Oracle Patent Applications

SCALABLE AND SECURE CROSS REGION AND OPTIMIZED FILE SYSTEM DELTA TRANSFER FOR CLOUD SCALE

Granted: December 21, 2023
Application Number: 20230409522
Novel techniques for end-to-end file storage replication and security between file systems in different cloud infrastructure regions are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a file storage service generates deltas between snapshots in a source file system, and transfers the deltas and associated data through a high-throughput object storage to recreate a new snapshot in a target file system located in a different region during disaster recovery. The file storage service utilizes novel…

END-TO-END RESTARTABILITY OF CROSS-REGION REPLICATION USING A COMMON SNAPSHOT

Granted: December 21, 2023
Application Number: 20230409448
Techniques are described for performing different types of restart operations for a file storage replication between a source file system and a target file system in different cloud infrastructure regions. In certain embodiments, the disclosed techniques perform a restart operation to terminate a current cross-region replication by synchronizing resource cleanup operations in the source file system and the target file system, respectively. In other embodiments, disclosed techniques…

TECHNIQUES FOR MAINTAINING DATA CONSISTENCY DURING DISASTER RECOVERY

Granted: December 21, 2023
Application Number: 20230409442
Techniques are described for maintaining data consistency when failure events occur during file storage replications between file systems in different cloud infrastructure regions. In certain embodiments, two generation numbers (or different identifications) are assigned to two groups of processed B-tree key-value pairs, one before and one after a failure event, within a key range. In some embodiments, the two generation numbers are assigned to a group of B-tree key-value pairs processed…

GENERATING A HIERARCHICAL DATA STRUCTURE THAT REPRESENTS A LOG

Granted: December 21, 2023
Application Number: 20230409351
Plugins that are independently written are executed in a collaborative manner to analysis a log. A plugin executing with respect to a particular node of a hierarchical data structure determines values for a set of keys based on information of the particular node and/or any ancestor nodes, and information stored in a shared repository. The plugin stores the values for the keys as additional information of the particular hierarchical node and/or into the shared repository. The plugin does…

GENERATING LOG TIMELINE DATA STRUCTURES BASED ON THE HIERARCHICAL DATA STRUCTURE

Granted: December 21, 2023
Application Number: 20230409350
Plugins that are independently written are executed in a collaborative manner to analysis a log. A plugin executing with respect to a particular node of a hierarchical data structure determines values for a set of keys based on information of the particular node and/or any ancestor nodes, and information stored in a shared repository. The plugin stores the values for the keys as additional information of the particular hierarchical node and/or into the shared repository. The plugin does…

GUIDED AUGMENTION OF DATA SETS FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODELS

Granted: December 14, 2023
Application Number: 20230401286
Techniques are disclosed for augmenting data sets used for training machine learning models and for generating predictions by trained machine learning models. These techniques may increase a number and diversity of examples within an initial training dataset of sentences by extracting a subset of words from the existing training dataset of sentences. The techniques may conserve scarce sample data in few-shot situations by training a data generation model using general data obtained from…

DOMAIN REPLICATION ACROSS REGIONS

Granted: December 14, 2023
Application Number: 20230403323
The present embodiments relate to a CI replication service that can replicate domain data from IDCS control plane to data plane and to all subscribed regions of a domain. For instance, the CI replication service can provide replication of required resources of a domain for AuthN and AuthZ from an IDCS local region to other regions for high availability (e.g., to improve latency). The CI replication service can replicate the resources from a domain's home region to all subscribed regions…

FRAMEWORK FOR ANOMALY DETECTION IN A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT

Granted: December 14, 2023
Application Number: 20230403291
The present disclosure describes an anomaly detection system that generates a resource group including a plurality of resources of a monitored environment based on a grouping property. The values of the grouping property associated with the plurality of resources satisfy a first condition. A first invariance identifying property is selected from a set of invariance identifying properties. It is determined whether values of the first invariance identifying property associated with the…

CHATBOT PROVIDING A DEFEATING REPLY

Granted: December 14, 2023
Application Number: 20230401388
Techniques are disclosed for generating defeating textual replies. A computer-implemented method generates a first communicative discourse tree from an utterance and as second communicative discourse tree from a candidate answer derived from a search of keywords in the utterance. The method translates the first communicative discourse tree into a first logical formula from and the second communicative discourse tree into a second logical formula. The method determines that the first…

HIERARCHICAL NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION WITH MULTI-TASK SETUP

Granted: December 14, 2023
Application Number: 20230401385
A novel system is described for performing hierarchical named entity recognition (“HNER”) processing that includes identifying categories at different hierarchical levels for a named entity. The HNER system uses a novel architecture comprising an encoder model and a system of trained machine learning (ML) models to perform the HNER processing, where each trained model in the system of ML models corresponds to a particular hierarchical level, and each model is trained to extract one…

AUGMENTING DATA SETS FOR SELECTING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS

Granted: December 14, 2023
Application Number: 20230401285
Techniques are disclosed for augmenting data sets used for training machine learning models and for generating predictions by trained machine learning models. The techniques generate synthesized data from sample data and train a machine learning model using the synthesized data to augment a sample data set. Embodiments selectively partition the sample data set and synthesized data into a training data and a validation data, which are used to generate and select machine learning models.

