Oracle Patents Granted

Patents granted to Oracle by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11972777
    Abstract: A data object has a lock and a condition indicator associated with it. Based at least partly on detecting a first setting of the condition indicator, a reader stores an indication that the reader has obtained read access to the data object in an element of a readers structure and reads the data object without acquiring the lock. A writer detects the first setting and replaces it with a second setting, indicating that the lock is to be acquired by readers before reading the data object. Prior to performing a write on the data object, the writer verifies that one or more elements of the readers structure have been cleared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: David Dice, Alex Kogan
  • Patent number: 11974134
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for validating subscriber entities against spoofing attacks in a communications network are disclosed. One method includes receiving, by a proxy element, a subscriber authentication request message that is sent from an access and mobility management function (AMF) and is directed to a unified data management (UDM) function in a home network, creating, by the proxy element, a record entry including a subscriber identifier and a public land mobile network (PLMN) identifier contained in the subscriber authentication request message, wherein the record entry is stored in an authentication registry database prior to forwarding the subscriber authentication request message to the UDM function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Nirmal Mohan Raj, Yesh Goel
  • Patent number: 11971864
    Abstract: Client data corresponding to a single client can be stored. A decision to proceed with a defragmentation of two or more particular core groups can be determined. A destination core group to receive client data can be identified. At least one additional core group can be initiated to manage interim data write requests from the single client. Each of the two or more particular core groups can be closed to data write requests. A defragmentation of the two or more particular core groups can be performed by merging into the destination core group. The destination core group can be availed to data read and delete requests. The two or more fragmented core groups can be reallocated for other uses. The additional core groups continue to receive read and write requests. The destination core groups further can be merged and defragmented further.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Shushuai Zhu, Bo Zou, Yueying Yang, Nagarajan Muthupandian
  • Patent number: 11973643
    Abstract: Techniques discussed herein relate to implementing a distributed computing cluster (the “cluster”) including a plurality of edge devices (e.g., devices individually configured to selectively execute within an isolated computing environment). One edge device may be configured to operate as a head node of the cluster at a given time. A request for virtual resources of the cluster may be received from a user device and directed to the first edge device of the cluster. The first edge device may determine it is not operating as a head node of the cluster. The first edge device may determine that a second edge device of the cluster is operating as the head node. In response, the first edge device may forward the request to the second edge device, wherein forwarding the request to the second edge device causes the second request to be processed by the cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventor: Maxim Baturin
  • Patent number: 11971965
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is system and method for use with software application development environments, for determining attribution associated with licensed software code. The system can receive as input an indication of a source application codebase for a software application, determine dependencies on third-party modules, libraries, or other software code, and output associated license attributions for that codebase. Optionally, the system can combine and/or de-duplicate multiple sets of attributions associated with a source application codebase, or generate a set of differences between two versions of attributions, to illustrate changes between the versions. In accordance with an embodiment, if the system detects potential licensing issues associated with the use of third-party modules, libraries, or other software code, then an appropriate notification can be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mark Nelson, Paul Mackin, Daniel Simone
  • Patent number: 11973766
    Abstract: Techniques for identity management, and more particularly, to techniques for dynamically assigning membership to users in the system based on dynamic rules. In one aspect a computer-implement method is provided that breaks down the processing from a single large thread or operation into multiple minutest level threads or operations and makes use of event driven architecture used in distributed environments such as a cloud environment, to achieve a scalable model and can work seamlessly for multi-tenant applications. Every sub problem is assigned to a dedicated set of subscribers on a messaging service for processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isha Chawla, Ashish Bhargava
  • Patent number: 11971863
    Abstract: A manager file system (MFS), implemented using an OS process, exposes a path in the native file system as the root of its file system (e.g., mount point). The MFS informs the OS kernel that any file system operation whose path contains the mount point as its prefix, should be handed over to the process by invoking an appropriate interface method that the process implements as part of its file system implementation. The MFS manages one or more applications and leverages the authentication mechanism of the OS to provide fined-grained access control of MFS managed applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Parthasarathy Elangadu Raghunathan, Shishir Mathur, Shubha Bose, Aurosish Mishra
