Patents by Inventor Chengxuan Xing

Chengxuan Xing has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11936763
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems. Embodiments of the present invention can identify a network request as being deferrable and embed data of the deferrable network request within a header of a suitable carrier network request for sending to a remote server. Embodiments of the present invention can receive a carrier network request with embedded data of a deferrable network request within a header of the carrier network request. Embodiments of the present invention can then parse the embedded data from the header into a separate request message for actioning at the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Paul Chapman, Chengxuan Xing, Ashley Donald Harrison, Samuel David Goulden
  • Patent number: 11874932
    Abstract: Approaches presented herein enable a security risk manager embedded in an application to manage security vulnerabilities of the application. More specifically, the application comprises code entities such as components, packages, libraries, or microservices. The entities are modified as part of the application development process to have an enabled state, in which these entities are permitted to run normally when called, and a disabled state, in which these entities do not run when called but instead perform a back-out behavior such as generating an error message. At runtime, the application periodically accesses a security vulnerabilities database to check for security alerts. When a relevant security alert is found, the application changes any code entities that are affected by the security alert to the disabled state pending investigation by an operations team. The application notifies the operations team by sending a notification of the security alert to an external security monitoring tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Paul Chapman, Chengxuan Xing, Ashley Donald Harrison, Vlad Balanescu
  • Publication number: 20240012829
    Abstract: An approach to implement an extract, transform and load system, a queue is provided for holding units of data between extraction and transformation. When units of data suffer a rate limit error in the load phase, they are requeued so they can be resubmitted for transformation. The contents of the queue are monitored and, if too many requeued units of data are detected in the queue, then this is taken as an indicator of an unacceptable number of rate limit errors and active pacing management is triggered. A retry schedule is defined for the requeued units of data. Extraction is temporarily halted to allow the requeued units of data to be retransformed without more units of data queuing up. Then, after the suspension is lifted, a pacing delay is inserted between subsequent extract events to avoid the same load phase bottleneck recurring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Chengxuan Xing, Doina Liliana Klinger, Alexander Robert Wood, Tom Soal
  • Patent number: 11841871
    Abstract: An approach to implement an extract, transform and load system, a queue is provided for holding units of data between extraction and transformation. When units of data suffer a rate limit error in the load phase, they are requeued so they can be resubmitted for transformation. The contents of the queue are monitored and, if too many requeued units of data are detected in the queue, then this is taken as an indicator of an unacceptable number of rate limit errors and active pacing management is triggered. A retry schedule is defined for the requeued units of data. Extraction is temporarily halted to allow the requeued units of data to be retransformed without more units of data queuing up. Then, after the suspension is lifted, a pacing delay is inserted between subsequent extract events to avoid the same load phase bottleneck recurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chengxuan Xing, Doina Liliana Klinger, Alexander Robert Wood, Tom Soal
  • Publication number: 20230394163
    Abstract: A pull request from a managed cluster may be authorized by, for each managed cluster managed by the service provider, generating an encrypted pull secret for a managed cluster, assigning the generated encrypted pull secret to the managed cluster, and responsive to receiving a pull request from a managed cluster at the service provider. The pull request may have an accompanying encrypted pull secret. The pull request may also determine whether the pull request was initiated by an intended managed cluster by decrypting the encrypted pull secret assigned to the managed cluster using a decryption key. The authorizing the pull request based on whether the decrypted pull secret is assigned to an intended managed cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Chengxuan Xing, Alexander Robert Wood, Samuel S May, Doina Liliana Klinger
  • Publication number: 20230315396
    Abstract: An integration flow can be improved with the use of a pattern identified from a pattern library. The identified pattern can include a snippet of nodes which are functionally equivalent to a subset of nodes in the integration flow. The pattern also lists an endpoint capable of performing the snippet of nodes. The integration flow can therefore be updated to cause the endpoint to perform the snippet of nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Chengxuan Xing, John Anthony Reeve, John Hosie, Benjamin Graham Thompson
  • Patent number: 11677810
    Abstract: An application configuration tool and associated method for supporting deployment of an application on a server that has a set of configurations available for applications deployed on the server. The method attempts to match every configuration required by the application to a configuration available on the server. In case of multiple candidates that match, one is selected. When there is no match an error message is generated. The method is iterated to inspect each selected configuration to identify any references contained in the selected configuration that themselves need further configurations. The iteration of inspecting and the matching to follow the references is continued until all such references are exhausted either by matching or failure to match and consequent error message generation. Finally, a configuration report is output specifying the selected configurations and, to the extent that not all required configurations have been matched to available configurations, the error messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John Anthony Reeve, Doina Liliana Klinger, Chengxuan Xing, Tom Soal
