US Patent Issued to Pure Storage on March 24 for "Directory level storage management of a file system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,621, issued on March 24, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Directory level storage management of a file system" was invented by Padmanabhan Nagarajan (Cupertino, Calif.), Subramaniam Periyagaram (Campbell, Calif.), Chu Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.) and David A. Grunwald (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative storage system may detect a command to create a directory within the file system, determine that the command satisfies one or more criteria, execute the command by creating the directory within the file system, and automatically generate, based on the determining that the command sati...