Backup and restore of distributed environments
Granted: September 20, 2022
Patent Number:
11449395
A cloud manager restores a backup of a distributed environment by comparing a stack of a current distributed environment to a backup stack of the backup of the distributed environment. The cloud manager identifies a difference between a first number of nodes in the first set of nodes specified in the first stack and a second number of nodes in the second set of nodes specified in the second stack. The cloud manager restores the backup of the distributed environment by modifying a number…
Anomaly detection in SS7 control network using reconstructive neural networks
Granted: September 20, 2022
Patent Number:
11451670
Herein are machine learning (ML) techniques for unsupervised training with a corpus of signaling system 7 (SS7) messages having a diversity of called and calling parties, operation codes (opcodes) and transaction types, numbering plans and nature of address indicators, and mobile country codes and network codes. In an embodiment, a computer stores SS7 messages that are not labeled as anomalous or non-anomalous. Each SS7 message contains an opcode and other fields. For each SS7 message,…
Malicious activity detection by cross-trace analysis and deep learning
Granted: September 20, 2022
Patent Number:
11451565
Techniques are provided herein for contextual embedding of features of operational logs or network traffic for anomaly detection based on sequence prediction. In an embodiment, a computer has a predictive recurrent neural network (RNN) that detects an anomalous network flow. In an embodiment, an RNN contextually transcodes sparse feature vectors that represent log messages into dense feature vectors that may be predictive or used to generate predictive vectors. In an embodiment, graph…
System and method for correlating fabric-level group membership with subnet-level partition membership in a high-performance computing environment
Granted: September 20, 2022
Patent Number:
11451434
System and method for correlating fabric-level group membership with subnet-level partition membership in a high performance computing environment. An exemplary embodiment can provide an admin partition in a subnet of a network environment, associated with a resource domain at the fabric level of the network environment. The admin partition can be defined by a P_Key that is stored in a fabric-level database. Each fabric resource is identified by an identifier that is stored in the…
Efficiently modeling database scenarios for later use on live data
Granted: September 20, 2022
Patent Number:
11449952
A method of modeling a scenario for use with live data in a production database may include selecting the scenario. The live data can be stored in the production database on a first computing resource, and production scenarios can be stored and executed on the live data using the first computing resource. The method may also include identifying a subset of the live data that are affected by the scenario, copying the subset to a second computing resource to create modeling data, running…
Enhanced similarity detection between data sets with unknown prior features using machine-learning
Granted: September 20, 2022
Patent Number:
11449773
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for using machine-learning techniques to detect similar features between data sets. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to systems and methods that learn feature patterns within at least two data sets using machine-learning techniques to determine similarities between clusters of users in a scalable and computationally efficient manner.
Adjusting chatbot conversation to user personality and mood
Granted: September 20, 2022
Patent Number:
11449682
Systems, devices, and methods provide improved autonomous agents that are configured to respond to a user's query based on an emotion with which the query was expressed and a personality trait of the user. The agent may identify candidate answers to the query that are each associated with an emotion and/or a personality trait. The autonomous agent may utilize a predefined protocol set that indicates transitions between emotional states. A transition may correspond to an action associated…
Kernel subsampling for an accelerated tree similarity computation
Granted: September 20, 2022
Patent Number:
11449517
Approaches herein relate to machine learning for detection of anomalous logic syntax. Herein is acceleration for comparison of parse trees such as suspicious database queries. In an embodiment, a computer identifies subtrees in each of many trees. A respective subset of participating subtrees is selected in each tree. A respective root node of each participating subtree should directly have a child node that is a leaf and/or should have a degree that exceeds a branching threshold such as…
Change request visualization in hierarchical systems
Granted: September 20, 2022
Patent Number:
11449474
Various techniques are disclosed herein for storing and managing master data in hierarchical data systems. Several related concepts, embodiments, and examples are disclosed, including techniques for incremental rationalization in a hierarchical data model, techniques for implementing governance pools in a hierarchical data model, techniques for application materialization in a hierarchical data model, techniques for data intersection mastering in a hierarchical data model, techniques for…
One-sided reliable remote direct memory operations
Granted: September 20, 2022
Patent Number:
11449458
Techniques are provided to allow more sophisticated operations to be performed remotely by machines that are not fully functional. Operations that can be performed reliably by a machine that has experienced a hardware and/or software error are referred to herein as Remote Direct Memory Operations or “RDMOs”. Unlike RDMAs, which typically involve trivially simple operations such as the retrieval of a single value from the memory of a remote machine, RDMOs may be arbitrarily complex.…
