Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Manikandan Thangarathnam

Ryan Justin Snodgrass

Brian Thomas Berkowitz

Karandeep Singh Anand

Seetharaman Harikrishnan

Yezdi Z Lashkari

Purushottam M Kulkarni

Sundararajan Srinivasan

Suraj Gopalakrishnan

William Trotter Shelton

Sai Vinayak

Catherine Van Ingen

Krishnamurti Natarajan

Senthil Kumar Dayalan

Guido Enrico Bartolucci

Sriram Narasimhan

Catharine Van Ingen

Hao Hu

John Robert Smiley

Ramya Dass

Palanidaran Chidambaram

William T Shelton, Jr

Techniques for voice-based interactions are described. In an example, a device presents a user interface on a display. The device starts an operational mode of the device. The operational mode restricts voice-based interactions with the user interface to a set of commands. The set of commands is defined in a language model that is stored on the device. Further, the device receives, at a microphone of the device, audio data corresponding to a natural language utterance and generates, from the audio data, text data that corresponds to the natural language utterance. The device determines, based at least in part on the language model, that semantics of the text data correspond to a command from the set of commands and presents, on the display, an outcome of performing the command.

Voice-based interactions with a graphical user interface

Systems and methods for voice control of computing devices are disclosed. Applications may be downloaded and/or accessed by a device having a display, and content associated with the applications may be displayed. Many applications do not allow for voice commands to be utilized to interact with the displayed content. Improvements described herein allow for non-voice-enabled applications to utilize voice commands to interact with displayed content by determining screen data displayed by the device and utilizing the screen data to determine an intent associated with the application. Directive data to perform an action corresponding to the intent may be sent to the device and may be utilized to perform the action on an object associated with the displayed content.

Voice control of computing devices

Voice enabling applications

Techniques for transferring printable content from a remote device to an eBook reader include exposing a network printer interface that represents the eBook reader as a physical network printer. The remote device can be configured with a printer driver corresponding to the network printer interface, and a user may print documents from the remote device in order to transfer them to the eBook reader.

Print to eBook reader

Methods and systems of searching for text across platforms are usable to guide users to additional content for consumption. Search queries are based on text found within digital content and results are provided to indicate content from multiple different content items that contain the same or similar text. Cross-platform searches provide extensive breadth when a consumer is searching for similar information among a myriad of different sources. Additionally, search filtering may help provide more relevant results and search result weighting may provide prioritized lists of relevant content.

Content searching techniques

A method for diagnosing problems with protection of a data source and recovery of the same. The method includes diagnosing a copy of data located at the storage location and diagnosing a temporal version of the copy of data. Based on the diagnosis it is determined whether an error or a warning was detected. If either were detected a response is provided with a suggested solution.

Method, system, and apparatus for providing alert synthesis in a data protection system

Disclosed are various systems, methods, and other embodiments for the control of access to a mass storage system. In one example, a plurality of buckets are maintained in mass storage system, each of the buckets being employed to store at least one data file. In a server, a use of the buckets by a plurality of entities that use a plurality of clients is facilitated for the storage of a plurality of files over a public network. The use of one of the buckets by the one of the entities is restricted to a namespace.

Control of access to mass storage system

Disclosed are various systems, methods, and other embodiments for the secure storage of files and the like. In one example, a determination is made in a server as to whether an entity indicated in a request received in the server is authorized to transfer a file from a client to a mass storage system over a network. A plurality of instructions are obtained in the server to send to the client, where the instructions are configured to control activity of the client in transferring the file from the client to the mass storage system over the network. The instructions are sent to the client in order to implement the transfer of the file from the client to the mass storage system.

Secure transfer of files

An e-mail application program operating on a client stores e-mail records in a hierarchical database. The client is linked to a server that stores e-mail records in a flat database. The e-mail records stored in the hierarchical database are mapped to the e-mail records stored in the flat database and vice versa. The mapped e-mail records are then stored in a mapping table.

Systems and methods for mapping e-mail records between a client and server that use disparate storage formats

In one exemplary implementation, a client receives a record from a server. The record has a server identification key that uniquely identifies the record from any other records. If the record is viewable by a user in one or more folders, there are corresponding one or more associated references that indicate which one of the one or more folders the record is viewable For each of the one or more associated references, one or more new records identical to the received record are created. One or more client identification keys are assigned to the one or more new client records; wherein each of the one or more client identification keys uniquely identifies the one or more new client records. Each of the one or more new client records are synchronized to the record received from the server by mapping the one or more client identification keys to the server identification key.

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Manikandan Thangarathnam