ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,920, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Storage system with dynamic data management functions" was invented by Hari Kannan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Peter Kirkpatrick (Los Altos, Calif.) and Robert Lee (Pebble Beach, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A determination as to whether a workload of storage system operations to be performed by a storage system is below a threshold is made. In response to determining that the workload of the storage system operations is below the threshold, a first set of authorities is migrated from a first set of storage nodes of the storage system to a second set of...