Patent ID: 11914552
Assignee: SPLUNK INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
determining, on a computing device, that an item is waiting to be processed;
determining an item identifier for the item;
using the identifier to find a record associated with the item;
obtaining, from the record associated with the item, a stored end of the item identifier associated with the item, wherein an end of the item identifier is a unique identifier based on content of the item and is stored for the item during previous processing of the item;
obtaining, from the record associated with the item, a stored end of a pointer associated with the item, wherein the stored end of the pointer references an end of the item stored during previous processing of the item;
determining a current end of the item identifier associated with the item, wherein determining the current end includes using the stored end of the pointer;
comparing the stored end of the item identifier with the current end of the item identifier;
determining that the item is an existing item when the stored end of the item identifier matches the current end of the item identifier; and
providing the item to a calling process to be processed as the existing item.