Charles Frederick Gordon

US Patent:

7210102, Apr 24, 2007

Filed:

Jun 22, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/873729

Inventors:

Charles Gordon - Seattle WA, US
Hilliard B. Siegel - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc. - Reno NV

International Classification:

H04N 1/00

US Classification:

715525

Abstract:

Page numbering of images of pages in a document includes extracting all numbers that are exactly one different than a number found on an adjacent page, and grouping the extracted numbers into a set of sequences that describe the candidate page numbers in the book. The sequences most likely to contain candidates that represent the actual page numbers are determined by merging the most reliable sequences together to bridge gaps between the sequences, and identifying those gaps where the page numbers have been intentionally omitted. Page images are labeled with numbers that are determined to be most likely to represent the actual page number. Page numbering is abandoned when insufficient numbers of pages numbers are able to be extracted or assigned relative to the total number of pages in the document.

US Patent:

7627530, Dec 1, 2009

Filed:

Apr 26, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/832090

Inventors:

Hilliard B. Siegel - Seattle WA, US
Charles Gordon - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc. - Reno NV

International Classification:

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/30
G06F 21/00
G06F 7/04
G06Q 10/00
H04N 7/16

US Classification:

705 57, 707 9, 707 10, 705 51, 705 1, 705 59, 726 26, 726 27, 726 29

Abstract:

A system and method for managing access rights of media files communicated over a network. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention allows a user to obtain rights to access media files of selected content, which may include a song, album, movie, etc. Once the user obtains rights to access media files of the selected content, information that identifies the user and information that describes the selected content is communicated to a plurality of content providers. By receiving information that identifies the user and information that describes the selected content, each content provider can verify independently that the user is authorized to access one or more files that contain the selected content. The user may then directly contact any one of many service providers to access media files that contain the selected content.

US Patent:

7660738, Feb 9, 2010

Filed:

Apr 28, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/425572

Inventors:

Hilliard B. Siegel - Seattle WA, US
Charles Gordon - Seattle WA, US
Jeffrey P. Bezos - Greater Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Amazon.com, Inc. - Seattle WA

International Classification:

G06Q 20/00

US Classification:

705 20, 705 26, 705 27, 705400

Abstract:

A facility for collecting pricing information is described. The facility serves a web page to a client computing system. The served web page contains a first control operable to order a selected item from a selected vendor. The web page further contains a second control operable to submit a price charged for the selected item by a vendor other than the selected vendor. At a later time, the facility receives from the client computing system information that indicates that the second control has been operated to submit a price charged for the selected item by a vendor other than the selected vendor.

US Patent:

7743320, Jun 22, 2010

Filed:

Dec 22, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/615737

Inventors:

Charles Gordon - Seattle WA, US
Hilliard B. Siegel - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc. - Reno NV

International Classification:

G06F 17/24
G06F 17/15

US Classification:

715230, 715231, 715232, 715253, 715273

Abstract:

Page numbering of images of pages in a document includes extracting all numbers that are exactly one different than a number found on an adjacent page, and grouping the extracted numbers into a set of sequences that describe the candidate page numbers in the book. The sequences most likely to contain candidates that represent the actual page numbers are determined by merging the most reliable sequences together to bridge gaps between the sequences, and identifying those gaps where the page numbers have been intentionally omitted. Page images are labeled with numbers that are determined to be most likely to represent the actual page number. Page numbering is abandoned when insufficient numbers of pages numbers are able to be extracted or assigned relative to the total number of pages in the document.

US Patent:

7877330, Jan 25, 2011

Filed:

Oct 19, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/581676

Inventors:

Hilliard B. Siegel - Seattle WA, US
Charles Gordon - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc. - Reno NV

International Classification:

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/30
G06F 21/00
G06Q 10/00
H04N 7/16

US Classification:

705 57, 707781, 707783, 707784, 726 26, 726 27, 726 29

Abstract:

Access to selected content in different file formats can be managed by conducting, in a single purchase transaction, a user purchase of access rights that allow a user to acquire multiple copies of the same selected content in media files having different file formats. An authorization signal is communicated to a content provider or multiple content providers who did not conduct the purchase transaction. The authorization signal contains information that allows the content provider or the multiple content providers to authorize the user to acquire multiple copies of the same selected content in different file formats without requiring the user to conduct multiple transactions. Each copy of the selected content acquired from a content provider is in a media file having a different file format.

US Patent:

8438084, May 7, 2013

Filed:

Jun 9, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/864291

Inventors:

Lawrence Tesler - Seattle WA, US
Udi Manber - Palo Alto CA, US
Hilliard B Siegel - Seattle WA, US
Charles Gordon - Seattle WA, US
Varun Narang - Issaquah WA, US

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc. - Reno NV

International Classification:

A01K 5/02
G06F 13/38

US Classification:

705 29, 705217

Abstract:

Verification of an inventory of stored products may be achieved by obtaining an image of the stored products and using text, optical character, and other feature recognition techniques to determine product identification and storage location. A comparison between earlier and current images of the same storage location is used to identify which locations have changed, i. e. , from which locations have products been moved, removed, or added. The earlier and current images of the changed locations may be displayed to a user to visually inspect the differences between the images and verify the changes in inventory represented by those differences.