Patents by Inventor Fang I. Hsiao
Fang I. Hsiao 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).
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Patent number: 11973852Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system for extracting custom content from network packets. During operation, the system receives a stream of packets. The system then parses packets in the stream to determine a protocol for each packet. Next, the system applies a custom-content-extraction rule to each packet associated with a target protocol to obtain the extracted content. Then, the system stores the extracted content in events in a data store to facilitate subsequent queries involving the extracted content.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Fang I. Hsiao, Clayton S. Ching, Michael R. Dickey, Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Clint Sharp
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Publication number: 20240079493Abstract: A semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate and a gate structure disposed on the substrate. The semiconductor device also includes a source region and a drain region disposed within the substrate. The substrate includes a drift region laterally extending between the source region and the drain region. The semiconductor device further includes a first stressor layer disposed over the drift region of the substrate. The first stressor layer is configured to apply a first stress to the drift region of the substrate. In addition, the semiconductor device includes a second stressor layer disposed on the first stressor layer. The second stressor layer is configured to apply a second stress to the drift region of the substrate, and the first stress is opposite to the second stress.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: GUAN-QI CHEN, CHEN CHI HSIAO, KUN-TSANG CHUANG, FANG YI LIAO, YU SHAN HUNG, CHUN-CHIA CHEN, YU-SHAN HUANG, TUNG-I LIN
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Patent number: 11855863Abstract: Techniques and mechanisms are disclosed for generating visualizations which graphically depict network activity occurring between pairs of networked computing devices. The visualizations are based on data indicating the network activity, where the network activity can involve devices having any network addresses within an entire network address space (e.g., any address within the Internet Protocol version v4 (IPv4) or IPv6 network address space), or within some subset of an entire network address space. The ability to visualize high-level information related to network activity occurring across an entire network address space enables network analysts and other users to readily analyze characteristics of computer networks which otherwise might not be evident or difficult to obtain using other types of visualizations.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: David J. Cavuto, Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Joshua H. Mak, Fang I. Hsiao
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Patent number: 11853361Abstract: A service monitoring system executing on one or more processors may have operations that are determined by control information. Control over the operation of the service monitoring system can be exerted through the use of a graphical interface. The graphical interface may present the control information of a new or existing correlation search definition for user interaction. The service monitoring system may maintain a data store of key performance indicator (KPI) data, where a KPI value in the data store is produced by a KPI-defining search query that derives the value from machine data associated with one or more entities that perform a monitored service. A correlation search definition of the service monitoring system determines how a search of the KPI data is conducted, how its data is evaluated to determine whether a triggering condition has been met, and, if so, determines what triggered action is to be initiated.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Hemendra Singh Choudhary, Tristan Antonio Fletcher, Brian John Bingham, Fang I. Hsiao, Brian Reyes
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Patent number: 11818018Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates the processing of network data. During operation, the system causes for display, on a computer system, a graphical user interface (GUI) for obtaining configuration information for configuring the generation of time-series event data from network packets captured by one or more remote capture agents. Next, the system causes for display, in the GUI, a first set of user-interface elements for managing one or more ephemeral event streams that contain temporarily generated time-series event data from the network packets, wherein managing the one or more ephemeral event streams comprises modifying an end time for terminating the capture of time-series event data in an ephemeral event stream. The system then updates the configuration information based on input received through the first set of user-interface elements.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Fang I. Hsiao, Clayton S. Ching, Michael R. Dickey, Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Nishant Teredesai, Cary Glen Noel
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Patent number: 11736378Abstract: Information technology environment monitoring systems, for example, perform analytics over machine data received from networked entities. Outputs of such a system may be useful to help a user identify a problem and resolve an incident. Inventive aspects enable user interactions to trigger automatic connection with network servers to establish communication channels for conveying analytics and other information related to the problem between and among network nodes participating in the resolution of the problem or incident.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: SPLUNK INC.Inventors: Asmita Puri, Alan Hardin, Kan Wu, Fang I. Hsiao
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Patent number: 11716248Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates the processing of network data. During operation, the system causes for display a graphical user interface (GUI) for configuring the generation of time-series event data from network packets captured by one or more remote capture agents. Next, the system causes for display, in the GUI, a first set of user-interface elements containing a set of statistics associated with one or more event streams that comprise the time-series event data. The system then causes for display, in the GUI, one or more graphs comprising one or more values from the set of statistics. Finally, the system causes for display, in the GUI, a value of a statistic from the set of statistics based on a position of a cursor over the one or more graphs.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Fang I. Hsiao, Wei Jiang, Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Ramkumar Chandrasekharan, Clayton S. Ching
