Generic scheduling
Granted: October 26, 2021
Patent Number:
11157492
A system and method for customized scheduling of sources, including breaking down a source of content into at least two categories, including posts and engagements, and gathering content related to a specific source. A scheduler handles scheduling of posts and engagement for a single source and entities that are due to be crawled are sent to a scheduling queue, in which each content type for a source can have its own queue. A process points to the correct scheduler queue in order to…
Worm hashing
Granted: October 19, 2021
Patent Number:
11151105
An entries array having a pre-selected number of initially empty buckets and structured as a circular array is maintained. Each of the pre-selected number of entries in the entries array has a corresponding index value. A chaining array having the pre-selected number of buckets and structured as a circular array is also maintained. Each of the pre-selected number of entries in the chaining array has the same corresponding index value as the corresponding bucket in the entries array. A…
Dependency management for shared data objects in a database system
Granted: October 19, 2021
Patent Number:
11153408
Techniques are disclosed relating to managing dependencies between shared data objects in a database system. In various embodiments, a data storage system may maintain a function cache that is operable to store functions that are accessible to one or more applications hosted by a server system. In response to a request to invalidate a first data type utilized by one or more of these functions, various embodiments may include accessing an inverted index that specifies a mapping between…
Systems and techniques for utilizing resource aware queues and/or service sharing in a multi-server environment
Granted: October 19, 2021
Patent Number:
11153371
Systems and techniques for utilizing resource aware queues and/or service sharing in a multi-server environment. According to an example, an application server employs a traffic light metaphor to represent a utilization level of resources of the application server by associating a traffic light with each resource. A mapping is maintained that associates service requests with corresponding sets of affected traffic lights. A deferred queue is maintained for each traffic light to facilitate…
Background authentication refresh
Granted: October 19, 2021
Patent Number:
11153294
Techniques for refreshing an authentication token. Access is granted to a secure computing environment in response to receiving authentication information from a requesting computing device. The access is granted for a session and one or more client applications allow secure delegated access to server resources on behalf of a resource owner by utilizing an access token. The access token is refreshed without explicit user interaction utilizing the authentication information for the…
Methods and systems for performing change management at login
Granted: October 19, 2021
Patent Number:
11151638
A system and related method for change management at login. The method includes constructing an administratively prescribed target data store as a function of received administrative input prescribing a target feature and target feature-state, and related messages to push to a user upon occurrences of target feature mismatches and matches. Login information, including a username identifier, service provider identifier, and current use time-stamp are received for a user. A historical data…
Regulation-compliant processing of queries and storing of data in an on-demand environment
Granted: October 19, 2021
Patent Number:
11151269
In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for facilitating regulation-compliant processing of queries in an on-demand services environment according to one embodiment. In one embodiment and by way of example, a method includes receiving a query having first information not permitted to be stored per a regulation and second information permitted to be stored, and parameterizing the query into a parameterized query to replace the first information with…
Method and system for controlling access to a multi-tenant database system using a virtual portal
Granted: October 19, 2021
Patent Number:
11151264
In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for controlling access to a multi-tenant database system using a virtual portal. These mechanisms and methods for controlling access to a multi-tenant database system using a virtual portal can enable embodiments to provide great flexibility to a tenant of the architecture to select the content that may be perceived by the tenant users while allowing the owner of the architecture control over the content.
