Salesforce.com Patent Applications

Salesforce.com patent applications that are pending before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240134511
    Abstract: A header and a timestamp element for the header may be generated based on a request to process data for a page of a user interface. A tooltip with descriptive information for the timestamp element may be generated and displayed based on proximity of an interactive element to the timestamp element, and a page representation window may be displayed based on an interaction with the timestamp element. The page representation window includes a representation of the data field and its content that is indicative of how the data field and its content existed at a time of the request to process data. Moreover, an indicator of correspondence between the timestamp element and the page representation window may be displayed. Based on interaction with a settings indicator element, a header settings window for modifying settings for the header may be displayed with view options (e.g., all, custom, etc.) for data submissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Jose Lejin P J, Ramanjaneyulu Y. Talla
  • Publication number: 20240135422
    Abstract: A recommendation service access a data matrix listing of products associated with product profiles, the data matrix having product entries that store sparse historical electronic activity. For a target product it is determined which other products should be used to boost the historical electronic activity of the target product based on a first subset of product profiles that share product characteristics with the target product. Similarity scores are computed between the product profile of the target product and the first subset of product profiles to identify a second subset of one or more products having a similarity score above a scoring threshold. The historical electronic activity of the target product is boosted using the historical electronic activity of the other products in the second subset. Association values are calculated between the target product and the other products in the second subset by based on the boosted activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: John Lim, Keld Lundgaard
  • 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
  • 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: 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
  • Publication number: 20240104003
    Abstract: An integration application comprising a plurality of components may be provided. The components may provide connections between systems. The integration application may be configured to allow the systems to exchange data. It may be determined that a new version of a first one of the components is a candidate for release. Prior to release of the new version of the first component, the integration application may be tested using the new version of the first component and an existing version of the first component. An instance of the integration application may be automatically caused to be upgraded to include the new version of the first component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Santosh Mankala, Carlos Santiago Yanzon, Jose Sabino, Keith McGrath, Nimit Goyal, Prince Surana, Wassim Melakhessou, Scott Glaser, Siddharth Balireddy, Tarun Kale
  • Publication number: 20240104630
    Abstract: System and methods are described for generating recommendations from dynamically-mapped data. In one implementation, a database system receives a first request to generate a recommendation objection and a second request to retrieve additional data to include in the recommendation object. The database system retrieves the recommendation data from a first database table. The database system identifies the additional data in a second database table that is stored separately from the first database table. The database system generates the recommendation object to include the recommendation data from the first database, and maps the additional data to one or more fields of the recommendation object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Joel Ragnar Palmert, Kiran Hariharan Nair, Merwan Hade, Nikhil Kataria, Jia Lian Wang, Michael Moriarty
  • Publication number: 20240103797
    Abstract: A system is programmed and operated to perform a method of indicating health, status, or condition of a monitored target. In certain implementations, the method involves: obtaining at least one metric associated with the monitored target; determining a level of audio degradation to be applied to a source digital media file that conveys default audio content, wherein the level of audio degradation is determined as a function of the obtained at least one metric; modifying the source digital media file in accordance with the determined level of audio degradation, resulting in modified audio data; and controlling playback of the modified audio data to serve as an audible indicator of the health, status, or condition of the monitored target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Humble, Stephen F. Buchwald, Benjamin James Lutterbach, George Khazal, Sze K. Li
  • Publication number: 20240095748
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for providing an insights page. When data identifying a party of a call is received, a customer relationship management (CRM) application can be launched at a computing device without any further user input, and records that are potentially relevant to the call and that are to potentially be included as part of an insights page of the CRM application can be automatically determined. Some of the records are automatically determined by analyzing CRM information using artificial intelligence technologies. The records can then be ranked in a priority order according to relevance from most relevant to least relevant. The insights page can then be caused to be displayed at a user interface of the computing device without user input with at least some of the records displayed in the priority order as relevant records.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Vijay Karani, Jayant Tyagi
  • Publication number: 20240095045