  • Patent number: 11972308
    Abstract: A parametric constant resolves to different values in different contexts, but a single value within a particular context. An anchor constant is a parametric constant that allows for a degree of parametricity for an API point. The context for the anchor constant is provided by a caller to the API point. The anchor constant resolves to an anchor value that records specialization decisions for the API point within the provided context. Specialization decisions may include type restrictions, memory layout, and/or memory size. The anchor value together with an unspecialized type of the API point result in a specialized type of the API point. A class object representing the specialized type is created. The class object may be accessible to the caller, but the full value of the anchor value is not accessible to the caller. The API point is executed based on the specialization decisions embodied in the anchor value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: John Robert Rose, Brian Goetz
  • Patent number: 11972300
    Abstract: Techniques discussed herein relate to managing aspects of provisioning cloud-computing edge devices. In some embodiments, a user request specifying one or more resources to be provisioned at a cloud-computing edge device may be received by a cloud-computing device operated by a cloud-computing provider. An ephemeral credential may be generated for the edge device and used to determine whether access control policies exist that enable the edge device to access the resource(s). If the resource(s) are accessible, a manifest may be generated in accordance with the user request. The manifest may specify a configuration for the cloud-computing edge device and includes information related to the resource. Operations may be subsequently executed to provision the cloud-computing edge device in accordance with the manifest. However, if the resource(s) are not accessible, the user request may be denied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Naren Shivashankar Vasanad, Alok Shankar
  • Patent number: 11971898
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system, method, and computer program product for implementing a log analytics method and system that can configure, collect, and analyze log records in an efficient manner. Machine learning-based classification can be performed to classify logs. This approach is used to group logs automatically using a machine learning infrastructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Anindya Chandra Patthak, Gregory Michael Ferrar
  • Patent number: 11972220
    Abstract: Techniques for using enhanced logit values for classifying utterances and messages input to chatbot systems in natural language processing. A method can include a chatbot system receiving an utterance generated by a user interacting with the chatbot system and inputting the utterance into a machine-learning model including a series of network layers. A final network layer of the series of network layers can include a logit function. The machine-learning model can map a first probability for a resolvable class to a first logit value using the logit function. The machine-learning model can map a second probability for a unresolvable class to an enhanced logit value. The method can also include the chatbot system classifying the utterance as the resolvable class or the unresolvable class based on the first logit value and the enhanced logit value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Ying Xu, Poorya Zaremoodi, Thanh Tien Vu, Cong Duy Vu Hoang, Vladislav Blinov, Yu-Heng Hong, Yakupitiyage Don Thanuja Samodhye Dharmasiri, Vishal Vishnoi, Elias Luqman Jalaluddin, Manish Parekh, Thanh Long Duong, Mark Edward Johnson
  • Patent number: 11971883
    Abstract: Techniques for modifying queries in a set of nested queries are disclosed. A graphical user interface displays a query detail region alongside a nested query display region. The graphical user interface includes functionality to provide for modification of queries in the nested set of queries. Based on a selection by a user, a query modification tool promotes a query attribute from a child query to one or more parent queries. Based on another selection by a user associated with one query in the set of nested queries, the system deletes an attribute from each query in the set of nested queries. Responsive to a selection to create multiple conditions for a query rule, the system modifies the functionality of the user interface to enable entry of multiple condition characteristics. Based on a further selection, the system creates the multiple conditions for the query rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Prashant Singh, Rasika Vaidya Kaura, Henrik Michael Ammer
  • Patent number: 11971894
    Abstract: A continuous query identified by an archived relation of an application may be received. A physical query plan may be generated for the continuous query and/or a child operator plan may be identified. A buffer operator may be inserted between the child operator and its parent operator and/or the event information from the child operator may be stored in the buffer operator. A query operator may be identified in the physical query plan. It may be determined that the query operator identified in the physical query plan is a same type as a second query operator in a second continuous query concurrently executing. Further, a combined query plan may be generated based at least in part on the query operator identified in the physical query plan being the same type as the second query operator in the second continuous query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Unmesh Anil Deshmukh, Anand Srinivasan, Vikram Shukla
