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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2013
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Thomas A. Ryan, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Gregg Elliott Zehr, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kenneth Paul Kiraly, Menlo Park, CA (US);
John Lattyak, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Subram (Narsi) Narasimhan, Saratoga, CA (US);
Michael V. Rykov, Seattle, WA (US);
Girish Bansilal Bajaj, Bellevue, WA (US);
James C. Slezak, Seattle, WA (US);
Aviram Zagorie, Seattle, WA (US);
Richard Moore, Seattle, WA (US);
Kevin R. Cheung, Seattle, WA (US);
Thomas M. J. Fruchterman, Seattle, WA (US);
Robert L. Goodwin, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
An item-providing system supplies items to a user device for consumption at the user device via communication infrastructure. The device may correspond to a book reader device or other type of device. In one illustrative case, the item-providing system and the user device include functionality for providing upgrade-related items to the user device in a transparent manner. The item-providing system and the user device also include testing functionality.