    Abstract: A second opened instance of a user interface may be identified based on an indication of a first instance of the user interface. An instance indication element indicating the second opened instance of the user interface may be displayed based on the identified second opened instance of the user interface. An instance indication window may be displayed based on an interaction with the instance indication element. Data fields of the instance indication window may describe the first and second opened instances of the user interface. The instance indication window may include a scrollable element to reveal, according to their opening sequence, additional data fields for additional opened instances of the user interface. Data fields of the instance indication window may be updated/modified to include new descriptions for any opened instance of the user interface. Moreover, the instance indication window includes interactive elements for closing opened instances of the user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Jose Lejin PJ
  • Publication number: 20240095003
    Abstract: Implementations(s) for deploying application(s) are described. Responsive to an indication to install a specific instance of an application registered in a registry, first and second code are retrieved from the registry to cause the installation. Responsive to the first and second code, it is detected that the first code is executable to receive information that will be generated responsive to execution of the second code; the specific instance of the second part of the application is caused to be deployed on the second TS using the fourth code identified in the second code; the information is received; and a specific instance of the first part of the application is caused to be deployed on the first TS using the third code identified in the first code and to be configured to communicate with the specific instance of the second part of the application using the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Dwayne Miller, Leo Duy Tran, Marshall Ludwig Hall, Natasha Sushil Gupta
  • Publication number: 20240095788
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for a scalable pricing engine. A scalable pricing engine is operable in a low-scale mode and a high-scale or scalable mode to process pricing data in response to pricing requests. The pricing engine operates in a first runtime environment in the low-scale mode in which it can service pricing requests up to a threshold number and in which the pricing data can be updated and tested. The pricing engine also operates in a second runtime environment which is a scalable runtime supporting pricing requests above the specified threshold. The scalable runtime and pricing engine rely on a scalable read-only data service which distributes a read-only copy of at least a portion of the pricing data from the primary database, a high-scale cache to reduce access latency, data processing and network resource allocations, and data reduction techniques when processing requests and responses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Parth Vijay Vaishnav, Thomas Jones, Mitchell Christensen, Daniel May, Harpreet Singh, Jalaleldeen Aref
  • Publication number: 20240095294
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for implementing AI driven application navigation recommendations based on user behavior. An embodiment operates by generating a trained machine learning model using training data obtained based on historical navigation logs corresponding to the web application. The embodiment deploys a reduced machine learning model within an instance of the web application, and the reduced machine learning model is generated by compressing the trained machine learning model. The embodiment then generates the page navigation recommendation using the reduced machine learning model based on an encoded navigation breadcrumb data corresponding to the instance of the web application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Mangano, Saket AGARWAL, Umesh Prabhakar ZOPE, Saurabh S. DAVALA, Stephen GOLDBERG
  • Publication number: 20240095213
    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: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Manish Singh
  • Publication number: 20240095240
    Abstract: A method for reporting a success of a dialog session including generating an outcome data indicative of a positive outcome of the dialog session with at least one of the plurality of natural language responses, receiving a natural language query, converting the natural language query into a structured database query based on the metadata, performing the structured database query on a database, generating a result in response to a response data received in response to the structured database query, generating a natural language responses in response to the result and the plurality of natural language response data, sending, by the chatbot, the natural language response, generating a result metadata in response to a comparison of the result to the outcome data, and generating an outcome log in response to the result metadata wherein the outcome log includes an indication of the positive outcome of the dialog session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Atul Kshirsagar, Mark Holton
  • Publication number: 20240095789
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for asynchronous pricing. For example, some implementations include an asynchronous pricing service in addition to the pricing service. When performing a first pricing operation on a first set of pricing data, the pricing service performs operations on a pricing engine. In response to a second pricing request at the asynchronous pricing service with a second set of pricing data, the second set of pricing data is subdivided into a plurality of portions and a corresponding plurality of pricing jobs are specified, which are independently executed by the pricing engine to produce a corresponding plurality of partial pricing results. The asynchronous pricing service aggregates the partial pricing results to generate a second pricing result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Parth Vijay Vaishnav, Mitchell Christensen
  • Publication number: 20240095220
    Abstract: Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for ensuring trust throughout the lifecycle of a non-fungible token. The system identifies, from a metadata data structure associated with the non-fungible token, a first network address associated with a first attribute of the metadata data structure. The system accesses a first file referenced by the first network address and generates a first hash value from contents of the first file. The system generates a modified metadata data structure that includes the first hash value by storing, within the metadata data structure, the first hash value in association with the first attribute. The system then generates a second hash value using the modified metadata data structure and stores, in a public trust ledger, a first smart contract including the second hash value and a second network address that references the modified metadata data structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Hart Isaacs, Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan, Mathew Sweezey
