Distributing user requests to cloud computing systems across regions using a machine learning model
Granted: November 22, 2022
Patent Number:
11509746
Systems and methods are described for receiving a user request from a user computing system located in a first geographic region, generating a user request context for the user request, selecting a cloud computing system assigned to a second geographic region having more computing resources currently available to process the user request than a cloud computing system assigned to the first geographic region based at least in part on the user request context and a machine learning model…
Cookie-based network location of storage nodes in cloud
Granted: November 22, 2022
Patent Number:
11509721
Techniques are disclosed relating to storing location information about storage nodes in cookies. A cloud-based service may send location requests to an orchestration service that instantiated storage nodes included in a storage cluster of the cloud-based service. The cloud-based service may receive location information that identifies in which computer zone that a given storage node is located. The cloud-based service may store the location information in cookies at a metadata store…
Accessing client credential sets using a key
Granted: November 22, 2022
Patent Number:
11509641
Techniques are disclosed relating to a computer system accessing a client credential set to authenticate with a destination computer system. A computer system may, subsequent to receiving an indication to make available an application for a particular user, retrieve configuration data specifying a reference to a key value. The computer system may maintain a data object that includes a client credential set for the particular user. In response to an occurrence of an event associated with…
Techniques for data retention
Granted: November 22, 2022
Patent Number:
11507589
Systems and techniques for managing data in a relational database environment and a non-relational database environment. Data in the relational database environment that is static and to be maintained beyond a preselected threshold length of time is identified. The data is copied from the relational database and stored in the data the non-relational database. Access to the data is provided from the non-relational database via a user interface that accesses both the relational database…
Managing objects in shared caches using multiple chains
Granted: November 22, 2022
Patent Number:
11507566
A method for maintaining cache of database objects using a chain set that includes multiple chains each specifying an ordering of database objects is disclosed. In response to a change of state of a particular database object, a corresponding chain is selected. The selected chain is then locked, the state of the particular database object changed, and then the selected chain is unlocked.
Workflows for automated operations management
Granted: November 22, 2022
Patent Number:
11507462
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…
Cloud services release orchestration with a reusable deployment pipeline
Granted: November 22, 2022
Patent Number:
11507364
Cloud services release orchestration with a reusable deployment pipeline. According to some implementations, responsive to receiving from a COS controller parameters from configuration information provided to the COS controller while an app aware proxy routes production traffic to a first application (app) version that communicates with a database management system (DBMS) and that runs in container orchestration system (COS) pods having first app version containers, causing a validation…
System, method, and apparatus for providing a record overview of an opportunity based on an event integrated with a third-party personal information management (PIM) application within a cloud based computing environment
Granted: November 15, 2022
Patent Number:
11500522
System and method to display PIM application content in one or more PIM application display panes of a graphical user interface (GUI), select the displayed PIM application content for which to obtain a one or more record overviews of a CRM record related to the PIM application content, receive PIM application context data related to selected PIM application content, generate the one or more record overviews of the CRM record related to the PIM application content to display in a…
Multitask learning as question answering
Granted: November 15, 2022
Patent Number:
11501076
Approaches for multitask learning as question answering include a method for training that includes receiving a plurality of training samples including training samples from a plurality of task types, presenting the training samples to a neural model to generate an answer, determining an error between the generated answer and the natural language ground truth answer for each training sample presented, and adjusting parameters of the neural model based on the error. Each of the training…
Mechanism to synchronize, control, and merge data streams of disparate flow characteristics
Granted: November 15, 2022
Patent Number:
11500878
A method and system manage synchronization of data streams in a multi-tenant system. The method includes tracking by a flow control mechanism a recent flow rate of at least one data stream, determining by the flow control mechanism whether the flow rate of the at least one data stream varies from at least one related data stream, and adjusting by the flow control mechanism a throughput of the at least one data stream to correlate with the at least one related data stream, in response to…
Methods and systems for making effective use of system resources
Granted: November 8, 2022
Patent Number:
11496555
Methods and systems for making effective use of system resources. A plurality of requests for access to a resource are received. Each request has an associated group of features. The group of features for each request is analyzed to collect observations about the plurality of requests. A function to predict an outcome of a subsequent request is generated based on the observations. Resources are allocated to service the subsequent request based on the function.