  • Patent number: 11971869
    Abstract: A shared-nothing database system is provided in which parallelism and workload balancing are increased by assigning the rows of each table to “slices”, and storing multiple copies (“duplicas”) of each slice across the persistent storage of multiple nodes of the shared-nothing database system. When the data for a table is distributed among the nodes of a shared-nothing system in this manner, requests to read data from a particular row of the table may be handled by any node that stores a duplica of the slice to which the row is assigned. For each slice, a single duplica of the slice is designated as the “primary duplica”. All DML operations (e.g. inserts, deletes, updates, etc.) that target a particular row of the table are performed by the node that has the primary duplica of the slice to which the particular row is assigned. The changes made by the DML operations are then propagated from the primary duplica to the other duplicas (“secondary duplicas”) of the same slice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Jesse Kamp, Allison L. Holloway, Meichun Hsu, Hideaki Kimura, Boris Klots, Vasudha Krishnaswamy, Kartik Kulkarni, Teck Hua Lee, Yunrui Li, Aurosish Mishra, Ajit Mylavarapu, Sukhada Pendse, Garret F. Swart, Shasank K. Chavan, Tirthankar Lahiri, Juan R. Loaiza
  • Patent number: 11971817
    Abstract: Techniques for managing lifecycles of sets of foreign resources are disclosed, including: opening, in a runtime environment configured to use a garbage collector to manage memory in a heap, a memory session; allocating a first subset of a set of foreign memory to a memory segment associated with the memory session, the foreign memory including off-heap memory that is not managed by the garbage collector; encountering, in the runtime environment, an instruction to close the memory session; responsive to encountering the instruction to close the memory session, deallocating the subset of the set of foreign memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Maurizio Cimadamore, Paul David Sandoz
  • Patent number: 11972755
    Abstract: Techniques for noise data augmentation for training chatbot systems in natural language processing. In one particular aspect, a method is provided that includes receiving a training set of utterances for training an intent classifier to identify one or more intents for one or more utterances; augmenting the training set of utterances with noise text to generate an augmented training set of utterances; and training the intent classifier using the augmented training set of utterances. The augmenting includes: obtaining the noise text from a list of words, a text corpus, a publication, a dictionary, or any combination thereof irrelevant of original text within the utterances of the training set of utterances, and incorporating the noise text within the utterances relative to the original text in the utterances of the training set of utterances at a predefined augmentation ratio to generate augmented utterances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Elias Luqman Jalaluddin, Vishal Vishnoi, Mark Edward Johnson, Thanh Long Duong, Yu-Heng Hong, Balakota Srinivas Vinnakota
  • Patent number: 11966356
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing latency of probing operations of remotely located linear hash tables are described herein. In an embodiment, a system receives a request to perform a probing operation on a remotely located linear hash table based on a key value. Prior to performing the probing operation, the system dynamically predicts a number of slots for a single read of the linear hash table to minimize total cost for an average probing operation. The system determines a hash value based on the key value and determines a slot of the linear hash table to which the hash value corresponds. After predicting the number of slots, the system issues an RDMA request to perform a read of the predicted number of slots from the linear hash table starting at the slot to which the hash value corresponds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Tinggang Wang, Shuo Yang, Hideaki Kimura, Garret F. Swart, Spyros Blanas
  • Patent number: 11966275
    Abstract: The present invention relates to machine learning (ML) explainability (MLX). Herein are local explanation techniques for black box ML models based on coalitions of features in a dataset. In an embodiment, a computer receives a request to generate a local explanation of which coalitions of features caused an anomaly detector to detect an anomaly. During unsupervised generation of a new coalition, a first feature is randomly selected from features in a dataset. Which additional features in the dataset can join the coalition, because they have mutual information with the first feature that exceeds a threshold, is detected. For each feature that is not in the coalition, values of the feature are permuted in imperfect copies of original tuples in the dataset. An average anomaly score of the imperfect copies is measured. Based on the average anomaly score of the imperfect copies, a local explanation is generated that references (e.g. defines) the coalition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Ali Seyfi, Yasha Pushak, Hesam Fathi Moghadam, Sungpack Hong, Hassan Chafi
  • Patent number: 11966409
    Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing extensible attributes in ETL are disclosed. In some examples, attributes configured at a source file may be extracted from the source file. The extracted attributes can be mapped to a target column of a data warehouse table, and then a dynamic ETL script may be generated. The dynamic script may be executed to move data associated with the attributes to an appropriate new column of the data warehouse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dylan Wan, Francoise J. Lawrence, Justin Hyde, Amit Goyal, Saurabh Verma, John D. Poole