  • Publication number: 20240095245
    Abstract: A method for configuring the operation of the software of a data as a service (DAAS) system during run time is described. The configuring includes receiving a match query from a customer relationship management system that transmitted the match query responsive to a user using an interface to trigger an update of records in the customer relationship management system that were previously imported from the DAAS system, querying for records in the dataset that match records in the customer relationship management system previously imported from the DAAS system, the querying configured at run time according to metadata that identifies, for records in the dataset, a field to match on and a match threshold, and producing a match query result that includes records in the dataset to be imported to update records that were previously imported from the DAAS system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Kaushal Bansal, Venkata Muralidhar TEJOMURTULA, Azeem FEROZ, Dmytro KASHYN, Dmytro KUDRIAVTSEV, Shouzhong SHI, Ajitesh JAIN
  • Publication number: 20240070151
    Abstract: Database systems and methods are provided for providing record data to an application extension associated with a native application at a client device. One method involves a cross-platform service receiving, from the native application, a query for record data associated with a record at a database system on behalf of the application extension, determining a data source for retrieving the record data based at least in part on a configuration of the native application, converting the query into a transformed query having a different format associated with the identified data source, retrieving the record data from the identified data source using the transformed query, and providing the record data to the application extension via the native application, wherein the application extension is configurable to generate a component of a graphical user interface display using the record data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Eldor Khalyknazarov, Puneet Dhaliwal, Dai Duong Doan
  • Publication number: 20240070146
    Abstract: Database systems and methods are provided for providing record data to an application extension associated with a native application at a client device. One method involves a cross-platform service at the client device receiving a plurality of requests for data for one or more records at the database system from the native application, aggregating a subset of the plurality of requests into a batched request, providing the batched request to the database system over a network, receiving a batched response to the batched request from the database system over the network, and for each request of the subset of the plurality of requests of the batched request, mapping a respective data set of the batched response to a respective request and providing the respective data set to the application extension in response to the respective request via the native application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Eldor Khalyknazarov, Puneet Dhaliwal, Dai Duong Doan
  • Publication number: 20240070149
    Abstract: Database systems and methods are provided for updating a graphical user interface (GUI) display generated by an application extension associated with a native application. A method involves a cross-platform service at a client device receiving, from the native application, a request for data associated with a record on behalf of the application extension, retrieving the data associated with the record from a data source, providing the retrieved data to the application extension, via the native application, to generate a component of the GUI display using the retrieved data, monitoring for a change to the data associated with the record, and in response to the change, retrieving updated data associated with the record from the data source and providing the updated data to the application extension via the native application to update the component of the GUI display using the updated data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Eldor Khalyknazarov, Puneet Dhaliwal, Dai Duong Doan
  • Publication number: 20240069933
    Abstract: Database systems and methods are provided for providing data from a database system to a native application at a client device. Metadata indicative of a subset of data fields associated with a configuration of a graphical user interface display is downloaded to a data storage element at the client device. Thereafter, a cross-platform service at the client device receives a request for data associated with a record at the database system from the native application, requests, based on the metadata maintained in the data storage element at the client device, the subset of data fields associated with the record from the database system over the network, and provides the retrieved subset of data fields to the native application to generate the graphical user interface display in accordance with the configuration using the retrieved subset of data fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Eldor Khalyknazarov, Puneet Dhaliwal, Dai Duong Doan
  • Publication number: 20240070118
    Abstract: Database systems and related customization methods are provided. One exemplary method of modifying a database to support a new functionality involves receiving user input indicative of the new functionality from a client device coupled to a network, identifying existing customizations associated with a user of the client device in the database, determining a plurality of different solutions for implementing the new functionality based at least in part on the existing customizations associated with the user, providing a graphical user interface display at the client device including graphical indicia of the plurality of different solutions for implementing the new functionality, and in response to receiving indication of a selected solution of the plurality of different solutions from the client device, automatically instantiating a new customization corresponding to the selected solution in the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Preston Tuggle
  • Publication number: 20240070347
