ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,683, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Verifying slice migration in a storage network" was invented by Greg R. Dhuse (Chicago) and Jason K. Resch (Warwick, R.I.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage network operates by: sending a slice verification request to a destination storage unit, wherein the slice verification request includes a nonce and one or more of: a slice identifier, the slice, a revision indicator, or a verification method indicator; receiving an integrity value from the destination storage unit; determining when the integrity value is verified by determining one of: when a...