ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,982, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Volume dependencies in a storage system" was invented by Luis Pablo Pabon (Sturbridge, Mass.), Kshithij Iyer (Gujarat, India), Chun-Yi Su (Kirkland, Wash.) and Vijayan Satyamoorthy Srinivasa (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method for monitoring volume dependencies for security threats comprises: detecting a request to perform an operation with respect to a volume included in a plurality of volumes included in a storage system; determining, based on a dependency mapping that specifies dependencies between the plurality of volu...