Patents by Inventor Kevin Fairfax

Kevin Fairfax 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).

  • Publication number: 20230030546
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining, at an operator executed on a server that is separate from an application, whether to perform an update of the application. The operator may perform an upgrade precheck when it is determined that the update to the application is to be performed. The precheck may include determining whether a database migration is to be performed as part of the update to the application, and receiving an update mode and an update type to determine the upgrade to the application. The operator may provide to the application via an application program interface (API), one or more application shutdown configuration parameters for the update based on the received update mode and update type of the upgrade precheck. The operator may deploy the update to the application based on the determined update mode and update type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Derek Louis Forrest, Thomas Budich, Philipp Otto, Martin Hartmann, Kevin Fairfax, Frank Müller, Eric Liljeback
  • Publication number: 20230004478
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for performing, at a server, a stack trace of an application at a predetermined interval to generate a plurality of stack traces, where each stack trace of the plurality of stack traces is from a different point in time based on the predetermined interval. The stack trace is performed when the application is operating normally and when the application has had a failure. The plurality of stack traces stored are indexed by timestamp. The server may determine a state of the application based on at least one of the plurality of stack traces. The server may condense data for at least one of the plurality of stack traces that are indexed using predetermined failure scenarios for the application. The server may generate a report based on the condensed data and the state of the application, and may transmit the report for display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Ben Susman, Christian Bayer, Sergei Babovich, Sanyogita Sudhir Ranade, Saurabh Lodha, Timothy Cassidy, Krishnamurthy Muralidhar, Derek Forrest, Bing Xia, Kevin Fairfax
  • Patent number: 11281452
    Abstract: A compute container system may support logical partitions for various single tenant systems. These logical partitions may be referred to as logical single-tenant system stacks. An operator or release manager for a logical partition may identify a declarative deployment file defining a deployment configuration for one or more of a plurality of logical single-tenant system stacks. The operator may determine a deployment schedule for implementing one or more system updates for the plurality of logical single-tenant system stacks based on the declarative deployment file and implement the system updates based on the determined deployment schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Eric Liljeback, Derek Forrest, Kevin Fairfax, Julian Nodorp, Martin Hartmann
  • Publication number: 20220050670
    Abstract: A compute container system may support logical partitions for various single tenant systems. These logical partitions may be referred to as logical single-tenant system stacks. An operator or release manager for a logical partition may identify a declarative deployment file defining a deployment configuration for one or more of a plurality of logical single-tenant system stacks. The operator may determine a deployment schedule for implementing one or more system updates for the plurality of logical single-tenant system stacks based on the declarative deployment file and implement the system updates based on the determined deployment schedule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Eric Liljeback, Derek Forrest, Kevin Fairfax, Julian Nodorp, Martin Hartmann