Patents by Inventor Yingwu ZHAO

Yingwu ZHAO 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: 11726842
    Abstract: In an event-based data management system, an event having an associated identifier is received. A mapping operation is performed using the identifier to map the event to a selected one of a plurality of topic partitions. Queues for each of the plurality of topic partitions are managed. The queues for each of the plurality of topic partitions are managed independently of each other. The event is allocated to the selected topic partition based on the mapping operation. The event is placed into the queue for the selected topic partition. A batch of events is sent from the queue for the selected topic partition in response to one or more thresholds being reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Yingwu Zhao
  • Patent number: 11620345
    Abstract: A method for enabling event consumption is described. Upon receipt of a request for events associated with a first initial topic, a determination that the request includes a request for historical events is performed. Responsive to determining that one or more rules apply to the request for historical events, a determination of a first path from the first initial topic to a first aggregate topic is performed based on the one or more rules. The first path is different from a second path from the first initial topic to a second aggregate topic that is defined according to a current multiplexed framework definition. The current multiplexed framework definition is used for storing new events associated with the first initial topic in a second multiplexed event recordation system at a time that follows the time of receipt of the request. A first set of historical events is retrieved based on the first path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Yingwu Zhao, Hal Scott Hildebrand
  • Patent number: 11349896
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to accelerating replay access to numerous streams via a channel aggregation hierarchy, muxing events from input buffers that receive event streams, into a physically aggregated stream in memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Yingwu Zhao
  • Publication number: 20210029186
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to accelerating replay access to numerous streams via a channel aggregation hierarchy, muxing events from input buffers that receive event streams, into a physically aggregated stream in memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventor: Yingwu Zhao
  • Patent number: 10805373
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to accelerating replay access to numerous streams via a channel aggregation hierarchy, muxing events from input buffers that receive event streams, into a physically aggregated stream in memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Yingwu Zhao
  • Patent number: 10783044
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for a mechanism of disaster recovery and instance refresh in an event recordation system are described. A first request for events associated with a first topic is received. A first set of events associated with the first topic are retrieved from a primary event recordation system. Each event from the first set of events includes a first commit identifier indicating the order with which each event is stored in the primary event recordation system. For each event from the first set of events a first replay identifier is determined based on the first commit identifier and a first value of a low commit identifier. The first replay identifier is exposed to event consumers for identifying the event. In response to the first request each event from the first set of events is transmitted with the replay identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: salesforce, inc.
    Inventors: Yingwu Zhao, Samarpan Jain, Hal Scott Hildebrand, Alexey Syomichev, Emin Eliot Gerba, Igor Pesenson, David William Spragg, Jay Hurst, Soumen Bandyopadhyay
  • Patent number: 10776825
    Abstract: A processor can cause a first communication, to a user device, of a first item based on an eventing system being in a first mode, a configuration to cause the eventing system to cause, without a request from the user device, a communication of an item to the user device in response to an entry of the item into a memory. After the first communication, the processor can cause the eventing system to be in a second mode, a configuration to cause the eventing system to refrain from communications of items to the user device. The processor can receive, from the user device, a signal to cause the eventing system to switch from the second mode to the first mode. After receiving the signal, a second item can be entered into the information memory. The processor can cause a second communication, to the user device, of the second item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Yingwu Zhao, Hal Scott Hildebrand, Lawrence McAlpin, Alex Warshavsky
  • Publication number: 20200097503
    Abstract: A method for enabling event consumption is described. Upon receipt of a request for events associated with a first initial topic, a determination that the request includes a request for historical events is performed. Responsive to determining that one or more rules apply to the request for historical events, a determination of a first path from the first initial topic to a first aggregate topic is performed based on the one or more rules. The first path is different from a second path from the first initial topic to a second aggregate topic that is defined according to a current multiplexed framework definition. The current multiplexed framework definition is used for storing new events associated with the first initial topic in a second multiplexed event recordation system at a time that follows the time of receipt of the request. A first set of historical events is retrieved based on the first path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Yingwu Zhao, Hal Scott Hildebrand
  • Publication number: 20200097373
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for a mechanism of disaster recovery and instance refresh in an event recordation system are described. A first request for events associated with a first topic is received. A first set of events associated with the first topic are retrieved from a primary event recordation system. Each event from the first set of events includes a first commit identifier indicating the order with which each event is stored in the primary event recordation system. For each event from the first set of events a first replay identifier is determined based on the first commit identifier and a first value of a low commit identifier. The first replay identifier is exposed to event consumers for identifying the event. In response to the first request each event from the first set of events is transmitted with the replay identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Yingwu Zhao, Samarpan Jain, Hal Scott HILDEBRAND, Alexey Syomichev, Emin Eliot Gerba, Igor Pesenson, David William Spragg, Jay Hurst, Soumen BANDYOPADHYAY
