Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Max Lee Kanter

Michael Paul Touloumtzis

Michael Leo Weiss

J Nathaniel Sloan

Todd A Heimes

Sean Michael Scott

Blair Livingstone Hotchkies

Michel Leonard Goldstein

Eva Manolis

Sarah Graham Williams

Gianna Lise Puerini

Brent Mills

Douglas J Gradt

Walter Manching Tseng

Maren Marie Costa

Daniel R Parshall

Jason P Patrikios

Amy Bates

Alexandru I Indrei

Paul Daniel Jaye

Sachin Birendra Singh

Nimrod Hoofien

Doug Irvine

John Michael Nilles

Sean Phillip Forde

David Charles Couvrette

Carl N Meister

Sikandar Saifullah

David Erdmann

Saiprasad Satya Kapila

Adam Callahan Sanders

Christopher J Vigder

Ernesto Gonzalez

Sikander Saifullah

Musachy Barroso

Kristy Ann Caster

Laxmikant A Agrawal

Methods and systems for selecting and displaying items includes causing the display of a large image of a selected item, a plurality of view icons indicative of different views of the selected item, and item details associated with a selected item. After the customer selects a view and/or color for the large image and mouses over the image, a zoom box appears and a corresponding magnified image window appears with a magnified image of the zoom box image for the selected view and color of the item.

Method and system for displaying items

A user registers with a reverse procurement service. The user then searches an electronic marketplace, which is external to a remote procurement service and, subsequently, selects various items to be placed in a shopping cart or project. Upon checkout, the items are submitted for approval to the remote procurement service which is external to the reverse procurement service. The remote procurement service obtains approval and sends payment information to the reverse procurement service. Upon receive of payment information, the reverse procurement service then initiates a process for providing the approved items to the user.

Techniques for item procurement

With a sign language computer interface, a user may perform one or more gestures in accordance with a recognized sign language, and have the gestures translated into information or instructions for use by one or more computers. Such interfaces may capture video imagery of a user performing gestures using one or more cameras, sense the gestures expressed in the video imagery, search a library for phrases corresponding to the gestures, and display one or more of the phrases to the user, who may indicate whether the phrases are consistent with his or her intended communication. The interfaces permit a user to communicate with computer-based systems the exclusive use of gestures, and without a single keystroke or mouse click.

Method, medium, and system for online ordering using sign language

Disclosed are various embodiments for providing a product comparison application utilizing crowdsourcing. A network page is rendered providing a grid comprising a plurality of products, product attributes, and/or attribute data. Additions and/or modifications of attributes, products, and/or attribute data are assigned a score to determine which addition or modification to display and/or associate with a product catalog. The grid provides a view for comparison of products.

Crowdsourced personalized comparison tool

Effective color-aware search of a collection of content associated with one or more images is enabled. Content and/or its associated images may be automatically associated with representative palette colors in a suite of color palettes. Color palettes may be of a variety of types and have a hierarchical structure in which lower levels enable increasingly subtle distinctions between shades of color. Color palette hierarchies may be effectively presented, and appropriate portions emphasized based on associated search result sets. Search result sets may be refined and/or reordered in accordance with color palette selections and/or representative confidences of color palette selections for items at least referenced therein.

Color palette maps for color-aware search

Interactive color palettes for color-aware search

Methods and systems for causing the display of items for the review and selection thereof by a potential purchaser has a plurality of search tools whereby a customer can select certain search criteria for displaying items corresponding to the search criteria for review and selection thereof and comparison therebetween. In one embodiment, the system provides a brand menu whereby a customer can select one or more brands of products for displaying the same in a common display window.

Method and system for selecting and displaying items

A catalog or database of items capable of being searched may be organized into a browse tree structure. In accordance with aspects of the present invention, attributes that describe and are common to the items in each category can be assigned or associated with the browse node for the category. Such 'browse node attributes' may be displayed with their respective associated item category. Accordingly, as a user searches the browse tree and or narrows his/her search to more specific item categories in a browse tree, the attributes corresponding to the more specific item categories can then be displayed as a superset of the attributes corresponding to a less specific category. Furthermore, the arrangement of attributes displayed to the user can be customized according to user preferences, clickstream analysis, or other techniques and the user may select which attributes are to be displayed.

Method and system for displaying attributes of items organized in a searchable hierarchical structure

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Seattle, WA, United States of America

Max Lee Kanter