US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 3 for "Data slice deletion in storage systems" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,259, issued on June 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Data slice deletion in storage systems" was invented by Daniel Mor (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are techniques for performing no-seek deletes of data slices. The techniques include determining, in response to a request to delete a first data slice managed by a storage system, that a record for the first data slice exists in a catalog of the storage system. The techniques further include obtaining a pointer for the first data slice, the pointer referencing a storage location on a physical storage device. The techniqu...