ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,508, issued on May 13.
"Indexing data at a data intake and query system based on a node capacity threshold" was invented by Shalabh Goyal (Fremont, Calif.), Anish Shrigondekar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Bhavin Thaker (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Zhenghui Xie (Cupertino, Calif.) and Ruochen Zhang (Milpitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As an indexer indexes and groups events, it can generate data slices that include events. Based on a slice rollover policy, the indexer can add a particular slice to an aggregate slice. Based on an aggregate slice backup policy, the indexer can store a copy of the aggregate slice to a shared storage system. ...