Patents by Inventor Donovan Schneider

Donovan Schneider has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11741100
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for providing matching security between data stores are described. In a database system, an operational data store may store transactional datasets and an analytical data store may store analytics datasets generated based on the transactional datasets. For these analytics datasets to efficiently inherit the security configurations of the transactional datasets, security information may be embedded in datasets retrieved from the operational data store during a data acquisition procedure. This security information may be converted into an embedded multiple-value field for storage in the analytical data store. The analytical data store may receive a query for data in a dataset, and may determine security descriptors associated with the user sending the query. The analytical data store may then filter the data based on comparing these determined security descriptors with the security information in the multiple-value field, and may transmit a query response with the filtered data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Donovan Schneider, Keith Kelly, Nicholas Albert Bugajski
  • Patent number: 11126616
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to creating and frequently updating multiple online analytic processing (OLAP) analytic databases from an online transaction processing (OLTP) transaction updatable system that includes transaction commit, rollback, and field level security capabilities. It also relates to transparently decoupling extraction from rebuilding of frequently updated OLAP analytic databases from the OLTP transaction updatable system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Alex Gitelman, Ravishankar Arivazhagan, Donovan Schneider, Alex Field, Pradeep Mantha, Puneet Gupta
  • Publication number: 20210224276
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for providing matching security between data stores are described. In a database system, an operational data store may store transactional datasets and an analytical data store may store analytics datasets generated based on the transactional datasets. For these analytics datasets to efficiently inherit the security configurations of the transactional datasets, security information may be embedded in datasets retrieved from the operational data store during a data acquisition procedure. This security information may be converted into an embedded multiple-value field for storage in the analytical data store. The analytical data store may receive a query for data in a dataset, and may determine security descriptors associated with the user sending the query. The analytical data store may then filter the data based on comparing these determined security descriptors with the security information in the multiple-value field, and may transmit a query response with the filtered data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Donovan Schneider, Keith Jones Kelly, Nicholas Albert Bugajski
  • Patent number: 10990593
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for providing matching security between data stores are described. In a database system, an operational data store may store transactional datasets and an analytical data store may store analytics datasets generated based on the transactional datasets. For these analytics datasets to efficiently inherit the security configurations of the transactional datasets, security information may be embedded in datasets retrieved from the operational data store during a data acquisition procedure. This security information may be converted into an embedded multiple-value field for storage in the analytical data store. The analytical data store may receive a query for data in a dataset, and may determine security descriptors associated with the user sending the query. The analytical data store may then filter the data based on comparing these determined security descriptors with the security information in the multiple-value field, and may transmit a query response with the filtered data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: saleforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Donovan Schneider, Keith Jones Kelly, Nicholas Albert Bugajski
  • Patent number: 10908970
    Abstract: A method for data processing is described. The method may include configuring a connection template that defines a data extraction flow for a first data source and transmitting from an analytics application server a controller application programming interface (API) call based on a query request for data stored at the first data source. The method may further include instantiating a connector microservice based on the controller API call and the connection template, where the connector microservice is configured with a first data connector with the analytics application server and a second data connector with the first data source that is specific to the first data source. The method may further include retrieving at the analytics application server the data from the first data source based on the connector microservice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Ravishankar Arivazhagan, Nicholas Albert Bugajski, Jesus De Oliveira, Donovan A. Schneider
  • Patent number: 10761829
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed for dynamic node allocation for a server system that can automatically heal on failure—minimizing the need for static configuration—dynamically adjusting server resources to match load, and minimize end user wait times. The disclosed methods dynamically allocate nodes to increase capacity for a platform that accepts data queries. Additionally disclosed is a system for rolling version update deployment: workers maintain org lists of org-task-queues that they service; org-affinities between the workers and the org-task-queues require the workers to have access to local copies of immutable data sets to service org-tasks from the org-task-queues of the orgs that they service. A leader running on a worker implements a healing and balancing service that maintains worker redundancy, manages the workers' org-affinities to accumulate orgs on their respective org-lists. The leader implements messaging to the workers to update to a new software version and monitors completion of updates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Saptarshi Roy, Daniel C. Silver, Donovan A. Schneider, Medha Pradhan, Ryan Lamore, Naveen Purushothama Rao, Nicholas Geh, Srirama Koneru
