ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,498, issued on April 7, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Data spillover for storage arrays" was invented by Andrew Sillifant (Nottingham, Great Britain), John Colgrove (Los Altos, Calif.) and Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data spillover for storage arrays, including: entering, by a source storage array, in response to determining that an amount of used capacity for the source storage array exceeds a first threshold, a spillover mode; redirecting, in response to the source storage array being in the spillover mode, write operations directed to the source storage array to a targe...