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for generating an interactive simulation representing one or more assets based on one or more asset records. Based on information from asset records stored at a database system of a cloud-based computing system, an asset simulator module, executed at a cloud-based computing system, can generate one or more simulated representations of the assets. A simulator application executed at the cloud-based computing system can augment the simulated representations of the assets with (at least) additional information from the asset records stored in the database system, and generate a user interface that presents an interactive simulation of the assets. The user interface can include the simulated representations of the assets with the additional information from the asset records stored in the database system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles Hart Isaacs
  • Publication number: 20240070139
    Abstract: Database systems and methods are provided for initiating an action at a database system by an instance of a native application at a client device coupled to the database system over a network. One method involves downloading, to a data storage element at the client device, metadata indicative of update criteria for a configuration associated with the instance of the native application from the database system over the network, monitoring, by a service associated with the native application at the client device, a context associated with the client device with respect to the update criteria, and when the context associated with the client device satisfies the update criteria, automatically providing, by the service to the database system over the network, an indication that the update criteria is satisfied to automatically initiate the action at the database system in accordance with the configuration associated with the native application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Eldor Khalyknazarov, Puneet Dhaliwal, Dai Duong Doan
  • Publication number: 20240064201
    Abstract: A method for replicating a set of parent resources from an administrator namespace to a set of tenant namespaces is described. The method includes receiving, by the administrator namespace, a global object that includes a set of object fields that reference (1) a set of parent resources and (2) the set of tenant namespaces; monitoring, by an operator controller of the administrator namespace, the global object to determine whether a change has been made to the global object; and replicating, by the operator controller, the set of parent resources to the set of tenant namespaces as child resources based on the global object in response to detecting a change to the global object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Savithru Mallikarjuna Durga Lokanath, Arpeet Kale
  • Publication number: 20240062010
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for machine learning intent classification. In various embodiments, historical utterances provided by users may be utilized for bot training. Context and personally identifiable information may be removed from the utterances. The utterances may be associated with vectors. The utterances and vectors may be used to determine recommendations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Anuprit KALE, Weiping PENG, Na CHENG, Rick LINDSTROM, Zachary ALEXANDER
  • Publication number: 20240054123
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods are provided for ordering records at a database system. An instance of a virtual application presented at a client device coupled to the database system over a network provides a graphical user interface (GUI) element populated using a sorting rule table that maintains user-configured sorting rule criteria for each custom sorting rule of a plurality of different sorting rules configured at the database system. In response to the user selection of a first custom sorting rule via the GUI element, the virtual application provides graphical indication of an ordered listing of the records at the database system ordered by a user-configured field of the records associated with the first custom sorting rule in accordance with a user-configured sort order associated with the first custom sorting rule using a search index built in accordance with the user-configured sorting rule criteria for the custom sorting rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Zara Chiara Fernandez, Margaret Donaldson
  • Publication number: 20240054149
    Abstract: A contextual processing engine architecture. The architecture utilizes data objects retrieved from a database to form a new transactional item data structure as input into a contextual processing engine. The transactional data structure includes a prior context pointer to point to historical context. The historical context can be null for new transactions or one or more basis transaction item data structures for contextual transactions. The processing engine processes the input using process functions lists and aggregates the results for output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Rakesh Ganapathi Karanth, Parth Vaishnav, Chris Robison, Russ Halvorson
  • Publication number: 20240045567
    Abstract: A user device may identify data in a data field of a user interface and generate a changed fields window of the user interface to track changes to the data in the data field. Data in a data field of the changed fields window may correspond to the data in the data field. An indicator element may be displayed, for example, based on an interaction with the data in the data field of the changed fields window. The indicator element may indicate correspondence between the changed data in the data field and the data in the data field of the changed fields window. The indicator element may be displayed as an overlay of at least a portion of the user interface. Moreover, an inaccessible fields window including data fields that are no longer applicable in the current view of the user interface may be generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Jose LEJIN PJ, Ramanjaneyulu Y. TALLA
  • Publication number: 20240037503
    Abstract: A method of asset verification implemented by a computing device as part of an asset verification system. The asset verification utilizes unique identifying information of the asset. The method collects asset information from a user, collects asset information from the computing device, generates a unique identifier from the asset information, adds the unique identifier and the asset information to a blockchain, and stores the asset information in a distributed storage system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan
  • Publication number: 20240036913