Utilizing determined optimized time windows for precomputing optimal path matrices to reduce computer resource usage
Granted: November 8, 2022
Patent Number:
11495129
A method involves accelerating the electronic determination of high quality solutions to routing problems by utilizing determined optimized time windows for precomputing optimal path matrices to reduce computer resource usage. The use of traffic windows defined based on changes in rates of change of speeds for traffic on road segments allows for more rapid determination of a set of one or more high quality solutions as compared to requiring on-demand, in-process determination of a…
Controlling just in time access to a cluster
Granted: November 8, 2022
Patent Number:
11494509
Examples include a system and computer-implemented method to receive a notification from an application programming interface (API) of creation of a just in time (JIT) grant, the JIT grant defining a request for a user to be authorized to access a cluster according to a JIT policy; determine if access to the cluster by the user is authorized according to the JIT policy; grant access to the user to the cluster when access is authorized according to the JIT policy; and send a notification…
Sharing data in a data storage system
Granted: November 8, 2022
Patent Number:
11494410
In various embodiments, a data storage system maintains a data store for a plurality of groups of users, where the data store includes a first section that is accessible by a first group of users, but not a second group of users, via the data storage system. In response to receiving, from a first user of the first group of users, a request to share data with the second group of users, the data storage system sends a request to a second user of the second group of users. Subsequent to…
Asynchronous row to object enrichment of database change streams
Granted: November 8, 2022
Patent Number:
11494408
A first copy of a database object may be constructed prior to applying a designated database update request to a first database. The database object may be represented by a plurality of database table rows in the first database, and the request may update one or more of the plurality of rows. The request may be applied to the first database to update the one or more of the plurality of rows in the first database. A second copy of the database object may be constructed after applying the…
Key permission distribution
Granted: November 8, 2022
Patent Number:
11494356
Techniques are disclosed relating to the distribution of database key permissions. A database system may distribute first permission information to a plurality of database nodes that identifies a distribution of key range permissions to ones of the plurality of database nodes. A given key range permission being distributed to a given database node may permit that database node to write records whose keys fall within a key range associated with the given key range permission. The database…
Dynamic adjustment of web product-based performance factors in database systems
Granted: November 8, 2022
Patent Number:
11494286
In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for facilitating dynamic adjustment of web product-based performance factors in database systems according to one embodiment. In one embodiment and by way of example, a method includes identifying a web product and metadata associated with the web product, where the metadata reveals one or more performance factors capable of impacting performance of the web product. The method may further include generating one or…
Methods and systems for automating deployment of applications in a multi-tenant database environment
Granted: November 8, 2022
Patent Number:
11494223
In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there are provided mechanisms and methods for automating deployment of applications in a multi-tenant database environment. For example, in one embodiment, mechanisms include managing a plurality of machines operating as a machine farm within a datacenter by executing an agent provisioning script at a control hub, instructing the plurality of machines to download and instantiate a lightweight agent; pushing a plurality of URL (Uniform…
Database replication plugins as a service
Granted: November 8, 2022
Patent Number:
11494202
System and methods are described for specifying, deploying, and using plugins during replication of a database. The method includes receiving a replication plugin service configuration specifying a plurality of plugins, getting a first database plugin specified by the replication plugin service configuration, getting one or more reader plugins specified by the replication plugin service configuration, deploying the first database plugin and the one or more reader plugins to a relay…
Systems and methods for unsupervised autoregressive text compression
Granted: November 1, 2022
Patent Number:
11487939
Embodiments described herein provide a provide a fully unsupervised model for text compression. Specifically, the unsupervised model is configured to identify an optimal deletion path for each input sequence of texts (e.g., a sentence) and words from the input sequence are gradually deleted along the deletion path. To identify the optimal deletion path, the unsupervised model may adopt a pretrained bidirectional language model (BERT) to score each candidate deletion based on the average…
