Patent ID: 11921873
Assignee: SPLUNK INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 17:
18. Non-transitory computer readable media comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computing system of a data intake and query system, cause the computing system to:
receive a query that identifies a set of data and a manner of processing the set of data;
identify a plurality of buckets containing data that satisfies a portion of the query, wherein a bucket is a data storage structure for storing files on a digital storage medium;
identify bucket containing data that satisfies the portion of the query, wherein a bucket is a data storage structure for storing files on a digital storage medium;
identify a particular file of the bucket for use in executing the query;
generate a first content identifier for the particular file based on content of the particular file; and
authenticate the particular file for the query based on a comparison of the first content identifier with a second content identifier for the particular file, wherein to authenticate the particular file, the computer-executable instructions cause the computing system to:
communicate a file identifier of the particular file to a distributed ledger system, wherein the distributed ledger system uses the file identifier of the particular file to identify a block of a blockchain of the distributed ledger system that stores the second content identifier, and
receive the second content identifier from the distributed ledger system.