ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,981, issued on May 13, was assigned to Splunk Inc. (San Francisco).
"Generation of queries using non-textual input" was invented by Ankit Bhagat (Santa Clara, Calif.), Steven Karis (San Mateo, Calif.), Amin Moshgabadi (San Diego) and Rajesh Raman (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for generation of a query using a non-textual input. For example, the query can be generated using a point and click input. A selection of a data source can be identified and an initial query can be automatically generated based on the selection of the data source. A graphical user interface can be displayed ...