Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Todd H Sullivan

Tom Killalea

Joshua M Goodspeed

Thomas F Dimson

Kwok Yin Timothy Tong

Lu Chuan Liu

Chirag Jain

Purnima M Mavinkurve

Ryan Dong

Hans Hoeijmakers

Techniques for server-based UI rendering are described. In an example, a system receives, from a device, a request associated with rendering a UI that includes multiple UI components. The system receives, from a first source associated with a first UI component, availability information indicating that the first UI component is available for use by other UI components. Based at least in part on the availability information, the system determines that the first UI component is available for use by a second UI component. The system receives, from a second source associated with the second UI component, event information indicating content presentable in the first UI component and an event trigger at the second UI component to present the content. Further, the system sends, to the device, a set of instructions associated with the rendering of the UI. The set of instructions includes the event information.

Server-based user interface rendering

A body of text may be compared with one or more user-selected text portions to rank a plurality of text portions of the body of text, such as for predicting which of the text portions are likely to be annotated by users. As one example, the text of a content item may be compared with excerpts of other content items that have been highlighted or otherwise annotated by a plurality of users. Based at least in part on the comparison, some implementations identify one or more portions of text of the content item that are likely to be selected or highlighted by users that access the content item. In some examples, a classifier may be trained based on popular highlights determined for a plurality of content items. The classifier may be applied to a body of text to determine portions that users are likely to consider profound or interesting.

Identifying text predicted to be of interest

In some implementations, a service provider may enable location-based interaction of a user of a device with at least one of a digital work or another user. For instance, when the service provider determines that the device of the user is at a particular physical location, the service provider may send a communication to notify the user that one or more digital works are available to be accessed at the current physical location of the device. As one example, a digital work may have been virtually left at the location by another user, and the digital work may be available to be accessed by the user currently at the location. As another example, the user may be attending an event and the service provider may offer a digital work related to the event when the user is determined to be at the location of the event.

Location-based interaction with digital works

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Todd H Sullivan