Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Donald Ryan Willhoit

Peter F Hill

Lars Christian Ulness

Charles Louis Ward

Lorne Millwood

Raymond E Mendoza

Xavier Federico Lopez Suarez

Samuel Scott Gigliotti

Ryan Justin Snodgrass

Beryl Tomay

Colin Bodell

Sherif M Yacoub

Matthew E Goldberg

Joel C Hegg

Gerald Ken Sun

Edward James Gayles

James Domit Mackraz

Scott Allen Dixon

Robert C Borja, Jr

Techniques for enhancing content being rendered on an electronic device are described herein. In some instances, the techniques include monitoring interactions between a user and a content item that the user consumes on an electronic device. The content items may include electronic books, songs, videos, documents, or the like. In response to detecting an interaction between the user and the content item, the techniques may publish an event indicative of the interaction to an application platform that hosts one or more applications. The applications may be designed to enhance the content that the user consumes in one or more specified ways.

Integrating content-item corrections

Disclosed are systems, methods, and other embodiments relating to event processing. A plurality of events from a plurality of services are buffered in a server, each of the services being implemented in at least one service server. An indexed storage of the events is performed in a data store. Metrics are generated from the events, where a condition associated with an operation of the services may be determined from the metrics.

Centralized processing of events

Techniques and solutions are described for detecting potential user actions from a web page. Web page resources may be received for a requested web page, and a document object model (DOM) may be maintained using from the resources. One or more interactive DOM elements may be identified using the created DOM, and the interactive DOM elements may be ranked in an order according to one or more heuristics. In response to receiving a voice command from a user of a client computing device in connection with the web page, a text string may be generated using voice-to-text recognition. The text string may be representative of the received voice command. A list of potential user actions that match the text string may be generated. The matching may be based on a comparison of the text string with at least another text string associated with the ranked interactive DOM elements.

Mining potential user actions from a web page

Systems and methods are described which provide improved memory and resource allocation for content pages accessed using a browser. A content page may be accessed and compiled into machine code, such as executable files or an application. The machine code may then be executed on a user device in a process separate from the browser to cause display of the content page, such as in a standalone application. Content pages may be pre-compiled and provided in response to user requests to access the content pages. A content page may be compiled faster than the browser may process the native content page, and the compiled machine code may require less memory than the native content page and associated resources. In some embodiments an intermediary system may be used to perform content page compilation and may provide the compiled machine code, instead of the native content, to the user device.

Ahead of time compilation of content pages

A server determines that a software update is available for a computing device and creates a software bundle that includes the software update. In the software bundle, the server includes instructions to install the software bundle in a user partition of a memory of the computing device that is used to store content and applications and to modify a path variable in an operating system of the computing device to include a location in which the software bundle is installed. The server enables the computing device to download the software bundle.

Software distribution framework

Systems and methods for providing a service to a device based on a capability of the device are described herein. A device type of the device may be identified based on information associated with the device. A determination may be made whether the device supports the service, based at least on the device type. The service may be provided to the device when the device supports the service.

Providing services using a device capabilities service

Applications executing on mobile client devices may access remote resources via network connections. Operational capabilities and financial costs of these connections may differ. Developers, network administrators, and other parties may wish to moderate usage of various available conditions to conform to business rules. Connectivity information including one or more network grants are integrated into an application received from a developer at ingestion by an application management server, which accesses those business rules. The client devices may coordinate with a proxy server to provide additional controls. Networking public interfaces provide the developer with a simplified pathway for development of applications which use network connections, particularly on mobile devices.

Client device connectivity with integrated business rules and multiple network types

Content enhancement techniques

Selecting content-enhancement applications

Client device connectivity with integrated business rules

A computing device receives a notification from a server that a bundle is available for download. The bundle includes software written in a scripting language. The computing device downloads the bundle from the server and authenticates a digital signature of the bundle. The computing device installs the bundle in a user partition of the memory and modifies a path variable in an operating system of the computing device. The path variable is modified to include a location of the installed bundle.

Systems and method provide logic for providing a service. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method provides a service to a device based on a capability of the device. The method includes identifying a device type of a device based on information associated with the device. The method determines whether the device supports the service, based on at least the identified device type, and provides the service to the device, when the device supports the service.

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Donald Ryan Willhoit