System and method for supporting use of forward and backward congestion notifications in a private fabric in a high performance computing environment
Granted: September 13, 2022
Patent Number:
11444881
Systems and methods for using multiple CE (congestion experienced) flags in both FECN (forward explicit congestion notification) and BECN (backward explicit congestion notification) in a high performance computing environment. An exemplary method can provide a first subnet comprising a plurality of switches, a plurality of host channel adapters, and a plurality of end nodes. The method can receive, at an end node attached to a host channel adapter, an ingress packet from a remote end…
Techniques for network policies analysis in container frameworks
Granted: September 13, 2022
Patent Number:
11444838
Techniques are disclosed for query processing system that can, when queried, generate a result related to one or more connectivity paths and/or one or more network security rules. Network security rules and connectivity paths may be stored in corresponding data structures (e.g., sets of attributes) that may be utilized with a number of set operations. The user may issue a query requesting the system to apply a rule to a path, a set of rules to a set of paths, to identify if one set of…
Techniques for verifying network policies in container frameworks
Granted: September 13, 2022
Patent Number:
11444837
Techniques are disclosed for network policy verification system that can obtain a set of connectivity paths of a containerized environment that individually indicate connections between pairs of containers. Identify a first container and a second container of a pair based at least in part on a connectivity path. Determine a network policy corresponding to the connectivity path that indicates an expected result of that particular connection. A connection can be initiated between the two…
System and method for preventing switch loops in layer-2 networks
Granted: September 13, 2022
Patent Number:
11444804
Described herein are systems and methods for preventing switch loops in a layer 2 network. A method can provide, at a computer including a microprocessor, two or more virtual local area networks (VLANs), each VLAN comprising a number of bridges, a plurality of end nodes connected to the two or more VLANs via a plurality of network interface cards (NICs). The method can connect two of the plurality of nodes to two of the VLANs via two or more tunnels. The method can receive a first…
Attested end-to-end encryption for transporting sensitive data
Granted: September 13, 2022
Patent Number:
11444762
Techniques are disclosed for enabling attested end-to-end encryption for transporting sensitive data between devices. In one example, an origination device receives and verifies, in a secure environment, a policy profile that includes an origination key of the origination device and a destination key of a destination device. The origination device generates and seals a data encryption key based on a characteristic of the secure environment. The origination device then encrypts the data…
Privacy preserving collaborative learning with domain adaptation
Granted: September 13, 2022
Patent Number:
11443240
Herein are techniques for domain adaptation of a machine learning (ML) model. These techniques impose differential privacy onto federated learning by the ML model. In an embodiment, each of many client devices receive, from a server, coefficients of a general ML model. For respective new data point(s), each client device operates as follows. Based on the new data point(s), a respective private ML model is trained. Based on the new data point(s), respective gradients are calculated for…
Systems and methods for intelligently providing supporting information using machine-learning
Granted: September 13, 2022
Patent Number:
11443225
Systems and methods for intelligently providing users with supporting information based on big-data analyses of a data set. Machine-learning algorithms may be executed using the data set to identify correlations between data objects of the data set. The correlations can be used to recommend supporting information to a user. A user interface can be provided to enable a user to initiate a process associated with an event. In response to receiving the input, the system can identify…
Datacenter level utilization prediction without operating system involvement
Granted: September 13, 2022
Patent Number:
11443166
Embodiments use a hierarchy of machine learning models to predict datacenter behavior at multiple hardware levels of a datacenter without accessing operating system generated hardware utilization information. The accuracy of higher-level models in the hierarchy of models is increased by including, as input to the higher-level models, hardware utilization predictions from lower-level models. The hierarchy of models includes: server utilization models and workload/OS prediction models that…
Editable table in a spreadsheet integrated with a web service
Granted: September 13, 2022
Patent Number:
11443110
Implementations generally relate to an editable table in a spreadsheet integrated with a web service. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining web service metadata from a web service. The method further includes determining one or more capabilities of the web service based on the web service metadata. The method further includes configuring a table component in a spreadsheet based on the one or more capabilities and the web service metadata. The method further includes…
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing network function discovery service enhancements
Granted: September 6, 2022
Patent Number:
11438828
