Pure Storage Assigned Two Patents

Die-level monitoring in storage cluster
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,880,899) developed by Davis, John D., Hayes, John, Tan, Zhangxi, Kannan, Hari, and Miladinovic, Nenad, Mountain View, CA, for a “die-level monitoring in a storage cluster.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “In some embodiments, a method for die-level monitoring is provided. The method includes distributing user data throughout a plurality of storage nodes through erasure coding, wherein the plurality of storage nodes are housed within a chassis that couples the storage nodes. Each of the storage nodes has a non-volatile solid-state storage with non-volatile memory and the user data is accessible via the erasure coding from a remainder of the storage nodes in event of two of the storage nodes being unreachable. The method includes producing diagnostic information that diagnoses the non-volatile memory on a basis of per package, per die, per plane, per block, or per page, the producing performed by each of the plurality of storage nodes. The method includes writing the diagnostic information to a memory in the storage cluster.”

The patent application was filed on May 14, 2015 (14/712,756).

Delivering authorization and authentication for user of storage array from cloud
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,882,913) developed by Borowiec, Benjamin P., Santa Clara, CA, Hu, Jimmy T., Foster City, CA, Miller, Ethan L., Santa Cruz, CA, Noonan, Terence W., Vadnais Heights, MN, Sapuntzakis, Constantine P., Mountain View, CA, Vachharajani, Neil A., San Francisco, CA, and Zuo, Daquan, Sunnyvale, CA, for a “delivering authorization and authentication for a user of a storage array from a cloud.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Providing authorization and authentication in a cloud for a user of a storage array includes: receiving, by a cloud-based security module from a client-side array services module, user credentials, authenticating, by the cloud-based security module, the user credentials, identifying, by the cloud-based security module, authorized access privileges defining one or more storage array services accessible by the user, generating, by the cloud-based security module, a token representing the authentication of the user credentials and the authorized access privileges, and providing, by the cloud-based security module to the client-side array services module, the token.”

The patent application was filed on January 19, 2016 (15/000,822).