US Patent Issued to Splunk on March 11 for "Reassigning processing tasks to an external storage system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,484, issued on March 11, was assigned to Splunk Inc. (San Francisco).

"Reassigning processing tasks to an external storage system" was invented by Sourav Pal (Foster City, Calif.), Arindam Bhattacharjee (Fremont, Calif.) and Wayne Patterson (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for reducing execution time of a query that references external data systems. The system can determine an external data system is capable of processing one or more map or reduce phases of a map-reduce operation. When it is determined that the external data system can process a map or reduce phase, associated oper...