Impact driven continuous deployment system
Granted: November 14, 2023
Patent Number:
11816470
A deployment orchestrator system is disclosed that determines an impact of deploying a new version of a component of an application deployed in a computing environment. The impact of deploying the new version of the component may be determined by generating a deployment factor for deploying the new version of a component based on analyzing information that identifies both a technical and a non-technical impact of an update made to the component. In certain embodiments, the deployment…
Natural language query translation based on query graphs
Granted: November 14, 2023
Patent Number:
11816102
Techniques described herein allow for accurate translation of natural language (NL) queries to declarative language. A syntactic dependency parsing tree is generated for an NL query, which is used to map tokens in the query to logical data model concepts. Relationship-type mappings are completed based on relationship constraints. Final mappings are identified for any relationship tokens that are associated with multiple candidate mappings by identifying which candidate mappings have the…
Optimized recompilation using hardware tracing
Granted: November 14, 2023
Patent Number:
11816014
A tracing controller may utilize a binary execution trace mechanism to trace execution of compiled application machine code. The tracing controller may initiate hardware tracing to gather control-flow hardware traces of a method executing on a processor configured to generate hardware tracing information. The controller may generate a profile based on the hardware tracing information and initiate re-compiling or re-optimizing of the method in response to determining that the new profile…
Secure bi-directional network connectivity system between private networks
Granted: November 7, 2023
Patent Number:
11811593
A secure private network connectivity system (SNCS) within a cloud service provider infrastructure (CSPI) is described that provides secure private network connectivity between external resources residing in a customer's on-premise environment and the customer's resources residing in the cloud. The SNCS provides secure private bi-directional network connectivity between external resources residing in a customer's external site representation and resources and services residing in the…
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for mitigating 5G roaming attacks for internet of things (IoT) devices based on expected user equipment (UE) behavior patterns
Granted: November 7, 2023
Patent Number:
11812271
A method for mitigating a 5G roaming attack for an Internet of things (IoT) device based on expected user equipment (UE) behavior patterns includes receiving, at a network function (NF) including at least one processor, a service request message requesting a service from a home public land mobile network (PLMN) of a UE identified in the service request message, wherein the UE comprises an IoT device and obtaining, for the UE identified in service request message, at least one parameter…
Techniques for the safe serialization of the prediction pipeline
Granted: November 7, 2023
Patent Number:
11811925
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for a machine-learning platform for the safe serialization of a machine-learning application. Individual library components (e.g., a pipeline, a microservice routine, a software module, and an infrastructure model) can be encrypted using one or more keys. The keys can be stored in a location different from the storage location of the machine-learning application. Prior to incorporation of the library component into a machine-learning…
Securing endpoints for virtual meetings
Granted: November 7, 2023
Patent Number:
11811827
Techniques are disclosed for establishing a level of security for a virtual meeting similar to a level of security associated with in person meetings. A communication system may use an application programming interface (API) of an operating system to secure the device by terminating any applications or processes operating on the computing device that are not consistent with a security policy. The system may also use machine learning techniques to monitor audio and/or video streams for…
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for delegated authorization at service communication proxy (SCP)
Granted: November 7, 2023
Patent Number:
11811747
A method for delegated authorization at a service communications proxy (SCP) includes intercepting, from a consumer network function (NF) that does not support access token based authorization, a service based interface (SBI) request. The method further includes operating as an access token authorization client to obtain a first access token on behalf of the consumer NF. The method further includes using the first access token to enable the consumer NF to access the service provided by a…
Stacked identities for resource principals
Granted: November 7, 2023
Patent Number:
11811679
Techniques are described for enabling resources within a cloud computing system to interact with each other. In certain embodiments, a base identifier assigned to a first resource is extended by mapping the base identifier onto a second identifier assigned to a logical resource that is built upon the first resource. This allows the first resource to have two identities, one identity indicating what the first resource is (e.g., a particular compute instance) and another identity…
Method and apparatus for holistic rendering of cloud network configuration
Granted: November 7, 2023
Patent Number:
11811610
The present is directed to systems, methods, and devices for holistic rendering of cloud network configuration. The method can include receiving data characterizing a plurality of devices in a computing network. The method can include generating with the inventory processor a data file characterizing each of the plurality of devices in the computing network. This data file can be generated based on the received data and on a set of static overrides. The method can include generating a…