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Patent number: 11671312Abstract: An automatic service monitor in an information-technology environment performs regular search queries against generated machine data to derive performance measurements. The information technology environment is defined in terms of services provided by entities, and the performance measurements are defined as key performance indicators (KPIs) of the services. Generated machine data used by the search queries pertain to the entities performing the service. Definitional information for the services, entities, and KPIs is administered by a user to control the operation of the service monitor. Various aspects of such definitional information as well as related performance measurement information may be presented in a unified console display tailored to, and organized around, a particular service. The console display may serve as a central launch point by supporting user interaction to navigate to other specialized monitoring interfaces.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Asmita Puri, Alan Vincent Hardin, Fang I Hsiao, Alok Anant Bhide
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Patent number: 11580067Abstract: A network storage volume stores first entries in a first-mode storage bucket and a second entries in a second-mode storage bucket. The first-mode storage bucket has first bucket metadata, and the second-mode storage bucket has second bucket metadata. A computer-implemented method includes comparing a utilized capacity of the network storage volume to a target capacity information of the network storage volume to obtain a comparison result. Based on the comparison result, at least one bucket is selected to be purged from the buckets of the network storage volume based at least in part on bucket metadata of the buckets. The method further includes causing a purge of the at least one selected bucket from the network storage volume.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Venkata Kuruvada, Fang I. Hsiao, Nicholas Matthew Tankersley
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Patent number: 11526511Abstract: An example method of implementing a monitoring interface for an information technology environment comprises: identifying machine data reflecting activity in the information technology environment comprising a plurality of entities providing a service; executing a search query to derive, from the machine data, a value of a key performance indicator (KPI) reflecting performance of the service; and causing display of a monitoring interface including: an identifier of the service, a color coded indication of a state of the KPI, and a visual representation of time series data associated with the service.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: SPLUNK INC.Inventors: Nicholas Matthew Tankersley, Fang I. Hsiao, Arun Ramani
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Patent number: 11522769Abstract: A method is disclosed that includes receiving a request to display a service-monitoring user interface that illustrates performance of one or more services that are each provided by one or more entities. Each service is associated with a stored service definition that identifies the one or more entities, and each entity is associated with stored entity definition information that identifies machine data produced by or about the entity from one or more sources. The method further includes causing display of the service-monitoring user interface illustrating performance of each service via an aggregate key performance indicator (KPI) that characterizes a respective service as a whole, and a plurality of aspect KPIs that each characterize an aspect of an associated service. Each KPI is defined by a search query that produces a value derived from the machine data identified by the entity definition information, the value indicative of a measure of the service at a point in time or during a period of time.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: SPLUNK INC.Inventors: Hemendra Singh Choudhary, Tristan Antonio Fletcher, Alok Anant Bhide, Fang I. Hsiao
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Patent number: 11451453Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates the processing of network data. During operation, the system causes for display, on a computer system, a graphical user interface (GUI) for obtaining configuration information for configuring the generation of time-series event data from network packets captured by one or more remote capture agents. Next, the system causes for display, in the GUI, a first set of user-interface elements for managing one or more ephemeral event streams that contain temporarily generated time-series event data from the network packets, wherein managing the one or more ephemeral event streams comprises modifying an end time for terminating the capture of time-series event data in an ephemeral event stream. The system then updates the configuration information based on input received through the first set of user-interface elements.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Fang I. Hsiao, Clayton S. Ching, Michael R. Dickey, Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Nishant Teredesai, Cary Glen Noel
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Patent number: 11372923Abstract: A service monitoring system executing on one or more processors may have operations that are determined by control information. Control over the operation of the service monitoring system can be exerted through the use of a graphical interface. The graphical interface may present the control information of a new or existing correlation search definition for user interaction. The service monitoring system may maintain a data store of key performance indicator (KPI) data, where a KPI value in the data store is produced by a KPI-defining search query that derives the value from machine data associated with one or more entities that perform a monitored service. A correlation search definition of the service monitoring system determines how a search of the KPI data is conducted, how its data is evaluated to determine whether a triggering condition has been met, and, if so, determines what triggered action is to be initiated.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Hemendra Singh Choudhary, Tristan Antonio Fletcher, Brian Bingham, Fang I. Hsiao, Brian C. Reyes
