US Patent Issued to Splunk on Jan. 28 for "Applying updated configuration dynamically to remote capture agents" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,475, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Splunk Inc. (San Francisco).

"Applying updated configuration dynamically to remote capture agents" was invented by Michael Dickey (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments provide a method and system for processing network data. During operation, the system obtains, at a remote capture agent, configuration information for the remote capture agent from a configuration server over a network. Next, the system uses the configuration information to configure the generation of event data from network data obtained from network packets at the remote capture agent. The...