Patents Assigned to salesforce.com
  • Patent number: 9641685
    Abstract: Omni-channel routing broker technology is usable to improve the experience for customers and for workers using service channels, especially for very large enterprise service operation centers that have large pools of agents, helping businesses determine the relative priority for handling a variety of service channels, and to efficiently route issues accordingly. Omni-channel routing broker includes intelligent routing of service requests in a large, distributed service center operation, efficiently prioritizing the routing of work across organizations to agents based on availability, capacity and priority—in a multi-tenant environment. The disclosed methods are usable for managing digital data for many tenants to software instances, including groups of users who share common access with a specific set of privileges to a software instance of at least one application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Lintner
  • Patent number: 9641349
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to identifying and notifying a user of nearby attendees at a mega attendance event who are in user's social graph by comparing the user's social graph to a list of event attendees. The identified attendees can be stratified into social graph tags that annotate, categorize and prioritize other users in the user's social graph. The technology disclosed also relates to identifying and notifying the user of nearby attendees of sessions at the event who meet introduction preferences of the user by finding matches between introduction preference attributes specified by the user and attributes of the attendees provided by the list of event attendees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Jason Schroeder
  • Patent number: 9639556
    Abstract: Mechanisms and methods for sharing database content stored by a first organization with a third party are provided. A network address is provided to the third party, which can enable control of the access to the content and tracking of the views of the content. For example, the network address can include an encrypted key that contains information about the organization that created content and the specific distribution ID for delivering the content when requested by the third party using the address. A distribution can be created in numerous ways, with various restrictions on the access to the document of a distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: SALESFORCE.COM, INC.
    Inventors: John Dismore, Didier Prophete, Wolfgang Mathurin
  • Patent number: 9639616
    Abstract: In accordance with disclosed embodiments, there are provided methods, systems, and apparatuses for performing time-partitioned collaborative filtering in an on-demand service environment including, for example, receiving as input, a plurality of access requests for data stored within the host organization and a corresponding plurality of actions for the data to which access is requested; accessing an input table having a time field, action field, item field, and agent field therein; recording time data and agent data for each of the received plurality of access requests and the corresponding plurality of actions; recording an item within the item field and an action within the action field for each of the received plurality of access requests and the corresponding plurality of actions based on the action performed on an item of the data to which access is requested; and analyzing the input table to generate one or more pairs of first actions and items to second actions and items and a time based score for eac
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Joel Palmert
  • Patent number: 9634977
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to embedding private comments in public messages. In particular, it relates to customizing public messages by including private comments that are directed to specific recipients. The private comments are included in the context of the public messages sent to their intended recipients but excluded from the public message when it is sent to other recipients. The private comments can be viewable only to their intended recipients and in the context of the public response. The public response as seen by recipients not intended to receive private comments does not include the private comments. This enables a sender of a private comment to efficiently communicate selected information to specific recipients without burdening all recipients with information which may not be relevant for them. Furthermore, it preserves the overall context of the original message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Ashwini Govindaraman
  • Patent number: 9635090
    Abstract: A request for information to be provided as a page of content is received. The page is provided by a server device communicatively coupled to receive the request from a remote requesting device. A requesting physical device class corresponding to the remote requesting device is determined. The server device is configurable to utilize a plurality of styles to be selected by device class. The page of content is constructed with the server device in response to the request based on the device class by dynamically assembling a response by providing device-specific styles that are compatible with the requesting device are selected from the plurality of styles that can be used to provide the content. The dynamically constructed page of content is transmitted to the requesting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Philip N. Calvin, Brian Zotter, Eric G. Dorgelo
  • Patent number: 9632849
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods and systems are provided for writing events to a data store. An application server generates events, the data store that stores the events, and a temporary events file storage system (TEFSS) temporarily stores groups of events as events files. When events are unable to be written directly to the data store, an indirect events writer is invoked that includes event capture threads each being configured to generate a particular events file, and write it to the TEFSS. Each events file includes a plurality of events flushed from an in-memory buffer service. An events file uploader service reads the events file(s) from the TEFSS, and then writes the events from each of the events files to the data store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Aakash Pradeep, Adam Torman, Alex Warshavsky, Samarpan Jain
  • Patent number: 9633370
    Abstract: Systems, device and techniques are disclosed for dynamically retrieving and monitoring geo-fence activity. A meta geo-fence may be identified based on a user device geolocation. The meta geo-fence having a radius that is dynamically generated to include previously defined geo-fences within or touching the meta geo-fence. User device geolocation may be monitored in relation to the defined geo-fences included in the radius of the meta geo-fence. A communication may be sent to the user device when the user device reports that the user device has entered or exited one of the previously defined geo-fences within or touching the radius of the meta geo-fence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: SALESFORCE.COM, INC.
