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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 17, 2011
Applicants:

Janna Hamaker, Issaquah, WA (US);

Tom Killalea, Seattle, WA (US);

Christopher F. Weight, Seattle, WA (US);

Bruno A. Posokhow, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Daniel B. Rausch, Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Janna Hamaker, Issaquah, WA (US);

Tom Killalea, Seattle, WA (US);

Christopher F. Weight, Seattle, WA (US);

Bruno A. Posokhow, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Daniel B. Rausch, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30011 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques for aligning content items with one another are described herein. These techniques may align different versions of a same content item for the purpose of identifying differences between the versions, identifying commonalities between the versions, mapping annotations made in one version to the other version, aggregating annotations across the different versions, or for any other reason. The content items may include electronic books, songs, videos, documents, or the like.


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