Oracle Patent Grants

Methods, systems, and computer readable media for notification delivery

Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12177720
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for notification delivery are disclosed. One example method for notification delivery comprises: at a network function including at least one processor: receiving a first message indicating that first notification data is available for a first notification receiver; determining, during an overload or congestion condition, that a computed priority value for a first notification message associated with the first message indicates an acceptable…

Loop prevention in virtual layer 2 networks

Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12177120
Techniques for loop prevention while allowing multipath in a virtual L2 network are described. In an example, a network virtualization device can generate a first L2 bridge protocol data unit by applying a first loop detection protocol specific to only the first port and the first host machine. The network virtualization device can transmit, to the first compute instance via the first port, a first frame that includes the first L2 BPDU. The network virtualization device can receive, from…

Techniques for orchestrated load shedding

Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12176711
Disclosed techniques relate to orchestrating power consumption reductions across a number of hosts. A current value for an aggregate power threshold of a plurality of hosts may be identified. During a first time period, an aggregate power consumption of the plurality of hosts may be managed using the current value for the aggregate power threshold. A triggering event indicating a modification to the aggregate power threshold is needed may be detected. A new value for the aggregate power…

Restricting plug-in application recipes

Granted: December 24, 2024
Patent Number: 12175005
Techniques for restricting plug-in application recipes (“PIARs”) are disclosed. A PIAR management application receives a PIAR restriction via an authenticated user of the PIAR management application. The PIAR restriction is applicable to certain users of the PIAR management application. The PIAR restriction identifies functionality of the PIAR management application that would otherwise be available to a user of the PIAR management application if the user had an active account for a…

Application routing infrastructure for private-level redirect trapping and creation of NAT mapping to work with connectivity in cloud and customer networks

Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number: 12170643
A computer program product, system, and computer implemented method for application-level redirect trapping and creation of NAT mapping to work with routing infrastructure for private connectivity in cloud and customer networks. The approach disclosed herein generally comprises a method of leveraging a reverse connection endpoint and IP address mapping controller to capture redirection messages from a private cloud or network (e.g., a service consumer network or a service consumer hybrid…

Fast and scalable multi-tenant serve pool for chatbots

Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number: 12169763
Techniques are disclosed for providing a scalable multi-tenant serve pool for chatbot systems. A query serving system (QSS) receives a request to serve a query for a skillbot. The QSS includes: (i) a plurality of deployments in a serving pool, and (ii) a plurality of deployments in a free pool. The QSS determines whether a first deployment from the plurality of deployments in the serving pool can serve the query based on an identifier of the skillbot. In response to determining that the…

Automatic two-way generation and synchronization of notebook and pipeline

Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number: 12169683
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with associated with automatic two-way generation and synchronization of notebook and pipeline are described. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes: identifying a difference between pipeline and notebook representations of application logic, wherein the difference is one of (i) a notebook paragraph without a corresponding pipeline node and (ii) a pipeline node without a corresponding notebook paragraph; synchronizing…

Optimizing incremental loading of warehouse data

Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number: 12169501
In various embodiments, a data integration system is disclosed which enables incremental loads into a data warehouse by developing a data partitioning plan and selectively disabling and enabling indexes to facilitate incremental loads into fact tables.

Techniques for adaptive independent compression of key and non-key portions of database rows in index organized tables (IOTs)

Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number: 12169484
Techniques for adaptive, independent compression of key and non-key sections of rows in index-organized tables (IOTs) are provided. In one technique, an IOT is stored that comprises a plurality of rows, each of which comprises a key section and a non-key section. After storing the IOT, a compression technique is performed on the non-key section of each row in the plurality of rows to generate a plurality of compressed non-key sections. However, none of the key sections of the plurality…

Providing local variable copies of global state for explicit computer executable instructions depending whether the global state is modified

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12164908
According to a method and a system a first action chain with a first explicit computer executable instruction that modifies a global variable is received. A second action chain with a second explicit computer executable instruction that reads the global state without modifying the global state is received. The first action chain and the second action chain implement parts of a client application. A first implicit executable instruction with a first local variable copy of the global state…

