US Patent Issued to Pure Storage on Jan. 20 for "Read requests in a directory-less storage network" (Illinois, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,800, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Read requests in a directory-less storage network" was invented by Gary W. Grube (Barrington Hills, Ill.) and Timothy W. Markison (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for execution by a storage unit in a directory-less storage network includes receiving a read request regarding a data segment of a data object, where the data segment was error encoded into a set of encoded data slices. The method further includes outputting a read response regarding an encoded data slice of the set of encoded data slices that is stored by the storage unit...