Patents by Inventor Daniel L. Pletter

Daniel L. Pletter 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: 8301612
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for storing documents that are being tracked in an on-demand service. These mechanisms and methods for storing documents in an on-demand service can enable embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the storing of the documents in association with a tag. The ability of embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the storing can enable an efficient searching for a shared document. In an embodiment, the shared document is categorized upon being stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Timothy J Barker, Ryan Lissack, Daniel L Pletter
  • Publication number: 20110289140
    Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for providing a user interface in an on-demand software service environment are described. Some implementations involve receiving a component request from a first client device and building or retrieving component definitions corresponding to the component request. The implementations may also involve instantiating the component definitions and obtaining data and metadata for the component instances. Such implementations may also involve serializing the component definitions, component instances, the data and the metadata, and returning a response to the first client device. The response may include serialized instantiated component definitions, serialized data for the instantiated component definitions and serialized metadata for the instantiated component definitions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: SALESFORCE.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel L. Pletter, Andrew Waite, Doug Chasman, James K. Mooney, James Troup
  • Publication number: 20110289141
    Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for providing a user interface in an on-demand software service environment are described. Some implementations involve sending a request from a first apparatus to a second apparatus and receiving a response from the second apparatus. The response may include serialized instantiated component definitions, serialized data for the instantiated component definitions and serialized metadata for the instantiated component definitions. Such implementations may involve deserializing the response to create a metadata structure, traversing the metadata structure to create an instance data structure, traversing the instance data structure to render or re-render a page and displaying the page on a display of the first apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Daniel L. Pletter, Andrew Waite, Doug Chasman, James K. Mooney, James Troup
  • Publication number: 20110289425
    Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for providing a user interface in an on-demand software service environment are described. Some implementations involve displaying a rendered page, detecting the firing of an event in the rendered page and determining an event type for the event. The implementations may also involve ascertaining whether an action associated with the event is implemented in a server-side language or a client-side language, locating handlers for the event according to the event type and performing a handler execution process. These implementations may also involve executing a component re-rendering process to create a re-rendered page and displaying the re-rendered page. The component re-rendering process may be based, at least in part, on output from the handler execution process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: SALESFORCE.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel L. Pletter, Andrew Waite, Doug Chasman, James K. Mooney, James Troup
  • Publication number: 20110289479
    Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for providing a user interface in an on-demand software service environment are described. Some implementations involve receiving an indication of a component definition to instantiate. The component definition may be a portion of a component definition data structure. Such implementations may also involve instantiating the provided component, instantiating all remaining attributes of the component definition data structure to produce a component instance data structure and transmitting an intermediate representation of the indicated component to a client device. The intermediate representation may comprise a version of the component instance data structure. The intermediate representation may allow the client device to create an instance of the component in memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: SALESFORCE.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel L. Pletter, Andrew Waite, Doug Chasman, James K. Mooney, James Troup
  • Publication number: 20110289476
    Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for providing a user interface in an on-demand software service environment are described. Some implementations involve receiving a component request from a first client device, locating class-level definition source code for a component definition corresponding to the component request, identifying the component definition within the source code, determining a language of the component definition and selecting a parser according to the language of the component definition. Such implementations may also involve parsing the source code to create the component definition and transmitting an intermediate representation of the requested component to the client device. The intermediate representation may allow the client device to create an instance of the requested component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: SALESFORCE.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel L. Pletter, Andrew Waite, Doug Chasman, James K. Mooney, James Troup
  • Publication number: 20110276946
    Abstract: Various embodiments described or referenced herein are directed to different devices, methods, systems, and computer program products for testing a user interface component. A client-side operation for rendering the user interface component may be performed. The rendered user interface component may be stored as a user interface component test image simulating a visual presentation of the user interface component at a client machine. A user interface component expected image may be retrieved from a storage medium accessible to the server. The user interface component expected image may represent an expected visual presentation of the rendered user interface component. A determination may be made as to whether the user interface component test image matches the user interface component expected image. When the user interface component test image does not match the user interface component expected image, an indication of an error condition may be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: SALESFORCE.COM, INC.