  • Patent number: 10713376
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to assigning field level security to fields extracted from primary sources on a batch basis and compiled into analytical, read-only databases, for ultra-fast, ad-hoc data exploration and faceted navigation on integrated, heterogeneous data sets. The method includes assigning field level security to the extracted fields by combining user selectable inheritance of field level security from source fields that yield the extracted fields, with pinning of inheritance of field level security for the extracted fields to reference fields in the database sources wherein the reference fields are distinct from the extracted fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Jan Michael Timmerman, Donovan Schneider, Alex Gitelman
  • Patent number: 10671751
    Abstract: A predicate-based row level security system is used when workers build or split an analytical data store. According to one implementation, predicate-based means that security requirements of source transactional systems can be used as predicates to a rule base that generates one or more security tokens, which are associated with each row as attributes of a dimension. Similarly, when an analytic data store is to be split, build job, user and session attributes can be used to generate complementary security tokens that are compared to security tokens of selected rows. Efficient indexing of a security tokens dimension makes it efficient to qualify row retrieval based on security criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Donovan A. Schneider, Daniel C. Silver, Fred Im, Vijayasarathy Chakravarthy
  • Patent number: 10528750
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for displaying one or more data sets to a user. These mechanisms and methods for displaying one or more data sets to a user can enable enhanced data security, more relevant data display, reduced processing, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Donovan A. Schneider, Guillaume Le Stum, Leo Tenenblat, Wei Li
  • Publication number: 20190340283
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for providing matching security between data stores are described. In a database system, an operational data store may store transactional datasets and an analytical data store may store analytics datasets generated based on the transactional datasets. For these analytics datasets to efficiently inherit the security configurations of the transactional datasets, security information may be embedded in datasets retrieved from the operational data store during a data acquisition procedure. This security information may be converted into an embedded multiple-value field for storage in the analytical data store. The analytical data store may receive a query for data in a dataset, and may determine security descriptors associated with the user sending the query. The analytical data store may then filter the data based on comparing these determined security descriptors with the security information in the multiple-value field, and may transmit a query response with the filtered data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Donovan Schneider, Keith Jones Kelly, Nicholas Albert Bugajski
  • Patent number: 10412158
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed for dynamic node allocation for a server system that can automatically heal on failure—minimizing the need for static configuration—dynamically adjusting server resources to match load, and minimize end user wait times. The disclosed methods dynamically allocate nodes to increase capacity for a platform that accepts data queries. Additionally disclosed is a system for rolling version update deployment: workers maintain org lists of org-task-queues that they service; org-affinities between the workers and the org-task-queues require the workers to have access to local copies of immutable data sets to service org-tasks from the org-task-queues of the orgs that they service. A leader running on a worker implements a healing and balancing service that maintains worker redundancy, manages the workers' org-affinities to accumulate orgs on their respective org-lists. The leader implements messaging to the workers to update to a new software version and monitors completion of updates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Saptarshi Roy, Daniel C. Silver, Donovan Schneider, Medha Pradhan, Ryan Lamore, Naveen Purushothama Rao, Nicholas Geh, Srirama Koneru
  • Publication number: 20190243824
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to creating and frequently updating multiple online analytic processing (OLAP) analytic databases from an online transaction processing (OLTP) transaction updatable system that includes transaction commit, rollback, and field level security capabilities. It also relates to transparently decoupling extraction from rebuilding of frequently updated OLAP analytic databases from the OLTP transaction updatable system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Alex GITELMAN, Ravishankar ARIVAZHAGAN, Donovan SCHNEIDER, Alex FIELD, Pradeep MANTHA, Puneet GUPTA
  • Patent number: 10311047
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to creating and frequently updating multiple online analytic processing (OLAP) analytic databases from an online transaction processing (OLTP) transaction updatable system that includes transaction commit, rollback, and field level security capabilities. It also relates to transparently decoupling extraction from rebuilding of frequently updated OLAP analytic databases from the OLTP transaction updatable system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Alex Gitelman, Ravishankar Arivazhagan, Donovan Schneider, Alex Field, Pradeep Mantha, Puneet Gupta
  • Patent number: 10162851
    Abstract: Methods and systems for performing cross store joins in a multi-tenant store are described. In one embodiment, such a method includes retrieving data from a multi-tenant database system having a relational data store and a non-relational data store, receiving a request specifying data to be retrieved from the multi-tenant database system, retrieving, based on the request, one or more locations of the data to be retrieved, generating a database query based on the request, in which the database query specifies a plurality of data elements to be retrieved, the plurality of data elements including one or more data elements residing within the non-relational data store and one or more other data elements residing within the relational data store, and executing the database query against the multi-tenant database system to retrieve the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Inventors: Bill C. Eidson, Craig Weissman, Kevin Oliver, James Taylor, Simon Z. Fell, Donovan A. Schneider
  • Publication number: 20180293063
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed for dynamic node allocation for a server system that can automatically heal on failure—minimizing the need for static configuration—dynamically adjusting server resources to match load, and minimize end user wait times. The disclosed methods dynamically allocate nodes to increase capacity for a platform that accepts data queries. Additionally disclosed is a system for rolling version update deployment: workers maintain org lists of org-task-queues that they service; org-affinities between the workers and the org-task-queues require the workers to have access to local copies of immutable data sets to service org-tasks from the org-task-queues of the orgs that they service. A leader running on a worker implements a healing and balancing service that maintains worker redundancy, manages the workers' org-affinities to accumulate orgs on their respective org-lists. The leader implements messaging to the workers to update to a new software version and monitors completion of updates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Saptarshi Roy, Daniel C. Silver, Donovan A. Schneider, Medha Pradhan, Ryan Lamore, Naveen Purushothama Rao, Nicholas Geh, Srirama Koneru
  • Patent number: 10001983
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed for dynamic node allocation for a server system that can automatically heal on failure—minimizing the need for static configuration—dynamically adjusting server resources to match load, and minimize end user wait times. The disclosed methods dynamically allocate nodes to increase capacity for a platform that accepts data queries. Additionally disclosed is a system for rolling version update deployment: workers maintain org lists of org-task-queues that they service; org-affinities between the workers and the org-task-queues require the workers to have access to local copies of immutable data sets to service org-tasks from the org-task-queues of the orgs that they service. A leader running on a worker implements a healing and balancing service that maintains worker redundancy, manages the workers' org-affinities to accumulate orgs on their respective org-lists. The leader implements messaging to the workers to update to a new software version and monitors completion of updates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: salesforce.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Saptarshi Roy, Daniel C. Silver, Donovan Schneider, Medha Pradhan, Ryan Lamore, Naveen Purushothama Rao, Nicholas Geh, Srirama Koneru
  • Publication number: 20180107705
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to creating and frequently updating multiple online analytic processing (OLAP) analytic databases from an online transaction processing (OLTP) transaction updatable system that includes transaction commit, rollback, and field level security capabilities. It also relates to transparently decoupling extraction from rebuilding of frequently updated OLAP analytic databases from the OLTP transaction updatable system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Alex GITELMAN, Ravishankar ARIVAZHAGAN, Donovan SCHNEIDER, Alex FIELD, Pradeep MANTHA, Puneet GUPTA
  • Patent number: 9923901
    Abstract: The technology disclosed preserves the tenant specificity and user specificity of the tenant data by associating user IDs to complementary special IDs referred to as the integration user(s). In particular, it combines the traceability of user actions, the integration of security models and the flexibility of a service ID into one integration user(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Donovan A. Schneider, Fred Im, Vijayasarathy Chakravarthy
  • Publication number: 20180032323
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed for dynamic node allocation for a server system that can automatically heal on failure—minimizing the need for static configuration—dynamically adjusting server resources to match load, and minimize end user wait times. The disclosed methods dynamically allocate nodes to increase capacity for a platform that accepts data queries. Additionally disclosed is a system for rolling version update deployment: workers maintain org lists of org-task-queues that they service; org-affinities between the workers and the org-task-queues require the workers to have access to local copies of immutable data sets to service org-tasks from the org-task-queues of the orgs that they service. A leader running on a worker implements a healing and balancing service that maintains worker redundancy, manages the workers' org-affinities to accumulate orgs on their respective org-lists. The leader implements messaging to the workers to update to a new software version and monitors completion of updates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Saptarshi Roy, Daniel C. Silver, Donovan Schneider, Medha Pradhan, Ryan Lamore, Naveen Purushothama Rao, Nicholas Geh, Srirama Koneru
  • Publication number: 20180034904
    Abstract: Methods are disclosed for dynamic node allocation for a server system that can automatically heal on failure—minimizing the need for static configuration—dynamically adjusting server resources to match load, and minimize end user wait times. The disclosed methods dynamically allocate nodes to increase capacity for a platform that accepts data queries. Additionally disclosed is a system for rolling version update deployment: workers maintain org lists of org-task-queues that they service; org-affinities between the workers and the org-task-queues require the workers to have access to local copies of immutable data sets to service org-tasks from the org-task-queues of the orgs that they service. A leader running on a worker implements a healing and balancing service that maintains worker redundancy, manages the workers' org-affinities to accumulate orgs on their respective org-lists. The leader implements messaging to the workers to update to a new software version and monitors completion of updates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Saptarshi Roy, Daniel C. Silver, Donovan Schneider, Medha Pradhan, Ryan Lamore, Naveen Purushothama Rao, Nicholas Geh, Srirama Koneru