Splunk Assigned Patent

Splunk, Inc., San Francisco, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,956,362) developed by Sharp, Clint, Oakland, CA, Eriksson, Petter, San Francisco, CA, Bitincka, Ledion, Pasadena, CA, Szeto, Jason, Redwood City, CA, Lin, Elizabeth, and Haddadkaveh, Nima, San Francisco, CA, for “searching archived data.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Raw data in distributed servers is divided into groups of data called buckets containing raw data that have timestamps that fall within a specific time range. When a bucket becomes inactive a server can archive the bucket to an external storage system. The external storage system containing archived data may be specified in a search query. Archived data from the external storage system is obtained, processed, and a search performed on the processed archived data using the search query.”

The patent application was filed on October 31, 2018 (16/177,358).