ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,539, issued on March 24, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Storage network for storage of data object sets with a common trait" was invented by Jason K. Resch (Warwick, R.I.), Greg Dhuse (Chicago) and Andrew Baptist (Mt. Pleasant, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage network is operable to identify a set of data objects having a common trait from a plurality of data objects for storage via the storage network. The set of data objects are combined to produce a concatenated data object. The concatenated data object is encoded in accordance with a dispersed encoding function to produce a set of encoded ...