    Inventor: David Porter
  • Patent number: 9633101
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for portal user data access in a multi-tenant on-demand database system. These mechanisms and methods for portal user data access in a multi-tenant on-demand database system can enable embodiments to provide portal-specific user accounts to the multi-tenant on-demand database system which have reduced configuration requirements than users directly accessing the multi-tenant on-demand database system. The ability of embodiments to provide portal-specific user accounts can reduce processing requirements of the database system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Yongsheng Wu, Alfred Vieira, Punit Jain
  • Patent number: 9632852
    Abstract: A messaging system implements messaging among application servers and databases, utilizing other servers that implement messaging brokers. A large flood of incoming messages can bring down messaging brokers by overflowing the message queues, negatively impacting performance of the overall system. This disclosure in some embodiments detects and identifies “flooders” in a timely manner and isolates their message traffic to dedicated queues to avoid impacting other system users. Subsequently, a preferred system de-allocates the queues and returns the messaging system to normal operation when flooding conditions subside, and “sweeps” up any remaining orphan messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: SALESFORCE.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Hui Lam Kwong, Xiaodan Wang, Vipul Modani, John B. Buisson
  • Patent number: 9626419
    Abstract: Mechanisms and methods are provided for optimizing data synchronization between clients and database systems. These mechanisms and methods provide optimizations for synchronization requests, by either breaking a synchronization request into multiple smaller requests, or by executing different code routines for differing client types, or by pre-caching data that a user is anticipated to want at a future point. Such optimization techniques can enable clients with varying capacities (e.g., mobile client vs. full desktop client) to optimally utilize their respective device capabilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SALESFORCE.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Deepak Kothule, Bagrat Mazyan, Erik Forsberg, Aleksandra Zhulina, Pierpaolo Bergamo
  • Patent number: 9626523
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to creating an audit trail of data incorporation in user profiles. In particular, it relates to linking trust objects to fields of the user profiles. The technology disclosed also relates to maintaining an opt trail that captures user opt-ins by recording the circumstances surrounding opt-in actions. In particular, it relates to linking trust objects to user profiles that connect users to an advertising campaign. The technology disclosed further relates to tracking and measuring reputation of product models in consumer markets. In particular, it relates to assembling consumer feedback on the product models from online social networks and service records of the product models and applying sentiment analysis on the consumer feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Charlie Isaacs, Antony Passemard, Harish Peri, Seema Kumar
  • Patent number: 9628412
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting generic loops is described. In one example, an inbound email is inspected for a loop token. If a loop token is found, then an event identification and a sender identification is extracted. The extracted sender identification and event identification is applied to a loop token record, and the inbound email is conditionally discarded based on the application to the loop token record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: salesforce.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian St. Clair, Joseph Humphreys
  • Patent number: 9626637
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for managing business deals. The mechanisms and methods for managing business deals may enable embodiments to provide a dynamic and interactive user-interface including any combination of contacts, accounts, opportunities, allowing users to create tasks, events, leads (e.g., from Data.com), reports, dashboards, instant messenger, external deal spaces, email service (e.g., Outlook), a cloud-based productivity suite for businesses that allows work on any device (e.g., Google apps), mobile access, private messaging, lead management, mass email templates, social media monitoring (e.g., from Radian6), role-based sharing and security, and/or additional storage, for example. In an embodiment, the number of contacts may be unlimited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Jason Winters
  • Patent number: 9628493
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable storage media for modifying permission sets and validating permission set assignments to users. In some implementations, a computing device receives a request to create a permission set containing one or more permissions and assign the permission set to a first user. The first user is associated with a first user constraint that defines a first group of permissions available to the first user. The computing device may determine that the permission set to be assigned to the first user does not violate the first user constraint, and may assign the permission set to the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Alex Warshavsky, Doug Bitting, Adam Torman, Bhumi Damania, Carol Franger, Herman Kwong, Igor Pesenson, Jimmy Hua
  • Publication number: 20170102833
    Abstract: A computer system facilitates the collaborative design and presentation of graphical dashboard displays or the like by initiating the presentation of dashboard imagery on each of the collaborating system displays. When a user of a client system identifies an object of the dashboard display for editing, instructions are sent to each of the other collaborating systems to identify the editing party and to prevent simultaneous edits of the same object by multiple parties. Edited objects may be shaded, colored or otherwise highlighted to provide additional information about the editor, the changes being made or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: SALESFORCE.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Mrudula Kodali, Eli Brumbaugh
  • Patent number: D784397
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Yuseung Kim, Edward Charles Mengel, III, Qingqing Liu, Jason Winters, Jean Elie Bovet
  • Patent number: D784409
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Yuseung Kim, Edward Charles Mengel, III, Qingqing Liu, Jason Winters, Jean Elie Bovet
  • Patent number: D785040
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Jason Day, Jeffrey Scott Middlesworth
  • Patent number: D785041
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Jason Day, Jeffrey Scott Middlesworth