  • Patent number: 11968080
    Abstract: For a communication channel having a first endpoint in a customer on-premise network and a second endpoint on a primary host machine in a cloud service provider infrastructure, the primary host machine determines a change in a state information of the communication channel and identifies a backup host machine for the communication channel. The primary host machine causes the change in the state information to be replicated to the backup host machine, wherein the replicated state information stored by the backup host machine is usable by the backup host machine after a failover causes the backup host machine to become the second endpoint of the communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle Corporation
    Inventors: John Eric Keane, Myron Decker King, Lucas Michael Kreger-Stickles
  • Patent number: 11966870
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, described herein are systems and methods for use with an analytic applications environment, for determination of recommendations and alerts in such environments. A data pipeline or process can operate in accordance with an analytic applications schema adapted to address particular analytics use cases or best practices, to receive data from a customer's (tenant's) enterprise software application or data environment, for loading into a data warehouse instance. When provided as part of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) or cloud environment, the data sourced from a plurality of organizations can be aggregated, to leverage information gleaned from the collective or shared data. The system can be used to generate semantic alerts, including obtaining permission from; and analyzing the collective data of; the plurality of organizations, to determine operational advantages indicated by the data, and providing alerts associated with those operational advantages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Krishnan Ramanathan, Jagdish Chand, Aman Madaan
  • Patent number: 11966399
    Abstract: Techniques for processing top-K queries are provided. In one technique, a database statement is received that requests top-K results related to a database object and that indicates two columns thereof: a first column by which to partition a result set and a second column by which to order the result set. A buffer is generated. For each of multiple rows in the database object: a first key value that associated with a first value in the first column of said each row is identified; a second key value that associated with a second value in the second column of said each entry is identified; a slot in the buffer is identified based on the first key value and the second key value; and the slot in the buffer may be updated based on the second key value. A response to the database statement is generated based on the buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Dennis Lui, Allison L Holloway, Shasank Kisan Chavan
  • Patent number: 11968212
    Abstract: The present embodiments relate to implementing change data on no-master NoSQL data stores. An optimized node can be identified from a plurality of NoSQL data storage nodes and a specialized node can be connected (e.g., collocated) to the optimized node. The specialized node can maintain change data capture (CDC) data provided by client nodes in a hash map that can be used as a point of truth for coordinating CDC data across the plurality of NoSQL data storage nodes. The plurality of NoSQL data storage nodes can identify and coordinate all read/write data obtained from multiple client devices in a geographically separated large-scale (e.g., planet scale) system to identify change data in a distributed data store. The specialized data can provide read data to devices in the large-scale system to reconcile inconsistencies in change data across nodes in the large-scale system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Pratibha Anjali Dohare, Jaime Ismael Rangel Martinez, Kessle Martin Hodgson
  • Patent number: 11966798
    Abstract: A type restriction contextually modifies an existing type descriptor. The type restriction is imposed on a data structure to restrict the values that are assumable by the data structure. The type restriction does not cancel or otherwise override the effect of the existing type descriptor on the data structure. Rather the type restriction may declare that a value of the data structure's type is forbidden for the data structure. Additionally or alternatively, the type restriction may declare that an element count allowable for a data structure's type is forbidden for the data structure. Type restriction allows optionality (where only a singleton value for a data structure is allowed), empty sets (where no value for a data structure is allowed), and multiplicity (where only a limited element count for a data structure) to be injected into a code set independent of data type. Type restriction allows certain optimizations to be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: John Robert Rose, Brian Goetz
  • Patent number: 11968132
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using queue pair 1 (QP1) for receiving multicast based announcements in multiple partitions in a high performance computing. In accordance with an embodiment, by extending the scope of QP1 to also include receiving and sending multicast packets in any partition defined for the port, it is possible to implement generic MC based announcement and discovery without requiring the complexity of unique QPs for individual partitions, nor any update of QP configuration as a consequence of change of partition membership.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bjørn Dag Johnsen, Line Holen, Dag Georg Moxnes
