Patents Assigned to salesforce.com
  • Patent number: 11030084
    Abstract: A system may include a mocking server and one or more tenants served by the mocking server. A tenant may test an application programming interface (API) by creating a mock implementation of the API using a mocking service provided by the mocking server. The mocking server may generate a mock implementation of the API based on an API specification and expose an endpoint of the mock implementation for the user to perform testing. The user may provide an identifier for an API specification to the mocking server. The mocking server may retrieve the API specification from a source, parse the API specification in memory to create a mock model of the API, and generate a mock implementation for the API from the mock model. The mocking server includes an authentication mechanism to ensure that users accessing the API specification or running a mock implementation of the API are authorized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, Inc.
    Inventor: Martin Battaglia
  • Patent number: 11030210
    Abstract: A system receives an action override rule and stores it, including display criteria associated with a user interface page, into a hierarchy of rules for displaying multiple user interface pages. The system determines whether the action override rule in the hierarchy of rules matches request criteria associated with a user action, in response to receiving the user action. The system displays the user interface page associated with the display criteria if the action override rule in the hierarchy of rules matches the request criteria associated with the user action. If the action override rule in the hierarchy of rules does not match the request criteria associated with the user action, then the system can identify a hierarchical rule that is a hierarchical match for the request criteria associated with the user action; and display a user interface page associated with the hierarchical rule that is the hierarchical match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Zenil N. Hussain, Ruifeng Xu, Wenqing Dai, Kavitha Musthyala, Dean Moses, Adheip Varadarajan, Sakshi Arora
  • Patent number: 11029694
    Abstract: An agent for navigating a mobile automated system is disclosed herein. The navigation agent receives a navigation instruction and visual information for one or more observed images. The navigation agent is provided or equipped with self-awareness, which provides or supports the following abilities: identifying which direction to go or proceed by determining the part of the instruction that corresponds to the observed images (visual grounding), and identifying which part of the instruction has been completed or ongoing and which part is potentially needed for the next action selection (textual grounding). In some embodiments, the navigation agent applies regularization to ensures that the grounded instruction can correctly be used to estimate the progress made towards the navigation goal (progress monitoring).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Chih-Yao Ma, Caiming Xiong
  • Patent number: 11030085
    Abstract: A mocking service allows a mocking instance of an API specification to receive behavior parameters with requests for resources of the API specification. The mocking service may digest these parameters and generate a response according to the parameters and using the instance of the API specification. The dynamic responses allow a service to be configured for interacting with an API corresponding to the API specification and for interacting with different response scenarios of the API. The parameters may define response behaviors such as a fixed time until a response is received, a variable time until a response is received, error rate, error codes, validations, etc. In some cases, based on a behavior parameter indicating a request for random data for a requested resource, the mock implementation of the API may generate and return random data according to variables defined in the API specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Martin Battaglia
  • Patent number: 11030180
    Abstract: A data migration system and method operate within a database platform system, which includes first and second databases, to provide data migration between databases. The data migration includes automatically generating a globally unique identifier for each record of the first database, such as upon creation of each record. Records in the second database are updated or inserted according to whether or not records in the second database have globally unique identifiers that correspond to globally unique identifiers of records in the first database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: SALESFORCE.COM, INC.
