Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Phivos Costas Aristides

Jesper Mikael Johansson

Darren Ernest Canavor

Scott Donald Gregory

Jon Arron McClintock

Andrew Jay Roths

Arnaud Marie Froment

Chelsea Celest Krueger

Vijay Rangarajan

Cory Adam Johnson

Brian D Crites

Robert M Hohman

Frank A Lawler

Michael James McInerny

Matthew Ryan Jezorek

David James Kane-Parry

Brian Young Lee

Through use of crowd sourced information, media files may be transformed into or used to create product files that are derived from the media files. A product file may be generated using feedback from the crowd sourced information received from an electronic device. The crowd sourced information may indicate one or more portions of the media file to exclude from the product file to create a consolidated product file. In some embodiments, the crowd sourced information may indicate supplemental material and/or portions of other media files that may be included in the product file.

Digital content compilation

Described are techniques for determining one or more resources usable to produce an image from content data associated with existing images selected by a user. User preference data indicative of a set of images may be generated, and from the image data and resource data associated with the set of images, one or more resources used to produce the images may be determined. Output data indicative of the resources may be generated for provision to a user.

System for determining resources from image data

Entities of an organization may have difficulties generating and remembering strong passwords. A password management service may generate passwords with high entropy and aid entities in remembering generated passwords. The password management service may generate a list of passwords based on a seed value provided by the entities. The entities may then select a password from the list of passwords to be used at the entities' password. Furthermore, the entities may be allowed to save the list of passwords to aid the entities in remembering their selected password from the list of passwords.

Assisted password generation

An access control application for mobile devices is provided. The access control application may be configured to generate a set of security tasks based at least in part on information corresponding to a user's interactions with the mobile device. An unlock screen of the mobile device may be triggered and security tasks from the generated set of security tasks may be displayed through a user interface of the mobile device. The user's response to the security tasks may be obtained and a confidence score may be calculated, based at least in part on the response. The access control application may then determine, based at least in part on the score and one or more attributes of the environment, whether to unlock the mobile device or prompt the user to provide an additional response to another security task.

Dynamic unlock mechanisms for mobile devices

An access control application for mobile devices is provided. The access control application may be configured to generate a set of security tasks based at least in part on information corresponding to a user's interactions with the mobile device. An unlock screen of the mobile device may be triggered and a security tasks from the generated set of security tasks may be displayed through a user interface of the mobile device. The user's response to the security tasks may be obtained and a confidence score may be calculated, based at least in part on the response. The access control application may then determine, based at least in part on the score and one or more attributes of the environment, whether to unlock the mobile device or prompt the user to provide an additional response to another security task.

Crowd sourced digital content processing

Embodiments are described for assisting a first person in finding a second person using a social network. A person may send a request to a server that identifies that person, the person he or she is looking for, and the requestor's location. The server may then traverse that person's social network to identify someone who is in a similar location and who knows the person being sought. The server may send an identification of this person who knows the person being sought to the requestor. Various privacy mechanisms are also disclosed, including anonymizing identifying information, and encrypting communications.

Finding people using social networks

An interactive entertainment network system has a program provider, multiple user interface units in individual homes, and a distribution network interconnecting the program provider and the user interface units. The program provider has a storage medium containing a plurality of program data records which contain programming information about the programs provided by the program provider. An electronic program guide (EPG) executes on each user interface unit. The EPG requests the program data records from the storage medium at the program provider and displays the programming information contained in the program data records. To prevent burdensome demand during certain high activity peak time when a plurality of the electronic program guides are likely to concurrently request the program data records, the program provider transmits at least some of the program data records to a plurality of the user interface units prior to a peak time. The program provider initiates this transmission on its own, and not in response to a request from any EPG. The user interface units store the program data records in a record cache for use by the EPG during the ensuing peak time. In this manner, the EPG can display the programming information contained in the stored program data records during the peak time, rather than requesting the information from the program provider.

Interactive entertainment network system and method for providing

Disclosed herein is an interactive entertainment distribution network including a headend which is connected to provide programs to a plurality of user interface units in individual homes. The user interface units are configured to run electronic program guides for displaying available programs categorized by discrete time slots. Each of the programs has a scheduled time period which occupies at least a portion of one or more of the discrete time slots. The headend maintains a database with a plurality of program data records. Each program data record is indexed by one of a plurality of bucket numbers. The bucket numbers correspond respectively to the plurality of discrete time slots. Each particular program is represented by a program data record and associated bucket number for each of the one or more discrete time slots which the program occupies. The electronic program guide requests programming information from the headend by specifying one or more bucket numbers to the headend.

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