ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,706, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Smart error scanning in a storage network" was invented by Ahmad Alnafoosi (Streamwood, Ill.) and Jason K. Resch (Warwick, R.I.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for execution by one or more computing devices of a storage network includes determining probable error locations associated within a set of storage units of the storage network based on provenance information associated with a set of encoded data slices, where the provenance information is generated as one or more tasks for error encoding a data segment of data into the set of encoded da...