Patent ID: 9311187
Filing Date: 2016-04-12
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for execution by one or more processing modules of one or more computing devices of a dispersed storage network (DSN), the method comprises: receiving, from a device, a request to store data in the DSN; determining, for the request, dispersed storage error encoding parameters for encoding the data into a plurality of sets of encoded data slices, wherein the dispersed storage error encoding parameters includes a per set decode threshold, a per set write threshold, and a per set total number, wherein the per set decode threshold indicates a number of encoded data slices of a set of encoded data slices required to construct a corresponding segment of the data, the per set write threshold indicates a number of encoded data slices of the set of encoded data slices that are to be stored for a successful storage operation, and the per set total number indicates the number of encoded data slices in the set of encoded data slices; determining whether the request includes a desired write reliability indication, wherein the desired write reliability indication indicates a desired level of write reliability that meets or exceeds the per set write threshold; and when the request includes the desired write reliability indication: