US Patent Issued to SPLUNK on May 13 for "Optimized storage of metadata separate from time series data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,980, issued on May 13, was assigned to SPLUNK Inc. (San Francisco).

"Optimized storage of metadata separate from time series data" was invented by Rajesh Raman (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jennifer Williamson (Menlo Park, Calif.), Edward Crossman (Redwood City, Calif.), Uday Sagar Shiramshetty (Fremont, Calif.), Arijit Mukherji (Fremont, Calif.), Phillip Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Tianyu Wang (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to embodiments, a data stream including a plurality of time series data is received and metadata objects are extracted from the data stream. The metadata objects are associated with metrics time s...