Time series search engine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8990184-B2
Application number	US-201213664186-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 30, 2012
Priority date	Oct 5, 2006
Publication date	Mar 24, 2015
Grant date	Mar 24, 2015

Abstract

Methods and apparatus consistent with the invention provide the ability to organize, index, search, and present time series data based on searches. Time series data are sequences of time stamped records occurring in one or more usually continuous streams, representing some type of activity. In one embodiment, time series data is organized into discrete events with normalized time stamps and the events are indexed by time and keyword. A search is received and relevant event information is retrieved based in whole or in part on the time indexing mechanism, keyword indexing mechanism, or statistical indices calculated at the time of the search.

First claim

What is claimed as new and desired to be protected by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. A method for building a searchable data store, comprising:
repeatedly generating buckets in memory to receive events,
respective buckets designated with time spans to receive the events based on event time stamps, and
maintaining a record of designated time spans assigned to respective buckets for time keyed event retrieval;

electronically receiving machine data produced by devi…

Assignees

• Splunk Inc

Inventors

• Baum Michael Joseph
• Carasso R David
• Das Robin Kumar
• Greene Rory
• Hall Bradley
• Mealy Nicholas Christian
• Murphy Brian Philip
• Sorkin Stephen Phillip
• Stechert Andre David
• Swan Erik M

Classifications

• G06F16/2272 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/30551 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F16/2477 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F7/00

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F9/00

  Physics · mapped topic