Patents Assigned to Splunk Inc.
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Patent number: 11941421Abstract: A method for evaluating metrics associated with isolated execution environments utilized for synthetic monitoring of a web application and modifying the quantity of isolation execution environments hosted by a particular hosting service at a particular geographic location based on the metrics. The method can include receiving an instruction to monitor computing resources at the particular geographic location; obtaining configuration data for the particular geographic location; communicating a request to the particular hosting provider for an identification of a collection of isolated execution environments that are instantiated at the particular geographic location; obtaining metrics associated with the collection of isolated execution environments; evaluating the metrics against the set of scaling criteria; and/or generating an instruction for the particular hosting provider to modify the quantity of the collection of isolated execution environments.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Patrick Joseph Smith, Michael Beasley
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Patent number: 11940899Abstract: A quality score for a computer application release is determined using a first number of unique users who have launched the computer application release on user devices and a second number of unique users who have encountered at least once an abnormal termination with the computer application release on user devices. Additionally or optionally, an application quality score can be computed for a computer application based on quality scores of computer application releases that represent different versions of the computer application. Additionally or optionally, a weighted application quality score can be computed for a computer application by further taking into consideration the average application quality score and popularity of a plurality of computer applications.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Ioannis Vlachogiannis, Vasileios Karampinas
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Patent number: 11936764Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system that processes network data. During operation, the system obtains, at a remote capture agent, a first protocol classification for a first packet flow captured by the remote capture agent. Next, the system uses configuration information associated with the first protocol classification to build a first event stream from the first packet flow at the remote capture agent, wherein the first event stream comprises time-series event data generated from network packets in the first packet flow based on the first protocol classification. The system then transmits the first event stream over a network for subsequent storage and processing of the first event stream by one or more components on the network.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Michael R. Dickey
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Patent number: 11934256Abstract: In accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure, a first instance of a data intake and query system (DIQS) may receive latency data that indicates latency states of second instances of the DIQS, the latency states indicative of latencies associated with processing of event data by the plurality of second instances. The first instance may then determine overall latency state of the first instance based, at least in part, on determining number or percentage of the first instance and the second instances of the DIQS having one or more particular latency states, and determining whether the number or percentage of the first instance and the f second instances of the DIQS having the one or more particular latency states is equal to or exceeds a threshold. The first instance may then present the overall latency state of the first instance.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: SPLUNK INC.Inventors: Vitaly Akulov, Amritpal Singh Bath, William King Colgate, Sarah Harun, Jibang Liu, Vishal Patel, Tingjin Xu
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Patent number: 11934408Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to an interactive development environment (IDE) interface that provides historical visualization of queries and query result information iteratively and intuitively. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a process is provided to generate visualizations of queries and processed query result information in a single, persistent, integrated display. Each query and resultant search data information is presented iteratively in chronological order, and maintain a persistent, viewable history of a search data exploration session.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: SPLUNK INC.Inventor: Eric Woo
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Patent number: 11934418Abstract: Techniques and mechanisms are disclosed to optimize the size of index files to improve use of storage space available to indexers and other components of a data intake and query system. Index files of a data intake and query system may include, among other data, a keyword portion containing mappings between keywords and location references to event data containing the keywords. Optimizing an amount of storage space used by index files may include removing, modifying and/or recreating various components of index files in response to detecting one or more storage conditions related to the event data indexed by the index files. The optimization of index files generally may attempt to manage a tradeoff between an efficiency with which search requests can be processed using the index files and an amount of storage space occupied by the index files.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Splunk, Inc.Inventors: Ashish Mathew, Ledion Bitincka, Igor Stojanovski, Dhruva Kumar Bhagi
