US Patent Issued to Pure Storage on Oct. 14 for "Dispersed rebuilding of encoded data slices in a storage network" (Rhode Island, Illinois, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,483, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Dispersed rebuilding of encoded data slices in a storage network" was invented by Andrew D. Baptist (Mt. Pleasant, Wis.), Ravi V. Khadiwala (Bartlett, Ill.), Anthony J. Baldocchi (Glen Ellyn, Ill.) and Jason K. Resch (Warwick, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining rebuilding performance parameter values for a storage unit of a set of storage units, where data is dispersed storage error encoded into a plurality of sets of encoded data slices in accordance with error encoding parameters, and a set of encoded data slices are sto...