  • Patent number: 11966754
    Abstract: A distributed computing system is described that leverages a nearline storage layer to minimize the downtime required for bootstrapping a new computing cluster in the distributed computing system. The system executes a computing cluster comprising a set of computing nodes and determines a set of one or more data segments to be written to a nearline storage system. The system writes the data segments to the nearline storage system. In certain examples, the system receives a request to create a second computing cluster and responsive to the request, bootstraps the second computing cluster using the set of data segments stored on the nearline storage system. The system additionally leverages the nearline storage layer to accelerate query processing by the computing nodes of a computing cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sameer Suhas Deokule, Aneesh Malkhed, Sounak Chakraborty, Devarajulu Kavali, Devaraj Das
  • Patent number: 11966868
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments for sorting-based assignment to optimize order fulfillment with short supply. One embodiment includes identifying a set of one or more distributions within a series of days. Sorting all demands of a first priority level occurring in the series of days by ascending order of size of the demand. For each demand of the first priority level in sorted order, (a) selecting an initial distribution during which the demand is scheduled to be fulfilled from the set of distributions, and (b) generating an indication that the demand can cannot be completely fulfilled, based on the size of the demand and the amount of supply available. Automatically arranging a graphical representation of a schedule of supplies and met and unmet demands for the series of days in a graphical user interface based at least on the indications generated for each demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Jing Long, Randall B. Smith, Alan P. Wood
  • Patent number: 11966384
    Abstract: A data catalog system is disclosed that provides capabilities for uniquely identifying and retrieving data entities stored in diverse data sources managed by an organization. The data catalog system includes capabilities for generating a unique external identifier for a data entity (e.g., a data asset or a data object) by identifying a set of immutable configuration parameters associated with the data asset and identifying a set of data object attributes that uniquely identify data objects within the data asset. The generated unique external identifiers are stored as part of the metadata harvested by the data catalog system. The external identifiers are used to enforce a single representation of the data assets and the data objects in the data catalog system. The external object identifiers are used to perform data lookups and reconcile states of data entities during the metadata harvesting process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ganesh Seetharaman, Robert Costin Velisar, Yuda Dai, Yuen Sheung Chan
  • Patent number: 11967307
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for applying a trained machine learning model to incoming voice communications to determine whether the voice communications are genuine or not genuine. The trained machine learning model may identify vocal attributes within the target call and use the identified attributes, and the training, determine whether the target call is genuine or not genuine. An applied trained machine learning model may include multiple different types of trained machine learning models, where each of different types of machine learning models is trained and/or configured for a different function within the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventor: Suraj Shinde
  • Patent number: 11966410
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for loading and transforming data to a cloud database, using a hybrid set-based extract, load, transform approach. During the loading and transforming of large amounts of data, from one or more data sources, a data synchronization application sends small batches of data, in parallel streams, to the database, which operates as a transformation engine to load the data. Each stream can be associated with a separate staging table in the database. For each staging table, the subset of data therein is transformed and loaded, before the next subset is processed. A transform and merge process operating at the database can then be used to transform and merge the data, from each of the staging tables, to the target table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vijayakumar Ranganathan, Dmitriy Gertsman, Saugata Chowdhury
  • Patent number: 11960476
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and techniques for preventing corruption of snapshot data by limiting the visibility of committed data. To do this, the system may maintain an index that indicates the highest transaction identifier value such that no future commits will have a transaction identifier less than or equal to the indexed transaction identifier value. In embodiments, if a read is performed, only transactions having a transaction identifier less than or equal to the index value can be read. Each time that a transaction is committed, the index value is updated to the transaction identifier for the transaction having the highest transaction identifier without any intermediary transactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Ricketts, Mahendra Pratap Singh Dangi, Calvin Alexander Loncaric
  • Patent number: 11960742