LOGICAL JAVA CARD RUNTIME ENVIRONMENT

Granted: December 14, 2023
Application Number: 20230401116
Techniques are disclosed for generating a message stream configured to indicate a source of the various messages within the message stream. In particular, the indicators identify which interface the messages were received at a terminal (e.g., of a mobile handset). The terminal receives messages on various interfaces, and separates the messages received via different interfaces with interface switch indicators within the message stream. In one embodiment, the smart card receives a message…

System and Method for Promoting Reader Groups for Lock Cohorting

Granted: December 14, 2023
Application Number: 20230401113
NUMA-aware reader-writer locks may leverage lock cohorting techniques that introduce a synthetic level into the lock hierarchy (e.g., one whose nodes do not correspond to the system topology). The synthetic level may include a global reader lock and a global writer lock. A writer thread may acquire a node-level writer lock, then the global writer lock, and then the top-level lock, after which it may access a critical section protected by the lock. The writer may release the lock (if an…

UNIVERSAL CODE EDITOR

Granted: December 14, 2023
Application Number: 20230401039
A universal code editor (UCE) is described that can be used for authoring and editing artifacts associated with multiple different cloud services. A single instance of the UCE and the associated user interface (UI) can be used to select and edit one or more artifacts from different cloud services. The cloud services may be provided by the same cloud service provider or by different cloud service providers. In certain embodiments, the UCE is implemented as part of a cloud-based IDE.

TECHNIQUES FOR BOOTSTRAPPING ACROSS SECURE AIR GAPS WITH STATIC SIDECAR

Granted: December 7, 2023
Application Number: 20230393858
Techniques are disclosed for bootstrapping a secure data center using a cross domain system with a static sidecar node. The cross domain system can be implemented at the secure data center to provide one-way ingress and egress channels for network traffic to the target data center. The cross domain system is connected to a host data center and can receive configuration data from the host data center to configure the static sidecar node. The static sidecar node can receive bootstrapping…

TECHNIQUES FOR BOOTSTRAPPING ACROSS SECURE AIR GAPS WITH PROXYING SIDECAR

Granted: December 7, 2023
Application Number: 20230396590
Techniques are disclosed for bootstrapping a secure data center using a cross domain system with a proxying sidecar node. The cross domain system can be implemented at the secure data center to provide one-way ingress and egress channels for network traffic to the target data center. The cross domain system is connected to a host data center and can receive configuration data from the host data center to configure the proxying sidecar node. The proxying sidecar node can request…

SCALABLE ROUTING AND FORWARDING OF PACKETS IN CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE

Granted: December 7, 2023
Application Number: 20230396539
Techniques are disclosed for providing high performant packets processing capabilities in a virtualized cloud environment that enhance the scalability and high availability of the packets processing infrastructure. In certain embodiments disclosed herein, the VNICs functionality performed by network virtualization devices (NVDs) is offloaded from the NVDs to a fleet of computers, referred to as VNIC-as-a-Service System (or VNICaaS system). VNICaaS system is configured to provide Virtual…

COMPUTING SIMILARITY OF TREE DATA STRUCTURES USING METRIC FUNCTIONS DEFINED ON SETS

Granted: December 7, 2023
Application Number: 20230394021
Example embodiments facilitate efficient comparison operations of tree structures, resulting in comparison metrics (e.g., similarity or distance metrics or scores) used enhance software systems, such as search algorithms, code optimization software, enterprise database applications, and so on. Trees to be compared are converted into sets, i.e., serialized using a novel enumeration method. Metric functions can then be efficiently applied to the sets to facilitate the comparison…

CLOUD SHELL EXTENSION FRAMEWORK

Granted: December 7, 2023
Application Number: 20230393884
The present embodiments relate to a cloud shell extension framework. A cloud infrastructure (CI) service can invoke a cloud shell from a console to the CI. The service may request that context data to be added for use in a terminal session. The cloud shell extension can include a tool or script that can be used to obtain context data or sample code for preparing an environment specific to the service prior to the user interaction with the environment. The cloud shell extension can allow…

TECHNIQUES FOR BOOTSTRAPPING ACROSS SECURE AIR GAPS WITH EDGE DEVICE CLUSTER

Granted: December 7, 2023
Application Number: 20230393859
Techniques are disclosed for bootstrapping a secure data center using a cross domain system and a cluster of edge devices. The cross domain system can be implemented at the secure data center to provide one-way ingress and egress channels for network traffic to the target data center. The cross domain system is connected to a host data center and can receive configuration data from the host data center to configure the cluster of edge devices. The cross domain system can include a…