Patents Assigned to salesforce.com, inc.
  • Patent number: 10146955
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for controlling access to data of heterogeneous origin. A system creates combined access rights from access rights and other access rights for combined data that includes data and other data. The system receives a request to access data that is part of the combined data. The system determines whether to provide access to at least part of the data based on access rights that are part of the combined access rights. The system provides access to at least part of the data in response to a determination to provide access to at least part of the data based on the access rights that are part of the combined access rights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Fuchs
  • Patent number: 10146592
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to managing resource allocation to task sequences in a stream processing framework. In particular, it relates to operating a computing grid that includes machine resources, with heterogeneous containers defined over whole machines and some containers including multiple machines. It also includes initially allocating multiple machines to a first container, initially allocating first set of stateful task sequences to the first container, running the first set of stateful task sequences as multiplexed units of work under control of a container-scheduler, where each unit of work for a first task sequence runs to completion on first machine resources in the first container, unless it overruns a time-out, before a next unit of work for a second task sequence runs multiplexed on the first machine resources. It further includes automatically modifying a number of machine resources and/or a number assigned task sequences to a container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Elden Gregory Bishop, Jeffrey Chao
  • Patent number: 10147054
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer program products for displaying content of an enterprise social network feed on a mobile device. In some implementations, a server receives a request to display a parent container feed associated with a parent object in a hierarchical model of objects stored in a database of an on-demand service environment. The server identifies, based a plurality of criteria, a first plurality of information updates associated with a first child object having a child relationship with the parent object. The server also identifies a second plurality of information updates associated with the parent object. The server generates a first set of feed items comprising the first plurality of information updates and a second set of feed items comprising the second plurality of information updates. The server provides for display on a mobile device the first and second sets of feed items in the parent container feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Alexandre Dayon, Anna Bonner Mieritz, Scott Peter Perket, Richard L. Spencer, II, Lorne Keith Trudeau, Craig Villamor
  • Publication number: 20180341388
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for implementing a modulate runtime environment (MRTE) are described. The MRTE includes multiple layers that communicate with one another using messages that are routed by connectors. A computer system may implement an MTRE that includes a platform-specific visualization layer and a data layer, which may include a headless execution engine. The data layer may be implemented by multiple types of computing platforms, and the platform-specific visualization layer may be replaced for different computing platforms. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Zuye ZHENG, James DIEFENDERFER, Si Wan KIM, Niranjan YADAVALI, Sandeep RAWAT, Khushboo SHAH, Nadeem ABOOBAKER
  • Publication number: 20180341392
    Abstract: A database system may include a data storage configured to store one or more data sets and a processor coupled to the data storage. The processor may receive a query for first data included in the one or more data sets and access the data storage to obtain the first data based on the query. The processor may transmit the first data to a user system. The processor may receive an indication of a filter request to filter the first data based on a characteristic. The processor may identify linked data within second data based on the characteristic, the linked data linked to a portion of the first data associated with the filter request. The processor may access the data storage to obtain the linked data and transmit the linked data to the user system, to enable updating of a data presentation to display the linked data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Zuye ZHENG, Pragya ANAND, Sreevatson Mahabalipuram CHAKRAVARTHY, Katherine Jeanne RUSHTON, Danny LAI, James DIEFENDERFER, Khushboo SHAH, Vaibhav GARG, Sandeep RAWAT
  • Publication number: 20180341572
    Abstract: A user system includes a user interface, a processor, and one or more stored sequences of instructions. The one or more stored sequences of instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to display a script field within an editor dashboard, of a runtime environment, displayed on the user interface, the editor dashboard configured to define an interactive dashboard of the runtime environment, identify a script entry input into the script field, parse the script entry to identify an operation to be performed within the interactive dashboard in response to a trigger event, and associate the operation with the interactive dashboard, so that the operation will be performed within the interactive dashboard in response to the trigger event based on the association.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Zuye ZHENG, James DIEFENDERFER, Srividhya AGANDESWARAN, Deepinder BADESHA
  • Publication number: 20180341924
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for generating a calendar view of a schedule that includes a time zone adjusted travel event and calendar items. When a user creates a travel event on a calendar, an adjusted duration for the travel event is computed, and the travel event is then scheduled according to the adjusted duration. The travel event takes place over a first time zone of a starting location that a user departs from at a departure time, and a second (different) time zone of an ending location that the user arrives at an arrival time. The adjusted duration for the travel event that is time-adjusted, based on time zones that the travel event takes place over, to account for any transitions between the time zones that occur during the travel event. Other calendar items that occur on the travel date and are to be displayed in a main user interface of a calendar application can also be detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Desportes, Eric Alexander Hurlima Perret, Kapildev Reddy Gowru, Tigran Abovyan, Ravi L. Honakere, Kayvaan Ghassemieh, Vatsal Shah
  • Patent number: 10140153
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments for facilitating action-based fair allocation and usage of thread resources, and by way of example, a method includes receiving job requests and bids from organizations over a network, where each job request and the corresponding bid is placed by a user associated with an organization having a resource currency value within a multi-tenant database system, determining resource currency values associated with pending jobs relating to the organizations, wherein the resource currency values corresponds to resources dedicated to the pending jobs, performing an auction of the received bids for resources that are not dedicated and remains available for purchase, where a bid includes a purchase request to purchase the available resources, prioritizing the job requests based on the dedicated resources and the auction of the available resources, and processing the job requests based on the prioritized job requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Xiaodan Wang
  • Patent number: 10140456
