Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Lars Christian Ulness

Felicia Yue

Brandon Scott Love

Alexandria Way-Wun Kravis

Joshua Danovitz

Donald Ryan Willhoit

Charles Louis Ward

Charles Benjamin Franklin Waggoner

Marc Joliveau

Justin Michael Binns

Joshua B Barnard

Terje Kristian Backman

Matthew James Bordenet

Adam Curry Chapman

Christopher S Taylor

Chris Longo

Lei Li

Michael Flynn

Jeromey Russell Goetz

Amarsingh Buckthasingh Winston

Colin Bodell

Girish Bansilal Bajaj

Sherif M Yacoub

Andrew J Watts

Umut Utkan

Jim Knowler

Gerald Ken Sun

Edward James Gayles

James Domit Mackraz

Eric Michael Molitor

Jonathan Bates

James Eric Knowler

Robert C Borja, Jr

Techniques are described for fulfilling an utterance request for an item represented within a video rendered at a client device. In some implementations, a user account associated with the request is identified, enabling a video stream transmitted in association with the user account at the time that the request was uttered to be identified. In one technique, a timestamp associated with the request is used to identify the relevant portion of the video stream. The item represented within the portion of the video stream can be identified using various techniques and/or information such as image recognition, metadata within the video, subtitles, closed captions, and/or a database mapping between the item and a video content item transmitted in the video stream.

Utterance request of items as seen within video

Techniques are described for providing alternative media content to a client device along with primary media content.

Providing alternative live media content

Techniques are described that facilitate co-viewing in an experiential reality environment such as a virtual reality or augmented reality environment. These techniques include prioritizing a main view of experiential reality content over side views of the experiential reality content.

Co-viewing in virtual and augmented reality environments

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

Techniques for facilitating the configuration of a device through inductance power transfer are described. In some instances, a device that is packaged for shipment may be associated with an induction coil. The induction coil may be disposed within a package or otherwise arranged. The device may be temporarily powered via the induction coil to receive content wirelessly and store the content on the device. The content may be associated with a user to which the package will be shipped.

Inductance powered packaging to configure a device

Techniques are described that enable personalized live media content.

Personalized live media content

Techniques are described for facilitating the delivery of digital content using gossip protocols. A group of client devices share information about network conditions in sideband communications using a gossip protocol. Each of the client devices then uses this information to make decisions about how to access content. By providing accurate and current information about network conditions the occurrence of buffering events and/or fatal errors may be significantly reduced or eliminated.

Content delivery using gossip protocols

A technology for content delivery is provided. In one example, performance of a caching network, performance of a delivery network, and customer demand are modeled. Instructions are provided for a client device on how to request content based on the modeled performance of the caching network, the modeled performance of the delivery network or the modeled customer demand.

Content delivery

A technology for content delivery is provided. In one example, performance of a caching network, performance of a delivery network, and customer demand are modeled. Instructions are provided for a client device on how to request content based on the modeled performance of the caching network, the modeled performance of the delivery network and the modeled customer demand.

Content enhancement techniques

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Lars Christian Ulness