US Patent Issued to PURE STORAGE on Dec. 16 for "Node-driven leadership transitions in node clusters" (New Zealander, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,249, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Node-driven leadership transitions in node clusters" was invented by Ian Juch (Portland, Ore.) and Tyler Power (Kaiapoi, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Transitioning leadership in a cluster of nodes, including: initiating, by two or more nodes among a cluster of nodes, a leadership transition, wherein: a first node transmits a first secret key identifier to each of the other nodes in the cluster of nodes; and a second node transmits a second secret key identifier to each of the other nodes in the cluster of nodes; updating, by each node and ...