Oracle Patent Grants

Techniques for transferring data across air gaps

Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number: 12149509
Techniques for transferring data to a secure computing region that is isolated from any public networks is disclosed. In some embodiments, one or more artifacts for the secure computing region are packaged. As part of the packaging, one or more data packets and metadata for the one or more artifacts can be generated. The metadata indicates corresponding destination components for the one or more artifacts within the secure computing region. The data packet(s) are received and transmitted…

Configuring a network-link for establishing communication between different cloud environments

Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number: 12149380
Techniques are described for creating a network-link between a first virtual network in a first cloud environment and a second virtual network in a second cloud environment. The first virtual network in the first cloud environment is created to enable a user associated with a customer tenancy in the second cloud environment to access one or more services provided in the first cloud environment. The network-link is created based on one or more link-enabling virtual networks being deployed…

Migration and cutover based on events in a replication stream

Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number: 12147843
A framework for migrating a customer tenancy from a first identity and access management (TAM) system to a second IAM system. A first snapshot of the customer tenancy is obtained from a first data storage. The first snapshot is processed and migrated to the second IAM system. A second snapshot of the customer tenancy is obtained from a second data storage and migrated to the second IAM system. A state of a lock associated with the second data storage is modified, where after a third…

Techniques for maintaining statistics in a database system

Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number: 12147440
Techniques are provided for gathering statistics in a database system. The techniques involve gathering some statistics using an “on-the-fly” technique, some statistics through a “high-frequency” technique, and yet other statistics using a “prediction” technique. The technique used to gather each statistic is based, at least in part, on the overhead required to gather the statistic. For example, low-overhead statistics may be gathered “on-the-fly” using the same process…

Framework and method for consistent cross-tier data validation

Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number: 12147398
A computer analyzes a relational schema of a database to generate a data entry schema and encodes the data entry schema as JSON. The data entry schema is sent to a database client so that the client can validate entered data before the entered data is sent for storage. From the client, entered data is received that conforms to the data entry schema because the client used the data entry schema to validate the entered data before sending the data. Into the database, the entered data is…

Self-correcting pipeline flows for schema drift

Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number: 12147395
Techniques describes herein updating pipeline flows in within data systems to maintain data integrity and consistency without manual curation. In certain embodiments, data integration system may detect and/or receive indications of a schema change within a source system of the data integration system. One or more data objects affected by the schema change may be identified, and a set of pipeline rules may be invoked for each of the affected schema changes. The pipeline rules may define a…

Techniques for resource utilization in replication pipeline processing

Granted: November 19, 2024
Patent Number: 12147394
Techniques are described for ensuring end-to-end fair-share resource utilization during cross-region replication. In certain embodiments, a fair-share architecture is used for communication among pipeline stages performing a cross-region replication between different cloud infrastructure regions. Cross-region replication-related jobs are distributed evenly from a pipeline stage into a temporary buffer in the fair-share architecture, and then further distributed evenly form the fair-share…

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

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12143270
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…

Semi-supervised framework for purpose-oriented anomaly detection

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12143408
Techniques for implementing a semi-supervised framework for purpose-oriented anomaly detection are provided. In one technique, a data item in inputted into an unsupervised anomaly detection model, which generates first output. Based on the first output, it is determined whether the data item represents an anomaly. In response to determining that the data item represents an anomaly, the data item is inputted into a supervised classification model, which generates second output that…

Bot omni channel communication system

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12143346
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a bot communication system for communicating between channels and bots are described. In one embodiment, a system includes a bot manager configured to provide communication between an individual bot from a plurality of bots and a target channel of a plurality of channels. The bot manager is configured to process a bot response from the individual bot to the target channel by at least: identifying channel configuration metadata from…

Migrating edge device resources to a cloud computing environment

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12143264
Techniques are disclosed for migrating one or more services from an edge device to a cloud computing environment. In one example, a migration service receives a request to migrate a first set of services from the edge device to the cloud computing environment. The migration service identifies a hardware profile of a computing device (or devices) of the cloud computing environment that matches the edge device, and then configures the computing device to execute a second set of services…

Generating and executing a fulfillment plan

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12141728
A target quantity of a target product is needed. However, the target quantity of the target product is not available from a set of sources. A fulfillment plan is generated. The fulfillment plan includes obtaining quantities of more than one product in order to fulfill the need for the target quantity of the target product. The fulfillment plan is executed. Executing the fulfillment plan includes distributing tasks, orders, notifications to various entities to fulfill the target quantity…

Accessing a parametric field within a specialized context

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12141629
A parametric constant resolves to different values in different contexts, but a single value within a particular context. An anchor constant is a parametric constant that allows for a degree of parametricity for an API point. The context for the anchor constant is provided by a caller to the API point. The anchor constant resolves to an anchor value that records specialization decisions for the API point within the provided context. Specialization decisions may include type restrictions,…

Techniques for maintaining rhetorical flow

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12141535
Disclosed systems, devices, and methods improve dialogue management through the use of dialogue discourse trees (DDTs). To determine whether a candidate response (CR) is appropriate in the dialogue, the CR can be added to other utterances that have been previously provided in a dialogue between two parties and a dialogue discourse tree (DDT) can be generated from the result. The DDT includes nodes corresponding to elementary discourse units (EDUs) representing text fragments of the…

Data loss prevention system for cloud security based on document discourse analysis

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12141177
Systems, devices, and methods of the present invention are related to determining a document classification. For example, a document classification application generates a set of discourse trees, each discourse tree corresponding to a sentence of a document and including a rhetorical relationship that relates two elementary discourse units. The document classification application creates one or more communicative discourse trees from the discourse trees by matching each elementary…

Generation of schemas with error resolve

Granted: November 12, 2024
Patent Number: 12141110
In implementations, a schema generation utility is configured to allow a user to abstract and generate a schema, such as a JSON schema, from a base schema instance according to schema configuration data, other data inputs, and schema configuration models. In an implementation, a user provides parameters, configuration objects, etc. for a desired final output schema. The schema generation utility may be configured to receive and parse the base schema instance into a plurality of…

Fault tolerance in scale-out distributed query processing appliance

Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number: 12135623
In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a query from a client and determining a query plan for the query. The query plan comprises one or more query operators for executing at least a portion of the query on a database. The method also includes sending the one or more query operators to one or more computing nodes for the one or more computing nodes to execute the one or more query operators on one or more data fragments of the database. In this example, each…

Secure bi-directional network connectivity system between private networks

Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number: 12137025
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…

Management plane orchestration across service cells

Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number: 12135991
Service cells may be utilized to limit the blast radius and reduce the probability of operational incidents (e.g., attacks, load spikes, distributed thrash, and the like). Techniques discussed herein provide any suitable number of service cells, each if which include a management plane and a data plane. A work request that includes an intended state of the service cell can be received and stored. One or more execution tasks can be executed by a management plane of the service cell to…

Automatic partitioning of materialized views

Granted: November 5, 2024
Patent Number: 12135719
In one technique, a definition of a materialized view is identified. Based on the definition, multiple candidate partitioning schemes are identified. A query is generated that indicates one or more of the candidate partitioning schemes. The query is then executed, where executing the query results in one or more partition counts, each corresponding to a different candidate partitioning scheme of the one or more candidate partitioning schemes. Based on the one or more partition counts, a…