Length-preserving encryption for database tables
Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number:
12047490
Embodiments are directed to encrypting data of a database table. Embodiments receive the database table, the database table including a plurality of rows, each row including a unique primary key and at least one column of unencrypted data. Embodiments convert each unique primary key into a unique initialization vector (“IV”). For a current row, embodiments encrypt the unencrypted data using a corresponding unique IV for the row, the encrypting including length-preserving encryption.…
Routing of web requests to on-premise network in a multi-tenant environment
Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number:
12047473
When a cloud services provider infrastructure (CSPI) receives a request from an administrator to perform an operation on an appliance, a load balancer may select a first server within the CSPI to process the request. If the first server does not have a connection with the appliance, the first server may generate a redirect response that includes server identification information identifying a particular server having a pre-established connection with the appliance. The first server may…
Restricted operations due to attachment of compute instances owned by different tenancies
Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number:
12047377
Techniques are disclosed for restricting operations between two attached two compute instances. An infrastructure and a generalized method is described for attaching two or more cloud resources (e.g., two compute instances) in spite of the compute resources being provisioned by two different services from different cloud tenancies, and then modifying the allowed operations that can be performed due to the attachment.
Using multi-phase constraint programming to assign resource guarantees of consumers to hosts
Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number:
12047305
“Resource guarantee” refers to a unit of a resource that is guaranteed and therefore designated to a consumer. A multi-phased constraint programming (CP) approach is used to determine assignments of resource guarantees of a set of consumers to a set of hosts in a resource system. Phase I uses CP to segregate non-split consumers from split consumers. Phase II uses CP to assign each cotenant group of non-split consumers to a respective host. Phase III uses CP to assign resource…
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for restoration of diameter connectivity
Granted: July 23, 2024
Patent Number:
12047224
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for restoration of Diameter connectivity. An example method includes accepting a first Diameter connection with a Diameter client having a Diameter identifier. The method includes receiving a request to establish a new Diameter connection with the Diameter identifier. The method includes holding the request to establish a new Diameter connection for a specified time limit, and, while holding the request, probing the first Diameter connection…
Identifying regulator and driver signals in data systems
Granted: July 16, 2024
Patent Number:
12039287
A method of identifying causal relationships between time series may include accessing a hierarchy of nodes in a data structure, where each node in the plurality of nodes may include a time series of data. The method may also include identifying a subset of nodes in the plurality of nodes for which causal relationships may exist in the corresponding time series. The method may additionally include generating a model for each of the subset of nodes, where the model may receive the subset…
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for reducing the likelihood of successful denial of service (DoS) attacks by validating overload control information (OCI) scope against network function (NF) profile information obtained using target resource identification information
Granted: July 16, 2024
Patent Number:
12041078
The subject matter described herein includes a method for reducing the likelihood of successful denial of service (DoS) attacks by validating overload control information (OCI) scope information against network function (NF) profile information obtained using target resource identification information. The method includes receiving a service based interface (SBI) request message, obtaining, from the SBI request message, target resource identification information, obtaining NF profile…
Using an irrelevance filter to facilitate efficient RUL analyses for electronic devices
Granted: July 16, 2024
Patent Number:
12039619
Systems and methods are described that estimates a remaining useful life (RUL) of an electronic device. Time-series signals gathered from sensors in the electronic device are received. Statistical changes are detected in the set of time-series signals that are deemed as anomalous signal patterns. Anomaly alarms are generated, wherein an anomaly alarm is generated for each of the anomalous signal patterns. An irrelevance filter is applied to the set of anomaly alarms to produce filtered…
Usage-based optimization of software configurations
Granted: July 16, 2024
Patent Number:
12039327
Techniques for configuring a software system include generating a hierarchy of entities representing usage of the software system by a set of users, wherein the hierarchy includes a first set of nodes representing a set of tasks, a second set of nodes representing a set of components that implement the tasks, and a set of edges between the first set of nodes and the second set of nodes. The techniques also include updating the hierarchy based on a first set of configurations for the…
Building base applications with user interface micro frontends
Granted: July 16, 2024
Patent Number:
12039302
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a technique for using micro frontends to build a runtime version of a base application are described. In one embodiment, the method allows for selected micro frontends to be incorporated into the base application. Metadata corresponding to the selected micro frontend may be used to identify at least one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) that are defined in the metadata. The identified APIs are incorporated with the…
Techniques for service execution and monitoring for run-time service composition
Granted: July 16, 2024
Patent Number:
12039004
A server system may receive two or more Quality of Service (QoS) dimensions for the multi-objective optimization model, wherein the two or more QoS dimensions include at least a first QoS dimension and a second QoS dimension. The server system may maximize the multi-objective optimization model along the first QoS dimension, wherein the maximizing includes selecting one or more pipelines for the multi-objective optimization model in the software architecture that meet QoS expectations…
Identification and classification of sensitive information in data catalog objects
Granted: July 16, 2024
Patent Number:
12038948
A data catalog system is described that includes capabilities for automatically identifying and classifying sensitive information stored in data objects associated with various data sources. The data catalog system identifies a data object associated with a data asset stored in a data catalog metadata repository and computes a sensitivity score for the data object based on a set of one or more sensitive data identification techniques. The system determines a set of enrichment labels for…
Transaction manager library for automatic enlisting of distributed XA participants
Granted: July 16, 2024
Patent Number:
12038912
Disclosed is an improved approach to integrate distributed applications into an XA transaction. A transaction manager library is integrated into a distributed application, where the transaction manager library provides the benefit of implementing optimizations for the XA transaction, as well as minimizing or eliminating the need to create custom software code to make the application operable with the transaction manager for the XA transaction.
