Patent ID: 9501341
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for execution by a computing device, the method comprises: independently executing a first write transaction in a dispersed storage network (DSN) to a particular write verification step of a multiple step write process, wherein the first write transaction has a first transaction identifier, the first write transaction includes a first set of write commands for a data segment that has been dispersed storage error encoded into a set of encoded data slices; independently executing a second write transaction in the DSN to the particular write verification step, wherein the second write transaction has a second transaction identifier, the second write transaction includes a second set of write commands for directory information regarding the set of encoded data slices, wherein the directory information is dispersed storage error encoded into a set of encoded directory slices and wherein subject matter of the first write transaction is related to subject matter of the second write transaction; and when each of the first and second write transactions have reached the particular write verification step, dependently finalizing the multiple step write process for each of the first and second write transactions utilizing the first and second transaction identifiers.