ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,497, issued on April 22.

"Search result replication management in a search head cluster" was invented by Anirban Rahut (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Sundar Vasan (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for search result replication in a search head cluster of a data aggregation and analysis system. An example method may include receiving, by a search head leader of a search head cluster including multiple search heads, from a first search head of the plurality of search heads, a search result in response to a search query. The search head leader parses a registry comprising a set of replicas of the search result ...