METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING AND MAINTAINING A VIRTUAL LIBRARY

Patent №

US 8,725,573

Granted

2014-05-13

Filed 2005

Owner

AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

AI components

2

vision · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11127688

A system and method for creating and maintaining a virtual library is provided. A virtual library includes one or more photographic images of the user's physical library, and an inventory of the products revealed in those images. The virtual librarian facilitates uploading the images, generating an inventory from those images, and locating products in the physical library with reference to the images. The virtual librarian optionally provides the user with an appraisal of the value of their physical library, and advice regarding how to organize the library and whether to make certain acquisitions to complement the existing library.

VisionPlanningG06Q 30/0601G06Q 10/10

AI classification

Vision1.00
Planning0.93
AI hardware0.28
Knowledge representation0.20
Speech0.10
Machine learning0.01
Natural language0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

assignment · 256630757

Assignors

NARANG, VARUN, MANBER, UDI, SIEGEL, HILLIARD B., BEZOS, JEFFREY P.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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