  • Publication number: 20230169055
    Abstract: A method includes: receiving an indication of a new integration flow document that updates a current integration flow document of an integration flow; determining a last switchable node that is included in both the current integration flow document and the new integration flow document; determining, for each running instance of the integration flow using the current integration flow document, whether a currently executing node of the instance is less than or equal to the last switchable node; in response to determining the currently executing node of the instance is less than or equal to the last switchable node, switching the instance to the new integration flow document; and in response to determining the currently executing node of the instance is greater than or the last switchable node, waiting for completion of the instance using the current integration flow document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Chengxuan Xing, Ashley Donald Harrison, Matthew Paul Chapman, Vlad Balanescu
  • Patent number: 11645253
    Abstract: A method includes: receiving an indication of a new integration flow document that updates a current integration flow document of an integration flow; determining a last switchable node that is included in both the current integration flow document and the new integration flow document; determining, for each running instance of the integration flow using the current integration flow document, whether a currently executing node of the instance is less than or equal to the last switchable node; in response to determining the currently executing node of the instance is less than or equal to the last switchable node, switching the instance to the new integration flow document; and in response to determining the currently executing node of the instance is greater than or the last switchable node, waiting for completion of the instance using the current integration flow document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chengxuan Xing, Ashley Donald Harrison, Matthew Paul Chapman, Vlad Balanescu
  • Publication number: 20230027618
    Abstract: An application configuration tool and associated method for supporting deployment of an application on a server that has a set of configurations available for applications deployed on the server. The method attempts to match every configuration required by the application to a configuration available on the server. In case of multiple candidates that match, one is selected. When there is no match an error message is generated. The method is iterated to inspect each selected configuration to identify any references contained in the selected configuration that themselves need further configurations. The iteration of inspecting and the matching to follow the references is continued until all such references are exhausted either by matching or failure to match and consequent error message generation. Finally, a configuration report is output specifying the selected configurations and, to the extent that not all required configurations have been matched to available configurations, the error messages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: John Anthony Reeve, Doina Liliana Klinger, Chengxuan Xing, Tom Soal
  • Publication number: 20230004650
    Abstract: Approaches presented herein enable a security risk manager embedded in an application to manage security vulnerabilities of the application. More specifically, the application comprises code entities such as components, packages, libraries, or microservices. The entities are modified as part of the application development process to have an enabled state, in which these entities are permitted to run normally when called, and a disabled state, in which these entities do not run when called but instead perform a back-out behavior such as generating an error message. At runtime, the application periodically accesses a security vulnerabilities database to check for security alerts. When a relevant security alert is found, the application changes any code entities that are affected by the security alert to the disabled state pending investigation by an operations team. The application notifies the operations team by sending a notification of the security alert to an external security monitoring tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Matthew Paul Chapman, Chengxuan Xing, Ashley Donald Harrison, Vlad Balanescu
  • Publication number: 20220414113
    Abstract: An approach to implement an extract, transform and load system, a queue is provided for holding units of data between extraction and transformation. When units of data suffer a rate limit error in the load phase, they are requeued so they can be resubmitted for transformation. The contents of the queue are monitored and, if too many requeued units of data are detected in the queue, then this is taken as an indicator of an unacceptable number of rate limit errors and active pacing management is triggered. A retry schedule is defined for the requeued units of data. Extraction is temporarily halted to allow the requeued units of data to be retransformed without more units of data queuing up. Then, after the suspension is lifted, a pacing delay is inserted between subsequent extract events to avoid the same load phase bottleneck recurring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Chengxuan Xing, Doina Liliana Klinger, Alexander Robert Wood, Tom Soal
  • Patent number: 11514381
