Splunk Assigned Patent

Splunk, Inc., San Francisco, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,474,682) developed by Patel, Vishal, Blank, Jr., Mitchell Neuman, Vasan, Sundar Renegarajan, and Sorkin, Stephen Phillip, San Francisco, CA, for a “data replication in a clustered computing environment.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Embodiments are directed towards managing within a cluster environment having a plurality of indexers for data storage using redundancy the data being managed using a generation identifier, such that a primary indexer is designated for a given generation of data. When a master device for the cluster fails, data may continue to be stored using redundancy, and data searches performed may still be performed.”

The patent application was filed on April 30, 2018 (15/967,385).