Machine data web

US7937344B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Splunk Inc. · US

Inventors

• Michael Joseph Baum · Ross, US
• David Carasso · San Rafael, US
• Robin Kumar Das · Redwood City, US
• Brad Hall · San Francisco, US
• Brian Philip Murphy · Tampa, US
• Stephen Philip Sorkin · San Francisco, US
• Andre David Stechert · Brooklyn, US
• Erik M. Swan · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 24, 2006
• Grant date: May 3, 2011
• Expiry date: Oct 29, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F16/3331
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Methods and apparatus consistent with the invention provide the ability to organize and build understandings of machine data generated by a variety of information-processing environments. Machine data is a product of information-processing systems (e.g., activity logs, configuration files, messages, database records) and represents the evidence of particular events that have taken place and been recorded in raw data format. In one embodiment, machine data is turned into a machine data web by organizing machine data into events and then linking events together.