Using a double-blind challenge to evaluate machine-learning-based prognostic-surveillance techniques
Granted: July 16, 2024
Patent Number:
12038830
A double-blind comparison is performed between prognostic-surveillance systems, which are located on a local system and a remote system. During operation, the local system inserts random faults into a dataset to produce a locally seeded dataset, wherein the random faults are inserted into random signals at random times with variable fault signatures. Next, the local system exchanges the locally seeded dataset with a remote system, and in return receives a remotely seeded dataset, which…
Dynamic cloud based alert and threshold generation
Granted: July 9, 2024
Patent Number:
12032470
Embodiments monitor for faults in a cloud based network for a plurality of features comprising an application and dependent features. Embodiments generate a graphical representation of the plurality of features comprising a plurality of nodes and corresponding relationships between the nodes, each node corresponding to one of the plurality of features. Embodiments monitor for events for the plurality of features, the events corresponding to one or more of the nodes, to generate monitored…
Policy engine for governing cloud environments
Granted: July 9, 2024
Patent Number:
12034773
Embodiments govern cloud environments using a policy engine. A plurality of policy definitions for governing a plurality of managed environments can be received at a policy engine, each policy definition including one or more conditions and one or more actions, where the managed environments implement cloud based virtual machines that host cloud based applications. Events that relate to one or more of the managed environments can be received at the policy engine. Conditions for the…
Data plane techniques for substrate managed containers
Granted: July 9, 2024
Patent Number:
12034647
Techniques discussed herein include providing a cloud computing environment in which applications are deployed by a deployment orchestrator using virtual-machine-based virtualization with a static pool of computing nodes (e.g., substrate nodes, overlay nodes) and container-based virtualization with a dynamic pool of computing nodes (e.g., nodes managed by a container orchestration platform). Components of a data plane may be used to deploy containers to micro-virtual machines. A…
Automated training environment selection
Granted: July 9, 2024
Patent Number:
12032986
A time series forecasting system is disclosed that receives a forecast request identifying a forecast to be made for a future time point and a time series dataset to be used for making the requested forecast. The system selects a model to be used for making the requested forecast and determines a set of one or more attributes of the time series dataset. Based on the set of attributes, the system selects a compute instance either from a shared node pool or a dedicated instance having a…
Enforcement of environmental conditions for cloud applications
Granted: July 9, 2024
Patent Number:
12032935
Techniques are disclosed for associating environmental condition information with a software component so that the environmental conditions can be automatically verified when a software package containing the software component is deployed. As a result, environmental conditions can be established when a software component is initially developed by the operators who may be best-suited to determine appropriate environmental conditions. Further, environmental condition enforcement can be…
System and method for automatic inference of a cube schema from a tabular data for use in a multidimensional database environment
Granted: July 9, 2024
Patent Number:
12032532
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for automatic inference of a cube schema from a tabular data for use in a multidimensional database environment. A cube schema inference component can successively perform column-wise splits to calculate information gain ratios between each pair of a plurality of columns in the tabular data. A cross correlation matrix can be constructed from the information gain ratios between each pair of columns. The system can…