    Inventor: Daniel L. Pletter
  • Publication number: 20110252314
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for storing documents that are being tracked in an on-demand service. These mechanisms and methods for storing documents in an on-demand service can enable embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the storing of the documents in association with a tag. The ability of embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the storing can enable an efficient searching for a shared document. In an embodiment, the shared document is categorized upon being stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: Salesforce.com Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Barker, Ryan Lissack, Daniel L. Pletter
  • Publication number: 20110197186
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for storing documents that are being tracked in an on-demand service. These mechanisms and methods for storing documents in an on-demand service can enable embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the storing of the documents in association with a tag. The ability of embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the storing can enable an efficient searching for a shared document. In an embodiment, the shared document is categorized upon being stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: SALESFORCE.COM, INC.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Barker, Ryan Lissack, Daniel L. Pletter
  • Patent number: 7991790
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for storing documents that are being tracked in an on-demand service. These mechanisms and methods for storing documents in an on-demand service can enable embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the storing of the documents in association with a tag. The ability of embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the storing can enable an efficient searching for a shared document. In an embodiment, the shared document is categorized upon being stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: salesforce.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy J Barker, Ryan Lissack, Daniel L Pletter
  • Patent number: 7836019
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for tracking documents in an on-demand service. These mechanisms and methods for tracking documents in an on-demand service can enable embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the tracking of whether one of the shared documents was changed. The ability of embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the tracking can enable a safeguard that a user knows whether the document that they have in their possession is the most recent version. In an embodiment, the shared documents are stored in a document management storage. In an embodiment, each file has an ID that includes version information for checking whether the document is the most recent version. In an embodiment, an application is downloaded onto the user system that automatically upon opening a document checks whether a document is the most recent version.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Barker, Ryan Lissack, Daniel L Pletter
  • Publication number: 20100268740
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for tracking documents in an on-demand service. These mechanisms and methods for tracking documents in an on-demand service can enable embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the tracking of whether one of the shared documents was changed. The ability of embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the tracking can enable a safeguard that a user knows whether the document that they have in their possession is the most recent version. In an embodiment, the shared documents are stored in a document management storage. In an embodiment, each file has an ID that includes version information for checking whether the document is the most recent version. In an embodiment, an application is downloaded onto the user system that automatically upon opening a document checks whether a document is the most recent version.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: Salesforce.com Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Barker, Ryan Lissack, Daniel L. Pletter
  • Patent number: 7818298
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for tracking documents in an on-demand service. These mechanisms and methods for tracking documents in an on-demand service can enable embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the tracking of whether one of the shared documents was changed. The ability of embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the tracking can enable a safeguard that a user knows whether the document that they have in their possession is the most recent version. In an embodiment, the shared documents are stored in a document management storage. In an embodiment, each file has an ID that includes version information for checking whether the document is the most recent version. In an embodiment, an application is downloaded onto the user system that automatically upon opening a document checks whether a document is the most recent version.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Barker, Ryan Lissack, Daniel L. Pletter
  • Publication number: 20090049053
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for pushing data, which maybe associated with documents that are being tracked, in an on-demand service. These mechanisms and methods for pushing data in an on-demand service can enable subscriptions to elements associated with the documents being shared. As a result of the subscription the user may be notified that a document associated with the subscription has been changed (e.g., altered). In an embodiment, the subscription may be forced on a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2007
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: Salesforce.com Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Barker, Ryan Lissack, Daniel L. Pletter
  • Publication number: 20090024609
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for storing documents that are being tracked in an on-demand service. These mechanisms and methods for storing documents in an on-demand service can enable embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the storing of the documents in association with a tag. The ability of embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the storing can enable an efficient searching for a shared document. In an embodiment, the shared document is categorized upon being stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: Salesforce.com Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Barker, Ryan Lissack, Daniel L. Pletter
  • Publication number: 20090024673
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for tracking documents in an on-demand service. These mechanisms and methods for tracking documents in an on-demand service can enable embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the tracking of whether one of the shared documents was changed. The ability of embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the tracking can enable a safeguard that a user knows whether the document that they have in their possession is the most recent version. In an embodiment, the shared documents are stored in a document management storage. In an embodiment, each file has an ID that includes version information for checking whether the document is the most recent version. In an embodiment, an application is downloaded onto the user system that automatically upon opening a document checks whether a document is the most recent version.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2007
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: Salesforce.com Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Barker, Ryan Lissack, Daniel L. Pletter
  • Publication number: 20090013011
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for tracking documents in an on-demand service. These mechanisms and methods for tracking documents in an on-demand service can enable embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the tracking of whether one of the shared documents was changed. The ability of embodiments to provide the sharing of documents and the tracking can enable a safeguard that a user knows whether the document that they have in their possession is the most recent version. In an embodiment, the shared documents are stored in a document management storage. In an embodiment, each file has an ID that includes version information for checking whether the document is the most recent version. In an embodiment, an application is downloaded onto the user system that automatically upon opening a document checks whether a document is the most recent version.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2007
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: Salesforce.com Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Barker, Ryan Lissack, Daniel L. Pletter