Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Robert Wayne Roth

Wainwright Gregory Siady Yu

Manigandan Natarajan

Andrew Olcott

Jeffrey Craig Kunins

Brandon LaBranche Watson

Joon Hao Chuah

Mohammad A Kanso

Gur Kimchi

Joseph Spencer King

Walter Manching Tseng

Nikunj Aggarwal

Ashish Singh

Seth Gershom Goldstein

Ramya Dass

William M Hsu

Otis Yeager Chandler

Sridhar Sampath

Gregory Nicholas Hullender

James Joseph Poulin

Brian David Rosenblat

Anisha Gulabani

Simran K Dua

Santosh Kumar Asokan

Eric Michael Franklin

Shanmugarasa Muhunthan

Arjun Subramanian

Jay Prashant Subhash

Mohammed Kanso

Wainwright Gregory Yu

Brandon Labranche Watson

Described are example systems and methods that utilize simulated and/or actual flight data to determine an aerial delivery time estimate between a source location and a delivery destination, based on current flight conditions. For example, multiple flight simulations along a flight path between a source location and a delivery destination may be performed based on various different flight conditions and the flight time determined from the simulations may be maintained in a data store, associated with the flight path and simulated flight conditions. When a request for item information is received, current flight conditions may be determined and used to determine an estimated flight time based on stored simulated flight data having similar flight conditions to the current flight conditions.

Simulated flight data to determine delivery timeframes for aerial item delivery

A metadata item may be generated that includes metadata content corresponding to a selected portion of digital content stored on a first device, the metadata item may be associated with a first user profile, and the metadata item may be distributed to a second user device storing the digital content such that the metadata item can be accessed via a second user profile and rendered on the second user device in association with the digital content. In this manner, metadata content corresponding to digital content may be shared across user profiles that access the digital content. In addition, a collaborative content item may be generated that includes collaborative content associated with a word or phrase in digital content and that is editable by multiple user profiles.

Generation and distribution of collaborative content associated with digital content

Electronic content such as an electronic book (e-book) that is referenced in or otherwise related to other content such as website content is identified, and a visual representation of the electronic content is generated. The visual representation is presented in conjunction with the website content, and a reader application for previewing the electronic content is launched via user interaction with the visual representation. Exiting the reader application causes a browser application that is rendering the website content to be automatically returned to a foreground state. A variety of actions are enabled via interaction with the reader application such as purchasing the electronic content, sharing the electronic content, or downloading a sample preview of the electronic content for later consumption.

Previewing electronic content within third-party websites

Techniques are provided for selectively and dynamically determining one or more words of an electronic book to present with comprehension guides. For instance, an electronic device rendering an electronic book may determine whether to display some, all, or no words of the book with comprehension guides for words within the electronic book based on word difficulty, contextual importance or aspects of the user. Techniques are also provided for determining the content of comprehension guides to be presented with the words.

Selective display of comprehension guides

Previewing electronic book content within third-party websites

Distribution of user-generated annotations associated with digital content

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Robert Wayne Roth