Patents Assigned to salesforce, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20240143629
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method receives a label for a record in a database. A first operation is performed using a first value associated with the record to generate a first reporting object for a sustainability metric that is based on a resource. A second value for the first reporting object is generated based on performing the first operation using respective first values associated with first records based on a relationship in a data model to a first reporting object. The method uses the label to perform a second operation using the first value associated with the record to generate a third value for a second reporting object for the sustainability metric. The second reporting object is generated based on performing the second operation using respective first values associated with second records that are associated with the label.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Saurabh Kesarwani, Sandeep Ratnaparkhe, Shweta Parekh, Milind Phadke, Adheip Varadarajan
  • Publication number: 20240143652
    Abstract: A computing platform may be configurable to receive a request from a video conferencing application while a video conference is in session, the request including an indication of a selection of one or more participants in a video conference session. The computing platform may also be configurable to implement a query of a database system, the query being configured to retrieve user object data, and generate a result object based, at least in part, on the retrieved one or more user data objects, the result object being configured to display information about the at least one participant. The computing platform may be configurable to provide the result object to a client device to display a graphical user interface (GUI) window including the information about the at least one participant, the GUI window comprising a user interface element to provide access to at least one function associated with a computing platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Hart ISAACS, Vala AFSHAR
  • Publication number: 20240143807
    Abstract: Execution of client code in a shared infrastructure comprises instantiating a container manager to manage containers and routers configured to receive calls requesting execution of the client code. The container manager pre-initializes a plurality of containers and registered the containers in a database to indicate that the plurality of containers are available. A router receives a call to execute the client code and selects an available first container identified in the database. The call is routed to the selected container and the status of the container is updated to in-use to prevent another router from selecting the container. Responsive to the selected container processing the call, the router receives a response from the container and returns the response to the caller. The containers then marked for deletion in the database. The container manager then deletes any of the containers marked for deletion to prevent the containers from processing subsequent calls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Prabhjot Singh
  • Patent number: 11971822
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to filtering messages. A computer system may detect an occurrence of an event of a particular type. The computer system may determine whether to enqueue, in a message queue, a message that identifies a set of tasks to be performed in relation to the event. The determination may be based on a response received from a cache that stores a subset of filter rules of a filter rules table. Based on the response indicating a cache miss, the computer system may enqueue the message in the message queue. A process that processes the message may be operable to resolve the cache miss by 1) accessing a filter rule from the filter rules table that indicates whether messages for events of the particular type should be enqueued in the message queue and 2) updating the cache to store the filter rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Liang Xie, Igor Shmulevich, Ritesh Vaja, Zhijian Huang, Bowen Wang
  • Patent number: 11971712
    Abstract: 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 instruction has been completed or ongoing and which part is potentially needed for the next action selection (textual grounding). In some embodiments, the navigation agent applies regularization to ensures that the grounded instruction can correctly be used to estimate the progress made towards the navigation goal (progress monitoring).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Chih-Yao Ma, Caiming Xiong
  • Patent number: 11973846
    Abstract: Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for implementing a polling command strategy in a database system. A subscriber transmits, to a database system, a subscription to an event. When the database system detects the event, a publisher transmits a message notifying the subscriber of the occurrence of the event. The subscriber processes the message received from the publisher. Responsive to processing the message, the subscriber waits a predefined period of time. After waiting the predefined period of time, the subscriber sends a polling message to the database system. Responsive to the polling message, the subscriber obtains data satisfying the subscription from the database system and the subscriber processes the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Manisha Chaurasia, Ihor Mochurad, Dai Duong Doan
  • Patent number: 11972275
