ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,607, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Optimizing portioned storage data delivery" was invented by Roland Dreier (Mountain View, Calif.), Anatoliy Glagolev (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Chunked data transfers may include: receiving, from an initiator, a read command for first data stored in a storage system; allocating a first buffer of a predefined size; until all of the first data has been sent to the initiator: loading a portion of the first data from the storage system into the first buffer; and sending, to the initiator, the portio...