A method for providing network function (NF) discovery service enhancements includes receiving, by an NF repository function (NRF) from a consumer NF, a NF discovery request message that requests discovery of a network service hosted by producer NFs and includes at least one of a maximum payload size parameter and a profile count limit parameter and obtaining, by the NRF, NF profile objects corresponding to producer NFs that host the network service. The method further includes in…
System and method for use of a suffix tree to control blocking of blacklisted encrypted domains
Granted: September 6, 2022
Patent Number:
11438166
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein are systems and methods for use of a suffix tree to control blocking of blacklisted encrypted domains. A suffix tree includes encrypted hash keys corresponding to a plurality of domain nodes. A domain-related request packet is received, and a target domain name extracted from the packet. A pair of hash keys are generated for the request packet and target domain; and a hash table is searched with the generated hash key pair. If a…
Dynamic generation and delivery of scalable graphic images in web applications
Granted: September 6, 2022
Patent Number:
11436764
To dynamically re-color scalable graphic images in web applications, a server may send an image filename to a web application operating on a client device. Before displaying the image, the client device may send a request back to the server identifying the image and providing color codes for the image. The server may load an image file for the identified image and replace generic placeholders in the image file with the color codes sent from the client device. The re-colored image file…
Detecting anomalies in software service usage activity
Granted: September 6, 2022
Patent Number:
11436323
During operation, the system obtains a training dataset during a training mode, wherein the training dataset includes counts of actions performed by users while operating applications in the computer system. Next, the system uses the training dataset to produce corresponding per-action datasets. The system then cleanses the training dataset based on counts of actions in the per-action datasets to produce a cleansed training dataset, and uses the cleansed training dataset to produce…
System and method for SaaS/PaaS resource usage and allocation in an analytic applications environment
Granted: September 6, 2022
Patent Number:
11436259
Systems and method for SaaS/PaaS resource usage and allocation in an analytic applications environment. An exemplary method can provide an analytic applications environment, a control plane comprising a server, the control plane further comprises a provisioning component and a console interface, a data warehouse, and a monitoring agent. The method can provision an instance of the data warehouse in the context of a tenant, the provisioned instance of the data warehouse having an initial…
Autonomous testing of logical model inconsistencies
Granted: September 6, 2022
Patent Number:
11436221
Embodiments autonomously test a logical model for inconsistencies. For example, metadata descriptive of a logical model can be received, where the logical model includes an abstraction for a database schema, the database schema is implemented at a database, and the database schema includes a fact table and a dimension table. Logical queries can be automatically generated including at least first and second logical queries based on the retrieved metadata, where the first and second…
Guaranteed file system hierarchy data integrity in cloud object stores
Granted: September 6, 2022
Patent Number:
11436195
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…
Customizable enterprise automation test framework
Granted: September 6, 2022
Patent Number:
11436126
Embodiments provide systems and methods for implementing a customizable enterprise automation test framework. A workflow definition, page structure definition, and function definition for an automated test of an enterprise website can be received. A hybrid script parser can parse the workflow definition, page structure definition, and function definition to generate a hybrid script for the automated test. An automation tool parser can parse the hybrid script to generate an output for an…
System for offline object based storage and mocking of rest responses
Granted: September 6, 2022
Patent Number:
11436066
An example system and method facilitates operation of a networked software application during periods of intermittent network connectivity, by selectively intercepting and shredding and/or unshredding service response messages. In a specific embodiment, the example system includes one or more pluggable shredders and unshredders to explode a payload into its constituent structured primitive objects for ease of consumption by the User Interface (UI) of the client application. The exploded…
Prioritized non-active memory device update
Granted: September 6, 2022
Patent Number:
11436000
Example embodiments facilitate prioritizing the recycling of computing resources, e.g., server-side computing systems and accompanying resources (e.g., non-volatile memory, accompanying firmware, data, etc.) leased by customers in a cloud-based computing environment, whereby computing resources (e.g., non-volatile memory) to be forensically analyzed/inspected, sanitized, and/or updated are prioritized for recycling based on estimates of when the computing resources are most likely to…
Techniques for persisting data across instances of a cloud shell
Granted: May 10, 2022
Patent Number:
11327673
Techniques for persisting user data across secure shell instances are provided. The techniques include a method wherein a computer system receives a request to reserve a block volume, the request being received from a session manager service. The method also includes reserving the block volume, identifying a data center identifier of the block volume, returning the data center identifier of the block volume to the session manager service, attaching the block volume to a volume management…
