Oracle Patent Grants

Method and system to implement proxying for operations through an application program for a transaction manager

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12267403
Disclosed is an improved approach to implement the XA architecture, which permits a TM to call back to a RM via an AP. This approach avoids the need for the TM to maintain authentication/authorization credentials for each RM that will be contacted by the TM. This approach therefore also eliminates the need to establish a direct connection between the TM and the RM. An approach is also provided to integrate a traditional XA application with an XA transaction.

Accelerating query execution by optimizing data transfer between storage nodes and database nodes

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12265532
Techniques for accelerating query execution by optimizing data transfer between storage nodes and database nodes are provided. In one technique, a compute node receives a database statement and transmits a set of one or more selection criteria associated with the database statement to a storage node. Based on the database statement, the storage node retrieves a set of data blocks from storage. Each data block comprises multiple rows of an index-organized table (IOT), each row comprising…

Nested query modification tool

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12265527
Techniques for modifying queries in a set of nested queries are disclosed. A graphical user interface displays a query detail region alongside a nested query display region. The graphical user interface includes functionality to provide for modification of queries in the nested set of queries. Based on a selection by a user, a query modification tool promotes a query attribute from a child query to one or more parent queries. Based on another selection by a user associated with one query…

Real-time expense auditing and machine learning system

Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number: 12260462
Techniques for real-time expense auditing and machine learning are disclosed. An expense auditing system trains a machine learning model to compute audit risk scores as a function of expense descriptions. The auditing system receives an expense description associated with an employee. The expense auditing system computes, using the trained machine learning model, an audit risk score associated with the expense description. The expense auditing system compares the audit risk score with an…

Methods, systems, and computer readable media for performing location and velocity check at security edge protection proxy (SEPP) to avoid spoofing

Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number: 12262208
A method for performing a location and velocity check at an SEPP to protect against a spoofing attack includes receiving an SBI request message relating to authentication of UE. The method further includes querying a database NF to obtain previous authentication information for the UE, the previous authentication information including a previous network identifier and a previous authentication time for the UE. The method further includes receiving a response from the database NF, the…

Centralized request processing and security zone policy enforcement in a cloud infrastructure system

Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number: 12261889
A cloud-based security solution that provides a robust and secure framework for managing and enforcing security policies related to various resources managed in the cloud is disclosed. The cloud-based security solution is implemented by a centralized application programming Interface (API) system and a security zone policy enforcement system in a cloud service provider infrastructure. The centralized API system receives an API request that identifies an operation to be performed on a…

Automatic sign-in upon account signup

Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number: 12261834
The present embodiments relate to systems and methods for automatic sign in upon account signup. Particularly, the present embodiments can utilize a federated login approach for automatic sign in upon account signup for a cloud infrastructure. Specifically, the signup and sign in service (also known as SOUP) and an identity provider portal can be configured such that the nodes are aware of each other as Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) partners. After new account registration,…

Semi-interactive one-way transfer of data to an isolated network

Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number: 12261831
The present embodiments relate to providing near real-time communications from a public network to a private network. A first computing device in a public network can obtain data packets to be provided to the private network from an application executing on the first computing device. A trust module executed by the first computing device can authenticate the user, application, and the data packets to be provided to the private network and add metadata relating to the sending user,…

Support server high availability with network link bonding for cloud overlay networks

Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number: 12261775
Systems and methods for support server high availability with network link bonding for cloud overlay networks are disclosed herein. The method can include selecting a compute instance, identifying a plurality of Network Virtualization Devices (“NVD”) for association with the compute instance, and creating a number of Virtualized Network Interface Cards (“VNIC”), each of which VNICs can reside in one of the plurality of NVDs. The method can include overlaying an IP address of the…

Fabric availability and synchronization

Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number: 12261744
Aspects of the present disclosure include implementing fabric availability and synchronization (FAS) agents within a fabric network. In one example, a first FAS agent executing on a first network device may receive, from a second network device, a command to modify a configuration of a second network device. The first FAS may upgrade the configuration of the first network device based on the command from a current configuration to a new configuration. The first FAS agent increment a…

