US Patent Issued to Pure Storage on Dec. 16 for "Virtualization in a dispersed storage network utilizing local and remote memory" (Illinois, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,999, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Virtualization in a dispersed storage network utilizing local and remote memory" was invented by Jason K. Resch (Warwick, R.I.), Vimalkumar P. Gajjar (Roselle, Ill.), S. Christopher Gladwin (Chicago) and Kumar Abhijeet (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a storage network computing device includes receiving a request to store a data object and generating a plurality of write slice requests, where the plurality of write slice requests includes a set of encoded data slices to be stored in the storage network and at least a decode threshol...