ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,878, issued on March 17, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Storage system processing without global locks" was invented by Robert Lee (Pebble Beach, Calif.), John Hayes (Mountain View, Calif.), Igor Ostrovsky (Mountain View, Calif.) and Peter Vajgel (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing transactions associated with a command in a storage system is provided. The method includes receiving, at a first authority of the storage system, a command relating to user data. The method includes sending a transaction of the command, from the first authority to a second authority of the ...