Patents Assigned to salesforce, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11875110
    Abstract: Provided herein are system, method, and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof for seamlessly adding and removing form fields from a form. A form engine may receive a request to generate a form. The form engine may render a screen to populate the form with form fields and organize the form fields by sections. Form fields may be added to a selected section by toggling a button corresponding to a given form field, from unselected to selected. Form fields may be removed from any given section by toggling a button corresponding to a given form field from selected to unselected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Vladimir Martinov, Charles Allen, Keld Bangsberg, Alison Meyer, Patrick Tewson
  • Patent number: 11875305
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products configured for image detection/recognition of products. The disclosed systems and techniques utilize video data to provide the necessary number of images and view angles needed to train a machine learning product detection/recognition system to recognize a specific product within later provided images. In various embodiments, a user may provide video data and the video data may be transformed in a manner that may aid in training of the machine learning system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Alex Papli
  • Patent number: 11875400
    Abstract: Exemplary systems, methods, and apparatuses dynamically assign nodes to a group within blockchains based on transaction type and node intelligence using Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) in conjunction with a cloud based computing environment. The exemplary system operates a blockchain interface to the blockchain on behalf of a plurality of tenants of the host organization, creates a consensus group on the blockchain and associates the consensus group with a specific transaction type for transactions to be processed via the blockchain. The system further assigns participating nodes to the consensus group and grants increased weight consensus voting rights to the consensus group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan
  • Patent number: 11876910
    Abstract: Exemplary systems, implement a multi-tenant blockchain platform for managing the Einstein cloud platform's decisions using Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) in conjunction with a cloud based computing environment. The system operates a blockchain interface to a blockchain on behalf of a plurality of tenants of the host organization, configures the blockchain to share a training data set between two or more tenants pursuant to a consent agreement, trains an AI model to make recommendations based on the training data set, receives a request to register the AI model with an audit record keeping service, receives a transaction at the blockchain, issues a decision by the AI model to accept or reject the transaction; and then proceeds to transact a new asset onto the blockchain recording the decision to accept or reject the transaction and the data set utilized to train the AI model with a version of the AI model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan
  • Patent number: 11875311
    Abstract: Techniques for enabling an efficient means of collaborating via a collaborative document associated with a communication platform are described herein. In some examples, the collaborative document can be created within and managed by the communication platform. In at least one example, a collaborative document can support editable text and/or objects that can be ordered, added, deleted, modified and/or the like, such as by members thereof. Additionally, the collaborative document can include messaging functionalities. In at least one example, the collaborative document can include or be associated with a document identifier configured to enable functionalities associated with the type of virtual space corresponding to the virtual space identifier. That is, the collaborative document can leverage existing paradigms associated with the communication platform to enable the functionalities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Fong, Michael Hahn, Ed Donghyun Kim
  • Patent number: 11874797
    Abstract: Privilege escalation in a cloud platform comprises provisioning to a client access privileges to the database entities that are covered by a license. A base escalation matrix is provisioned to the client with additional access privileges not covered by the license. An API request is received and the requested CRUD operation is attempted on a first database entity. Responsive to the requested CRUD operation initially failing because the client does not have required access privileges activation of an exception signaling failure of the requested CRUD operation is detected and used as a trigger to fetch the base escalation matrix. The access privileges of the client are escalated by applying the additional access privileges from the base escalation matrix to a user context of the current API query request, and repeating the requested CRUD operation. The escalated access privileges are then removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Manish Singh
  • Patent number: 11875294