User discussion environment interaction and curation via system-generated responses

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12164877
Techniques for interacting with users in a discussion environment are disclosed. Upon identifying a question in the discussion environment, a system determines: (a) whether a stored answer has already been associated with the question, (b) whether an answer can be generated by the system using existing information accessible to the system, or (c) whether to contact an expert to answer the question. The system updates the knowledge base by storing the questions and answers, along with…

Increasing OLTP throughput by improving the performance of logging using persistent memory storage

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12164801
In an embodiment, before modifying a persistent ORL (ORL), a database management system (DBMS) persists redo for a transaction and acknowledges that the transaction is committed. Later, the redo is appended onto the ORL. The DBMS stores first redo for a first transaction into a first PRB and second redo for a second transaction into a second PRB. Later, both redo are appended onto an ORL. The DBMS stores redo of first transactions in volatile SRBs (SLBs) respectively of database…

Model-based upgrade recommendations using software dependencies

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12164647
A method may include obtaining, for an application, application dependency specifications, identifying vulnerable components using the application dependency specifications and a list of known vulnerable components, selecting, for a vulnerable component, candidate dependency specifications each specifying a version ID for a component, selecting, for a candidate dependency specification, an upgraded version ID for a component, verifying, using an application dependency graph generated…

Biometric based access control for DaaS

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12164614
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with configuring and controlling access to virtual desktops are described. In one embodiment, a method includes configuring a virtual desktop for a registered user, wherein the virtual desktop includes at least allocated virtual computing devices and is accessible by a desktop as a service (DaaS). Biometric access credentials are assigned to the virtual desktop for obtaining remote access to the virtual desktop, wherein the biometric…

Regular expression matching in dictionary-encoded strings

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12164574
Techniques are described for generating an encoded-string automaton for a regex pattern from a decoded-string automaton of the regex pattern. In an embodiment, the process obtains a decoded-string automaton of the regex pattern and applies unique decoded string value(s) from the dictionary of the encoding. When applied at a selected state in the decoded-string automaton, the application may yield a transition to at least one target state in the decoded-string automaton for a unique…

Efficient space usage cache on a database cluster

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12164543
Described are improved systems, computer program products, and methods for obtaining space usage information within a clustered database system. Some approaches provide an improved algorithm and structure that gives the ability to compute the latest and accurate space usage with only in-memory operations.

Dedicated replication channels for replicating records between regions

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12164540
A server can receive a request to subscribe to a data tenancy in an extended region. The server can determine a size of stored data records associated with the data tenancy in a home region to be replicated in the extended region. Based in part on the size of the stored data records, the server can open a new communication channel dedicated to replicating the stored data records from the first server in the home region to the second server in the extended region. The server can pull the…

Rule-based query control

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12164520
Systems for fine-grained control of query execution are disclosed. The system receives and stores access control rules to be applied to queries. The system applies access control rules to a received query to determine one or more actions corresponding to the received query. Based on the access control rules, the system can allow execution of the query without conditions, allow execution of the query under a set of conditions, or prevent execution of the query.

Vehicle routing with dynamic selection of turns across opposing traffic

Granted: December 10, 2024
Patent Number: 12163795
Systems, methods, and other embodiments for vehicle route scheduling and navigation with dynamic selection of turns across opposing traffic are presented herein. In one embodiment, a method includes during development of a vehicle route from an arrival link through a node of a graph representing a road network, determining, for a departure link, that a path of the vehicle from the arrival link to the departure link crosses oncoming traffic, and in response to determining that that the…

Distinguished nest-based access control

Granted: December 3, 2024
Patent Number: 12158952
Techniques for determining and displaying error messages including a cause of an error generated because two types are not members of the same nest are disclosed. The system detects, at runtime, an instruction in a first type that attempts to access a private member of a second type. The system evaluates one or more nestmate criteria to determine whether the first type and the second type are within a same nest. A nest host corresponding to the nest specifies each nest member of the…