Patents by Inventor William Deaderick

William Deaderick 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).

  • Publication number: 20250028737
    Abstract: Computerized methodologies are disclosed that are directed to detecting anomalies within a time-series data set. An aspect of the anomaly detection process includes determining one or more seasonality patterns that correspond to a specific time-series data set by evaluating a set of candidate seasonality patterns (e.g., hourly, daily, weekly, day-start off-sets, etc.). The evaluation of a candidate seasonality pattern may include dividing the time-series data set into a collection of subsequences based on the particular candidate seasonality pattern. Further, the collection of subsequences may be divided into clusters and a silhouette score may be computed to measure the clustering quality of the candidate seasonality pattern. In some instances, the candidate seasonality pattern having the highest silhouette score is selected and utilized in anomaly detection process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Houwu Bai, Kristal Curtis, William Deaderick, Tanner Gilligan, Poonam Yadav, Om Rajyaguru
  • Publication number: 20250028618
    Abstract: Computerized methodologies are disclosed that are directed to detecting anomalies within a time-series data set. A first aspect of the anomaly detection process includes analyzing the regularity of the data points of the time-series data set and determining whether a data aggregation process is to be performed based on the regularity of the data points, which results in a time-series data set having data points occurring at regular intervals. A seasonality pattern may be determined for the time-series data set, where a silhouette score is computed to measure the quality of the fit of the seasonality pattern to the time-series data. The silhouette score may be compared to a threshold and based on the comparison, the seasonality pattern or a set of heuristics may be utilized in an anomaly detection process. When the seasonality pattern is utilized, the seasonality pattern may be utilized to generate thresholds indicating anomalous behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Houwu Bai, Kristal Curtis, William Deaderick, Tanner Gilligan, Poonam Yadav, Om Rajyaguru
  • Patent number: 12182169
    Abstract: A computerized method is disclosed for grouping alerts through machine learning while implementing certain time constraints. The method includes receiving an alert to be assigned to any of a plurality of existing issues or to a newly created issue, the alert including a temporal field that includes a timestamp of an arrival time of the alert, wherein an issue is a grouping of one or more alerts, determining a subset of existing issues from the plurality of existing issues that each satisfy time constraints, wherein the time constraints correspond to (i) a time elapsed between a most recent alert of a first existing issue and a timestamp of the alert, or (ii) a maximum issue time length of the first existing issue, and deploying a trained machine learning model to assign the alert to either an existing issue of the subset of existing issues or a newly created issue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: William Deaderick, William Stanton, Thomas Camp Vieth
  • Patent number: 12181956
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed that are directed to improving the prioritization, display, and viewing of system alerts through the use of machine learning techniques to group the alerts and further to prioritize the groupings. Additionally, a graphical user interface is generated that illustrates the prioritized listing of the plurality of groupings. Thus, a system administrator or other user receives an improved experience as the number of notifications provided to the system administrator are reduced due to the grouping of individual alerts into related groupings and further due to the prioritization of the groupings. Previously, or in current technology, system alerts may be automatically generated and provided immediately to a system administrator. In some instances, any advantage of detecting system errors or system monitoring provided by the alerts is negated by the vast number of alerts and provision of minimally important alerts in a manner that concealed more important alerts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Kristal Curtis, William Deaderick, Wei J. Gao, Tanner Gilligan, Chandrima Sarkar, Aleksander Stojanovic, Ralph Donald Thompson, Poonam Yadav, Sichen Zhong
  • Patent number: 12158880
    Abstract: Implementations of this disclosure provide an anomaly detection system and methods of performing anomaly detection on a time-series dataset. The anomaly detection may include utilization of a forecasting machine learning algorithm to obtain a prediction of points of the dataset and comparing the predicted value of a point in the dataset with the actual value to determine an error value associated with that point. Additionally, the anomaly detection may include determination of a sensitivity threshold that impacts whether points within the dataset associated with certain error values are flagged as anomalies. The forecasting machine learning algorithm may implement a seasonality component determination process that accounts for seasonality or patterns in the dataset. A search query statement may be automatically generated through importing the sensitivity threshold into a predetermined search query statement that implements that forecasting machine learning algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Kristal Curtis, William Deaderick, Tanner Gilligan, Joseph Ross, Abraham Starosta, Sichen Zhong
  • Patent number: 12086045
    Abstract: A computerized method is disclosed for grouping alerts through machine learning. The method including receiving an alert to be assigned to any of a plurality of existing issues or to a newly created issue, wherein an issue is a grouping of alerts, determining a temporal distance between the alert and each of the existing issues, determining either of (i) a numerical distance between the alert and each of the existing issues for a particular numerical field, or (ii) a categorical distance between the alert and each of the existing issues for a particular categorical field, determining an overall distance between the alert and each of the existing issues, and assigning the alert to either (i) an existing issue having a shortest overall distance to the alert that satisfies one or more time constraints, or (ii) the newly created issue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: William Deaderick, William Stanton, Thomas Camp Vieth