    Abstract: A method to provide multi-objective recommendations. The method includes receiving user input indicating a plurality of objectives, where each of the plurality of objectives indicates a desired goal for a field of interest, receiving user input indicating a plurality of actionable fields, receiving user input indicating selection of one of a plurality of records in a data set, determining, based on applying an evolutionary algorithm, one or more candidate changes to values of the plurality of actionable fields of the selected record, determining, for each of the one or more candidate changes, a multi-objective score for that candidate change, selecting one or more of the one or more candidate changes to recommend to a user based on the multi-objective scores of the one or more candidate changes, and providing, for display to the user, the selected one or more candidate changes as recommended changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Lingtao Zhang, Chang Lu, Sybil Shim, Amit Kumar
  • Publication number: 20240013151
    Abstract: A method receives an input file. The input file includes a plurality of entries where different entries are associated with a different characteristic. A selection of a guide for an entry is determined where a guide includes guidelines for formatting content in an entry in the plurality of entries. The method performs analyzing an image from the entry to generate image variations. Then, the method analyzes the image and the image variations to place text items from the entry in the image and the image variations where the text items in the image and the image variations are formatted based on the guidelines in the guide for the entry. A plurality of design variants is generated for the entry based on the image and the image variations that include text items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Bokma, Brian J. Lonsdorf, Sönke Rohde, Alan Martin Ross, Michael Sollami, David Woodward, Jessica Lundin
  • Publication number: 20240013321
    Abstract: In accordance with disclosed embodiments, there are provided methods, systems, and apparatuses for aggregating social network feed information including, for example, means for receiving user activity data from one or more social networks; parsing the user activity data to render a plurality of targeting parameters culled from the user activity data; matching one or more of the plurality of targeting parameters with advertising conditions for a social media campaign, wherein the advertising conditions of the social media campaign are contextually relevant to the one or more targeting parameters matched; recommending the social media campaign via a user interface; receiving authorization to launch the social media campaign via input received at the user interface or automatically launching the social media campaign based on pre-defined parameters; and deploying the social media campaign to one or many social media networks. Other related embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Liam Tomar Fontvieille Doyle, Andrew Ian Craven, Teddy Kite Joe
  • Patent number: 11870860
    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: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Prasad Peddada, Sriram Shankarlal, Giridharan Sridharan, Nirav K. Butala
  • Patent number: 11870882
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for data processing are described. Some systems may support data processing permits and cryptographic techniques tying user consent to data handling. By tying user consent to data handling, the systems may comply with data regulations on a technical level and efficiently update to handle changing data regulations and/or regulations across different jurisdictions. For example, the system may maintain a set of data processing permits indicating user consent for the system to use a user's data for particular data processes. The system may encrypt the user's data using a cryptographic key (e.g., a cryptographic nonce) and may encrypt the nonce using permit keys for any permits applicable to that data. In this way, to access a user's data for a data process, the system may first verify that a relevant permit indicates that the user complies with the requested process prior to decrypting the user's data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Yacov Salomon, Seth Yates, Maxwell Anderson, Vivek Vaidya, Anton Winter, Samuel Alexander, Tom Chavez
  • Patent number: 11868702
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and corresponding systems and apparatuses for configuring the visual appearance of a webpage. The method involves providing access to color schemes through a user interface of a software application and assigning color schemes to corresponding sections of the webpage based on user input. Each color scheme includes at least one foreground color paired with a corresponding background color that contrasts the foreground color. The method further involves generating source code representing the webpage. In some examples, the source code includes a first container corresponding to a first section and a second container corresponding to a second section. The first container includes properties corresponding to a first color scheme. Similarly, the second container includes properties corresponding to a second color scheme. Because the second section is a subsection of the first section, the source code is generated with the second container being nested within the first container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyung Jin Kim, Shelby Hubick, Bret Little, Andrew Peterson
  • Patent number: 11869014
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices supporting physical proximity graphing are described. Some systems may store a limited set of location information for a set of humans (e.g., refraining from tracking device location information to maintain user privacy). A system may send a survey to each person indicating a suggested list of people based on the location information. The people may provide feedback confirming whether encounters occurred with each suggested human. The system may use this information to generate a graph using hashed identifiers to obfuscate user identities, where the graph tracks connections between people (e.g., based on encounters within a time period). Based on a trigger event, the system may analyze the graph and identify a set of hashed identifiers connected to a person of interest (e.g., traversing multiple levels of the graph). The system may transmit messages to people corresponding to the identified set of hashed identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan, Amanda Grady