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Publication number: 20220124183Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system for extracting custom content from network packets. During operation, the system receives a stream of packets. The system then parses packets in the stream to determine a protocol for each packet. Next, the system applies a custom-content-extraction rule to each packet associated with a target protocol to obtain the extracted content. Then, the system stores the extracted content in events in a data store to facilitate subsequent queries involving the extracted content.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Fang I. Hsiao, Clayton S. Ching, Michael R. Dickey, Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Clint Sharp
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Patent number: 11296951Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates the processing of network data. During operation, the system obtains a set of event streams from one or more remote capture agents over one or more networks, wherein the set of event streams comprises time-series event data generated from network packets captured by the one or more remote capture agents. Next, the system causes for display, within a graphical user interface (GUI), a first set of user interface elements, wherein the first set of user interface elements includes event stream information for an event stream in the set of event streams and a first graph of a metric associated with the time-series event data in the event stream. The system then updates the first graph in real-time with the time-series event data from the one or more remote capture agents.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Fang I. Hsiao, Clayton S. Ching, Michael R. Dickey, Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Cary Glen Noel
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Patent number: 11281643Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates the processing of network data. During operation, the system causes for display a graphical user interface (GUI) for configuring the generation of time-series event data from network packets captured by one or more remote capture agents. Next, the system causes for display, in the GUI, a first set of user-interface elements for specifying a grouping of a set of event streams containing the time-series event data by an event stream attribute associated with the event streams. The system then causes for display, in the GUI, a second set of user-interface elements containing event stream information for one or more subsets of the event streams represented by the grouping of the event streams by the event stream attribute.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Fang I. Hsiao, Clayton S. Ching, Michael R. Dickey, Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Nishant Teredesai, Cary Glen Noel
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Patent number: 11258693Abstract: Information technology environment monitoring systems, for example, perform analytics over machine data received from networked entities. Outputs of such a system may be useful to help a user identify a problem and resolve an incident. Inventive aspects enable user interactions to trigger automatic connection with network servers to establish communication channels for conveying analytics and other information related to the problem between and among network nodes participating in the resolution of the problem or incident.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2020Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: SPLUNK INC.Inventors: Asmita Puri, Alan Hardin, Kan Wu, Fang I Hsiao
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Patent number: 11245581Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates the processing of network data. During operation, the system causes for display a graphical user interface (GUI) for configuring the generation of time-series event data from network packets captured by one or more remote capture agents. Next, the system causes for display, in the GUI, a first set of user-interface elements containing a set of statistics associated with one or more event streams that comprise the time-series event data. The system then causes for display, in the GUI, one or more graphs comprising one or more values from the set of statistics. Finally, the system causes for display, in the GUI, a value of a statistic from the set of statistics based on a position of a cursor over the one or more graphs.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: Fang I Hsiao, Wei Jiang, Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Ramkumar Chandrasekharan, Clayton S. Ching
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Patent number: 11210622Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to generating augmented process models for use in process analytics. In one embodiment, a process model, search indicators, composite attributes, and relationship indicators are received. The process model defines a process and includes a plurality of components of the process. Search indicators indicate a search that, when executed, provides data related to the corresponding component. Composite attributes indicate data to be captured by machine data searches associated with the corresponding component. Relationship indicators indicate relationships between components of the process. An augmented process model is generated based on the process model, the search indicators, the composite attributes, and the relationship indicators, wherein the augmented process model is used to manage process instances associated with the process.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2016Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: SPLUNK Inc.Inventors: Ian Matthew Link, Alexander Lynn Raitz, Melanie Ann Garcia Alrajhi, Shruti Shrivastava, Fang I. Hsiao
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Patent number: 11190422Abstract: Techniques and mechanisms are disclosed for generating visualizations which graphically depict network activity occurring between pairs of networked computing devices. The visualizations are based on data indicating the network activity, where the network activity can involve devices having any network addresses within an entire network address space (e.g., any address within the Internet Protocol version v4 (IPv4) or IPv6 network address space), or within some subset of an entire network address space. The ability to visualize high-level information related to network activity occurring across an entire network address space enables network analysts and other users to readily analyze characteristics of computer networks which otherwise might not be evident or difficult to obtain using other types of visualizations.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Splunk Inc.Inventors: David J. Cavuto, Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Joshua H. Mak, Fang I. Hsiao