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for providing user interface functionalities is disclosed. The method includes providing a base design system layer including web browser components providing platform-agnostic user interface functionalities, an application programming interface (API) that extends the base design system layer into a second design system layer providing platform-specific user interface functionalities, inheriting and extending extensible APIs from the second design system layer, building a third design system layer using the extensible APIs, providing product-specific user interface functionalities using the third design system layer, inheriting and extending extensible APIs from the second design system layer, building a fourth design system layer using the extensible APIs, and providing presentation-specific user interface functionalities using the fourth design system layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Weibel, Brandon Ferrua
  • Patent number: 11973845
    Abstract: Managing organization disconnections from a shared resource of a communication platform is described. In a sharing approval repository of a communication platform, a shared resource can be associated with a host organization identifier and a non-host organization identifier. In an example, in response to receiving, from a user computing device associated with the host organization identifier or the non-host organization identifier, a resource disconnection request comprising a disconnecting organization identifier and a resource identifier associated with the shared resource, the sharing approval repository can be updated to add a disconnection indication for the resource identifier in association with the disconnecting organization identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Sullivan, Myles Grant, Michael Demmer, Shanan Delp, Sri Vasamsetti
  • Patent number: 11971874
    Abstract: Exemplary systems, methods, and apparatuses implement efficient storage and validation of data and metadata within a blockchain using Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) in conjunction with a cloud based computing environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan, Bertha Ching Wai Lam, Sri Naga Deepthi Velisetti
  • Patent number: 11973761
    Abstract: Methods, media, and systems for a changing a private channel in a channel-based communication system from an “invited-members” mode to a “whitelisted groups” mode. When in a whitelisted-groups mode, the channel administrator can whitelist one or more groups for channel membership. The whitelisted groups may be external groups managed by an identity provider. Based on the whitelisted groups, users cannot be added to the private channel without being a member of one of the whitelisted groups. Users are also automatically removed from the channel if they are no longer in one of the whitelisted groups for any reason.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Timmons, Carmen Raffa, Jonathan Byman, Ayushi Samaddar, Aish Raj Dahal, Colin Gibbs, Robin McConnell Balaga
  • Publication number: 20240135422
    Abstract: A recommendation service access a data matrix listing of products associated with product profiles, the data matrix having product entries that store sparse historical electronic activity. For a target product it is determined which other products should be used to boost the historical electronic activity of the target product based on a first subset of product profiles that share product characteristics with the target product. Similarity scores are computed between the product profile of the target product and the first subset of product profiles to identify a second subset of one or more products having a similarity score above a scoring threshold. The historical electronic activity of the target product is boosted using the historical electronic activity of the other products in the second subset. Association values are calculated between the target product and the other products in the second subset by based on the boosted activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: John Lim, Keld Lundgaard
  • Publication number: 20240134511
    Abstract: A header and a timestamp element for the header may be generated based on a request to process data for a page of a user interface. A tooltip with descriptive information for the timestamp element may be generated and displayed based on proximity of an interactive element to the timestamp element, and a page representation window may be displayed based on an interaction with the timestamp element. The page representation window includes a representation of the data field and its content that is indicative of how the data field and its content existed at a time of the request to process data. Moreover, an indicator of correspondence between the timestamp element and the page representation window may be displayed. Based on interaction with a settings indicator element, a header settings window for modifying settings for the header may be displayed with view options (e.g., all, custom, etc.) for data submissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Jose Lejin P J, Ramanjaneyulu Y. Talla
  • Patent number: 11966770
    Abstract: A system can allow collaboration between two or more tenants in a multi-tenant system. Each tenant can share a common access to a processing space and a data storage device. Each tenant can be assigned to a virtual environment having a dedicated portion of the data storage device. The system can create a database record in a first dedicated portion assigned to the first tenant. The database record can be displayed on a user interface of the first tenant and include a collaboration tool component embedded within the database record. The database record can be transmitted to a database and transmitted from the database to a second dedicated portion of the data storage device. The second dedicated portion can be assigned to a second tenant of the multi-tenant system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Fahad Azeem
  • Patent number: 11968131