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for block-level fail atomicity on byte-level non-volatile media. In one technique, an offset table and application data that stores content of a file are stored for a file. The offset table includes multiple entries, each entry being associated with a different offset value and storing a logical block address (LBA) that references a location in the application data. In response to receiving a request, that includes an input buffer and an offset value, to update the file: (a) an entry, in the offset table, that corresponds to the offset value and comprises a first LBA is identified; (b) a second LBA that is considered free is identified; (c) the second LBA is replaced with the first LBA; (d) the input buffer is written to a location, in the application data, that the second LBA references; and (e) the second LBA is added in the entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Ranjit Mario Noronha, Sumanta Chatterjee, Margaret M. Susairaj
  • Patent number: 11960477
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein for managing transactions between data consumers and data providers using a blockchain. In some embodiments, a blockchain network receive smart contracts that govern access rights to data sets provided by blockchain members and smart contracts that execute blockchain transactions based on the usage of data sets. When a data set is provided to a blockchain member through the blockchain network, usage of the data set may be tracked. Responsive to detecting usage of the data set, one or more smart contracts may execute one or more blockchain transactions within the blockchain network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Saurabh Pandey, Joseph Rice, Siddharth Gupta
  • Patent number: 11960378
    Abstract: Techniques for recommending runbook operations during a runbook generation process are disclosed. The system recommends operations for including in the runbook based on user activity. Generating operations of a runbook based on user activity generates a runbook that captures a user's behavior. The recommended operations may be different than any operations performed by the user. The recommended operations may be based in part on data sets accessed by the user frequently, periodically, or continuously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Raghu Hanumanth Reddy Patti, Christopher A. Roy, Ana Maria Hernandez McCollum, Manas Goswami
  • Patent number: 11960977
    Abstract: Techniques for enhancing actionable opportunities through machine learning are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system includes an event listener for detecting an opportunity to perform an action using one or more computing resources. When a new opportunity is detected, the system generates a set of search criteria, which is used to search a set of external web resources for current events. The system may then generate, using a machine learning model as a function of one or more features extracted from current events satisfying the search criteria, a score representing a likelihood of success that the action leads to an optimal result. The system may tune the machine learning model based on feedback received that is indicative of how the current events affected the likelihood of success for the action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Vivek Kumar, Catherine You Francis, Meeten Bhavsar
  • Patent number: 11960844
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods of the present invention involve discourse trees. In some aspects, a system creates a discourse tree by identifying elementary discourse units in text. The discourse tree includes nodes, each nonterminal node representing a rhetorical relationship between two elementary discourse units and each terminal node associated with an elementary discourse unit. The system identifies, in a reference sentence of the discourse tree, a rhetorical relation of type elaboration or joint. The system selects a candidate sentence having a highest syntactic generalization score of a set of syntactic generalization scores. The system identifies a semantic relation corresponding to the candidate sentence. The semantic relation corresponds to a word in the candidate sentence and defines a role in the candidate sentence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventor: Boris Galitsky
  • Patent number: 11960929
    Abstract: Techniques for recommending runbook operations during a runbook generation process are disclosed. A system recommends operations for including in the runbook based on attributes of a detected event. The system presents event attributes associated with the detected event to a user in a runbook generation interface. When the user selects an event attribute, the system presents a set of candidate runbook operations associated with the event attribute. Based on user selections of runbook operations to include in a runbook, the system generates and stores a template of the runbook in which the attribute values associated with the detected event are omitted. Upon execution of the runbook at a future time, the system, or a user, may populate the event attributes in the runbook with values that correspond to the future event of the same event type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Raghu Hanumanth Reddy Patti, Christopher A. Roy, Ana Maria Hernandez McCollum, Manas Goswami, Constantina Marshman
  • Patent number: 11961317
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to extracting textual information from image documents. In one embodiment, a system, upon receiving a request to extract textual information from an image document, a digital processing system performs character recognition based on content of the image document using multiple approaches to generate corresponding texts. The texts are then combined to determine a result text representing the textual information contained in the image document. The result is then provided as a response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle Financial Services Software Limited
