Patents by Inventor Tim Peng

Tim Peng 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).

  • System and method for flow runtime versioning
    Patent number: 11620124
    Abstract: Described is a method in a cloud-based system for implementing changes to flow engine software that executes user-specific flows for a plurality of users. The method includes: receiving a request to load and execute a user-specific flow; identifying an API version identifier for the user-specific flow; loading the user-specific flow; determining whether a software change to the flow engine software should be applied when executing the user-specific flow based on the API version identifier; and executing the user-specific flow using the flow engine software with the software change when it is determined, based on the API version identifier, that the software change to the flow engine software should be applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Saravanan Adaikkalavan, Samuel William Bailey, William C. Eidson, Hugh Cockburn, Krishna Kumar, Hao Wu, Tim Peng
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FLOW RUNTIME VERSIONING
    Publication number: 20220342658
    Abstract: A method in a cloud-based system for implementing behavioral changes to flow engine software that executes user-specific flows for a plurality of users with little or no disruption to the performance of the user-specific flows is provided. The method comprises: receiving a request to load and execute a user-specific flow; identifying an API version identifier for the user-specific flow; loading the user-specific flow; determining whether a software change to the flow engine software should be applied when executing the user-specific flow based on the API version identifier; and executing the user-specific flow using the flow engine software with the software change when it is determined, based on the API version identifier, that the software change to the flow engine software should be applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Saravanan Adaikkalavan, Samuel William Bailey, William C. Eidson, Hugh Cockburn, Krishna Kumar, Hao Wu, Tim Peng