Processing gap events in a change detection management system

US10693709B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Salesforce.com, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Mikhail Chainani · San Francisco, US
• Vijay Devadhar · Fremont, US
• William Dumaresq · San Francisco, US
• Venkat Chandrasekaran · Pleasanton, US
• Jia Chen · Nanhu, CN
• Utsavi Benani · Fremont, US
• Xiaodan Wang · Tangxia, CN

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 28, 2018
• Grant date: Jun 23, 2020
• Expiry date: Jul 12, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L41/0661
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system may identify gap events in a change detection stream. When changes in data are transmitted to a downstream system, the system may identify intermittent portions of the transmission where data is missing (e.g., a gap event). In some examples, a gap event may be caused by system maintenance or one or more system errors. After identifying the gap event, the system may bridge the gap event using metadata associated with the gap event. The associated metadata may be transmitted (e.g., via a gap event identification message) to the downstream system, which may prevent the downstream system from experiencing computational inefficiencies due to the gap event.