Amazon Technologies, Inc.

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Sunitha Kalkunte Srivatsa

Jari Juhani Karppanen

Aakarsh Nair

Jae Yoon Kim

Kartikey Bhatt

Amey Shreekant Jahagirdar

Nithya Venkataraman

Lohit Bijani

Maayan Aharon

Serghei Drozdov

Technologies are disclosed for interacting with a virtual assistant to request updates associated with one or more events and/or perform actions. According to some examples, a user may use their voice to interact with a virtual assistant to receive updates relating to events occurring during a certain period of time. For example, a user may request an update associated with one or more events occurring that day. The system may access data sources (e.g., calendar services, email services, etc.) to obtain data associated with the events, tag the events according to one or more conditions indicated by the data, and/or rank the events according to the tags. In addition, to resolve conditions associated with the events, the virtual assistant may also include options in the update to perform certain actions and/or to provide response data. The virtual assistant may generate the update and audibly provide the update to the user.

Interacting with a virtual assistant to receive updates

Technology for generating thumbnail images is provided. In one example, a thumbnail image generation method may include receiving a request to generate a thumbnail image of an electronic page. The electronic page may be analyzed to identify content features of the electronic page. A determination of changes to make to a copy of the electronic page may be made based on the content features to form a modified electronic page. The thumbnail image for the electronic page may be generated using at least a portion of the modified electronic page.

Thumbnail image generation

Techniques for scroll positioning of electronic documents, such as web pages, using element association are described. One or more first document elements associated with a first scroll position of a first document version may be determined. One or more first data representations of the one or more first document elements may then be generated. One or more second document elements may then be determined from within a second (i.e., reloaded) document version. One or more second data representations of the one or more second document elements may then be generated. At least one association between at least one of the one or more first data representations and at least one of the one or more of the second data representations may then be determined. A second scroll position for display of the second document version may then be determined based, at least in part, on the at least one association.

Scroll positioning using element association

Techniques for browser-based workflows are described herein. In some examples, various actions performed within a web browsing application may be tracked. The tracked actions may include actions such as entering a page address, loading a page, entering a search term, entering identity authentication information, selecting a link, selecting an input element, and other actions. A set of actions included within the tracked actions may be selected for association with a workflow, for example based on a determination that the set of actions has been performed at least twice. In some examples, the set of actions associated with the workflow may include loading a page and performing one or more actions on the loaded page. Information indicating the workflow and its associated set of actions may be stored. Upon receiving a request to execute the workflow, the information may be retrieved, and the associated set of actions may be performed.

Browser-based workflows

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