    Inventors: David Ross Baker, Mitul J. Hirpara, Michael Gonzales
  • Patent number: 11029980
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and device embodiments for implementing dynamic customizable animations. A multi-tenant service may configure a visual component of an application to present an animation based on a rule, generate a multi-tenant entity record defining the rule, and generate application code associated with the application. Further, the multi-tenant service may receive a request for animation information associated with the multi-tenant entity record, and send the animation information to the client device. Further, in some embodiments, a client device executing the application may present the animation based on evaluating the animation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Sultan Ali, Aria Niazi, Darrel Dazhi Liu, Jeremy Ellison, Jianmin Liu, Bhargav Venkataraman
  • Patent number: 11029818
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for unifying graphical user interface (GUI) displays across different device types. In an embodiment, a unification system may convert various GUI view appearing on, for example, a desktop device into a GUI view on a mobile device. Both devices may be accessing the same application and/or may use a cloud computing platform to access the application. The unification system may aid in reproducing GUI modifications performed on one user device onto other user devices. In this manner, the unification system may maintain a consistent look-and-feel for a user across different computing device type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Eric Jacobson, Michael Gonzalez, Wayne Cho, Adheip Varadarajan, Daniel McCall, Victor Oliveros, Annie Abrahamian, David Klein, Nicholas Howland, Kyle Haskins, John Vollmer, Benjamin Snyder
  • Patent number: 11030211
    Abstract: An interactive database object representation is created based on a source database object representation. The source database object representation may include a first plurality of graphical elements that are each associated with a respective database object field. The interactive database object representation may include a second plurality of graphical elements that are each associated with a respective database object field. Each of the database object fields may be associated with a database object definition within a database. The interactive database object representation facilitates the display and editing of data associated with an instance of the database object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Viswanadh Addala, Eric Jacobson, Helen Chan, Wenqing Dai, John Henton
  • Patent number: 11032385
    Abstract: Implementations are described which provide for recipient-based filtering of an event that relates to a topic to which consumers are subscribed. Responsive to determining that an attribute of the event includes a set of one or more identifiers for intended recipients for the event, the event is delivered to consumers that correspond to the intended recipients. Alternatively, responsive to determining that the attribute of the event does not include a set of one or more identifiers for intended recipients for the event, the event is delivered to all of the consumers subscribed to the topic to which the event relates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Sivananda Reddy Thummala Abbigari, Lawrence Eugenio McAlpin, Vikram Kommaraju, John Arlan Brock, Soumen Bandyopadhyay
  • Patent number: 11032352
    Abstract: Electronic data can be transmitted from a device outside a multitenant system to a recipient device that is a tenant device associated with the multitenant system. A processor of the device outside the multitenant system can encrypt the electronic data to produce a first file. The processor can produce a second file. The second file can include the first file and an identification. The identification can be for the recipient device. The processor can encrypt the second file to produce a third file. The processor can transmit, to the multitenant system, a file for transmission. The file for transmission can include the third file. The multitenant system can be configured to communicate with the recipient device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Eugene Lew
  • Patent number: 11030082
    Abstract: An application programming interface (API) simulator generates synthetic responses for use during development and testing of subsystems. The API simulator receives an API schema including annotations that specify constraints on the synthetic responses. The API simulator generates synthetic responses as results of APIs that conform to the constraints specified using the annotations. The use of API simulator allows testing of subsystems using realistic synthetic responses that satisfy specific constraints as specified using annotations of the API schema.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Billy Ma, Jules Wada, Vandit Garg
  • Patent number: 11030187
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are described for efficient, general-purpose, and potentially decentralized databases, distributed storage systems, version control systems, and/or other types of data repositories. Data is represented in a database system in such a way that any value is represented by a unique identifier which is derived from the value itself. Any database peer in the system will derive an identical identifier from the same logical value. The identifier for a value may be derived using a variety of mechanisms, including, without limitation, a hash function known to all peers in the system. The values may be organized hierarchically as a tree of nodes. Any two peers storing the same logical value will deterministically represent that value with a graph, such as the described “Prolly” tree, having the same topology and hash value, irrespective of possibly differing sequences of mutations which caused each to arrive at the same final value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Boodman, Rafael Weinstein, Erik Arvidsson, Chris Masone, Dan Willhite, Benjamin Kalman
  • Patent number: 11030545