    Inventors: Dakshayani Singaraju, Veresh Jain, Kartik Kumar
  • Patent number: 11962599
    Abstract: A computer system may receive one or more requests for access to one or more cloud services and may store the one or more requests in a request log. The computer system may receive one or more access rules applicable to cloud service access rights. The computer system may aggregate the one or more requests of the request log to determine access requirements for a container, the container being configured to store one or more applications. The computer system may generate and store container access policies that define access of a container and the one or more cloud services, the container access policies based at least in part on the aggregated one or more requests and the one or more access rules. The computer system may send the container access policies to a request forwarder of a compute instance in a production environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Olgierd Stanislaw Pieczul, Hubert Alexander Foskett, Robert Graham Clark
  • Patent number: 11960523
    Abstract: Techniques for implementing user interfaces, systems, and processes for multidimensional clustering and analysis are described herein. In one aspect, an application or cloud service receives a request to cluster a set of records where the request identifies a first set of one or more dimensions to use for clustering and a second set of one or more dimensions to analyze for correlation patterns. Responsive to receiving the request to cluster the set of records, the system generates clusters based at least in part on variances in the first set of one or more dimensions, wherein each cluster includes at least one record from the set of records. The system may generate, for each respective cluster, an analytic result that identifies how strongly the second set of one or more dimensions correlate to the respective cluster. The system may present the clusters and analytic results for further processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Dhileeban Kumaresan, Jae Young Yoon, Adrienne Wong, Chandra Sekhar Komali, Sreeji Krishnan Das
  • Patent number: 11962614
    Abstract: Systems and methods for cloud security monitoring and threat intelligence in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a process for monitoring and remediation of security threats includes generating a threat model using a first portion of activity data, identifying, based upon the threat model, a threat using a second portion of activity data, selecting a security policy to implement in response to the identified threat, identifying cloud security controls in a remotely hosted cloud application server system to modify in accordance with the selected security policy, establishing a secure connection to the remotely hosted cloud application server system using login credentials associated with a tenant account with the cloud application, and sending instructions to the remotely hosted cloud application server system to set the identified cloud security controls with respect to the tenant account in accordance with the selected security policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Ganesh Kirti, Rohit Gupta, Kamalendu Biswas, Ramana Rao Satyasai Turlapati
  • Patent number: 11954483
    Abstract: A method for updating software in one or more servers in a managed system includes bootstrapping of shared secrets to secure communication, using an object store with publicly accessible URLs as a mailbox system between a patch agent locally at the managed system and a patch management server located remotely. The object store provides for indirect and asynchronous communication, allowing the patch management server to manage the updates, whereas the patch agent executes the updates. The patch management server keeps track of update results, and when an update is unsuccessful it performs and supports a remediation process. Both the patch agent and the patch management server keep full logs of the update results to allow for auditing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventor: Christopher Fagiani
  • Patent number: 11954117
    Abstract: Techniques are described herein for routing queries to particular nodes of a multi-node database system based on the query. A database table is partitioned into a plurality of affinity groups. Each affinity group is assigned a particular node as the master node of the affinity group. A mapping is sent to a query router indicating the master node for each affinity group of the plurality of affinity groups. The query router determines, for a particular query, a target node to which to send the particular query based on the mapping and the particular query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Juan R. Loaiza, Wei-Ming Hu, Mark Dilman, Leonid Novak
  • Patent number: 11956270
    Abstract: A computing device may receive a plurality of scanning requests with at least one scanning request in the plurality identifying a target address of a target network. The computing device may for at least a subset of the plurality of scanning requests: generate a scanner instance and a virtual network interface card (VNIC) in response to the scanning request. The scanner instance and the VNIC communicating with a routing namespace that can communicate with two or more scanner instances simultaneously. Until the target address has been scanned: one or more packets can be sent from the scanner instance to the target address via the routing namespace and VNIC. The one or more packets can be wrapped in one or more packet wrappers identifying the target address and the target network. In response to the target address being scanned, the scanner instance and VNIC can be decommissioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Borhan Hosseini, Vlad George Coman
