Determining optimum software update transmission parameters
Granted: January 24, 2023
Patent Number:
11563650
Optimum software update transmission parameters are determined and used for transmitting a software update from a host to servers of a computer network. The software update is transmitted while the servers are live and required to meet certain quality of service requirements for tenants of the computer network. Transmission parameters for transmitting the software update are adjusted and updated based on service performance data. Based on iterative adjustments, optimum transmission…
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for optimizing network bandwidth utilization through intelligent updating of network function (NF) profiles with NF repository function
Granted: January 24, 2023
Patent Number:
11563638
A method for optimizing network bandwidth utilization through intelligent updating of network function (NF) profiles includes, at an NF repository function (NRF), receiving, from a first NF that previously communicated with a failed geo-redundant mate of the NRF as primary, an NF heart-beat request message. The method further includes locating an NF profile for the first NF in an NF profiles database maintained by the NRF. The method further includes computing an NF profile data…
Failure detection in cloud-computing systems
Granted: January 24, 2023
Patent Number:
11563628
Techniques discussed herein monitoring for and identifying failures in a cloud-computing environment. Proxy devices can be communicatively disposed between services of the cloud-computing environment. The proxy devices can capture call stack data corresponding to function calls between services. A directional graph can be generated based on that call stack data that represents the communication paths between cloud-computing resources (e.g., the services). Ingress paths to a service can…
Management of revisions on revisions of orders
Granted: January 24, 2023
Patent Number:
11562421
A method for managing a current revision on prior revision of an order is described. A modified set of compensations tasks for addressing amendments indicated in the current revision are determined. The modified set of compensation tasks may be determined by carrying over one or more compensation tasks, associated with the prior revision, that have not yet been completed. Alternatively or additionally, the modified set of compensation tasks may be determined by adding new compensation…
Chatbot for defining a machine learning (ML) solution
Granted: January 24, 2023
Patent Number:
11562267
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for an intelligent assistant (e.g., a chatbot) that can be used to enable a user to generate a machine learning system. Techniques can be used to automatically generate a machine learning system to assist a user. In some cases, the user may not be a software developer and may have little or no experience in either machine learning techniques or software programming. In some embodiments, a user can interact with an intelligent…
Adaptive sampling for imbalance mitigation and dataset size reduction in machine learning
Granted: January 24, 2023
Patent Number:
11562178
According to an embodiment, a method includes generating a first dataset sample from a dataset, calculating a first validation score for the first dataset sample and a machine learning model, and determining whether a difference in validation score between the first validation score and a second validation score satisfies a first criteria. If the difference in validation score does not satisfy the first criteria, the method includes generating a second dataset sample from the dataset. If…
Constructing conclusive answers for autonomous agents
Granted: January 24, 2023
Patent Number:
11562135
Techniques are described herein for enabling autonomous agents to generate conclusive answers. An example of a conclusive answer is text that addresses concerns of a user who is interacting with an autonomous agent. For example, an autonomous agent interacts with a user device, answering user utterances, for example questions or concerns. Based on the interactions, the autonomous agent determines that a conclusive answer is appropriate. The autonomous agent formulates the conclusive…
Client-side 2D rendering of server-side multidimensional data
Granted: January 24, 2023
Patent Number:
11562130
A multidimensional data cube at a server may store values and functions. The functions may use values stored in the data cube as inputs to generate results. A client application may retrieve values stored at a server in a multidimensional data cube to be updated and viewed locally at the client. Instead of evaluating functions at the server and transmitting the results to the client, the functions themselves may be translated into equivalent functions that can be evaluated in real time…
Augmenting textual explanations with complete discourse trees
Granted: January 17, 2023
Patent Number:
11556698
Systems, devices, and methods discussed herein provide improved autonomous agent applications that are configured to provide explanations in response to user-submitted questions. Training data comprising a question, and an explanation pair may be accessed. A discourse tree and an explanation chain can be constructed from the explanation. The explanation chain may identify logical relationships between two entities of elementary discourse units identified from the discourse tree. A query…
Orchestration of crud operations for a hierarchical web service data model in a spreadsheet
Granted: January 17, 2023
Patent Number:
11556702
