ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,651, issued on Dec. 9.
"Compact probabilistic data structure for storing streamed log lines" was invented by Julian Reichinger (Sankt Johann am Wimberg, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is presented for storing log data generated in a distributed computing environment. The method includes: receiving a data element from a log line, where the data element is associated with a given storage entity containing the log line; applying a hash function to the data element to generate a hash value; updating a listing of storage entities with the given entity, where entries in the listing of entities are confi...