US Patent Issued to Pure Storage on Nov. 4 for "Redirecting a data access request in a storage network" (Illinois, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,676, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Pure Storage Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Redirecting a data access request in a storage network" was invented by Asimuddin Kazi (Naperville, Ill.), Andrew D. Baptist (Mt. Pleasant, Wis.), Wesley B. Leggette (Chicago), Manish Motwani (Chicago) and Ilya Volvovski (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for redirecting data access requests in a storage network are disclosed. In an embodiment, a computing device associated with the storage network performs a method that includes identifying a (second) storage pool of the storage network to replace a first storage pool of the st...