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for customizing integration flow templates. The method can include can include monitoring user interaction with a plurality of systems external to an integration system to read data changes at the external systems and identifying at least one event pair, wherein each event pair is between two external systems having a same data change event in the two external systems. The identified event pairs are filtered for inclusion in an events chain and the external systems of the filtered event pairs are ordered in the events chain based on timestamps of the data change events. The method outputs integration flow templates based on the ordered external systems of the event pairs that define a flow trigger and at least one flow node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chengxuan Xing, Ashley Donald Harrison, Matthew Paul Chapman, Andrew James Daniel
  • Publication number: 20220131959
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems. Embodiments of the present invention can identify a network request as being deferrable and embed data of the deferrable network request within a header of a suitable carrier network request for sending to a remote server. Embodiments of the present invention can receive a carrier network request with embedded data of a deferrable network request within a header of the carrier network request. Embodiments of the present invention can then parse the embedded data from the header into a separate request message for actioning at the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Matthew Paul Chapman, Chengxuan Xing, Ashley Donald Harrison, Samuel David Goulden
  • Patent number: 11114089
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for applying a profile to an assistive device based on a multitude of cues includes: gathering audio inputs surrounding an assistive device; analyzing, by the assistive device, the audio inputs; determining, based on the analyzing, scenario cues; classifying a current environment surrounding the assistive device from the scenario cues; comparing the current environment to device profiles of the assistive device; determining, based on the comparing, a matching profile; and, in response to determining the matching profile, executing the matching profile on the assistive device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Chapman, Chengxuan Xing, Andrew J. Daniel, Ashley Harrison
  • Publication number: 20210264333
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for customizing integration flow templates. The method can include can include monitoring user interaction with a plurality of systems external to an integration system to read data changes at the external systems and identifying at least one event pair, wherein each event pair is between two external systems having a same data change event in the two external systems. The identified event pairs are filtered for inclusion in an events chain and the external systems of the filtered event pairs are ordered in the events chain based on timestamps of the data change events. The method outputs integration flow templates based on the ordered external systems of the event pairs that define a flow trigger and at least one flow node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Chengxuan Xing, Ashley Donald Harrison, Matthew Paul Chapman, Andrew James Daniel
  • Patent number: 11074122
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method detect an error in an application comprising a component having a control that is displayed in a first state on a display device. Responsive to the detecting of the error, the method comprises associating the error with the control, and, upon making this association, the method comprises automatically modifying the component at application run-time. This modification indicates that the control is no longer functional. A display operation of the component is performed where the modified component has: a) the control displayed in a second state on the component, or b) the control is removed from the component. The method may be repeated when other errors occur, and the control may be restored when the underlying error is resolved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Paul Chapman, Chengxuan Xing, Ashley Donald Harrison, Andrew James Daniel
  • Patent number: 11061988
    Abstract: Building of a web application includes receiving the web application that is comprised of a plurality of modules, the web application comprising a plurality of pages; and receiving respective usage statistics information for each of the plurality of pages. Building the application includes splitting the plurality of modules into one or more bundles by determining for each of the plurality of modules whether to include that module in a main bundle of the web application based on how many of the plurality of pages utilize that module and based on respective usage statistics associated with each of the plurality of pages that utilize that module; and then building a production version of the web application comprising the main bundle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew Chapman, Chengxuan Xing, Ashley Harrison, Andrew J. Daniel
  • Patent number: 11042415
    Abstract: Concepts for sharing processing resource of a multi-tenant extract transform load, ETL, system are presented. In such concepts, a total workload of the multi-tenant ETL system is considered along with the queued workload of tenant in order control deliver of the queued workload to the system. Such control is undertaken, for example, by delaying the work of the tenant. Proposed embodiments therefore seek to devise a policy to achieve fairness amongst tenants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Robert Wood, Chengxuan Xing, Doina Liliana Klinger
  • Publication number: 20210149728
    Abstract: Concepts for sharing processing resource of a multi-tenant extract transform load, ETL, system are presented. In such concepts, a total workload of the multi-tenant ETL system is considered along with the queued workload of tenant in order control deliver of the queued workload to the system. Such control is undertaken, for example, by delaying the work of the tenant. Proposed embodiments therefore seek to devise a policy to achieve fairness amongst tenants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Alexander Robert Wood, Chengxuan Xing, Doina Liliana Klinger