The DreamForce 2019 conference will be held in San Francisco from November 19-22, 2019. To commemorate DreamForce, the blog will highlight a recently-issued Salesforce, Inc. patent.
U.S. Patent No. 10,241,896 B2 (‘896), issued on March 26, 2019, for “Formation and Manipulation of Test Data in a Database System.” The inventor is Jameison Bear Martin of Oakland, California, Subjo Sanjay Chatterjee, Patrick James Helland, and Nathaniel Wyatt, of San Francisco, California, Thomas Fanghaenel, of Oakland, California, and Terry Chong of Pleasanton, California. The applicant and assignee is Salesforce, Inc., of San Francisco, California. It is a B2B cloud computing and CRM enterprise software company. The ‘896 specification describes new processes for “sandboxing,” or database systems used for testing rather than production. The claimed invention is a novel improvement over existing art because generally it new sandbox system implements faster and utilizes less resources than traditional sandboxing systems. The new system and methods also include various embodiments describing the invention. The claims are directed to the method of creating the new sandbox apparatus, as well as sandbox system itself.
Figure 1 illustrates the claimed invention:
The International Patent Classifications are G06F (electric digital data processing (computer systems based on specific computational models), namely, preventing errors by testing or debugging software, through environments for testing or debugging software (11/3664) and methods or tools to render software testable (11/3696)).