Oracle Patent Grants

Methods, systems, and computer readable media for routing inter-public land mobile network (inter-PLMN) messages related to existing subscriptions with network function (NF) repository function (NRF) using security edge protection proxy (SEPP)

Granted: December 19, 2023
Patent Number: 11849506
A method for routing inter-public land mobile network (inter-PLMN) messages relating to existing subscriptions with a network function (NF) repository functions (NRFs) includes, at a security edge protection proxy (SEPP) implemented using at least one processor, automatically populating, by the SEPP, a subscription identifier to target NRF resource identification information mapping database accessible to the SEPP with mappings between subscription identifiers and target NRF resource…

System and method for data payload collection monitoring and analysis in a transaction processing environment

Granted: December 19, 2023
Patent Number: 11848988
A self-describing data format capable of carrying payload information, such as Tuxedo payload information, as well as filter information. The data format can allow for expression of some or all of Tuxedo Typed Buffers, including STRING, CARRAY, MBSTRING, VIEW, VIEW32, FML, and FML32. The data format is also capable of supporting nesting and error-checking. The proposal of user payload collection can allow customers to siphon off user/payload data to be used in applications, such as…

Framework for multi-level and multi-factor inline enrollment

Granted: December 12, 2023
Patent Number: 11843611
The present disclosure relates generally to access control, and more particularly, to techniques (e.g., systems, methods, computer program products storing code or instructions executable by one or more processors) for providing for inline enrollment in multi-level and multi-factor authentication of a user allowing login on a restricted website, or on an enterprise network with single sign-on, or on various other service systems with security restrictions.

Methods, systems, and computer readable media for platform firewall management by network function (NF) repository function (NRF) or service communication proxy (SCP)

Granted: December 12, 2023
Patent Number: 11843580
A method for automatically managing a platform firewall using a network function (NF) repository function (NRF) or service communication proxy (SCP) includes receiving message relating to registering, updating, or deregistering an NF profile in an NF profiles database separate from a platform firewall. The method further includes determining that the registering, updating, or deregistering of the NF profile requires a change to a firewall rules configuration of the platform firewall. The…

Automatically inferring software-defined network policies from the observed workload in a computing environment

Granted: December 12, 2023
Patent Number: 11843510
Techniques are disclosed for automatically inferring software-defined network policies from the observed workload in a computing environment. The disclosed techniques include monitoring network traffic flow originating from network interfaces corresponding to containers that execute components of an application, recording details of a new network connection or a change in the existing network connection, obtaining information concerning the components of the application, identifying…

Techniques for utilizing directed acyclic graphs for deployment instructions

Granted: December 12, 2023
Patent Number: 11842221
Techniques are disclosed for utilizing directed acyclic graphs for deployment instructions. A computer-implemented method can include various operations. Instructions may be executed by a computing device to perform parses of configuration data associated with deploying one or more services to various execution targets. The computing device may cause a first graph to be generated that indicates dependencies between tasks associated with deploying the service(s). A second graph may be…

Systems and methods for customer data handling

Granted: December 12, 2023
Patent Number: 11841971
Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to systems and methods for secure customer data handling. More specifically, some embodiments relate to handling of derivative data as a provider in a manner that supports security and provides a stronger level of control over the data. The solution supports four core principles of customer data handling: no export of customer data, unless authorized; remote operations only via shell access or equivalent; temporary and…

Implementing a type restriction that restricts to a maximum or specific element count

Granted: December 5, 2023
Patent Number: 11836552
A type restriction contextually modifies an existing type descriptor. The type restriction is imposed on a data structure to restrict the values that are assumable by the data structure. The type restriction does not cancel or otherwise override the effect of the existing type descriptor on the data structure. Rather the type restriction may declare that a value of the data structure's type is forbidden for the data structure. Additionally or alternatively, the type restriction may…

System and method for supporting target groups for congestion control in a private fabric in a high performance computing environment

Granted: December 5, 2023
Patent Number: 11838217
Systems and methods for supporting target groups for congestion control in a private fabric in a high performance computing environment. An exemplary method can provide, at one or more microprocessors, a first subnet, the first subnet comprising a plurality of switches, a plurality of host channel adapters, and a plurality of end nodes, including a plurality of virtual machines. The method can define a target group on one of an inter-switch link or at a port of a switch of the plurality…

