speech of an electronic book may be tagged and used to determine the reading level of the electronic book. In some cases, the reading level of the electronic book is based on a level of complexity of sentences of the electronic book and a level of complexity of words of the electronic book.

Determining reading levels of electronic books

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Daniel Benjamin Rausch