US Patent Issued to Pure Storage on April 21 for "Storage network having metadata storage trees" (Rhode Island, California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,151, issued on April 21, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Storage network having metadata storage trees" was invented by Renars W. Narubin (San Francisco), Jason K. Resch (Warwick, R.I.) and Gary W. Grube (Barrington Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes error encoding data to produce a plurality of data slices. Metadata is determined for a data slice of the plurality of data slices. The metadata is stored in a metadata storage tree. The data slice is stored in a slice storage location indicated by the metadata. Based on determining to access the data slice, the metadata for the data s...