Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Vinoo Vasudevan

Beryl Tomay

Rahul Sharma

Sandeep Bhatia

Kevin Lee Davenport, Jr

Aravind Yalamanchi

AndyGibb Halim

Sudharsan Sampath

Peter Auchterlonie

Akshay Satish Chandra

Sujit Bhosale

Sujan Akella

Sekhar Putcha

Pradipta Biswas

Systems and methods for efficiently managing item deliveries are described. In an example, a computer system may identify a first handling sequence of a first item and sequence steps along the handling sequence. The sequence steps may be common to a different handling sequence of a second item. The computer system may determine that the first item should be grouped in a container grouping the second item based on the sequence steps being common. The computer system may generate an identifier and metadata for the container. The identifier may identify the container to handling systems. The metadata may identify the items of the container, a first sequence step to group the first item, and a second sequence step to ungroup the first item. The computer system may distribute the identifier and/or the metadata to the handling systems.

Dynamic containerization based on a sequence of delivery locations

Disclosed are approaches for using overlapping geo-fences to confirm delivery of a shipment. A first client computing device and a second client computing device may be in data communication with a server computing device. The server computing device may receive a delivery notification from the first client computing device. The server computing device may receive a first position of the first client computing device and a second position of the second client computing device. The server computing device may then determine that the second position is within a threshold distance of the first position or vice versa. Finally, the server computing device may generate a delivery confirmation in response to a first determination that the second position is within a threshold distance of the first position and a second determination that the first position is within a threshold distance of the second position.

Delivery confirmation using overlapping geo-fences

Disclosed are approaches for using overlapping geo-fences to confirm delivery of a shipment. A first client computing device and a second client computing device may be in data communication with a server computing device. The server computing device may receive a delivery notification from the first client computing device. The server computing device may receive from the first client computing device a first position and a second position from the second client computing device. The server computing device may then determine that the second position is within a predefined distance of the first position or vice versa. Finally, the server computing device may generate a delivery confirmation in response to a first determination that the second position is within a predefined distance of the first position and a second determination that the first position is within a predefined distance of the second position.

Some examples provide for issuing identifiers to clients of a distributed identifier generation system. A request for a unique identifier may be received by a host. The host may generate an identifiers based at least in part on a host identifier issued to the generating host and a value of a counter operated by the generating host. The identifiers may be unique within the distributed identifier generation system.

Distributed identifier generation system

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Vinoo Vasudevan