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there are provided mechanisms and methods for automating deployment of applications in a multi-tenant database environment. For example, in one embodiment, mechanisms include managing a plurality of machines operating as a machine farm within a datacenter by executing an agent provisioning script at a control hub, instructing the plurality of machines to download and instantiate a lightweight agent; pushing a plurality of URL (Uniform Resource Locator) references from the control hub to the instantiated lightweight agent on each of the plurality of machines specifying one or more applications to be provisioned and one or more dependencies for each of the applications; and loading, via the lightweight agent at each of the plurality of machines, the one or more applications and the one or more dependencies for each of the one or more applications into memory of each respective machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Pallav Kothari, Phillip Oliver Metting van Rijn
  • Publication number: 20240028191
    Abstract: A user device (e.g., a computing device, a smart device, a mobile device, a laptop, a tablet, a set-top box, a display device, etc.) may generate and/or display a scrollable user interface (e.g., a configuration form/interface, a web form, a web page, an application page, a data form, etc.) that includes data fields. A data reflection element for a data field that is displayed based on proximity of an interactive element to the data field may be generated. Based on an interaction with the data reflection element via the interactive element, data input to the data field may be displayed in a field of a data reflection window of the scrollable user interface. An indication element that indicates correspondence between the data field and the field of the data reflection window may also be displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Jose LEJIN P J
  • Publication number: 20240022406
    Abstract: Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for tracking inbound email messages in association with database records. An outbound email message is automatically generated or updated to include a message identifier within one or more headers and within a body of the outbound email message. Subsequently, a first electronic mail message received via a network from a first client device is processed, where the first electronic message has one or more headers and a body. A first message identifier (ID) is obtained from the body and the first message ID is parsed such that an encrypted portion and one or more unencrypted portions are obtained, where a first unencrypted portion of the unencrypted portions includes an entity identifier associated with a first database record of a database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Minhui Yan, Abhijit Bare
  • Publication number: 20240020141
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for automatically determining a need to invoke functionality of a feature of an application while using a primary application and for automatically invoking that functionality without user action. When input information is input into the primary application via a user interface of a user system, it can be received by an application server from a sender process at the user system, and a prefix that occurs before a text string can be identified. The text string that follows the prefix can be extracted by performing a matching analysis against a library of keywords and extracting a matching keyword. The text string comprises extracted text from the input information. The matching keyword can be matched to an entry that is mapped to a command that can be executed to generate an action that automatically invokes the functionality of the feature of the application without user action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Pranoy Cherian Mathew
  • 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
  • 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: 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
  • 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: 20230401230
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods are provided for monitoring a replication service replicating data from a source database system to a destination database system. One method involves receiving, at the destination database system from the replication service over a network, a set of database transactions at the source database system, determining an expected tracking entry subsequent to the set of database transactions based at least in part on the one or more tracking entries in the set of database transactions, detecting an anomaly associated with replicating the data from the source database system in response to an absence of receiving, from the replication service, a subsequent set of database transactions at the source database system that includes the expected tracking entry within a threshold period of time, and initiating a remedial action in response to detecting the anomaly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Bharath Vissapragada, Rushabh Shah
  • Publication number: 20230396445
    Abstract: A request to perform an action related to a smart contract deployed on a blockchain may be received at a database system. The smart contract may be associated with a multi-signature authorization policy including one or more signature criteria for performing the action. A respective signature request message may be transmitted to a plurality of recipients. The signature request messages may identify the smart contract and the action. A plurality of signature response messages may be received. Two or more of the signature response messages may include a respective signature generated based on a respective private cryptographic key. An action execution message may be transmitted to execute the smart contract to perform the action. The action execution message may include the two or more signatures. The smart contract may be configured to perform the action when the two or more signatures comply with the multi-signature authorization policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Prithvi Krishnan PADMANABHAN
  • Publication number: 20230394481
    Abstract: A relational database stores customer relations management information including a plurality of transaction records that reflect tokens minted on a blockchain and transferred to customers of a plurality of tenants. A blockchain interface may deploy to the blockchain a smart contract owned by an owner account associated with a designated tenant. The smart contract may be linked to a voucher creator account assigned to a voucher creator role, which may be linked to a voucher public key stored on the blockchain in association with the smart contract and a voucher private key. A transaction voucher authorizing a voucher recipient account to execute the smart contract to perform an action may be created and signed with the voucher private key. The smart contract may include an executable function to perform the action after validating the transaction voucher by decrypting the transaction voucher with the voucher public key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Prithvi Krishnan PADMANABHAN
