Patents Assigned to salesforce, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11968278
    Abstract: A method and system for message handling implemented by a first node in a distributed computing environment. The method including receiving a message including a connection identifier to identify a connection in the application layer to be utilized to send the message to a client application, parsing the connection identifier to determine a node identifier indicating a second node in the distributed computing environment that implements the connection, and forwarding the message to the second node that implements the connection by a message broker that utilizes a routing information registry to locate the second node using the node identifier, in response to the first node having a different node identifier than the node identifier of the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Mariano Luis Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 11966770
    Abstract: A system can allow collaboration between two or more tenants in a multi-tenant system. Each tenant can share a common access to a processing space and a data storage device. Each tenant can be assigned to a virtual environment having a dedicated portion of the data storage device. The system can create a database record in a first dedicated portion assigned to the first tenant. The database record can be displayed on a user interface of the first tenant and include a collaboration tool component embedded within the database record. The database record can be transmitted to a database and transmitted from the database to a second dedicated portion of the data storage device. The second dedicated portion can be assigned to a second tenant of the multi-tenant system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Fahad Azeem
  • Patent number: 11968313
    Abstract: Techniques for facilitating a digital signature occurrence associated with an object transmitted via a communication channel associated with a group-based communication platform. The object may be created by a user within either the group-based communication platform or a third-party application and transmitted to one or more other users associated with the communication channel via the group-based communication platform. The group-based communication platform may be configured to authenticate a digital signature and, based on a verification of the authenticity, associate the digital signature with the object. The group-based communication platform may cause the digital signature to be presented via an interface associated with the communication channel, such as proximate to or viewable in association with the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Attard, Felix Rieseberg, Deani Hansen, Jan Hannemann
  • Publication number: 20240127301
    Abstract: Database systems and methods are provided for automatically generating records at a database system in a configurable and customizable manner. One method involves using a key value associated with a configuration to identify related records at a database system associated with the key value and identify configuration metadata associated with the configuration at the database system. The method continues by providing a graphical user interface (GUI) display at a client device coupled to the database system over a network, where the GUI display includes a first region including a first subset of the records grouped into a first group based on the configuration metadata and a first common field value and a second region including a second subset of the records grouped into a second group based on the configuration metadata and a second common field value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Rekha Koratikere Narayan, Prabhjot Singh
  • Publication number: 20240129402
    Abstract: A native user interface (UI) application of a mobile device includes a library of different components such as text, forms, tables, lists, maps, views and buttons. The components can also have associated actions in some cases. When a view of the UI is launched, the mobile device contacts a server or other data source to obtain metadata associated with the view. The metadata can be tailored to a user or organization of the mobile device. The metadata selects specific components and defines a layout for the components. The mobile device uses the metadata to retrieve the components and render them in the view. The views can be changed by changing the metadata without changing the native application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Romero, Stephen Goldberg, Adam Liechty, Bharath Marulasiddappa, Scotland Peters, Irfan Syed, Chuxiong Wu, Saket Agarwal
  • Patent number: 11960465
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed for database inventory isolation. Demand levels for access to items may be monitored. The items may have associated inventory counts in a database. An item of the items for which to isolate the inventory count associated with the item may be determined based on the demand levels. The inventory count associated with the determined item may be isolated by moving the inventory count associated with the determined item from a first data block that stores the inventory count associated with the determined item and inventory counts associated with others of the items to a second data block that does not store any other inventory counts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Udo Timpe, Andreas Eiserloh, Eckart Hilliger
  • Patent number: 11960551
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of providing targeted content to a user includes generating a query index from a data corpus, the query index including a plurality of market segment-based queries, wherein each market segment-based query of the plurality of queries is configured to provide targeted content on a browser user interface of a user determined to be within a corresponding market segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Muralidhar Krishnaprasad, Kristen Chapman
  • Patent number: 11960577
    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 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Miko Arnab Bose, Robert J. Snell, Mark Francis Movida, Valliappan Annamalai Natarajan, Adam Thielemann Wegel, Matthew Charles Hagenian, Durgesh Singh
  • Publication number: 20240118937
    Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to prediction, based on previous usage of a cloud-based computing resource by a user of one or more users of the cloud-based computing resource, future usage of the cloud-based computing resource. Based on the predicted future usage, embodiments relate to identifying that throttling of access to the cloud-based computing resource is to occur, and notifying the user of the throttling. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Bo Zong, Huan Wang, Tian Lan, Ran Yao, Tony Wong, Daeki Cho, Caiming Xiong, Silvio Savarese, Yingbo Zhou
  • Publication number: 20240119043
    Abstract: Database systems and methods are provided for managing related records using a tiered hierarchical arrangement that supports asynchronous and independent events with respect to related records. A method involves automatically generating a child record having a field value based on configuration data associated with a parent record, automatically updating a second field value for a summarization field associated with the parent record in response to automatically generating the child record, and after automatically updating the second field value, identifying a group record that is a parent of the parent record based on a second field of the parent record, automatically updating a third value for a second summarization field associated with the group record based at least in part on the second field value, and providing a graphical representation of the group record including a graphical representation of the third value for the second summarization field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Parvin Panesar, Prabhjot Singh, Ramakrishna Vankayalapati, Parool Mody