Textual explanations for abstract syntax trees with scored nodes

Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number: 12260306
Herein is a machine learning (ML) explainability (MLX) approach in which a natural language explanation is generated based on analysis of a parse tree such as for a suspicious database query or web browser JavaScript. In an embodiment, a computer selects, based on a respective relevance score for each non-leaf node in a parse tree of a statement, a relevant subset of non-leaf nodes. The non-leaf nodes are grouped in the parse tree into groups that represent respective portions of the…

Staggered-sampling technique for detecting sensor anomalies in a dynamic univariate time-series signal

Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number: 12260304
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that detects sensor anomalies in a univariate time-series signal. During a surveillance mode, the system receives the univariate time-series signal from a sensor in a monitored system. Next, the system performs a staggered-sampling operation on the univariate time-series signal to produce N sub-sampled time-series signals, wherein the staggered-sampling operation allocates consecutive samples from the univariate time-series signal to the N…

Machine learning ranking system

Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number: 12260303
Techniques are disclosed for training a machine learning model to identify and rank entities relative to a set of requirements. The trained machine learning model may present an array of interface elements (e.g., icons) in a graphical user interface (GUI), where the interface elements represent corresponding entities. These interface elements are arranged in the GUI based on their corresponding ranks. The ranks of entities, and therefore the locations of corresponding interface elements…

Compact NUMA-aware locks

Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number: 12260267
A computer comprising multiple processors and non-uniform memory implements multiple threads that perform a lock operation using a shared lock structure that includes a pointer to a tail of a first-in-first-out (FIFO) queue of threads waiting to acquire the lock. To acquire the lock, a thread allocates and appends a data structure to the FIFO queue. The lock is released by selecting and notifying a waiting thread to which control is transferred, with the thread selected executing on the…

Remote cloud function invocation service

Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number: 12260261
The present disclosure relates to a framework that provides execution of serverless functions in a cloud environment based on occurrence of events/notifications from services in an entirely different cloud environment. A target agent obtains a notification from a source agent, where the target agent is deployed in a target cloud environment and the source agent is deployed in a source cloud environment that is different than the target cloud environment. The target agent determines a…

Ability to add non-direct ancestor columns in child spreadsheets

Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number: 12260170
Example embodiments facilitate augmenting a client-side worksheet of a spreadsheet with context information retrieved from non-direct ancestor worksheets of the client-side worksheet. A spreadsheet plug-in enables retrieval of the context information from a server system, e.g., cloud-based database, via one or more web services. In a specific embodiment, the context information represents one or more data dimensions, e.g., worksheet columns, retrieved via the server system form one or…

Visualization tool for building nested queries

Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number: 12259880
Techniques for generating an interactive visualization tool for building nested queries are disclosed. The interactive nested query visualization tool allows a user to observe, analyze, and modify query characteristics and attributes of a set of nested queries. A system displays an interactive visual depiction of a set of nested queries. Visual representations of the nested queries are positioned relative to each other based on the relationships between the nested queries. The system…

System and method for on-demand fetching of backend server logs into frontend browser

Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number: 12259849
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for use with a data analytics or other computing environment, for on-demand fetching of backend server logs into a frontend environment, such as for example a browser. Such on-demand log fetching can be specific to the working context that is for current session and current request; and can be accomplished by appending a parameter or flag to a current request. For each step associated with an instruction being…

Configurable entity-based undo and redo operations

Granted: March 25, 2025
Patent Number: 12259788
Techniques for UNDO and REDO operations in a computer-user interface are disclosed. The techniques enables users to configure entities for UNDO and REDO operations. The techniques also enable users to roll back individual entity to an immediate previous state in one UNDO operation and subsequently to the other previous states. Other entities are not affected by the UNDO operations to the entity.

Integrative configuration for bot behavior and database behavior

Granted: March 18, 2025
Patent Number: 12254006
Routines are used to connect bot queries entered via a bot interface and database queries executed on a database. Each routine is associated with routine configurations, including (a) query attributes associated with bot queries that trigger the routine, (2) a database query executed or to be executed for the routine, and/or (3) display settings for displaying information returned from the database query in a bot response. Each routine is configured to generate an output structured data…