US Patent Issued to Splunk on Dec. 17 for "Interactive filter tokens in a GUI interface" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,169,499, issued on Dec. 17, was assigned to Splunk Inc. (San Francisco).

"Interactive filter tokens in a GUI interface" was invented by Finlay Cannon (Vancouver, Canada), Thomas Haggie (Victoria, Canada), Justin Lew (Burnaby, Canada), Clark Eugene Mullen (San Mateo, Calif.), Jonathan Ng (Vancouver, Canada), Faya Peng (San Francisco), Ioan Popa (Fremont, Calif.), Keng-Ming Sheu (Port Coquitlam, Canada), Jacob Sebastian Stark (San Jose, Calif.) and Yuchen Mou (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system generates a user interface that enables a user to generate a data summarization statement for a data processing package. Via ...