ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,336, issued on May 19, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Metadata based listing in a distributed storage system" was invented by Adam M. Gray (Chicago), Greg R. Dhuse (Chicago), Andrew D. Baptist (Mt. Pleasant, Wis.), Ravi V. Khadiwala (Bartlett, Ill.), Wesley B. Leggette (Chicago), Scott M. Horan (Clarendon Hills, Ill.), Franco V. Borich (Naperville, Ill.), Bart R. Cilfone (Marina del Rey, Calif.) and Daniel J. Scholl (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for execution by storage network begins by identifying a subset of encoded data slices stored in a set of storage units for enhanced access and in...