Techniques for assessing container images for vulnerabilities
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12216766
Techniques are described for assessing container images for vulnerabilities without actually scanning the container images. A vulnerability assessment system (VAS) is described that is configured to perform vulnerabilities assessment for container images. The VAS is configured to perform the vulnerability assessment without scanning the container images. In certain embodiments, the VAS calculates a vulnerability score for the container image where the vulnerability score is indicative of…
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for triggering a session initiation protocol (SIP) re-invite message
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12218989
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for triggering a session initiation protocol (SIP) re-invite message are disclosed. One example method for triggering a SIP re-invite message occurs at a SIP node. The method comprises: determining that the SIP node is not needed as an intermediary node for facilitating SIP communications between a first SIP user agent and a second SIP user agent; generating a SIP message comprising information in a SIP extension header field for triggering…
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for restricting a number of hops conducted in a communications network
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12218825
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for restricting a number of hops conducted in a communications network are disclosed. One method includes receiving, by a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) proxy element in a first network region, a service request message including a header section that specifies a maximum number of hops value and conducting a search for a producer network function (NF) in the first network region to provide a network service requested in the service…
Tolerating server failures in a consensus protocol down to one surviving server using shared storage as a voter
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217550
An elector is provided using shared storage to allow a cluster of participant nodes to gracefully convert failed voters to non-voters until there are only two voters. The cluster can then tolerate the failure of either of those two remaining participant nodes. A tiny amount of shared storage is used as a voter without an object store. This results in a cluster with only one running node that is an exclusive leader. An exclusive leader is then the only participant node that is a voter,…
Extracting key information from document using trained machine-learning models
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217497
Techniques for extracting key information from a document using machine-learning models in a chatbot system is disclosed herein. In one particular aspect, a method is provided that includes receiving a set of data, which includes key fields, within a document at a data processing system that includes a table detection module, a key information extraction module, and a table extraction module. Text information and corresponding location data are extracted via optical character…
Generalized expectation maximization for semi-supervised learning
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217136
Techniques are described that extend supervised machine-learning algorithms for use with semi-supervised training. Random labels are assigned to unlabeled training data, and the data is split into k partitions. During a label-training iteration, each of these k partitions is combined with the labeled training data, and the combination is used train a single instance of the machine-learning model. Each of these trained models are then used to predict labels for data points in the k?1…
Hardware transactional memory-assisted flat combining
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217083
An HTM-assisted Combining Framework (HCF) may enable multiple (combiner and non-combiner) threads to access a shared data structure concurrently using hardware transactional memory (HTM). As long as a combiner executes in a hardware transaction and ensures that the lock associated with the data structure is available, it may execute concurrently with other threads operating on the data structure. HCF may include attempting to apply operations to a concurrent data structure utilizing HTM…
Host container mounting
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217077
The described techniques are directed towards a host virtual machine configured to host a container. In some examples, a device can monitor communication between a container executing on a host virtual machine and the host virtual machine. The host virtual machine can include a first operating system. The container can include a first computer-executable instruction. The device can detect that the first computer-executable instruction is configured to run on a second operating system…
Build system for securely building and deploying a target build artifact
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12217034
A build system is disclosed that identifies the inputs used by a build process for securely building and deploying a piece of software to production. The build system comprises a build container and a build proxy server. The build container receives a set of initial inputs for performing a build and generates a build output (e.g., a target artifact) as a consequence of performing the build. The build proxy server monitors both internal interactions as well as external interactions (e.g.,…
Secure element enforcing a security policy for device peripherals
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12216769
Techniques for implementing and enforcing a security policy in a secure element are disclosed. The secure element enforces the security policy to grant and/or deny access, such as from an application processor, to configuration of the device peripheral components and access to data of the device peripheral components across one or more bus architectures, such as an I3C bus. Implementing an access control policy in a secure element allows execution of code within the isolated secure…
Techniques for semantic searching
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12216673
Techniques are disclosed for querying, retrieval, and presentation of data. A data analytic system can enable a user to provide input, through a device to query data. The data analytic system can identify the semantic meaning of the input and perform a query based on the semantic meaning. The data analytic system can crawl multiple different sources to determine a logical mapping of data for the index. The index may include one or more subject areas, terms defining those subject areas,…
System and method for semantic model action sets and replay in an analytic applications environment
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12216651
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing extensibility in an analytic applications environment, including a semantic layer that enables the use of custom semantic extensions to extend a semantic data model (semantic model). In accordance with an embodiment, when customizations are made to the semantic model, the system stores changes to the semantic model as an action-set, rather than as a changed-state. This allows the system to replay…
System and method for use of a fragmented query model in an analytic applications environment
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12216650
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing extensibility in an analytic applications environment, including a semantic layer that enables the use of custom semantic extensions to extend a semantic data model (semantic model). In accordance with an embodiment, the system enables use of a fragmented query model—when customizations are made to the semantic model, the system can dynamically merge the changes from the various deltas when queries…
Copy avoidance via static analysis for DBMS querying
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12216649
In a computer embodiment, in a polyglot database management system (DBMS) that contains a guest language runtime environment, a database buffer is configured that the guest language runtime environment does not manage. In the polyglot DBMS, logic that is defined in a guest language is invoked to retrieve, into the database buffer, a value stored in a database in the polyglot DBMS. Compiling the logic causes semantic analyzing the logic to detect that usage of the retrieved value cannot…
Application-layer connection redistribution among service instances
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12212629
The technology disclosed herein enables redistribution of connections between service instances by determining a subset of the connections and terminating the subset. In a particular example, a method includes determining connection information about connections established with service instances operating in an active-active configuration. The connection information identifies directions of connection initiation for the connections and identifies peers for the connections. Based on the…
Compressing neural networks for natural language understanding
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12210973
A model for a natural language understanding task is generated based on labeled data generated by a labeling model. The model for the natural language understanding task is smaller than the labeling model (i.e., with lower computational and memory requirements than the combined model), but with substantially the same performance as the labeling model. In some cases, the labeling model may be generated based on a large pre-trained model.
Distance-based logit value for natural language processing
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12210842
Techniques for using logit values for classifying utterances and messages input to chatbot systems in natural language processing. A method can include a chatbot system receiving an utterance generated by a user interacting with the chatbot system. The chatbot system can input the utterance into a machine-learning model including a set of binary classifiers. Each binary classifier of the set of binary classifiers can be associated with a modified logit function. The method can also…
System and techniques for handling long text for pre-trained language models
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12210830
In some aspects, a computing device may receive, at a data processing system, a set of utterances for training or inferencing with a named entity recognizer to assign a label to each token piece from the set of utterances. The computing device may determine a length of each utterance in the set and when the length of the utterance exceeds a pre-determined threshold of token pieces: dividing the utterance into a plurality of overlapping chunks of token pieces; assigning a label together…
Techniques for performing fault tolerance validation for a data center
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12210400
Techniques are described for deploying a fault tolerant data center by determining that the physical infrastructure deployment of the data center meets the fault tolerance levels and the fault domains specified for the data center. Techniques are described for obtaining configuration information related to various infrastructure resources deployed in a data center. A resource graph for the data center is generated based on the configuration information. The resource graph represents a…
Auto-scaling for semantic deduplication of event logs
Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number:
12204509
Techniques for autoscaling a deduplication process include receiving a first plurality of event records in an event stream during a first period of time and determining real-time characteristics of the event stream based on the event records received during the first period of time. Based on the real-time characteristics of the event stream, a level of similarity for a deduplication process is selected to apply for future event records received in the event stream. The deduplication…
