Patent ID: 11928242
Assignee: SPLUNK INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. A computer-implemented system comprising:
one or more processors; and
computer memory having instructions stored thereon, the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors causing the system to perform a method comprising:
identifying one or more occurrences of a particular value in a set of events, each event including machine data associated with a timestamp, wherein an occurrence represents a location of the particular value within the machine data of an event;
determining a set of extraction rules from the one or more occurrences, wherein each extraction rule defines a pattern that identifies values in other events that are of a same type of information as the particular value and that match the pattern;
identifying, using the set of extraction rules, a plurality of events that include the values in the other events; and
masking the values in the machine data included in the plurality of events, the values to mask being identified using the set of extraction rules that define different fields in the plurality of events, wherein masking obscures the values from the machine data in accordance with a query having one or more commands executable to mask the values from the machine data included in the plurality of events.