Patents Assigned to salesforce.com
  • Publication number: 20180349823
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for scheduling a service appointment. A method can include analyzing attributes of a customer service request with respect to a problem area. A multi-factor scheduling analysis is performed by analyzing skill level and resource data associated with the problem area attributes for servicing the customer service request. The analysis is used for scheduling a service appointment to handle the customer service request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Neeraj Ahuja, Nilesh Patel, Priyank Shah, Rasik Phalak
  • Patent number: 10146510
    Abstract: Techniques for providing custom metadata in a multi-tenant database environment in which hardware and software of the multi-tenant database system is shared by one or more organizations, each having one or more corresponding users. Each of the organizations has associated organization data and organization metadata. Activating procedural code is triggered in response to a trigger event determined by a platform interface. The procedural code is to query the organization metadata provided by the associated organization through a metadata interface provided by a platform developer. The platform interface is provided by the platform developer and the procedural code utilizes compile time dependencies to generate custom metametadata to be maintained by the platform developer and to be provided to the organizational metadata, which is to be maintained by the corresponding organization. The organization data owned by the organization is written to with the procedural code in response to results of the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Avrom Roy-Faderman
  • Patent number: 10146526
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for deploying updates between environments of a multi-tenant on-demand database system. These mechanisms and methods for deploying updates between environments of a multi-tenant on-demand database system can enable embodiments to provide user-friendly, granular, and/or targeted updates between such environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Plax, Timothy Kral, Shannon Hale
  • Patent number: 10146597
    Abstract: Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for delegating handling of computing events of a mobile device application. For example, an identification of a computing event can be received. The computing event can have associated metadata. The computing event can be associated with a first component of a plurality of components of a first application executable on a mobile device. The plurality of components can comprise at least a native component and a web browser component. One or more rules can be applied to the metadata. Based on the application of the one or more rules to the metadata, a second component can be identified for handling the event. Handling of the event can be delegated to the second component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Richard Perry Pack, III, Kevin Venkiteswaran, Qingqing Liu, Sachin Desai, Phillip Norman Calvin
  • Patent number: 10148640
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a method for accessing network resources which includes receiving by a first application in a mobile computing device sign-in information from a user and enabling the user to sign in to a second application with the first application to access network resources from a resource server based on (a) a first application identification (ID) of the second application, (b) the user authorizing the second application to the resource server, and (c) receiving an authorization grant from the resource server to enable the second application to access the network resources, the mobile computing device coupled with the resource server via a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Sachin Desai, Qingqing Liu, Ronald Fischer
  • Patent number: 10146581
    Abstract: Disclosed are non-limiting examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for dynamically configuring a process associated with an application based on environmental characteristics monitored by a mobile device. In some implementations, the process includes stages and decision nodes. There is a configurable flow along a path defined by a subset of the stages controlled by a subset of the decision nodes. Contextual data is provided by the mobile device on which the application is usable. The contextual data indicates one or more environmental characteristics associated with a physical environment in which the mobile device is or has been located. The contextual data can be provided as a control input to a decision node associated with a current stage of the process. The process can be configured accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Adrian Dieter Rapp, Qingqing Liu, Michael Chou
  • Patent number: 10148603
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for dynamic electronic message content. A first template is associated with a first electronic message service provider, and a second template is associated with a second electronic message service provider. The first template is incompatible with the second electronic message service provider and/or the second template is incompatible with the first electronic message service provider. Dynamic content for electronic messages is stored in a database accessible by the first electronic message service provider and the second electronic message service provider. The dynamic content includes electronic message addresses associated with intended recipients of the electronic messages. The first electronic message service provider is instructed to generate a set of electronic messages based on the dynamic content, wherein the first electronic message service provider uses the first template to generate the set of electronic messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Alex Ye, Fang Wong, Pallavi Savla
  • Patent number: 10146812
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for providing a reference to a content object in a user interface using an on-demand database service. A computing device can receive data regarding identification of a content object, where the content object is stored in a data repository external to the on-demand database service. The data regarding the content object can be stored in a persistent object in a database of the on-demand database service. A reference can be provided representing the persistent object to a display device operable to display the reference in a user interface when the display device accesses the on-demand database service. One or more graphical representations can be exposed regarding the content object for display in the user interface by the display device, where the exposed graphical representations depend at least in part on the data repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: David Goldbrenner, Robert J. Snell, James Johnson
  • Patent number: 10146915
    Abstract: Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for sharing and publishing files. In one aspect, the database system can maintain a user database, a file database and a library. The database system can receive a first request initiated by a first user to share a first file with one or more second users and, responsive to the first request, enable a second set of one or more permissions for each of the second users. The database system also can receive a second request initiated by the first user to publish the first file to the library and, responsive to the second request, publish the first file to the library. The database system additionally can restrict access to the published file based on permissions associated with the library.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Miko Arnab Bose, Robert J. Snell, Mark Francis Movida, Valliappan Annamalai Natarajan, Adam Thielemann Wegel, Matthew Charles Hagenian, Durgesh Singh
  • 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
  • Patent number: D834616
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: George Hu, Yijing Zhang