  • Publication number: 20200027126
    Abstract: A processor can cause a first communication, to a user device, of a first item based on an eventing system being in a first mode, a configuration to cause the eventing system to cause, without a request from the user device, a communication of an item to the user device in response to an entry of the item into a memory. After the first communication, the processor can cause the eventing system to be in a second mode, a configuration to cause the eventing system to refrain from communications of items to the user device. The processor can receive, from the user device, a signal to cause the eventing system to switch from the second mode to the first mode. After receiving the signal, a second item can be entered into the information memory. The processor can cause a second communication, to the user device, of the second item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Yingwu Zhao, Hal Scott Hildebrand, Lawrence McAlpin, Alex Warshavsky
  • Patent number: 10409650
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to discovering a previously unknown attribute of stream processing systems according to which client offsets or client subscription queries for a streaming data store rapidly converge to a dynamic tip of a data stream that includes the most recent messages or events. In particular, it relates to grouping clients into bins to reduce a number of queries to the streaming data store by several orders of magnitude when servicing tens, hundreds, thousands or millions of clients. The bin count is further reduced by coalescing bins that have overlapping offsets. It also relates to establishing separate caches only for the current tips of data streams and serving the bins from the caches instead of the backend data store using group queries. Further, the caches are periodically updated to include the most recent messages or events appended to the dynamic tips of the data streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Yingwu Zhao, Hal Scott Hildebrand
  • Publication number: 20190166177
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to accelerating replay access to numerous streams via a channel aggregation hierarchy, muxing events from input buffers that receive event streams, into a physically aggregated stream in memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Yingwu Zhao
  • Patent number: 10262032
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to discovering a previously unknown attribute of stream processing systems according to which client offsets or client subscription queries for a streaming data store rapidly converge to a dynamic tip of a data stream that includes the most recent messages or events. In particular, it relates to grouping clients into bins to reduce a number of queries to the streaming data store by several orders of magnitude when servicing tens, hundreds, thousands or millions of clients. The bin count is further reduced by coalescing bins that have overlapping offsets. It also relates to establishing separate caches only for the current tips of data streams and serving the bins from the caches instead of the backend data store using group queries. Further, the caches are periodically updated to include the most recent messages or events appended to the dynamic tips of the data streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Yingwu Zhao
  • Publication number: 20180039513
    Abstract: In an event-based data management system, an event having an associated identifier is received. A mapping operation is performed using the identifier to map the event to a selected one of a plurality of topic partitions. Queues for each of the plurality of topic partitions are managed. The queues for each of the plurality of topic partitions are managed independently of each other. The event is allocated to the selected topic partition based on the mapping operation. The event is placed into the queue for the selected topic partition. A batch of events is sent from the queue for the selected topic partition in response to one or more thresholds being reached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventor: Yingwu Zhao
  • Publication number: 20170242887
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to discovering a previously unknown attribute of stream processing systems according to which client offsets or client subscription queries for a streaming data store rapidly converge to a dynamic tip of a data stream that includes the most recent messages or events. In particular, it relates to grouping clients into bins to reduce a number of queries to the streaming data store by several orders of magnitude when servicing tens, hundreds, thousands or millions of clients. The bin count is further reduced by coalescing bins that have overlapping offsets. It also relates to establishing separate caches only for the current tips of data streams and serving the bins from the caches instead of the backend data store using group queries. Further, the caches are periodically updated to include the most recent messages or events appended to the dynamic tips of the data streams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Yingwu ZHAO, Hal Scott Hildebrand
  • Publication number: 20170242889
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to discovering a previously unknown attribute of stream processing systems according to which client offsets or client subscription queries for a streaming data store rapidly converge to a dynamic tip of a data stream that includes the most recent messages or events. In particular, it relates to grouping clients into bins to reduce a number of queries to the streaming data store by several orders of magnitude when servicing tens, hundreds, thousands or millions of clients. The bin count is further reduced by coalescing bins that have overlapping offsets. It also relates to establishing separate caches only for the current tips of data streams and serving the bins from the caches instead of the backend data store using group queries. Further, the caches are periodically updated to include the most recent messages or events appended to the dynamic tips of the data streams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Yingwu ZHAO