Data store selection and consistent routing using a pointer table
Granted: February 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12222920
A subscription storage service of a provider network may be used to select a particular datastore to store a topic subscription record for an IoT device (e.g., after the IoT device subscribes to an MQTT topic). The service may select the particular datastore based on the type of the subscription (e.g., non-wildcard vs. wildcard subscription) and one or more criteria associated with the topic (e.g., subscribe operation TPS for the topic). This may allow the service to store wildcard…
Co-branded single sign-on service with sign-on tracking
Granted: February 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12224996
Techniques are described for providing customizable sign-on functionality, such as via an access manager system that provides single sign-on functionality and other functionality to other services for use with those services' users. The access manager system may maintain various sign-on and other account information for various users, and provide single sign-on functionality for those users using that maintained information on behalf of multiple unrelated services with which those users…
Techniques for cloud-based privacy controls
Granted: February 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12224991
Systems, devices, and methods are provided for cloud-based privacy controls. User content is encrypted using a content encryption key (CEK). The CEK may be double-encrypted by the data producer—the inner envelope is encrypted using keys associated with privacy domains that are authorized to access the user content. The outer envelope is encrypted using a cloud privacy control's public key. When a data consumer requests access the user content, the cloud privacy control evaluates…
Systems and methods for selecting product placement locations and products
Granted: February 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12223524
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for determining virtual product placement opportunities in a media content and determining product candidates for virtual insertion into the media content. The product placement system may determine shot segments from the media content and for each shot segment may determine candidate product placement locations. The product placement system may determine contextual information from the shot segments and from the contextual…
Determining a topology for distribution of services using demand aggregation
Granted: February 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12223521
Described are systems and methods directed to determining a topology for the efficient allocation and distribution of a service to customers that are distributed over a geographic area. For example, the topology can facilitate the planning, scheduling, and allocation of resources for the efficient provisioning of services to customers at locations distributed over the geographic area. Certain input parameters and/or constraints associated with the provisioning of the service may be…
Expressions management service for data sheet-based applications
Granted: February 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12223262
A unique identifier of an expression which refers to a cell of a data sheet is stored in a repository. In an application comprising an operation based on evaluating the expression, the expression is indicated by the unique identifier. In response to detecting a write directed to the cell, a modified version of contents of the cell is stored without re-evaluating the expression. The expression is re-evaluated in response to determining that the operation of the application is to be…
Managing access to sensitive data in transcriptions
Granted: February 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12223259
Techniques for managing access to sensitive data in transcriptions are described. A method for managing access to sensitive data in transcriptions may include receiving a request to generate a redacted transcript of content, obtaining a transcript of the content, sending at least a portion of the transcript to a model endpoint to identify sensitive entities in the transcript, receiving an inference response identifying one or more sensitive entities in the transcript, and generating the…
Management of operating system software using read-only multi-attach block volumes
Granted: February 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12223191
An operating system, or operating system update, management service uses a shared read-only multi-attach volume of a block-based storage service to distribute operating systems or operating system updates to a set of virtualized computing instances. Also, to store launch specific information, that is specific to a given virtualized computing instance, additional writable volumes are used, wherein a write volume is attached to each of the computing instances of the set. This eliminates…
Row level security in natural language question answering
Granted: February 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12223080
This disclosure describes a natural language question (NLQ) query service within a service provider network that provides row level security (RLS) for autocomplete during entry of NLQs and fuzzy matching in NLQ answering. The rules take the form of per-user predicates such as Tim can only see rows with region=US. In configurations a complex extraction and preprocessing pipeline to extract distinct combinations of values against RLS predicate “rule keys” is used. Those distinct values…
Combination boot for an integrated circuit
Granted: February 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12223052
A boot process for a computing device, such as integrated circuit, includes security features that are inaccessible during certain operation modes. An image including permission to access those security features is received during the boot process and may be verified using one or more keys. In operation, access to the security features is permitted during the operation modes after the image is verified. Such an approach enables a boot process to permit access to certain features after…
Partial-width rack-mounted computing devices
Granted: February 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12222779
A computing system includes a rack having standard slots for computing devices and computing devices coupled to the rack. One or more of the computing devices includes a chassis, a circuit board assembly in a primarily horizontal orientation, and one or more processors coupled to the circuit board assembly. One or more stacks of hard disk drives are coupled to the chassis. The chassis has a width that is equal to or less than half of the width of one of the standard slots of the rack.
