Abstract: Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for facilitating the customization of a process flow builder. A first graphical user interface (GUI) identifying one or more user selectable process flow types is provided. Responsive to a selection of a process flow type, information corresponding to the selected process flow type is obtained. The information includes one or more headers and, for at least a first header, identifies one or more elements that are user-selectable for addition to a layout representing a process flow. A second GUI is generated using the information. A user may access the second GUI to generate a layout representing a process flow of the process flow type.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 21, 2021
Publication date:
October 13, 2022
Applicant:
Salesforce.com, Inc.
Inventors:
Paul Anthony MASON, Samuel William BAILEY, Samantha REYNARD, Derek D'SOUZA, Lovi YU
Abstract: Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for facilitating the customization of a process flow builder. A first graphical user interface (GUI) identifying one or more user selectable process flow types is provided. Responsive to a selection of a process flow type, information corresponding to the selected process flow type is obtained. The information includes one or more headers and, for at least a first header, identifies one or more elements that are user-selectable for addition to a layout representing a process flow. A second GUI is generated using the information. A user may access the second GUI to generate a layout representing a process flow of the process flow type.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 21, 2021
Publication date:
October 13, 2022
Applicant:
Salesforce.com, Inc.
Inventors:
Paul Anthony MASON, William Charles EIDSON, Samuel William BAILEY, Alex EDELSTEIN, Samantha REYNARD, Barkha KENI, Tanveer Singh RANDHAWA
Abstract: A method by one or more computing devices implementing a data insights sharing service to allow a first user of the data insights sharing service to share data insights with other users of the data insights sharing service. The method includes storing metadata describing one or more data insights, where the one or more data insights were generated based on analyzing a dataset of the first user, responsive to receiving a request from a second user to access the one or more data insights, generating the one or more data insights based on the metadata describing the one or more data insights without accessing the dataset, and providing the one or more data insights to the second user via a graphical user interface (GUI) of the data insights sharing service.
Abstract: Computing systems, database systems, and related conversational updating methods are provided for dynamically updating graphical user interfaces responsive to conversational user inputs received via a chatbot or other conversational interactions with a user.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 27, 2022
Publication date:
October 13, 2022
Applicant:
salesforce.com, inc.
Inventors:
Alan Cardel Molina, Carlos Enrique Mogollan Jimenez, Chaitanya Malla
Abstract: A method for managing a user's email subscriptions has been developed. The method provides a user interface (UI) to the user that allows the user to view and select multiple stand-alone components across multiple dashboard displays for an email subscription to an email address. The user's selections are received via the UI. A display of each of the subscribed stand-alone components is rendered periodically based on the user's preference. The rendered displays are combined into a single email message that is sent to the email address upon completion of the rendering of the displays.
Abstract: A method performed by a system of a host organization for providing access controls for data a blockchain, the system providing a blockchain interface to a blockchain on behalf of a plurality of tenants of the host organization each serving as nodes in a blockchain network. The method includes receiving a request including an identifier of a requestor, the request to access transaction data having defined privileges, requesting access to the transaction data from nodes in the blockchain network, a request for access including the identifier of the requestor, receiving at least one shared secret from an owner node in the blockchain network indicating consensus to access the transaction data by the requestor, and denying access to the transaction data in response to receiving insufficient shared secrets from the nodes indicating the requestor does not meet requirements of the defined privileges of the transaction data.
Abstract: A request for an organization migration to move application data and application services of an organization hosted at a source system instance in a multi-tenant computing system to a target system instance in the multi-tenant computing system is received. Based on operational parameters, a time window is selected to execute the organization migration. Computing resource usages of one or both of the source and target system instances in the selected time window are monitored. If computing resources are available, the organization migration is enqueued.
Abstract: An abstract data graph may be constructed at a server. The abstract data graph may include nodes and links between nodes and may represent computer programming instructions for generating a graphical user interface at a client machine. At least some of the links may represent dependency relationships between portions of the graphical user interface. The abstract data graph may be resolved at the client machine to identify data items, which may be retrieved from the server and used to render the graphical user interface.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 27, 2021
Date of Patent:
October 11, 2022
Assignee:
salesforce.com, inc.
Inventors:
Erik Craig, Matt Buland, Helen Gawor, Kurtis Martin, Joel Benjamin Allen, Darrell Bleakley
Abstract: A method performed by an electronic device includes retrieving, from a first computing environment, a first set of structured documents that contains metadata for a first version of a workflow to be performed by a workflow engine, the first version of the workflow including a first set of workflow elements. The method further including retrieving, from a second computing environment, a second set of structured documents. The method determines whether a rule is to be applied, based on one but not both of the first and second sets of structured documents including at least one section for a workflow element having a type to which the rule applies, and generating a description of a change in the second version of the workflow relative to the first version of the workflow.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 12, 2020
Date of Patent:
October 11, 2022
Assignee:
salesforce.com, inc
Inventors:
Nicholas Chun Yuan Chen, George John Murnock, Jr., Michael Christopher Olson, Karen Fidelak
Abstract: Disclosed are systems, apparatus, methods, and computer readable media for discontinuing the following of records in an on-demand database service environment. In one embodiment, one or more records are identified according to one or more designated criteria. The records are stored in a database. The records are being followed by one or more users in an on-demand database service environment such that updates to the records are capable of being stored as feed items in one or more feed tables in the database. The feed items are capable of being published in an information feed displayed on one or more devices associated with the one or more users. The following of the identified one or more records by the one or more users is discontinued.
