Brendan Thomas O'Connor

8229970, Jul 24, 2012

Aug 29, 2008

12/201079

Chad Walters - San Francisco CA, US
Giovanni Lorenzo Thione - San Francisco CA, US
Barney Pell - San Francisco CA, US
Lukas Biewald - San Francisco CA, US
Brendan O'Connor - San Francisco CA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 17/30

707802

A role tree having nodes corresponding to semantic roles in a hierarchy is defined. A posting list is generated for each association of a term and a semantic role in the hierarchy. The posting lists are stored contiguously on a physical storage medium such that a subtree of the hierarchy of semantic roles can be loaded from the storage medium as a single contiguous block. The posting lists for a subtree of the hierarchy are retrieved by obtaining data identifying the beginning location on the physical storage medium of the posting lists for the term at the top of a desired subtree of the hierarchy and data identifying the length of the posting lists of the desired subtree of the hierarchy. A single contiguous block that includes the posting lists for the desired subtree of the hierarchy is then retrieved from the beginning location through the specified length.

8539234, Sep 17, 2013

Mar 30, 2011

13/065868

Brendan O'Connor - San Francisco CA, US
Yoel Gluck - San Francisco CA, US

salesforce.com, inc. - San Francisco CA

H04L 29/06
G06F 7/04
G06F 15/16
G06F 9/00

713168, 726 1, 726 8, 380 45, 709202, 709229

Methods and systems for secure client-side communication between multiple domains is provided. Such methods and systems can provide for decreased communication latency particularly effective for dynamic multi-domain and/or multi-tenant environments while allowing for granular security or specific security of messages and operations with regard to users, user sessions, groups, organizations, permissions sets, applications, or any other logical delineation. Such methods and systems may involve a variety of security components, for example, at least one set of instructions including a plurality of defined instruction to be utilized by users of the set of instructions to communicate, and cryptographic construct data in order to verify the data integrity and the authenticity of messages sent and received using the secure client-side communication between multiple domains.

8209321, Jun 26, 2012

Aug 29, 2008

12/201504

Barney Pell - San Francisco CA, US
Scott Prevost - San Francisco CA, US
Giovanni Lorenzo Thione - San Francisco CA, US
Brendan O'Connor - San Francisco CA, US
Lukas Biewald - San Francisco CA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 7/00

707713, 707705, 707731, 707739, 707729, 715202

Computer-readable media, computerized methods, and computer systems for conducting semantic processes to present search results that include highlighted regions which are relevant to a conceptual meaning of a query are provided. Initially, content of document(s) is accessed and semantic representations are derived by distilling linguistic representations from the content. These semantic representations may be stored at a semantic index. Also, a proposition is derived from the query by parsing search terms of the query, and distilling the proposition from the search terms. Typically, the proposition is a logical representation of the conceptual meaning of the query. The proposition is compared against the semantic representations at the semantic index to identify a matching set. Regions of the content within the document, from which the matching set of semantic representations are derived, are targeted. Accordingly, highlighting may be applied to the targeted regions when presenting or displaying the search results.

20090070322, Mar 12, 2009

Aug 29, 2008

12/201978

FRANCO SALVETTI - San Francisco CA, US
GIOVANNI LORENZO THIONE - San Francisco CA, US
RICHARD S. CROUCH - Cupertino CA, US
DAVID AHN - San Francisco CA, US
LUKAS A. BIEWALD - San Francisco CA, US
BRENDAN O'CONNOR - Mountain View CA, US
BARNEY D. PELL - San Francisco CA, US

Powerset, Inc. - Redmond WA

G06F 7/06
G06F 17/30

707 5, 707E17014

Computer-readable media and computer systems for conducting semantic processes to facilitate navigation of search results that include sets of tuples representing facts associated with content of documents in response to queries for information. Content of documents is accessed and semantic structures are derived by distilling linguistic representations from the content. Groups of two or more related words, called tuples, are extracted from the documents or the semantic structures. Tuples can be stored at a tuple index. Representations of the relational tuples are displayed in addition to documents retrieved in response to a query.

20100257351, Oct 7, 2010

Mar 30, 2010

12/750639

Brendan T. O'Connor - San Francisco CA, US
Robert C. Fly - Moraga CA, US

Salesforce. com, Inc. - San Francisco CA

H04L 9/14
H04L 9/00

713150

Methods and systems for maintaining the confidentiality of data provided by an organization for storage on a third party database system are provided. The data can encrypted on an internal network of the organization and sent to the third party database system for storage. The third party database system can associate metadata with the encrypted data and can store the encrypted data. Accordingly, when a request for the encrypted data is received from a computing device communicating with an internal network of the organization, the encrypted data and associated metadata can be sent to the computing device. A key that is stored on an internal network of the organization can be called through an applet, which utilizes information within the metadata to locate the key on the internal network of the organization. The computing device to which the encrypted data is sent can use the key location information to retrieve the key and decrypt the data for display to a user.

20110246504, Oct 6, 2011

Nov 9, 2010

12/942926

Steve Slater - Alamo CA, US
Brendan O'Connor - San Francisco CA, US

SALESFORCE.COM, INC. - San Francisco CA

G06F 17/30

707769, 707E17014

In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for performing one or more actions based on a comparison of data associated with a client to one or more criteria. These mechanisms and methods for performing one or more actions based on a comparison of data associated with a client to one or more criteria can enable improved data collection and analysis, enhanced client knowledge of a system, etc.

20110307452, Dec 15, 2011

Dec 23, 2010

12/977593

Robert Fly - Moraga CA, US
Collin Greene - San Francisco CA, US
Brendan O'Connor - San Francisco CA, US
Brian Soby - Emeryville CA, US

Salesforce.com, inc. - San Francisco CA

G06F 17/30

707687, 707E17005

A system and method for performing code analysis in a database system. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request to scan code for a software application. The method further includes fetching metadata associated with a user, fetching the code for the software application, and scanning the code.

20110320955, Dec 29, 2011

Dec 20, 2010

12/973618

Brendan O'Connor - San Francisco CA, US

salesforce.com, inc. - San Francisco CA

H04L 9/32
G06F 3/048
G06F 17/30

715742, 726 3, 707785, 726 4

Systems and methods for providing concurrent access to a resource via multiple user identities via a single client entity. The client entity is allowed access to the resource utilizing a first user identity. An attempt to access the resource with the client entity utilizing a second user identity is detected. The second user identity is a child identity of the first user identity. The attempt to access the resource is restructured as an attempt to access the resource with a third user identity that is not a child identity of the first user identity. The restructured request is forwarded to the resource using the third user entity to access the resource. A response from the resource is restructured as a response to the client entity accessing the resource utilizing the second user identity. The restructured response is sent to the client entity accessing the resource utilizing the second user identity.