Patents by Inventor Brent Boe

Brent Boe has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Creating entity definition from a file
    Patent number: 9130832
    Abstract: Processing devices receive a file having entries having data items separated by delimiters. Each data item has an ordinal position. The processing device(s) cause display of a table, having rows and columns, in a graphical user interface. Each data items of a particular entry appears in a respective column of the same row. Each column corresponds to the ordinal position of its respective data item. User input is received designating, for each respective column, a field name and an entity definition component type to which the respective column pertains, and stores for each of the data items of the particular entry a value of an element of an entity definition. The element has the element name designated for the respective column in which the data item appeared, and is associated with an entity definition component having the type designated for the respective column in which the data item appeared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Splunk, Inc.
    Inventors: Brent Boe, Alan Hardin, Brian C. Reyes, Fang I. Hsiao