Salesforce.com Patent Applications

SERVICE FOR SHARING DATA INSIGHTS

Granted: October 13, 2022
Application Number: 20220327226
A method by one or more computing devices implementing a data insights sharing service to allow a first user of the data insights sharing service to share data insights with other users of the data insights sharing service. The method includes storing metadata describing one or more data insights, where the one or more data insights were generated based on analyzing a dataset of the first user, responsive to receiving a request from a second user to access the one or more data insights,…

PROCESS FLOW BUILDER CUSTOMIZATION

Granted: October 13, 2022
Application Number: 20220326987
Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for facilitating the customization of a process flow builder. A first graphical user interface (GUI) identifying one or more user selectable process flow types is provided. Responsive to a selection of a process flow type, information corresponding to the selected process flow type is obtained. The information includes one or more headers and, for at least a first header, identifies one or…

DATABASE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONVERSATION-DRIVEN DYNAMIC UPDATES

Granted: October 13, 2022
Application Number: 20220326907
Computing systems, database systems, and related conversational updating methods are provided for dynamically updating graphical user interfaces responsive to conversational user inputs received via a chatbot or other conversational interactions with a user. One method involves receiving a conversational user input from a conversation session graphical user interface display presented at a client device, identifying a desire to perform an action with respect to a database component based…

PROCESS FLOW BUILDER CUSTOMIZATION

Granted: October 13, 2022
Application Number: 20220326822
Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for facilitating the customization of a process flow builder. A first graphical user interface (GUI) identifying one or more user selectable process flow types is provided. Responsive to a selection of a process flow type, information corresponding to the selected process flow type is obtained. The information includes one or more headers and, for at least a first header, identifies one or…

SINGLE FRAMEWORK FOR BOTH STREAMING AND ON-DEMAND INFERENCE

Granted: October 6, 2022
Application Number: 20220318647
A method and system for a single framework for both streaming and on-demand inference that includes receiving a request from a tenant application for a machine-learning serving infrastructure, where the request identifies features of tenant data and a machine-learning model, subscribing to events for the identified features, initiating the machine-learning model for the request, and generating a prediction using the machine-learning model on the identified features.

INTELLIGENT CONTEXTUAL HELP CHAT IN A MULTI-TENANT DATABASE SYSTEM

Granted: October 6, 2022
Application Number: 20220318423
Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for providing contextually relevant recommendations based on a context of the user. The context of the user may be determined according to a set of privacy settings of the user, where the set of privacy settings indicates contextual features for which values are permitted to be accessed by a recommendation system. The contextual features may include user-related features and/or tenant features…

RULESET ENGINE FOR GENERATING HOMOGENEOUS DATA SETS

Granted: September 29, 2022
Application Number: 20220309074
A method, performed by a server, for aggregating data in from devices within a complex network including receiving, at a network interface, an end data from a data source wherein the end data includes a source field having a source value, determining, by a processor, a subset of a ruleset for the data source in response to a source stanza within the ruleset, generating, by the processor, a results data structure in response to the end data and the subset of the ruleset wherein the…

CONCURRENT COMPUTATION ON DATA STREAMS USING COMPUTATIONAL GRAPHS

Granted: September 22, 2022
Application Number: 20220300416
Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for generating and implementing computational graphs that facilitate concurrent computation on data streams. A computational graph includes a plurality of nodes, where each node has one or more stages associated therewith. Each stage may be associated with a corresponding operation that is to be performed on data associated with that stage.

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UNIVERSAL SECURITY SERVICES ABSTRACTION

Granted: September 22, 2022
Application Number: 20220303348
A method for providing interoperability between a plurality of security services and target applications by an interoperability service. The method includes receiving a request from one of the plurality of security services to perform a task on a target application, preparing a unified data model for interaction with the target application, determining and organizing data connections to perform the task on the target application, generating a set of requests using the unified data model…

CONCURRENT COMPUTATION ON DATA STREAMS USING COMPUTATIONAL GRAPHS

Granted: September 22, 2022
Application Number: 20220300417
Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for generating and implementing computational graphs that facilitate concurrent computation on data streams. A computational graph includes a plurality of nodes, where each node has one or more stages associated therewith. Each stage may be associated with a corresponding operation that is to be performed on data associated with that stage.