  • Patent number: 11956701
    Abstract: An example system and method for selectively conveying content via User Interface (UI) display screen sections of Business Intelligence (BI) software and for facilitating user interaction therewith, e.g., so as to impart usefulness or preference ratings thereto, which can then affect subsequently displayed content. An example method includes providing one or more UI controls enabling a user to provide an input query and to interact with resulting content (i.e., query results, also called search results), where the user interaction with the content provides information (e.g., context information) indicative of a usefulness or preference rating pertaining to the content; thereby enabling modifications to subsequently retrieved content in accordance with the usefulness or preference rating(s). Such rating(s) may be aggregated from plural users of an associated software application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Jacques Vigeant, Wai On Lee, Dustin Bauder, Reginald A. Hansbrough, Ananth Nararyanan Venkata, Narayan Madhavan Nayar
  • Patent number: 11947586
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for automatic scene detection and character extraction. In one example, audiovisual content with video frames, an audio recording, and timing information is received. A score, based on the frame's visual characteristics, is determined for a first frame and subsequent frames. The first frame's score and subsequent frame's scores are compared to determine if the difference between the scores is above a threshold. When the difference in scores is above a threshold, the subsequent frame is classified as a new scene. The audiovisual content is segmented into scenes and textual characters are identified in at least one frame from each scene. The characters are stored and indexed in a searchable database with the timing information for the scene where the characters were identified. The audio recording is transcribed and the transcribed words are stored and indexed in the searchable database with timing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Wenchao Sun, Dru Kingston Borden, Tsz-Yam Lau, Shi-Rong Chang
  • Patent number: 11949680
    Abstract: Disclosed is an improved approach to implement a mechanism to provide customer control over access to cloud infrastructure by the cloud provider's operator employees. This mechanism allow customer controlled access to any cloud infrastructure that belongs to or is otherwise allocated to the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Prasanna Ramamurthi, Joydip Kundu, Binoy Sukumaran, Krishna Chander, Jeffrey Wright
  • Patent number: 11947677
    Abstract: A method may include determining that a non-constant value of a variable corresponding to a variable node of the abstract syntax tree flows into an operator node in the abstract syntax tree. The method may further include adding, to the abstract syntax tree, a check taint node including functionality to: make a taint status determination that the non-constant value is tainted, and return the non-constant value to the operator node. The operator node generates a result value by executing an operator using the non-constant value. The method may further include adding, to the abstract syntax tree, a set taint node that stores, based on the taint status determination, the result value in a second tainted object, and performing, using the abstract syntax tree, a taint analysis of the source code to identify a vulnerability in the source code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Daniele Bonetta, Alexander Jordan, Christian Humer, Jacob Kreindl
  • Patent number: 11949735
    Abstract: Techniques for managing network-accessible infrastructure metadata are provided. A method includes receiving a resource request comprising resource metadata corresponding to a network-accessible infrastructure resource, determining whether to commit the resource request based at least in part on a constraint associated with the network-accessible infrastructure resource, and, in accordance with a determination to commit the resource request: generating, by the computer system, a resource identifier describing resource metadata in accordance with the resource request, storing, by the computer system, the resource metadata in a data store in communication with the computer system, receiving, by the computer system, a data request to provide the resource metadata described by the resource identifier, and providing, by the computer system, the resource metadata described by the resource identifier in accordance with the data request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Mohamed Saber Abdelfattah Hassan, Jonathan Jorge Nadal, Nathaniel Martin Glass, Yu Wu, Daniel M. Vogel, Geoff Hopcraft
  • Patent number: 11949530
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing multicast group (MCG) membership relative to partition membership in a high performance computing environment. In allowing a subnet manager of a local subnet to be instructed that all ports that are members of the relevant partition should be set up as members for a specific multicast group, the SM can perform a more efficient multicast-routing process. It is also possible to limit the IB client interaction with subnet administration conventionally required to handle join and leave operations. Additionally, subnet manager overhead can be reduced by creating a spanning tree for the routing of multicast packets that includes each of the partition members added to the multicast group, instead of creating a spanning tree after each multicast group join request is received, as conventionally required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bjørn Dag Johnsen, Bartosz Bogdanski, Line Holen