US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Sept. 9 for "Authenticating accesses to a shared datastore of a multi-tenant computer system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,971, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Authenticating accesses to a shared datastore of a multi-tenant computer system" was invented by Helen Kwong (Danville, Calif.) and Benjamin Busjaeger (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-tenant computer system authenticates access to a shared datastore by a shared service running on the multi-tenant computer system. The shared service is operable to access the shared datastore to execute requests from a plurality of multi-tenant cloud computing services. The requests include an indication of a particular tenant and a particular tenant gr...