AI Agent Orchestration Layer for Cloud Database Action Planning

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems for managing interactions between cloud computing environments and generative language models are limited, necessitating improved integration of these models into cloud-based infrastructure to enhance functionality and efficiency.

Innovation Solution

A computing services environment equipped with an autonomous agent platform that integrates generative language models, enabling autonomous agents to perform operations such as processing user input, retrieving data, generating text, and coordinating with other systems, while supporting multi-agent orchestration and flexible configuration through a unified metadata framework and AI models.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If generative language models are integrated into cloud-based infrastructure, then functionality and efficiency are enhanced, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveefficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a computing service as an intermediary layer between cloud infrastructure and generative language models. This service manages the complexity of model integration, deployment, and interaction, allowing the cloud system to benefit from AI capabilities without directly handling the inherent complexity of generative models. The intermediary abstracts away the complexity while enabling efficient functionality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The computing service is designed to provide universal access to generative language models through standardized interfaces. It can handle multiple types of models, deployment configurations, and interaction patterns through a single unified service layer, reducing the need for separate specialized systems and simplifying the overall architecture while maintaining high functionality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Ease of operation

If autonomous agents are deployed to perform operations, then user autonomy is enhanced, but management complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser autonomyVSAvoidmanagement complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The autonomous agents are designed to perform operations independently based on predefined configurations and goals. The agents self-manage their execution, monitoring, and adaptation without requiring continuous human intervention or complex management overhead. This self-service capability enables high user autonomy while keeping management complexity at acceptable levels.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system segments autonomous agent functionality into discrete, manageable components that can be independently configured and monitored. Each agent operates as an isolated unit with its own configuration, allowing complex autonomous behaviors to be managed through composition of simpler, controllable segments rather than monolithic complex systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS20260080176A1Artificial Intelligence Agent Outside Planner In A Database System
Publication Date: 2026.03.19 SALESFORCE INC
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AI summary

A computing services environment may include application servers providing computing services including access to a database system, a unified metadata framework including autonomous agent definitions referencing action definitions defining a plurality of actions capable of being performed within the computing services environment, an agent service configured to instantiate an autonomous agent instance based on an autonomous agent definition, and an orchestration layer configured to determine an orchestration plan based on novel planning text generated by a generative language model. The orchestration plan may include a subset of the plurality of actions identified in the novel planning text. The computing services environment may execute the subset of the plurality of actions within the computing services environment.