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for mediating user access to services over a network are described. Access is provided by a service network host to a plurality of connectors providing access to a plurality of services over the network. The services are provided by entities independent from the service network host. The connectors including a first connector are configured to communicate with a first service using a first format to retrieve or modify data associated with the first service. The first connector is further configured to identify one or more methods or data fields of the first service. The service network host is further configured to provide, to a computer associated with a user over the network, one or more directions for using the first connector to display and/or modify data from the first service over the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: David Byrne Reese
  • Patent number: 11968177
    Abstract: Systems and methods for verifying a firewall for a cloud provider. The method includes receiving by a timelord module configured with access to a plurality of HTTP attacks that incorporate random tokens, an updated policy ok signal that was generated by an external element. The timelord module responds by (a) loading a first HTTP attack with a first expected response that is either forbidden or accepted, the first HTTP attack including the random tokens in a form of a header key value parameter; (b) sending the first HTTP attack to the firewall; (c) comparing a response from the firewall to the first HTTP attack with the first expected response; and (d) incrementing the first HTTP attack and repeating (a)-(c) until the plurality of HTTP attacks has been sent; and deleting the random tokens after the plurality of HTTP attacks have been sent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Luis Campo Giralte
  • Patent number: 11968278
    Abstract: A method and system for message handling implemented by a first node in a distributed computing environment. The method including receiving a message including a connection identifier to identify a connection in the application layer to be utilized to send the message to a client application, parsing the connection identifier to determine a node identifier indicating a second node in the distributed computing environment that implements the connection, and forwarding the message to the second node that implements the connection by a message broker that utilizes a routing information registry to locate the second node using the node identifier, in response to the first node having a different node identifier than the node identifier of the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Mariano Luis Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 11968244
    Abstract: Techniques for clustering a plurality of virtual space servers based on communication platform data are discussed herein. In some examples, a user may post a message to a virtual space of a communication platform. The communication platform may transmit the message to virtual space servers configured to manage the virtual space within which the message originated. In such examples, the communication platform may identify clusters of virtual space servers and determine within which cluster the corresponding virtual space server is located. Virtual space servers may be clustered based on attribute data associated with communication platform data. In some examples, the communication platform may send the message to the virtual space server which may send the message to subscribing gateway servers. Further, the gateways servers may send the message to the recipient client devices. The recipient client devices may display the message via a user interface of the communication platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Maurer, Serguei Mourachov, Grace Danielle Ellen Atwood, Sameera Thangudu, Denis Sodol, Anirban Mukhopadhyay
  • Patent number: 11967080
    Abstract: A system is provided for object localization in image data. The system includes an object localization framework comprising a plurality of object localization processes. The system is configured to receive an image comprising unannotated image data having at least one object in the image, access a first object localization process of the plurality of object localization processes, determine first bounding box information for the image using the first object localization process, wherein the first bounding box information comprises at least one first bounding box annotating at least a first portion of the at least one object in the image, and receive first feedback regarding the first bounding box information determined by the first object localization process. The system is further configured to persist the image with the first bounding box information or access a second object localization process based on the first feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Joy Mustafi, Lakshya Kumar, Rajdeep Singh Dua
  • Patent number: 11968203
    Abstract: A cloud infrastructure is configured and deployed for managing services executed on a cloud platform. The cloud infrastructure includes a control datacenter configured to communicate with one or more service datacenters. The service datacenter deploys one or more application programming interfaces (API's) associated with a service. The service datacenter also deploys an administration agent. The control datacenter hosts an engine that receives requests from users to perform administration operations by invoking the administration API's. In this manner, the control datacenter functions as a centralized control mechanism that effectively distributes administration operation requests as they are received from users to service datacenters that can service the requests. The cloud infrastructure provides an auditable, compliant and secure management system for administering services for distributed systems running in the cloud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Prasad Peddada, Sriram Shankarlal
  • Patent number: D1024089
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Puneet Dhaliwal, Niv Garber, D. Dustin Breese, Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan, Kara Carreri, Rahul Mehta, Raghav Abboy, Yongbo Zuo, Abraham Reyes