US Patent Issued to Pure Storage on April 21 for "Method and apparatus for monitoring and alerting errors in a distributed storage network" (Illinois, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,264, issued on April 21, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for monitoring and alerting errors in a distributed storage network" was invented by Thomas F. Shirley Jr. (Oconomowoc, Wis.) and Ilir Iljazi (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for execution by a storage network processor starts by monitoring a plurality of storage network storage nodes to determine whether a storage node requires maintenance. The method continues by determining one or more maintenance tasks for the storage node and updating a status of the storage node to indicate that the storage node is in a maint...