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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2023
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Zhiyuan Cao, Seattle, WA (US);
Yutong Chen, Redmond, WA (US);
Leah Autumn Thompkins, Seattle, WA (US);
Min Shi, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jiajin Li, Bellevue, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are provided herein for detecting bot activity. Tasks associated with one or more delivery sub-tasks can be provided to various user devices. The task requests received from the user devices can be processed according to a variety of factors to determine a likelihood that the task requests were initiated by a bot. In some embodiments, transient tasks (e.g., task that are deleted within a relatively short period of time and for which a user device cannot be assigned) may be utilized at any suitable time. User devices that request assignment of such transient tasks may be identified as using a bot, or at least the probability identified for those user devices can be increased, indicating a heightened likelihood that the user device is using a bot. A number of remedial actions can be executed when the likelihood that the user device is using a bot exceeds a threshold.