ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,217, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Distributed system dual class of service" was invented by Sankara Vaideeswaran (San Jose, Calif.) and Robert Lee (Pebble Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage system has priority queues for real time-class file system messaging and backup-class file system messaging. The storage system includes servers, coupled as a storage cluster, storage devices and a network coupling the servers and the storage devices. The servers have priority queues. The servers operate the priority queues for messaging from the servers to the storage devices v...