Patents Assigned to salesforce, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11868321
    Abstract: A method for a server to manage data in a peer-to-peer blockchain network is described herein. The method includes generating, by a multi-tenant web server, an exchange object for the peer-to-peer blockchain network, wherein the exchange object includes a set of exchange fields and a mapping between each exchange field in the set of exchange fields and a field of a physical object associated with each peer in the peer-to-peer blockchain network; generating, by the multi-tenant web server, a transaction object based on the exchange object, wherein the transaction object includes the set of exchange fields and proposes an alternation to a physical object; and making, by the multi-tenant web server, the transaction object available to the peers in the peer-to-peer blockchain network to attempt to obtain consensus for the alteration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan, Sri Naga Deepthi Velisetti, Philip Norman Calvin, Brent Fosdick, Andrew Emil Conn
  • Patent number: 11871305
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to a group-based communication system that is configured to generate a group-based communication interface comprising a priority pane, a last actions pane, and a missed pane. Each of the priority pane, the last actions pane, and the missed pane and configured for efficient positioning within a defined display window of a client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Isaiah Greene, Jerry Talton, Noah Weiss, Michael Montazeri, Luis Tandalla, Anna Niess, Renaud Bourassa, Kyle Stetz
  • Patent number: 11861380
    Abstract: Various examples are directed to systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing an interactive developer interface of a group-based communication system. Various examples are directed to systems, methods, and apparatuses for consolidating application data associated with an application within a group-based communication interface. Various examples are directed to systems, methods, and apparatuses for indexing processing actions associated with a plurality of applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Hahn
  • Patent number: 11863603
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable media for surfacing relevant topics discussed in a synchronous multimedia collaboration session to interested non-participants of the synchronous multimedia collaboration session. A relevant topic of the synchronous multimedia collaboration session may be determined based in part on audio data from the synchronous multimedia collaboration session. At least one non-participating member with an interest in the relevant topic of the synchronous multimedia collaboration session may be identified. A notification of the synchronous multimedia collaboration session associated with the relevant topic may be surfaced to the at least one non-participating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Oleksii Kalinichenko, Akshay Bakshi, Leena Mansour
  • Patent number: 11863640
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for generating a third-party resource usage map in a group based communication system, where the third-party resource usage map comprises a plurality of third party resource usage records and each third-party resource usage record comprises a user identifier, a third-party resource provider identifier, and a third-party resource access token.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Meagan Gamache, Buster Benson
  • Patent number: 11861399
    Abstract: The techniques may include maintaining a thread of events for a plurality of users, where each element of the thread corresponds to an event/activity and includes at least a next field that includes a first subset of the plurality of users and a previous field that includes a second subset of the plurality of users. These techniques may allow new events to be quickly added and prior elements may be updated to reflect the addition. Further, the thread elements may allow the thread to be quickly traversed to identify queried information such that the information may be displayed to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Percy Dara Mehta, Shan-Cheng Ho, Clinton Tran, Kshama Lalit Thacker, Jayanth Parayil Kumarji
  • Patent number: 11863525
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for capturing incoming communications from a sender across multiple channels, and determining whether to include those communications from the sender in an inbox using a waiting room. The waiting room lists unknown senders, and allows a user to add the senders to a blocklist, where the sender's communications are omitted from the user's inbox, or to a passlist, where a new CRM customer record is created for the sender. With the CRM customer record created, future communications from the sender are matched to the CRM customer record and permitted for inclusion in an inbox. This way, recipients can prioritize customers (or other high-value communications) within their inbox based on a corresponding existing CRM customer record, while simplifying the capture of those CRM customer records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Gang Shu, John Huang, Jia Le Chen, David Aden, Xiaozhong Sun, Jong Lee
  • Patent number: 11863338
    Abstract: An application server may receive, via a user interface of a cloud-based data management platform storing a set of data objects, a user input to generate a communication channel of a group-based communication platform that is separate from the cloud-based data management platform. In some examples, the communication channel may be for a data object of the plurality of data objects. The application server may then retrieve a group of users that are linked to the data object within the cloud-based data management platform and display a list of options for generating the communication channel. The list of options may include the group of users for including in the communication channel, a privacy level for the communication channel, and an identifier of the communication channel. The application server may generate an executable packet of instructions and transmit the executable packet of instructions for ingesting into the group-based communication platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Patrick McGinty, Ronald Jay Hemphill, Sreejesh Divakaran Nair
  • Patent number: 11860847
    Abstract: A seed value assigned to a database table is determined. Numerically ordered invocation numbers are determined. Unordered pseudorandom numbers are generated based on the seed value and the invocation numbers to index temporally ordered data changes to the database table. It is determined whether the total number of yet-to-be-saved pseudorandom numbers reaches a maximum total number threshold. If so, the yet-to-be-saved pseudorandom numbers and a sequence of corresponding invocation numbers are saved in a sync table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Rohitashva Mathur
  • Patent number: 11863602
    Abstract: A communication platform can leverage a network-based computing system to enable applications to exchange data with one or more applications via channels. In some examples, a first application may post messages to the channel and a second application may listen to the posted messages to identify an event based on one or more of the messages. Responsive to detecting an event, the second application may notify a user, create a new channel, add a user to a channel, or the like, and/or the second application may take an action to remediate an issue. The first application and the second application and users added to the channel may be associated with a same or different organizations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Brevoort, Ilan Frank
