ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,863, issued on April 1, was assigned to Splunk Inc. (San Francisco).
"Technology add-on interface" was invented by Li Li (Shanghai), Gang Tao (Shanghai), Yongxin Su (Shanghai), Junqing Hao (Nanjing, China), Ting Wang (Shanghai), John Robert Coates (Berkeley, Calif.), Elias Haddad (San Francisco) and Guodong Wang (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The operation of an automatic data input and query system is controlled by well-defined control data. The system exposes user interfaces enabling an administrator to interact with control data to modify the ongoing operation of the system. Certain control data determines the collection...