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Patent number: 11934417Abstract: Data intake and query system (DIQS) instances supporting applications including lower-tier, focused, work group oriented applications, are tailored to display the metrics for the needs of the user. An interface caused by operation of an entity monitoring system (EMS) operating in conjunction with the lower-tier DIQS displays the monitored entities as individual representations. The user selects a metric and a metric threshold. The EMS causes a display of an interface having a representation for each monitored entity. Each representation includes a metric value and indicates an entity status based on the metric value and the threshold. The user can dynamically change the threshold on the interface for easy visualization of aggregation of monitored entities to determine the performance of the infrastructure. The interface also provides the user with the ability to select an entity and click through to the entity analysis workspace for more detailed information.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Ai-Chi Lu, Arun Ramani, Nicholas Matthew Tankersley
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Patent number: 11936545Abstract: A computerized method is disclosed that includes operations of obtaining network traffic data between a source device and a destination device, performing a regularity assessment of a first metric of the network traffic data across communication sessions of the source device and the destination device over a given time period by: determining an average of the first metric for each of the communication sessions; establishing an upper bound and a lower bound for the averages of the first metric over the given time period; determining a difference between the upper bound and the lower bound; comparing the difference between the upper bound and the lower bound to a mean of the first metric for each of the communication sessions over the given time period, and determining whether beaconing transmissions are present within the network traffic data based on the regularity assessment of the first metric.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Stanislav Miskovic, Cui Lin
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Patent number: 11934869Abstract: This technology is directed to facilitating scalable and secure data collection. In particular, scalability of data collection is enabled in a secure manner by, among other things, abstracting a connector(s) to a pod(s) and/or container(s) that executes separate from other data-collecting functionality. For example, an execution manager can initiate deployment of a collect coordinator on a first pod associated with a first job and deployment of a first connector on a second pod associated with a second job separate from the first job of a container-managed platform. The collect coordinator can provide a data collection task to the first connector deployed on the second pod of the second job. The first connector can then obtain the set of data from the data source and provide the set of data to the collect coordinator for providing the set of data to a remote source.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Denis Vergnes, Zhimin Liang
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Patent number: 11928046Abstract: An analysis system receives data streams generated by instances of instrumented software executing on external systems. The analysis system evaluates an expression using data values of the data streams over a plurality of time intervals. For example, the analysis system may aggregate data values of data streams for each time interval. The analysis system determines whether or not a data stream is considered for a time interval based on when the data value arrives during the time interval. The analysis system determines a maximum expected delay value for each data stream being processed. The analysis system evaluates the expression using data values that arrive before their maximum expected delay values. The analysis system also determines a failure threshold value for a data stream. If a data value of a data stream fails to arrive before the failure threshold value, the analysis system marks the data stream as dead.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Phillip Liu, Arijit Mukherji, Rajesh Raman
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Patent number: 11928118Abstract: Systems and methods for assigning scores to objects based on evaluating triggering conditions applied to datasets produced by search queries in data aggregation and analysis systems. An example method includes causing display of a user interface for generating a correlation search, the correlation search comprising a search query, a triggering condition to be applied to a dataset produced by the search query, and one or more actions to be performed when the dataset produced by the search query satisfies the triggering condition, wherein the one or more actions comprise at least modifying a score assigned to an object to which the dataset produced by the search query pertains.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Lucas Murphey, David Hazekamp
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Patent number: 11928014Abstract: A method of tracking errors in a system comprising microservices comprises ingesting a plurality of spans generated by the microservices during a given duration of time. The method further comprises consolidating the plurality of spans associated with the given duration of time into a plurality of traces, wherein each trace comprises a subset of the plurality of spans that comprise a common trace identifier. For each trace, the method comprises: a) mapping a respective trace to one or more error stacks computed for the respective trace and to one or more attributes determined for the respective trace; and b) emitting each error stack computed from the respective trace with an associated pair of attributes. The method then comprises reducing duplicate pairs of error stack and associated attributes and maintaining a count for each pair of error stack and associated attributes.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SPLUNK Inc.Inventors: Mayank Agarwal, Steven Flanders, Justin Smith, Gergely Danyi
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Patent number: 11928242Abstract: Implementations include receiving a user provided example value of personally identifiable information (PII). Occurrences of the received example value are automatically identified in a dataset of events, wherein each occurrence is identified in a portion of raw machine data of a respective event of the events. For each occurrence of the identified occurrences, an extraction rule is generated, which defines a pattern of the occurrence of the example value and is executable to identify PII values in portions of raw machine data of the events using the pattern. Values of the PII are identified in a set of events using a set of extraction rules comprising the extraction rule of a plurality of the occurrences.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Adam Oliner, Nghi Nguyen