  • Publication number: 20230385051
    Abstract: According to some implementations, while a proxy routes production traffic to a first application (app) version that runs in a plurality of container orchestration system (cos) pods having first app version containers, configuration information is received including an identification of a second app version container image for a second app version. The second app version is an updated version of the first app version. Cos pods having second app version containers are brought up based on the second app version container image identified in the configuration information. Test and/or warmup traffic is caused to be routed to the second app version containers. Responsive to an indication regarding the routing of the test and/or warmup traffic to the second app version, causing a transition to sending production traffic to the second app version containers instead of to the first app version.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Sreeram Duvur, Vijayanth Devadhar, Matthew Gainsborough, Kiet Phong, Sathish Santhanam, Lawrence Thomas Lopez
  • Publication number: 20230368191
    Abstract: A database system account in a database system may be authenticated as owning a smart contract deployed to a blockchain. Blockchain information related to the smart contract may be received from the blockchain. The blockchain information may identify one or more tokens minted by the smart contract and/or one or more wallets in which the one or more tokens are stored. A plurality of records created based on the blockchain information may be stored in the database system. The plurality of records may include a first record representing the smart contract and a second one or more records representing the one or more tokens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Prithvi Krishnan PADMANABHAN, Gary BRANDELEER
  • Publication number: 20230368185
    Abstract: An instruction may be transmitted from a database system to a blockchain via a communication interface to deploy a smart contract to the blockchain. The smart contract may include a token transfer redemption policy identifying a designated recipient. A first blockchain transaction transferring a first quantity of a first token minted via the smart contract from a first blockchain party to a second blockchain party may be identified. The first blockchain transaction may involve the transfer of a second quantity of a second token from the second blockchain party to the first blockchain party. A third quantity of the second token may be transmitted to the designated recipient. The third quantity may be determined based on the token transfer redemption policy and the second quantity of the second token.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Prithvi Krishnan PADMANABHAN, Gary BRANDELEER, Avanthika RAMESH, Adam CAPLAN
  • Publication number: 20230368291
    Abstract: A designated smart contract representation may be determined based on configuration information provided by a first database system account. The designated smart contract representation may include a binary executable representation of a smart contract template. Access to the designated smart contract representation may be provided via an application exchange in an database system. The database system may provide computing services to a plurality of entities via the internet. The plurality of entities may include a first entity associated with the first database system account and a second entity associated with a second database system account. The application exchange may provide access to a plurality of smart contract representations including the designated smart contract representation. A selection of the designated smart contract representation may be received in association with the second database system account. The binary executable representation may be deployed to a blockchain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Prithvi Krishnan PADMANABHAN, Marc BENIOFF
  • Publication number: 20230367766
    Abstract: An estimated environmental impact profile may be determined based on a smart contract deployment configuration, which may identify an estimated number of first tokens to be minted via a smart contract instance based on a smart contract template and deployed to a blockchain. One or more instructions to perform a plurality of operations on the designated blockchain may be transmitted. The plurality of operations may include deploying the smart contract instance to the designated blockchain and minting a first number of first tokens via the smart contract instance. The estimated environmental impact profile may be updated based on the one or more operations. An instruction to transfer a second number of second tokens to a recipient may be transmitted. The second number may be selected based on the estimated environmental impact profile to offset an environmental impact associated with the smart contract instance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Prithvi Krishnan PADMANABHAN, Gary BRANDELEER, Michael ALBERS
  • Publication number: 20230367776
    Abstract: A plurality of metadata entries may be sent from a database system to a distributed storage system via a communication interface. The metadata entries may correspond with a respective plurality of metadata identifiers. A first function in a smart contract deployed on a blockchain may be executed to mint a designated non-fungible token initially owned by a first blockchain party corresponding with a database system account. A first transaction transferring the designated non-fungible token to a second blockchain party different from the first blockchain party may be identified. A second function in the smart contract may be executed to record a second transaction updating an attribute value associated with the designated non-fungible token to include a designated one of the plurality of metadata identifiers corresponding with a designated one of the metadata entries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Prithvi Krishnan PADMANABHAN, Gary BRANDELEER, Avanthika RAMESH, Adam CAPLAN, Angus DUNN, Dan XU, Chinmay GORE, Aditya Nikhil DESAI