Example embodiments facilitate orchestrating changes of data made (and/or actions specified for execution) in a client-side program with changes of corresponding data made in one or more server-side data objects. An example method includes structuring one or more worksheet relationships between one or more worksheets of a client-side spreadsheet in accordance with one or more data object relationships of one or more data objects of a server-side data structure; determining that one or…
Fragmentation measurement solution
Granted: January 17, 2023
Patent Number:
11556256
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…
System and method for abstracted analysis system design for dynamic API scanning service
Granted: January 17, 2023
Patent Number:
11556607
Described herein are systems and methods for abstracted analysis system design for a dynamic API scanning service. The disclosure provides a simplified API scanning service by abstracting underlining security scanning techniques and configurations. This presents a normalized view to users of the service. Both input parameters and scan output data is abstracted from users, and is driven based on logic in the service. By providing this simplified view, users can quickly, and without prior…
Data stream processing
Granted: January 17, 2023
Patent Number:
11556563
Techniques for partitioning data from a data stream into batches and inferring schema for individual batches based on the field values of each batch are disclosed. The system may infer different schemas corresponding to different batches of data records even though the batches are received from a common data stream or a common data source. The system may infer a schema by determining whether a field contains single values or multiple values. Then the system determines the field type(s)…
Techniques for unifying ETL filter operators
Granted: January 17, 2023
Patent Number:
11556557
Techniques are provided for unifying filter operators in exchange, transform, load (ETL) plans. Such a technique includes a method that may include receiving, by a computer system, an ETL plan including a split operator and a plurality of filter operators. The may include identifying, by the computer system, that the plurality of filter operators are configured to act on data output by the split operator in the ETL plan. The method may include generating, by the computer system, a…
Automatic data-screening framework and preprocessing pipeline to support ML-based prognostic surveillance
Granted: January 17, 2023
Patent Number:
11556555
The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that automatically selects a prognostic-surveillance technique to analyze a set of time-series signals. During operation, the system receives the set of time-series signals obtained from sensors in a monitored system. Next, the system determines whether the set of time-series signals is univariate or multivariate. When the set of time-series signals is multivariate, the system determines if there exist cross-correlations among signals in the…
Predicting and halting runaway queries
Granted: January 17, 2023
Patent Number:
11556539
Operations include halting a runaway query in response to determining that a performance metric of the query exceeds a performance threshold. The runaway query halting system receives a query execution plan associated with a query and divides the received execution plan into one or more components. For each component, the system determines a predicted resource usage associated with executing the component. The system further determines a predicted resource usage associated with the query…
Method for generating views based on a semantic model, that allows for autonomous performance improvements and complex calculations
Granted: January 17, 2023
Patent Number:
11556533
Herein are techniques for automatically leveraging metadata of an analytic view to accelerate a relational query. In an embodiment, a computer stores model metadata that defines an analytic view that contains a join operation that is based on a dimension column of a dimension table and a join column of a fact table. The analytic view also contains a measure that is based on an aggregation operation and a measure column of the fact table. Also stored is denormalization metadata that…
System and method for providing an interface for a blockchain cloud service
Granted: January 17, 2023
Patent Number:
11556521
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for implementing a distributed ledger a blockchain cloud service. The blockchain cloud service can include nodes of the distributed ledger and a management console component. The management console component can include a web application running in a script runtime environment, a plurality of backend of APIs for communicating with various nodes of the blockchain cloud service, and a plurality of client APIs…
Policy driven data placement and information lifecycle management
Granted: January 17, 2023
Patent Number:
11556505
A method, apparatus, and system for policy driven data placement and information lifecycle management in a database management system are provided. A user or database application can specify declarative policies that define the movement and transformation of stored database objects. The policies are associated with a database object and may also be inherited. A policy defines, for a database object, an archiving action to be taken, a scope, and a condition before the archiving action is…
Session templates
Granted: January 17, 2023
Patent Number:
11556500
Techniques are disclosed herein for identifying, recording and restoring the state of a database session and various aspects thereof. A session template data structure is generated that includes session attribute values describing various aspects of the session that is established between a client system and a database management system (DBMS and enables the client system to issue to the DBMS commands for execution. Based on the session attribute values, DBMS may generate a template…