Patents by Inventor Mark Wilding

Mark Wilding 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: 11940893
    Abstract: Techniques for providing application contextual information. One or more sets of database context identifiers corresponding to events that occur within the database are generated by the database. The one or more sets of database context identifiers have at least one application context field. A session identifier corresponding to a session to be monitored is sent from the application to the database. Information to be stored in the database with the session identifier is sent to the database. Database logs and application logs are correlated using at least the session identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Wilding
  • Patent number: 11354306
    Abstract: One or more client threads are executed. One or more processing threads corresponding to the one or more client threads are executed. The processing threads are configurable to generate statistical information for each database query statement processed by the corresponding client thread. The statistical information is generated from the processing threads. The statistical information is stored in chunks of memory managed via a plurality of queues. The chunks of memory containing the statistics are analyzed. Outlier statements are filtered based on the statistics. Non-outlier statements are stored by a storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: safesforce.com, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Wilding
  • Publication number: 20220091955
    Abstract: Techniques for providing application contextual information. One or more sets of database context identifiers corresponding to events that occur within the database are generated by the database. The one or more sets of database context identifiers have at least one application context field. A session identifier corresponding to a session to be monitored is sent from the application to the database. Information to be stored in the database with the session identifier is sent to the database. Database logs and application logs are correlated using at least the session identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventor: Mark Wilding
  • Patent number: 11281770
    Abstract: Monitoring statements in a database environment. Substantially all database query statements to be executed against a database in the database environment are analyzed to determine if a statement has an outlier statistic. Database queries that do not have an associated outlier statistic are serviced. Further analysis is performed for statements having an outlier statistic to determine if the corresponding statement poses a security risk to the database environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: salesforce.com, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Wilding
  • Patent number: 11243873
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to testing application code. A computer system, in various embodiments, receives application code to be tested by the computer system and separate information defining actions to be performed at specified locations within the application code. In various embodiments, the computer system executes the application code in a test environment in which the actions defined by the separate information are retrieved and performed by a plurality of threads of the application code at the specified locations to control flow of the plurality of threads through the application code. In some embodiments, a first one of the plurality of threads is operable to perform at least one of the actions to control the flow of a second one of the plurality of threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Mark Wilding, Punit B. Shah
  • Patent number: 11036620
    Abstract: 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 test source that is not the subject organization into the scratch organization. One or more test operations are performed on the scratch organization using the loaded data with the target host. The scratch organization is destroyed on the selected host after the one or more test operations have been performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: James Bock Wunderlich, George Murnock, Josh Kaplan, Michael Dwayne Miller, Mark Wilding
  • Patent number: 11023346
    Abstract: Techniques for providing application contextual information. One or more sets of database context identifiers corresponding to events that occur within the database are generated by the database. The one or more sets of database context identifiers have at least one application context field. A session identifier corresponding to a session to be monitored is sent from the application to the database. Information to be stored in the database with the session identifier is sent to the database. Database logs and application logs are correlated using at least the session identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Mark Wilding
  • Publication number: 20200364136
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to testing application code. A computer system, in various embodiments, receives application code to be tested by the computer system and separate information defining actions to be performed at specified locations within the application code. In various embodiments, the computer system executes the application code in a test environment in which the actions defined by the separate information are retrieved and performed by a plurality of threads of the application code at the specified locations to control flow of the plurality of threads through the application code. In some embodiments, a first one of the plurality of threads is operable to perform at least one of the actions to control the flow of a second one of the plurality of threads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Mark Wilding, Punit B. Shah
  • Publication number: 20200250182
    Abstract: One or more client threads are executed. One or more processing threads corresponding to the one or more client threads are executed. The processing threads are configurable to generate statistical information for each database query statement processed by the corresponding client thread. The statistical information is generated from the processing threads. The statistical information is stored in chunks of memory managed via a plurality of queues. The chunks of memory containing the statistics are analyzed. Outlier statements are filtered based on the statistics. Non-outlier statements are stored by a storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventor: Mark Wilding
  • Patent number: 10733083
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to testing application code. A computer system, in various embodiments, receives application code to be tested by the computer system and separate information defining actions to be performed at specified locations within the application code. In various embodiments, the computer system executes the application code in a test environment in which the actions defined by the separate information are retrieved and performed by a plurality of threads of the application code at the specified locations to control flow of the plurality of threads through the application code. In some embodiments, a first one of the plurality of threads is operable to perform at least one of the actions to control the flow of a second one of the plurality of threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Mark Wilding, Punit B. Shah