Dialogue management using lattice walking
Granted: November 7, 2023
Patent Number:
11810577
Systems, devices, and methods provide improved autonomous agents by creating a concept lattice that represent objects and attributes and using the concept lattice to manage a dialogue with a user device. An autonomous agent application can receive queries from a user and serve response (e.g., responses identifying objects and/or object attributes) based on one or more traversals of a concept lattice. In some embodiments, the concept lattice can be generated from tabular data indicating a…
Using backpropagation to train a dialog system
Granted: November 7, 2023
Patent Number:
11810553
Techniques described herein use backpropagation to train one or more machine learning (ML) models of a dialog system. For instance, a method includes accessing seed data that includes training tuples, where each training tuple comprising a respective logical form. The method includes converting the logical form of a training tuple to a converted logical form, by applying to the logical form a text-to-speech (TTS) subsystem, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) subsystem, and a semantic…
Governing access to third-party application programming interfaces
Granted: November 7, 2023
Patent Number:
11809923
Techniques for governing access to third-party application programming interfaces (API's) are disclosed. A proxy service exposes an API configured to receive requests, from user-facing services, to perform functions of backend services. The proxy service stores a usage policy that defines a criterion that is (a) different from any authorization criterion and (b) associated with using a function of a backend service. The proxy service receives a request to perform the function of the…
Systems and methods for safely subscribing to locks using hardware extensions
Granted: November 7, 2023
Patent Number:
11809917
Transactional Lock Elision allows hardware transactions to execute unmodified critical sections protected by the same lock concurrently, by subscribing to the lock and verifying that it is available before committing the transaction. A “lazy subscription” optimization, which delays lock subscription, can potentially cause behavior that cannot occur when the critical sections are executed under the lock. Hardware extensions may provide mechanisms to ensure that lazy subscriptions are…
Management of a focused information sharing dialogue based on discourse trees
Granted: November 7, 2023
Patent Number:
11809825
Disclosed techniques relate to managing a dialogue between a user device and an autonomous agent. For instance, a computing device creates a discourse tree from a body of text that includes fragments. The discourse tree includes a root node, nonterminal nodes, and terminal nodes. Each nonterminal node represents a rhetorical relationship between two of the fragments and each terminal node is associated with one of the fragments. The computing device determines a main topic of the body of…
Techniques for large-scale functional testing in cloud-computing environments
Granted: November 7, 2023
Patent Number:
11809301
Techniques are disclosed for generating an execution plan for performing functional tests in a cloud-computing environment. Infrastructure resources and capabilities (e.g., system requirements) may be defined within an infrastructure object (e.g., a resource of a declarative infrastructure provisioner) that stores a code segment that implements the resource or capability. Metadata may be maintained that indicates what particular capabilities are applicable to each infrastructure…
Branch prediction for user interfaces in workflows
Granted: October 31, 2023
Patent Number:
11803419
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with branch prediction in workflows are described. In one embodiment, a method includes inputting a workflow and serially progressing through the workflow in a flow sequence and in response to the flow sequence encountering a first decision element in the workflow that includes a plurality of branch paths: (i) executing a prediction that predicts a resulting path of the first decision element to predict a first user interface from the…
Machine learning model to identify and predict health and safety risks in electronic communications
Granted: October 31, 2023
Patent Number:
11803797
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a machine learning system that monitors and detects health and safety risks in electronic correspondence related to a target field are described. In one embodiment, a method includes monitoring email communications over a network to identify an email associated with a target field. A machine learning classifier is initiated that is configured to classify text from the email with a risk as being related to a safety risk or a…
System and method for query resource caching
Granted: October 31, 2023
Patent Number:
11803547
Operations include determining whether to cache resources accessed by a query based on the execution time of the query. The system identifies a set of executions of a same query. The system determines a cumulative execution time for the set of executions of the same query. If the cumulative execution time exceeds a threshold value, then the system caches a resource used for execution of the query.
Transitioning between thread-confined memory segment views and shared memory segment views
Granted: October 31, 2023
Patent Number:
11803487
Techniques for transitioning between memory segment views include: instantiating a first memory segment view that confines access to a memory segment to a first thread; receiving a request to transition ownership of the memory segment to a second thread; responsive to receiving the request to transition ownership of the memory segment to the second thread: instantiating a second memory segment view that permits access to the memory segment by the second thread; copying metadata from the…