  • Publication number: 20240121105
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for thwarting attackers in a computing system which uses network management interfaces (NMIs). Before submitting NMI form data, a user computing device queries a server using a user id to obtain a signature which defines a shuffling map and random data such as a random key. The NMI form data is divided into portions and the random data is appended to each portion to provide respective data units, or buckets of data. The data units are then shuffled according to the shuffling map before being transmitted to a server, with the signature or an identifier of the signature included in a header. At the server, the data units are unshuffled to recover the data units, and the random data is removed to recover the form data portions. The instructions of the form data can then be executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Jose Lejin P J
  • Patent number: 11954189
    Abstract: A method and system of authenticating a user logon builds a user logon profile with a plurality of user logon features gathered during at least one successful attempted user logon, determines a logon feature novelty score for each feature, receives a user logon request for authentication and extracts current user logon features, retrieves corresponding logon feature novelty scores, determines a first distance function score for the corresponding logon feature novelty scores of the current user logon features, builds a failed logon attempt database, determines a failed logon feature novelty score, extracts the failed logon feature novelty scores corresponding to current user logon features, determines a second distance function score for the corresponding failed logon feature novelty scores of the current user logon features, and determining to one of allow or deny the user logon request based on at least one of the first distance function score and the second distance function score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Vijay Erramilli, Regunathan Radhakrishnan, Anuj Gargeya Malkapuram
  • Patent number: 11954094
    Abstract: A request may be received to transfer from a first entity to a second entity a right related to a digital asset stored in an on-demand database system. The on-demand database system may provide computing services to a plurality of entities via the internet. A token associated with the digital asset may be identified. The token may being included in a smart contract recorded within a distributed trust ledger and may be owned by a first distributed trust ledger account. The smart contract may be executed within the distributed trust ledger to record a transfer of the token from the first distributed trust ledger account to a second distributed trust ledger account. The on-demand database system may be updated to include one or more database entries reflecting the recorded transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan
  • Patent number: 11954109
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to a platform for ultra-fast, ad-hoc data exploration and faceted navigation on integrated, heterogeneous data sets. The disclosed method of declarative specification of visualization queries, display formats and bindings represents queries, widgets and bindings combined on a dashboard in real time, with flexible display options for analyzing data and conveying analysis results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Didier Prophete, Fred Im, Vijayasarathy Chakravarthy
  • Patent number: 11954088
    Abstract: Described herein are a system, apparatus, device, method, and/or computer program product embodiments and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof for managing alerts and subscriptions in a cloud collaborative system. In one embodiment, a modification notice identifying a change to a field of a record is obtained, and the change is compared with a criterion specified in a subscription for a user. If the change satisfies the criterion, an alert is generated based on the modification notice. An alert GUI is transmitted to a user device to display alerts for the user. The user may access an expanded view of the record through the alert in the alert GUI. The user may also publish the alert to a chat session involving other users of the cloud collaborative system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathaniel Botwick, Norris Lee
  • Patent number: 11954629
    Abstract: Activation policies for workflows are described. Some implementations support receiving a definition of a workflow, including data defining an input set for the workflow and data defining activities and a flow of the activities for the workflow. The data includes an activation policy for at least a particular activity of the activities. An estimated operational outcome for the workflow and/or each of the activities is determined and displayed. Then data identifying edits to the activation policy are received, and an updated version of the estimated operational outcome for the workflow and/or each of the activities is determined and displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Peh Keong Teh, Gautam Dharamshi, Jon R. Helms
  • Patent number: 11954183
    Abstract: A method and system to manage application package installation in a multi-tenant system is provided. The method includes accessing metadata of an application package for distribution in the multi-tenant system, selecting a component of the application package with a permission guard in the metadata, evaluating permission guard logic to determine wither a target tenant in the multi-tenant system can install the component, and compiling and installing the component in response to the permission guard logic indicating the tenant of the multi-tenant system has met conditions to utilize the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan, Natasha Sushil Gupta
  • Patent number: 11954463
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to determining a similarity of components of a current webpage to different UI components for use in automatically generating an updated webpage. A computer system may receive information specifying a current webpage, including a particular current UI component and information specifying a plurality of different UI components for an updated webpage. The computer system may identify one or more characteristics of the particular current UI component. The computer system may determine, based on the identified one or more characteristics, a similarity of ones of the plurality of different UI components to the particular current UI component. The computer system may select, based on the determining, a particular different UI component from the plurality of different UI components for use, in the updated webpage, for the particular current UI component. Such techniques may advantageously improve user experience by automatically providing up-to-date user interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Owen Winne Schoppe, Brian J. Lonsdorf, Alan Martin Ross, Sönke Rohde, David James Woodward, Jessica Lundin
  • Patent number: D1023041
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Puneet Dhaliwal, Niv Garber, D. Dustin Breese, Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan, Kara Carreri, Rahul Mehta, Raghav Abboy, Yongbo Zuo, Abraham Reyes
  • Patent number: D1024089
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Puneet Dhaliwal, Niv Garber, D. Dustin Breese, Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan, Kara Carreri, Rahul Mehta, Raghav Abboy, Yongbo Zuo, Abraham Reyes