  • Publication number: 20200073776
    Abstract: Techniques for providing application contextual information. One or more sets of database context identifiers corresponding to events that occur within the database are generated by the database. The one or more sets of database context identifiers have at least one application context field. A session identifier corresponding to a session to be monitored is sent from the application to the database. Information to be stored in the database with the session identifier is sent to the database. Database logs and application logs are correlated using at least the session identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventor: Mark Wilding
  • Patent number: 10567475
    Abstract: Techniques and architectures to provide trace functionality. Trace record data is received from a plurality of client threads executed by one or more processors. The trace record data is stored in a plurality of chunks maintained in an in-use list. The in-use list has a chunk for individual use by the corresponding client threads. Chunks in the in-use list are moved to a completed queue when a chunk in the in-use list is substantially full. A chunk from a free list is placed in the in-use list to replace removed chunks. The chunks from the completed queue are stored in at least one memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Mark Wilding
  • Patent number: 10467117
    Abstract: Techniques for providing application contextual information. One or more sets of database context identifiers corresponding to events that occur within the database are generated by the database. The one or more sets of database context identifiers have at least one application context field. A session identifier corresponding to a session to be monitored is sent from the application to the database. Information to be stored in the database with the session identifier is sent to the database. Database logs and application logs are correlated using at least the session identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Mark Wilding
  • Publication number: 20190324895
    Abstract: 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 test source that is not the subject organization into the scratch organization. One or more test operations are performed on the scratch organization using the loaded data with the target host. The scratch organization is destroyed on the selected host after the one or more test operations have been performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: James Bock Wunderlich, George Murnock, Josh Kaplan, Michael Dwayne Miller, Mark Wilding
  • Patent number: 10409701
    Abstract: One or more client threads are executed. One or more processing threads corresponding to the one or more client threads are executed. The processing threads are configurable to generate statistical information for each database query statement processed by the corresponding client thread. The statistical information is generated from the processing threads. The statistical information is stored in chunks of memory managed via a plurality of queues. The chunks of memory containing the statistics are analyzed. Outlier statements are filtered based on the statistics. Non-outlier statements are stored by a storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Mark Wilding
  • Patent number: 10387291
    Abstract: 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 test source that is not the subject organization into the scratch organization. One or more test operations are performed on the scratch organization using the loaded data with the target host. The scratch organization is destroyed on the selected host after the one or more test operations have been performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: James Bock Wunderlich, George Murnock, Josh Kaplan, Michael Dwayne Miller, Mark Wilding
  • Publication number: 20190114253
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to testing application code. A computer system, in various embodiments, receives application code to be tested by the computer system and separate information defining actions to be performed at specified locations within the application code. In various embodiments, the computer system executes the application code in a test environment in which the actions defined by the separate information are retrieved and performed by a plurality of threads of the application code at the specified locations to control flow of the plurality of threads through the application code. In some embodiments, a first one of the plurality of threads is operable to perform at least one of the actions to control the flow of a second one of the plurality of threads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Mark Wilding, Punit B. Shah
  • Publication number: 20180288132
    Abstract: Techniques and architectures to provide trace functionality. Trace record data is received from a plurality of client threads executed by one or more processors. The trace record data is stored in a plurality of chunks maintained in an in-use list. The in-use list has a chunk for individual use by the corresponding client threads. Chunks in the in-use list are moved to a completed queue when a chunk in the in-use list is substantially full. A chunk from a free list is placed in the in-use list to replace removed chunks. The chunks from the completed queue are stored in at least one memory device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventor: Mark Wilding
  • Publication number: 20180217911
    Abstract: Techniques for providing application contextual information. One or more sets of database context identifiers corresponding to events that occur within the database are generated by the database. The one or more sets of database context identifiers have at least one application context field. A session identifier corresponding to a session to be monitored is sent from the application to the database. Information to be stored in the database with the session identifier is sent to the database. Database logs and application logs are correlated using at least the session identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventor: Mark Wilding
  • Patent number: 9992264
    Abstract: Techniques and architectures to provide trace functionality. Trace record data is received from a plurality of client threads executed by one or more processors. The trace record data is stored in a plurality of chunks maintained in an in-use list. The in-use list has a chunk for individual use by the corresponding client threads. Chunks in the in-use list are moved to a completed queue when a chunk in the in-use list is substantially full. A chunk from a free list is placed in the in-use list to replace removed chunks. The chunks from the completed queue are stored in at least one memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Mark Wilding