TEST RECORDER FOR API UNIT TESTING

Granted: September 22, 2022
Application Number: 20220300402
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for generating a unit test for an API or integration of an application by recording a flow of an input through a plurality of message processors of the application. A developer can then view an outline of the recorded flow in a menu, from which the developer can select an individual processor within the recorded flow. By selecting an individual processor, options particular to that processor can be presented to…

MANAGEMENT OF SEARCH FEATURES VIA DECLARATIVE METADATA

Granted: May 12, 2022
Application Number: 20220147435
A method for managing features for a search system using declarative metadata. The method includes receiving search metadata including declarative statements identifying at least one search feature to be enabled across a plurality of components of the search system, performing functional verification of the at least one search feature, testing the at least one search feature, and enabling the at least one search feature in at least one of the plurality of components of the search system…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS DYNAMICALLY ROUTING AN EVENT TO A COMPONENT OF A HYBRID APPLICATION

Granted: May 12, 2022
Application Number: 20220147389
The present disclosure is directed to dynamically routing an event to a component of a hybrid application. For example, a method may include: detecting an event from a first component of a first component type of a hybrid application; transmitting a request to execute a function associated with the event to a plurality of components, the plurality of components being a combination of components of the first component type and components of a second component type different from the first…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATING MOBILE APPLICATION PLUG-INS

Granted: May 12, 2022
Application Number: 20220147375
The present disclosure is directed to integrating mobile application plug-ins. For example, a method may include: at run-time of a host application, initializing, by the host application, a plurality of plug-ins; in response to initializing the plurality of plug-ins, establishing a set of supported services provided between a plurality of components comprising a native component of the host application and the plurality of plug-ins; detecting a request for a service from a first…

METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR TEMPORARY SESSION AUTHENTICATION AND GOVERNOR LIMITS MANAGEMENT

Granted: April 28, 2022
Application Number: 20220131851
Methods, and apparatuses are provided for access limitations to a network in a session using a formatted web token. The method includes: formatting a web token by a schema to create a formatted web token for user access to the network; receiving a log-in request for the user access to the network server via an app hosted by a computing device remotely located to the network server; in response to receipt of a user access request, creating the session by the network server with network…

MAINTAINING FOREIGN KEY REFERENCES ACROSS DOMAINS

Granted: April 28, 2022
Application Number: 20220129424
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for creating an enterprise data model that defines entities and relationships between the entities spanning multiple environments and for deploying and maintaining artifacts across the environments using metadata specified in the enterprise data model. By embedding metadata that describes foreign key references within an enterprise data model, a unifying enterprise data model may manage artifacts across…

MULTI-MASTER DATA REPLICATION IN A DISTRIBUTED MULTI-TENANT SYSTEM

Granted: April 21, 2022
Application Number: 20220121642
A multi-master replication system is disclosed. The multi-master replication system allows a large set of peer instances to collaboratively replicate data to each other. According to an example, a change detection thread running on a first server associated with a first instance of multiple instances of a replicated database monitors for changes to any of multiple records within one or more shared tables of the replicated database. Responsive to detection of a change to a record, an item…

ACCESS CONTROL FOR ONLINE PRESENTATIONS

Granted: April 21, 2022
Application Number: 20220121352
A method, a system, and a non-transitory computer readable medium (CRM) for controlling access to an online presentation are disclosed. At least one embodiment includes granting a controller status to a first user for a first slide during the online presentation. Then operating the online presentation based on a set of slide commands from the first user having the controller status. The at least one embodiment also includes determining a second user is to have the controller status for a…

SYSTEM AND METHOD USING METADATA TO MANAGE PACKAGED APPLICATIONS COMPONENTS BASED ON TENANT LICENSES

Granted: April 14, 2022
Application Number: 20220114238
A method and system to manage application package installation in a multi-tenant system is provided. The method includes accessing metadata of an application package for distribution in the multi-tenant system, selecting a component of the application package with a permission guard in the metadata, evaluating permission guard logic to determine wither a target tenant in the multi-tenant system can install the component, and compiling and installing the component in response to the…

WORKBOOKS FOR ONLINE TOOLS

Granted: April 14, 2022
Application Number: 20220114333
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for generating and operating workbooks. One embodiment operates by causing display of a workbook having: a first page including a preview of a first object generated by a first online tool; and a second page including a preview of a second object generated by a second online tool. The first page and the second page are displayed simultaneously within the workbook. Then, a command to execute a function against…