US Patent Issued to Pure Storage on March 17 for "Load-based data deletion optimization in a storage system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,858, issued on March 17, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Load-based data deletion optimization in a storage system" was invented by Ganesh Sangle (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chia-Chun Lin (Cupertino, Calif.), Prabir Paul (San Jose, Calif.) and Vijayan Satyamoorthy Srinivasa (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method for optimizing data deletion in a storage system comprises: monitoring a load metric associated with a storage volume using a file system, the load metric indicative of a dynamically changing operational load of the storage volume; determining, based on the monitored load metric...