ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,185, issued on June 16, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Analyzing a modified query to determine data on which to execute the modified query" was invented by Jesse Brandau Miller (San Francisco), Marc V. Robichaud (San Francisco) and Cory Eugene Burke (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes causing display to a user of at least one event of a first result set from a first pipelined search on events at an event source. Each event comprises a time stamp and a portion of machine data. A selection of a command is received from the user. The selection is to extend the first pipelined searc...