Severan Rault

This disclosure describes an unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”) configured to autonomously deliver items of inventory to various destinations. The UAV may receive inventory information and a destination location and autonomously retrieve the inventory from a location within a materials handling facility, compute a route from the materials handling facility to a destination and travel to the destination to deliver the inventory.

Results of a search on one body of data may be enhanced by performing the same search, or a related search, on another body of data. In one example, the first body of data is pages (or other content) on a web site, and the second body of data is pages (or other content) on another web site. When a user enters a query to perform a site-specific search on the first web site, that web site may then perform a related search on the second web site. When results are obtained from the second web site,… Show more

Results of a search on one body of data may be enhanced by performing the same search, or a related search, on another body of data. In one example, the first body of data is pages (or other content) on a web site, and the second body of data is pages (or other content) on another web site. When a user enters a query to perform a site-specific search on the first web site, that web site may then perform a related search on the second web site. When results are obtained from the second web site, it may be determined whether the first web site has any pages that correspond to the received results. The first web site may then use its corresponding pages in the results that it provides to the user Show less

Search results responsive to a query are generated by a search engine. If the query is “location relevant”, the results are provided to a ranker component. If the query is an entity search, then entities matching the query are ranked by distance from the user. If the query is not, and if it is not semantically charged, the entities are ranked either according to distance from the user or by search relevance. If the query is semantically charged, a semantic score is calculated for each entity… Show more

Search results responsive to a query are generated by a search engine. If the query is “location relevant”, the results are provided to a ranker component. If the query is an entity search, then entities matching the query are ranked by distance from the user. If the query is not, and if it is not semantically charged, the entities are ranked either according to distance from the user or by search relevance. If the query is semantically charged, a semantic score is calculated for each entity. One or more threshold semantic scores are determined that divide the search results into multiple parts. The results within each part can then be ranked independently. The results within a first part are ranked according to their distance from the user, while the results in a subsequent part are ranked according to their semantical relationship to the query. The re-ranked parts are concatenated together. Show less

This disclosure provides techniques for dynamic content caching and retrieval. For example, a computing device includes cache memory dedicated to temporarily caching data of one or more applications of the computing device. The computing device also includes storage memory to store data in response to requests by the applications. The storage memory may also temporarily cache data. Further, the computing device includes system software to represent to the applications of the computing device… Show more

This disclosure provides techniques for dynamic content caching and retrieval. For example, a computing device includes cache memory dedicated to temporarily caching data of one or more applications of the computing device. The computing device also includes storage memory to store data in response to requests by the applications. The storage memory may also temporarily cache data. Further, the computing device includes system software to represent to the applications of the computing device that the portions of the storage memory utilized to cache content are available to store data of the applications. In addition, the computing device includes application programming interfaces to provide content to a requesting application from a cache of the computing device and/or from a remote content source. Show less

Techniques described herein describe a proxy used in an instant messaging system. The proxy, upon receiving an instant message (IM) from a first mobile device and addressed to a second mobile device, dynamically determines whether, and for how long to store the IM on a local proxy. Otherwise the IM is forwarded to a server.

In order to alleviate delays in retrieving content from remote sources caused by slow data transfer rates and dropped network connections, some requested content may be cached at a wireless device having limited cache memory space. Typically, the wireless device communicates with the content source before the cached content is provided to a requesting user or application. The invention provides requested content from cache memory of a computing device without first contacting the content… Show more

In order to alleviate delays in retrieving content from remote sources caused by slow data transfer rates and dropped network connections, some requested content may be cached at a wireless device having limited cache memory space. Typically, the wireless device communicates with the content source before the cached content is provided to a requesting user or application. The invention provides requested content from cache memory of a computing device without first contacting the content source. The invention also is a file system filter that dynamically allocates storage memory of a computing device, such as a hard disk or flash memory, as cache memory. The claims are directed toward caching content outside of cache memory of a computing device and providing requested content from cache memory before communicating with a content source. Show less