    Abstract: During runtime of the software application, the runtime analysis framework may assign input tags to objects associated with the user requests. The input tags may identify the requests as potentially malicious and carry a security risk. The RTA framework then may assign sanitization tags to the objects identifying security checks performed on the objects during runtime. The RTA framework identifies output responses to the user requests that include the objects and compares the input tags assigned to the objects with any sanitization tags assigned to the objects. The RTA framework may identify the software application as susceptible to a security vulnerability when the input tags for the objects do not include corresponding sanitization tags.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: SALESFORCE.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Sergey Gorbaty, Travis Safford, Xiaoran Wang, Yoel Gluck
  • Patent number: 10140322
    Abstract: A system may include multiple personal data sources and a machine-implemented data extractor and correlator configured to retrieve personal data from at least one of the personal data sources. The data extractor and correlator may extract information from unstructured data within the retrieved personal data and correlate the extracted information with previously stored structured data to generate additional structured data. The system may also include a storage device configured to store the previously stored structured data and the additional structured data. A natural language query module may be configured to receive a natural language query from a user and provide a response to the natural language query based at least in part on one or both of the previously stored structured data and the additional structured data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: SALESFORCE.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Thierry Donneau-Golencer, Rajan Singh, Madhu Yarlagadda, Corey Hulen, Kenneth C. Nitz, William Scott Mark
  • Publication number: 20180337873
    Abstract: Email updating apparatuses and methods of updating an email are disclosed herein. In embodiments, a method of updating emails may be provided. The method may include identifying an email selected for opening by a user on a client device, scanning the email, determining if the email refers to a message thread or social media post on a message service provider's server, obtaining contents of the message thread or social media post that were added subsequent to the sending of the email from the message service provider's server, and displaying the email to the user with the added contents. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Tyler Kanyon Clark, Alexander Joseph Baden, Sreejesh Divakaran Nair
  • Publication number: 20180336337
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to validate user connections to one or more application servers within a multi-tenant application system. A domain-level cookie at the client identifies any active connections for that client. As the client requests a connection to a particular application, the cookie is provided to a validation server that determines if any previously-established sessions with the multi-tenant system exist, and/or if such sessions remain active. If an active session already exists, then the client can be redirected to a particular server to continue the previously-established session. If no valid prior sessions are available, then the client can be validated and a new connection to an appropriate server can be established, as appropriate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Applicant: Salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Jong LEE
  • Patent number: 10133795
    Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for providing real-time tracking of user personalized metrics from a database are provided. A request is received from a user device for personalized metrics data from a customer relationship management (CRM) application. A home page user interface is transmitted for display on the user device. The home page user interface provides several icons for user selection, where each of the several icons corresponds to a unique personal metrics category. A selection of one of the several icons is received. A user interface for a personal metrics category corresponding to the selected icon is transmitted for display on the user device. The user interface provides for display on the user device at least one personalized metrics data corresponding to the personal metrics category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Cameron Rose Reed, Lajja Mehta, Kapil Reddy Gowru, Pierre-Marie Dartus, Angela Lee Sy
  • Patent number: 10136044
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for sharing object information which executes a video-chat session between an agent and a mobile client using an application hosted by a server. There is presented a view in common executed by a server application to both the agent and the mobile client for viewing objects captured by the mobile client during the video-chat session. There is identified by the agent a viewed object captured by the mobile client where the captured objected has been viewed by the agent in the common view during the video-chat session. The captured objected may be selected by the agent during the video-chat session and the agent may retrieve information remotely about the selected object to send to the mobile client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Aaron Eisses
  • Patent number: 10135847
    Abstract: A client system such as a database system may be vulnerable to intrusion by an unauthorized user or system through a reverse secure shell connection that enables the intruder to execute OS-level or shell commands on the client system. A reverse shell connection may be detected by monitoring and inspecting packet data traffic between the client system or internal network, and an exterior or “foreign” network. In one example of such a process, after detecting a normal shell session originating inside the internal network, a reverse shell connection exploiting the initial shell detection is detected by analyzing the transmission directions and payload sizes of a sequence of the monitored packets relative to a predetermined traffic pattern. The specific pattern may be selected for different operating systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: SALESFORCE.COM, INC.
    Inventors: John Brooke Althouse, William Roger Salusky, Jeffrey S. Atkinson
  • Patent number: 10135766
    Abstract: Systems, device and techniques are disclosed for evaluating domains to send emails while maintaining sender reputation. Registration records of a domain are retrieved. The registration records include a mail server record and one or more records linking the domain to another domain or to an IP address. The mail server record is verified to be associated with a domain that is not on a black list. A webpage is retrieved from a website associated with the one or more records linking the domain to another domain or to an IP address. The webpage is compared to webpages for websites that are on white lists. An electronic communications sending strategy is determined based on verifying that the mail server record is associated with a domain that is not on a blacklist and comparing of the webpage to webpages for websites that are on one or more white lists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: SALESFORCE.COM, INC.
    Inventor: James Michael Ciancio-Bunch
  • Publication number: 20180330333
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for performing actions with respect to records maintained by a database system from within a calendar context of a calendar application. An association between a type of target object selected from a list of target objects for an organization, and an action type selected from a list of action types is created to define a quick action that is can be performed with respect to an instance of the type of target object. When a user interacts with a calendar item that relates to a record that is an instance of the target object and represents data associated with the calendar item, a quick action UI element is displayed within a main UI of the calendar application. When the user interacts with the quick action UI element, the quick action can be performed with respect to the record from within calendar context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Kapildev Reddy Gowru, Eric Alexander Hurlimann Perret, Anthony Desportes, Tigran Abovyan, Ravi L. Honakere, Kayvaan Ghassemieh, Vatsal Shah
  • Patent number: D834038
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Yuseung Kim
  • Patent number: D834610
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Yuseung Kim
  • Patent number: D834616
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: George Hu, Yijing Zhang