Pure Storage Assigned Patent

Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,304,694) developed by Colgrove, John, Los Altos, CA, Hayes, John, Hong, Bo, Mountain View, CA, Wang, Feng, Sunnyvale, CA, Miller, Ethan, Santa Cruz, CA, and Harmer, Craig, San Francisco, CA, for a “scheduling of reactive I/O operations in a storage environment.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system and method for effectively scheduling read and write operations among a plurality of solid-state storage devices. A computer system comprises client computers and data storage arrays coupled to one another via a network. A data storage array utilizes solid-state drives and Flash memory cells for data storage. A storage controller within a data storage array comprises an I/O scheduler. The characteristics of corresponding storage devices are used to schedule I/O requests to the storage devices in order to maintain relatively consistent response times at predicted times. Should a device exhibit an unscheduled behavior which may be indicative of the device being in an unknown state, the scheduler may schedule one or more reactive operations on the device configured to cause the device to enter a known state.“

The patent application was filed on April 23, 2014 (14/260,059).