Pre/post deployment customization
Granted: September 20, 2022
Patent Number:
11449348
An example system and method facilitates customization of and configuration of a software connector, such as a connector to an Application Programming Interface (API) or web service, in various types of computing environments, including both pre-deployment and post-deployment computing environments. A connectors framework provides a layer of abstraction between connectors maintained in the different environments and a connector editor of an application development system (which may be…
System and method for supporting patching in a multitenant application server environment
Granted: September 20, 2022
Patent Number:
11449330
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for supporting patching in a multi-tenant application server environment. The system can associate one or more partitions with a tenant, for use by that tenant, wherein a partition is a runtime and administrative subdivision or slice of a domain. A patching process can take advantage of high-availability features provided by an application server clustering environment, to apply patches in a controlled, rolling…
Ticket locks with enhanced waiting
Granted: September 13, 2022
Patent Number:
11442730
A computer comprising one or more processors and memory may implement multiple threads that perform a lock operation using a data structure comprising an allocation field and a grant field. Upon entry to a lock operation, a thread allocates a ticket by atomically copying a ticket value contained in the allocation field and incrementing the allocation field. The thread compares the allocated ticket to the grant field. If they are unequal, the thread determines a number of waiting threads.…
Interactive data entry validation and problem correction in a table component in a spreadsheet driven by a web service
Granted: September 13, 2022
Patent Number:
11443109
Implementations generally relate to a spreadsheet add-in that provides data entry validation. As described in more detail herein, the spreadsheet add-in integrates a spreadsheet-based table component with a remote web service. The spreadsheet add-in uses web service metadata to validate data that a user enters into the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet add-in provides immediate feedback on errors in an interactive fashion for the user. Furthermore, during a data upload process, any errors…
Techniques for accessing on-premise data sources from public cloud for designing data processing pipelines
Granted: September 13, 2022
Patent Number:
11442954
A system for simulating a dataset based on sample statistics, and generating pipeline instructions for a database using the simulated dataset, is disclosed. The system may be a cloud-based platform. The system can provide improved performance and security while designing and deploying Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) database pipelines to manage on-premises data. The system receives, from a remote client, sample statistics characterizing a distribution of data corresponding to a column of a…
Function semantic based partition-wise SQL execution and partition pruning
Granted: September 13, 2022
Patent Number:
11442933
An approach for implementing function semantic based partition-wise SQL execution and partition pruning in a data processing system is provided. The system receives a query directed to a range-partitioned table and determines if operation key(s) of the query include(s) function(s) over the table partitioning key(s). If so, the system obtains a set of values corresponding to each partition by evaluating the function(s) on a low bound and/or a high bound table partitioning key value…
Systems and methods for tuning a storage system
Granted: September 13, 2022
Patent Number:
11442904
Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for tuning and sizing one or more storage appliances in a storage system with respect to an application load and for optimizing a storage system based on a configuration of a client network and/or a storage appliance in a storage network. In one implementation, data corresponding to an application load configured to be applied to a storage appliance in the storage system is obtained. The application load is…
File system hierarchies and functionality with cloud object storage
Granted: September 13, 2022
Patent Number:
11442898
Techniques described herein relate to systems and methods of data storage, and more particularly to providing layering of file system functionality on an object interface. In certain embodiments, file system functionality may be layered on cloud object interfaces to provide cloud-based storage while allowing for functionality expected from a legacy applications. For instance, POSIX interfaces and semantics may be layered on cloud-based storage, while providing access to data in a manner…
Supporting concurrent remove operations and add-to-front operations on a Least Recently Used (LRU) queue
Granted: September 13, 2022
Patent Number:
11442871
A remove operation and an add-to-front operation may be currently performed with respect to nodes in an Least Recently Used (LRU) queue. A remove operation for a node may proceed if a lock can be obtained on the node to be removed and a predecessor node. During the remove operation, an add-to-front operation may proceed if a lock can be obtained on a dummy node that precedes the current front node of the LRU queue.
Multiple cache framework for managing data for scenario planning
Granted: September 13, 2022
Patent Number:
11442859
The embodiments disclosed herein relate to computing a transportation plan for transporting goods from one place to another across a number of shipments and that satisfy multiple shipment orders. The transportation plan may specify a transportation channel that includes one or more segments selected from service provider rate offerings that may include a means of transportation, starting location, destination location, and cost of the segment. An actionable transportation plan may be…