  • Patent number: 12079100
    Abstract: A computerized method is disclosed for grouping alerts and providing remediation recommendation. The method includes receiving the alert to be assigned to an existing open issue or a newly created issue, wherein an issue is a grouping of one or more alerts, assigning the alert to either a first existing open issue or the newly created issue by determining a weighted sum of the distance between the feature vectors of the alert and each existing open issue, determining a weighted sum of the distance between the feature vectors of the alert and each closed issue, and generating a user interface that illustrates an assignment of the alert and at least one of (i) a closed issue having a shortest distance to the alert or (ii) recommended remediation efforts associated with the closed issue having the shortest distance to the alert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: William Deaderick, William Stanton, Thomas Camp Vieth
  • Patent number: 12066915
    Abstract: A computerized method is disclosed for retraining machine learning models based on user feedback. The method includes receiving user feedback indicating a change is to be made to an assignment of one or more alerts, wherein the one or more alerts were assigned by a machine learning model implementing a distance metric, wherein an issue is a grouping of at least one alert, constructing a convex optimization procedure to minimize an adjustment of weights of the distance metric, retraining the machine learning model by adjusting the weights of the distance metric in accordance with the convex optimization procedure, and evaluating one or more subsequently received alert using the retrained machine learning model. Changes to be made to the assignment include any of merging of two issues, splitting of two issues based on time or an alert field, or reassignment of an alert from a first issue to a second issue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: William Deaderick, William Stanton, Thomas Camp Vieth
  • Patent number: 12008046
    Abstract: A computerized method is disclosed that includes operations of obtaining a data set, selecting candidate parameter pairs to be analyzed, wherein the candidate parameter pairs include a window length and a sensitivity multiplier, and wherein the window length is a number of data points, performing an anomaly detection process for each candidate parameter pair including importing each candidate parameter pair into a predetermined search query thereby generating a set of populated predetermined search queries, wherein the predetermined search query is configured to perform the anomaly detection process, executing each search query of the set of populated predetermined search queries on the data set to obtain a set of anomaly detection results, and scoring each anomaly detection result by applying a set of heuristics to the set of the anomaly detection results, and generating an auto-tuned search query by selecting a first candidate parameter pair based on a score of each of the set of anomaly detection results a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Kristal Curtis, William Deaderick, Abraham Starosta
  • Patent number: 11714698
    Abstract: A computerized method is disclosed for generating a prioritized listing of alerts based on scoring by a machine learning model and retraining the model based on user feedback. Operations of the method include receiving a plurality of alerts, generating a score for each of the plurality of alerts through evaluation of each of the plurality of alerts by a machine learning model, generating a prioritized listing of the plurality of alerts based on the generated scores, receiving user feedback on the prioritized listing, retraining the machine learning model based on the user feedback by generating a set of labeled alert pairs, wherein a labeled alert pair includes a first alert, a second alert, and an indication as to which of the first alert or the second alert is a higher priority in accordance with the user feedback, and evaluating subsequently received alerts with the retrained machine learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Kristal Curtis, William Deaderick, Wei Jie Gao, Tanner Gilligan, Chandrima Sarkar, Alexander Stojanovic, Ralph Donald Thompson, Sichen Zhong, Poonam Yadav
  • Patent number: 11676072
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for training a machine learning (ML) model to group notable events reflecting operation of a computing system into episodes of related events reflecting an incident on the computing system, such as to enable root cause analysis of the incident. The ML model is trained using pairwise binary similarity labels (PBSLs) indicating that two events must or must not be grouped together. An interface is provided that facilitates rapid generating of PBSLs by relocating one or more events from a first episode to a second episode. The relocation input is translated into PBSLs that are then used to train the ML model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SPLUNK INC.
    Inventors: Ramkumar Chandrasekharan, William Deaderick, Lila Fridley, Ramprasad Siva Golla, Shailendra Suryawanshi
  • Patent number: 11663109
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to facilitating identifying seasonal frequencies. In particular, a set of candidate seasonal frequencies associated with a time series data set are determined based on ACF peaks identified in association with a representation of the time series data set. Thereafter, the filters are applied to analyze the candidate seasonal frequencies and update the candidate seasonal frequencies by removing any candidate seasonal frequencies that fail a filter. An example filter can include comparing ACF peaks with peaks associated with SDF peaks. Thereafter, a candidate seasonal frequency of the updated candidate seasonal frequencies can be identified as a seasonal frequency for the time series data set, and such a seasonal frequency can be provided (e.g., to a user or another process) for use in performing data analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: William Deaderick, Tanner Gilligan, Joseph Ari Ross