US Patent Issued to Pure Storage on April 15 for "Rebuilding data slices in a storage network based on priority" (Illinois, Wisconsin, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,030, issued on April 15, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Rebuilding data slices in a storage network based on priority" was invented by Greg Dhuse (Chicago), Andrew Baptist (Mt. Pleasant, Wis.), Zachary J. Mark (Chicago), Jason K. Resch (Warwick, R.I.) and Ilya Volvovski (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed storage integrity system in a dispersed storage network includes a scanning agent and a control unit. The scanning agent identifies an encoded data slice that requires rebuilding, wherein the encoded data slice is one of a plurality of encoded data slices generated from a data segment usin...