Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Patrick Joseph Armstrong

Ameet Nirmal Vaswani

Peter F Hill

Brett Richard Taylor

Aakarsh Nair

Samuel John Young

Andrew Hayden

Sajeeva Lakmal Bandara Pallemulle

Arun Sundaram

Ivan King Yu Sham

Rohit Krishna Kumar

Leonardo Davi Viccari

Steven Michael Reddie

Scott Zachary Bressler

Ian William Stewart

Yousef Zachary Khwaja

Vincent Roseberry

Li Yan

Peter Sven Vosshall

Ranganath Atreya

Dhruva Lakshmana Rao Batni

Yasaswi Vempati

Venkata Sri Krishnakanth Pulla

Andrew Kenneth Milton

Bryan Kenneth Summersett

Kenneth Thomas Brown

Ivan King Sham

Peter Frank Hill

Techniques and solutions are described for content synchronization across devices. A web page currently being viewed at a first device associated with a user profile of a user can be identified. Browsing information for the page (such as URL, scrolling location, and a DOM element) may be stored in the profile. The DOM element may be associated with page content displayed during a browsing session in a viewport while the web page is at the current scrolling location. The browsing information may be updated dynamically, upon detecting a change in the current scrolling location of the page at the first device. A request for displaying the web page at a second device associated with the user profile may be received. The browsing information for the web page may be provided to the second device, so that the web page with the current scrolling location is displayed at the second device.

Content synchronization across devices

Systems and methods are described that relate to processing content, such as web pages, to be rendered and displayed on client computing devices. In one embodiment, a content parsing system may retrieve a content item on behalf of a client computing device, and parse markup language within the content item to generate a binary representation of objects within the content item. The content parsing system may then serialize the binary representation, and transmit the binary representation to the client computing device. The client computing device can then utilize the binary representation to output the content item, without parsing at least a portion of the content item.

Delivering parsed content items

A system and process are disclosed for providing users with page previews during page loading events, such that the delay experienced before the display of page content is reduced. The previews may include screenshots of the pages or of portions thereof, and may be generated periodically and cached by the system for delivery to user devices. The process of generating and delivering the previews via the Internet or some other network may be implemented partly or wholly within an intermediary system that sits logically between the user devices and content servers. The process may be used with existing browsers without the need for any browser modifications, or may be used with a 'preview-aware' browser that includes special program code for providing page previews.

Delivery and display of page previews during page retrieval events

Features are disclosed for synchronizing information across various devices, and using the synchronized information during subsequent content interactions. Devices may receive and/or store information, such as cookies or other account-level information, in connection with content interactions, such as content page retrieval, application execution, and the like. Information that is not device-specific can be synchronized across multiple devices, thus providing access to the information on any of the devices regardless of which device originally received or stored the information.

Cross-device synchronization system for account-level information

Features are disclosed for enabling users to select portions of content pages, including predefined portions and arbitrarily defined portions, for which to receive update notifications or which to share with other users. Notifications regarding updates to the selected portions may be displayed to the user in a notification overlay. The notification overlay may be at least partially transparent so as to allow users to see content on a content page displayed beneath the overlay. The notification overlay may be displayed persistently as the user navigates or otherwise transitions from page to page. Users may also access shared, predefined, and context-sensitive notification overlays created by other users, entities, or automated processes.

Browser-based notification overlays

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Patrick Joseph Armstrong