Abstract: An abstract data graph may be constructed at a server. The abstract data graph may include nodes and links between nodes and may represent computer programming instructions for generating a graphical user interface at a client machine. At least some of the links may represent dependency relationships between portions of the graphical user interface. The abstract data graph may be resolved at the client machine to identify data items, which may be retrieved from the server and used to render the graphical user interface.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 27, 2021
Date of Patent:
October 11, 2022
Assignee:
salesforce.com, inc.
Inventors:
Erik Craig, Matt Buland, Helen Gawor, Kurtis Martin, Joel Benjamin Allen, Darrell Bleakley
Abstract: Mechanisms and techniques for providing an isolated runtime environment are disclosed. Scoped properties are generated utilizing a namespace identifier. The namespace identifier is an identifier used to define a scope of at least an isolated application runtime context. Scoped objects are generated corresponding to one or more dependent services utilizing the one or more scoped properties and the namespace identifier. A target application is deployed to a container corresponding to the isolated application runtime context. The target application interacts with at least some of the dependent services utilizing the namespace identifier. At least one integration test is run on the target application in the container. The integration tests refer to the isolated application runtime context utilizing the namespace identifier.
Abstract: A method and system for a single framework for both streaming and on-demand inference that includes receiving a request from a tenant application for a machine-learning serving infrastructure, where the request identifies features of tenant data and a machine-learning model, subscribing to events for the identified features, initiating the machine-learning model for the request, and generating a prediction using the machine-learning model on the identified features.
Abstract: Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for providing contextually relevant recommendations based on a context of the user. The context of the user may be determined according to a set of privacy settings of the user, where the set of privacy settings indicates contextual features for which values are permitted to be accessed by a recommendation system. The contextual features may include user-related features and/or tenant features pertaining to a tenant of a multi-tenant database.
Abstract: Techniques and structures to facilitate conversion of a workflow process is disclosed. The techniques include receiving an image, identifying one or more objects included in the image, identifying one or more properties associated with each of the one or more objects, generating a matrix including data including the identified objects and associated properties and processing the matrix at a machine learning model to determine whether the image is to be translated based on a determination that one or more objects and associated properties within the image are required to be translated.
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:
October 4, 2022
Assignee:
Salesforce.com, Inc.
Inventors:
Prasad Peddada, Sriram Shankarlal, Giridharan Sridharan, Nirav K. Butala
Abstract: Described herein are means for implementing cross cloud engagement activity visualization without requiring database merge or data replication.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 2, 2020
Date of Patent:
October 4, 2022
Assignee:
salesforce.com, inc.
Inventors:
Mark Knapp, Meredith Brown, Vignesh Elamvazhuthi, Gauri Subodh Mawalankar, Jia Chen, Kattie Mun Mun Tay, Spencer Derek Williams, Ovidio Peduri, Daniel Dara, Juan Nunez, Tal Levy Meruk
Abstract: A method, performed by a server, for aggregating data in from devices within a complex network including receiving, at a network interface, an end data from a data source wherein the end data includes a source field having a source value, determining, by a processor, a subset of a ruleset for the data source in response to a source stanza within the ruleset, generating, by the processor, a results data structure in response to the end data and the subset of the ruleset wherein the results data structure includes a destination field generated in response to the source field and a transform instruction in the subset of the ruleset and a destination value generated in response to the source value and the transform instruction in the subset of the ruleset, and storing, within a memory, a destination value and the destination field as a key value pair.
Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to handling queues. A server-based platform, in some embodiments, accesses queue information that includes performance attributes for a plurality of queues storing one or more messages corresponding to one or more applications. In some embodiments, the platform assigns, based on the performance attributes, a corresponding set of the plurality of queues to each of a plurality of processing nodes of the platform. In some embodiments, the assigning of a corresponding set of queues to a given one of the plurality of processing nodes causes instantiation of: a first set of one or more dequeuing threads and a second set of one or more processing threads. The dequeuing threads may be executable to dequeue one or more messages stored in the corresponding set of queues. The processing threads may be executable to perform one or more tasks specified in the dequeued one or more messages.
Abstract: Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for generating and implementing computational graphs that facilitate concurrent computation on data streams. A computational graph includes a plurality of nodes, where each node has one or more stages associated therewith. Each stage may be associated with a corresponding operation that is to be performed on data associated with that stage.