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Patent number: 11922222Abstract: A control plane system can be used to manage or generated components in a shared computing resource environment. To generate a modified components, the control plane system can receive receiving configurations of a component. The configurations can include software versions and/or parameters for the component. Using the configurations, the control plane system can generate an image of a modified component, and communicate the image to a master node in the shared computing resource environment. The master node can provides one or more instances of the modified component for use based on the received image.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Gaurav Chawla, Mehul Goyal, Sanish Mahadik, Sumeet Rohatgi
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Authenticating data associated with a data intake and query system using a distributed ledger system
Patent number: 11921873Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for authenticating a chunk of data identified in a query received by a data intake and query system. The data intake and query system receives a query that identifies a set of data and manner for processing the set of data, and identifies a chunk of data that is part of the set of data. The system generates a content identifier, such as a hash, of the chunk of data. The system further authenticates the chunk of data based on the generated content identifier and a content identifier stored by a distributed ledger system.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Nathaniel Gerard McKervey, Ryan Russell Moore -
Patent number: 11921672Abstract: Systems and methods are described for executing a query of raw machine data that is stored at a remote data store that may store heterogeneous data. The system can determine the directories or file types that may store event data and may instruct one or more worker nodes to access files that may store events based on the determined directories of file types. Further, the system may exclude files at the remote data store that may not be identified as potentially storing events enabling a query that implicates a heterogeneous data store to be efficiently executed.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Sourav Pal, Arindam Bhattacharjee, Timothy Tully
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Patent number: 11922232Abstract: Techniques are described for providing an IT and security operations mobile application for managing IT and security operations instances of an IT and security operations application via a mobile device. The IT and security operations mobile application can be linked to the IT and security operations application to enable the IT and security operations application to send messages (e.g., notifications, alerts, action requests, etc.) related the occurrences of incidents/events in an IT environment, such as security-related incident, that can impact the operation of the IT environment. The IT and security operations mobile application enables a user to respond to the messages by initiating actions that are sent to the IT and security operations application for executing within the IT environment.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Maryann Cristofi, Jeff Roecks, Kavita Varadarajan
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Patent number: 11924284Abstract: Described herein are techniques are provided for enabling a security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) service to automatically manage apps used to interface with an integrated security operations service and other related devices and services. Further described herein is a SOAR app generator service or application used to automate the creation of apps for a SOAR service based on application programming interfaces (API) specifications for related devices or services, as well as visual playbook editor interfaces for a SOAR service that enable the configuration of complex action input parameters including arrays and objects.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Matthew Hanson, Jacob Davis, Zhi Peng Zhou, James Harris, Jacob Andrew Edward Moore, Austin Tyler Hariri, Shiying Tu, Daniel Trenkner, Kavita Varadarajan
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Patent number: 11921720Abstract: A computer-implemented method is disclosed that includes operations of parsing a query comprised of a sequence of operators to detect each operator of the sequence of operators, where the sequence of operators includes a machine learning (ML) operator representing a trained ML model. Additionally, a schema of the ML operator is determined through metadata. A filter or a projection is generated based on the schema of the ML operator, where the filter or projection is configured to reduce an amount of data retrieved upon application of the filter of the projection to an operator of the sequence of operators comprising the query. The schema of the ML operator indicates a schema of input data to be provided to the ML operator and a schema of output data to be provided by the ML operator following processing.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Chinmay Madhav Kulkarni, Lin Ma, Amir Malekpour, Mohan Rajagopalan, John C. Reed, Ram Sriharsha
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Patent number: 11921693Abstract: A data intake and query system receives a message including raw machine via an internet protocol (IP) such as the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP). The message includes a distinct payload portion and a distinct custom field portion. The payload portion includes raw machine data, while the custom field portion includes values for fields. An event that includes the raw machine data and the values is generated from the payload portion and the values are extracted from the custom field portion. The event is then stored such that the values are associated with the event.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Itay Alfred Neeman, Glenn Block, Lin Ma, Mitch Blank, Vishal Patel