ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,192, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Prioritizing I/O operations directed to replicating datasets" was invented by Daniel Sonner (San Mateo, Calif.), Jun He (Mountain View, Calif.), Zong Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.), John Colgrove (Los Altos, Calif.) and Matthew Fay (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Providing Quality of Service (QoS) for replicating datasets including: receiving, by a target data repository from a source data repository, a checkpoint describing one or more updates to one or more datasets stored in the source data repository and the target data repository;...