Patents by Inventor Krishnan Padmanabhan

Krishnan Padmanabhan 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: 11954094
    Abstract: A request may be received to transfer from a first entity to a second entity a right related to a digital asset stored in an on-demand database system. The on-demand database system may provide computing services to a plurality of entities via the internet. A token associated with the digital asset may be identified. The token may being included in a smart contract recorded within a distributed trust ledger and may be owned by a first distributed trust ledger account. The smart contract may be executed within the distributed trust ledger to record a transfer of the token from the first distributed trust ledger account to a second distributed trust ledger account. The on-demand database system may be updated to include one or more database entries reflecting the recorded transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan
  • Patent number: 11954183
    Abstract: A method and system to manage application package installation in a multi-tenant system is provided. The method includes accessing metadata of an application package for distribution in the multi-tenant system, selecting a component of the application package with a permission guard in the metadata, evaluating permission guard logic to determine wither a target tenant in the multi-tenant system can install the component, and compiling and installing the component in response to the permission guard logic indicating the tenant of the multi-tenant system has met conditions to utilize the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan, Natasha Sushil Gupta
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11921887
    Abstract: A request to contact a service provider may be received from a client machine. The request may be associated with an identity claim and including a service identifier. The identity claim may be validated via a distributed identity service that includes a plurality of identity nodes in communication via a network. Validating the identity claim may include determining a designated network identifier associated with a distributed identity account shared among the plurality of identity nodes. A service query that includes the service identifier and the designated network identifier may be sent to a plurality of customer relations management services. A communication session may be established between a service provider remote computing system and the client machine. The service provider may store customer relations management information at a designated one of the plurality of customer relations management services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan
  • Patent number: 11902852
    Abstract: Described herein are systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products configured to provide tracking and/or status updates for on-site service personnel. Geofences may be utilized to provide for automated updates to a customer. Additionally, tracking links and other communications may be provided to the customer to allow for improved communications with on-site service personnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Puneet Dhaliwal, Niv Garber, D. Dustin Breese, Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan, Kara Carreri, Rahul Mehta, Raghav Abboy, Yongbo Zuo, Abraham Reyes
  • Patent number: 11899817
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for storing PII information via a metadata driven blockchain using distributed and decentralized storage for sensitive user information, operable within a cloud based computing environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan
  • Patent number: 11893002
    Abstract: A method of distributed smart contract deployment in a multi-tenant environment implemented by a computing device. The method including receiving a smart contract source, converting the smart contract source to a smart contract code for a tenant of the multi-tenant environment, the smart contract code to manage blockchain data transaction validation, and installing the smart contract code at the tenant to enforce logic of the smart contract source at the tenant in the multi-tenant environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11886421
    Abstract: Exemplary systems, implement Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) in conjunction with a cloud based computing environment. The system operates receives input for adding a plurality of authorized network participants to a declared application, in which the network participants are granted access rights to the declared application. The system further deploys an executable install package to each of the plurality of authorized network participants for the declared application; in which the executable install package retrieves the metadata for the declared application from the blockchain and displays GUIs specific to the declared application which are auto generated by the executable install package based on the retrieved metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan
  • Patent number: 11880349
    Abstract: A method implemented by a computer system including receiving a transaction for a blockchain to update a data record persistently stored on the blockchain, the transaction specifying updated values for one or more of a plurality of data elements of the data record, and updating correlated data records separate from the blockchain in a database system to match the updated values for the data record in the blockchain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan
  • Patent number: 11880372
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan, Gary Brandeleer, Avanthika Ramesh, Adam Caplan, Angus Dunn, Dan Xu, Chinmay Gore, Aditya Nikhil Desai
  • Patent number: 11876910
    Abstract: Exemplary systems, implement a multi-tenant blockchain platform for managing the Einstein cloud platform's decisions using Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) in conjunction with a cloud based computing environment. The system operates a blockchain interface to a blockchain on behalf of a plurality of tenants of the host organization, configures the blockchain to share a training data set between two or more tenants pursuant to a consent agreement, trains an AI model to make recommendations based on the training data set, receives a request to register the AI model with an audit record keeping service, receives a transaction at the blockchain, issues a decision by the AI model to accept or reject the transaction; and then proceeds to transact a new asset onto the blockchain recording the decision to accept or reject the transaction and the data set utilized to train the AI model with a version of the AI model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan
  • Patent number: 11875400
    Abstract: Exemplary systems, methods, and apparatuses dynamically assign nodes to a group within blockchains based on transaction type and node intelligence using Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) in conjunction with a cloud based computing environment. The exemplary system operates a blockchain interface to the blockchain on behalf of a plurality of tenants of the host organization, creates a consensus group on the blockchain and associates the consensus group with a specific transaction type for transactions to be processed via the blockchain. The system further assigns participating nodes to the consensus group and grants increased weight consensus voting rights to the consensus group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan
  • Patent number: 11868321
    Abstract: A method for a server to manage data in a peer-to-peer blockchain network is described herein. The method includes generating, by a multi-tenant web server, an exchange object for the peer-to-peer blockchain network, wherein the exchange object includes a set of exchange fields and a mapping between each exchange field in the set of exchange fields and a field of a physical object associated with each peer in the peer-to-peer blockchain network; generating, by the multi-tenant web server, a transaction object based on the exchange object, wherein the transaction object includes the set of exchange fields and proposes an alternation to a physical object; and making, by the multi-tenant web server, the transaction object available to the peers in the peer-to-peer blockchain network to attempt to obtain consensus for the alteration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan, Sri Naga Deepthi Velisetti, Philip Norman Calvin, Brent Fosdick, Andrew Emil Conn
  • Patent number: 11869014
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices supporting physical proximity graphing are described. Some systems may store a limited set of location information for a set of humans (e.g., refraining from tracking device location information to maintain user privacy). A system may send a survey to each person indicating a suggested list of people based on the location information. The people may provide feedback confirming whether encounters occurred with each suggested human. The system may use this information to generate a graph using hashed identifiers to obfuscate user identities, where the graph tracks connections between people (e.g., based on encounters within a time period). Based on a trigger event, the system may analyze the graph and identify a set of hashed identifiers connected to a person of interest (e.g., traversing multiple levels of the graph). The system may transmit messages to people corresponding to the identified set of hashed identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan, Amanda Grady
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11823120
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan
  • Patent number: D1023041
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Puneet Dhaliwal, Niv Garber, D. Dustin Breese, Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan, Kara Carreri, Rahul Mehta, Raghav Abboy, Yongbo Zuo, Abraham Reyes
  • Patent number: D1024089
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Puneet Dhaliwal, Niv Garber, D. Dustin Breese, Prithvi Krishnan Padmanabhan, Kara Carreri, Rahul Mehta, Raghav Abboy, Yongbo Zuo, Abraham Reyes