Reducing granularity of backup data over time
Granted: June 15, 2021
Patent Number:
11036590
A database may store a plurality of database revisions corresponding to a time period, including a current version and one or more backup versions of a data object. After a threshold time has passed, the database may identify a plurality of time intervals within the time period and identify, for each of the plurality of time intervals, at most one database revision corresponding to the time interval. The database may delete, for each of the plurality of time intervals, all of the…
Facilitating encrypted persistent storage in browsers
Granted: June 15, 2021
Patent Number:
11038863
Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for encrypting and securely storing session data during a browser session using a session-based cryptographic key. The session data may be decrypted during the browser session or other browser sessions using the session-based cryptographic key or other backwards compatible session-based cryptographic keys. In addition, session-based cryptographic keys may be shared among browser sessions to…
Correlating network level and application level traffic
Granted: June 15, 2021
Patent Number:
11038803
Methods, systems, and devices supporting network and container level traffic analysis and correlation are described. An application server may receive network traffic data from a network-level data capture system and receive container-level application traffic data from a container-level data capture system. The application server may then hash the destination addresses, the time stamp information, and the data amount information from the network traffic data to create a first set of…
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing a metadata driven rules engine on blockchain using distributed ledger technology (DLT)
Granted: June 15, 2021
Patent Number:
11038771
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing a metadata driven rules engine on blockchain using Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) in conjunction with a cloud based computing environment are described herein. For example, according to one embodiment there is a system having at least a processor and a memory therein executing within a host organization, in which such a system includes means for operating a blockchain interface to a blockchain on behalf of a plurality of tenants of…
System and method for live product report generation without annotated training data
Granted: June 15, 2021
Patent Number:
11037099
Embodiments described herein provide a method for obtaining information on product inventory and placement in a retail setting. An image including unannotated image data indicative of the retail setting is received. One or more shelves in the retail setting are determined from the unannotated image data, and the image is segmented into one or more sub-images corresponding to the one or more detected shelves. For each sub-image corresponding to a respective detected shelf, a product name…
Computation of customer experience metrics in a multi-tenant cloud computing environment
Granted: June 15, 2021
Patent Number:
11037085
System and methods are described for deriving normalized infrastructure metrics to represent customer experience of a cloud computing system, continuously evaluating a profile for a tenant of the cloud computing system and determining a customer experience indicator for the tenant in real-time or near real-time, without losing accuracy, based at least in part on the infrastructure metrics and the profile.
Automatic layout engine
Granted: June 15, 2021
Patent Number:
11036914
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for performing automatic layout of an object in a presentation slide. An embodiment operates by implementing a graphical user interface defining a plurality of layout segments on a presentation slide. The embodiment receives an object from a user via an input gesture. The embodiment determines the object is in a layout segment of the plurality of layout segments. The embodiment determines a layout rule based on…
Systems, methods and techniques for polymorphic queries
Granted: June 15, 2021
Patent Number:
11036731
Techniques for providing polymorphic query requests. A request is received that has at least a database query. The database query comprises at least an expression using a polymorphic relationship. The request is processed utilizing the polymorphic relationship. A user-readable result is provided for the query where the result is defined by at least the polymorphic relationship.
