Granted Patent B1

US 12,189,624 · App. 18/162,622 · Granted Jan 7, 2025

Inventors: Liang Han (Pleasanton, CA); Vishal Patel (San Francisco, CA); Sundar R. Vasan (San Francisco, CA); Eric Woo (San Francisco, CA)

Assignee: Splunk Inc.

G06F16/24539G06F16/2474

Abstract

Claims (54)

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

identifying a request to provide configurations associated with a user-application pair, the configurations comprising information or settings for performing a task;

in response to the request to provide configurations associated with the user-application pair and based on the user-application pair, accessing a user-defined configuration cache to obtain user-defined configurations defined for a particular user in association with a particular application, an application-defined configuration cache to obtain application-defined configurations defined for the particular application, and a system-defined configuration cache to obtain system-defined configurations defined for a particular system;

aggregating at least a portion of the user-defined configurations, the application-defined configurations, and the system-defined configurations to generate a set of configurations associated with the user-application pair; and

providing the set of configurations associated with the user-application pair for use in performing the task.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the request to provide configurations is obtained at an execution time for performing the task.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the user-defined configuration cache, the application-defined configuration cache, and the system-defined configuration cache are separate configuration caches.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the user-defined configuration cache is specific to the user-application pair, and the application-defined configuration cache and the system-defined configuration cache are shared in association with other user-application pairs.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the user-defined configuration cache, the application-defined configuration cache, and the system-defined configuration cache are generated in a layered structure.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the user-defined configurations include saved search configurations.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein aggregating at least the portion of the user-defined configurations, the application-defined configurations, and the system-defined configurations includes applying permissions associated with the particular user.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein aggregating at least the portion of the user-defined configurations, the application-defined configurations, and the system-defined configurations includes applying precedence for conflicting values.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising generating the user-defined configuration cache, the application-defined configuration cache, and/or the system-defined configuration cache by traversing a configuration path trie that represents one or more configuration files.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:

identifying a request to generate at least one configuration cache in association with the user-application pair;

determining that the application-defined configuration cache and the system-defined configuration cache associated with the user-application pair have been previously generated; and

generating the user-defined configuration cache in a top layer of a configuration cache structure.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:

identifying a request to generate at least one configuration cache in association with the user-application pair;

generating the user-defined configuration cache in a top layer of a configuration cache structure;

generating the application-defined configuration cache in a middle layer of the configuration cache structure; and

generating the system-defined configuration cache in a bottom layer of the configuration cache structure.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the user-defined configuration cache corresponds with atop layer of a configuration structure that includes a plurality of user-defined configuration caches corresponding with a plurality of user-application pairs, the application-defined configuration cache corresponds with a middle layer of the configuration structure that includes a plurality of application-defined configuration caches corresponding with a plurality of applications, and the system-defined configuration cache corresponds with a bottom layer of the configuration structure that includes a single system-defined configuration cache corresponding with a particular system.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:

identifying an indication of a modification associated with an application-defined configuration; and

updating the application-defined configuration cache to include the modification associated with the application-defined configuration.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:

identifying an indication of a modification associated with a system-define d configuration; and

updating the system-defined configuration cache to include the modification associated with the system-defined configuration.

15. A computing device, comprising:

a processor; and

a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including:

identifying a request to provide configurations associated with a user-application pair, the configurations comprising information or settings for performing a task;

in response to the request to provide configurations associated with the user-application pair and based on the user-application pair, accessing a user-defined configuration cache to obtain user-defined configurations defined for a particular user in association with a particular application, an application-defined configuration cache to obtain application-defined configurations defined for the particular application, and a system-defined configuration cache to obtain system-defined configurations defined for a particular system;

aggregating at least a portion of the user-defined configurations, the application-defined configurations, and the system-defined configurations to generate a set of configurations associated with the user-application pair; and

providing the set of configurations associated with the user-application pair for use in performing the task.

16. The computing device of claim 15 , wherein the operations further comprise:

identifying a request to generate at least one configuration cache in association with the user-application pair;

determining that the application-defined configuration cache and the system-defined configuration cache associated with the user-application pair have been previously generated; and

generating the user-defined configuration cache in a top layer of a configuration cache structure.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processor to perform operations including:

identifying a request to provide configurations associated with a user-application pair, the configurations comprising information or settings for performing a task;

in response to the request to provide configurations associated with the user-application pair and based on the user-application pair, accessing a user-defined configuration cache to obtain user-defined configurations defined for a particular user in association with a particular application, an application-defined configuration cache to obtain application-defined configurations defined for the particular application, and a system-defined configuration cache to obtain system-defined configurations defined for a particular system;

aggregating at least a portion of the user-defined configurations, the application-defined configurations, and the system-defined configurations to generate a set of configurations associated with the user-application pair; and

providing the set of configurations associated with the user-application pair for use in performing the task.

18. The medium of claim 17 , wherein the operations further comprise:

identifying a request to generate at least one configuration cache in association with the user-application pair;

generating the user-defined configuration cache in a top layer of a configuration cache structure;

generating the application-defined configuration cache in a middle layer of the configuration cache structure; and

generating the system-defined configuration cache in a bottom layer of the configuration cache structure.

19. The medium of claim 17 , wherein the user-defined configuration cache corresponds with a top layer of a configuration structure that includes a plurality of user-defined configuration caches corresponding with a plurality of user-application pairs, the application-defined configuration cache corresponds with a middle layer of the configuration structure that includes a plurality of application-defined configuration caches corresponding with a plurality of applications, and the system-defined configuration cache corresponds with a bottom layer of the configuration structure that includes a single system-defined configuration cache corresponding with a particular system.

20. The medium of claim 17 , wherein the operations further comprise:

identifying an indication of a modification associated with a system-define d configuration; and

updating the system-defined configuration cache to include the modification associated with the system-defined configuration.

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