Heat sinks for bare die multi-chip packages
Granted: February 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12222776
Various mounting systems for mounting heat sink apparatus to bare die processors are disclosed. The mounting systems include an upper plate, which may include a heat transfer portion, positioned in proximity to the upper surface of bare die processors to provide heat conduction away from the processors. The disclosed mounting systems secure the upper plate to the processors with balanced and centralized forces to inhibit tilting of the upper plate and reduce the risk of damaging the…
Cap system for pallet jack
Granted: February 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12221147
In one example, a pallet jack cap system includes a stabilization outrigger secured around steer wheels of a pallet jack, a bonnet in an elevated position over forks of the pallet jack, an anchor base for attachment to the pallet jack, and a vertical extension system between the anchor base and the bonnet. The vertical extension system supports the bonnet in the elevated position over the forks of the pallet jack. The vertical extension system can include an elevating vertical support…
Calibration garage for automated calibration of depth sensors in mobile robots
Granted: February 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12220813
Systems and techniques for performing a calibration test of an obstacle detection sensor of a drive unit are described. An example system includes a calibration region and at least one drive unit. The calibration region is disposed in an environment and includes a calibration apparatus. The at least one drive unit is operable to autonomously move throughout the environment. The at least one drive unit includes a sensor configured to detect one or more objects within the environment. The…
Localized diagnostic testing module
Granted: February 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12220705
Systems and methods are disclosed for rapid PCR testing. Example embodiments may include a PCR testing module that includes a housing having a PCR machine disposed therein; a sample input station on the housing, wherein the sample input station is configured to receive a sample collection device (SCD) comprising a biological specimen sample provided by the patient; an SCD processing mechanism configured to transfer a lysed microportion of the biological specimen sample into a PCR sample…
Camera mount
Granted: February 11, 2025
Patent Number:
D1061684
Computer-implemented methods for machine learning model based spatial-temporal adaptive shift for end-to-end text-video retrieval
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12216709
Techniques for performing a machine learning model based spatial-temporal adaptive shift for end-to-end text-video retrieval are described. According to some examples, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a video comprising a plurality of frames at a content delivery service; generating, by the content delivery service, a set of embeddings for each of a plurality of sections of each frame of the plurality of frames; determining, by a candidate selector machine learning model…
On-demand co-processing resources for quantum computing
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217090
An algorithm execution management system of a provider network may receive a request from a user for executing an algorithm using different types of computing resources, including classical computing resources and quantum computing resources. The request may indicate a container that includes the algorithm code and dependencies such as libraries for executing the algorithm. The algorithm execution management system may first determine that the quantum computing resources are available to…
Computer system-based pausing and resuming of natural language conversations
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12216963
Techniques for computer system-based conversations are described. In an example, a system receives, from a first device, first data corresponding to a first interaction in a conversation that requests a function. The system causes the first device to output a first response to the first interaction. Prior to an execution of the function, the system determines that the conversation is to be paused and causes the first device to output a first indication that the conversation is paused.…
Secure monitors for memory page protection
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12216921
Technologies are disclosed for using hardware-embedded monitors to monitor pages of local memory and detect attribute violations or other unauthorized operations relating to the memory. The attribute violations may include mismatches of attributes (e.g., designating a page as writeable versus executable or vice versa) in entries in a translation buffer that point to a same physical address or other mismatches between designations of attributes for a page in physical and virtual space.…