Methods and systems for performing transparent object migration across storage tiers
Granted: June 15, 2021
Patent Number:
11036706
In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for performing transparent object migration across storage tiers. In an embodiment and by way of example, a method for appending data to large data volumes is provided. The method embodiment includes a) setting a CustomEntityOption bit that determines (at object creation time) where the object is stored, either in the relational or the non-relational data store portion, b) loading the CustomEntityOption bit in a…
Virtualization of ephemeral organization structures in a multitenant environment
Granted: June 15, 2021
Patent Number:
11036620
Apparatuses and techniques to utilize a scratch organization as a unit of virtualization. Potential hosts for a scratch organization are evaluated. The potential hosts include at least the first group of hardware processing devices and a second group of the plurality of hardware processing devices to provide remote client computing environments. A target host is selected from the potential hosts. The scratch organization to be hosted by the target host is generated. Data is loaded from a…
Enabling execution of program instructions in the background
Granted: June 15, 2021
Patent Number:
11036568
Techniques are disclosed relating to the execution of a set of program instructions in the background. A parent environment of an application executing on a computer system may receive a request from a first child environment within the parent environment to execute a set of program instructions. The first child environment does not permit the set of program instructions to be executed within the first child environment while the application is backgrounded. In response to the request,…
Graphical user interface object matching
Granted: June 15, 2021
Patent Number:
11036360
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for unifying graphical user interface (GUI) displays across different device types. In an embodiment, a unification system may convert various GUI view appearing on, for example, a desktop device into a GUI view on a mobile device. Both devices may be accessing the same application and/or may use a cloud computing platform to access the application. The unification system may aid in reproducing GUI…
Generating or updating cross-community streams
Granted: June 15, 2021
Patent Number:
11036357
Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for generating or updating cross-community streams. A plurality of communities can be maintained on behalf of a plurality of member organizations. Members of each community can have access to a corresponding set of records. One or more selections operable to assign one or more records to one or more cross-community streams can be displayed in a user interface on a display of a device of a first user. A…
Stateful, contextual, and draggable embedded widget
Granted: June 15, 2021
Patent Number:
11036349
Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods, and computer program products for implementing, a stateful, contextual, and draggable widget. A widget application stores a state of the widget, a context of the widget, and coordinates of the widget. When a user navigates from one web page of a web site to another web page of the web site, the widget application reconstitutes the widget using the saved state, context, and coordinates of the widget.
Self-aware visual-textual co-grounded navigation agent
Granted: June 8, 2021
Patent Number:
11029694
An agent for navigating a mobile automated system is disclosed herein. The navigation agent receives a navigation instruction and visual information for one or more observed images. The navigation agent is provided or equipped with self-awareness, which provides or supports the following abilities: identifying which direction to go or proceed by determining the part of the instruction that corresponds to the observed images (visual grounding), and identifying which part of the…
User defined mocking service behavior
Granted: June 8, 2021
Patent Number:
11030085
A mocking service allows a mocking instance of an API specification to receive behavior parameters with requests for resources of the API specification. The mocking service may digest these parameters and generate a response according to the parameters and using the instance of the API specification. The dynamic responses allow a service to be configured for interacting with an API corresponding to the API specification and for interacting with different response scenarios of the API.…
API specification parsing at a mocking server
Granted: June 8, 2021
Patent Number:
11030084
A system may include a mocking server and one or more tenants served by the mocking server. A tenant may test an application programming interface (API) by creating a mock implementation of the API using a mocking service provided by the mocking server. The mocking server may generate a mock implementation of the API based on an API specification and expose an endpoint of the mock implementation for the user to perform testing. The user may provide an identifier for an API specification…
Application programming interface simulation based on declarative annotations
Granted: June 8, 2021
Patent Number:
11030082
An application programming interface (API) simulator generates synthetic responses for use during development and testing of subsystems. The API simulator receives an API schema including annotations that specify constraints on the synthetic responses. The API simulator generates synthetic responses as results of APIs that conform to the constraints specified using the annotations. The use of API simulator allows testing of subsystems using realistic synthetic responses that satisfy…
Maintaining client version affinity during a server cluster upgrade
Granted: June 8, 2021
Patent Number:
11029940
Maintaining client version affinity during a rolling server cluster upgrade includes a server in the server cluster receiving a request from a client and checking the request for a version cookie indicating a software version that the client is running. Responsive to a determination that the server is running the same software version as the client, the server serves the request. Responsive to a determination that the client is running a software version matching a previous software…
Graphical user interface management for different applications
Granted: June 8, 2021
Patent Number:
11029818
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for unifying graphical user interface (GUI) displays across different device types. In an embodiment, a unification system may convert various GUI view appearing on, for example, a desktop device into a GUI view on a mobile device. Both devices may be accessing the same application and/or may use a cloud computing platform to access the application. The unification system may aid in reproducing GUI…