Adjustable connection pool mechanism
Granted: October 19, 2021
Patent Number:
11151150
Techniques and structures to facilitate automatic adjustment of a database connection pool, including calculating a first value indicating a number of connections of to be provided by a first of a plurality of application servers, determining whether the first value is equal to a second value previously calculated to indicate the number of connections to be provided by the first application server and adjusting the database connection pool by providing the number of connections to access…
Identification of records for post-cloning tenant identifier translation
Granted: October 19, 2021
Patent Number:
11151110
Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed for identification of records for post-cloning tenant identifier translation. Records may be received from a database system executing a database executor at a computing device executing a database application. The database application may identify, from among the records, records that include a record header that includes a bit indicating that an encoded value of a tenant identifier is stored in the record in a column of the record that is…
Systems and methods for verifying performance of a modification request in a database system
Granted: October 19, 2021
Patent Number:
11151088
Provided are systems and methods for verifying, in a database system, that a modification request to events data is completed. The method marks a modification request as verifying and implements a search strategy to search for unmodified events data (the stragglers) in the least expensive query scope first and then keep expanding the scope of the query until at least one unmodified events data is found (a straggler), which is marked as a fail. This strategy includes (i) beginning at a…
Composite batching to manage throughput for online commerce applications
Granted: October 19, 2021
Patent Number:
11150939
Embodiments regard composite batching to manage throughput for online commerce applications. An embodiment of one or more storage mediums include instructions for processing online transaction requests for an order management service to generate transaction records, the online transaction requests including at least a first type of transaction and a second type of transaction; accumulating the transaction records in a storage; automatically determining a batch size for application…
Methods and systems for optimizing text searches over structured data in a multi-tenant environment
Granted: October 12, 2021
Patent Number:
11144558
Search systems and methods for searching structured data and enhancing the relevancy of search results provided to a requesting user or application. Enhanced search results are provided by searching a cache of a user's most recently used items to eliminate or reduce search indexing latency. Also, more relevant search results are provided by re-ranking results based on use history, data security models and/or hierarchical user role models. Further, enhanced search results are provided by…
Testing engine for automated operations management
Granted: October 12, 2021
Patent Number:
11144398
Techniques are disclosed relating to automated operations management. In various embodiments, a computer system accesses operational information that defines commands for an operational scenario and accesses blueprints that describe operational entities in a target computer environment related to the operational scenario. The computer system implements the operational scenario for the target computer environment. The implementing may include executing a hierarchy of controller modules…
System or method to display blockchain information with centralized information in a tenant interface on a multi-tenant platform
Granted: October 12, 2021
Patent Number:
11144335
A method and system that generates a user interface with information from a decentralized data management system and information from a centralized data management system. The method including retrieving a layout for the user interface, determining metadata for the decentralized data management system, requesting the information from the centralized data management system identified by the layout via a query, accessing the information from the decentralized data management system by…
Leveraging and managing assessment environments in an assessment hub
Granted: October 5, 2021
Patent Number:
11137883
Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for facilitating the management of assessment environments in an eLearning environment. A user may switch between assessment environments by selecting from a menu of selectable assessment environments. Educational content may be presented within a context of a selected assessment environment and assessment tasks may be completed within the context of the selected assessment environment.
Maintaining data across query executions of a long-running query
Granted: October 5, 2021
Patent Number:
11138196
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for a query processing system. An embodiment operates by receiving a query associated with a table. An ordered index with entries that include key values that uniquely identifies a corresponding record in the table is determined. A last key value is initialized to store a minimum value for a data type of the key value. The query is executed as a union-all of a plurality of queries. While a count of selected…
Systems and methods for translating n-ary trees to binary query trees for query execution by a relational database management system
Granted: October 5, 2021
Patent Number:
11138195
A method for obtaining query response data by a relational database management system (RDBMS) is provided. The method receives a user input query, by a processor associated with the RDBMS, wherein the user input query comprises a query request for a set of data; formats the user input query into a second query language suitable for communication between the RDBMS and a query response interface associated with a second data storage external to the RDBMS, by the processor, to generate a…
Dynamic user interface for predicted procedures
Granted: October 5, 2021
Patent Number:
11138022
Techniques are disclosed relating to predicting events based on automation parameters and initiating a procedure to request user input. In some embodiments, the system automatically selects one or more component types to display an interface to request the user input, e.g., based on user interface elements associated with the procedure. These component-based techniques may be used to imitate another interface while automatically formatting the input data without a known template.
User interface stencil automation
Granted: October 5, 2021
Patent Number:
11137985
Techniques are disclosed for automatically generating stencils for content of a user interface (UI) to be rendered. A computer system receives information specifying content of a user interface (UI) to be rendered. Based on this information, the computer system identifies one or more bounding regions of content within the UI, including analyzing metadata and a rendered version of the UI. The computer system then automatically generates, one or more UI stencils based on the identified…