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for determining device associations are described. Some database systems may store information related to device characteristics. Each of these devices may be operated by one or more users, and each user may operate one or more devices. In some cases, information about users may be more valuable than information about devices. As such, a system may determine probable associations between devices, where an association can correspond to operation by a same user. To determine device associations, the system may perform a machine-learning process (e.g., using probabilistic soft logic (PSL) and a hinge-loss Markov Random Field (HL-MRF) model) on input device characteristics and connection information to generate a probability density function. The probability density function may indicate associations between devices within the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Yacov Salomon, Jonathan Budd
  • Patent number: 11025505
    Abstract: The technology disclosed for configuring a transcoder-router to direct incoming communications to desired receivers includes receiving a selection by a user from an icon-based GUI, of an incoming voice, video, image, short message, or email media type to configure for routing. Incoming communications gets routed in the context of the incoming media type, with the transducer-router receiving a combination of routing conditions with which to determine the routing of the incoming media type: a time zone against which routing schedules are measured; a time window for the routing schedules that covers both time of day and day of week; and available receiver devices for the routing under the selected combination of the incoming media type, time zone and time window. The disclosed systems and methods include committing routing rules based on the user selections to tangible machine readable memory; and using the committed rules to route incoming media type messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Eugene Lew, Mohit Aggarwal
  • Patent number: 11025513
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing a Policy Enforcement as a Service (PEaaS) are described. A processor may, in response to identification of a suspension of user(s) for one of one or more services, generate a suspension value indicative of the suspension and transmit the suspension value to a corresponding one of third party platforms of the service(s), respectively. The suspension value usable by the corresponding third party platform to determine whether to deny request(s) from the user for the distributed service, or not. A service of the service(s) comprises a distributed service provided by a plurality of hosts. In response to the service corresponding to the suspension including the distributed service, the suspension value may be transmitted to the first host, and the suspension value may be propagated to the one or more second hosts, respectively. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SALESFORCE.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Colbert Guan, Jigna Bhatt, Thomas Nicholas Valine, Ruofan Zhang, Sampath Tulava
  • Patent number: 11024170
    Abstract: A method involves accelerating the electronic determination of high quality solutions to routing problems by utilizing determined optimized time windows for precomputing optimal path matrices to reduce computer resource usage. The use of traffic windows defined based on changes in rates of change of speeds for traffic on road segments allows for more rapid determination of a set of one or more high quality solutions as compared to requiring on-demand, in-process determination of a shortest path for a particular time during comparison of paths or routes performed as part of a process for determining high quality solutions to the routing problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
    Inventors: John Brian Stewart, Dinesh Premalal Weerapurage, Timothy Alan Carnes, Christopher Sebastian Groer, Lahiru Sandakith Pileththuwasan Gallege, Chenlu Lou
  • Patent number: 11024172
    Abstract: A method involves accelerating the electronic determination of high quality solutions to routing problems by utilizing determined optimized time windows for precomputing optimal path matrices to reduce computer resource usage. The use of traffic windows defined based on changes in rates of change of speeds for traffic on road segments allows for more rapid determination of a set of one or more high quality solutions as compared to requiring on-demand, in-process determination of a shortest path for a particular time during comparison of paths or routes performed as part of a process for determining high quality solutions to the routing problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
    Inventors: John Brian Stewart, Dinesh Premalal Weerapurage, Timothy Alan Carnes, Christopher Sebastian Groer, Lahiru Sandakith Pileththuwasan Gallege, Chenlu Lou
  • Patent number: 11025629
    Abstract: Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for providing a security model for component-based web applications. Documents for a web-based application are received, with the application containing custom components and Application Programming Interface (API) components. A Document Object Model (DOM) is processed corresponding to the web-based application, with the custom and API components modeled in hierarchical form. For each custom component, a key is assigned in accordance with the rules of capability security, accessible custom components are identified for which the custom component can provide the assigned key, a virtual DOM is generated for the custom component with the component and identified accessible custom components being modeled in hierarchical form, and the custom component is prohibited access to all inaccessible custom components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Doug Chasman, Caridy Patiño, Trevor James Bliss, Sergey Gorbaty
  • Patent number: 11023564
    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: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    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: 11023428
    Abstract: A method for creating a field database object (DO) in a database system (DS) is provided. Prior to run-time: a first page associated with the DO is displayed via a user interface (UI) presented on a display device (DD); a request to create a field for the DO is received via the UI presented on the DD; field creation options for creating fields for the DO within the first page are displayed via the UI; a selection of one or more field creation options is received via the UI and communicated to the DS; and the field is created in the DS. During run-time, the DD is sent a second page to be displayed that is different than the first page, via the same UI presented on the DD that was displayed and used to receive the selection used to create the field using the first page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Jamie No, Michelle Jowitt, Eugene Li, Theresa Vietvu, Carol Franger