Allocating computing resources for deferrable virtual machines
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
11972301
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer readable media for predicting surplus capacity on a set of server nodes and determining a quantity of deferrable virtual machines (VMs) that may be scheduled over an upcoming period of time. This determination of VM quantity may be determined while minimizing risks associated with allocation failures on the set of server nodes. This disclosure described systems that facilitate features and functionality related to improving…
Superconductor-semiconductor fabrication
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
11974509
A mixed semiconductor-superconductor platform is fabricated in phases. In a masking phase, a dielectric mask is formed on a substrate, such that the dielectric mask leaves one or more regions of the substrate exposed. In a selective area growth phase, a semiconductor material is selectively grown on the substrate in the one or more exposed regions. In a superconductor growth phase, a layer of superconducting material is formed, at least part of which is in direct contact with the…
Cloud computing system for mailbox identity migration
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
11973827
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for migrating mailbox identities. In aspects, a system may receive one or more requests to perform tasks for migrating identities of a plurality of mailboxes included in a security group created at a source tenant to a plurality of mail users created at a target tenant that correspond to the plurality of mailboxes. Based on the one or more requests, the system may copy the identities to a data store associated with the…
Whiteboard background customization system
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
11973811
Systems and methods are directed to automatically creating customized whiteboard backgrounds. A network system accesses metadata associated with a virtual presentation (e.g., title, topic, tenant identifier). First image data is identified based on first data of the metadata and second image data is identified based on second data of the metadata. Using the first image data and the second image data, the network system generates a plurality of whiteboard backgrounds by combining a first…
Dangling domain detection and access mitigation
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
11973796
Embodiments detect risky situations in which a domain name record remains viable after the target it identified is not. Such dangling records create various risks because substitute targets, such as fraudulent websites, may be installed without the knowledge of the original target's owner. By obtaining and correlating data from multiple tenants, a cloud service provider detects dangling structures and any attempts to exploit them. Dangling records may specify a custom domain name, for…
Self-serve appliances for cloud services platform
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
11973758
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are described herein that enable a vendor to publish a template to a network-accessible marketplace and that enable a customer to selectively utilize the templates to deploy an appliance to a customer account associated with the customer within a cloud services platform. In an embodiment, deploying the appliance to the customer account comprises deploying resources specified by the template as part of an appliance resource…
Processing electronic communications according to recipient points of view
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
11973734
Technology is disclosed for controlling the processing of electronic communications on computing devices. An electronic communication is processed to determine mentions in the message body indicating recipients of the communication. A point-of-view (POV) is determined for each mention, with respect to recipient(s), as second-person or third-person POV. The communication is parsed into sections, and the mentions that are associated with each section are determined. Based on the POV for a…
System and method for performing automatic speech recognition system parameter adjustment via machine learning
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
11972753
A system, method and computer-readable storage device provides an improved speech processing approach in which hyper parameters used for speech recognition are modified dynamically or in batch mode rather than fixed statically. The method includes estimating, via a model trained on audio data and/or metadata, a set of parameters useful for performing automatic speech recognition, receiving speech at an automatic speech recognition system, applying, by the automatic speech recognition…
Providing semantic meaning to telemetry data to create insights
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
11972332
The disclosure derives insight from telemetry data by receiving telemetry data; parsing the received telemetry data to identify properties, and mapping the identified properties to a set of identified tags based at least on a tag library. Based at least on the mapping, the disclosure generates insight data and a report for the telemetry data. In this manner, the disclosure adds structure to data, thereby providing semantic meaning to internet of things (IoT) telemetry data, regardless of…
Visualization of training dialogs for a conversational bot
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
11972331
This document relates to creating and/or updating a chatbot using a graphical user interface. For example, training dialogs for a chatbot can be displayed in a tree form on a graphical user interface. Based at least on interactions between a developer and the graphical user interface, the training dialogs can be modified in the tree form, and training dialogs can be updated based on the modifications provided on the tree form via the graphical user interface.
Body attachment for a mouse
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
D1025067
Generating abstractions for offloading tasks to heterogeneous accelerators
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
11972297
Systems and methods are provided for offloading a task from a central processor in a radio access network (RAN) server to one or more heterogeneous accelerators. For example, a task associated with one or more operational partitions (or a service application) associated with processing data traffic in the RAN is dynamically allocated for offloading from the central processor based on workload status information. One or more accelerators are dynamically allocated for executing the task,…
Validation of payload for deployment to a target environment
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
11972241
A payload is generated by a build computing system. The payload includes payload identifying metadata and deployment target identifier metadata, as well as an application container that includes a set of signed binaries. The payload can be approved for deployment, and a token can be generated for the payload. The token may include a set of claims that include payload identifying information. A payload validation system validates the payload for deployment to a target environment using…
Member invocation declarative interception
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
11972237
Improved compilers recognize interception declarations in source code, and emit code that replaces invocations of specified artifacts with invocations of specified interceptors instead. Source generators proactively modify program behavior in arbitrary desired ways without introducing hidden security violations and without requiring edits by the program's developers. Interception declarations are visible in source code and development tools. In some cases, different invocations of a…
Neural method completion based on natural language and source code
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
11972232
A code completion tool uses a neural transformer model with attention to generate candidate sequences to complete a method body of a method signature. The neural transformer model is trained with source code programs and natural language text. The neural transformer model learns the meaning of a method name, its corresponding method parameters and types from a large corpus of unsupervised dataset of source code methods and a supervised dataset of tasks including source code constructs in…
Sharing user interface customization across applications
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
11972102
Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for sharing user interface (UI) customization across applications. Application developers may create UIs (e.g., game control layouts) with control groups that may be customizable as a group. A control group may comprise a plurality of controls selectively assigned to cluster of sockets (e.g., a socket group) in a layout template. Controls in control groups may be customized as a group, for example, by changing a position,…
Interaction signal processing in distributed computing systems
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
11972098
Techniques of interaction data processing in a distributed computing system are disclosed herein. One example technique includes upon receiving a user interface output having a content item to be surfaced on a client device and a script configured to detect an interaction with the content item at the client device, surfacing the user interface output having the content item on a display of the client device and automatically executing the script embedded in the user interface output to…
Selecting content in ink documents using a hierarchical data structure
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
11972097
Technology is described herein for facilitating a user's interaction with a digital ink document. The technology internally represents the ink document using a data structure having a hierarchy of nodes. The nodes describe respective elements in the ink document. The technology leverages the data structure to identify a set of nodes that grows upon the user's repeated selection of a particular part of the ink document. At each stage of the selection, the technology highlights a set of…
Firmware-based secure tenancy transfer
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
11971993
A system includes a stored counter value and a stored boot manifest including a manifest type flag. A manifest type of the boot manifest is determined based on the manifest type flag, a tenancy mode is determined based on a parity of the counter value, a first boot is executed if the manifest type is a first manifest type and the tenancy mode is a first tenancy mode, a second boot flow is executed if the manifest type is the first manifest type and the tenancy mode is a second tenancy…
Mouse
Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number:
D1025070