Searchable table extraction

Granted: December 5, 2023
Patent Number: 11837004
Method includes generating a base model by training a pretrained model using a base training dataset including first training datapoints identifying tables in historical document images that include the tables and text, where the generated base model is configured to extract the tables as objects; and generating a table extraction model by training the base model using an enhanced training dataset including second training datapoints that are different from the first training datapoints…

Decoupled push-down execution generator

Granted: December 5, 2023
Patent Number: 11836519
A method of marshalling existing software applications to automatically execute a task in a cloud environment includes generating actions that together execute the task; passing the actions to code generation services, where each of the code generation services is associated with a corresponding software application. Each of the code generation services is configured to select a subset of the actions that can be executed by the corresponding software application, and to generate second…

Storage fragmentation assessment

Granted: December 5, 2023
Patent Number: 11836364
A degree of fragmentation is determined based on a number of holes present in a storage system layout or a portion of a layout. Edges between the holes and used portions of the storage system are tabulated by scanning a storage space. The occurrences of a pattern of used/available allocation units and/or the occurrences of another pattern available/used allocation units are recognized. A fragmentation value is calculated based on occurrences of the patterns in view of the total storage…

Unsupervised method for classifying seasonal patterns

Granted: December 5, 2023
Patent Number: 11836162
Techniques are described for classifying seasonal patterns in a time series. In an embodiment, a set of time series data is decomposed to generate a noise signal and a dense signal, where the noise signal includes a plurality of sparse features from the set of time series data and the dense signal includes a plurality of dense features from the set of time series data. A set of one or more sparse features from the noise signal is selected for retention. After selecting the sparse…

Machine learning techniques for schema mapping

Granted: December 5, 2023
Patent Number: 11836120
Techniques are disclosed for generating a database schema using trained machine learning models that, in some embodiments, may include graph neural networks (GNN). A GNN may identify source to target database schema mappings using, among other features of the graph, context data associated with each node in a graph. Context data describes relationships between a particular node and some (or all) of the other nodes in the graph. The system may use this context data (and other graph data)…

Techniques for scalable distributed system backups

Granted: November 28, 2023
Patent Number: 11829254
Techniques discussed herein manage backups of a service cell (SC). Each SC may include a data plane that is isolated from other SCs and comprises a distributed computing cluster (a cluster). A manifest that specifies one or more backup policies may be used to generate a full backup or a partial backup of a data set stored by the cluster. In accordance with the manifest, a signal may be sent to nodes of the cluster. In response, the nodes may transmit locally-stored data (e.g., data…

Providing selective peer-to-peer monitoring using MBeans

Granted: November 28, 2023
Patent Number: 11831485
Providing selective peer-to-peer monitoring using MBeans by providing a federation of peer-to-peer network servers based on the MBeans, and enabling each of the peer-to-peer networks servers to selectively monitor data associated with at least a subset of the peer-to-peer network servers using at least one of the MBeans.

Full server recovery architecture for cloud bare metal instances

Granted: November 28, 2023
Patent Number: 11829478
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with secure firmware update in a bare metal cloud environment are described. In one embodiment, a trusted device for causing a component of a computing device to accept a firmware update is presented. The device includes a management interface configured to receive a command that authorizes a firmware update to the component. The device further includes a recovery device logic that is configured to generate a signal configured to cause…

Summarized logical forms for controlled question answering

Granted: November 28, 2023
Patent Number: 11829420
Systems, devices, and methods discussed herein provide improved autonomous agent applications that are configured to generate automated answers to a question using summarized logical forms (SLFs). A myriad of techniques may be utilized to manually or automatically generate one or more summarized logical forms for an answer, where the summarized logical form(s) identifies the main entities/informative portions of the answer. Instead of indexing the whole of the answer as in conventional…

Managing hybrid graph data storage and retrieval for efficient graph query execution

Granted: November 28, 2023
Patent Number: 11829419
A system for loading graph data from an external store in response to a graph query is disclosed. In some embodiment, given a graph database where all vertices are stored in memory and some but not all edges are stored in the external store, the system performs one of two methods. In the first method, the system iteratively expands a set of vertices that is initially specified in the graph query and collects all edges connected to the set of vertices, including edges stored in the…

Automatic database query load assessment and adaptive handling

Granted: November 28, 2023
Patent Number: 11829362
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with assessing and adaptively managing query loads are described. In one embodiment, a method includes determining that a query invoked by a client terminal against an application object has a duration that exceeds a completion threshold. In response to receiving a subsequent invocation of the query, statistics for the query are obtained. The obtained statistics are analyzed to determine whether the query causes the unacceptable negative…