US 2026/0228224 A1Published application

Database systems and constraint management methods using virtual containers

AssigneeSalesforce, Inc.

InventorShaowei Mao

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Abstract

Database systems and methods are provided for managing relationships between records in a database. An exemplary method involves identifying a virtual container for a first record at the database system based on one or more fields of the first record and updating the virtual container to associate the first record with one or more additional records. In response to an operation with respect to at least one of the records, the method detects a violation of a constraint associated with the virtual container based on a relationship between respective values associated with the respective records, updates a second field of the first record to include an indication of the constraint, and generates a graphical representation of the first record that includes a graphical indication of the first constraint based at least in part on the second field of the first record.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method of managing records at a database system, the method comprising:

identifying, at the database system, a virtual container for a first record of a plurality of records at the database system based on one or more fields of the first record;
updating the virtual container to associate the first record with one or more additional records of the plurality of records at the database system;
and
in response to an operation with respect to at least one of the first record and the one or more additional records:
detecting a violation of a first constraint associated with the virtual container based at least in part on a relationship between a first value of a respective field of the first record and one or more respective values associated with the one or more additional records;
and
updating, at the database system, a second field of the first record to include an indication of the first constraint;
and
generating, by the database system, a graphical representation of the first record at a client application at a client device over a network that includes a graphical indication of the first constraint based at least in part on the second field of the first record.

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A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium that provides instructions that, when executed by a processor, are configurable to cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

providing a graphical user interface (GUI) display associated with a virtual application at a client device, the GUI display comprising one or more GUI elements for configuring a relationship between different data records at a database system;
identifying a virtual container for the relationship between the different data records at the database system based on one or more fields of one or more of the different data records;
updating the virtual container to associate different virtual container objects corresponding to the different data records at the database system, the different virtual container objects including respective values corresponding to respective fields of the different data records;
in response to an user interaction with the one or more GUI elements:
detecting a violation of a first constraint associated with the virtual container based at least in part on a relationship between the respective values of the different virtual container objects;
updating a respective field of at least one of the different data records to include indication of the first constraint;
and
updating the GUI display to include a graphical representation of the indication of the first constraint associated with a graphical representation of the at least one of the different data records.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.