  • Patent number: 11863685
    Abstract: A request for a transaction between a client system and a server system may be processed. The transaction may be associated with transmission of data between the client system and the server system. The data may be encrypted using a transient encryption key to form encrypted data. The transient encryption key may be a synced-clock random number configured to automatically change when a designated time interval elapses. The encrypted data may be transmitted between the client system and the server system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Prashanth Kannan, Prabhjot Singh
  • Publication number: 20230418785
    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: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Manish Singh
  • Publication number: 20230418682
    Abstract: A database entry may be stored in a container in a database table corresponding with a partition key. The partition key may be determined by applying one or more partition rules to one or more data values associated with the database entry. The database entry may be an instance of one of a plurality of data object definitions associated with database entries in the database. Each of the data object definitions may identify a respective one or more data fields included within an instance of the data object definition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Rohitashva MATHUR
  • Patent number: 11853530
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide apparatuses, systems, and computer program products for group-based communication channel organization. In this regard, embodiments described herein are configured to enable group-based communication interfaces rendered with group-based communication channels organized into specific organized channel sets. A plurality of organized channel sets may be reorganized, and/or the associated channel set for each organized channel set may be reorganized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Jaime Delanghe, Sufian Rhazi, Rosaleen Nguyen, Kevin Eder, Jaron Moore, Andrew Morrison, Rocio Aracely Delgado Regalado
  • Patent number: 11853268
    Abstract: A method for data processing includes identifying, for communication of a content object, a segment of entities based at least in part on a selection of a first attribute at a user interface. The first attribute may be selected from attributes defined by a data model and configured for a tenant of a multi-tenant system. The method further includes activating a set of attributes of the plurality of attributes based at least in part on the identified segment of entities and the data model. The method further includes, receiving a selection of a second attribute of the set of attributes, identifying, for the segment of entities, a set of inputs corresponding to the selected second attribute, and transmitting, to a content communication system for distribution of the content object, an indication of a plurality of entity identifiers corresponding to the segment of entities and the set of inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Salesforce Inc.
    Inventors: Vineeth Anand Nair, Alan Mathias Hoffman, Nigel Wallace Menger, Neil Raymond Parsons, Kasia Fichtner, Pamela Sue Walquist, Sarah Flamion, Matthew Westover, Jamin Hall, Ashok Shivarudraiah
  • Patent number: 11855953
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a group-based communication system that is configured to more efficiently manage resource sharing requests. In particular, in some embodiments, the group-based communication system is configured to enable admin users to use an external service, such as an external approval provisioning service, that is separate and distinct from the group-based communication system to manage group-based communication resource sharing requests. In other embodiments, the group-based communication system is configured to allow communication with external users and to trigger new user onboarding protocols through the ingestion of external user directories associated with a sponsor user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Britton Jamison, Smruthi Venkatesh, James Barnes, Ryan Morris
  • Patent number: 11856046
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed for endpoint URL generation and management. An entity identifier may be received. The entity identifier may be hashed with a hashing algorithm to generate an alphanumeric string. A custom endpoint URL may be generated by combining the alphanumeric string with a URL that identifies an endpoint located on a server of a cloud computing system. A CNAME record in a DNS database may be updated to associate the URL that identifies the endpoint located in a stack of cloud computing system with the custom endpoint URL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: John Rice, Thomas B. Kashin, Venkatesh Baskar, Nathan Corn, Sangamesh Wadawadigi
  • Patent number: 11853271
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described that support extensible data mapping. A data mapping server may receive an indication of a source schema for a data source and may receive a user input indicating creation of a custom data object to handle the source schema. The server may create the custom data object based on the user input. The data mapping server may automatically map one or more data fields for a source data object (e.g., based on the source schema) to one or more custom data fields for the custom data object (e.g., based on a custom schema). The server may import a set of data records stored at the data source and may store the data records in a database system according to the custom schema based on the data mapping. The stored custom data objects may be used for segmentation, activation, analysis, or some combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Kaustubh Barde, Vineeth Anand Nair, Sarah Flamion, Shengfan He, Narinder Singh, Caroline Casey Logue, Bradley Carroll Wright, Christopher Bill, Jason Day, Sumit Garg, Chaitanya Pinnamaneni
  • Patent number: 11853275
    Abstract: A system, for example, a multi-tenant system performs upgrades of database management systems deployed on a cloud platform. The database management system is stored on the cloud platform in a data storage unit for storing data of the database, and an instructions storage unit for storing executable instructions. A cloud platform image comprising instructions for the database management system is received. A cloud platform image is deployed on a new instructions storage unit. An upgraded database management system is built by providing the new instructions storage unit with access to the data storage unit. In an embodiment, the database management system is used by a multi-tenant system and stores a multi-tenant schema. The structure of the multi-tenant schema is defined using a multi-tenant schema template that is included in the instructions storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: John Fargo C. Lao, Brett Michael Procek, Peter Thang Doan, Swadesh Raj Bhattarai, Shivakarthik Subramanyam
  • Patent number: D1009923
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Pitkin, Pranavkumar Janakbhai Parekh, Alicia Greer, Robert Everetts, Brian Brinegar, Andrew Short, James MacManus