  • Patent number: 11868750
    Abstract: Computing systems, for example, multi-tenant systems deploy software artifacts in data centers created in a cloud platform using a cloud platform infrastructure language that is cloud platform independent. The system receives a declarative specification for creating a datacenter on a cloud platform. The system generates an aggregate pipeline comprising a hierarchy of pipelines. The system generates an aggregate deployment version map associating data center entities of the data center with versions of software artifacts targeted for deployment on the datacenter entities. The system collects a set of software artifacts according to the aggregate deployment version map. The system executes the aggregate pipeline in conjunction with the aggregate deployment version map to create the datacenter in accordance with the cloud platform independent declarative specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Srinivas Dhruvakumar, Varun Gupta, Abhishek B. Waichal, Mayakrishnan Chakkarapani, Christopher Steven Moyes
  • Patent number: 11870845
    Abstract: Methods, media, and systems are disclosed for adding new users to a channel in a group-based communication system. The system receives a request to add new users to a channel. The system adds a new user by classifying the new user's email address domain as internal or external. If the domain is internal, the first user is added to the channel as a member, and if the domain is external, the user is prompted for a type of access for the new user. If the new user's access type is guest, the new user is added to the channel as a guest. If the type of access is shared, the channel is shared with an organization associated with the domain, and the new user is added as a member of the channel that has been shared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Sarah Henkens, Britton Jamison, Yoav Sion
  • Patent number: 11868505
    Abstract: System, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for automatic removal of sensitive data items from records are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, a record with a sensitive field (for storing a sensitive data item) is linked to a self-removal data policy that includes a condition set. When the condition set is true, the sensitive data item is automatically removed from the record without deleting the record and without removing other data items stored in other fields of the record. Conditions may be associated with a time period following the upload or storage of the sensitive date item, the occurrence of an event that requires the sensitive date item, a read or approval of the sensitive data item, etc. A user may modify a condition in the condition set to make the condition more stringent or less stringent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Gang Shu, Jong Lee, Kasthuri Periyakoil, Shawn Butterfield, Gerard Iervolino, Mike Cain, Kevin Lun, Sriram Rangaraj, Sai Lakshminaraayana, Jianwu Zhao
  • Patent number: 11868790
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for automatically generating new content using a trained 1-to-N generative adversarial network (GAN) model. In disclosed techniques, a computer system receives, from a computing device, a request for newly-generated content, where the request includes current content. The computer system automatically generates, using the trained 1-to-N GAN model, N different versions of new content, where a given version of new content is automatically generated based on the current content and one of N different style codes, where the value of N is at least two. After generating the N different versions of new content, the computer system transmits them to the computing device. The disclosed techniques may advantageously automate a content generation process, thereby saving time and computing resources via execution of the 1-to-N GAN machine learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Sollami, Sönke Rohde, Alan Martin Ross, David James Woodward, Jessica Lundin, Owen Winne Schoppe, Brian J. Lonsdorf, Aashish Jain
  • Patent number: 11870782
    Abstract: Management of hosted channel membership of a communication platform is described. A request can be received from a first client of a first user, associated with a first organization, of the group-based communication platform, wherein the request is to associate a second user, associated with a second organization, with a communication channel of the first organization. An invitation to join the communication channel can be sent to a second client of the second user. In response to receiving an indication of an acceptance of the invitation, the second user can be associated with the communication channel. A request can be received from the second client to associate other user(s) associated with the second organization with the communication channel and the other user(s) can be associated with the communication channel based at least in part on permission(s) associated with the communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Ilan Frank, Shanan Delp, Michael Demmer, Sri Vasamsetti, Neha Sharma
  • Patent number: D1010672
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Pitkin, Pranavkumar Janakbhai Parekh, Alicia Greer, Robert Everetts, Brian Brinegar, Andrew Short, James MacManus
  • Patent number: D1010676
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Siddhant Mehta, Mark Kawano, Akshay Bakshi