Patents by Inventor Vladimir Shcherbakov

Vladimir Shcherbakov 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).

  • Patent number: 11973852
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Fang I. Hsiao, Clayton S. Ching, Michael R. Dickey, Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Clint Sharp
  • Patent number: 11936764
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Michael R. Dickey
  • Patent number: 11855863
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: David J. Cavuto, Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Joshua H. Mak, Fang I. Hsiao
  • Patent number: 11818018
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Fang I. Hsiao, Clayton S. Ching, Michael R. Dickey, Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Nishant Teredesai, Cary Glen Noel
  • Patent number: 11716248
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Fang I. Hsiao, Wei Jiang, Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Ramkumar Chandrasekharan, Clayton S. Ching
  • Publication number: 20230169084
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to determine relationships between one or more components of an isolated execution environment system based on data obtained from a data intake and query system. Based on the determined relationships, an interactive visualization is generated that indicates the hierarchical relationship of the components. In some cases, to illustrate the relationship between components of the isolated execution environment system, the visualization can include one or more display objects displayed in a subordinate or superior relationship to other display objects. In certain cases, based on an interaction with a display object, the system can generate a query and/or display additional information and/or visualizations based on the results of the query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Stewart Smith, Nicholas Matthew Tankersley, Junyu Wang, Peter Wu
  • Patent number: 11567960
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to determine relationships between one or more components of an isolated execution environment system based on data obtained from a data intake and query system. Based on the determined relationships, an interactive visualization is generated that indicates the hierarchical relationship of the components. In some cases, to illustrate the relationship between components of the isolated execution environment system, the visualization can include one or more display objects displayed in a subordinate or superior relationship to other display objects. In certain cases, based on an interaction with a display object, the system can generate a query and/or display additional information and/or visualizations based on the results of the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Stewart Smith, Nicholas Matthew Tankersley, Junyu Wang, Peter Wu
  • Patent number: 11451453
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Fang I. Hsiao, Clayton S. Ching, Michael R. Dickey, Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Nishant Teredesai, Cary Glen Noel
  • Patent number: 11425229
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Michael R. Dickey
  • Publication number: 20220124183
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Fang I. Hsiao, Clayton S. Ching, Michael R. Dickey, Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Clint Sharp
  • Patent number: 11296951
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Fang I. Hsiao, Clayton S. Ching, Michael R. Dickey, Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Cary Glen Noel
  • Patent number: 11281643
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Fang I. Hsiao, Clayton S. Ching, Michael R. Dickey, Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Nishant Teredesai, Cary Glen Noel
  • Patent number: 11245581
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Fang I Hsiao, Wei Jiang, Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Ramkumar Chandrasekharan, Clayton S. Ching
  • Patent number: 11190422
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: David J. Cavuto, Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Joshua H. Mak, Fang I. Hsiao
  • Patent number: 11115505
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Fang I. Hsiao, Clayton S. Ching, Michael R. Dickey, Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Clint Sharp
  • Patent number: 11086897
    Abstract: 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 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 comprising event stream information for one or more ephemeral event streams used to temporarily generate the time-series event data from the network packets. The system then causes for display, in the GUI, a mechanism for navigating between the event stream information and creation information for one or more creators of the one or more ephemeral event streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Clayton S. Ching, Michael R. Dickey, Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Nishant Teredesai, Matthew S. Zises
  • Publication number: 20210224259
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to determine relationships between one or more components of an isolated execution environment system based on data obtained from a data intake and query system. Based on the determined relationships, an interactive visualization is generated that indicates the hierarchical relationship of the components. In some cases, to illustrate the relationship between components of the isolated execution environment system, the visualization can include one or more display objects displayed in a subordinate or superior relationship to other display objects. In certain cases, based on an interaction with a display object, the system can generate a query and/or display additional information and/or visualizations based on the results of the query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Stewart Smith, Nicholas Matthew Tankersley, Junyu Wang, Peter Wu
  • Patent number: 10929415
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described to determine relationships between one or more components of an isolated execution environment system based on data obtained from a data intake and query system. Based on the determined relationships, an interactive visualization is generated that indicates the hierarchical relationship of the components. In some cases, to illustrate the relationship between components of the isolated execution environment system, the visualization can include one or more display objects displayed in a subordinate or superior relationship to other display objects. In certain cases, based on an interaction with a display object, the system can generate a query and/or display additional information and/or visualizations based on the results of the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Stewart Smith, Nicholas Matthew Tankersley, Junyu Wang, Peter Wu
  • Publication number: 20200404082
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Michael R. Dickey
  • Publication number: 20200336390
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Fang I. Hsiao, Clayton S. Ching, Michael R. Dickey, Vladimir A. Shcherbakov, Cary Glen Noel