Splunk Assigned Patent

Splunk, Inc., San Francisco, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,497,199) developed by Das, Robin Kumar, Healdsburg, CA, Ago, Ledio, San Leandro, CA, Shanaghy, Declan Gerard, Benicia, CA, and Gupta, Gaurav, San Francisco, CA, for a “access control for event data stored in cloud-based data stores.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Embodiments are directed towards a system and method for a cloud-based front end that may abstract and enable access to the underlying cloud-hosted elements and objects that may be part of a multi-tenant application, such as a search application. Search objects may be employed to access indexed objects. An amount of indexed data accessible to a user may be based on an index storage limit selected by the user, such that data that exceeds the index storage limit may continue to be indexed. Also, one or more projects can be elastically scaled for a user to provide resources that may meet the specific needs of each project.“

The patent application was filed on January 26, 2016 (15/007,184).