Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Wesley Scott Lauka

Ryan Scott Russell

Thomas Matthew Ryle

Jonathan David Phillips

Jules Cook Graybill

Kristopher William Bell

Allan Scott Bathurst

Fransisca Vina Zerlina

James Hollis Wood

Julia Hannah Blum

Pragyana K Mishra

Darren Ernest Canavor

James Christopher Curlander

Michael Keith Lemmon

William R Hazlewood

Andrew Olcott

Udit Madan

Ned Lecky

Jonathan Blair Norwood

Justin David Kelly

Joshua Joel Boelter

Vevina Mariam McAllister

Kimberly Anne Lewis

Adrian Christopher Quan

Jamie Marie Holland

Julius Chen

Taylor Wayne Andrus

Trevor Joseph Allred

Lara Chatterjee Rogers

Alwin Yu-Hang Lee

Shirley Yiong

Wicksell Metellus

Hilliard Bruce Siegel

Charles Shearer Dorner

Gonzalo Alberto Ramos

Marshall Friend Tappen

Daniel R Dole

Brandon C Adams

Erik Resch Parker

Feroz Abdul Kadar

Kathleen Ann Mitchell Gavenman

Benjamin Lee Farrow

Prashant Hegde

Philip Pinette

David Sigler

Xiaoqi Shi

Alexis N Miller

Kristin L Turner

Joseph D Wolff

Martin Cortez

Yi-Chen Lin

Phuong-Thao Nguyen

Adrienne Jiambalvo Wilhoit

Phillip Michael Stevens

Jason Engelbart

Jamie Maria Holland

Seth Yount

Disclosed are various embodiments for providing a unique navigation experience for a user interacting with an electronic commerce site by dynamically generating a navigation interface according to a user context for a given shopping experience. The user context associated with a user interacting with an electronic commerce site can be determined following an analysis of a variety of context factors. A navigation interface can be dynamically generated based on the user context. In some examples, navigation components within the navigation interface can be associated with different categories that the user can navigate through. The navigation components can visually indicate a level of completeness for a given category so that the user is aware of where he or she is in a given shopping experience.

Dynamic contextual navigation

Disclosed are various embodiments for image assisted delivery. A computing device may receive a first image from a first client device and a second image from a second client device. The computing device match a location in the first image to a location in the second image. The computing device may subsequently determine a characteristic of a package in the second image and determine that the characteristic of the package corresponds to package information of an order. Then, the computing device may confirm a delivery of the package.

Image assisted delivery

The present disclosure is directed toward a storage compartment vehicle ('SCV') for use in the transport of items for delivery to one or more customers and/or retrieval of items from one or more customers. The SCV may include a plurality of storage compartments that are individually accessible, each of which can contain one or more items. The SCV may navigate to a delivery location and customers may retrieve ordered items from the storage compartments of the SCV. Likewise, customers may return items into storage compartments of the SCV.

Storage compartment vehicle apparatus

Systems and methods for improving the efficiency of order fulfillment are disclosed. When fulfilling an order in which substitutions are required, due to unavailability of particular products, the process of contacting the customer and receiving a selection from the customer can be separated from the picking process. The picker can continue to fulfill the order, while an automated system offers alternatives and receives selections from the customer. If appropriate, the substitution can be appended to the picker's list. If the picker has completed the remainder of the order, on the other hand, a new order with the substitution can be created, which can later be aggregated with the original order. A variety of methods can be used to efficiently present substitutions to the customer and receive choices from the customer, including use of imagery of substitute items.

Systems and methods for parallelizing customer input with real-time picking for item substitutions

When a user selects an item at an online marketplace and subsequently provides a search query to the online marketplace, search results or recommendations received from the online marketplace in response to the search query may be displayed based on whether the search results or recommendations would satisfy a requirement established by a source of the selected item. The requirement may relate to a minimum cost threshold, or a minimum number of items. Any search results or recommendations that would, if selected, cause the requirement to be met or exceeded may be preferentially displayed to the user above, or in a more prominent manner, than search results or recommendations that would not, if selected, cause the requirement to be met or exceeded.

Ranking search results and recommendations

Method and apparatus for controlling delivery of an item. An electronic order specifying the item is received. An item profile for the first item is retrieved. A first instance of positional data for the user and a pattern of delivery preferences of the user are determined. Embodiments determine a first location for delivering the package to the user, based on the item profile, the first instance of positional data for the user and the pattern of delivery preferences of the first user. Shipment of the first item towards the first location is initiated, and based on subsequent network communications with an electronic device associated with the user, a second instance of positional data is determined. Delivery of the first item is facilitated to one of the first location corresponding to the first instance of positional data and a second location corresponding to the instance of positional data.

Just-in-time package routing and delivery

Disclosed are various embodiments for generating customized user interfaces including offers for items available by multiple merchants in an electronic marketplace. A search of an item database is performed in response to receiving a search query. If an item is available from multiple merchants in an electronic marketplace, a user interface element including selectable components for a subset of the merchants is inserted in proximity to a presentation of the item in a user interface. Interactions with the user interface element can be used to predict a preferred merchant of the user.

Dynamically modifying user interfaces according to predicted user preference

Disclosed are various embodiments for image assisted delivery. A computing device may identify a delivery location based at least in part on an image file received from a first client device. The computing device may then generate a series of directions from a current location of a second client device to the delivery location. The computing device may subsequently send the series of directions to the second client device. Finally, the computing device may send the image file received from the first client device to the second client device.

Systems and methods are described for generating, displaying, and navigating contextual user interfaces. A contextual user interface is associated with a particular context, such as a particular provider of items. A contextual user interface generation service may generate a contextual user interface for a particular provider, or may generate a contextual user interface for an aggregate context that includes multiple providers. A user interface element may be provided for navigating from one context to another, and a contextual user interface may be displayed or updated as the selected context changes. The contextual user interface may display context-specific information, such as provider-specific items, criteria, or other information, and may automatically change the displayed context as context-specific items are selected.

Contextual interface for item selection

Storage compartment vehicles

Display screen having a graphical user interface for product substitution

Systems and methods are provided herein for providing item information via a network page of an electronic marketplace. A set of items associated with a potential order of an electronic marketplace may be obtained. The set of items may be associated with a threshold condition that must be met prior to enabling completion of the potential order. Item information associated with the set of items, electronic representations of a portion of a plurality of related items, and a remainder value may be displayed on a network page provided by a mobile device. The remainder value may indicate a difference between a current state of the set of items and the threshold condition. A request to associate a related item of the plurality of related items with the potential order may be received. The set of items may be updated and the remainder value may be modified based on the update.

Techniques for providing electronic endcap items

Systems and methods are described for providing a context interaction determination service. A context interaction determination service may determine that a user has selected a context-specific item in a contextual user interface, and may notify the user that a more specific context is available and provide additional information regarding the new context. A contextual user interface may be associated with a context, which in turn may be associated with a provider or providers of items. The context interaction determination service may determine that a selected item is associated with a particular provider and context, and that a set of previously selected items does not include any items associated with that context. The context interaction determination service may thus notify the user of the interaction with the new context, display a user interface or provider-specific criteria for the new context, or provide other information regarding the new context.

Context interaction determination service

Disclosed are various embodiments for coordination of autonomous vehicles in a roadway. A roadway management system can generate lane configurations for a roadway or a portion of the roadway. The roadway management system can determine the direction of travel for lanes in a roadway and direct autonomous automobiles to enter the roadway in a particular lane.

Lane assignments for autonomous vehicles

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Seattle, WA, United States of America

Wesley Scott Lauka