Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Michael Ellsworth Bundy

Udit Madan

David Daniel Glick

Charles Edward Rice

James Christopher Curlander

Jules Cook Graybill

Marshall Friend Tappen

Timothy Craig Worsley

John Elias Darrow

Robert Dreaper McDonald, Jr

Karl Eric Schrader

James Siminoff

Joshua Roth

Mukul Vijay Karnik

Steven Simons Armato

Hao He

Kalyanaraman Prasad

Cary Jordan Rotman

Ariel Grob Dos Santos

James Lamar Hood

Matthew Rice Carlson

Henry Chi-Chung Yan

Fnu Arun Singhal

Nathan Stanley Burkhart

Ngochan Thi Nguyen

Maxim Kormilitsin

Paul Jeffrey Stroup

Vidhi Vinodkumar Bhagdev

Wendy M Harris

Jacob Lucas

Tony Kanawati

Muhammad Tanvir Anwar

Ryan Stuart Carter

Stephen Weber Crow

Roderick Peter Chamberlin

Lubos Bosak

Nathan Ryan Bosch

Brian A Michalowski

Steven Michael Hood

Vikas Agarwal

Pavlo Korohod

Features are disclosed for filtering and presenting specific portions of monitoring data associated with specific events. The features may include: (1) receiving time stamp information from delivery partner; (2) filtering or receiving filtered feed of monitoring data such as audio or video data; and (3) providing notification to a user including the specific portion of the monitoring data. Where the monitoring data is ambiguous or disrupted, the analysis may be offloaded to a manual review process to avoid false-positives.

Filtering remote access monitoring data

Cable robots may be used to automatically load items onto one or more surfaces in any environment. An item may be received on a carrier that is connected to tensioning actuators of a cable robot by one or more cables in tension. The actuators of the robot may be manipulated in concert to move the carrier from a first position to a second position, which may be fixed or in motion, at which the item may be expelled from the carrier. The carrier may include induction wheels and/or conveyors for receiving the item thereon and for expelling the item therefrom. The cable robot may be provided in series with a conveyor and mounted to a frame, and used to load items onto a delivery vehicle, such that the frame may be withdrawn as items are loaded.

Automated loading system

Disclosed are various implementations for updating information displayed in a user interface for a worker in a fulfillment center. Information changing relative to a previous user interface can be provided in response to location data that indicates the worker's location within a fulfillment center.

Augmented reality user interface facilitating fulfillment

Systems and methods for an exit control mechanism indicating an incomplete packing state near an exit portion of a packing station. A control system determines a pack job and determines a pack plan for the pack job. The control system may send instructions to a pack station directing packing of the pack job in accordance with the pack plan. The control system may receive indications of packing progress, for example, electronic indications from a scanner at the pack station, and update the state of the pack job, such as incomplete or complete. The control system instructs an exit mechanism to change from indicating an incomplete pack state to indicating a completed pack state based on, for example, determinations that the steps of the pack plan have been completed correctly and that the pack job is complete.

Exit control mechanism for reducing processing station errors

Imaging data regarding an interior portion of a storage vessel may be obtained from an imaging device (e.g., a digital camera or depth sensor) and interpreted in order to identify an available volume within the storage vessel. Where the imaging data includes an image of an interior of the storage vessel, an area of one or more contiguous spaces of a rear face of the storage vessel may be identified from the image and multiplied by a depth of the storage vessel in order to estimate the available volume. Where the imaging data includes a depth profile of the interior, the depth profile may be processed in order to estimate the available volume. Once an available volume has been estimated, the capacity of the available volume to accommodate one or more additional items may be determined, and information regarding the capacity may be provided to a user.

Selecting items for placement into available volumes using imaging data

A network directory service, responsive to receiving a target device symbolic name from a client, identifies a network access server in communication with a network on which the target device resides, notifies the network access server of an expected connection from the client, and returns a device access token to the client. The network access server, responsive to receiving and validating the device access token, forwards the client-originated traffic to the target device by implementing a Network Address Translation (NAT) scheme.

Network directory and access service

Disclosed are various implementations for generating one or more visualization regions in a user interface indicative of a state of a fulfillment center. A visualization region may be generated comprising one or more visual identifiers, labels, and metrics describing one or more stages in a fulfillment process. In response to a manipulation of a portion of the visualization region, a predefined action may be initiated.

Item flow visualization for outbound fulfillment

Estimating available volumes using imaging data

A conferencing system receives information identifying a user and retrieves calendar information specifying scheduled events of the user. The conferencing system selects one of the events and joins the user to the event without the user manually entering information about the event.

Automatic conference call connection

Systems and methods may be provided for determining, assigning and directing containers for transshipment between facilities without using an item-level sortation process and moving containers from a receiving area of a facility to an outbound dock without placing the items into inventory. A facility may or may not have item-level sortation processing. Data indicating received items is received. A determination is made for which of the received containers are for transshipment from the materials handling facility based on multiple factors. Containers in receiving that are determined for transshipment may be directed from receive to outbound docks without placing the items into inventory and without using an item-level sortation process. Pallets may be transshipped without placing the items into inventory and without depalletization. A facility with sortation may switch from item-level sortation of transshipments to container-level crossdock transshipment when a sortation process of a processing line approaches or exceeds capacity.

Crossdocking transshipments without sortation

Various embodiments of a system and method for providing substitute item recommendations in order status messages are described. In various embodiments, a customer may submit an order for one or more items to a merchant. In various cases, the merchant may fulfill the order by preparing a shipment that includes the one or more ordered items and shipping that shipment to the customer. In some cases, at least one item of the order may be delayed or canceled for a variety of reasons. In various embodiments, the merchant may utilize an exception management component to generate an orders status message (for the customer) that specifies the item has been delayed or canceled. The merchant may also utilize the exception management component to generate the order status message such that the order status message also includes a recommendation of one or more substitute items that the customer may be interested in.

System and method for providing substitute item recommendations in order status messages

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Seattle, WA, United States of America

Michael Ellsworth Bundy